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Chapter By Chapter 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.
It seems a bit late in the book to lose a member of the cast so the hero can get revenge, but that’s what happened last chapter. Now Jake is not only out for himself but for payback…I’m assuming. That’s usually how these stories work.
As usual, getting close to the end means I’ve run out of things to talk about so let’s just get right into the review. And then as I start reading we have another situation where one chapter flows into another, as well as that second chapter being rather short. So tonight we’re reading two chapters. I swear it’s not me trying to get to the end. I have enjoyed the book for the most part, but that’s how the reading experience is going.
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How is it that a free give-away promo comic from 1980 has a more interesting cover than what you see now?
Superman: The Computers That Saved Metropolis
DC Comics/Radio Shack (1980)
WRITER: Cary Bates
ARTISTS: Jim Starlin & Dick Giordano
Nobody else wanted to admit working on this apparently. No colorist, no letterer, and no editor listed.
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On the upside I don’t have to worry about that. On the downside it’s because I can’t afford new comics.
A temporary victory for us both. Also, I had to use the alternate set-up on my main computer to do the comic this week with the “artputer” still on the DL. I spent this week doing a huge step in the comic organizing mega-project this week, which I chronicled over at The Clutter Reports
- Day 1: Spent the day organizing all of the “S” titles, separating the Sonic comics because I need to review those.
- Day 2: Did the same with the “T” titled comics, taking out those I still need to review on this site. The others (U-Z) I actually did last Sunday when I decided this was needed.
- Day 3: Started to put some of the comics into their new storage arrangement when I realized the Sonic comics were all screwed up and had to spend the day organizing them in the proper order. This was difficult when all the sorting space was already filled with comics. Apparently I did something wrong while putting them away.
- Day 4: Worked on the Transformers comics and more adjusting the new arrangement.
- Day 5: This being the closest thing to heavy labor I’ve done since the surgeries were finished and the hernia removed so I can lift things again, I may have overdone it this week and needed to go slow on this day. Still, got some things done. Shoulder’s still hurting but on this day I was so sore I couldn’t sleep well the night before.
- Day 6: The final day, and I was able to get the Transformers comics mixed into the rest of the collection because it no longer makes sense keeping them apart. Everything is mixed in properly, with the comics I still need to review kept separate so I can review them. This means another one of these in the future but for now I’m all set.
EDIT FROM A WEEK LATER: I gave this strip the wrong number. I fixed the title on the comic, the post, and even the permalink.
As for this week, regular articles return, more Chapter By Chapter reviewing of TekWar, and the daily comic reviews are back! Have a good week, everyone!
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Any joke I can make about a “badass female” is ruined by IDW’s origin.
Here we are at the final installment until the next comic license comes out. Yes, I’m pre-empting Saturday Night Showcase to get this done because it’s the last one. I’ve already looked at Marvel US’s run, the Dreamwave run, and after a brief overview of IDW’s run via Transformers: The Basics I looked at everything I thought IDW got right that came to mind. Now though it’s time for the ill deeds. There’s a lot more of these.
I grant you that any review is balanced with the reviewer’s opinion. Things I hate may be things you like. That’s fine. We all have our own tastes, though there will be things on this list that are actually bad from a technical perspective. Much of it however is my personal bias and what I want to see out of a Transformers universe. Where do we start? How about the one longtime BW readers knows is coming.
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Cybertron’s most friendly Transformer.
As noted in yesterday’s video set IDW is the longest running licensee of Transformers comics. That means doing the review the same way I did the others would be a tad more difficult to pull off. There’s more to discuss for one thing, which means more to do right and more to screw up. It also means more to catch non-readers up on, which is why I did the video set yesterday–and now that I think about it I should have done the same for Dreamwave, which Chris McFeely also went over for The Basics. Even for an overview those videos help out.
Because of all that I’m doing a two-part finale to this set of articles. We’ve already looked at Marvel and Dreamwave, but for this last one I’m going to stop in various periods or titles. Part 1 will focus on all the stuff I liked about IDW’s run while part 2, and our final part of this series, will focus on everything I don’t like. Let’s see which list is longer.
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