“What are you guys fighting? I’m obviously over here.”
Thunderbolts #17
Marvel Comics (August, 1995)
“Matters Of Gravity”
WRITER: Kurt Busiek
PENCILER: Mark Bagley
COLORIST: Joe Rosas
LETTERER: Sidbhan Hanna
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
Space Mutiny (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I don’t usually like using dated links but the Mystery Science Theater 3000 riffing of Space Mutiny is one of my favorites. One of the biggest memes I see is based on the part where Mike and the bots come up with different names for Reb Brown’s character, Dave Ryder. Now Mike, Bill, and Kevin are going to revisit Swiff Hardbeef in a live edition of Rifftrax. Here’s where you can find if the live and repeat showing is going to be in a theater near you. I wish I could see it, but…you know, no income. Someone tell me if they finally acknowledge the swiped footage from classic Battlestar Galactica please.
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Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the 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 read-along book club.
So far we’re just introducing the post-Crisis versions of the important characters to this story. I forgot to mention that the Kryptonian artifact called the Eradicator was also mentioned in one of the flashbacks, which will also be important during “Reign Of The Supermen”, the final storyline of this arc and the third section of this novelization. I think this is the last of the set-up chapters before Doomsday finally escapes his metal box.
When DC decided to reboot Superman after Crisis On Infinite Earths led to a big change in the DC Universe they wanted to get rid of all Kryptonians except for Kal-El. Supergirl was replaced with a shapeshifting protoplasmic being and there is no way I can explain that in this article. This video …will help. I think. There were a number of changes that had to be explained to casual readers because comics be crazy yo! And they were big ones. Try to follow along with this chapter and you may see what I mean.
Chapter 4: Doomsday part 4
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It’s a lot of work to make an end table, but it’s been a boring week.
Steel #34
DC Comics (January, 1997)
“Bang”
WRITER: Christopher Priest
LAYOUTS: Denys Cowan
FINISHES: Tom Palmer
COLORIST: Stu Chaifetz
LETTERER: Pat Brosseau
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Chris Duffy
EDITOR: Frank Pittarese
“STEEL” CREATORS: Louise Simonson & Jon Bogdanove
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The Dalek Invasion of Earth (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In a novelization Steven Moffat produced for the anniversary new Who team-up episode “Day Of The Doctor”, the Peter Cushing films are given sort of a canon status in the Doctor Who universe. And it’s a neat way to work them in. I personally like the movies but they are altered adaptations of the first two Dalek appearances in Classic Who, which up to now made their canon status iffy. Of course this is the novelization so whether or not the showrunners to come accept this explanation or not has yet to be seen, but I think this works.
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Even Fizzbin knows how life likes to mess with me.
I’ve had a number of late posts this week and last week was a struggle to get things in on time. This week my schedule is clear outside of a friend coming to visit so I’m hoping I get stuff up on time, and maybe even get caught up on the Worldbuilding Project. However, history shows my plans seldom succeed. I didn’t even have a report for The Clutter Reports this week except to say I didn’t have a report.
Whether or not I get some Worldbuilding work in this week I do want to get the next story from the He-Man Newspaper Strips in this week. We’re also finally caught up with the Phantom comics from Moonstone Books (not to be confused with Moonstone from the Thunderbolts) so we’ll jump back forward to #20 and the next storyline. We also have the first original story from the SLG Gargoylesrun. And I’ve decided to make some commentary about the current state of reviewing in light of recent events in the reviewing community. Not about Channel Awesome directly although I may make a comment or two in passing. There are plenty of other people covering that angle, especially on YouTube. No, I want to focus on the rest of the community and how the game has changed now. (No pun intended if you follow Twitter hashtags.) And while I’m under no delusion I’ll have that last ConnectiCon panel done this week I hope to at least start the darn thing. At least I had one last night, the Deep Space Nine Q&A. So I’ve got a full week planned. Let’s see how many of those plans come out, shall we?
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was the first Star Trek series to not be created or controlled by Gene Roddenberry since he passed away. (I think he was involved with the animated series, but if not, then DS9 is the second.) It also strays from his vision, creating a more ethically questionable Starfleet and questioning some of Roddenberry’s vision of the future. And yet it is beloved by the fandom.
As I continue to go over my 2016 ConnectiCon videos finally we get to the second of the videos I was able to shoot thanks to my cousin being able to take me that year, but only for a few hours on Saturday given that I was still in recovery mode. While I missed Walter Koening’s panel I did manage to catch the Q&A featuring Nana Visitor, who played Kira Nerys, the Bajoran representative and second in command of the station, and Michael Dorn, who played Worf on Star Trek: The Next Generation and later on Deep Space Nine. (My cousin was so happy to get his autograph.) Enjoy.
