Chapter By Chapter> Batman: Knightfall part 2 chapter 18

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 2: KNIGHTQUEST

We’re only a few chapters away from part 3 so we need to get this current case done and have Jean Paul’s final screw-up before Bruce decides to get his cowl back. So apparently in the comic Jean Paul did have the Azrael-inspired armor by this point If I follow a recent hour-long Batman retrospective correctly though there’s no indication of it in the novelization outside of the gauntlet, which I figured he wore over the regular Batsuit.

Last chapter not-Batman had to be convinced by Alfred to act like Batman and protect former Batman from his own dumb plan, and it is a rather questionable plan given the nature and abilities of the guy he’s facing. Curious to see how this team-up will go.

We’re at that point in the novel where I start having trouble finding topics. Once part 3 of the novel happens and Bruce begins his trek back I may have more to discuss but I think I’ve dissected Jean Paul and even Bruce all I can in these intros. The story has to reach the part where the hero comes back but right now isn’t going to be that part.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Donatello, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle

Your average artist sketchbook.

Donatello, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle

Mirage Publishing (August, 1986)

“Kirby And The Warp Crystal”

WRITERS/ARTISTS/CREATORS: Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird

LETTERER: Steve Lavigne

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BW’s Daily Video> The Death Of The Comic Book Newsstand

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Jake & Leon #570> A Deal You Can’t Refuse

Even if they’re joking, I’d love to see Wayne Brady’s response.

I’m including the past couple of days, despite technically being September, when I say I am so @#$%#$% tired of not being able to get into anything resembling a work rhythm all stinking month! Doctors, shopping, sleeping issues, people I know passing away or ending up in the hospital (including a member of my extended family, because taking one person I care about apparently wasn’t enough, the Grim Reaper had to surprise us with someone closer), and my stinking sinuses causing a lot of throat congestion thanks to post nasal drip have been making getting things done a chore. How am I supposed to make something out of this when I can’t…make anything?

Also, the hospitalized people all went home but please pray for their recovery and for the family members of the people we lost if you think of it. That’s of course the worst part of all that, but the rest has been a “me” problem.

I didn’t even get to do a Clutter Report this week, even to say I wasn’t able to do anything…even though I did some minor reorganizing I plan to make into a different kind of article next week, seeing as I couldn’t do it THIS week.

If the universe will let me, I want to continue the Chapter By Chapter review of Batman: Knightfall, and if I can make the logo I have a new article series available to me as I have access to yet another story bible. This time the series had a name change and a bunch of other changes by the time it hit air so this one should be really interesting. Have a great week, everyone!

Saturday Night Showcase> Ultraman Kids

I know the past few Saturday Night Showcase installments have been on Ultraman, but I still have that annoying YouTube backlog I’m dealing with so I’m going with the easy entries. They’re posting first episodes to the TokuSHOUTsu YouTube channel and they’re short enough to check. I’m still not past the first episode of Ultraman Blazar and I was kind of iffy on the first episode. Still, even with a few more shows to Showcase I want to find a different topic, so let’s end on this one.

Ultraman Kids: 3 Million Light Years In Search Of Mother is the third installment of the Ultraman franchise. The Ultraman fan wiki says the show is non-canon but with the other universes out there I’m not sure they should bother. I still don’t expect to see them in the Ultra Galaxy Fight series, though Boy would have someone to play with. This full series comes after two short films, The Pleasant Friends Of Nebula M7.8 and Proverb Stories, which is not currently available to me. The show follows kid versions of classic Ultras having an adventure to find the parents of Maa, patterned after the classic Ultraman.

Tonight we see how Maa and his friends Piko (the only girl and not directly based on one of the Ultras), Sev (based on Ultraseven, and the one the Ultraman wiki doesn’t seem to know exists), and Taa (based on Ultraman Taro) end up in space after the last day of school, as well as the rest of the cast who will follow them later. Enjoy.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> The Blue Beetle #24

Tracking the guy at Holyoke trying to push him out of his own comic.

The Blue Beetle #24

Holyoke Publishing (August, 1943)

[Read along here]

Well, two stories in his own comic. Except he’s not the starting story. If you didn’t want to make a Blue Beetle comic, why did you? If they hadn’t, Fox Features might not have been able to continue the character, we wouldn’t have Charlton’s reimagined Dan Garrett (they used the two “T”s), Ted Kord, or Jaime Reyes. I can still question their lack of thought in this manner even if keeping him around was beneficial in the future. It’s just a shame to see a character playing second fiddle in his own book!

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The Many, MANY, Intros Of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles> Nick-ja’s Rise

And so we come to the final entry of this series until the next TV show comes out. I’m not sure we’re ending on a high note. “Better than The Next Mutation” really shouldn’t be the bar to set. I already did my review of the first batch of episodes Nickelodeon dropped when Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles premiered. The first episode aired on TV with more available through their site and on demand. The show wasn’t terrible but I would have enjoyed it more had they just done some show about anthropomorphic animals living alongside humans. I went through five episodes and found a terrible adaptation I might have enjoyed as a different product. I didn’t like Splinter, the new de-aged April was also a black girl with attitude (because aren’t they all in modern media), and they dropped the ball on the mutant flood idea the first episode started with. I did like the magic weapons for the same reason I liked the high-tech ones in Fast Forward because it was an advancement in the weapons but as an adaptation it failed hard no matter how good the animation was while the writing wasn’t to my tastes but not terrible.

There were only two seasons and we don’t get anything resembling a serious intro change until season three with this franchise so this shouldn’t take long. We even have an official source to work with as I write this. Okay, let’s see it.

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