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From "Too His Dangerous Doubles" by Otto Binder and Al Carreno, Captain Marvel Jr. #8 (June 1943) On the same month (at least on the stands, see One Panel last week), both Captain Marvel Adventures and Captain Marvel Jr. had a plot where they've been multiplied. Otto, my dude, having Marv Wolfman levels of writer's block? In this case, there are 8 extra Juniors (none of them on panel) all…
CAPTAIN'S LOG: Trek Noir. WHY WE LIKE IT: Uhura is so glamorous, isn't she? WHY WE DON'T: Strange New Worlds is all changes of pace now. REVIEW: No, but really. It seems like every Strange New Worlds episode now is some kind of genre emulation (I loved Subspace Rhapsody, but its success seems to have a lot to answer for). In this case, a spurious scientific explanation is given for presenting the…
An underground despot. Alternative Fantastic Four. A troll king. Flag-Smasher's army. Hank Pym's son. Dormammu's sister. Which are Hot? Which are Not? Find out, as the Hot Squad completes its coverage of OHOTMU's 13th issue and reveals how datable its characters are. Featuring permanent panelists Isabel, Nathalie, Shotgun, and Amelie. Listen to Episode 114 (the usual mature language warnings…
THE AFFAIR: THRUSH invents a machine that can make people dumber. THE INNOCENT: Yvonne Craig as Cecille Bergstrom, a down-on-her-luck mannequin restoration artist (interesting job) who takes care of her brother, an early victim of Dr. Dabree's brain-draining experiments. She helps UNCLE for the money and Solo keeps throwing it at her the more risks she has to take. She's not happy about it, but is…
"Accomplishments" In theaters: One Night Only AKA The Sex Purge is just a silly romcom and most bad reviews seem to want it to be something else, either a serious attack on the fascism that is lampooned (yet, accepted as a fact of life, I see the problem) or an R-rated sex comedy (as those teens who snuck into the third act in my theater probably did). But it's a silly, charming, and actually…
Who's This? A Blackhawk villain (Nazi). The facts: Okay, the way Who's Who did it is confusing, so let me clarify. When Blackhawk was being published by Quality Comics in the post-War Golden Age, a villain called Killer Shark showed up. Much later, in the 80s, under DC's control, a different Killer Shark was introduced. In publishing chronology - and this is the way Kyle Baker drew it - the…
Being a look back at cards from the Star Trek CCG, and what I thought of them back when they were fresh and new... in EPISODE order. And immediately, the previous card's matching commander... EXPANSION: Premiere PICTURE: There's a little color burn on this extreme close-up, but you can't tell me Kargan doesn't look fearsome. The quintessential angry Klingon shot, it gets a good 3.5. LORE: Pretty…
From "Too Many Marvels" by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck, Captain Marvel Adventures #25 (July 1943) Yeah, yeah, yeah, it means there are six Captain Marvels, too, but that's far less annoying, isn't it? None of the Caps have multiple faces, for one thing. And they're probably out saving more people. Bit six Billies means WHIZ Radio is wall to wall Batson. He's taking over every show! We shouldn't…
There is such a thing in D&D as an "ooze" family of creatures, no doubt because words like "ooze" and "slime", while basically meaning the same thing, are fun, icky words to slap onto a monster. But also because their appearance as liquid or fluid makes them living traps for unwary delvers. So there are many, with a wide variety of colors and levels of viscosity. The "black pudding", though?…
CAPTAIN'S LOG: The crew vacations on a planet that makes you drunk. WHY WE LIKE IT: Klingon karaoke. WHY WE DON'T: So silly, Graham Chapman was likely to walk in to stop the sketch. REVIEW: The previous season's cycle of horror and humor episodes remains unbroken as the writers continue to wish they were doing Doctor Who, though the horror tends more towards Torchwood, and the humor more towards…
