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 chapter we finally got information we needed and not as much showing off. Of course it required a character I don’t expect to see again but I could be surprised. Luckily Sid is fine, and given how few friends Jake has at the moment that’s a good thing.
This week we’re going to meet Walter Bascom, the head of the Cosmo Detective Agency that was so nice to free Jake from the Freezer and give him a second chance. In the TV movie adaptation, Bascom was played by Shatner himself, and he also took on the role for the MS-DOS FPS video game I don’t recommend you play. Here’s a sample of Shatner as Bascom in a set of cutscenes from the game, to give you an idea of how he played him.
And he should know the character better than anyone, so let’s meet him for ourselves. Bascom, not Shatner. He’s too busy losing at The Masked Singer.
