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Here’s my own view on earlier discussions on the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers colors. This is not a new stupid thing to say. We’ve had Black Rangers of multiple colors since.
Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter (or possibly multiple chapter for this one) 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.
Seventy-Eight chapters, some with short enough chapters that it feels wrong to call it a chapter. Either way we’re more than halfway done with this book and still have a long way to go. Last time we got to see the only good guy at Commie Op-Center. I don’t know whether or not Orlov Sr. is a commie deep down, though given how he treats people like people I kind of doubt it. He’s starting to suspect something is up, meaning he might not have been the best choice to head your spy organization that’s being used for a governmental coup.
Now we get to visit his son, to see how in he’ll be once everyone figures out that Putin Dogan is trying to restore the USSR by starting with the Ukraine. I already said my thing before and this isn’t a political blog, though I have been a bit more political in this one, so let’s just get on with the review. This is the best padding I can do for this chapter, unfortunately. I’m all out of ways to go spoiler free analysis at this point.
Chapter 40: Tuesday, 10:09 AM, Ussurisk
Spell check wants me to use a different spelling, but this is what’s in the book. Maybe it’s a fictional place or something?
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That girl really gets around, and she STILL ends up in the sewers.
Wrath #2
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (February, 1994)
For whatever reason, the scan I’m using (after a hunt as where I got #1 is missing #2, but #3 is up there) is missing a title and credits page. The cover lists Barr, Ammeran, and Gustovich. This is the only information I have, and it must be missing entirely. I went to the Grand Comics Database and they suggest David Ammeran and Mike Barr did the writing, with Ammeran on pencils and James Pascoe on inks, but then guess the colorist and letter, possibly from the previous issue. So somebody goofed up something somewhere. On with the review, I guess.
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Interesting how so many of them chose a story where Superman dies or loses his powers, but some of the choices I can get behind. Of course longtime BW readers already know mine. What are some of your favorites?
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And I have a lot to forgive.
It’s not that I forgot the comic, but that scheduling got all mixed up as last week’s comic wasn’t ready for two weeks ago. So here’s a belated Easter-themed comic.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I started clearing out the corner of my closet again. This time I have a plan but it means finishing a different declutter project.
This week we have another chapter of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image to go over. We’re almost done with the Space Adventures period of Captain Atom for Tuesday’s pre-DC “Yesterday’s” Comic reviews. We also have another pilot to review if it’s still free, but it’s not on YouTube so I’ll have to link to it. As for the rest of the week, we’ll find out together. Have a great one, everybody.
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I was going to use Gaijin Goombah‘s latest Which Ninja episode on Nightbird, from the original cartoon, for a Daily Video, but then he ran into some trouble with not being able to use voiced clips due to Hasbro complaining. That’s the first I’ve heard of them doing that, but that’s YouTube life for you. So why not allow you to see the context he had to put in text by showing you the actual episode from Hasbro Pulse‘s official channel? (I’d use the official Transformers channel but YouTube also has an issue with letting you scan kids entertainment channels because they totally don’t understand why they got in trouble with the government for data mining kids.)
For the uninitiated, “Enter The Nightbird” was an episode of the original The Transformers. Airing in season 2 of the syndicated cartoon, a roboticist in Japan creates a Cybertronian sized robotic ninja named Nightbird. Why? He was bored. Megatron sees potential despite lacking the ability to transform, making Starscream worried about his job because it’s a safe bet. Thus the Autobots must retrieve two pieces of stolen property; the one stolen by Megatron and the one stolen by the other stolen property.
Meanwhile, Gaijin Goombah’s audience requested a ninja analysis of Nightbird because even now 80 robot ninja fans just really like her. I wonder if I can get him to do an episode on Ninjzz from The Bots Master, if only as punishment for being part of the crowd that gets Batarangs confused with shurikens thanks to Christopher Nolan. First we’ll watch the episode, then the analysis, and as a bonus, Chris McFeely‘s history of Nightbird after this from Transformers: The Basics. I think I posted that one before, but it came up in YouTube’s suggestions so why not make this a Nightbird festival? Enjoy.
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It’s not like Netflix hasn’t made clear their intention to get rid of movie theaters. One of the co-founders has it as a goal if memory serves, and of course less money in theaters in favor of home viewing potentially means more money for Netflix if they don’t stop chasing people off with terrible adaptations, constant price hikes, and other things that have led people away from Netflix and towards free ad-supported streaming sites. That’s why CEO Ted Sarandos insisting Netflix is “saving Hollywood” or “(w)e really do care that we deliver the program to you in a way you want to watch it, and it’s a program that you love and desire” is easily countered by everything from Rebel Moon to Avatar: The Last Airbender to any anime adaptation and translation they seem to put out lately if the source material creator isn’t involved. “They made the better Daredevil adaptation.” They also made the Iron Fist adaptation people hated. Netflix isn’t even saving Netflix right now.
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