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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.
For those of you just coming in we just finished looking at the first scene of the story, in which we were introduced to our cast of senior warriors and the young punks who tried to show off how much better they are because they were grown in a test tube with the genes of supposedly greater warriors. Apparently they didn’t realize it takes more than genes to be a warrior.
I’m hoping there are some actual mechbattles before this is done. While I’ve never been interested in the tabletop game (and I tried playing the demo of one of the video games and let’s just say I’m not cut out for it) it was the giant robots that drew me to the show. I just stayed for the characters. BattleTech is a larger universe with numerous characters and stories to go over, as I learned from the few comics I’ve collected, which also fascinates me for the same reason it does for something like Transformers, because I see the wide range of possibilities. Hopefully this book lives up to that because given our previous multi-chapter scene that might be ironic. I think. Darn it, Alanis Morissette!
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Sorry, I just can’t figure out a good mirror pun here. I must be tired.
Justice League Unlimited #44
DC Comics (June, 2008)
“My Dad’s A Hero”
WRITER: Ken Pontac
PENCILER: John Delaney
INKER: Ty Templeton
COLORING: Heroic Age
LETTERER: Randy Gentile
EDITORS: Rachel Gluckstern & Steve Wacker
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Handheld drone. Studio apartment sized flying saucer. Totally the same, right?
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I got to know my smartphone. And after writing that article I think I found a way to complete Art Soundoff the way I wanted when the webcam failed me. We’ll see what happens.
So this week I’m going to attempt to get back to full day postings, including comic reviews, but Art Soundoff will still replace the morning post and I will have the occasional quick post in place of my regular full article because I want to get some time to start this year’s Captain Yuletide. The Chapter By Chapter review of BattleTech: I Am Jade Falcon returns tomorrow and if I can do a Finally Watched this week I will but I would like to be on time this year for Captain Yuletide. So have a good week everyone!
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Earlier this week I reviewed Nickelodeon’s new series The Astronauts based on the first two episodes, originally aired together in a one hour special. It turns out the first episode, “Countdown”, the only episode without a day number, was posted to Nickelodeon’s YouTube channel, so I get to show you something I reviewed. Neat.
Created by Daniel Knauf, the show follows five kids whose parents are tied to a space mission to investigate an asteroid that some think could also be a space ship, or at least that’s what one of the kids is hoping. This is his first show for kids, but surprisingly he approaches it as any other show, just one that has to watch out for the target audience and what parents will allow…provided the parents is okay with the lesbian couple who will be part of the supporting cast, so if that’s not you this won’t be your show. There’s no violence, no cursing, and outside of kids taking control, something you only see in a kids show about five kids stuck on an orbiting spacecraft, this could have easily been a show about trapped adults, though being kids does add an interesting dynamic to the relationships involved between the crew in space, the people on the ground, and between the two groups. Add in the mystery of why this all happened besides the kids taking advantage of others’ stupid mistakes to get a look inside the cockpit of a new long range spacecraft, and you have the makings of a good show…though we’ve been disappointed before. Still, give the first episode a watch and see what you think.
