February 6, 2023

Chapter By Chapter> Tekwar chapter 29

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.

In our previous chapter Jake managed to get some well-earned payback…for a change. We also have an idea of which of our various factions in play was involved with whatever happened to the Kittridges. In case you haven’t been keeping up our factions are:

  • Cosmo Detective Agency: hired to find the Kittridges though Walter Bascom is hoping to use the anti-cyber drug signal to end Tek, at least until a countermeasure has been created because drug dealers are evil.
  • Sonny Hokori: Tek dealer. You can guess why he would be involved, either to stop the process or gain a monopoly by eliminating the competition’s supply.
  • Bennett Sands: bankrolled the technology though possibly for potential financial gain.
  • International Drug Control Agency: You can also guess what they’re involvement is but so far all they’ve done is say hi very rudely.

I won’t spoil who the bad guy is on the homepage in case you haven’t been following along, but those of you who have let’s see what Jake is going to do with that information.

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February 6, 2023

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Runners: Bad Goods #5

I actually approve of this sci-fi remake of Let’s Be Cops. And I didn’t see the original.

Runners: Bad Goods #5

FINAL ISSUE

Serve Man Press (April, 2005–read the color version here)

WRITER/ARTIST: Sean Wang

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February 6, 2023

BW’s Daily Video> Stunt Doubles And Digital Doubles

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MAKING OF VIDEO:

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February 5, 2023

BW Programming Note: Coming Up Short

Even though 2021 did its best to stop me, I still made it to #500!

I’m not going to make it to 1000 if I keep missing these posts. Sorry for the repost but it has all my characters on it, including a couple from my old sprite comic days. I was just too tired to work on it today and didn’t get a chance to work on it all week…and I’m STILL not done on Captain Yuletide, though I’m going to take the time to redraw a few pages for next Christmas. Even this week’s Clutter Report project was incomplete. Turns out resetting and reinstalling stuff takes more time than I thought. At least I got most of it done as I finally set up different devices for different uses. I just have to do one more device and that will be next week’s project.

Over here this week is the next chapter of Tekwar as we get closer to the end. I already have my next novel to review selected. Meanwhile more comics to review, more commentaries to make, and whatever else crosses our path. Have a great week, everyone!

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February 4, 2023

Saturday Night Showcase> Nashville Beat

Last night I mentioned the show Adam-12, a cop show about a training officer and his rookie partner in the Los Angeles Police Department. The show was part of a barely shared universe. Young officer Reed technically first appeared in an episode of Dragnet and the two ended up officially as their characters in another episode to promote the show. (Kent McCord, who played training officer Jim Reed, also played another character on that show.) Adam-12 also had a crossover with The DA and to promote Emergency the paramedic firefighters of that show cameoed at the hospital the two officers were in but they didn’t interact.

In 1989 McCord co-produced and co-wrote Nashville Beat, reuniting him with co-star Martin Milner as former partners in the LAPD, but not their Adam-12 characters. Instead, widowed LAPD officer Mike Delaney (McCord) goes to visit his old partner Brian O’Neil (Milner) in his new beat in Nashville. A drug-dealing gangbanger from LA has decided to set up a shop in Nashville and Delaney heads there to help put a stop to it. The TV movie aired on The Nashville Network, the former identity of what is now Paramount Network after it’s prior rebrands The National Network and Spike TV. I hadn’t heard of it until a few years ago and tonight we’re going to watch it…well, if you hit play and the embed is still available when you read this anyway Enjoy.

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February 4, 2023

“Yesterday’s” Comic> The Blue Beetle #1

How I feel after trying to review a Golden Age comic with so many stories per issue. You decide who represents me.

Blue Beetle #1

Fox Features Syndication (Winter, 1940)

Okay, the whole anthology comic thing didn’t work, so let’s go with the Blue Beetle’s solo outing…which features numerous short stories…again…but at least it’s only Blue Beetle, a bit of Yarko, and some other one I don’t know. At least we’ve already met two of these characters before in two different anthologies. Yarko is the one from Wonderworld Comics while Blue Beetle appeared in Mystery Men Comics. And some of them are reprints from those comics. That saves me some time, while taking it up elsewhere. Yay. Well, read along with me here.

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February 3, 2023

My Favorite Intros: CHiPs

Let’s end the week with something a bit more fun. For me, anyway.

I’m not a huge cop show fan though I watched more as a kid when that’s what my parents had on. 1980s cop shows weren’t burdened with stuff “ripped from the headlines” or showcasing the worst parts of the human race. They were allowed to be a little more fun, and the ones focusing on police officers didn’t always have to involve murderers and rapists. A few years ago they came out with a movie called Chips, supposedly a remake of NBC’s classic TV series, and from what I saw in trailers alone it was not a favorable adaptation. The two main characters, Jon Baker and Frank ” Ponch” Poncherello, were treated as idiots, there’s police corruption, and the movie failed to find an audience with its style of humor. The show was light in tone but this seems more like a mocking parody than anything respectful of the original OR the CHP.

“CHP” is short for California Highway Patrol, which is why the title has those odd lower case letters. CHiPs was created by former LA County deputy Rick Rosen, after seeing a motorcycle cop from the CHP. It wasn’t the first show about the Highway Patrol (for example the 1950s show Highway Patrol) but it is still remembered, currently airing on Charge!, which is where my dad has been watching it since we switched TV providers. (Frontier seems to be closing its TV service one channel at a time and we don’t have a lot of options in our area.) The show follows two motorcycle cops and some of the interesting–and occasionally weird–adventures they come across. The other main character is Sgt. Getraer, the guy running the place. While he sometimes gets annoyed by Ponch’s antics he knows they’re good cops and unlike the movie the show never makes the character, or the CHP in real life, look bad.

It’s through my dad’s watching that I found out about a third intro I didn’t know existed, so I thought I’d go back and look at all three to see how good they are. Let’s start not with the pilot but with the first regular intro.

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