“Three fingers means I really hate you.”
Chronology Xero #1
UMC Ediciones (January, 2019)
“The Awakening”
WRITER: Jonh Curcio
ARTIST: Nicolás Giacondino
COLORIST/COVER ART/ASSISTANT EDITOR: Max Cereijido
EDITOR: Jonh Curcio & Luis Sanchez
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This will be important tonight.
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It’s a good thing I didn’t try to be funny and call the “terminology” section “technobabble” like I did at this point in the TNG guide. While some of the fake science terms have come up in this section of the guide, not all of it is what we traditionally refer to as technobabble. This is technobabble:
What we’ve actually seen is mostly terms with a hint of technobabble when needed. Technobabble’s job is to make it seem futuristic, learning new science and technology we didn’t have until we went to space, met aliens, and learned how to break the time barrier with a few crystals and explosive materials that could end the universe. As you do. Terminology here has mostly been “we named a thing”. Transporters aren’t real science but they are real in a science fiction universe.
Today we finally finish this section of the guide, but there’s still one more to go before we’re entirely done with this guide and I can give my overall thoughts on all this. So let’s take advantage of the schedule hole and finish the glossary for the original Star Trek.
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What the cover needs to point out is which one IS Monk?
Knuckles The Echidna #30
Archie Comics Publications (November, 1999)
WRITER: Ken Penders
EDITOR: J.F. Gabrie
LETTERER: Vickie Williams
“King Of The Hill” part one: “Bad To The Bone”
PENCILER: Ken Penders
INKER: Harvey Mercadoocasio
COLORIST: Frank Gagliardo
Espio The Chameleon: “Hiding In Plain Sight”
PENCILER: Coleen Doran
INKER: Andrew Pepoy
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
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We’ve got ten more of these to go and I like to analyze. The safest bet for me is to do five today and five tomorrow to finally put this subseries to rest and get on with the final section of the guide. This one will have some of the important ones while the next one will be mostly for the really nosey as to how Star Trek used basic terms like “human” and “universe”. No sense hitting you with the super text wall.
Like I said, we have two of the important ones here and we’re starting with the Prime Directive, while ending on Stardates. These are some of the things the franchise are most known for and comparing them with the TNG writer’s guide should be interesting. I’m curious how they changed, and what this guide says that the sequel series’ writer’s guide said about it.
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At this point would you know if Riker was making any of that up?
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At some point we went from Mike Hammer to James Bond.
Sarge Steel #8
FINAL ISSUE
Charlton Comic Group (March/April, 1966)
“The Case Of The Terrible Talon”
CREATOR: Joe Matsui
WRITER: Joe Gill
ARTISTS: Montes & Basche
LETTERER: Jon D’Agostino
