Mobian UFC isn’t as interesting as you’d think.
Sonic The Hedgehog #59
Archie Comic Publications (Jnue, 1996)
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
“Opposites Detract”
WRITER: Mike Gallagher
PENCILER: Art Mawhinney
INKER: Jim Amash
COLORIST: Lisa Ieraci
EDITOR: J. Freddy Gabrie
Tales From The Freedom Fighters: Princess Sally: “The People’s Princess”
WRITER/COLORIST: Ken Penders
ARTISTS: Manny Galan & Jim Amash
EDITOR: Justin Gabrie (might be the same guy but I’m not sure)
Because I missed yesterday’s posting due to being under the weather, because I want to clear out my backlog of Film Theory episodes hosted by MatPat before we run out of MatPat, and because they’re both Star Wars related, here are two videos for the price of one.
First up, why don’t Force Ghosts do more to help out?
Video #2: The problem with TIE Fighters.
I should really watch the classic era Doctor Who episode “The Talons Of Weng-Chiang” some time, possibly while Tubi has it up if I can’t afford the DVD. Despite cultural depictions of Chinese people that were out of date when the show aired (which is a plot point for the tale as it puts the Fourth Doctor and Leela in Victorian England), it’s surprisingly important to the show. It has the Doctor playing Sherlock Holmes going up against a stand-in for Jack The Ripper, not the real world killer himself thankfully, which of course involves time travel beyond the TARDIS team. We look at that in a previous posting from Dalek 63•88. It introduced two character so appreciated by fans that Big Finish has an audio drama series about the pair solving mysteries. It even got referenced in an IDW story starring the 10th Doctor.
Dalek 63•88 also went back to this story for a mystery of their own. Fans love to find old filming locations of their favorite movie and television scenes, or often used establishing shots. It’s just something cool. However, what happens when some of those locations no longer exist due to disaster or simple progress? That’s what happened to the shooting locations of “The Talons Of Weng-Chiang”, as the area used for some of the location footage is not what it was in the 1970s. So the team played Sherlock Holmes themselves to find the areas on Clink Street where the episode, including some lost footage, was shot. As I’m under the weather today (notice there was no comic review or daily quickpost), we’re going to go exploring with Dalek 63•88 as they hunt for those locations, using footage from other productions filmed there, Google Earth & Maps, and production shots from the episode as well as the footage that was shot there. Funnily enough, a movie with Sherlock Holmes tracking Jack The Ripper is one of those tracking sources.
In the previous two chapters we checked in on Daniel after the mind meld and speculated he may have an admirer. Meanwhile, nobody knows how the bed shut down.
This week we just have the one chapter…or so I thought. Chapter 10 is only three pages long, or so I thought when I skimmed through it. Apparently two pages were stuck together and it was more like five or six pages, but it’s a bit late to change it back. I read it, I’m reviewing it. Chapter 10 takes place at the funeral and chapter 11 takes place after it, with the focus most likely focusing on the investigation, so I’m keeping 9 and 10 together. Also my book is starting to fall apart. I found two corners on the desk and the spine is a bit bent. Given that this is only my second reading I’m worried I’m not taking proper care of my books.
I’m still waiting to see when this becomes a murder investigation but it’s still nine chapters out of 35. I’m guessing we’ll get past the character development soon. However, while we all know Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Sarek if you’re a Trekkie, Lorrah has been introducing us to the rest of the cast, the helpers and the suspects alike. Everything has been needed. Still, I would like to get on to what we’re all here for. Perhaps this chapter will be the start of that?
The rest I’ll keep off the homepage as we have our first clue as readers, while the cast still doesn’t know there’s a mystery that needs clues outside of the stasis field collapse. So I’ll put that past the jump if you’re on the homepage or just joining us and don’t want to be spoiled. To start from the beginning, there’s a tag for this book in the article credits to start from chapter one. For the rest of us, onto to today’s chapters.
“Next time, I choose the Saturday night activities.”
Mantra #1
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (July, 1993)
“Reversal Of Fortune”
WRITER: Mike W. Barr
PENCILER: Terry Dodson
INKER: Al Vey
COLORIST: Paul Mounts
LETTERER: Tim Eldred
EDITOR: Chris Ulm
Catch more from Film Theory on YouTube
As a fan of novelizations I’m compelled to point out one more detail about them: they’re based on the latest available version of the script in order to get the book out the same time as the movie or as close as they can. Anything changed on set or the cutting room floor doesn’t make it into the book. For example, ET The Extra Terrestrial was supposed to have Elliot laying down M&Ms, which is reflected in the novelization. However, M&M Mars turned them down, so they went with their second choice, Reese’s Pieces, who was all in, and that’s what was in the movie, while the novel still has M&Ms.
My point is…how many of the things MatPat suggests prove his robo-Vanessa theory were planned but for whatever reasons couldn’t make it to the final movie? He talks about his character’s dad being Sparky, that his character was originally supposed to be a teenager (or MatPat joins the list of adult actors playing teenage characters), or that the lawyer’s creepy actions will be removed from further versions of the novelization and wasn’t in the novel. What else was removed? In addition to padding the novel out (the opposite of how it goes from book to movie), and writers sometimes adding their own ideas in for various reasons, and what’s intended and what’s in error?
Every writer and artist knows their pain.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week, I finally reviewed the Gunblaster Zoid.
I have no scheduled distractions this week, so I’m waiting to see what unscheduled distractions I’m going to run into.
With only 4 theories remaining, I need to finish getting caught up on Game Theory and Film Theory episodes in the quickpost backlog before MatPat leaves and the new host comes in, just because it’s weird having videos from the old host when the new host is active. It’s like the Zero Punctuation episodes when Yahtzee Croshaw has moved to a new YouTube channel with Fully Ramblomatic, and when Kyle Hill parted ways with Because Science and went to his own channel under his own name. I don’t like repeating mistakes, people. So all this week the Daily Quickpost will be Film and Game Theory episodes. Monday’s is a new Film Theory.
Also coming this week, more from Star Trek: The Vulcan Academy Murders for Chapter By Chapter, and whatever else comes to mind that I have time to do. Have a great week, everyone!
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
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
