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.
I usually post these on Mondays but given I missed over half the week getting over a cold we get it on Thursday. This is kind of fitting given that Thursday’s comic reviews have been from the Robotech franchise and we’ll be moving them to Monday because it’s easier for me to watch the shows on Sunday. And if you haven’t guessed by my hinting to this point the next novel we’ll be looking at is from Robotech.
I didn’t pick up any of the novelizations, which combined numerous episodes into one book for the sake of having a full length book, with one episode being a half hour long. To make the point the novelization of the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the two-hour long “Encounter At Farpoint”, is barely half the size of a typical Star Trek novel while much padding is used on novelization of regular movies to get them to full novel length. I already wanted to get either the episodes on VHS at the time or the Comico adaptations so I didn’t bother with the books. Even the Sentinels books I had the comics, where you could see all the awesome mecha action. This is one of the advantages of visual media like TV and comics over novels. So I never really bothered with those either.
An original story set in the Robotech universe however I could totally get behind and that’s where this story comes in. So prepare yourselves for the next the nineteenth review in the continuing odyssey of Chapter By Chapter:
BW Filler Video: Why Krillin Is Far More Powerful Than Dragon Ball Fans Think
Guess whose fighting a cold. I’ve decided to take a few days off to recenter myself, maybe come back on Saturday for Saturday Night Showcase. However, since I started this day I wanted to post something here and I thought this would work.
When it comes to the Z Fighters of Dragon Ball poor Krillin gets the shaft, especially in Dragon Ball Z Abridged from Team Four Star. It’s easy to forget when everyone has superpowers and for anyone who either didn’t come in on the original Dragon Ball or like me went back to watch it that Goku’s former rival turned best friend is only weaker than all the superpowered space aliens Akira Toriyama has brought out. After all, no matter how many characters they break out or the times they’ve tried to pass the torch the Dragon Ball franchise is Goku’s story, even when he’s dead…and Goku’s shooting for Optimus Prime stats without a multiverse.
However, like so many characters who get short changed so much that even the fans look down on them Krillin is not only the strongest full human on planet Earth but may actually stand a chance to some of these alien threats, even ones who once bested him. At least that’s what Laughingstock Media contends in the following video. I bet Krillin doesn’t get a cold shutting him down halfway through the week.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on February 9, 2022 in Animation Spotlight, Comic Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged commentary, Dragon Ball, Dragonball Z, Krillin.
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