Check out [Insert Art], which is apparently the name he went with. So…somebody make a channel called Artistic Philanthropy and credit me. Not sure what the channel would be but I’m sure someone can come up with something cool.
EDIT: Just because I brought it up, I found out the “Shadowlands” episode is on Disney Junior’s YouTube channel. So be inspired!
Created by Sierra On-Line, the King’s Quest game series has a very large fanbase due to its humor, its character, and its utterly ridiculous “moon logic” puzzles that requires you to think outside the box and down the hall to your left. Or is it right? I’ve tried playing a couple different installments of this game. We had King’s Quest IV in the computer room at our high school and I think somebody I knew had King’s Quest II, but even my form of creative crazy isn’t enough to really connect with these games.
I do, however, find novelisations interesting. What was changed because of the transition between media, the latest available version of the script, and the whims of the author makes it a unique experience beyond “movie/game in book form”.
In the following video, Dave “Doggans” Ganssle does a deep dive into The King’s Quest Companion, a combination strategy guide and novelization that despite giving you the answer to all the puzzles you couldn’t figure out somehow finds a way to go even crazier than the games the book is based on, going as far as King’s Quest VII in the final edition. I hope you find this video as interesting as I did even if you never played the games. The decisions made are certainly unique for a strategy guide.
“You’re not the boss of me. I don’t have to save her if I don’t wanna!”
The Avengers #90
Marvel Comics (July, 1971: as featured in the comiXology digital trade “The Kree/Skrull War”)
“Judgement Day”
WRITER: Roy Thomas
ARTIST: Sal Buscema
LETTERER: Mike Stevens
EDITOR: Stan Lee
September 4, 1973 – November 19, 2022
I didn’t do a posting for this because after the Jimmy Fallon hoax I wanted to get proper confirmation. Well, we have part of it anyway. It’s been confirmed that Jason David Frank, who rose to fame as the multi-suited Power Ranger Tommy Oliver (having been in more versions of the team than anyone else) has died. What hasn’t been confirmed as I post this however is the cause of death, TMZ reporting it was suicide but I haven’t heard a definite on this.
He was the same age I am, but accomplished a lot more. Frank played Tommy in numerous incarnations of the Power Rangers franchise, starting with the mind controlled enemy turned ally and leader of the team in the original Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers and almost had his own show if the original plans for what became VR Troopers had happened. Instead he returned as Tommy later that first season and continued in that role until the first half of Power Rangers Turbo, making the occasional cameo and taking on the mentor/Black Ranger role in Power Rangers Dino Thunder. HIs last role will be in the indie film Legend Of The White Dragon, a Power Rangers inspired movie-turned-miniseries featuring past Ranger actors in a new role. He also created his own martial arts style and was an MMA fighter.
My heart goes out to his family and friends who will surely miss him more than even fans will. He joins Thuy Trang, who died tragically in a car crash in 2001, around the same time as Frank’s brother in an unrelated incident I have no info on. At least he has someone waiting for him on the other side.
Our last installment required two chapters as Jake was introduced to Beth, or a mostly-accurate simulation. I’m thinking this installment will only require the one, but that’s what I thought when I started chapter 16.
We’re about half way through the book now but being a somewhat long book 35 chapters with 307 pages in my copy–we’re starting today on page 151) I’m betting we’re going to get into the mystery part of this mystery now. Of course that depends on how much The Future padding we get in this story. It’s been the only consistent flaw. I’m all for flavor but when the information really doesn’t serve the story you have to consider how much of it is worth the extra page space. Some of it has been fun but some of it has also been a distraction of unnecessary information. Let’s see what we get this time.
Last photo taken underneath the alien battlefortress before it crashed on top of them.
Robotech #2
WildStorm Productions (March, 2003)
“Call To Duty”
STORY: Tommy Yune
WRITER: Jay Faerber
ARTISTS: Long Vo, Charles Park, and Saka of Udon Studios
LETTERER: Jenny Garcia
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Kristy Quinn
EDITOR: Ben Abernathy
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
BW Media Spotlight 