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So we’re going into the DC Gunnverse with no solid idea what the timeline is, just what they want to make. Sounds like every DC reboot since the New 52. Possibly post-Crisis in a few spots, so basically your typical DC reboot.
Whatever gets the job done.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I managed to get another batch of small decluttering projects done. I actually had plans to do something else, but this felt more important to do.
I’m actually not expecting any distractions this week, at least surrounding my medical issues. I know that’s odd to say given Thanksgiving is coming up, but we weren’t invited anywhere and even if I didn’t need to lose a few pounds I’ve never been that excited about eating. Nobody celebrates the reason for Thanksgiving and its importance in the first year of settling what became the US. It’s just a time for family to gather, and all my family has families of their own. So with any luck this week I may actually get to start trying to get into the workflow I’ve been wanting for awhile now. We’ll see what screws that up as we continue the Chapter By Chapter review of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image and a return to set discussion in Star Trek: Pitch & Guide, since now the writer’s guide wants to weigh in. Whatever else happens, happens.
Have a great week, everybody! Wish me luck!
Time to use another Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode for this week’s Showcase.
The third movie in a trilogy (a word Rian Johnson doesn’t understand), The Robot Vs. The Aztec Mummy follows the failed attempts of a mad scientist to steal Aztec treasure, thwarted by a mummy each time. Yes, in this story the mummy is the hero and the robot is the villain. I wonder if this inspired Mummies Alive? Actually, it’s more like a cyborg than a villain, but the word wasn’t popular yet, so it has an excuse the “mighty robots” of the GoBots didn’t.
The show also features a first chapter, for the rocket men serial Radar Men From The Moon. Commando Cody is the replacement for Jeff King as he faces villains from the moon. It’s the 1940s. They still thought the moon was livable. The serial would be combined into a movie, like other serials of their day. He also had his own TV series for a while, but you’ll have to see the regular serial in order to find out if they got better at cliffhangers.
Enjoy.
So many video games today seem to focus more on their story than their gameplay. Now as a story fan it doesn’t bother me in theory, but an interactive story has its own rules, and that includes working the gameplay in so you actually feel like you’re part of the story, even in linear stories. Nintendo solved that problem, according to an article by Bounding Into Comics contributor Spencer Baculi, by putting the gameplay first and story…somewhere after that. This makes the game more important than the story…which does lead to the confusing Zelda timeline, but does it make for better games?
Yesterday we looked at the first episode of DC Heroes United, a “massively interactive live event”, and went over the positives and negative, and why I’ve opted to not take part in the interactive side due to wanting to enjoy the story as it comes out.
Today I want to look at the creators’ interview, as I thought yesterday’s post would be too long with both the review and the interview. Specifically we’re reading the answers of showrunner Stephan Bugaj, and writers Martin Montgomery and Chris Schroyer. Doing an interactive novel approach is not something new to these three as they worked at Telltale Games before it collapsed. At the time one of the games they were working on was a Batman series that will never be finished. I don’t like the idea that Bruce never got to clear his father’s name, from what I hear as I didn’t get a chance to play the two games they managed to get done, but what can you do? I’m hoping the last game would have done so. Thomas Wayne having a dark past is so unnecessary to me.
Here’s the interview so you know I’m not taking things out of context, but for the most part I think they understand what they’re working with better than most people in comics or other media currently working with these characters. I still have a few notes, but for the most part it’s nice to see people understand what they’ve taken on. The story takes place at the dawn of heroes, if you missed yesterday’s article, with Batman just starting out, Superman still not revealing himself as anything other than a blur (so the Smallville treatment), and Wonder Woman…actually I don’t think we really know what her deal is. She basically just dropped exposition as a long-lived understander of the basics of magical things like Doctor Fate and his tower. So let’s see what they have to say for themselves.
He left his “kick me” sign at home.
Feature Comics #25
Comic Favorites Incorporated (October, 1939)
The Amazing Mystery Funnies for this month doesn’t have a full scan up at Comic Book +, just the Fantom Of The Fair story. Had to get through a few collected comic strip ones before finally getting here. As it is this issue starts with two gag strips collection and a gag page before we finally reach our first story.
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As of this writing this is oddly unlisted, though other sites have found and posted it. I guess they want to see how long they can hide it from Paramount, given the history with fanfilms, and this one featuring two actors reprising their roles, William Shatner as Kirk and Robin Curtis as Saavik.
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
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