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Thanksgiving Reunion (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Created by Norman Lear, based on the BBC sitcom Til Death Do Us Part created by Johnny Speight, All In The Family is still a cultural hit. It’s responsible for two successful spin-offs, one of which created its own spin-off, and two failed spin-offs, Gloria and 704 Hauser, the former about a divorced Gloria trying to raise her son and the latter a race and political flip of the Bunkers. Archie Bunker, a bigot but not necessarily a hateful racist so much as a low-class nitwit, is more beloved than one would think and is one of two of Carroll O’Connor‘s most popular roles. Everyone knows this series and it’s survived to be a favorite of many to this day.
It’s amazing, given my love of intros that today I learned two things about the intro to the show, “Those Were The Days”, and most surprisingly the closing theme, “Remembering You”. One was new information while the other I should have realized but didn’t until Wikipedia pointed it out to me. But it started with a post on Facebook by Antenna TV, the retro TV channel. Did you know that instrumental closing had lyrics?
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“Honey, I think the camera’s broken!”
Thunderbolts #10
Marvel Comics (January, 1998)
“Heroes’ Reward”
WRITER: Kurt Busiek
PENCILER: Mark Bagley
INKER: Vince Russell
COLORIST: Joe Rosas
LETTERER: Dave Lanphear
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
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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.
Last time Grant and the readers were finally told what the whole deal was with the CMDF and the core of the story that isn’t really a spoiler considering how many stories were homages and parodies of the movie this is adapting in the first place. The mission is to get rid of a blood clot. Grant is here to catch a supposed traitor or double agent. And like it or not he’s about to go inside a human being the hard way. So how long will it take before we finally start running around Benes’ bloodstream?
Chapter 5: Submarine
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Apparently this cover was recorded with OBS.
Superman vol. 2 #73
DC Comics (November, 1992)
“Time Ryders”
WRITER/LAYOUTS: Dan Jurgens
FINISHES: Brett Breeding
COLORIST: Glenn Whitmore
LETTERER: John Costanza
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Jennifer Frank
EDITOR: Mike Carlin
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Between Jake & Leon and Captain Yuletide I need to conserve.
Sometimes you take any gag you can come up with. But I do have to prepare for this year’s Jake & Leon Christmas tale and I don’t even know what to do. One four-panel strip a week limits things. It’s not like I can fit A Christmas Carol in three weeks. Four tops. Even if I could, I need to save that for this year’s Captain Yuletide and I still have to design this year’s villain. This dental thing really held me up, helped by it being hard to think about Christmas until after Thanksgiving.
Meanwhile over at The Clutter Reports I took a look at Cybertron Brakedown. This should be my last Transformers review for a little while. I don’t want to turn it into a Transformers review site even though they’re the latest collection I’m working on.
My friend Sean picked up the latest issue of Titan’s Robotech so we’ll be looking at that this week, plus something else next week I’ll be reviewing out of protest. I’ll hold off on that reveal until next week. I’m also hoping to resume Art Soundoff since that bone spur seems to have broken down a bit, but on Tuesday I see the dentist and hopefully that won’t be an issue anymore. But the challenge is almost over and I don’t feel like I’ve done my part whatever the rules are and regardless of what I have been able to do. I also didn’t get to do the Recovered I had in mind, but I don’t have to save that for Art Soundoff, do I? I hope everyone in the US had a happy Thanksgiving (and a good day for the rest of you), and now it’s time to get ready for Christmas.
