Turns out you were right about not wanting a Peacemaker/Micronauts crossover.
The Peacemaker volume 3 #4
Charlton Comics Group (September, 1967)
WRITER: Joe Gill
ARTIST: Pat Boyette
EDITOR: Dick Giordano
The Fighting Five: “Card Carrier”
Montes & Bache
Two chapters again. One is short and while the other is technically long enough to review on its own it’s not so long that the three page chapter before it can’t be lumped in. So it’s another double chapter review for this book.
Last time it looked like our heroes were making a mistake. Unlike the first book, though, it doesn’t give the appearance of incompetence. That was one of my problems with the first novel. The main cast looked like fools, while the guest cast were far more interesting and I would have rather followed them. Somewhere between books, this technically being their third assignment and the first mission was supposedly a disaster according to backstory, our team actually learned to work together and not be morons. I can respect that. If the book wasn’t filled with useless trivia and odd chapter choices based on location and time it might be a better book. Instead, they only solved one problem.
Still, let’s see if they can at least solve their current dilemma, stopping a war and a coup, which oddly are not tied together the normal way.
“How come you get weapons and I have to use my hand to shoot people?”
Ultraverse Premiere #2
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (April, 1994)
This is another flipbook, on the back of Mantra #10, another comic I wouldn’t be reading back in the day. So that means I would never have known about these books until the next issue, which flipped with an issue of Prime, that comic this reading list refuses to let me read. Since most likely these would have been on shelves and spinner racks on the Mantra side, all you’d see is a very expensive issue of Mantra at first glance. I don’t know. I don’t see this as a good idea since not everybody is going to read the comics on the flipside and not know about your three new characters unless they did.
Then again, do we know this king is noble?
Would a King be a nobleman, or even a former nobleman? I’m not up on my Medieval European terminology.
Well, as we head into September I’m hoping to get back to decluttering and The Clutter Reports. However, it depends on my schedule. My plans of having an article buffer proved to my benefit, as during this month I only missed one feature article without shirking my responsibilities to my dad during his surgical recovery. I’m all out of those, but he’s healing up pretty well. I’m hoping to have time to make a real buffer, so if I need time off you won’t know it unless I miss the comic reviews. Maybe I can even buffer those, but my priority is feature articles, then daily videos and weekly article links, then the comic reviews, and finally the Jake & Leon comics. With the buffers done I want to get back to video content and that Let’s Play series/channel I’ve wanted to do for years. It all depends on what happens next.
So this week we have the next Chapter By Chapter review of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image, and I’ll definitely replace that with a shorter book. All I’ll say now is I know what series, but not which individual book. I’ll also have something besides Doctor Who for this week’s Saturday Night Showcase, though we will come back to the time-traveling spaceman and his magic box in the future. As for the rest, it depends on what time I have and what events inspire me.
Have a great week, everyone!
If I were to have done this in order of favorite Doctor Who crossovers rather than airdate, the list would be:
I do like how in tribute the episode opens in black and white, as that’s what the entirety of Troughton’s main run was in. Not having the console from that time, they did have the previous console, which stood in to make it look like the older–well, I guess it would be newer depending on perspective–TARDIS, though they had to use the same walls and monitor that was in use from Tom Baker to the end. I would have liked more with Troughton and Frasier Hines as Jamie, since they’re probably the best Doctor/Companion pairing of the classic era. Meanwhile they name drop Victoria to set a time frame, but it would still be a time in which the Doctor was still on the run from the Time Lords. Fans have tried to come up with an explanation for how it could be happening, but officially this is a plothole.
As for the present team, Sixth is teamed with Peri, my choice for the cutest of classic Companions, and an American…in character, as Nicola Bryant clearly wasn’t. Consider it payback for all the fake British accents some American actors try to pass off. It works for the show’s homeland but not the character’s. Their opposition are the Sontarans, and two member of the Androgum, writer Robert Holmes (a vegetarian) doing for meat eaters what the creator of the Ferengi tried to do for capitalists by making them over the top in their meat eating habits. Fortunately for the Ferengi they had other writers and directors come along and tone them down and make them less silly. The Androgum will not get that chance. Still, you can tell what Holmes thinks of anyone who enjoys a hamburger, and I found the part with the Doctor and one of the Androgum, Shockeye, to be a rather uninteresting sequence. There’s even a swipe at butterfly collectors if you pay attention to how he’s written.
Otherwise the episode isn’t terrible, but clearly a step down from the other crossover. Still worth enjoying for the performances and Troughton’s last turn as the Doctor.
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