Be Seeing You.... Mister McGoohan

Sad news on the recent death of Patrick McGoohan, most famous for his role as the titular Prisoner in the 1960s series. That was a classic series IMO, and fascinating for both his writing for the series and his fascinating performance. Emotional. Thought-provoking. Occasionally clinically bizarre (case in point: The Girl Who was Death).

I also found his performances in Columbo truely enjoyable. The interplay between Peter Falk and McGoohan was always interesting to watch, and his directorial eye excellent. Also McGoohan made Falk, although an always reliable actor, raise his game.

Transformers Mosaic: Freedom of Information

So freedom - what does it entail? For some, it's as simple as being able to speak one's mind.
For one particular Decepticon, it's far more basic - the ability to walk, to be literally free from his physical imprisonment in a form that is unable to move.

For those who can't remember, at the end of Spotlight: Soundwave from IDW, Soundwave was trapped in his alternative mode, unable to transform and his allies/minions/friends captured and brainwashed by "Skywatch".

His solution? To employ the freedom still available to him (namely, his ability to interface with computers) and to manipulate others to do his dirty work. Couple this with an arrogant disregard for humanity, Soundwave carefully and clinically cover his tracks, just in case.

So here, he has a patsy infiltrate Skywatch, and learn all about what they've done to his minions/allies/friends (that is, Ravage and Lazerbeak). He then coolly disposes of the "ninja/thief" by setting off the alarms.


I love the idea of Soundwave as this Machiavellian maipulator, even if he's trapped as a 1980's cassette deck.



Once again I have to praise the artist and the colourist, employing dark, sinister tones and the creative use of the Decepticon symbol to imply Soundwave's machinations (although a scripted idea, I never imagined it would be as effective as it was).

Transformers Mosaic: Genius

This was my first published Mosaic (and as a matter of fact, one of the first things I'd ever written beyond a few reports of the Student Council in High School that had been published).

I rather like the idea that despite the fact 'Percy' comes across as a stuck up egomaniac, "professor", he's highly competent (at least in his field of understanding). This is something that the actual IDW comics have done as well, making him a scarily good sniper.
But rather proudly I feel that I did it first ;-)

The internal commentary is also secondary to the story, it highlights rather then distracts from the story, after all the art tells the story incredibly competently without the dialogue (kudos to the artist Sterling Gee).

I've become so 20th Century....

And so, seeing as someone suggested that a good way to get my writings noticed was to have a blog.
So here it is.
From time to time things will be posts, from the Transformers Mosaics I write, to my original property "The AUDIO Files" (more on that later).

The title of this post FWIW is a reference to a line from Angel: the TV Series.
The blog's title OTOH ... well..... Wombats are cool.