The winner takes on Bruce Campbell.
That was all the way back in 2012. I just found out this happened in 2015.
Did I predict this team-up, or did they actually listen to me…and why did I have to wait for Commercial Sins in 2022 to find out about it?
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 last installment it took two chapters to get the story going since chapter 26’s cliffhanger didn’t seem like the right spot to end on while chapter 27’s actually worked as a cliffhanger. We’ve met Warbride and brought some questions to her status as good guy, her jealous boyfriend Vargas, and Jake got to get some punches on him even though he took a few to get them. The shocking revelation I won’t list on the homepage-appearing section because you should only be spoiled if you read along and we are nearing the end of the story.
We’ve eight chapters to go so there’s still some time to wrap things up. However, that will require a lot less time spent on how in the future our story is, one of the recurring problems of this story, and getting on with the investigation. On that end, let’s get on with the reading.
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In a sense this actually IS about a parking ticket.
Runners: Bad Goods #4
Serve Man Press (August, 2004)
WRITER/ARTIST: Sean Wang
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Peggy Twardowski
Read the color version at Runners Universe.
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If you think it’s just fans of Cowboy Bebop who hated what Netflix did to the anime classic, you should hear the creator’s opinion. Shinichirō Watanabe couldn’t even make it through the first scene without being disappointed in how little they understood his series and character. I’d link to the Forbes interview but you only get a small number of three reads (if you don’t get sick of the pop-ups like I did) so the site is pretty much useless. Bounding Into Comics has a summary for us though, as Watanabe also discusses working on The Animatrix, the animated shorts based on the Matrix movies, while the article also notes that Dragon Ball’s creator hated the live-action American “adaptation” of his work as well.
This is what happens when you put people with no respect for the source material in charge of the adaptation, and we all know animation and comics are beneath Hollywood, even when they come from Japan.
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They even kept the dog.
I’m in favor of never speaking about this show again. I’m also in favor of reviewing bad media, and I hear it’s not even a good show outside of the animation itself, as a warning to future storytellers. Lucky for me I don’t have HBO Max so there’s no chance of me watching it. Plus since it’s not really a Scooby-Doo series, just cosplayers in a terrible murder mystery about horrible people, I don’t have to review the intro, either.
For The Clutter Reports this week I just repurposed the discussion on comiXology’s future from earlier this week. I did alter a few things for that audience and had time to catch a few typos.
This week we have the next Chapter By Chapter review of TekWar. I’m not really sure what else is coming but hopefully it’s worth checking out. Have a good week everyone!
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I can never find the full intro, so this not completely accurate. Still it’s kind of important for our open.
The New Adventures Of Mighty Mouse & Heckle & Jeckle was Filmation’s attempt at bringing back the two Terrytoons theatrical shorts. it’s also not to be confused with Ralph Bakshi’s Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, which also aired on CBS but in 1987. Heckle & Jeckle, the out of work magpies, were reimagined as bumbling detectives. A third segment featured Filmation original story Quackula, the tale of a vampire duck–long before Danger Mouse met Duckula–who for some reason spent every night trying to scare the bear who lives in the house Quackula’s egg coffin was kept in. Don’t worry, it wasn’t very memorable. The show aired on CBS in 1979.
Mighty Mouse was the star attraction here. Originally intended to be called Supermouse, I guess they heard about the Captain Marvel debacle and decided to change it to Mighty Mouse. There is one cartoon that left that has relics of that concept, with Mighty Mouse still wearing blue and signing his autograph as “Supermouse” despite being called Mighty Mouse. Terrytoons would revamp the concept a few times, the version Filmation was inspired by for their Mighty Mouse shorts were based on The Perils Of Pauline. It would feature future co-star Pearl Pureheart, a girl mouse and MM’s love interest, being threated by Oil Can Harry, your typical serial villain. Filmation would make a series of shorts with these three, giving Harry a mindless sidekick named Swifty, in unrelated stories where they almost seemed to be acting since the shorts took place sometimes in alternate time periods.
Filmation was also inspired by the serial format itself, as seen with their Flash Gordon series. The only recurring storyline was the serialized Mighty Mouse And The Great Space Chase. The story found space queen Pearl as the head of a galactic federation being menaced by Ming-type villain Harry The Heartless and Swifty. Each segment would end on a cliffhanger and if memory serves there would be two installments per episode. Filmation would collect these segments for a direct-to-video movie, something that has been done with other classic serials like Zombies Of The Stratosphere. Someone uploaded the VHS tape, which explains the static at one point, to YouTube so I get to introduce you to a big part of my childhood. Enjoy. I know I will.
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Artist’s representation of Twitter decades before its creation.
Mystery Men Comics #2
Fox Features Publications (September, 1939)
Wonderworld Comics just wasn’t holding my interest. Outside of The Flame and a couple of other comics most of them I could do without or even ignored come review time (like Don Quixote’s modern day adventures). Hopefully Mystery Men will have better luck. I started reading it because it’s where Blue Beetle began and that was the character I wanted to follow. We’ll see if I stick with this or jump to his solo series.
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