“I hope this is over soon. I need to use the…other throne badly!”
Sonic Universe #6
Archie Comics (September 2009)
WRITER: Ian Flynn
PENCILER: Tracy Yardley!
INKER: Jim Amash
COLORIST: Jason Jensen
LETTERER: Teresa Davidson
EDITOR: Mike Pellerito
Oh, this is the last issue? If I knew I would have worked this in somehow just so I wouldn’t have to read it again. Ah well. I’m having that kind of Tuesday.
Go for the forehead! It’s an easy target! Can’t miss it!
Thunderbolt #60 FINAL ISSUE
Charlton Comics (November, 1967)
WRITER: Sergius O’Shaughnessy
EDITOR: Dick Giordano
“When Flies The Dragon”
CREATOR: P.A.M.
ARTIST: Pat Boyett
“The Prankster”
ARTIST: Jim Aparo
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Sunday I was so busy and tired that I forgot until Monday morning that yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr Day. I like to find different posts to make sure there’s always a version up here in case any of the others go down, so this year we’re going with audio.
Remember that King believed in peaceful protest and led the civil rights movement in the hopes one day nobody would have to because everyone would be free and not be judged by skin color but by character. That’s supposed to be the goal of the race war, not to fight the race war.
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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.
In our previous chapter we started the second episode proper, a pet was lost, and I forgot to note that our crew is back together.
We are now halfway through the book visually, but that doesn’t account for the four pages list of other novelisations plus an order form for posters based on production art or something. So maybe we were halfway through the story when we started last time? Not sure. Point is we’ve reach the halfway point. There have been some added scenes that I can only assume are there to pad out the book. Novelizations (or “novelisations” if you’re British) are usually interesting to see what got lost on the cutting room floor or cut from the recording for time. Here we have Marter taking advantage of being a book that doesn’t need a budget for costumes to fill in gaps, which not only helps with the mental visuals of the scene but you can bring them back to watching the episodes. This lets your brain fill in gaps left by the budget, and classic Doctor Who never had much of a budget.
With that in mind (heh) let’s head back to see how Vicki handles her pet being lost and maybe what our villain will be trying next.
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Turns out they both have the same dentist.
The Night Man #8
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (May, 1994)
“Savagery!”
WRITER: Steve Englehart
PENCILER: Kyle Hotz
INKER: Thomas Florimonte, Jr
COLORING: Mickey Rose & Foodhammer!
LETTERER: Dave Lanphear
EDITOR: Roland Mann
Kathleen Kennedy And The Future Of Star Wars
Well, it finally happened. It’s been rumored so often that the rumor itself had become a gag. And yet here we are, official word that Kathleen Kennedy has decided to leave Lucasfilm…mostly. She’ll still be a producer but she’s not running the show. Instead Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan (whoever that is) will be taking over. Of course this news dropped when my posting schedule wouldn’t allow for it, me finding out about it just after Friday’s post went live. By now everybody on the internet has put in their two cents, so here’s mine. By this point we’ve heard this so much I’m not convinced she’s truly going, and if she did, the real question is if it’s too late to save the franchises she destroyed in the process, namely Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Willow.
I admittedly don’t follow the other two. The Indiana Jones movies always seem to have those gross-out moments I don’t care for, and Willow came from a genre I only tangentially know about because it’s not one I follow. That’s why my focus will be on Star Wars, but it’s not like those properties did well during Kennedy’s reign as well. Still, there is a question of what can and can’t be blamed on her in light of the idiots around her…except the idiots she could have stopped she didn’t.
Let’s be clear where this commentary is going. This is another example of one person leaving not fixing things. We’ve seen this in comics and now we’re seeing it here. Just as Dan DiDio’s leaving DC Comics didn’t fix the company, neither will Star Wars or any of the other Lucasfilm properties be saved by her departure and for the same reason: everyone else is still there.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on January 20, 2026 in Book Spotlight, Comic Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Streaming Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged commentary, Dave Filoni, Kathleen Kennedy, Star Wars.
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