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At least Christmas was safe this year.
I only just now realized I forgot to add a word balloon to the final text. Dang it! I was focused on some shading issues that turned out to be user error and totally missed it. That’s Mitch talking in panel three, the first elf readers saw as Captain Yuletide, though Yulie is canonically the first one, which I flashed back to in the third issue. This storyline is done, and it’s back to business as usual here at BW Media Spotlight AND The Clutter Reports, where I finished the last model kit and finally built Mega Man. Review in a week or two, but here’s how I put it together.
If I had known DC was taking their own break from DC Heroes United I wouldn’t have done the extra Sunday post. I’m going to use that extra day (if I need it) to finally finish the terminology section of the Star Trek season 2 writer’s guide for Star Trek: Pitch & Guide. I think we’re almost done with the guide overall but this section has gone on longer than I planned. Plus we have the Chapter By Chapter review of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image back on Monday, the comic reviews all week, and we’ll see what comes up during the free days. I’ve managed to make a couple of evergreen articles to draft in case I need them, but I would like to not need them for awhile. Hopefully, if Hollywood or the rest of the storytelling interesting doesn’t do something interesting (and usually very stupid) I can still come up with a decent commentary on something. We’ll see what happens.
So, we’re back. Have a great week and a Happy New Year, everybody!
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I didn’t get to add any more Christmas specials to my playlist beyond the ones I posted this year. Also didn’t get to do anything else special for Christmas because the week started out distracting. Par for the course this year. I wanted to at least wish you all a Merry Christmas. I’ll be back before the New Year.
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Me, either, but Jake looks like he’s a fan.
Not being able to get a Captain Yuletide done this year, and needing a story for this year’s Jake & Leon Christmas story, things came together for me. At least I get to draw the elves. I even grabbed the unnamed elf from the first issue of Captain Yuletide that just chides Mitch for liking robots, and finally gave him a name (say hi to Mort) since I finally named those two guys from the comic store. This time he’s bothering poor Zek. There will be one more next week.
This week I have a doctor’s appointment and then there’s Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, where I’m not expecting a lot of readers. So while I may get some more Christmas songs, specials, and episodes onto the various YouTube playlists, and then post them here, I won’t be doing anything the rest of the week for my usual Christmas hiatus. That’s why I did the latest installment of DC Heroes United earlier today, so I don’t fall behind on that show. Maybe I’ll do some stuff for the future but no posts will be going up until next Monday. Enjoy time with your family or check out the years worth of old posts. Have a Merry Christmas, or whatever you celebrate, or just have a great week. We’ll be back together sooner than you want think.
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Since I’m taking Christmas week off, I didn’t want to have to play catch-up. So here’s an extra article.
So it turns out no, this episode doesn’t come off as a part 2 of the previous episode, just another chapter of the ongoing story.
“Fear, Interrupted” contains very little fear. One of the characters shares his (or her, no spoilers in the intro) fear, and outside of what impact the choice of who shares is…not a whole lot changes. The only real changes thus far are minor story beats, not a huge difference in events. There are limits to this story’s format that make me less interested in seeing what the Batman Telltales games were like not because of the cliffhanger but because none of the choices have a major impact on events. At best it affects character relationships, but that’s not as exciting since I’m here on the sidelines watching the action. Even if I were playing I doubt I’d feel like my choices mattered a whole lot. It’s actually kind of disappointing.
Luckily the episodes themselves have been interesting, and as someone examining storytelling it is interesting to see how the losing choices would have altered character relationships, but it does nothing about the real meat of the story. I’m still enjoying the story, and there’s a lot to talk about with this episode, though when it comes to the choices this round it feels even less like they affect the narrative and more a meta interest in the story. I won’t even be doing the regular choice analysis format like usual most of the time, and you’ll see why very quickly. First, let’s watch the episode.
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While I never got into Boy Meets World outside of the occasional episode, Girl Meets World seemed to draw me in more. The Disney Channel series follows Riley Matthews, daughter of Corey and Topanga. Before everyone needed to have a daughter (and they do have a son), what would you call it if focused on younger brother Auggie? Another Boy Meets World? In this case, focusing on the daughter opened the door to new stories, and while characters from the original show would show up (one of Riley’s friends is the son of one of Cory’s friends), none of Riley’s crew is a replacement for the original. You can enjoy both shows and see the torch passed on. You know, what Star Wars should have done, but right.
To finish this year’s Christmas offerings I am able to bring you the episode “Girl Meets A Christmas Maya”. (Too bad the original show didn’t think of that title meme. It works really well.) Riley’s best friend Maya is having her first Christmas with her mom and Corey’s best friend Shawn, who is dating Maya’s mom at this point in the series. Sadly, he doesn’t appear in the episode. The subplot involves Riley trying to get her friends into the spirit of Ecret Anta (that will make sense when you watch the episode…I’m allergic to pain). Will it be a merry Christmas? Watch and find out. Enjoy, and I hope you have one, even if you don’t celebrate the holiday.
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Originally titled Li’l Folks, Charles “Sparky” Schultz’s classic newspaper comic strip Peanuts became a huge sensation, boosted by TV holiday specials like A Charlie Brown Christmas, which forever tied them to the season thanks to Linus’ reading from Luke 2:8-14. In honor, the BBC put out an article honoring Schultz and his famous characters.
However, I’m posting this mere days before Christmas, so here’s a bonus article from The Conversation about how the special was made. I guess being almost last minute actually benefited it, as that animation style would go on to be how the Peanuts have been depicted even when they made the jump to 3D CG.
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