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I really do need to get some more Ghostbuster images in my library.
Since I have a number of different topics planned for this week I’m going to combine all three trailers that came out over the weekend and I think last week. Yes, I know the new Star Wars trailer came out but it’s the last one and I don’t really pay attention to trailers past the first one unless I’m not quite sure yet if I’m interested. At this point I’m willing to watch the train wreck in the hopes of learning what not to do with an established franchise while still trying to make a good story. A good story doesn’t always mean it’s a good adaptation.
For example the reboot of Ghostbusters in 2016 was not a proper torch passing, although I don’t know how it stands as a movie in general. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has put out a lot of good stories but has made a number of adaptation errors, especially in a couple of their more recent films where they bowed to social issues and China over the original product, as if they couldn’t have both. Okay, maybe not the Ancient One but you’re adapting an American comic for an American audience so why should they care so much? Aren’t you saying China is right to come down on Tibetan monks or something? Meanwhile the DC movies haven’t been very good at either category, although the movies have improved slightly and at least Shazam! was based on a version of Billy Batson. Too bad it was the New 52 version that was a re-imagining anyway.
So yes, we will be looking at the trailers for Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Black Widow, and Wonder Woman 84 to see how they fare in both potentially good story and potentially good adaptation. Let’s start with the first one.
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“Why is it I can never remember where I parked?”
Iron Man volume 3 #55
(If it wasn’t for all the volume numbers this would have been issue #400, hence the big number 400 and why this is a bonus-sized issue.)
Marvel Comics (July, 2002)
WRITER: Mike Grell
LETTERER: Chris Eliopoulos
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Marc Sumerak
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
“Book Of The Ten Rings” finale
PENCILER: Michael Ryan
INKER: Sean Parsons
COLORING: Avalon Studios
“Out Of The Bottle”
ARTIST: Mike Grell
COLORIST: Arisa Rozegar
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December 26, 1933 – December 8, 2019
News came over the weekend that Caroll Spinney, who played Big Bird and Oscar The Grouch from Sesame Street‘s debut until he retired in 2018 (new Muppeteers have taken over the roles, but if memory serves not all his episodes have aired yet), had passed away, only a few weeks before his birthday. In addition to his roles on the show he was also an artist and drew the picture of the late Mr. Hooper (who actually died when his portrayer, Will Lee, died in a rare moment for a kids show and a great Big Bird performance from Spinney) in Big Bird’s nest. I’m one of those kids who grew up on Sesame Street and it was sad to news, but at least he got to enjoy his retirement a bit and was one of the few remaining performers as the show’s format changed and many of the other neighbors I grew up with had left the show since I stopped watching. Childhood me thanks you for what you brought to it, and I’m not the only one thinking that.
I had to end on the three together.
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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.
Remember, the book is in public domain. Download or read the ebook online legally and for free at Project Gutenberg, Google Books or the Internet Archive among other sites, or check out the audiobook from LibriVox. You can also use a print copy. In either case my copy may not match up with yours chapter-wise. Follow along with the very-long subtitle. For this chapter:
The Actual Part Second
In which ShadowWing Tronix fixes a mistake made by the New York Public School in 1948…I mean…In which shall be told how Robin Hood turned butcher, and how he revenged himself on The Sheriff Of Nottingham. Also of the famous adventures that befell Little John at the Nottingham Archery Match, and how he entered the Sheriff’s service.
It’s the last chapter of the part that was left out of my copy of this book. That means we’re almost to the end of reading this book as we only have the final chapter and epilogue (according to my book) left to go. Last time we saw the Sheriff, despite having met Little John in person, not recognize that “Reynold Greenleaf” is someone he might have met before. So he decided to hire the man as one of his crew and put him up in his own house. Little John agreed, because we’ve long since established that poor decision making is a requirement to join the merry men of Sherwood Forest. So let’s see how poorly this ends, shall we?
III: How Little John lived at the Sheriff’s House
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I hear Smash Mouth already wrote a song about her.
Justice League Adventures #13
DC Comics (January, 2003)
“Local Hero”
WRITER: Dan Slott
PENCILER: Min S. Ku
INKER: Mark Propst
COLORIST: John Kalisz
SEPARATIONS: Heroic Age
LETTERER: Kurt Hathaway
EDITOR: Steve Wacker
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This was on the “Christmas Eve On Sesame Street” album but not speaking Spanish (almost ironically what little I know came from Sesame Street) the only reason I don’t question it is I know the Spanish pronunciation of Jesus. I can’t find a translation into English on the internet as it keeps running up against similar sounding names. If anyone can give me a proper translation I would very much appreciate it.
