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Preview of Creatures & Corridors, written by Brandon Auman, interior art by Andrea Mutti, cover by Gene Ha

#Comics #RPG #Dungeons and Dragons #Creatures and Corridors #Tunnels and Trolls #Gene Ha #Andrea Mutti #Brandon Auman

Sleepwalker (2026) - Teaser poster internaţional

[ID: A tweet from Brandon Auman @.auman_brandon which reads: “Some BTS of our #TheLegendofVoxMachina writers’ rooms. Sam possibly writing Scanlan songs here, or grocery shopping on Amazon Fresh #CriticalRole” There are two pictures attached. The first shows Matt and Travis seated at a work table as Sam stands in the doorway behind them. The second shows Sam seated, typing on a laptop perched on his legs, while Matt stands behind him, clearly in work mode. /end ID]

#brandon auman #travis willingham #sam riegel #matt mercer #critical role #the legend of vox machina #tlovm bts #cr twitter

Dante’s Inferno (2010):

“ Dante journeys through the nine circles of Hell -- limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery -- in search of his true love, Beatrice (IMDb Description).”

Here’s a movie that I’ve watched today. I am no stranger to the game, Dante’s Inferno. I have played it a bit on my PSP and I would like to finish it, someday. There’s also a movie about the game, so today I decided to check it out and...it was ok. Quite a cringy movie. If you are familiar with the game, then you’ll know that it has a serious tone to it, however...the movie is more silly. The voice acting is decent, for the most part. The animation has some good moments. The story is interesting, but I prefer how they tell it in the game. It’s a cute little movie...nothing special.

#dante's inferno #2010 #animation #action #adventure #gifs #victor cook #mike disa #Dante Alighieri #Brandon Auman #Graham McTavish #Vanessa Branch #Steve Blum #Peter Jessop

Countdown to the New TMNT Series: 2012 S2 Premiere “The Mutation Situation”

TMNT 2012 S2E1 (#27): “The Mutation Situation” Analysis

*I still have a bit of ways before I’m back on schedule. 2 more episodes to write for until tomorrow...*

Season 1 had a good balance (mostly at least) between the serious and the non serious, but with a more serious tone called for as the series goes along, a new team of writers and Ciro Nieli jumping ahead of his co-showrunners Sternin and Ventimilia (both of whom moved on) took place for this new season. Nieli, whose previous show running gig SRMTHFG! was cut unfairly short, was given nearly full reign and did a very good job with this series even if the sum of the parts didn’t usually equal the whole when all is said and done. And here, the inexperience of new head writer Brandon Auman--who’s a nut and a liar (although the latter is for episodes further down the road), shows in this season premiere whether it’d be in the form of the outrageously contrived attempts at humor, the bad lines, or the non engaging storyline that follows.* All this helps undermine what is actually a good direction for this season (although it doesn’t really follow into the next ones).

*Don’t get me wrong, Brandon Auman was a good writer for this series (probably the best) since he did end up writing some of the best entries for this show. Certainly a lot more than he did bad at least! He is extremely divisive however and that’s where I’ve had my share of problems with him.

The idea of the turtles being unable to prevent canisters of mutagen being scattered throughout (the most abandoned part of) New York City is a good one since it allows for many directions for the show to go in while reinforcing the theme of responsibility from the previous season, which has been a strong driving force for the heroes. The fact that one of the victims is Kirby O’Neil adds more motivation even if it isn’t one of the best remembered moments of the series (see the Personal Notes). Unfortunately it does a bad job getting there since most of what propels this event is the creators borrowing the theme of the turtles being overconfident in “The Gauntlet.” They are so high in morale after their victory over their creators, which is one of the better conflicts in story telling and entertainment, that their feelings here almost make more sense than they do in “The Gauntlet.” However, it’s never a good thing having to revert to old storylines in order to bring up a new one. And the story being as unexciting as it is certainly doesn’t help. In the end, the turtles have a big mess to clean up, a friendship in tatters, and a dismal lead in to the new season. In short; good direction, bad job getting there.

Season 2 may be right up there with Season 1 in terms of quality, but this is a bad start. The thought that the creators believed it was a good idea to screen this at a convention only adds to the annoyance.

PERSONAL NOTES

This is actually one of the worst episodes of the series. It’s just a couple of episodes away from being part of the Worst of the Rest. It’s at least perhaps the worst episode ranked Mediocre here.

The initial humor should’ve been an indication of these new writers having to get their feet wet--and that this wasn’t going to be so good an episode. Mikey’s cottage cheese demon joke was especially appalling.

Many fans have pointed out the lack of suspense when the canisters head toward April since it’s been established she’s immune to the stuff. The creators may have been banking on the viewers accepting the idea that none of the characters knew the full extent of April’s immunity, but even if that’s the case I give it a pass since Kirby certainly doesn’t know about his daughter’s protection from it, hence his actions.

Speaking of which, you can’t blame April for her being upset. This is yet another time she loses her father (essentially) and he didn’t even know about his daughter’s immunity so of course she initially blamed herself.

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