Chapter By Chapter> Robotech: Before The Invid Storm chapter 4

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.

In the previous chapter we didn’t so much meet the Shimada family as learn a bit about them through characters you’d only know through other ancillary media, as in not the comics and novels before it. So we just have the Starchildren left to be introduced to. Meanwhile Nova wants to check into Zand’s theories about Dana, whatever they were. Even a crazy man can get something right I guess.

I did a quick skim of the chapter because I’m really wondering how long it’s going to take for Colonel Wolff to get here. It won’t be this chapter so I’m curious what’s going to happen. Is it more worldbuiding, more plot development, or both? All I know for sure is that we’re spending more time with Dana, so let’s read on and find out.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Robotech: The New Generation #9

I don’t know. I have mixed thoughts on the Barney & Friends re-imagining.

Robotech: The New Generation #9

Comico The Comic Company (July, 1986)

“The Genesis Pit”

ADAPTATION: Mark Burbey

PENCILER: Reggie Byers

INKER: Tom Poston

COLORIST: Kurt Mausert

LETTERER: Bob Pinaha

EDITOR: Diana Schutz

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BW’s Daily Bragging: I’m A Wikipedia Source

I forgot to mention this in yesterday’s update. I was surprised to see Wikipedia come up in my refer links on my WordPress dashboard. So after a quick search I found out that it’s an article on the Transformers film series, specifically the section on spin-off media that includes the Cyber Missions web series loosely based on the Bayverse. As of this writing the playlist they had is down and the new one (that I’m using as a placeholder) is a bit of a mess. I’ll make a proper playlist via my own channel when I get a chance.

This marks the second Transformers article from this site to be used as a reference source. Although I can’t seem to find the reference link anymore at TV Tropes I was used as a source discussing Arcee’s forced sex change in the IDW comics, which they later retconned (frankly that makes it worse in my opinion rather than owning up to their mistake). That credit seems to be gone for whatever reason but I have this one for now so I can still brag about that.

Jake & Leon #520: Repl-Aced

Sorry, a better name didn’t come to me, but at least it’s fitting.

I found in short research a lot of German Shepherds, the DCAU had a Black Dane mix, and one bulldog.

It’s been a tiring weekend in that I’ve had some sleeping issues. This week’s Clutter Report was a video of someone else cleaning their craft room/office combo, which is at least close to what I’m doing here.

Unfortunately the next two weeks are going to be hectic, with a number of doctor appointments coming close together. So if I miss a post or use a lot of filler video type stuff it can’t be helped but I still apologize. We’ll still get this week’s Chapter By Chapter review of Robotech: Before The Invid Storm and Friday will be the final installment of the Many, Many Intros Of Superman (which will include the Krypto cartoon, fittingly enough for this week’s comic). This is all I can really promise this week and I don’t even know what next week has in store. At any rate, have a good week and hopefully I still give you reason to stop by.

Saturday Night Showcase: Godzilla Vs. Gigan

I was trying to figure out what to do tonight’s Showcase on. Another Ultraman series came up for posting, but I’ve done so much Ultraman I wanted to do something else for a while, like I did last week. Then this afternoon I bring up Twitter and learned today is the 50th anniversary of Godzilla Vs. Gigan, released in Japan on March 12, 1972, and off to YouTube I went. The official YouTube movie channel (free with ads) had this version up, offered by Shout Factory TV so if the video below doesn’t work (someone had problems with the last one I posted from YouTube Movies And Shows) here’s a link to the video on Shout Factory TV. A quick look shows I actually posted this before from Hulu but that offering is no longer available since Hulu changed their desire to make more money by letting websites post embeds of their videos and I have no time to come up with anything else. Plus it’s an anniversary so let’s do this!

A failing manga artist is hired by a company to create a mascot for their new theme park preaching “absolute peace”. However, the theme park is a ruse for something far more sinister, and alien (it’s Showa period Godzilla; Earth was invaded every few years). It’s up to the artist and his friends to foil their plans, but the aliens have Gigan, in his debut appearance, and access to Ghidorah. Luckily Earth has Godzilla and Anguirus. I only have access to a subbed version of the movie and not the English release Godzilla On Monster Island. On the plus side I’m sparing you the terrible English voices used for Godzilla and Anguirus, using the word balloons to tie in to the comic creator part of the plot, which is a nice touch. Enjoy!

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Scooby-Doo Team-Up #35

Yogi finally met someone hungrier than him.

Scooby-Doo Team-Up #35

DC Comics (April, 2018; as posted to what’s left of comiXology in vol. 6 of the trade)

“Bear-ly Scared”

WRITER: Sholly Fisch

PENCILER: Walter Carzon

INKER: Horacio Ottolini

COLORIST: Silvana Brys

LETTERER: Saida Temofonte

EDITOR: Kristy Quinn

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The Many, Many Intros Of Superman: Smallville

Almost forgot about this one. I guess we’ll save the finale for next week, because I almost forgot Smallville…possibly because Smallville forgot to be Superman’s early years a few seasons in and became the origin of The Blur. Created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, the show decided to do yet another origin story for Superman, or rather Clark Kent as the closest we ever get to seeing him in costume (I guess Tom Welling thought the costume was the source of the “Superman curse”) was a bit of special effects work in the last few minutes of the series finale. I lost interest in the show after a few seasons so I don’t know a ton of what happened after they started creating the Justice League early, having heros that should post-date Superman’s first appearance coming in while Clark wasn’t an open superhero, and looking less and less like he would ever become Superman. Killing off Jon Kent didn’t help matters any, since this was still a movie thing (Jon and Martha are supposed to die together, something even the comics eventually forgot–Snyder couldn’t even get that right with Jor-El and Lara). So I don’t have a lot to say about the show this time around.

I’m also not going to break out ten intros, since the show lasted for ten seasons. I found a video (and hopefully it’s still up when you’re reading this) that puts them all side by side. I’ll break that out and then grab three specific intros to talk about them directly. This is mostly because I don’t want to run this theme song so often that we forget how awesome it is.

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