Also learn how an old Santa hotline using the wrong phone number led to NORAD doing this tradition every year. I don’t know if the phone app is working this year or not. I’ve heard they’ve had issues with it in the past.
The Daleks only tolerated their creator because he was part Dalek. Technically they’re ALL disabled, Davies!
Should time allows I’ll be talking about…that…in a different manner this week.
In this week’s Clutter Report, enjoy the final review of Batman: Knightfall, my overall thoughts on the novelization. I’ll reveal the next Chapter By Chapter tomorrow, but this posting is going to be a bit different for a few different reasons. You’ll see what I mean.
Also this week I begin looking at the handful of Archie comics I have with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a line that started being based on the cartoon before going its own direction. This was actually a good thing. Thanks to the show the Ninja Turtles were popular with kids but the original comic was still for older readers, what with the death and the blood and the booze and all of that. So here’s a Ninja Turtles comics that kids would better relate to and wasn’t bound by the limits of the show. A little something for everyone, but at the same time had Archie worked with Fred Wolf, imagine what they could have come up with together by keeping both in the same continuity. I don’t have of them but we’ll look at what few I have. I hope I still like them.
I’d also like to get in another installment of the Many, MANY Intros Of Spider-Man and the dive into the season one guide of Transformers: Beach Machines still has a ways yet to go. “Yesterday’s” Comic will continue for December, at least until I need to clear up space to work on this year’s Captain Yuletide, which was supposed to be LAST year’s. As far as Tuesday’s replacement for Marvel comics, I’ve reached a decision. For those of you who don’t read the old comic reviews or care about the Christmas offerings I’ll put it behind the “read more” on the homepage (no paywalls here) and you can read it there. Have a great week and possibly welcome to the site. For the rest of you…
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It’s December! That means for the next four weeks we have Christmas specials, plus random Christmas themed posts all over the site! If you know a good Christmas special, Christmas song or song cover, or fun Christmas skit then feel free to send it my way. If I agree I’ll add it to the proper Christmas playlist on my YouTube channel and right there at the Spotlight!
Tonight I bring the first new addition, the Christmas episode of SuperKitties! I started Captain Yuletide due to a lack of superhero and other crimefighting shows including a saving Christmas episode, like the ones I grew up with. So to continue to prove that preschool and elementary school kids are getting the best superhero shows, here’s superheroes saving Christmas!
Kittydale is dealing with theft of Christmas presents just as Santa Claus drops them off. Who would sink so low and why? It’s up to Ginny, Buddy, Sparks, and Bitsy, who is one of the festive crook’s victims, to find the presents and get them back under their trees in time for Christmas morning. Can they succeed? Can Christmas be saved without the help of a green-nosed reindeer? And where does the “mouse” come into play? Let’s find out.
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“But I thought we weren’t supposed to run away from home, Mr. Beetle?” “You should when it chases you, kids.”
The Blue Beetle #36
Fox Features Publications (November, 1944)
So it’s been a mixed bag since Fox got the rights to Dan back thus far. That’s at least better than what Holyoke had going on. I’m trying to figure out how to pad this out for the homepage and so far I’m not sure what else to talk about. Still ignoring the one-page comics and the O’Brine Twins. Also this is one of those comics where Comic Book Plus has two copies up. As I write this I don’t know which is the better scan so here’s the first and second scans. Read along and let’s get going.
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Last time on Beast Machine Hunters we finished looking at the quasi-spiritual lore of the show. Now it’s time for geographical history.
I’m disappointed in myself. I really should have found a way to include a line in the title explaining what we’re going over next, like I have with past story bibles. That’s on me. Now I’m stuck with the format I made for myself.
So what are we going over? Locations. I haven’t seen a lot about locations in the story showing up in the story bible. Sure, we looked around the Enterprise-D a bit, but not to the level Mainframe is with this one. This is quite the long bible, and I have one more before Beast Machine Hunters is finished, since I actually have the second season bible as well.
This time we’re taking a tour of Cybertron, to see what locations have been figured out in the series. I’m hoping to get it all in one part, but it might end up taking two. We’ll see what happens as we dig in to this installment.
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Classic and new Christmas specials and longer videos. See what I add all year and see if one of your favorites is on the list.
