Oh good, this plotline can die now!
Blue Beetle #2
Charlton Comics Group (August, 1967)
Blue Beetle: “The End Is A Beginning” and an untitled The Question story
WRITER: D. Glanzman
ARTIST/PLOT: Steve Ditko
LETTERING: A Machine
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 installment we saw our hero get spotted. What will happen to him? I don’t know, we’re checking in with the title idiots instead.
In the first book the Op-Center stuff was the least interesting. They weren’t very good, they had little to know teamwork, they got hacked, and their first mission was a failure. Outside of Paul Hood, the character leaving for vacation in the second story involving an evil counterpart, I didn’t like any of them. Now when we go to Op-Center they’re going to be the people we deal with, and I can see so many ways this is going to go badly based on the first novel.
Conflict is important for drama, and this is still a new way to gather intel and use it in the field, but you’d think they would be extra careful in hiring the right people for the job even in politics. How is it the only one they got right is the politician, or at least someone who better works within the system? Paul Hood is the anti-Maverick and now they’re leaving poor man’s Maverick in charge at the worst time possible. That doesn’t give me high hopes for any part of the story they’re involved in, and I’m counting on the British agent to make this story interesting. I also want to be proven wrong, but I’m not holding my breath.
Sunday, 9 AM, Washington, DC
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There’s a Star Trek joke in here but it just isn’t coming to me.
Prototype #4
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (November, 1993)
“Wrathful Moon”
WRITERS: Len Strazewski & Tom Mason (credited as Prototype’s creators)
PENCILER: David Ammerman (credited as the creator of Wrath)
INKER: James Pascoe
COLOR DESIGNER: Robert Alvord
INTERIOR COLOR: Family Fugue
LETTERER: Tim Eldred
EDITOR: Chris Ulm
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I am not happy.
2014 was supposed to be the year I got more creative. It’s also the year my sleep schedule went nuts, I had to add another doctor to my list (I’m not sure how people in worst states than me get anything done, and I’ve been worse) which I have to go see on what’s already the busiest week of any month, and the end result has been not even close to how productive I want to be. That’s gone into my decluttering as well, and this week’s Clutter Report is basically me finding something positive to report (clearing another RSS feed) just to remind myself I did something. Why am I so tired lately?
So no comic this week, but I hope to have one next week. Don’t be surprised if I miss a feature article as I used up my drafts already, but I should get this week’s chapter of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image if not the comic reviews. I’m getting annoyed. And tired.
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I took a week off to get ahead on various things. That did not happen because I had sleep issues for half the week. The last few days was a lesser version of that. So I didn’t have time to track a Saturday Night Showcase entry not only because of afternoon naps but because I wanted to get some of the things I planned to do during my week off done. That’s also what I’ll be telling the Clutter Report readers, only there I’ll describe a few things I got done, and I’m hoping this week’s Jake & Leon will still be done by Sunday night ET. Next week includes a doctor’s appointment and still trying to get things done, but I’ll try to find something for the Showcase next week.
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Oddly, the swearing comes not from the rant but the articles he’s using to make his point. That’s “journalism” in the 21st Century.
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I haven’t seen the 2016 Ghostbusters, nor do I plan to. If you want to know why I didn’t see it then, check out what was going on in my life at the time. Not that the trailers made it look all that interesting, mind you, even before all the negative reviews. Feige is reminding me of Zac Snyder, though. I’ve actually become less positive about Man Of Steel, which is a decent superhero movie but a terrible Superman adaptation, because of his constant poor defenses, insisting his is the superior take on Superman (which he doesn’t even get called in most of the movie, if at all, because any time someone tries they get stopped). The more he tries to defend it, long after the movie came out and the Snyderverse is basically done, the more I get reminded of the flaws.
In the same vein, Feige should accept that people didn’t like his movie, Sony doesn’t even connect it to the other movies and cartoons, and not use his latest movie to try to defend a movie nobody is interested in. Well, nobody except the interviewer who probably asked him about the movie because they want that culture war narrative to never die and are always willing to bash that one President they don’t like and are cheering on the assassins to take out. You like it? Fine. The audience didn’t, said so, and that should be that. Now you have them less interested in seeing whatever movie you’re trying to push now on general principle. That is terrible marketing, but somehow marketing is failing miserably at their jobs. Then again, so are the people making what they’re marketing.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on October 1, 2024 in Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, Ghostbusters 2016, Paul Feig.
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