Super Smash Brother Ultimate is the latest iteration of a game that I first discussed here. To sum up, it's a video game which takes characters from a wide range of other video games and brings them together to fight each other on stages deigned to e
Read more…One of my “gripes” about Doctor Who is that continuity is constantly being re-set so that the existence of aliens comes as a shock to people, even though the Earth has been invaded by aliens numberless times throughout human history, especially durin
Read more…This timeline was inspired by reading Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Crisis on Infinite Earths #1. As you know, the original post-CoIE Earth was essentially Earth-One with bits of Earths Two, Four, S and X added in.
In this book, the premise is t
Read more…What I'm going to do here is present a timeline of the feature films and shorts that were shown in the twelve seasons of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and in the feature film. I will not be including the KTMA episodes, and I will not be chronicling th
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THE HEROIC AGE, PART FOUR (A.D. 1971 - A.D. 1980)
During this period, the human race began to cooperate ever more closely as attacks by kaiju and alien invaders continued to proliferate.
As most of you know, the Earth-44 Timeline is something I've been working on for years. However, I has always seemed to me that it is kind of a dense text and possibly hard to follow. Plus, I tried to connect in so many things that the timeline may
Read more…FEDERATION AND IMPERIUM (A.D. 2161 - A.D. 2899)
During this period, Earth (and its allies) became a great power in the galaxy.
At some point in the late 1980’s, Drs. Clayton Forrester and Laurence Erhardt, two scientists attached to the Gizmonic Institute, conceived of a plan to determine whether it was possible to break a man’s will by forcing him to watch the worst motion
Read more…(OOC Note: This will not include every possible Kaiju story, only ones that I am especially familiar with. I shudder to think of even trying to include all forty-odd years of Ultraman series in here, as well as all the various tokusatsu that were es
Read more…The program began with the Doctor and three companions, just as it has now. Together, they formed a sort of surrogate family. This first TARDIS team is one of my favorites.
Ian Chesterton, the Doctor, Barbara Wright and Susan Foreman
1)Susan Fore
Read more…We begin with the three-part pilot, "Saga of a Star World", first broadcast September 17, 1978.
Summary: The humans of the Twelve Colonies are ambushed by their old enemies, the robotic Cylons, Most of humanity is wiped out, but one battlestar, th
Read more…Didn't have much going on yesterday, so I watched a couple of the original Planet of the Apes movies, and skimmed the others. This prompted me to see if I could work out a coherent timeline for the events of these films. If I make any egregious erro
Read more…The modern era story of the Marvel Family began in the year 1940, when the wizard Shazam granted great power to young Billy Batson, enabling him to become the super-heroic Captain Marvel.
In imitation of this, Fon-Ti, a rival wizard, granted power
Read more…Vignette #1:
"Finally, tonight, the solution of a sixteen year-old mystery.
As our viewers may recall, two months ago, the mummified body of an eighty year-old woman was found in a peat bog outside Bourtangerstad in the Netherlands. Preliminary tes
Sherlock Holmes was born on January 6, 1854, the second of five children born to Sigurd and Violet (Vernet) Holmes, including older brothers Sherrinford and Mycroft, (1) and younger sisters Cecilia and Enola. (2)
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The original Ghost Busters were a team of paranormal detectives, which operated for a few years beginning in 1975. The agency was comprised of Jacob "Jake" Kong Sr, Edward "Eddie" Spencer Sr., and a sentient gorilla who went by the name "Tracy".
Read more…The Amazing Spider-Man #36 (September 2001), by J.Michael Straczynski & John Romita Jr.
A horrified Spider-Man arrives at the site of the World Trade Center attack, where he joins other super-heroes in assisting with rescue and clean-up efforts, whi
Read more…Captain America #193 (January 1976) "The Madbomb - Screamer in the Brain!"
1)"The trial of the Falcon is over" - What was the trial of the Falcon about? Don't recall ever hearing about that one.
2)Leila - The Falcon's (I assume) girlfriend is anoth
Read more…I thought I'd try something low-maintenance. We begin with...
"What a Night for a Knight"
Scooby-Doo and the gang investigate the mysterious Black Knight, who turns out to be Mister Wickles the curator, who is running an art forgery ring.
Notes:
Read more…I used to be a huge fan of the comic strip Dilbert. I found it to be funny and inventive. Eventually, however, it seemed to me that it fell into the same pattern that many successful comic strips fall into. That is, Scott Adams developed a stable of
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