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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.
In our last chapter we lost the character I wanted to see more of. Kind of annoyed, because we’re still stuck with the main cast.
Now we hit a chapter that going into it I’m concerned about the reaction to, because it’s at the Russian/Ukraine boarder. If you’re in the future and wondering why I’m concerned, check the posting date and think about what was going on at the boarder at the time. For those of you in the present, remember that this book came out in 1995, so it should be interesting to see in 2024 what they predicted and what they ended up being wrong on. If memory serves, these take place slightly into the future.
For the record I am not a geopolitical expert nor a military strategist. I am a storyteller and reviewer. I don’t know why then or now Russia would be so interested in getting Ukraine back when reforming the USSR as a top priority outside of it’s being right next door and they owned it before. All I know before starting this chapter is that Commie Op-Center must be interested in drawing Ukraine into this for whatever reason they have. Maybe we’ll learn something and maybe we won’t. We’re about to find out as we jump into this next chapter. These being big novels we aren’t even a quarter into the book yet. This is going to go into the new year, isn’t it? Not really the type of story I wanted to be reviewing into Christmas, but that’s my scheduling problem. With that, let’s read.
Sunday, 9 PM, Belgorod, the Russian/Ukraine boarder
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“Bloodbath”. As if you needed proof this was a 1990s comic book.
Exiles #2 (of 4)
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (September, 1993)
“Fugitives”
WRITER: S. Gerber
PENCILER: R. Phillips
INKER: K Braunch
COLORIST: M. Baumann
LETTERER: P. Owsley
EDITOR: Chris “I’m important enough to get my full name printed” Ulm
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You can celebrate the end of the nightmare and be disappointed why you woke up.
Just something I realized. I’m happy that Velma won’t get another season, but I’m not sure anybody really learned any kind of lesson. This mistake will happen again. It’s just that right now Warner Brothers Discovery, despite having arguably the biggest animation library on the planet, really doesn’t seem to care about that library. Tubi and MeTV Toons are making better use of their stuff than they are, and WB has two cartoon channels, a family channel, and numerous streaming channels as well as their pay-to-watch Max service. It’s a real shame for us toon lovers, but at least it got rid of this monster.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week, who knew going through your closet and trying on every piece of clothing was so tiring? A quick report was all I had strength to do.
As for this week, the next installments of the Chapter By Chapter review of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image and Star Trek: Pitch And Guide, plus I have a comic strip anniversary coming, so I need to get through my favorites of this year’s Jake & Leon comics before next Friday. Plus I have a couple of other things I’d like to do but we’ll see if those come together on time. At any rate, have a great week, everyone!
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It’s October, and everybody does the Halloween thing. Here at BW Media Spotlight the spooky season just isn’t my thing. Still, I can play along on Saturday Night Showcase. I can do related shows, but don’t expect to get your nightmare fuel here. It’s all about stopping evil ’round these here parts, partner!
When it comes to the mistakes ABC made in the last season of The Real Ghostbusters, I agree with most of the fandom. Changing Janine’s glasses because pointy things are scary to kids? Dumb. Toning down the scares? Why? It was already less scary than the syndicated counterpart, and that wasn’t exactly causing sleepless nights. Having Peter and Slimer get along? Got in the way of their typical association, one of the sources of comedy and you do see that despite getting mad at Slimer for his antics, Peter didn’t hate him, even though Slimer was the first ghost to slime him. Replacing Lorenzo Music with Dave Coulier as the voice of Peter? That one was on Bill Murray, but the rest was pushed on ABC, and thus DIC and the writers of the show, because they hired the wrong consulting firm to keep the show “safe for kids”. In other words the so-called parent groups who probably don’t have kids think kids can handle nothing. It wasn’t exactly Wes Craven territory on Saturday mornings, you know.
Slimer And The Real Ghostbusters also came about because that same consulting firm, proof you don’t need to be woke to be bad at your job, thought they should be pushing Slimer since kids like him. In the original movie he was a one-shot ghost, but he played well in the advertisements and thus became their mascot. This rebrand came with a series of shorts featuring Slimer’s Looney Tunes style adventures with his friends both human and animal. Only one short gave him ghost buddies. Going against the grain, I didn’t hate these. I thought they were kind of fun, and was disappointed that they got rid of them in the last season. They weren’t necessary, but on their own the shorts aren’t bad. Trying to bring the supporting cast, including crazy paranormalist Professor Dweeb, into the main show as supporting cast wasn’t a good idea, though. They fit in less than the Junior Ghostbusters, and that’s saying something for this crowd. Tonight I bring you, courtesy of the Throwback Toons YouTube channel, a sample of this show so you can decide for yourself if the Slimer segments were really that bad.
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When asked if we wanted to see Spider-Man changing diapers, my answer was yes. Responsibility is (allegedly) one of the themes of Peter Parker’s life, and fatherhood holds the greatest responsibility. Writer Edward Feser wrote about how Peter in the pre-MCU Spider-Man movies paid proper tribute to good fathers and showed examples of bad fathers and father figures. It’s an article from 2014 so I wonder what he would say about Tony Stark in the MCU and what happened to Peter after Stark died?
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