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Remember when Star Wars got everybody excited? Then the Special Editions came out and confused everyone with added effects that didn’t necessarily add to the experience but for the most part didn’t take away either unless you have strong opinions over who shot first or really liked the special effects as an amazing product of their time. Then the prequels happened and the fans demanded Star Wars be “saved” from George Lucas, the franchises’ creator. Then the sequels happened under Disney and they learned someone used the monkey’s paw, thus regretting their wish.
This is one of those videos I couldn’t stop watching, though at just under three hours I did have to take breaks. That led to me not getting an article done for today so feel free to suffer my pain. From the YouTube channel Just A Robot we have a look at the original trilogy’s strengths and weaknesses, the prequel’s mistakes and triumphs, and the sequels’ failures and successes. He also looked at some of the extra media, like the two Clone Wars cartoons and spinoff movies, but even he saw he was using too much time. To that end there’s not much for me to say, and this is kind of a filler post tonight to meet deadline but it’s also this video’s fault such a move was needed.
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Um, you do know she has issues with purple, right? And why?
Marvel’s Jessica Jones
Marvel/Netflix (December, 2015)
WRITER: Brian Michael Bendis
ARTIST: Michael Gaydos
COLORIST: Rico Renzi
COVER ART: David Mack
LETTERER: Joe Sabino
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Mark Basso
EDITOR: Darren Sanchez
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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 read-along book club.
PART 3: KnightsEnd
And so we come to the last “part” of this novelization of the story arc that explored what a more violent Batman would actually be like…except we haven’t really explored that. We’ve gotten glimpses of Jean Paul Valley as Batman but most of this darker Batman’s questionable actions were told to us by Tim Drake, with most of the focus of part 2 being the injured Bruce trying to rescue his metahuman doctor from a madman who wanted to use her powers. I know O’Neil couldn’t adapt everything given how many different Bat-Titles there were at the time and that’s not even counting potential cameos elsewhere. (The Justice League at the time featured mostly unknown characters and wasn’t the A-Squad of previous incarnations.) If Owen Likes Comics is right about what the Knightfall storyline was supposed to be about thematically then the novelization has already lost something compared to actually reading the comics. It might have been necessary for the format change for all I know since I wasn’t there when deciding what stories to adapt, but it still loses some of the theme of “Batman doesn’t kill and you really don’t want him to” that the story is supposedly going for.
So Bruce has found his doctor, his back is functioning again…but that’s only half the battle Bruce is back on his feet but he’s not reclaimed the cowl yet. KnightsEnd, which I hope includes stories from Knightquest: The Crusade, should be about him working to regain what made him Batman. We see his detective mind and all the tricks of Batman are still with him. However, Batman does need to fight, to use the shadows, to do more than thrown a Batarang or break out a little gadget in order to win. Bruce reclaimed his body, but his mind still needs healing. That’s what this part of the storyline should be about, so let’s begin.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #10
Mirage Studios (April, 1987)
“Silent Partner”
Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Michael Dooney, Steve Lavigne (credited as letter in the First comic reprints, according to the Comic Book Database; who did what isn’t listed in the original version)
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on September 25, 2023 in Movie Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged commentary, Television and Movies, writing female characters.
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