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Yes, the drunken Scotsman swears, but he make a good point.
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Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter 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.
Forgot to fix the intro after the previous book. This book has good chapters so it should just be a chapter an installment. This one even has 9 1/3 pages.
Last time we saw the current TARDIS crew–The Doctor, Ian, and Barbara–deal with their first travel without Susan. They got out of the ship and into the cave they materialized in. Excitement?
This isn’t the first time I’ve read this book but it is the first time reading it just after the episode it’s adapting. Actually, it’s the first time I’ve done this with any Doctor Who episode and I still haven’t watched the full version of Masque Of Mandragora though I have read that novel. It’s the only American novelization I have among my handful of British novelisations. (The spelling of novelization/novelisation depends on the country.) I know that this is the old days. Not a lot of the action even in later classic Who, nevermind what we usually get in the modern incarnations. Blame the time period, blame the budget, blame the presentation (still working like a recorded stage performance), or blame any combination of the three. It’s still an interesting story and one we’re going to get back to as we continue the adaptation of “The Powerful Enemy”, the first story in the arc.
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I wish I had my bicycle going before winter hit.
Solitaire #5
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (April, 1994)
“Even In Death”
WRITER: Gerard Jones
LAYOUTS: Jeff Johnson
PENCILER: Stephen B. Jones
INKER: Barbara Kaalberg
COLORING: Keith Conroy & Foodhammer!
LETTERER: Tim Eldred
EDITOR: Hank Kanalz
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Link to the full letter and to the Joe Barbera video they mentioned. Make your own judgement.
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Don’t worry, folks. Even her meatloaf is good.
Sitcoms have taught me that meatloaf is hard to make. I wouldn’t know.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I posted my Christmas decorations, which means no more declutter until January, or at least when I’m done with this year’s Captain Yuletide.
More Christmas postings, the next Chapter By Chapter review of the Doctor Who: The Novelisation adaptation, and if we don’t anymore Thursday night bombshells, the next installment of CBS Transformers as we closer to finishing the production notes ahead of the second pitch attempt. That’s what’s coming up this week along with whatever else is worth discussing. Have a great week, everyone!
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It’s December, so it’s time to add to the Christmas special playlist. This first offering of 2025 is a radio play produced by Campbell Playhouse, a CBS radio anthology series. I shouldn’t have to go over A Christmas Carol. There are so many version of Charles Dickens’ book (which I did a Chapter By Chapter review of) that if you don’t know the story you’re probably too young to be here. I’ve posted other versions of this classic in past Saturday Night Showcases (at least one has to still be up), and there are reasons there are so many variations, remakes, homages, and parodies that you can’t avoid it.
Apparently, Campbell Playhouse, produced and narrated by the legendary Orson Wells and sponsored by Campbell Soup, had redone the play for a few years, but the 1938 version was actually recorded. With the also legendary Lionel Barrymore returning as Ebenezer Scrooge, the radio version is good for listening while wrapping Christmas presents. This version is brought to us by The Primitive Library, and it’s not even the only radio recording they have. It’s just the one I found. There’s no more padding I can do, so enjoy.
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We have two articles on the Christmas sensation Home Alone. At least I think it’s still considered a Christmas movie. As noted earlier this week the genre term is kind of messed up thanks to you know what. The first comes from Geeks & Gamers contributor Alex Gherzo and why he thinks the hijinks of Kevin McCallister still endures. In the second, Variety is reporting Macaulay Culkin has an idea for a new sequel passing the torch to Kevin’s son. Would you watch it?
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