Dirty Dancing ---->The Following

A. Dirty Dancing
Summary: This movie was directed by Emile Ardolino, written Eleanor Bergstein, and by produced by Linda Gottlieb. During the summer of 1963, a well to-do Jewish family by the name of Houseman's heading to a resort up in the Catskills called Kellerman's. There were four members of this family Dr Jake Houseman, his wife Marjorie, the older daughter named Lisa, and the 17-year old daughter named Frances or Baby. While there Baby noticed the different treatment the staff got based on their background with the Ivy League students being advised to mingle with the guests while the entertainment was demeaned. An entertainer named Johnny caught Baby's eye. She was briefly introduced to him when she helped his cousin carry a watermelon to a staff party. Later, Baby learned that Johnny's dance partner was in a tough position and stepped up to help her. This led to Baby helping Johnny and Johnny helping her.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092890/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Dancing

Connections: Connections were not very prevalent for this movie. For the connection, I worked to find a fictional relative of one of the characters.



I went with the character named Sidney Schumacher as the last name Schumacher had been used once for every 10000 people. This means that more than likely people with that name were related. Using this information, I'm making the assumption that Dr. Schumacher from Kitty Goes to War was related to the belated Sidney Schumacher. Not much was known about Dr. Schumacher except that she may have worked for the military.



1. Kitty Goes to War
Summary: This book was written by Carrie Vaughn and published by TOR Books. It related the story of Kitty Norville, a werewolf and radio host, who worked with the NIH's Center for Paranatural Biology in order to help 3 military werewolf who were suffering from PTSD and cannot transform. As if that wasn't enough, Kitty was being sued for libel by the CEO of Speedy Mart - Harold Franklin.
http://www.librarything.com/work/9508819
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7662235-kitty-goes-to-war





Connections: One of my running theories for superheroes of the modern age were that they get their powers from ancestors in the past- unknowingly. For example, a mutant who had ice powers would be descended from a spirit of nature that had to do with ice. Because of this theory I think the ghost witch Amelia Parker may be related to our friendly neighborhood SpiderMan aka Peter Parker. https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Peter_Parker_(Earth-616)

Now, I don't think that Peter was ever a witch or wizard, just that he had a genetic predisposition for being different (mutant gene) and it was triggered by a spider bite. One of the stories that we find Peter Parker in a game called Spider-Man/X Men Arcade's Revenge


2. Spider-Man/X Men in Arcade's Revenge
Summary: This game was developed by Software Creations and published by Acclaim Entertainment. It was designed as an action game and a platformer. After disarming several bombs around the city, Spider-Man learned that Storm, Wolverine, Gambit, and Cyclops were kidnapped by a villain called Arcade. Spider-Man began tracking down his friends while the X-Men actively freed themselves. They meet up in a large room where they work together to bring down the villain (how its supposed to be). In reality, Spider-Man was used to defeat the villain while the X-Men stand to the side helping on occasion.


Connections: As mentioned above, one of the characters in the game was Wolverine or James "Logan" Howlett. https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Wolverine

He was a mutant with the ability to heal himself quickly. This meant that he had been around for a while, but that past was shrouded in darkness. The farthest back he could remember was escaping from Weapon X (which was where he was embedded with adamantium). After leaving Weapon X, he had many adventures including taking part in a Death Battle against Raiden.


3. Death Battle Wolverine vs Raiden
Summary: Death Battle originated on the website ScrewAttack which was created by Craig Skistimas and Thomas Hanley. Later, Death Battle and the ScrewAttack website became property of Rooster Teeth and Let's Play. The hosts of Death Battle were Ben B. Singer and Chad James. For each Death Battle- the hosts chose two fictional characters and had them fight to the death. In this episode they chose X-Men's Wolverine and Metal Gear Solid's Raiden. It seemed to me that the two were chosen to fight against each other because of similar backgrounds. Both men lost one father and gained another. And both men were abducted by secret organizations and experimented on from which Wolverine received an adamantium exoskeleton and Raiden was turned into a cyborg.
https://deathbattle.fandom.com/wiki/DEATH_BATTLE!_Wiki
https://deathbattle.fandom.com/wiki/Wolverine_VS_Raiden

