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Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter (or possibly multiple chapters 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.
Our two-chapter section continues. Last time we had one important chapter and one not very important chapter. That’s one of the problems of this series almost two books in. When it’s on point it does a good job. When it’s rambling it gets boring.
I think this leads to how long these two novels have been, feeling a lot like padding to be a bigger novel than it needs to be, and I expect this to happen when I get to the remaining novel in this series I have to go through as well as the NetForce novel I also have from the mind of Tom Clancy. We’ll find out when we get to those, but that’s a long time coming, even with only ten more chapters to go with this book and how many of these reviews will be two chapters in length due to the lack of length in the chapters.
Enough of all that, though. Let’s see if there’s a way to salvage this mission and learn who all the good and bad guys are in this version of Russia.
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“Needs ketchup.”
Warstrike #3
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (July, 1994)
“The Politics Of Greed”
WRITER: Dan Darko
PENCILER: Hoang Nguyen
INKER: Alex Bialy
COLORING: Tim Duvar & Violent Hues
LETTERER: Susan Dorne
EDITOR: Roland Mann
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I had to pause when he mentioned Jackpot’s super power giving machine had a “death” setting. Why would you do that?
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One would think that’s rather important to making a movie.
It’s apparently true. Principle photography in the UK is done but they either don’t have a finished script or aren’t telling anyone about it. Not even the people who need to know. This is why Marvel Studios is failing, and Feige trying to equate his “method” with how Stan Lee and Jack Kirby worked together is just foolish.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I didn’t have any more time to do something interesting just like Saturday Night Showcase. So I got…something done. The next two paragraphs are a bit off topic for this website but I need to vent.
So it looks like my local ABC affiliate company Nexstar joined Sinclair in caving to Disney and putting Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show back on their stations. Look, he can say whatever he wants, even his hateful conspiracy theories, but I don’t accept what he put out as an actual apology and I don’t think he’s sorry. I didn’t watch the show before and I’m not watching it now. I also never watched The Man Show and he was the only thing I didn’t like about Win Ben Stein’s Money and wasn’t disappointed he left. Basically I didn’t like Jimmy Kimmel before not liking Jimmy Kimmel was cool.
Meanwhile, YouTube just admitted the Biden Administration forced them to kill channels that didn’t conform to their politics, and actually did apologize while offering to restore the channels killed in the Biden Purge. A bit late for some channels as they either moved on or moved elsewhere. So I guess “me speech” is more important than free speech. I’m sure some of these were also channels that challenged Disney properties, including Marvel Studios, but since it was Disney and Disney isn’t going to help YouTube fight the UK’s censorship plans that would actually hurt YouTube, they probably don’t care about those channels. Okay, can I stop with the sociopolitical stuff now? I just want to talk stories.
Speaking of which, it looks like the Instapundit boost has started to fall off, probably because the above two paragraphs are rare as we’re mostly about storytelling and geeky stuff ’round these here parts. Oddly, most of my stats the past few days say most of my views came from China. Weird. Well, hope they enjoy the continuing Chapter By Chapter review of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image as well as the CBS Transformers draft explorations. I’m almost done with the Charlton reviews of pre-DC characters, but DC bought from other places, like the original Transformers toys, so we’re not in need of a new Tuesday comic review topic just yet. Otherwise, we’ll see what else there is to discuss.
Have a great week, everyone!
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Sorry, folks. I actually have one chosen but I haven’t had the chance to really watch it to make sure the video works properly, and in current day to make sure they didn’t do a censor hack job. I have years of Saturday Night Showcase/Theater to look at. Most of them still work, so maybe catch up on a favorite or one you haven’t seen yet. Hopefully there will be some big trouble next week. Yes, that’s a teaser. No, the Transformers aren’t. I just needed a monitor I have used very often.
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This week was the 30th anniversary of Godzilla Vs. Destoroyah, the final chapter of the “Showa” era continuity, the last time all the movies in a Japanese period shared a continuity to date. While a great finale, a different ending for Godzilla’s last battle was considered. JB Augustyne of Bounding Into Comics goes over the finale we could have gotten for the second incarnation of the King Of The Monsters.
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