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.
For those of you who missed chapter 1, we’re looking at the husband/wife performance group Pocket Vinyl as they planned to do all fifty United States in 45 days, a breaking of the previous 50 days record. While they planned to do this unofficially due to money and logistics, it will still count to them.
This is a longer chapter than last time, at 25 pages. As a prose novel that would drive me nuts. As a comic that’s still a pretty long chapter in a graphic novel that is still 11 chapters long. Still, it might not be as bad as it sounds. Considering how many novels I had to do two or even more chapters for because they were so short, it’s only my personal time that concerns me. That’s not a criticism. Nobody expects a reader to be reviewing a book one chapter at a time. Chapters are supposed to be a good place to take a break in case you have to do other things like go to the bathroom, go back to work, go to bed, prepare for open heart surgery…I don’t know what you guys do for fun. Sometimes there are even breaks in the chapter because for whatever reason they want to have more than one scene in one chapter.
That’s one thing I’ve never really figured out: why writers (or in this case comic creators) put breaks where they do. Is there a formula or is it just where the writer thinks it’s best…and why? Maybe someday I’ll find out, but for now let’s see our duo prepare to officially begin their tour.
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BW’s Saturday Article Link> An Actor Puts The Blame Where It Belongs
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I’ll have to see how that works with other sites, but I still want to put my introductory text in. As you can see, Ryan Gosling, at an event to promote his new and well received movie Project Hail Mary, came out and said something I did a commentary on just recently. Saving your show, comic series, game, or movie isn’t the job of the fans but a job for the creators to make it something we want to support. Instead, the rest of Hollywood blames the fans for not showing up and recognizing their genius and good intentions. Gosling is right, and Hollywood (and other industries that follow the current Hollywood mindset) needs to figure that out fast.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on March 28, 2026 in Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, Hollywood, Project Hail Mary, Ryan Gosling.
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