“Don’t worry, you won’t miss your plane.”
Captain America #6
Marvel Comics (June, 2005; as seen in the digital trade version of Winter Soldier Ultimate Collection)
“Out Of Time” part 6
WRITER: Ed Brubaker
ARTIST: Steve Epting
COLORIST: Frank D’Armata
LETTERER: Randy Gentile
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Andy Schimdt, Nicole Wiley, and Molly Lazer
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
NOTE: There’s quite a bit of swearing in this one.
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I’m expecting this final chapter to go by pretty quick. I would have read it along with last week’s chapter but my schedule is worse this month than usual so I only had time for the one. Our hero is hot on the trail of the last person we need to find (no spoilers in the intro) and now we just have to get them together.
Given the amount of padding this book has had showing off the worldbuilding at the expense of the pacing I’m guessing that’s what we’ll get, given that it’s a full chapter length. Still, it’s time to finish this book and the next one is chosen. With that let’s see how Jake gets his woman.
Yes, kids, this is what Lex Luthor used to wear. He wasn’t a businessman in those days.
Superman/TRS-80 Computer Whiz Kids #3 (final DC story; guest-starring Wonder Woman)
DC Comics/Radio Shack (1982)
“The Computer Masters Of Metropolis”
WRITER: Paul Kupperberg
ARTISTS: Kurt Swan & Frank Chiaramonte
I have a good idea for the next Jake & Leon. I just need to get some reference for one character and we’re ready to go. The laptop is mostly working (the 3D drawing assets still don’t work but it’s much faster now thanks to my friend). There should be a comic this week. It’s been an exhausting week that also lead to another “non-report” over at The Clutter Reports. Colonoscopy went well, though I did spend part of the week trying to get some new short-term medication. However, that’s not what stopped the comic this week.
At some point I must have slept on my shoulder wrong or something because Tuesday morning it started hurting. It calmed down on Wednesday and seemed okay Thursday so I did some long-overdue cleaning of the bathroom with mostly no issues, but it was exhausting. I’m still getting use to physical labor again and I only partly have myself to blame there given what I’ve been through the past few years…though I should have pushed myself a bit harder post-recovery after the hernia was gone. Also, I hurt my shoulder again so I just didn’t have it in me to get the comic finished. I am not meeting my goals and I am not happy. Hopefully you’ll see the comic next week.
The shoulder won’t keep me from finishing the Chapter By Chapter review of TekWar and the following week I’ll reveal the next book we’ll be picking apart a chapter at a time. Looking forward to this one. I think it’s the first sequel of sorts to a previous book, and not the last time I’ll do that, which I’m hoping to see happen this year with a certain other book I want to review possibly after this one. I’ll also be continuing the TRS-80/Tandy Computer Whiz Kids on Monday’s “Yesterday’s” Comic but also the handful of Tangent Comics that caught my attention back when they came out for the Friday review. I missed Blue Beetle yesterday because it was another anthology and I didn’t get time to review it. (Reading doesn’t take the time, going back and forth for the review does, and one of them is a reprint of a story I already reviewed. Golden Age comics are interesting to read but hard to review.) I’ve not another test this week on something else but with luck I’ll still get this review out on Saturday while Tuesday continues to dig through Captain America and Thursday…whatever’s next in standalone.
Have a great week, everyone, and I hope you remembered to set your clocks for Daylight Savings Time or you’ve been really confused all day.
In the early days of Saturday Night Showcase I posted the first episode of Trigun, a Japanese space western inspired by the so-called “spaghetti westerns” of Italy. It’s only fair that tonight I look at the re-imagining of that story, Trigun Stampede. When the initial trailers dropped I have to be honest that I didn’t really like what I saw. It lacked the energy of the original in the first fight I saw. A later clip showed more focus on the gunplay and I actually didn’t think it looked as bad.
And so I went into Stampede with an open mind. Would it make for a good remake or was it as unimpressive as it first looked. If you want to see the original first episode to compare with tonight’s (I rewatched it for this review) here is that Showcase. With that let’s see what the newbie has to offer.
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