Connections: Because Raiden was the only other character portrayed in this episode of Death Battle, he now becomes the next connection in my chain. What do we know about Raiden... Well his real name maybe Jack and he was adopted by Solidus Snake. He was trained to fight under Snake, joined a unit called the Small Boy Unit, and became a killing machine. Later, Jack came to be with the Patriots who turned him into a cyborg. Being a contender on Death Battle was only a side story for him. He could also be found in Metal Gear Solid 4.




4. Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots
Summary: This game was written by Hideo Kojima, developed by Kojima Productions, and published by Konami. It's chaos in this world. Private militaries were used to enforce the peace and handle any terrorist. Five of the largest private militaries were owned by Liquid Ocelot. These private militaries were embedded with nanomachines that not only enhanced their abilities but connected them to the Sons of Patriots network. Liquid Ocelot was aiming to take that system over and Solid Snake was sent to kill him.
https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid_4:_Guns_of_the_Patriots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid_4:_Guns_of_the_Patriots








Connections: At the beginning of the game, there were 4 different television channels that can be accessed: 15,16, 23, and 42. These channels play specific programs like a cooking show and an interview with David Hayder.

w.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2014/02/28/the-story-behind-metal-gear-solid-4-39-s-bizarre-intro.aspx
https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid_4_secrets
There was something more to those four numbers than just numbers of a TV channel. Those 4 numbers were a fraction of the numbers from Lost. (Excuse me for changing tenses here)

https://lostpedia.fandom.com/wiki/The_Numbers
The numbers existing in MGS and in Lost indicate that they were alternate realities of each other. If so and the numbers were broadcasting then whom was the candidate for the island. Probably Solidus. It wouldn't matter if Snake only had a year to live as the island can change the reality within its boundaries. While the numbers aren't seen in the episode Lost LAX 1 & 2. but it was hinted at when Sawyer speaks to Hurley about his lotto ticket.

 5. Lost: LAX 1 & 2 
Summary: This series was created by Jeffrey Lieber, JJ Abrams, and Damon Lindelof. It was produced by Bad Robot, Touchstone and ABC Studios. During this episode, a lot of things happened. First, the Man in Black was confronted by some of the islanders inside the statue, but disappeared. Then, the Monster appeared and killed a few of the islanders. After the battle, the Man in Black reappeared confirming that he was really the Monster. When questioned about what he was- he basically told them islanders that they wouldn't understand and that he just wanted to go home. He left the statue with the islander and spoke to Richard as he wanted, saying he was glad that Richard wasn't in chains any more. Meanwhile Kate and some of the others (Jack, Sawyer, Miles) returned from 1977 to 2007. Quite a few of them were injured, especially Sayid. Hurley stated that they could save him if they take him to Jacob at the Temple. They took him to the Temple and submerged him into the water, but he died, at first, and then woke up. Somehow they flash sideways, showing how Oceanic 815 would've gone if it didn't crash.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(TV_series)
https://lostpedia.fandom.com/wiki/LA_X,_Parts_1_%26_2

Connections: One fictional product existed in Lost universe that also existed in other universes. This product was Morley cigarettes. In this episode of Lost, an advertise for Morley cigarettes when Rose flipped over the magazine she had been reading- it displayed an ad for Morley's with the phrase 'the truth is out there.' In the Criminal Minds episode North Mammon, DNA was found on a Morley cigarette butt.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morley_(cigarette)






6. Criminal Minds: North Mammon.
Summary: This series was produced by Mark Gordon and Jeff Davis. It was distributed by CBS Television, Buena Vista Television, Disney ABC, and Disney Media. The story followed the FBI's premier group of criminal profilers who work at the Behavior Analysis Unit (BAU). In this episode, three teenage girl were kidnapped on the night of a pep rally and the BAU traveled to Pennsylvania in order to find them. Once there, the team realized that they have to profile the entire town. Meanwhile, the girls were put in a difficult position by their kidnapper- two of the girls could go free if the third was killed by them.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0872735/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Minds



