At some point we went from Mike Hammer to James Bond.
Sarge Steel #8
FINAL ISSUE
Charlton Comic Group (March/April, 1966)
“The Case Of The Terrible Talon”
CREATOR: Joe Matsui
WRITER: Joe Gill
ARTISTS: Montes & Basche
LETTERER: Jon D’Agostino
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I tried reading a Pern novel as we had a few at the local library. I couldn’t get into it, but I can certainly see how it found an audience. It also might have been the novel I came in on, but I don’t remember what that was.
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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.
I wasn’t about to do a story about an evil Op-Center and trying to restore the Soviet Union on Christmas week. It seemed wrong…and in 2024 a bit too close to current situations I wasn’t planning on when I chose this book. We’re coming up on a New Year, but it’s time to get back to this old book.
Last time we killed off another potentially interesting character. That worries me. While the series cast seems to be doing better in this book than the first one, it was the side characters that I actually found myself rooting for while shaking my head at the cast that were going to be part of the later novels. So killing off two perfectly good one-book characters makes me a bit disappointed, and I can only hope the regular cast steps up from the previous book. There are still concerns, and admittedly I am carrying the baggage from the original Op-Center, but there have been some minor improvements. We’re going back to them so hopefully this trend continues.
Chapter 21: Monday, 12:30 AM, Washington, DC
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Now they’re littering outer space with broken logos.
The Strangers #7
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (December, 1993)
“Prototype-A Behavior”
WRITER: Steve Englehart
CO-PLOTTERS: Tom Mason & Len Strazewski
PENICLER: Rick Hoberg
INKER: Tim Eldred
COLORING: Robert Alvord & Prisms
LETTERER: Dave Lanphear
EDITOR: Roland Mann
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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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