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Jacob Licklider CR: Uzumaki

@newt5996.bsky.social

Trumpet player, Doctor Who fan, actual scientist I guess, and Cyclops. Has a comics podcast. He/him. https://linktr.ee/newt5996

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Jacob Licklider CR: Uzumaki@newt5996.bsky.social · 13h ago

Shock and Awe: Add this to the pile of Big Finish box sets that have a great longer story and a weaker shorter story. The first story works because of how well it gets the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa’s dynamic while the second struggles to make this any distinct Doctor/companion team.

Cover of Doctor Who: Shock and Awe featuring the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa surrounded by the TARDIS and an electrified car going down the highway, a large stone alien, and a glowing blue/purple cube.
Jacob Licklider CR: Uzumaki@newt5996.bsky.social · 13h ago

Mark of the Colossus by: Alan Ronald: Mediocre. The second script by Ronald I’ve heard and I’m not impressed. This is a two part story that doesn’t actually start until the end of the first episode. It doesn’t help that I actually don’t have any real connection to wrestling which is at the core

Jacob Licklider CR: Uzumaki@newt5996.bsky.social · yesterday

Lair of the Voltaxa by: Roland Moore: This one was a nice little four parter. It’s the shock part of shock and awe, the Voltaxa take advantage of electricity and the moment where the Doctor realizes they are puppeting corpses of the people they kill is fantastic. Moore also does this great thing

Cover of Doctor Who: Shock and Awe featuring the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa surrounded by the TARDIS and an electrified car going down the highway, a large stone alien, and a glowing blue/purple cube.
Jacob Licklider CR: Uzumaki@newt5996.bsky.social · 3d ago

Dark Gallifrey: The Decayed Master: Part Three by: Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle: There’s a moment after about 45 minutes into the story where you think it’s about to end but there’s another half hour left. It’s this last half hour that lets the story down a bit, mainly because Mooney and

Cover of Dark Gallifrey: The Decayed Master: Part Three featuring the Decayed Master sitting in a red armchair while the Third Doctor looks with the sheets of London in red and blue.
Jacob Licklider CR: Uzumaki@newt5996.bsky.social · 3d ago

A New Occupation: As is typical of the range there isn’t a thematic through line between the stories, just the last two in a batch featuring this TARDIS team. A lot of the issues the set has are isolated to the two part story not having enough time. Tom Baker, Sadie Miller, and Christopher Naylor

Cover of Doctor Who: A New Occupation of Alakhai, the Fourth Doctor, and Sarah Jane Smith flanked by the Mongol Horde, a Nazi flag, and a time tunnel.
Jacob Licklider CR: Uzumaki@newt5996.bsky.social · 3d ago

A New Occupation by: Helen Goldwyn: And this year’s Fourth Doctor Adventures end with a good little Doctor, Sarah, and Harry adventure. Goldwyn writes and directs a story about temporal interference in the Nazi occupation of Jersey, 1944 and 1976 being connected so it’s up to the Doctor and company

Jacob Licklider CR: Uzumaki@newt5996.bsky.social · 4d ago

Daughter of Destruction by: Katharine Armitage: This is an hour long pure historical that I think struggles with only being two parts. Now this is a period of history again that I am unfamiliar with and Katharine Armitage clearly wants this to focus in on Sarah Jane. It’s in the trend of hanging a

Cover of Doctor Who: A New Occupation featuring Alakhai, the Fourth Doctor, and Sarah Jane Smith flanked by the Mongol horde, a time tunnel, and a Nazi flag.
Jacob Licklider CR: Uzumaki@newt5996.bsky.social · 4d ago

The Well-Mannered War by: Gareth Roberts adapted by: John Dorney: You really can tell the influence of A Taste of Armageddon on this story, even in the adaptation. Like the others this is a straightforward adaptation but the dialogue really does sing when it’s Tom Baker and Lalla Ward delivering

Cover of Doctor Who: The Well-Mannered War featuring the Fourth Doctor, Barclow, K9 in a red rosette, a raven, and Romana dressed as the Third Doctor, all on a grey background with explosions.
Jacob Licklider CR: Uzumaki@newt5996.bsky.social · 5d ago

Reunion: Outside of the middle story being a let down this one completes the Turlough trilogy quite well. It’s all about for Turlough how he can’t really be trusted and how despite eventually doing the right thing he is still a coward. The middle story is the one that does not really play into

Cover of Doctor Who: Reunion featuring Peri, Turloguh, and the Sixth Doctor in front of a figure in space armor surrounded by a pink computer and a planet.
Jacob Licklider CR: Uzumaki@newt5996.bsky.social · 5d ago

Broken Home by: AK Benedict and Guy Adams: This is the big end to the arc the past three Sixth Doctor sets have covered and Benedict and Adams’ script finish it up quite well. Turlough is someone who could very easily betray the Doctor and the actual conflict on Trion was never really explored on

Jacob Licklider CR: Uzumaki@newt5996.bsky.social · 5d ago

Poison’s Reach by: Paul Sutton: This story ends by saying that the only individual activism that can be done is getting people to tell the truth about genocide and then stopping. It’s very weird for a Paul Sutton script when you consider Arrangements for War, Thicker Than Water, and The Angel of

Jacob Licklider CR: Uzumaki@newt5996.bsky.social · 7d ago

Tonight on Fresh-Faced Comics we’re bringing on guest @briarheart02.bsky.social to discuss #SpiderMan Blue by Jeph Loeb and the late, great Tim Sale! Get your questions, comments, and opinions in below!

Joey Morgan@jomoblooddonut.bsky.social · 7d ago

TONIGHT: @newt5996.bsky.social and I, with special guest @briarheart02.bsky.social, are recording the next episode of Fresh-Faced Comics, talking about #SpiderMan Blue! Send any questions or comments below and we'll discuss them on the podcast! :)