Connections: One of the members of the BAU team was a man named Dr. Spencer Reid, a genius who held PhD's in mathematics, chemistry, and engineering. He also had multiple BA's in Psychology, Sociology, and Philosophy. And he was also the youngest profiler to work with the BAU.


https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Spencer_Reid
https://thegameofnerds.com/2017/12/31/why-dr-spencer-reid-is/
In a TV series call The Following episode "The Poet's Fire" we find that the second youngest profiler was a man named Mike Weston. Unlike Spencer, he didn't seem to be a genius though he was described as being tech savvy and it was stated he studied political science.
https://thefollowing.fandom.com/wiki/Mike_Weston
https://www.adagio.com/signature_blend/blend.html?blend=47191






B. The Following: Poet's Fire
Summary: This episode was created by Kevin Williamson, produced by Kevin Williamson and Marcos Siega, and distributed by Outerbanks Entertainment and Warner Bros Television. Ryan Hardy and his team were hunting notorious serial killer Joe Carroll. It was soon discovered that Carroll gathered around a group of acolytes.And some of them have even kidnapped his son, Joey. By the time of this story, five of the acolytes have been captured and a sixth one just made himself known. This new acolyte wore a Edgar Allan Poe mask and set a man on fire. They found out later that the man who died was a critic of  Carroll's. Meanwhile, the Joey's kidnapper were beginning to argue among themselves.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2386714/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Following

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Team Fortress 2 ---> The Play that Goes Wrong

A. Team Fortress 2

Summary: This game was a multiplayer first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve. this tory/game took place mid 1950s and centered around two feuding brothers who hired mercenaries to destroy their each others companies while protecting their own. These mercenary groups, for the purposes of the game, were named after the respective companies that employed their services: Reliable Excavation & Demolition or RED and Builders League United or Blu. Each group of mercenaries was made up one of nine classes: Scout, Soldier, Pyro, Demoman, Heavy, Engineer, Medic, Spy, and Sniper.

https://www.teamfortress.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Fortress_2

Connections: I chose this game because of Scout.

Whenever Scout drank a can of crit a cola his speed was set 167% of the base speed- that was of course as long as his speed stat wasn't already max out.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/440/discussions/0/523898291490594406/

https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Crit-a-Cola

Craft recipes for game items were made up of things that wouldn't normally make up a drink, such as a token, scrap metal, or radiation but they can hint at what the drink really contained. First, most liquid have a base of water. And second, it had to do with metal and radiation. That led me to think of deuterium. Deuterium was a stable isotope of hydrogen that can be used in nuclear reactors in the form of heavy water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water

With that in mind, I was thinking that somehow the Team Fortress 2 universe accidentally discovered the speed formula that gave Jay Garrick powers and tested it on Scout. Now, who was Garrick- he was the first iteration of the speedster hero known as the Flash.

1. The Flash #1
Summary: This comic was created by Gardner Fox and Harry Lampert for DC Comics. In this story, Jay Garrick was at University running an experiment in regards to hard water. When the beakers containing hard water fall, Garrick was effected by the gas emanating from the containers. This gas effected Jay by giving him the ability to run at or near the speed of light. Being able fast allowed Jay to save his girlfriend Joan from almost getting hit by a car and rescuing her father when he was abducted by the 'faultless four.'
 



