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No, I’m not planning to make the whole week commentaries. It’s just what I came across the past two days.
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.
Although as you can see from the article title, we’re reviewing three chapters like we did last week. To use a different TV analogy, it’s like the chapter is stopping at each commercial break instead of a full-length chapter. To me a chapter should feel like a full experience on its own, something you read between life events to relax and if you have more time (and the story is that good) you read more. Basically a chapter ending is a good stopping point if you need to be doing something else like getting something to eat, returning to work, or putting out that grease fire in the kitchen. No, wait, maybe these chapters are short enough for that but maybe put the book down and grab the baking soda or fire extinguisher. Not water, that just spreads the fire…WHY ARE YOU READING THIS WHEN YOUR KITCHEN IS ON FIRE!
Fire out? Good. Now until you hear back from the insurance agent let’s go see on Joanna is handling her new assignment on planet Dogg and her secret other assignment. Last time we met at least one jerk whose best quality is “he’s not Ravill Pryde”. How long before she risks her secret mission and punches this guy in the face?
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The low-budget remake of the Challenge Of The Super Friends intro doesn’t measure up.
Super Friends volume 6 #41
(I think at this point they just upped the volume number every year.)
DC Comics (February, 1981)
COLORIST: Jerry Serpe
EDITOR: Julius Schwartz
Super Friends: “The Toyman’s Tricky Thefts”
WRITER: Bob Rozakis
PENCILER: Ramona Fradon
INKER: Vince Colletta
LETTERER: Milt Snapinn
The Seraph: Dry Earth…Stolen Waters”
WRITER/ARTIST: Bob Oksner
LETTERER: John Costanza
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There is some swearing in this but she basically gave my whole commentary on the issue and we’ve never met.
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I’m sorry, but that “coral” room from the Davies period was ugly as heck, and13’s needs to bu a light bulb. A lamp. Something.
The only problem with this comic is what few indicators I managed to work into the art that shows he’s drawing were covered by the word balloons. That aside, I have seen all sorts of original TARDIS console room designs on YouTube lately. Some are made for games like Minecraft or Second Life, while others are based on types of TARDISes that appear in other media or are completely original designs either for their own Doctor or their own self. Those use software like Blender or Unity to create an actual animated TARDIS but you can’t really walk around that. You can even find people turning a shed into their own TARDIS media center. (Or “centre” if you’re in the show’s homeland.) Check it out sometime. There are some really cool designs.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I took a look at my introduction to Choose Your Own Adventure books, Hyperspace.
Doing the updates lately is becoming a crap shoot. I know what comics are coming for the daily review, I know what I’m reviewing for Monday’s Chapter By Chapter book review (this week three short chapters from BattleTech: I Am Jade Falcon), but I never know what’s coming during the week lately. I say “I’m going to do this” and then I either have enough new things to talk about that it doesn’t leave me room, I only have time for something quick because my schedule’s a mess, or I have nothing to talk about and need to find a topic. So…articles are coming this week. I can at least be sure of that, barring some disaster I know is going to screw up even that plan. Hope you all have a good week and you like what’s coming up. We’ll be surprised together.
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Ultraseven (or Ultra 7 in the US dub) was intended to be the end of the Ultra Series, but a large fanbase meant there was a market for this franchise. When Eiji Tsuburaya passed away his son Hajime took over Tsuburaya Productions, and decided to create Return Of Ultraman, the fourth series in the franchise. (I’m not sure if they’re counting Ultra Q, which we’ll get to next week actually. I was not planning on it but if I have the chance, go for it!) Originally it would feature the original Ultraman returning to Earth to battle new monsters, but out of respect for Eiji he became a new character instead, first “New Ultraman”, and eventually his more well known name of Ultraman Jack. (Not to be confused with Jack Shindo.)
Jack and his host, race car driver Hideki Go, were a bit different than the other two. Go wasn’t given a device to transform like his predecessors and most of his replacements. Instead he transformed through “willpower”, something that would be seen again with a few other Ultras or during emergency situations with the ones who did have items. He also had civilian friends, as he wasn’t originally part of the new anti-kaiju group on the block, the Monster Attack Team (MAT). (Certainly beats the team names from Ultraman Orb.) How did Go first merge with New Ultraman Jack? Tonight’s episode tells that tale. Enjoy!
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“Well here’s your problem, Doctor. You’re using a higher watt bulb in your logo.”
Doctor Who: The Forgotten #4
IDW Publishing (November, 2008)
“Survival”
WRITER: Tony Lee
ARTIST: Kelly Yates
FINAL PAGES PENCILER: Pia Guerra
FINAL PAGES INKER: Kent Archer
COLORISTS: Kris Carter & Charlie Kirchoff
SELECTED COVER ART: Nick Roche (Kirchoff on colors)
LETTERER: Richard Starkings
PRODUCTION: Neil Uyetake
EDITOR: Denton J. Tipton
