Multi-Media Week!

I apologize. This should have gone up yesterday, but it was my Grandmother's 96th birthday, so yeah.
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Now that I have completely random crap out of my system, it’s time for me to move on to multi-media week! Because obviously I needed another theme week in a row in order to keep my mind from wandering out to pasture and never coming back. So anyways, this week I’ll be doing a lot of reviewing. I guess. Of franchises that span multiple mediums. So it’ll be fun. I hope you can handle all the fun it will be. I’ll start this off with everybody’s favorite cartoon rabbit, Roger.

What, you thought it’d be Bugs? Bugs is a pain in the ass. I always rooted for Daffy, personally. I think the only thing Bugs ever did that I laughed at was to quote Shakespeare. Specifically the time he said “what light through yonder window breaks” and then threw a rock through a stained glass window. Poked me right in the center of my Breaking Things is Awesome Cortex. If you don’t have one, or you feel yours may be underdeveloped the problem is easily diagnosed but difficult to fix. Chances are, you’re missing the Y Chromosome. Or you might just be an idiot since clearly aimless, wanton destruction is the shit. But fear not. Because Roger doesn’t rely on needless destruction. Which isn’t to say he doesn’t cause plenty of it, but whatever.

So in order to save time in the first actual review, let me briefly explain the franchise’s history. Gary Wolf wrote a book, sort of a hard-boiled detective parody called Who Censored Roger Rabbit way back in the day. It was completely different from the movie that it inspired, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, probably because the movie had been drugged, tortured and forced to kneel before a committee of mean-spirited corporate jerks. But an amazing thing happened. Yes folks, the power of true love came to the rescue, and despite the fact that the movie bore essentially no resemblance to the book whatsoever, they chose to actually make a good product which is quite rare in Hollywood. The success of the movie inspired Wolf to write ANOTHER book using the characters called Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? This book, sadly is the only major entry in the franchise I am not familiar with since the only time I ever saw a copy it was in hardcover and on principle I don’t buy hardcover. I do however accept hardcover books about murdered cartoon rabbits as a bribe. Just saying is all. Anyway, the interesting thing to note is that this second book was no more connected to the first than the movie was. In my years of nerd-dom, I became familiar with the concept of a meta-series because they’re common enough in Japan. It may take a little getting used to but it actually works out pretty well. You can think of it as alternate dimensions if you want. Regardless, a meta-series is when characters, setting, theme or any combination of them link two projects which are not directly connected and indeed, would sometimes outright contradict one another if they were by having completely different timelines, or using the same characters but with different relationships between them, etc. So get used to that idea because you’ll probably see it a few times this week.

Now, there are only two reasons people read reviews. One is for the entertainment value of the reviewer and their bombastic, over the top nit picking, and the other is for an arbitrary score which tells you at a glance whether or not the product is worth your time. I’m really not keen on giving you a simple answer because a recommendation depends. Are you stupid, or do you agree with me? So all this week, my reviews will boil down to sweetened confections. Confused? You won’t be after the next post on Crewd Philosophy!