Connections: As was clearly seen in the above pictures of Jay Garrick, he wore a pair of blue pants sometime s with a lightning bolt on them and a red top of lightening bolt on the chest. The most iconic portion of his outfit was the helmet with the lightning bolts on the side. Why was this important? Because in the movie Batman Returns, at the masquerade, we see someone dressed up as the Flash. This means that the speedster superhero was the speedster superhero most well known in that universe.

https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/13/flash-may-made-big-screen-debut-26-years-ago-batman-returns-7833840/

2.Batman Returns
Summary: This 1992 file was directed by Tim Burton and distributed by Warners Bros. Oswald Cobblepot aka Penguin returned to Gotham in order to be avenged for being abandoned. First thing he did was to grab crooked businessman  and blackmail him Max Shreck into helping. I'm sure Shreck was okay with this as it would give him cover with his own nefarious plan. This didn't help Selina Kyle, Shreck's secretary because when she found out and confronted Shreck, she was pushed out of a window. Selina survived the fall and vowed revenged dressing up in a catsuit and calling herself Catwoman. In the meantime, Oswald introduced himself to Gotham by rescuing the mayor's baby. Bruce Wayne/Batman was suspicious of both men  After some investigation (finding out about the Red Triangle Gang) and speaking with Selina Kyle/Catwoman- he realized that his suspicions were correct. Batman/Bruce Wayne and Catwoman/Selina Kyle team up against the Penguin and Shreck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Returns#/media/File:Batman_returns_poster2.jpg




Connections: We all know that Batman defended the Gotham City. Gotham City didn't just exist in the Batman Universe.







Either the same city or an alternate version of Gotham can be seen throughout the multiverse. An example of the this can be seen in an episode of Sabrina The Teenage Wtich called "No Place Like Home." In the story, Hilda and Zelda were turned into penguins. Hilda then asked Zelda if she wanted to wreak havoc in Gotham. https://sabrinatheteenagewitch.fandom.com/wiki/No_Place_Like_Home

3. Sabrina The Teenage Witch: No Place Like Home
Summary: This show was created by Nell Scovell, produced by Paula Hart, and distributed by CBS Television. It starred Melissa Joan Hart as Sabrina Spellman who was a teenage girl that discovered she was a witch. In this particular episode turned 18 years old and her father invited her to live with him in Paris.At first, Sabrina said no because at home have been going well for her: Libby went to boarding school, Valerie planned to stay with her, and Mr. Kraft wasn't going to be the vice-principal. Sabrina's luck seemed to change. It turned out Valeria wasn't going to stay with her and that Mr. Kraft was going to the principal instead. To top it off, a friend of Harvey's just didn't like her. All of this caused Sabrina to move in with her father in Paris. It took Salem starting a war with Pluto to bring Sabrina home.


Connections: The Sabrina in the television series lived in a city called Westbridge.

Another version of Sabrina lived in a town called Greendale and she would chum around with teens from other towns. One prime example of this was found in the comic Archie Happy 300.

4. Archie # 300 Party of the First IV
Summary: This comic was drawn by Dan DeCarlo and written by Frank Doyle. I don't know much about this story, save for the little bit I have read online, but I will explain what I've put together. It's a special day for Archie but it seems that all his friends have forgotten about it and were acting weird. Archie went home and found a note telling him to go to the gym at 8pm. Upon arriving at the gym, he discovered that his friends hadn't forgotten about this special day rather they were planning a celebration in his honor.
https://archiecomics.fandom.com/wiki/Archie_Vol_1_300

Connections: Some of the celebrants at Archie's party include: Alex McCoy, Melody Valentine, Alan Mayberry, Alexander Cabot III, Alexandra Cabot, and Valerie Brown. https://www.comics.org/issue/105881/#697400 This group of people were not only Archie's friend, but members of the band Josie and the Pussycats. Josie and the Pussycats were famous in their own rights and could be found in a cartoon called Josie and the Pussycats.


5. Josie and the Pussycats



Summary: This series was created by Dan DeCarlo and Richard Goldwater. It was produced by Hanna Barbera Productions. Josie McCoy was the main character of the show and she had a dream. She wanted to be a world famous rock star. To reach her dream, she got a band together consisting of her, Melody Valentine, and Valerie Brown and with them won the Rockland County's Battle of the Bands. Now they travel the world playing gigs and having exciting adventures.

