Status Updates From TIC, TAC, MUERE

My plan here is to try and get to all of the possible endings.

My first one was what sounds like the most positive so far! Not going to list the actual pages since I'll be going back and forth throughout.

The book's final ending, for me. It's hard to argue that perfect continuity is maintained throughout, but in most cases you can steelman that argument decently well.

Oh, that Denny!

Interesting, the way this book deals with seeming contradictions by accessing the power of the chronometer and the idiosyncrasies of time travel law.

The Cuckoo Clock of Doom!

My instinct is to say that Denny showing up most places you hunt for him through time is a lack of internal consistency, but I'm not so sure. Dr. Peebles didn't say Denny would be unable to sift from past to future and back again on a whim.

I'm into this. Tick Tock, You're Dead! packs in a lot of pretty exciting story.

Bangarang! This is better than I remember!

Escape from the futuristic classroom...

Will we have better luck persuading the dispatcher to stop the truck from starting on its fateful route?

Pretty good stuff! The action holds natural stakes and I like the wide variety of decision options.

Can we convince the truck driver not to get in his rig and go? This is a fairly engaging story.

Is it feasible to prevent the truck from running over your family? We have to try.

Ha! Double the Dennys! Not bad, Mr. Stine. And your family will never experience your abducting Denny in the future, since that will now never occur.

Yikes! A funny if gruesome first ending. I failed not only to bring Denny back to the present, but to save my family from vehicular death.

The author is right. Why am I reading Goosebumps if not to engage in horror adventure? Here we go, forward or back in time...

Mark Nagata's face illustrations are distinctive. Sneering and angry, they are creepy enough for Goosebumps if not as effective as Tim Jacobus's legendary work.

I know the book won't actually allow it, but my first decision is to not volunteer to travel back in time for Dr. Peebles's experiment. It seems a reckless decision to just go like that.

Cover art by Mark Nagata, his first of many for Give Yourself Goosebumps before handing off the role to Craig White in Shop Till You Drop...Dead!, book twenty-five of the series. I've never given Tick Tock, You're Dead! an in-depth read and review, so...here we go!

i’ve decided to reread all the goosebumps books cause why not