BW’s Daily Video> The Problem With Star Trek: Section 31

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Star Trek: Pitch & Guide> Guide part 11–Q&A Finale

Well, the goal is in sight. Last time we talked about life in Star Trek’s future, and now we get to discussing the last set of Q&A questions about writing for the original Star Trek.

This has been an interesting…trek through this guide and I still have final thoughts for the next and final installment in this series before I give writer’s guides a break. I do enjoy making these examinations, learning what shows planned versus what they put out. Maybe it’s the pitch being added, but this one has felt longer than usual plus I was fighting two other article series…when DC Heroes United actually put an episode out, something they’ve gotten spotty on since Christmas. That takes time away from other topics, but at least when I’m ready to do another one I know where to look.

I’m not sure what else to say at this point. The Q&A is basically retreading things already in the main guide, but with some extra information, adding to my theory that, this coming from the guide headed into season two, they’re clarifying things asked about in season one. This will cover the last two pages of the guide. So let’s get through the rest of this already.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Judomaster #92

Oh look, Smiling Skull is…can we call this back if this takes place before the first time we saw him?

Judomaster #92

Charlton Comics Group (December, 1966)

“Judomaster Meets The Smiling Skull”

WRITER/ARTIST: Frank McLaughlin

Sarge Steel: “The Case Of The Double Agent” part 2 (Harvey Dent would approve)

not listed but my guess is also Frank McLaughlin, who is also credited for this issue’s judo lessons

[Read along with me here]

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BW’s Daily Double Video> A Reading From The Star Trek’s Writer’s Guide

Continue watching this series on glib facsimile’s YouTube Channel. As for me, I’m finishing reading the guide tonight.

Chapter By Chapter> Tom Clancy’s Op-Center> Mirror Image chapter 25

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 tried doing this with WordPress’s “block editor” since it’s trying to phase out the classic one, which doesn’t work on this site but oddly does for The Clutter Reports as far as going directly to it without a pre-created link. I still have to learn how to format the way I like there. I only mention it to pad out the intro.

Last time, we saw that father and son don’t get along, as Paul’s Russian counterpart doesn’t have as much love from his kid as Paul did from his two. If you recall, when he had to rush back to Op-Center his kids, not even knowing about the details of the bombing if they knew about the bombing at all, were totally on his side, encouraging him to go stop the bad guys. Orlov’s son, on the other hand, is one of the bad guys even if he isn’t fully aware of Dogin’s plans. He’d probably be all in on it given what we learned.

Tonight’s chapter is a short one, at four pages. That barely works for me but I could use the time and the next chapter is average length, so let us head to the skies and check in on Striker. I hope their flight goes better than the Ruskies’ flight.

Chapter 25: Monday, 2:53 PM, over the Atlantic, northwest of Madrid

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Break-Thru #2

Soon the logo slaughtering will cease.

Break-Thru #2

Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (January, 1994)

“The Secrets Of The Ultraverse!”

PLOT: Gerard Jones, Mike W. Barr, Steve Englehart, Steve Gerber, James D. Hudnall, Tom Mason, George Pérez, James Robinson, and Len Strazewski

WRITER: Gerard Jones

PENCILER: George Pérez

INKER: Al Vey

COLORISTS: Moose Baumann & Robert Alvrod

EDITORS: Hank Kanalz and Chris Ulm

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BW’s Daily Video> What Japanese Think Of Western Comics

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I remember looking up the Japanese intro to Filmation’s The New Adventures Of Superman, the show that basically launched Filmation as an independent animation studio. There were people from Japan in the comments who were saying that the show was a bit part of their childhood. Marvel clearly made the bigger push into Japan than DC has but that made me happy.