As hard as it may be to believe, especially considering the kind of movies I like, I never saw The Amazing Spiderman in theatres. My commercial sense was unimpressed the weeks leading up to release and I just didn’t go.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for January, 2022
You have to understand that Charles was never just about the grandiose plans. Oh, he had them in spades. Your toes would curl if I told you all of them. Heck, my toes curled more than once when he told[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Wolfenheim Project really was a good idea. Charles wanted to tell the Aliens that we could get to them. That we wouldn’t always be stuck in our little corner of the galaxy forever. That we could come for them.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Charles had a lot of plans when I met him. One he’d been working on for a good century before we met. He didn’t tell me about it until we’d worked with each other long enough that I actually trusted[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Charles was part and parcel of the Peloran program to Uplift our industrial and fighting technologies. We all knew they couldn’t completely change our tech base in the time we had before the Shang could overwhelm us, but Charles had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Charles is one of the reasons we won the Battle of Fort Wichita. Not saying I couldn’t have led us to success, you know. But he did a good job stepping up when our squadron commander and second got killed.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Charles kept us Cowboys working after our commanders were blown out of the sky. He stepped up, took command, and managed to forge links with all the other units still defending Fort Wichita. The Shang had us on the ropes,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9QW84iGBnc I first began writing the original Jack nearly 20 years ago, back when Cowboy Bebop had just recently come out. He was very much based on the archetype of Spike, though without the crazy hair. Very roguish in actions,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Charles came through at the Battle of Fort Wichita. The Shang had done a real good job shooting commanders all over the battle. It was chaos. The fleet-wide datalinks were down and the chain of command was totally compromised. Fort[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some people rage against the darkness. Charles was never one of those people. Firstly, a good Family Man never raged against anything. They coolly and calmly studied the situation and then fixed it. I actually approved of that. He was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…