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Someone in the comments did correct one thing: the center column is not the “time rotor” as often mislabeled. That’s an indicator on the console itself. It’s just the center column, letting the crew know the ship is in flight.
That same weekend gave us a snow storm, but winter started in 2025.
By the time this goes live, Winter Storm Benji will be showing us what it has to offer us, so hopefully I still have power when you read this. If not, this week’s Clutter Report has me getting ready for a potential power outage.
Depending on an outage or lack thereof, I don’t know for sure what’s going out when. I wrote this the night before, so if I can we should have the next Chapter By Chapter installment of the novelization of Doctor Who: The Rescue going as well as CBS Transformers. For the pre-DC stuff we’re heading over to Quality Comics to see what Plastic Man’s early years was like. You can already read my review of the reprint of his debut in Police Comics #1, and I’ll do a few of those before I decide whether or not to just jump to Quality’s solo Plastic Man comic, since those issues are public domain even if the character isn’t. Going over Fathom should keep me on Drive Thru Comics for Thursdays a bit longer, while redoing my old Sonic comic reviews on Wednesday and the usual Golden Age comics on Friday should be like they normally are…if I have power the next few days. If I go dark, odds are so has my house.
Have a great week and stay safe, everyone! I’m not the only one dealing with this.
I don’t know how long this one will be up. A few of my other entries of Godzilla movies have become unavailable in the past. However, I want to get my backlog of Showcase entries cut down a bit, and with a snow storm approaching getting something out quick is to be my benefit. So, Invasion Of The Astro-Monster.
Originally released in 1965 as The Great Monster War, this would the second appearance of King Ghidorah, a space monster so dangerous that Godzilla became a good guy fighting it, taking on the role of Japan’s protector until the 1980s reboot of the franchise. This time he’s working with aliens who want to conquer the Earth. For such a crap planet everybody seriously wants to own us. Caught in the middle are two astronauts, the rare case of an American protagonist in Nick Adams as Glenn. Just…Glenn. You can do the Ken pun if you want, the live-action Barbie won’t be relevant forever. Everyone else is Japanese, aliens, monster, or android as our heroes try to figure out the game of the aliens from the Xiliens of Planet X, who like to name things with numbers, like “Monster Zero”, aka Ghidorah.
To save their world, the Xilens want Zero-One and Zero-Two, Godzilla and Rodan, to fight them off like they did before. Sucks to be Mothra, I guess, since she’s the reason they joined the fight in the first place. No Monster Zero-Three title for you…though I would make her Zero-One since she was the first one to enter while the other two were typical boys, but whatcha gonna do?
Ghidorah is Godzilla’s most popular foe, though I’m still biased towards Mechagodzilla. I couldn’t find the sub version, so apologies to the sub fans. I usually try to get both sides what they prefer. Either way, enjoy.
Not to be confused with the CG namesake, Genndy Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars, also made for Cartoon Network was what you’d expect from the Samurai Jack and Primal creator doing Star Wars, and it was brilliant. In another timeline that could have affected Star Wars in animation going forward as he was once offered the job Dave Filoni would later get, being in charge of Lucasfilm’s animation division. You can bet that had Tartakovsky accepted the deal we wouldn’t have finished Jack’s story or followed the caveman, and we also wouldn’t have Ashoka Tano (even when she was done well) or the individual Clone Troopers (sorry, Rex), but it would have changed the whole game.
I was sorry to read it was decanonized given that it explains Grevious’ breathing issues and let right into Revenge Of The Sith with the fake capture of Palpatine.
Last time we saw the new attempt to bring Optimus Prime, Jazzz (with an extra z), and replacement girl Firecycle to Saturday mornings. Now we have the second half of the Autobot team, including not-Bumblebee. I don’t know why Jeffrey Scott hated Bumblebee so much but given that the kids loved him it would have been a bad move.
Like before the layout is in the style of computer print outs. In case you’re bad at math, the second half means three more characters for a total of six Autobots. This will be followed by the humans and the Decepticons.
In addition to not-Bumblebee version 2 we have Mirage and Trailbreaker. Back when they wanted to gender swap Sideswipe Mirage was trying to get with her. I wonder if that will carry over to Firecycle? Well, only one way to find out, because he’s up first.
“Then maybe stop looking at me and turn the @#$%$ plane!”
Smash Comics #7
E.M. Arnold (February, 1940)
The problem with Golden Age comics is that even when I like them I have to go back to my previous issue review to see if I want to continue it. Only a few characters can stand out. Not helping it that I’m reviewing one Golden Age comic a week so it takes a long time before I get back to a series, with not just the ones that were going for a while but new ones that might come along.
As it turns out I really enjoyed the previous issue so hopefully that trend continues this issue.
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Considering Miles and Spider-Gwen didn’t exist when this show came out, I’m guessing that book wasn’t completely from the dropped season’s plans. Also, I don’t like it. Just seems convoluted for a show that surprisingly wasn’t.
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