As has been obvious for nearly three weeks now, Midnite and I decided that this year's slideshow would feature Book One of Innovations 1991 Series comics. As fans of the '91 Series, we both feel that, even though some of what Innovation created was flawed in some respects, many aspects of the plot and so much of the incredible artwork deserves to be seen by as many fans as possible. Though we'll certainly be discussing what we don't like as well as what we like, and we encourage members to do the same. Though a word of warning, and this comes directly from Innovation itself: "Don't compare continuity between the old series and the the new series. For our purposes, the old series never existed -- our comic depends completely on the continuity of the new hour-long color show. Anything mentioned or detailed in the old black-and-white series is not valid." However, I can't say that Innovation was always true to their word to stick completely within the continuity of the '91 series because there are goofs in the comics with respect to that continuity. They attempted to explain their goofs away with varying degrees of plausibility, but the goofs still remain. Though we won't get into them until they come up in the plot...
Because comics are different from TV shows/films, unlike what we've done with previous slideshows, we can't select quotes, take screen caps of video, and then flesh things out with script excerpts. So what we'll be doing is selecting quotes, cropping art work, and then fleshing things out by sharing entire pages from the issues. And with that in mind, before we catch up to where the slideshow already is, here's the front cover of Book One/Issue One -
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- and the inside cover -
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- which, among other things, explains how the plot of Book One fits into the '91 series (though Uncle Roger has already alluded to that).
