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No, this is not the Dirk The Daring team-up we actually do want. I think.
Sonic The Hedgehog #106
Archie Comic Publications (April, 2002)
EDITOR: J. Freddy Gabrie
“Crouching Hedgehog, Hidden Dragon” (guess what movie had recently hit US theaters)
WRITER: Karl Bollers
PENCILER: Ron Lim
INKERS: Pam Eklund & Andrew Pepoy
COLORISTS: Josh & Aimee
LETTERER: Jeff Powell with Juli Liu
Knuckles The Echidna: “Reunification” part 1
WRITER/LAYOUTS/INKS: Ken Penders
PENCILER: Dawn Best
COLORIST: Josh Ray
LETTERER: Vickie Williams
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Turns out you were right about not wanting a Peacemaker/Micronauts crossover.
The Peacemaker volume 3 #4
Charlton Comics Group (September, 1967)
WRITER: Joe Gill
ARTIST: Pat Boyette
EDITOR: Dick Giordano
The Fighting Five: “Card Carrier”
Montes & Bache
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Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter (or possibly multiple chapters for this one) 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.
Two chapters again. One is short and while the other is technically long enough to review on its own it’s not so long that the three page chapter before it can’t be lumped in. So it’s another double chapter review for this book.
Last time it looked like our heroes were making a mistake. Unlike the first book, though, it doesn’t give the appearance of incompetence. That was one of my problems with the first novel. The main cast looked like fools, while the guest cast were far more interesting and I would have rather followed them. Somewhere between books, this technically being their third assignment and the first mission was supposedly a disaster according to backstory, our team actually learned to work together and not be morons. I can respect that. If the book wasn’t filled with useless trivia and odd chapter choices based on location and time it might be a better book. Instead, they only solved one problem.
Still, let’s see if they can at least solve their current dilemma, stopping a war and a coup, which oddly are not tied together the normal way.
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“How come you get weapons and I have to use my hand to shoot people?”
Ultraverse Premiere #2
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (April, 1994)
This is another flipbook, on the back of Mantra #10, another comic I wouldn’t be reading back in the day. So that means I would never have known about these books until the next issue, which flipped with an issue of Prime, that comic this reading list refuses to let me read. Since most likely these would have been on shelves and spinner racks on the Mantra side, all you’d see is a very expensive issue of Mantra at first glance. I don’t know. I don’t see this as a good idea since not everybody is going to read the comics on the flipside and not know about your three new characters unless they did.
BW Media Spotlight 
Does Hollywood Really Have A Fatigue Problem?
Why are box office numbers so low? Ask the mainstream entertainment media and sites who wish they were and you’ll usually hear that some kind of “fatigue” is responsible. Superhero fatigue, shared universe fatigue, poor writing fatigue, this or that performer fatigue, activism fatigue, nostalgia fatigue…and of course the solution is “make new, original properties” followed by complaints that those new, original properties aren’t drawing a crowd in.
Strange. I never heard of Western fatigue, spy movie fatigue, action movie fatigue, romantic comedy fatigue…genres that are now shadows of their former selves. It’s always the superheroes, science fiction, and fantasy genres that apparently nobody wants and the directors and producers insist they have to be shelved in favor of the “better” movies. SEECA in action again. Blaming fatigue is a great way to not take responsibility for their own mistakes, and Hollywood right now is making a lot of mistakes. Even Netflix, a company whose man in charge has “kill the theatrical experience” on his bucket list, does better in theaters. Why?
Is there really fatigue out there, and what is it? How do we solve these alleged fatigue issues without losing the stuff that was working before the decriers of fatigue came along?
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on September 2, 2025 in Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, franchise/genre fatigue (or lack thereof), Hollywood, Hollywood versus fans.
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