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:
Part Fifth
In Which It Is Told How Robin Hood Turned Beggar, Went Forth To Seek Adventures, And How He Drubbed Four Beggars And Outwitted A Corn Engrosser
This part is going to be different in that there is only one chapter. I’m thinking the parts were the real chapters here and the stuff I’ve been calling chapters more like subchapter…or something like that. I may not be explaining it right. The point is this is going to be a done-in-one tale rather than one spread out over three weeks of review. Will it be a good story?
Robin Hood Turns Beggar
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“I swear I’ve never had calamari!”
Justice League Adventures #8
DC Comics (August, 2002)
“New Moon!”
WRITER: Mike W. Barr
PENCILER: Min S. Ku
INKER: Rob Leigh
COLORIST: John Kaliz
SEPARATIONS: Heroic Age
LETTERER: Kurt Hathaway
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Steve Wacker
EDITOR: Dan Raspler
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The sad thing I blew this joke when I announced I was doing this on Twitter.
I usually leave the behind the scenes stuff for the archival post, which you can read if you click on the comic (I stopped mentioning it because nobody ever did), but for Art Soundoff I’ll be posting it here too.
I thought it might be interesting this year if I had Jake and Max, canonically artists themselves, take part in the Art Soundoff challenge with me, just because I think there’s some fun to be had with this idea. Whether or not I do it next year I’m not yet certain. I actually tried to make this look like Jake was holding a camera, possibly on a selfie stick, for this but I might not have been close enough. Not having done a video this way I couldn’t tell you.
Meanwhile, over at The Clutter Reports I organized my hats. Impressive project I know, but it was a pain trying to find the one I wanted. I own a lot of hats, but thankfully not enough to be too many.
This week, in addition to more Art Soundoff v-logs I’ll have the next chapter of The Merry Adventures Of Robin Hood in Chapter By Chapter and we’ve reached the Armada/Micron Legend period of the many MANY intros of Transformers. In addition Saturday Night Showcase will spotlight the other Art Soundoff contributors this year (if I can pull an embed from anchor.fm…otherwise expect a lot of links alone because it seems like everyone doing audio only went to anchor.fm while us video contributors stuck to YouTube) but remember you can check out the #artsoundoff hashtag on Twitter or go to the Art Soundoff Twitter page to see everyone involved and learn how to join in. We have a few new contributors this year plus two returning contributors besides myself and the hosts, the three that did it last year. Have a good week, folks!
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Sony’s Ghostbuster movies are not the real Ghostbusters, no matter what their cartoon tried to tell you. They’re just the ones that admittedly did it best. Yes, I do still enjoy the Filmation Ghostbusters cartoon and wished somehow we could get a crossover with The Real Ghostbusters but Ray and the crew at the firehouse, and their failed attempt to re-imagine them (I hear the jokes are terrible but it’s still on the Finally Watched list to see for myself), would have been called Ghostsmashers if they hadn’t licensed the name from Filmation, making this an early example of not-stalgia if anyone had been nostalgic for The Ghost Busters.
Not that the live-action series was bad mind you. It just wasn’t as good as the movie or even their own animated continuation with the namesake kids of Jake and Spencer. Still, there is some humor to be found but it has a lot of differences from the cartoon. Instead of getting the call over a phone that doesn’t like to be answered and all the other strange gear they got their missions by going to the store and getting a recording Mission Impossible style. The car doesn’t talk and wouldn’t fly either until the cartoon (the Junior’s Ghost Buggy itself was not their original car but it does show up in one episode), and Tracy was smarter in the cartoon. It was however a good chance to see F-Troop‘s stand-out team of Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker together again. “Tracy” was obviously a guy in a suit, credited as his trainer. The episode in tonight’s Showcase also features Billy Bardy, a popular bit part villain or antagonist in both kids and adult-targeted media. In tonight’s episode the Ghost Busters must deal with real-life criminals as well as a gangster ghost (Prime Evil and his recurring baddies were introduced in the cartoons…ghosts in this version usually stayed zapped) in an episode parodying the not-villain from Casablanca and other famous gangsters. Enjoy.
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“Do you mind? I’m trying to take a batnap.”
Batman: Gotham Knights #1
DC Comics (March 2000–published to comiXology July 27 2011)
“Constants”
WRITER: Devin K Grayson
PENCILER: Dale Eaglesham
INKER: John Floyd
COLORIST: Pamela Rambo
SEPARATIONS: WildStorm FX
LETTERER: Bill Oakley
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Joseph Illidge
EDITOR: Dennis O’Neil
“To Become The Bat”
WRITER: Warren Ellis
ARTIST: Jim lee
LETTERER: Richard Starkings
