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Chapter By Chapter (usually) features me reading one chapter of the selected book at a time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as a read-along book club.
Had to move this up a day this week, but when the big news hit, you have to be there to discuss it. Back on track now, and in our previous chapter I had to wonder if Jean Lorrah had it in for Amanda since she just keeps giving her the Aunt May treatment.
There are some short chapters in this book. The last one was short and this one is barely four pages. So why does it work here? A timing issue on my part being a coincidence comes to mind. Shorter chapters have been to my benefit. I think the difference is what one does with that page count. I’ve noted it in the Golden Age anthology comic reviews. Some comics just didn’t fit the page count and needed more time to be interesting, while others told a solid and enjoyable story in the same limited amount of pages.
Compare this also to the Op-Center novels or The Black Stallion’s Ghost. In those reviews I complained about the shorter chapters, but nothing seemed to happen, confusing me about the chapter count. Lorrah, on the other hand, has had two scenes at times, and even when not it felt organic for the chapter to end there. The story continued to advance rather than stopping for something mundane with little or no major impact, if any at all. She knows when to make a solid break, which doesn’t help my questions as to how one knows when to chapter break. I guess because I do more comics than prose. The Transformers lore I’m creating for myself has proper stop gaps based on the format of the reports. It’s still something I need to figure out since one of my story ideas might be better suited to prose than comic, but right now the only prose novel I’m thinking about is this one.
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Well, didn’t see this coming. And tomorrow I was going to do a different article on James Gunn’s approach to Superman. Now I have to move the Chapter By Chapter up a day because even going out the door, Gunn’s gotta mess with me.
Surprising news dropped today because James Gunn and Peter Safran are taking the nearest boom tube out of DC Studios. Not that too many DC fans are going to miss them. While Safran has been mostly quiet behind the scenes, Gunn wouldn’t shut up about defending his take on the DC Universe and their superheroes, villains, and regular people. And he’s had a lot to defend because Gunn has made or allowed to be made (and Safran didn’t seem to be doing anything to stop anyone) some of the most bizarre decisions in how to treat these characters.
It’s not quite a post mortem yet. Projects far enough in the works are going to continue. Man Of Tomorrow, which for lack of a better term sounds like a Superman/Lex Luthor “buddy cop” story, and the tale of Gorilla Grodd at college with Jimmy Olsen are still not canceled, and Gunn has mentioned some next project. Unless Harlan Ellison is going to follow David Zaslav’s lead and cancel these for the tax write-off like Zaslav did with the Batgirl movie, we still have more destruction coming for the DC brand, because investors don’t care about the character and still think the Brand is strong enough to weather this level of failure.
Since everybody else on the internet right now is doing it, I guess we also have to check into how we got here, because it’s a continuing list of mistake after mistake, and it started before a single script was started.
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Makes old sci-fi stories look worse, doesn’t it? Even those stories where life was born on Mars or Venus or wherever would be inaccurate, and I’m not sure about setting up colonies on those planets. Wouldn’t have made for good stories, though.
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Give Red Baron credit. They knew what would make them look good: doing good.
Have you heard this story? Courtesy of Nerdrotic Daily, with some deserved swearing. Also, it was recorded the day before Halloween. That’s why the costumes.
It’s the comic I was going to do last week. This is a terrible thing, but with a happy-ish ending. That might solve the man’s immediate problems, but what will happen to him in the future? I wish him and his family luck. As for the “influencer”, I hope he gains a good conscience.
Over at the Clutter Reports I finished the software checklist and started the games one because of it. I’m getting more than a list of stuff I own out of it.
Unrelated, I swear: I finally pulled the “trigger” and put a Ko-Fi link on the site, and The Clutter Reports. Check the sidebar. If you like what I do, a tip would be nice. I set the minimum at $1 US, but it’s not a requirement and if I could come up with extras I have time to make I’d be back on Patreon. I’m still trying to find time to work other things into a schedule, and I need to get some income. As I mention in this week’s report I need to find a job since making this site my job is financially nonexistent. My primary goal in getting back to YouTube is the ability to communicate with other people who think of storytelling the same way I do, but if I can get some money out of that, cool. A job that would allow me to continue this and pursue my goals as a storyteller is also great, but right now I can’t be picky.
I also need a new theme soon. This one is no longer supported and keeps giving me minor issues on this side. It would mean a new look on your side, though. I thought I was done doing that. As if I wasn’t already using up time.
Coming up here in the Spotlight we have the next chapter of Star Trek: The IDIC Epidemic for Chapter By Chapter, and whatever comes up. We’ll see what the future holds. Have a great week, everyone.
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This cover would inspire a young Kool-Aid-Man.
Crash Comics Adventures #1
Tem Publishing Company (May, 1940)
How many new titles came out this month? The pixels aren’t even set on my list of Golden Age comics to read or not read and we have another one. I went over the list and I have heard of none of these characters, so it should be an interesting experience. The cover and indicia call it Crash Comic Adventures but on Comic Book+ it’s listed as just Crash Comics, hence the parentheses in the article title. So….what reason is there for these heroes to have fallen into the obscurity of oversaturation? Did they deserve better? Will we bother with a second issue? Join me in finding out.
For those of you don’t usually join us, after two different scans of the same cover it starts with an ad for a men’s girdle “superform belt”. Hey, it fooled boys when they started using “action figure”.
BW’s Daily Video> Fantasy Anime’s “Original Worldbuilding” Problem
NOTE: Sometimes censors swears, sometimes doesn’t
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on November 10, 2026 in Animation Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged anime, commentary, light novels, manga, worldbuilding, writing tips.
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