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When I saw the original teaser above for the anime Lazarus I was intrigued…and I haven’t been able to say that about many teasers as of late. Created by Shinichiro Watanabe, the creator of the original (and superior version of) Cowboy Bebop, all we really got was the animation, and I really wanted to know more about the main character in the teasers. Why was he running? Was he the bad guy or was he part of some cyber-dystopia? The version I saw was from one of the production companies, and wasn’t even subtitled. I liked the parkour movements, but I couldn’t even find a plot.
So when I found out the show made it’s debut on Adult Swim’s “Toonami” block, I took the chance that Sling Freestream’s Cartoon Network preview channel (you have to go into the live TV guide, which is odd) might have the first episode. No longer having cable/satellite TV it was my best chance unless I brought up the Adult Swim app again, and my Firestick only has so much room. I was in luck. Episode 1, “Goodbye Cruel World”, was up there and I got to watch it. Now I get to tell you if it’s any good.
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Nathaniel’s speed dating event didn’t go as planned.
Space Adventures volume 3 #37
Charlton Comic Group (December, 1960)
Two Captain Atom stories and four stories history has shown are probably not going to be very good. I’m looking forward to our hero getting his own book so I can stop reading this, and unlike Mystery Men Comics during the Blue Beetle reviews and current Golden Age reading, I won’t be coming back to it. The Captain Atom stories have good historic value and the rest just isn’t worth reading so far, but I’m hoping we get at least one good one this issue.
I’m not holding my breath.
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Two for the price of one. Both come from Midnight’s Edge on YouTube and has some swearing. The first is Andre attempting to explain why A Minecraft Movie did so well at the box office. The second is what Hollywood THINKS is the reason because they only care about marketing and think we’re stupid.
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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.
Don’t worry, I’m not going to have as much political commentary as the last chapter, but I kind of had to comment due to how closely it mirrored (no pun intended) current events. It’s time to check back in with the rest of Strike this round.
I know I harp on all the extended trivia about locations, weapons, vehicles, and even unnecessary background on the characters. I also know that at least the first three are one of the things fans of Clancy’s franchise are totally into that. I’m not, so not learning this until I had gotten three Op-Center novels and a Net Force means I wasn’t prepared for it, and probably wouldn’t have gotten more had I known. Also, I thought the series regulars were terrible in the first novel, though that’s improved in this one thus far. What works for some people doesn’t work for everyone and that’s fine. That’s why I look for things I like or thought were at least done well in something that otherwise wasn’t made for me (a loaded term these days), to be fair about my assessment. I don’t want to write something off that isn’t to my taste unless it’s ruining something that was “made for me” in the past. Sometimes a choice isn’t bad overall, just not something everyone likes, or sometimes it is a bad idea and you would have been better off not doing it. For the target audience, this is an improvement over the first one and there’s stuff I can get behind.
With that, let’s check in with our field team and see what they’re doing to save the world from the commees.
Tuesday, 3:05 AM, over the Barents Sea
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It’s a bullet exchange.
Prime #10
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (March, 1994)
“Men From The Boys”
WRITERS: Gerard Jones & Len Strazewski
ARTIST: Norm Breyfogle
COLORING: Keith Conroy & Violent Hues
LETTERER: Tim Eldred
EDITOR: James Robinson
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Can’t wait for Avengers #200 to be adapted into the next Captain Marvel movie. After all, they tell us “it was in the comics” means they can do anything they want, even if it’s a bad idea or out of context.
Let’s be honest, though. Culture war nonsense is only part of the problem. Marvel Comics have been trying to get any character named Captain Marvel over for years because “we’re Marvel Comics” and keeping Billy Batson from getting his proper superhero name back. I think they even rushed the movie out while Shazam! was stuck in development hell. None of the others stuck and they either died or got their own hero name. Using Carol was hoping the culture war would work to their advantage, and it only made it worse for her.
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