“I have that spider right where I want him.”
The Phantom #1
Mad Cave (2025)
“The Tempest”
WRITER: Ray Fawkes
ARTIST: Russell Owen
SELECTED COVER ART: Freddie Williams II, though the Neon Ichiban digital version has the alternate covers as well.
LETTERER: Taylor Esposito
EDITORS: Sarah Brunstad with Chas! Pagburn
BOOK DESIGNER: Miguel A. Zapata
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In case you missed the book reveal, we’re back to the prose novel, back to Star Trek, and back to characters we met during The Vulcan Academy Murders, with the same author. This is essentially a sequel to that book, but rather than a police procedural using the original Enterprise crew and exploring relationships between species in the Star Trek universe we’ve got a medical procedural using the original Enterprise crew and exploring relationships between species in the Star Trek universe.
IDIC: Infinite Diversity In Infinite Combination. As the culture war has kind of messed up what “diversity” means, it’s not a surprise that the guy who said his take on Star Trek wasn’t about making Star Trek but using it to send a message brought on people who doesn’t know what the word means in the Star Trek’s context. In the Star Trek universe the race war was ended when World War III and all the genetically augmented supermen happened. Diversity there was diversity of culture, diversity of thought, diversity of beliefs, all combining to create a shared intergalactic society. There are species who could never understand that, but humanity went through a lot of trouble to learn that, which might be why Earth was the home of the Federation.
This story takes place not on Earth, or Vulcan like Jean Lorrah’s last book, but on a space colony where peace and tolerance for all are the norm, since that’s what they need to survive. Except something is about to challenge that notion, and exploring how that affects everyone will hopefully be good Trek. The Vulcan Academy Murders already showed that she could write good Star Trek and explore cultural differences without hostility towards any one philosophy or group. It’s time to see if she can do it again, which we’ll learn by the end of this book. To get to the end, however, we must start at the beginning. So let’s get started.
You should see a doctor for that hand.
Hardcase #15
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (August, 1994)
“Slash And Burn”
WRITER: James Hudnall
PENCILERS: Greg Luzniak & Tim Hamilton
INKERS: Craig Gilmore, Eric Ladd, Bruce McCorkindale, & Terry Austin
COLORING: Foodhammer, Sharleen Gaertner, Moose Baumann, & Micky Rose
LETTERERS: Susan Dorne & Patrick Owsley
EDITOR: Hank Kanalz
We thought they were trying to own it, not live it.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I moved forward in the comic digitizing mega project. This article mostly goes over the scanning and file creating process I’m going with in case anyone else wants to use it on their projects, whether they’re scanning comics or their medical records or something.
I’m hoping this is going to be a nice, productive week. We have the new “Yesterday’s” Comic schedule back on, the first Chapter By Chapter for Star Trek: The IDIC Epidemic, and next week I have stuff going on at the end of the week, so if I can prep for that it would be nice. I’ve been wanting to get back to My Transformers Universe for awhile now, but this may or may not be the week for it. Depends on what comes up.
Have a great week, everyone!
Well, whether you want to declare Doctor Who canceled…again…or on hiatus there won’t be more TARDIS travels for a while. There are still options to watch the show. The 24/7 streaming channel is available for free on numerous livestreaming services. Tubi has all the available episodes as of this writing, minus the first miniseries due to weird rights shenanigans. YouTube’s official Classic Who channel Doctor Who: Classic | FULL EPISODES has…full episodes, but just the ones whose arcs are edited into movies. AMC+ will soon house all the pre-Disney New Who shows while Disney+ still has the new ones. There’s also still comics being produced, Big Finish Productions…and what we’re showcasing tonight.
Fans who also want to be filmmakers are cutting their teeth on adventures of the Doctor, profit free but showing their love for the Doctor. There were a bunch of these in the so-called “Wilderness Years” where new stories came from novels and comics, and they didn’t stop when the show came back. Tonight I decided to give them a little attention. None of these have the current BBC or Disney budgets. They barely have Classic Who’s budget. They also can’t legally make money from it. They did it because they wanted to be part of the legacy of Doctor Who.
I’m not posting a full arc if there’s multiple episodes, just a recent episode to see where they are now, except for the first one because it’s a regeneration episode and the title seemed good to start with. You can decide if you like it enough to check out more and see if they get better or even do better than the official showrunners who had something other than making good Doctor Who on their minds, like their own egos or playing to a different crowd. Enjoy.
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