Connections: As I said in a previous post, two members of the band were Alexandra and Alexander Cabot III. They don't play instruments or sing but they do manage band activities or at least Alexander does. The two were twins and rich, a bit flamboyant, and temperamental (Alexandria more so than Alexander).https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/JosieAndThePussyCats




And now here's where I have to make some assumptions. I think that these two characters were related to John Cabot from Eight Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Vampires Mark. John Cabot, I think exemplifies some of the darker characteristics of the twins. They were all shifty and scheming. John Cabot had an knowledge of vampire lore and Alexandra demonstrated witchcraft on occasion.



6. Eight Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Vampires Mark
Summary: It was written by Bill Crider and published by Crossroad Press. The main characters in the story I am looking at were Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, and Bram Stoker went to 221B Baker Street to request Sherlock's help in a case having to do with a possible vampire mark on a little boy. This was believed because the people in the household were from Transylvania and steeped in the old legends. But the person behind the crime new this staged and preyed upon their beliefs. Sherlock deftly uncovered the truth and the criminal exposed.













Connections: To move from this point, I am using Dr. John Watson.  



He trained as a doctor and served in a war, but when his health turned for the worse- John retired. When he went looking for a flat to share, he met Sherlock and found they clicked. It took some time, but Watson eventually discovered that Sherlock was a consulting detective and thought it might  be a good idea to document his work. Not that I'm saying Watson was in anyway dumb as he was a doctor, but when compared to Sherlock- Watson seemed a bit obtuse. And it's because of this I believe that Trevor Watson from The Play That Goes Wrong may be related to John Watson. Trevor Watson like John was a serious person who did his job well. And sometimes Trevor will miss a cue just like sometimes John would miss clues. Trevor fixed the set like Dr. Watson would heal a patient. If I haven't said enough to convince you- I don't know what else well.

B. The Play That Went Wrong
Summary: Mischief Theatre was a British Theatre Company that specialized in comedy. The artistic directors of the troupe were three men by the names of Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields. In The Play That Went Wrong, Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society set about putting on a play called The Murder at Haversham Manor written by Susie HK Brideswell. Unfortunately for them, things start going wrong even before the curtain rises. From then on, actors forget their lines, miss cues, and were even knocked out. The plays ending really brought the house down.
https://theplaythatgoeswrong.fandom.com/wiki/Goes_Wrong_Extended_Universe_Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischief_Theatre
https://mischiefcomedy.com/

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Six Degrees Around Lumpy Rugs

May 3 was the National Lumpy Rug Day and according to the National Day website there are two ways to celebrate this day. The first way is by appreciating our rugs. We can do this by keeping them clean and smooth. Or we could use the rugs to cover our secrets and dirt. However we celebrate this day- it's really up to the individual.


https://nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-lumpy-rug-day-may-3/



Lumpy Rugs

1. Old Money
Summary: This book was written by David Walks As Bear and published by Whiskey Creek Press.Whiskey Press was a part of the publishing company called Simon and Schuster. Tribal Officer Ely Stone searched for clues leading to a lost Mark Twain Manuscript that may contain a map to treasure. From Michigan to Hawaiian waters, Stone traveled to chasing mystery and to right the wrongs of the past.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Old-Money/David-Walks-As-Bear/9781611603484
https://www.amazon.com/Old-Money-David-Walks-As-Bear/dp/141168172X



Commentary:  In this story a character named Stan Stevens killed an intruder he found in his hotel room. Stevens had to dispose of the body and so...pulled out a rug.

2. Assassin's Creed Origins
Summary: This was a video game produced by Martin Schelling and published Ubisoft. If you ever wanted to know the Origins of the Assassin organization- this was it. The first assassin was a Medjay named Bayek. In 49 BC- Bayek and his son Khemu were abducted by some mysterious men in order to open a secret vault. After the vault was opened, there was a struggle and in the confusion- Bayek killed Khemu. Of course, Bayek blamed the mysterious men for his sons death and vowed to track them down. And a year later, that was what Bayek did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed_Origins#Plot

https://www.ubisoft.com/en-gb/game/assassins-creed-origins/







Commentary: At some point in the game, Cleopatra would like to speak with Julius Caesar, but she had to get past Ptolemy's guards. Bayek and his wife Aya assisted her by carrying her in a rolled up rug, sneaking by the guards.

