Green Ring Art Conte$t

Finally there is a new contest at the Whit's End website. You get to design your own Odyssey dollar. You simply need to go to www.whitsend.org and print a copy of a odyssey dollar and design it however you want. The best part of the whole thing is the prize. The prize is a signed copy of the yet to be released album 54! I do believe that this one is worth entering!

"The Green Ring Conspiracy" Review - Parts 4,5,6 and 7

 I know that these are long over due but here they finally are anyway. And I am not sure if the next episodes will come any sooner than the previous four since I am starting to wrap up the school year.

We heard Monty's voice for the first time since he was a kid and appeared in album 7. I was curious, wondering what his voice would sound like. I didn't know if the would be able to get Chad Reisser to act for them after all these years, but they did and I love it. You can listen to a podcast interview with Chad Reisser here.
 
  Katrina is back for the first time since album 49 in 2007. It was good to hear from her again. I think she is a very important part in Odyssey. She is interviewing Buck for the job at Whit's End and she is starting to get suspicious when Buck is unclear about his past. She meets Mr Skint Bucks guardian behind the hall of mirrors at the carnival. And she gets even more suspicious.

   

  Detective Polehaus is starting to believe Monty and Mr.Whittaker and almost Wally Haggler more than he does Agent Tanner although he is careful not to trust anyone completely. But he does find it especially suspicious that Agent Tanner came to Odyssey impossibly fast and also without any backup.

  When Monty and Whit went to the dock at Trickle Lake where Monty met Mr. Skint the find a backpack and inside the backpack there is a CD with hearts drawn all over it. They met up with Detective Polehaus at the dock and the three of them went to Whit's house to find out what is on the disk. They find that it is a poster for the carnival which lets them know that Mr.Skint (or the mystery man as they call him) has something to do with the carnival. It also leads them to Penny Wise who drew the poster.
 
  Penny and Wooton drawn together by each of their eccentric personalities become fast friends while it leaves Connie watching on the sidelines. Personally I would really like for Wooton to remain single he is just not the kind of character who would do good being married and I think the writers will see that. But I especially wouldn't want him to marry someone who is vague about her Christianity and just might be in on the counterfeiting ring. Nor do I specifically care for her all around personality.

  Matthew has taken the phone that he and Nelson found from Hagglers junk yard to Whits end and Eugene is helping him find the password so he can return it to it's rightful owner. But he still doesn't know that that is the phone that Whit, Monty and Detective Polehaus would love to get their hands on because it has information that could be useful.
  Emily and Buck are looking for the same phone and Jay accidentally gives it away that Matthew has it. And as Jay says you shouldn't trust Buck. And why not? Because he is not to be trusted.

  Monty is again missing. And Whit finally starts to turn all of the ongoing problems to God where they rightfully belong.

Album Art

Two album covers were released a while ago. The cover to the Blackgaard chronicles and album 54. The cover to the Blackgaard chronicles is very detailed and is of the same quality as the cover art for album 53. When you look closely you can even see that the chess pieces are either characters or things that played an important part in the Blackgaard saga. While the art for album 54 isn't quite as good but it does look better now that it's finished.

 

Album 54



"The Green Ring Conspiracy Part 3" Review

 

  We finally got to hear more about Connie's classes and we meet Penny Wise and Dr. Trask. Penny's name apparently from something else that I don't know about, and she is a slightly odd. I am surprised that Connie actually likes her. It seems as though she might get frustrated with her like she did with Lindsay in "The Best of Enemies."
  Penny was very vague about her Christian kind of praying. Which sounds suspicious. And Dr. Trask has a very strange soft and kind of creepy voice and my first impression of him was that he seemed like a person who might turn on them later. (I am not saying I was right or wrong)
  There were many objects in the backpack aside from the counterfeit money there was a book, "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens, a flight plan and a revised one, A map of Odyssey with trickle lake circled and a sheet of paper with hand written numbers. Is it a coincidence that Buck's last name is Oliver and the book in the backpack was Oliver Twist? I still don't know; I am not sure if I missed it or if they never mentioned it again.
  Buck responded to the job opening at Whit's End in search for Dirk Beggs phone and meets Emily, I won't say much about that except that I thought detective Emily would be smarter than that.
  Agent Tanner is also introduced. I don't like the performance of her actress so far or her personality.
  A Rabbit with fangs? That's bad. A 20-30 something year old should know that rabbits don't have fangs. And then she does an amazing job on a replication the Monet Lisa.
 Okay, I don't really have much to say since these episodes don't have a full plot with a conclusion.

 

When I got onto the computer this morning I saw this:

"How so many clowns fit into a circus car - An insider reveals the secrets behind being able to stuff in 21 zany performers."

That sounds exactly like "Like Father Like Wooton." Doesn't it?

Album 54 cover

            It would be hard for any of you to have not seen the pictures of the cover art for album 54, but I will share it anyway. I was a bit disappointed after album 53, which had such details in the background and in the characters. In the picture on the left you can see that at the bottom it looks very unfinished. I don't look on the kids faces or the funny looking whit in the background. But because this is just our first look at the cover I have the feeling that there will be more details added later.

And to the right is another picture of album 54 with the non-official border around it. It looks a lot better with the border, I think it will work even though I was expecting something more to the quality of album 53.