No, not James Eatock of CerealGeek TV, though I’d love to have them both discussing He-Man and She-Ra.
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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.
Last time the Doctor learned who the enemy is while the others did things that weren’t in the episode.
What to say about Barbara that I didn’t say in the last novel? As the history teacher she could cover information duties when the TARDIS landed at some point in Earth’s past. That’s how the group functioned. Each had their own job. Ian could do the science, Barbara the history, the Doctor the sci-fi stuff, and Susan could pinch hit in each of those areas for the audience. Even though by this point the show had moved away from teaching anything and were just adventures in time and space, there are benefits to that setup, and I’m not sure the show ever really used them that well. The Doctor basically knows everything and the teachers were becoming redundant. I don’t know for certain if that’s why Ian and Barbara left the show at the same time or if the actors, William Russell and Jacqueline Hill, just decided they wanted to do other things.
At least by going together they both got to return to Earth, even if the Doctor was two years off. As we saw with Rose many decades later, they probably had some serious explaining to do. Maybe because I was an American kid in the 1980s when I finally saw that final episode of theirs, but I don’t see why they couldn’t have been returned to 1963 proper. Nothing stood out to be as being out of place. At any rate, it’s time to see what the characters are up to.
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The lost episode of Pimp My Ride.
Solitaire #6
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (May, 1994)
“A Chip Off The Block”
WRITER: Gerald Jones
LAYOUT: Jeff Johnson
PENCILERS: Stephen B. Jones
INKER: Barbara Kaalberg
COLORING: Keith Conroy & Foodhammer!
LETTERER: Susan Dorne
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Phil Crain
EDITOR: Hank Kanalz
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Personally, I rather liked “Scream Of The Shalka” and K9, though I still haven’t finished the latter. The backlog never ends.
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And that miss was because I didn’t have time to make it.
The sad thing is this I was prepared for.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I posted a video, but not as filler. I honestly wanted to take a look at how decluttering could possibly make you messier. The host makes some good points, but everybody’s journey is different.
Here at the Spotlight this week we continue the Chapter By Chapter review of the novelization of Doctor Who: The Rescue and see the rest of the Decepticon forces profiles for the second attempt at bringing Transformers to CBS’s Saturday morning lineup. Not sure what else is coming but hopefully it will be worth your stopping by. Have a great week, everyone!
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Fighting boredom by moonlight. Making bad puns by daylight. Always making fun of a anime fight. They are the ones named Team Four Star.
Known for their fan favorite Dragon Ball Z Abridged and various spinoffs, Team Four Star are a group of anime fans who make fan based parodies of anime and even the original Final Fantasy VII. They’ve tried branching out into other projects, but DBZ specifically and anime in general are their bread and butter. They have even done official dubs outside of the Abridged format they popularized, though I’m not sure they created. Recently they tried their hand at the first Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon anime series.
Based on the manga by Naoko Takeuchi, Sailor Moon follows the adventures of Usagi Tsukino, a teenage girl who is destined to become the hero Sailor Moon, and her growing group of friends who become her allies, the Sailor Scouts. DIC did a very censored dub of the series, which got taken over and equally censored for US broadcast TV, and these would later air on Cartoon Network’s Toonami block, the former action block turned anime showcase. More recently a more faithful adaptation, complete with gay couples and a bit more violence (this is a manga/anime series for teen girls, after all) was released on home video and later streaming.
This is not that adaptation. Team Four Star released this in parts but just yesterday dropped a collected version of the abridge with some extra jokes in the credits. It follows the first anime, the first full story arc of the manga which ended with a reset before it was unreset because money probably. Note that there are swears, a gay couple not in the manga, blood where even the anime didn’t have it, a lot of puns, acknowledging some curious age difference romances, and more swearing. It’s still funny and not too graphic and they missed any jokes about the suit-up transformations, though not the miniskirts. If you’re okay with all that…enjoy.
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If you think Diana of Themyscira doesn’t have her own rogues gallery, then you don’t know Wonder Woman. She has her own recurring enemies. They just rarely make it out of the comics. Cheetah and Ares tend to be the most known, while Giganta was at least on Superfriends and Justice League Unlimited with Circe, and Ares was in the good movie (and the good animated one), but there are others who could be tapped by show and movie creators. Bounding Into Comics contributor Billy Oduory lists a bunch that haven’t had a chance to shine.
(Yes, I know Egghead up there is a Batman villain from the 1960s series. I don’t have enough Wonder Woman fighting villains images, and none of them were her own.)
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