3. The Punisher
Summary: This film was directed by Jonathan Hensleigh and distributed by Lionsgate Films. Frank Castle's family was murdered by Howard Saint in retaliation for the death of his son Bobby Saint. Howard Saint believed Frank was dead, but he survived being nursed back to health by a local fisherman. When Frank had recovered he found out that the FBI and police weren't going to go after Howard Saint because of his connections. Castle was upset and with the help of Mickey Duka (a disgruntled minion of Saints), he decided to go after Saint himself. And he does. He got his revenge with the intention of killing himself, not want to live without his family. Instead, he continued fighting crime as the vigilante known as the Punisher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Punisher_(2004_film)

Commentary:  In this movie, Howard Saint wasn't afraid of killing anyone. He killed the guy he suspected of sleeping with his wife and wrapped him in a rug

4. Xena: Warrior Princess
Summary:  This tv series was produced by Robert Tapert and Sam Raimi and distributed by NBCUniversal Television Distribution. Lucy Lawless starred as the heroine of the series. In season five, episode 18- Rome was on the brink of war. Antony and Brutus fought over power. And a snake killed Cleopatra while she was bathing. Before she died, she sent a note to Xena and Gabrielle asking for help . Xena and Gabrielle hopped on the next boat and set out for Egypt.

https://hercules-xena.fandom.com/wiki/Antony_%26_Cleopatra











Commentary: When Xena arrived in Egypt she made contact with Marc Antony. She dressed up as Cleopatra, wrapped herself in a rug, and had it sent to Antony.

5. Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan
Summary:  This series was written by Hirohiko Araki and published by Shueisha. Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan was a series of one -shots featuring Kishibe Rohan from the Jojo series. Episode 2: Mutsu-Kabe Hill. Rohan met with his editor trying to get an advance on his one-shot based on a yokai legend. The story that he heard was about a girl Naoko Osato and her lover Gunpei. One day, Naoko and Gunpei met. Naoko broke up with the boy as she was about to marry someone else. Gunpei was upset and tried to intimidate her, but during the fight- he fell down and broke his crown. He began to bleed and wouldn't stop. The girl started drinking the blood and kept doing so.




https://jojo.fandom.com/wiki/Thus_Spoke_Kishibe_Rohan_-_Episode_2:_Mutsu-kabe_Hill#Summary




Commentary:  In order to keep drinking the blood, Naoko wrapped Gunpei's body in a rug and hid it on top of an armoire.


6. The Exasperating Cadaver
Summary: Author Jack Vance wrote science fiction stories set in the future with a dying earth setting.
https://www.jackvance.com/jackvance/bio/. It spawned an RPG called the Dying Earth RPG. One of the stories set in the Dying Earth RPG was a story called In the Footstep of Fools written by Ian Thomson. The Exasperating Cadaver was the 6th episode in that series. It used to be found on the Dying Earth website but now is found here: https://site.pelgranepress.com/index.php/through-violet-cusps/.  The story took place in Kaiin. In the beginning, the player character was set upon by brigands who took everything. I'm assuming this forced the character into a position where they would have to deliver packages all across the city.



Commentary: I chose this because one of the packages the player character had to deliver was a body wrapped in a rug.

