October 14, 2018

Jake & Leon #380: Frankenchildren

It may be more sciency but it’s not as fun. Then again it would make it easier on the wife.

Over at The Clutter Reports this week I organized some of my audio and video cables. They’re not all exciting projects but they are needed ones.

In comic reviews this week I’ll be checking out two #25s issues and they’re both double-sided comics. The Thunderbolts will face the Masters Of Evil while we Return To Macross for the conclusion to the War Of The Believers. Plus we have the penultimate chapter of the Superman novel we’re looking at for Chapter By Chapter, an interesting debate on plot holes and my finally seeing what the latest Doctor Who showrunner and Doctor brings to the series. I’m still not really into new Who and I gave it years. But I’m curious what Chris Chibnall’s theme is. I’ll get into that on Wednesday, because that’s when I do the Doctor Who old comic reviews. As for Thursday…I’m not sure yet. Hope you have a good week!

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October 13, 2018

Saturday Night Showcase: The Prisoner

So I showed you last week’s installment to show you this week’s. You’ll see why later.

Although Danger Man was actually a successfully show, Patrick McGoohan wanted to do something else. He had a surreal sci-fi-ish show in mind that he and George Markstein has put together. Leaving a successful show is quite the gamble to jump into a brand new series. Lucky for McGoohan the gamble paid off in one of the most popular shows to come out of the UK and one that still finds its way into pop culture. That show was The Prisoner, a show that actually started airing in Canada before hitting the UK.

While still playing a secret agent we never learn the real name of Number Six, as he tries to escape the Village. The Village is a place where former agents are brought to be debriefed in a rather odd manner. Are they from his government, curious why one of their best agents suddenly up and quits? (That’s something else we’re never told.) Or is it a foreign power hoping to steal a bunch of secrets that he’s privy too? That’s one of the questions he has to answer as well as figuring out who, if anyone, he can trust.

And it all starts with the first episode, as we see how Number Six first arrives in the Village and a basic idea of what he’s up against.

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October 13, 2018

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Batman: Gotham Adventures #19

Admit it, you’d read that comic.

Batman: Gotham Adventures #19

DC Comics (December, 1999)

“A Little Thing”

WRITER: Scott Peterson

PENCILER: Tim Levins

INKER: Terry Beatty

COLORIST: Lee Loughridge

LETTERER: Tim Harkins

ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Joseph Illidge

EDITOR: Darren Vincenzo

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October 12, 2018

Star Trek: The Next Story Bible–Captain And Commander

It’s time to go in-depth with the main characters (except Worf, who wasn’t created at the time). I don’t think they were cast yet but I do think this is the final version of them going into the show. It’s possible there’s a later guide for season one but I don’t think they’d want to confuse incoming writers and directors with more tweaking. They have to get the plots approved and scripts made.

Still, it should be interesting to see what part of their characters actually appeared on the show. It was one of the fun parts of doing the Batman: The Animated Series story bible years ago and this should be the same here. In this installment we’re looking at the two most senior officers: Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his “Number One” officer, Commander William T. Riker. Looking through I think we’ll be doing two characters an installment and these are naturally right on top. So what were the intended depictions and how much of it ended up on the show?

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October 12, 2018

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Robotech: Academy Blues #2

No, Lisa, this isn’t one of Titan’s alternate covers.

Robotech: Academy Blues #2

Academy Comics Ltd. (August, 1995)

“Roles”

WRITER: Robert W. Gibson

ARTIST: Tavisha Wolfgarth

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October 12, 2018

BW’s Morning Article Link: Star Trek Captains Unite!

There have been various mixes and matches of the first four Star Trek series, or stories where events somehow connected to all four. But IDW is going all in and having them all show up in the same place! Of course Q is involved. Conspicuous by their absence however is the prequel Enterprise, which unlike Discovery is clearly in the same continuity even if it doesn’t always feel like it. I guess Q was willing to put up with Janeway again (and possibly get punched by Sisko again) but even he draws the line at Captain Archer.

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October 11, 2018

Full She-Ra Trailer Finally Drops

All the trailers and info thus far for She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power have told us little about the story and even less about its status as an adaptation. Well, that’s finally changed. Dreamworks has unleashed the new Season One trailer for the re-imagined series. And if you know how I feel about re-imaginings you can already guess where this commentary is going.

I have nothing against a new take, but as I was saying in last night’s commentary there is a difference between being a good show and a good adaptation. And a bad adaptation is harder to replace if the show is good enough to attract a strong enough new audience who had no connection to the original for whatever reason. If the thing is so far removed from the source material that it should have been its own thing instead of riding the coattails of its namesake, you just lost a potential group of fans you pandering to in the first place. But is this show on the list of not-stalgia productions?

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