Chapter By Chapter> Star Trek: Prime Directive part 3 chapter six

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.

Part 3: Talin chapter 6

We’re getting close to the end of the book so if our heroes are going to get to Talin IV and solve this mystery they’d best move their butts! Last time Spock hung out with a bunch of activists and this time Chekov and Sulu are still on the sex trafficker’s pirate ship. That makes more sense in context for those of you just joining us without actual access to the book. If that somehow made you want to read it…I don’t know, more power to you I guess.

Like I said, we’re checking in with the helm team and seeing what kind of new craziness they’re getting up to. I skimmed to see where the chapter ends so McCoy at least will be appearing here…somehow. Let’s get to reading and find out how together. Unless you’re just reading the review in which case you’ll find out through me I guess. I don’t know, I’m rambling for the homepage at this point.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Superman: The Man Of Steel #1

“A new comic every week…because flooding the market has always ended in good things…for someone…I think.”

Superman: The Man Of Steel #1

DC Comics (July, 1991)

“Man Of Steel/Man   Of Fire!”

(Why the space? Did you not have time to fix a mistake?)

WRITER: Louise Simonson

PENCILERS: Jon Bogdanove, Tom Grummett, Bob McLeod, and Dan Jurgens

INKERS: Dennis Janke, Jerry Ordway, Bob McLeod, and Brett Breeding

COLORIST: Glenn Whitmore

LETTERER: Bill Oakley

ASSISTANT EDITOR: Dan Thorsland

EDITOR: Mike Carlin

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BW’s Art Soundoff 2021 #15: Redrawing Reconstructed Batman–Posing

Jake & Leon #510: Jake & Max’s Art Soundoff 2021 #2

The closest you’ll come to seeing these characters naked. At least from me.

As a bonus Art Soundoff video I even used Clip Studio Paint’s recording feature to make a speed draw video making the comic.

Meanwhile over at The Clutter Reports I revisited yet another project that I screwed up doing other projects. Only me, folks.

So my dad is in the hospital right now, mostly for tests and things are currently looking up. What that means is that things may be a bit screwy this week. I will have the Chapter By Chapter review of Star Trek: Prime Directive up and running but I can’t promise it will be on time. I also may miss a day or two and as far as this week’s Art Soundoff redraw of Reconstruction Zone Batman I’ll still have it but posting days may end up screwy depending on what happens this week. Hopefully I’ll be bringing him home soon, but priorities are on him and not this site. I’ll post where I can if only to keep going and have something to do but I want you all to know why things are off this week.

I hope you are all well though and have a good week.

Saturday Night Showcase> Kamen Rider Wizard

It’s time to work through some of my SNS backlog. Kamen Rider Wizard is the 23rd entry in the Kamen Rider franchise, and the 14th installment of the “Heisei” period. The show tells the story about a ritual that turned people into demons called Phantoms, who seek to create more of their kind by making people with magical potential, also called Gates, fall into despair to release the Phantom into the world. However, one man instead becomes a wizard and tasked with fighting these demons, essentially closing the proverbial gate of the literal Gates.

Toei Tokusatu World has, as usual, released only the first two episodes thus far. And yet some show about a comical robot is getting a full posting on the official YouTube channel. I don’t get it. The first introduces our hero while the second sets up the situation so I’ll be showing both episodes tonight. Turn on closed captions to get English subtitles, and enjoy.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Scooby-Doo Team-Up #26

What’s worse, the fact that Hong Kong Phooey’s terrible live-action movie concept never got made or that Scooby’s actually did?

Scooby-Doo Team-Up #26

DC Comics (July, 2017; as posted to comiXology in volume 5 of the trade)

“Enter The Dragon, Exit Scooby-Doo”

WRITER: Sholly Fisch

ARTIST: Scott Jeralds

COLORIST: Silvana Brys

LETTERER: Saida Temofonte

ASSISTANT EDITOR: Rob Levin

EDITOR: Kristy Quinn

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Warner Brothers “MultiVersus”: Another Smash Bros. Clone?

He’s going to have an awful headache in the morning.

There are times when you know the formula copying is running out of ideas when the weird ones occur. I guess the crossover platform fighting game genre is reaching that level if it didn’t already pass it because it’s not a genre I follow all that intently. MultiVersus is a crossover fighter that hopes to play with the Smash Bros. formula by having their various owned (and in one case licensed because I don’t think simply airing a show with the character counts) WB characters beat each other up. The game is made by Player First Games and distributed through Warner Brothers Games.

Recently a preview trailer was produced to show off this new game. Because I like to end the week on something fun and my other two potential topics…aren’t, let’s see this game in action.

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