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The Amazing Spider-Man/Guardians of the Galaxy---->The Testaments

A. The Amazing Spider-Man/Guardians of the Galaxy
Summary: Brian Michael Bendis, Nick Spencer, Mike O'Sullivan, and
Gerry Duggan wrote this comic book. Rod Reis, Marcus To, Aaron Kuder, Mike Hawthorne, Frazer Irving, Roland Boschi, Valerio Schiti, Greg Smallwood, and Ryan Ottley illustrated the story. Unfortunately, the two stories were unconnected and for the purpose of this blog- I'm only going to discuss the Guardians of the Galaxy story. Now, it wasn't as much a story as it was filler. Most of the exposition covered, more than likely, events that happened off panel which lead up to the "Infinity Watch" storyline.
https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/4588630/free-comic-book-day-2018-amazing-spider-man-guardians-of-the-galaxy-1
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/infinity-watch-guardians-galaxy-spider-man-fcbd-comic/






Connections: One of the reasons I went with the Guardians of the Galaxy half of the comic book was because of the mentions of the nega-bands. The Supremor of the Kree created these artifacts to use the wielders psychic powers as well as harnessing the forces of the Negative Zone. More information about them can be found here- if you want to know.  https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Nega-Bands 



The Supremor of the Kree created these artifacts to use the wielders psychic powers as well as harnessing the forces of the Negative Zone. What was the negative zone?

Apparently, it's another universe with characteristics distinguishing if from ours. First, it's composed of anti-matter so anyone that jumps universe had to switch polarity or die. Second, it's a mature universe that was contracting. Third, time passes faster. And lastly, much of the Negative Zone was uninhabited. Now, I'll stop beating around the bush- the reason I bring this up because I believe the Negative Zone and Negaverse from Darkwing Duck were the same. I do have reasons why I believe this to be true. First according to the wiki about the Negaverse, it had "a destructive atmosphere that is almost impossible to counter." Though, by that it could mean that it's only inhabited by really bad people, but that may not be the only meaning. It didn't get into the science, but it did make the point of telling us that everything the Negaverse was the reverse or anti- of the regular universe.
https://the-disney-afternoon.fandom.com/wiki/Negaduck
https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Negaverse
https://darkwingduck.fandom.com/wiki/Negaverse



















1. Darkwing Duck
Summary: This cartoon was created by Tad Stones and produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. Jim Cummings, Christine Cavanaugh , and Terry McGovern voiced the characters Drake Mallard/Darkwing Duck, Gosalyn Mallard, and Launchpad McQuack. This story took place in alternate universe where animals lived as humans. Drake Mallard was a regular, unassuming duck who lived a regular, unassuming suburban life. The only difference was that on his downtime, Drake Mallard worked as Darkwing Duck, a masked crime-fighter. Assisting him in his fight were Gosalyn and Launchpad, his adopted daughter and his friend.
Connections:  When Drake Mallard was alerted to a crime, he went to his secret lair. Now, in order to get into his secret lair he had to set in a chair and touch a statue.  


The Great Mouse Detective. The statue he touched was in the image of Basil the great mouse detective. A movie of, at least, one of Basil's escapades exist in a movie called

2. The Great Mouse Detective
Summary: Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson, Dave Michener, and John Musker directed this movie. It was released by Disney Pictures. The year was 1897 and a young mouse named Olivia wandered around London searching for Basil, the great mouse detective, to help find her father. Olivia was lost until she met Dr. David Q Dawson who then escorted her to Basil. After hearing Olivia's story, Basil agreed to help her. Basil, David, and Olivia head off battling villains to rescue Olivia's father.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Mouse_Detective










Connections: Basil was a mouse detective who lived in London in the late 1800s and early 1900s. He was smart and had a knack for the sciences. He also picked up his habits from his neighbor. The mouse dressed the same way as his famous neighbor as well as being able to play a violin. Who was his famous neighbor? Sherlock Holmes of course!

Sherlock Holmes was a human detective who had above excellent observation skills. He also had a very broad base of knowledge in the sciences from chemistry to mindfulness.
https://www.nature.com/articles/549332a  Holmes was also a master of disguise and a decent fighter. The master detective had appeared in many different types of media from books to poems. Apparently, the case that Basil was working on was either concurrent to or overlapping with a case of Sherlock's called The Sign of Four.

