“Okay, we clearly sent out too many party invitations.”
Sonic The Hedgehog #78
Archie Comics Publications (January, 2000)
COLORIST: Frank Gagliardo
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
EDITOR: J.F. Gabrie
Sonic: “Changes”
WRITER: Karl Bollers
PENCILER: Fry
INKER: Andrew Pepoy
Tales Of The Great War: “What Really Happened”
WRITER: Ken Penders
PENCILER: Chris Allan
INKER: Jim Amash
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I’ll let you look up the rest because I really don’t want to know. What they had there was lame enough.
Well, at least “Broken Fate” part 2 feels like it could share the name. Still not sure why they’re bothering with this part 1/part 2 nonsense, though.
This one is somehow one of the most interesting and most disappointing episode at the same time. That’s because one of the unchosen paths in theory should be the right one for the characters but then does something so wrong that I have to give the writers flack for their mistake. I fear it might be the result of the inherent flaw of this project: there’s only so many events you can change to make it work because they can only change so much to create the episode. I haven’t played any of the Telltale games because I didn’t get the chance before the company folded in the middle of their Batman series. I think the games included a path that makes Thomas Wayne secretly evil all this time (and I hate that idea) but I don’t know if that’s universal to every path in the two episodes they managed to create. Someday I plan to watch a playthrough to see what the case is.
When we last left our heroes, they learned of a way to stop Circe by finding a staff Doctor Fate hid away called the Staff Of Shai. Combining it with the Fatebreaker will allow them to overcome Circe as she continues to tap the tower’s power. Circe thinks she can manipulate Lex like she did Barbara. Clark made some kind of peace with Lois for now (making that subplot so far useless to the story, at best showing us more about this version of Clark as a person but not much else). Black Canary’s leadership skills are rookie level unless you can blame Batman. What happens this episode? Let’s find out.
Introducing for the first time the next character to die.
Judomaster #91
Charlton Comics Group (October, 1966)
“Man Without A Country!”
STORY/ART: Frank McLaughlin
Sarge Steel: Case File 110 “Case Of The Double Agent”
No credits, but it might be McLaughlin. In the letters section there’s also a brief bio on him, and it turns out he did learn judo. Didn’t know to ask him about that.
Last time we saw that our crew seem to finally have their stuff together. Maybe they did learn from the events of the last book.
The timing of my choosing this book has been odd. We have a book with a potential war starting at the Russian/Ukrainian border as part of a plot to restore the USSR to communist rule, and we have a full-fledged war going on right now at that location. I wouldn’t be surprised if Putin isn’t sharing Dogin’s mission and plan. How did this book do in Russia? I’m also doing this as we inaugurate a new President of the US on Martin Luther King Day. It’s politics all around. Plus this book the last few months of last year and will probably be going in this feature until sometime in Spring. The next book is just as long so I’m going to hold off on that for a while and do a nice short one for the next book.
Of course that makes the problem of coming up with intros when we’re still not even at the halfway mark of the novel more difficult. So let’s leave the two Operation Centers alone for a moment and travel someplace else.
Some people just don’t want to solve anything.
The Solution #4
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (December, 1993)
“Racing To The Moon”
WRITER: James D. Hudnall
PENCILER: Darick Robertson
INKER: Barb Kaalberg
COLORING: Moose Baumann & Violent Hues
LETTERER: Tim Eldred
EDITOR: Hank Kanalz
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