Since this video was produced, the Mystique/Destiny coupling has now been official, and they just decided that yes, Mystique is so good at shapeshifting that she can create working testicles and produce the semen necessary to conceive a baby in a woman’s uterus. (I try to keep things PG but were all adults here. I think. Hi, kids!) I’m sorry, but that part is still farfetched and stupid. Shapeshifting needs to have SOME limits, after all.
I don’t care what your opinion is on non-binary Morph in X-Men ’97, this is a stupid defense.
…but somehow it got scheduled for tomorrow. It’s too late, which given what I went through today is par for the course, and I don’t feel like rescheduling now or throwing something together. This goes to the scheduling issues and I’m wondering if I should have taken this week off.
The image above is a teaser to the video I’ll be posting and responding to tomorrow. This is just to say I didn’t forget, I just screwed up.
QUICK EDIT: Decided not to do this week’s Sonic review tomorrow. I’m just tired and not able to work on it. Should be back to normal tomorrow and things will be back on track Thursday.
Chapter By Chapter (usually) features me reading one chapter of the selected book at a 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 a read-along book club.
Well, this is interesting. Not just last week’s cliffhanger (I really wish I could find a copy of that dramatic sting to commercial when Star Trek goes to break on a shocker moment) but this chapter is almost double the usual chapter count for this novel. Usually each chapter is about eight to nine pages. We had a pair of chapters next to each other that was half a normal chapter each so I combined them. I will not return the favor and make this a two-part article.
Our crew are finally suspecting there murder going on after another unexplained loss the exact same way as last time, the benefit of those who are a bit more familiar with the concept than the Vulcans being in the right spot. However, the one that just got accused can’t possibly be the guilty party, guilty as he feels for setting up the situation that led to all this, but that’s self-guilt, which isn’t the same thing. Will this ruin a potentially happy couple? Well, let’s keep the homepage padding intro short because this is a bonus sized chapter.
The comic also included previews for Rune, further convincing me not to read it, and The Night Man, which I’m rather curious about as I used to watch the live-action show and his appearance on Ultraforce. Yes, I will discuss the cartoon at some point. I want to debut everyone in comic form first.
There’s a tie-in comic to the Brave & The Bold cartoon that explains Batman changed to blue because he was scaring people he was trying to save (in that case a kidnapped little girl) with the all black look, so the blue could still care the criminals but not the people he saves. I think the change was done in the Silver Age for a similar reason, to look more heroic to the kids reading the comic.
I don’t know what’s better: Batman looking awesome, the cute expression on the little girl’s face, or the baddie that looks like he’s soiled himself.
I’m admittedly biased because I grew up with the blue & grey but I do prefer that costume for similar reasons. The right treatment could make for a dull enough finish to not be reflective. He does look more heroic with the blue (the grey was part of his original costume in the Golden Age to make it easier for the readers to see) to me, but as you say, there might be times where black is better. What I find interesting is that Gaijin Goombah, another YT channel, suggested that Batman wore black because it worked better in the city at night, nothing that ninja wore blue because it actually worked better in the days before all the electric lights in the big city. So the opposite of your theory. I wonder if anyone actually tested Batman’s various colors to see what would work best?
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