“That’s a lot more grape soda than we need.”
Knuckles The Echidna #21
Archie Comics Publications (January, 1999)
“The Forbidden Zone” part 3: “The Many Facets Of The Truth”
WRITER: Ken Penders
PENCILER: Manny Galan
INKER: Andrew Pepoy
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
LETTERER: Vickie Williams
EDITOR: Justin Gabrie
Basically Disney’s approach to Star Wars.
Star Wars Free Comic Book Day 2024
Marvel Comics (2024)
COVER ART: Phil Noto
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Mikey J. Basso
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Danny Khazem
EDITOR: Mark Paniccia
“Return To Echo Base”
WRITER: Charles Soule
ARTIST: Ibraim Roberson
COLORIST: Rachelle Rosenberg
LETTERER: Clayton Cowles
“The Curse”
WRITER: Greg Pak
ARTIST: Ramon Rosanas
COLORING: Guru-eFX
LETTERER: Joe Caramagna
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I’m never surprised that the everything for meeeeeeeeeeee crowd is demanding another popular thing conform to their views, tastes, and preferences. They hate when something popular isn’t made for them, but is happy when something isn’t made for someone who isn’t them. Self-important whiny babies. Also, don’t expect me to care about this show. Everything I hear about fails to impress me and even if I had Disney+, and this doesn’t give the urge to get it, I don’t think I’d waste my time watching this show. Just because it’s Star Wars doesn’t mean I have to like it. Let’s talk about that tonight.
I hope everything fits in one chapter because my time is limited this week, kind of like the actual murder investigation in a novel about a series of murders. I’d still like to see more integration of the character stuff and the actual plot, but we’re almost at the end of this 35 chapter book. Last time we got to see some of the extra security measures taken with Amanda as they prepare to take her out of status and the machines basically running her body while the treatment takes. So if our killer is going to find a way to attack again, this is his or her last shot.
I know I keep harping on this disconnect between the plot and the character moments, but it’s still my only issue with the book. The character interactions are great, but the whole academy murder thing kind of takes my attention away from it because that’s what I’m expecting the focus of the book to be, with the character moments providing motive, opportunity, and alibis. Take that away, and you have a really interesting examination of Vulcan versus Terran culture as a new relationship forms between members of both cultures and races. If that’s the focus Lorrah wanted, then using the murders when Remmington’s recovery with an experimental treatment would have been enough. Again, I came into this after reading the sequel, which was about a medical crisis, but it was a plot that allowed for these kind of character explorations and I’m still looking forward to re-reading The IDIC Epidemic in the future. You didn’t need the murders, but with it there we should be spending more time with the suspects and the investigation than we have thus far.
I’ve stopped asking if this is the chapter that resumes the murder plot or not because I’m always wrong. Let’s just see what happens next.
“Maybe we should become some kind of ultra force.” “Nah, nobody would be interested in that.”
Hardcase #4
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (September, 1993)
“Strangers In The Night”
WRITER: James D. Hudnall
CO-PLOTTER: Steve Englehart
PENCILER: Roger Robinson
INKER: Larry Welch
COLORIST: Moose Baumann
LETTERER: Tim Eldred
EDITORS: Hank Kalanz & Chris Ulm
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
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Brand Loyalty Vs Fan Loyalty
“How can you call yourself a fan of Star Wars if you don’t like this?”
Ah, the old fan debate. How can you call yourself a fan of this or that franchise if you don’t like everything that comes from that franchise? This was the cry of the fan who liked everything that had the name attached to it. Slap Star Wars on a pencil case and they want it to “support the franchise”. The game is terrible, but we never expected our favorite show or comic to have a video game so you have to love it. Oddly, Superman fans don’t say this about any Superman game, especially Superman 64. It’s like they’re so worried that we’ll never get another one because the company will think it’s the brand that’s not popular and not the crappy game or side story that there won’t be another one.
Recently years another group has found a way to use this stupid argument to support their cause, the corporate overlords. I used Star Wars as my example because this “argument” by DisneyFilm and their willing accomplices in the shill media have used this as their rallying cry, which was brought up in a discussion on the Morning Nonsense podcast and the example was boosted by the Just Some Guy video I posted earlier today and other videos on the latest hit to the IP, The Acolyte. If you don’t like this show then you aren’t a “true fan” of Star Wars, and you probably only hate it because you’re a racistsexisthomophobe. You aren’t happy with women in Star Wars, despite all the women in Star Wars under the George Lucas era and “wilderness years” movies, shows, comics, novels, and games both in an out of canon. LucasFilm didn’t always make the best stories and characters. Jar-Jar Binks isn’t being given a second chance even though the prequels are for not being the sequels or the “High Republic” periods. The claim is that you have to like it because it’s Star Wars. The name is right there, so you must love it…except for Jar-Jar, but today’s defenders will include the High Republic. The only High Republic stories that at all interested me was Young Jedi Adventures, and it’s hardly going to fit into canon. Not too many lesbian moms are going to let their daughter fly around the universe with her Padawan youngling friends in her own non-Falcon starship.
What is in a name? A Rose Tico by any other name would still be a lousy character, even if it was a straight white male. We’re supposed to believe it was due to anger against an Asian woman and that they chased Kelly Marie Tran off (pre X) Twitter despite her own declarations to the contrary. Does simply having the name mean you have to like it, or is the bigger picture being missed here, like why were fans so in love with the brand but aren’t now? Is it the brand, or is it the reason the brand became so popular that the usual suspects wanted it because it was popular, or as they’re referred to here at BW, the everything for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee crowd.
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