Blog Update (July 27th, 2020)

Hey guys. How's it going? I'm doing well. I just wanted to do this post to let you know what I'm going to be doing on the blog this week. I've got a comic book review, a movie review and probably a novel review coming out this week. I say probably, because I'm almost finished Brother Odd, the third book in the Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz, but I'm not exactly sure when I'm going to finish the book, so it might be Sunday before I get the review done or it could be Friday. 

This week I'm starting a new comic book review series where I'm going to be taking a look at the first six trade paperback volumes of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers from Boom! Studios and all six trade paperback volumes of Mark Waid's run on Archie from Archie Comics. For both series I'm going to be looking at how modern teen shows influence these books because I was flipping through volume 1 of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers the other day and noticed that some of the Rangers's behaviours reminded me of the behaviour of certain characters in teen shows on The CW and on Netflix so I began wondering if Kyle Higgins, the writer on the series, was influenced by any of the teen shows or not when he wrote the first few arcs. 

As you may have noticed I posted my final Teddy Ruxpin VHS review this morning. I had a lot of fun doing those reviews and I'm looking forward to continuing the VHS reviews with Disney Sing-Along Songs. Before I do though, I'm taking a week off from the VHS reviews because doing twelve weeks of Teddy Ruxpin VHS reviews was fun, but it was a lot of work so I just wanna give myself a week to recharge and get ready to tackle the Disney Sing-Along Songs tapes. But not to worry I'll have my review of Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah posted on August 10th and then that series will go for however many weeks. I also decided that I am going to review Teddy Ruxpin: The Movie and The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin when I'm finished with the Sing-Along Songs tapes and after I've done the eight volumes of Barney & The Backyard Gang, which is the third VHS series I'm going to be tackling. 

So the movie I'm reviewing this week is Casper (1995) starring Christina Ricci and Bill Pullman. I have it on VHS and I haven't seen it in years. In fact probably the last time I saw Casper was sometime in the 2000s when it was on TV. I think. If not, then the last time I saw it was 25 years ago when we rented it from Rogers Video. So it's been a really long time since I've seen this movie and I'm kind of excited to revisit it after so many years because I don't remember much about it except for Dan Akroyd's cameo as Ray Stantz from Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989) and the Ghostly Trio, Stinkie, Stretch and Fatso. 

Okay, that's it for this blog update. I'll be back for this week's comic book review either tomorrow or Wednesday, this week's movie review on Saturday and then my review of Brother Odd at some point this week. Have a great week and I will see you next time. Later.