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Chapter By Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the 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.
Previously we were still waiting for Col. Wolff to show up, and I skipped ahead to see how the interior of the book spells it. It’s with two “f”s, like the comic from the previous post. What we got instead was more set-up to this post-Masters Earth, concerns about the Invid Sensor Nebula, in-fighting between the different government authorities because they’re still the government, and what happened to the remaining Tirolians on Earth.
They also mentioned the Shimada gangster family, or seeing as they’re in Japan I’m surprised they didn’t go with “yakuza”, which is still a crime syndicate in the same way that “mafia” is for Italians, basically the word for mobsters separated only by cultural approach when you get right down to it. This chapter we’re going to meet them and see what their deal is. The back of the book claims the Shimada family represent our pacifist faction but I find that hard to believe given their activities. Let’s see if I’m right.
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Sadly I don’t have access to these episodes to compare either and you’ll see why that annoys me more here than the rest of the series.
This is how I imagine the negotiations went when FilmRise lost the rights to Funimation. Granted I’m biased.
Robotech: The New Generation #8
Comico The Comic Company (June, 1986)
“Eulogy”
ADAPTATION: Jack Herman
PENCILER: Jeff Dee
INKER: Tom Poston
COLORIST: Kurt Mausert
EDITOR: Diana Schutz
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Streaming once the various Pluses finish fighting over it.
This may or may not be the worst drawing of Idris Elba on the internet. I forgot to give him white eyeballs in panel 3 and it’s too late to fix it. This is why I’m still learning.
In this week’s Clutter Report I cleaned up my hat rack. Not the most exciting project but it had to be done, and that’s the point of the site.
Coming up is the next Chapter By Chapter installment of Robotech: Before The Invid Storm and lately who knows what else? I’d like to get certain things in but until I can get my scheduling back on track I don’t want to keep declaring things I can’t deliver. I can say that we’re starting the reviews for the Space: Above And Beyond comic, if any of you remember that show. There’s a Saturday Night Showcase, though I don’t know what. So have a good week everyone!
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Thanks to official rights holders realizing there’s a market on YouTube I’ve been able to bring you TV shows and movies that maybe you’ve never heard of before but were created by big budget studios. It could bring you something you heard of but never saw, or maybe bring back memories of a forgotten show, or maybe you never knew it existed in the first place. This ability was lost to me when Hulu stopped allowing embeds of their shows and went to a Netflix style model so I’ve been enjoying the opportunity being brought back to me.
However, I have neglected the other thing I wanted to do with Saturday Night Showcase now that webcomics seem better served in regular articles. I also wanted to show what people were doing with a smaller budget. Whether it was an original idea or a fan work, there’s some really good talent limited only by the funds available, and sometimes even finding ways around that. I’m not abandoning the big name shows but tonight it’s time to bring those indie projects back into the SNS fold…with Bitter Lake: Trust Is A Fickle Thing.
The furry fandom gets a lot of undeserved flack. People point to porn of anthropomorphic animal people as if you can’t find it with elves or Klingons. It’s one thing if the characters just look like animals standing up, say Sonic The Hedgehog or even the Looney Tunes, but there is a certain level of humanoid where it shouldn’t be that different from other fantasy and sci-fi creatures. Not that it even matters because alleged sexual perversion isn’t all the furry fandom is about, at least not any more than any other fan and art group out there. There is a lot of creativity and fun in using animals as a shortcut to identify a character, plus they’re an interesting design artistically. (I’m not defending porn mind you. I’m just saying you don’t complain about Star Wars porn so why does this get people branded?) For example, tonight’s short video uses fursuits far more advanced than the “mascot” types you see at conventions, is a story that could work with any medieval fantasy setting, and stands as its own work.
Bitter Lake is the story of a kingdom so tired of civil war that the citizenry has demanded it end…making it the second time this week oddly enough. Representatives of the four major territories have come together to barter for peace. However, there is among them an assassin of a secret faction who seeks to disrupt these proceedings…in blood. Enjoy.
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Well, the online reader isn’t fit for comics but at least the comiXology app’s changes are still readable…although now you have to download a comic to read it. Amazon really jumped the gun on this change and mess a lot of things up.
Shouldn’t this be Velma and Daphne on the cover, given that only Scooby and the girls are here?
Scooby-Doo Team-Up #34
DC Comics (March, 2018; as shown in vol. 6 of the trade at comiXology)
“Birds Of A Feather”
WRITER: Sholly Fisch
ARTIST: Dario Brizuela
COLORIST: Franco Riesco
LETTERER: Saida Temofonte
EDITOR: Kristy Quinn
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