It could be worse. She could have Afro Samurai coming after her. And that’s all I know about that show.
Fraggle Rock #2
Star Comics (Marvel; June, 1985)
“#1”…wait, #1 was last issue? Oh, that’s the title.
WRITER: Stan Kay
ARTIST: Marie Severin
LETTERER: Rick Parker
EDITOR: Sid Jacobson
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I wrote the following in the comments:
I wonder if the villain problem is tied to the format and run time. Classic Who had multiple episodes per story, time to further examine a villain, while the typical New Who, despite being double in length, really only got that chance if the showrunner created them (Sleevin and Weeping Angels for example) and really liked them. The cliffhanger also set them up as a serious threat at times. New Who doing the whole “season long subarc building to the finale” isn’t the same thing and it doesn’t give a villain a chance to be that menacing, especially the episodes where our heroes were more into making gags (“Tooth And Claw” is my least favorite episode of Davies’ run for that reason while at least “Love & Monsters” was stupid with original characters most of the time and it’s only the epilogue I hate). They need more time to make a threat menacing enough that fans want to see it again to further challenge the Doctor.
As for the settings, that’s bothered me as well. You have access to all space and time, but you don’t do anything with it. Is building a space set really that much harder for a show with modern special effects and presumably a larger budget than the original series that managed to put most of their episodes off world?
I added in a different comment’s response:
I do like that he (Steven Moffat) tried to set an episode in the TARDIS itself, though I don’t see the point of a room that’s just a cliffside with a giant waterfall. I do like the bigger wardrobe than the one in Classic Who, but we don’t see enough of the TARDIS in New Who while in the classic show we’ve seen bedrooms, the Zero Room, and a swimming pool and heard about rooms with a turkish bath and I think a library. I’d like to see the TARDIS be more than an RV.
Last time the power was out but now we’ve got fires. Whether that was intentional on the hacker’s part or some side benefit of shutting down the Academy computer we can’t currently say. It’s not like the murderer cares who else gets killed.
Thus far this has been a good Star Trek story but it has taken awhile for the mystery to finally take center stage. It’s not like we have a huge list of suspects and we can eliminate (pardon the expression) anyone from the show. We set up some potential motivations but we’re about to see how they come into play, or at least we will if all the new distractions don’t slow the mystery down. The story itself has been fine and doesn’t feel slowed down, but the murder mystery promised hasn’t really had a chance to be at the forefront. Now with the murderer slowing the investigation I have to wonder how much of the murder story the author came up with before starting this story. Her various Star Trek novels are all I’m aware.
I am enjoying the story. It’s a good story. It’s just for a murder story there’s more character than murder. Then again, I’m not much of a murder detective novel reader and only picked this up because I enjoyed the sequel book, so maybe this is how things usually go. Maybe some of the novelists or detective novel readers in the readership can tell me where I’m being a moron to fill out the homepage. That’s accomplished and I think the fire’s out, so let’s see what our heroes come up with next.
I will not be covering the Rune preview story chapter because I care that little about Rune. Sorry.
“Hey, I just had this washed!”
Prototype #3
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (October, 1993)
“Hero And The Terror”
WRITERS: Tom Mason & Len Strazewski
ARTISTS: David Ammerman & James Pascoe
COLORIST: Rob Alvord
LETTERER: Dave Lanphear
EDITOR: Chris Ulm
It really is like he never left…though I really wish he would.
I have nothing against Dan DiDio personally, but I don’t like what he did with DC Comics or Transformers. As I wrote about recently, DiDio may be gone but his changes and many of the writers he brought in are continuing to follow in his mistakes. At least now he’s working on an original continuity with Frank Miller. Miller lost his connection to proper Batman storytelling when he made All-Star Batman & Robin and he never got Superman right. I just wish the legacy of DiDio’s Darker DC wasn’t still in effect.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I just messed with my back-up files hard drive so I told the tale of three projects my dad did this week. May it still inspire declutterers who stumble upon it.
I’ve got more medical tests this week because apparently I’m not allowed to stop being sick from something. So I’m not sure at this time what disruption that’s going to cause. We should get the next chapter of Star Trek: The Vulcan Academy Murders for Chapter By Chapter, and the last Aliens: Space Marines minicomic that doesn’t actually feature any space marines but does have Predators. Beyond that we’ll see what I’m able to get out on time. Have a great week, everyone!
Based on the book series by John Peterson, The Littles aired for three seasons on ABC’s Saturday morning lineup. Young Henry Bigg has a secret living in his walls, tiny humanoids with rodent features called Littles. Similar to something like The Borrowers, the Littles have made things based on stuff they find. The youngest Littles, siblings Tom and Lucy, make friends with Henry as the three have various adventures, dragging in the siblings’ pilot cousin Dinky and their grandfather. In later seasons Henry’s family go on a worldwide tour and the quartet of Littles end up going with them for international adventures.
Tonight we see how Henry and the Littles first met in the movie Here Come The Littles, produced by DIC Entertainment, who also made the TV series. The same art and animation style and voice cast from the series also appear in this movie. When Henry’s parents are missing, Henry is sent to stay with his evil uncle. However, Tom and Lucy fell into his suitcase, and when they learn their mutual home is threatened, our heroes band together to save Tom and Lucy’s parents and Henry’s home. Enjoy.
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