I actually posted this video to remind you about this series, and because it’s been in the queue for months, which you can find on Chris McFeely’s YouTube channel. Come back tonight because he just posted a video about a period of pre-Transformers history that only recently came to light. And yes, while toys are involved it is storytelling related as well as fascinating if you’re anything like me.
We’re somewhere around the halfway point of this book depending on if you’re counting chapters or looking where my bookmark is. Chapter-wise we’re there, but the bookmark is slightly before the middle of the book. We’ll see how close we are when the chapter ends. At any rate, we have time-clones, a war whose origin has yet to be explained, and killers all over the place. This is a long day for the Doctor and friends.
Since I’ve taken time to discuss the various Companions as they appear in the book it’s time to get to the last of our heroes, Susan (Foreman). I think we forget that Susan, though a teenager, is still a Time Lady. She may not be as learned as Romana but as we see in this story it makes sense that she understands time and how it works. Even back in the pilot she looked at a history book she borrowed from Barbara and saw information that she claimed wasn’t right. However, in this case we’re talking about time itself, the “d” of the equation (space being the “e”). While the rules of time came with exceptions as the story demanded it there are still rules to be followed. Susan is able to figure out where the alternate Andrewes (and presumably the Ian and Bamford) come from and that stopping this experiment is so important to the future of the space/time continuum as well as possibly the multiverse that what happens to her and Barbara are secondary concerns. Even the Doctor, who loves his granddaughter very much, may be forced to sacrifice her for the future of all reality, and despite being the more emotional of the quartet she accepts this and her possible fate/ And yet she still believes in her grandfather, who I remind you isn’t the savoir of time we know him as today. As Ian once pointed out, Susan is brilliant in some things, even more so than her teachers, and ignorant about others. We get to see more of her brilliance in this story so let’s see what she and the others do next.
“I don’t think the new diet plan was such a good idea.”
Justice League Unlimited #31
DC Comics (May, 2007)
“The One-Man Justice League”
WRITER: Adam Beechen
ARTIST: Dave Santana
COLORING: Heroic Age
LETTERER: Mike Sellers
EDITOR: Rachel Gluckstern
The obligatory action scene.
I’m going to be taking a semi-break from The Clutter Reports since I really want to get caught up on some of my emails and it’s a boring topic. If I’m pulled into another project I’ll report on it but my goal is to get at least caught up through 2019’s backlog, and any decent “evergreen” articles might end up on the daily link.
I also have something cool for you guys this week from Chris McFeely, host of Transformers: The Basics on YouTube. It’s something about a Transformers predecessor toyline that also goes into storytelling licensing, the issues between Marvel Comics and Marvel Productions in the 1980s, and Dennis Marx’s obsessions with kids and dogs. It should be fascinating. Also, more Art Of Storytelling and more Doctor Who. Sorry this posted so late tonight and have a good week!
I’m not a huge Pokémon fan but I do own Yellow and have been watching PlayFrame’s playthrough of Pokémon Sword. So when I stumbled upon tonight’s offering I wanted to check it out, and it’s really quite good. The official Pokémon YouTube channel posted a seven-part miniseries (mostly around 6 minutes in length each though the final chapter reaches 9 minutes) set in the current Nintendo Switch games Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield. Set in the European-inspired Galar region, you choose a boy or girl character and follow your best friend Hop as you do the usual Pokeworld stuff of traveling the world and capturing little monsters in balls to fight each other for fun (both yours and the monster’s…it’s less the dog fight gag the internet uses and more like just sparring until someone gets knocked out) before you hit puberty. Meanwhile in the real world parents are scared if you leave the yard.
The miniseries doesn’t involve Ash Ketchum, the usual hero of Pokémon anime, but actually focuses on some of the gym leaders, with the main interest centered around a sick boy in recovery in the hospital and his hopes of someday becoming a Pokémon trainer, while the gym leaders are more interested in their big losses at the hands of Champion Leon. There are some real tearjerker and heartwarming moments in the miniseries, though if this is based on Britian why does nobody have a British accent? It is in English though, so enjoy. Just let the videos play because this is the full playlist and not just the one video.
“What do they mean my lawn needs attention?”
Danger Girl #0
IDW Publishing (posted to comiXology November, 2011)
“Prelude To Danger”
WRITER: Andy Hartnell
ARTIST: J. Scott Cambell
Unfortunately the comic itself has no credits and comiXology seldom lists everybody so if there was a separate colorist or letterer there’s no listing here.
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BW’s Daily Article Link: What Makes A Story “Dark”
I don’t like movies that are dark just to be dark. If the story calls for it, fine, and there darker stories I actually enjoy. However, being dark is not instantly good and when someone praises a movie for how dark it is I want to smack them. So what makes a good dark story? First, we need to understand what a dark story actually is versus what these lovers of “dark” think it is. Author Cheah Kit Sun weighs in on what he thinks it means.
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