3. Sign of Four
Summary: This story was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Lippincot's Monthly Magazine. In 1888, a young lady Mary Morstan went to 221B street to meet with Sherlock Holmes and his assistant John Watson. Her father disappeared ten years earlier and then 6 years ago she started receiving a pearl a year. And with the last pearl she also received a letter asking for a meet. Mary asked Sherlock to help her with this meeting. Sherlock, Mary, and John met with Thaddeus Sholto, a late friend of Mary's father and from there they begin to uncover a plot dating back to the Indian Revolt of 1857.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sign_of_the_Four

Connections: As I said above, Mary Morstan was a client of Sherlock Holmes.




 She was described as a small dainty blonde. Her mother died at a young age and her father sent her to England to be educated. With her father disappearing in 1878 and had no other family, she raised herself with the help of her teachers. In the future, she married John Watson after falling in love with him during the Sign of Four adventure. Still this isn't the only place that Mary Morstan popped in other media. One of these was a pastiche called The Adventure of Dedstone Mill.





4. The Adventure of Dedstone Mill
Summary: This story was written by Denis O Smith and was found in the anthology called The Mammoth Book of the Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock invited himself to dinner at John and Mary Watsons' home in order to invite them to go with on a trip. A little girl named Harriet Borrow wrote to Holmes asking for help as she was in fear of danger to her and her brother's life. The two siblings were left in the care of their uncle but there were strange things afoot.


https://books.google.com/books?id=GbLABAAAQBAJ&dq=the+adventure+of+%22dedstone+mill%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s
http://www.internationalschooldrama.com/smith.html








Connections: In the story, there was a small mention of the vicar of Hembleby. He was a man by the name of Daniel Blanchard. As many of the Sherlock Holmes stories take place in the late 1800s to early 1900s- I would assume that this man would live during this time frame. In the early 1900s, there was an airship captain by the  name of Anne Blanchard. Don't know much about her, just that she was a rum runner during prohibition.

5. Rum Row #1
Summary: This comic was written by Andrew Maxwell and Michele Bandini. It was set during the 1920s during the Prohibition Era. As such, the main character, Anne Blanchard was a rum runner. Anne captained an airship called 'The Duchess' and operated it as a speakeasy. Her job isn't easy as the NYPD had their own airships and they're coming after her.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/382592035/rum-row
https://comicspectrumcrowdsourcing.wordpress.com/2014/09/09/rum-row-by-andrew-maxwell/











Connections: Anne Blanchard flew her airship through an expanse that covered parts of New York and Canada called the Rum Row but just outside of the maritime limit of either place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_row.  I found a song describing one of the boats that Rum Row and this song was called the Nellie J Banks.

6. The Nellie J. Banks
Summary:  This song was written by a man named Lennie Gallant. You can find out more about him at the following website. https://lenniegallant.com/ It described a trip of the Nellie J Banks going from St Pierre to Prince Edward Island. The ship was captained by a man named Lillington who edged the boundaries of Rum Row carrying his cargo of rum.
Connections: The ship The Nellie J Banks was a two-masted schooner originally used for fishing, up until 1926. After 1926 it was bought by two men and used for rum running.

 It can also be found in other media namely a book called The Testaments. Instead of running rum, it acted as an escape route for women escaping from the totalitarian/theocratic government that ruled the USA.
https://the-handmaids-tale.fandom.com/wiki/XXIV_The_%27%27Nellie_J._Banks%27%27

B. The Testaments
Summary: This story was written by acclaimed writer Margaret Atwood. It took place 15 years after the events from The Handmaid's Tale and followed the perspectives of three women: Aunt Lydia, Agnes Jemima, and Nicole. Each woman played a part in a revolution against the Gilead government as it broke down. Lydia was a mole, Nicole was a spy, and Agnes was more the every person. Throughout the story, she was the one who saw the lies break down to reveal the truth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Testaments
https://time.com/5673535/the-testaments-plot-questions-margaret-atwood/

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