“Who let Todd McFarlane decorate in here!”
Sonic The Hedgehog #95
Archie Comic Publications (May, 2001)
COLORIST: Frank Galiardo
EDITOR: Justin “J.F.” Gabrie
Sonic: “Enemy Mine”
WRITER: Karl Bollers
PENCILER: Fry
INKERS: Pam Eklund & Jim Amash
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
Knuckles: “When Destiny Calls”
WRITER/INKER: Ken Penders
PENCILER: Ron Lim
LETTERER: Vickie Williams
“One of these days I have to get that temporal grace thing working.”
It’s kind of amazing how this season has slowly reunited Whovians across the sociopolitical divide…in how much they hate it. Unless all they care about is the gay black Doctor and other misuses of “representation” to cover terrible storytelling, I’ve seen longtime Who fans drop away from the series, including Harbo Wholmes, one of the channels I use for the Daily Video. It’s clear to see that only the most dedicated of brand loyalist or the activist who probably never watched the show anyway are the only ones still watching besides reaction channels chronicling the downfall of our favorite Time Lord.
I’d save this since I’m already doing a Doctor Who themed article every week for the next few weeks but why wait? I’m doing a bit of my own reacting, to WhoCulture‘s “10 Things NOBODY Wants To Admit About Doctor Who”. While I haven’t read their review of “The Reality War”, the last straw in a terrible season to many holdout fans, I would be surprised if the WhatCulture network channel dedicated to Doctor Who is going to just give up on new/neo Who and stick to the older material, before Chibnall and Davies’s second run started chasing so many fans away. In this video, with Elle Littlechild as the selected presenter among the team to read Marc Donaldson’s article, they go over ten things about the long running series they think are just too silly and even a few they think the show would be better off getting rid of or never having done in the first place.
This isn’t a “Versus” article because I actually agree with some of what’s presents. Some…but not all. There’s a few we’re going to have to agree to disagree with, and one where I think they’re completely wrong. However, some I do agree has been a problem. I’ll show you the video, or you can read the article version that means scrolling through multiple pages so they can increase their ad revenue, and then respond to their list.
According to the Grand Comics Database and the indicta, Captain Atom continues the numbering from Strange Suspense Stories, a comic that started back in 1955. It’s that weird mailing issue again that causes new comics to take over old comics’ numbering for some dumb reason. The US Government, ladies and gentlemen. The comic actually ended by reprinting some of the Space Adventures stories, but I’m not going through that again.
Alternate title: “Da-ba-di da-ba-DIE!”
Captain Atom #78 (technically #1)
Charlton Comics Group (December, 1965)
“The Gremlins From Planet Blue”
WRITER: Joe Gill
PENCILER: Steve Ditko
INKER: Rocke Mastriano
COLORIST: not credited along with the editor, though the comic is in color, the credits given in a paragraph so maybe they forgot him/her
LETTERER: Jon D’Agostino
“The Vast Unknown”
Bache (that’s the only credit)
Last time we followed our heroes in Russia, this time we’re following our heroes in America.
There’s something I noticed last chapter. This book has been going on for so long that I’m forgetting things from the beginning of the book. Maybe they didn’t plan on someone reading a chapter a week, but I also can’t remember ever doing that with other books. Occasionally I might have to check a name I haven’t heard in awhile, but I do that in the real world. I mean things like Fields-Hutton’s spy gear, what characters did at one point or another, and it’s because this book is so long and so stuff with useless trivia and worldbuilding that I can’t hold all that information. Stuff gets lost and that doesn’t benefit the reading. I can tell you moments from TV shows I saw years ago, books I’ve read (again, I still have to look up names because I’m lousy with them unless they really stood out) are easier to recall than this one. It’s just a lot of noise blocking the story and that’s not a good thing.
And we have another 20-something chapters to go, even with combining the shorter ones. So we better get started.
“Somebody used way too much chlorine in this pool!”
The Strangers #10
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (March, 1994)
“The Door To Doom!”
Englehart
Hoberg
Eldred
Lanphear
Baumann
Mann
Prisms
Names and credits, people. Don’t forget them.
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