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scans_dailyIn the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than me.
It's the 200th anniversary of the first performance of Beethoven's Choral Symphony No 9, better known perhaps as the "Ode to Joy" which, honestly, the world could use a good dose of .
"Star Wars: The Bad Batch" came to an end, with a finale some saw as being too low key, but which I thought fit the tone of the series, with goals being achieved, even if they weren't the goals one might assume from standard Star Wars protagonists.
May the Fourth saw the release of "Star Wars: Tales of the Empire", two three episode arcs which I confess did little for me. Making three of them about Morgan Elspeth (as most recently seen in Ahsoka (and prior to that, The Mandalorian) did little to make me any more invested in the character, and the other three are about Barriss Offee, a character who was in the Clone Wars cartoon, which it was assumed people had already watched. I confess I had to look her up on Wookiepedia.
We also saw a trailer for LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy which shows that even Star Wars can get in on the "What If...?"/"Mirror Universe"/kinda Multiverse gig, and is perhaps better placed than most to address how thigns can be rebuilt. Also featuring a long held fan theory!
And wave 10 of the McFarlane Batman 66 line of action figurs will include one I've been hoping for and one I never expected to see: The former is Roddy McDowell's Bookworm, and the latter is the fabulously 70's Burt Ward Nightwing as seen in the "Batman 66 meets Wonder Woman 77" comic of a few years ago.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than me.
It's the 200th anniversary of the first performance of Beethoven's Choral Symphony No 9, better known perhaps as the "Ode to Joy" which, honestly, the world could use a good dose of .
"Star Wars: The Bad Batch" came to an end, with a finale some saw as being too low key, but which I thought fit the tone of the series, with goals being achieved, even if they weren't the goals one might assume from standard Star Wars protagonists.
May the Fourth saw the release of "Star Wars: Tales of the Empire", two three episode arcs which I confess did little for me. Making three of them about Morgan Elspeth (as most recently seen in Ahsoka (and prior to that, The Mandalorian) did little to make me any more invested in the character, and the other three are about Barriss Offee, a character who was in the Clone Wars cartoon, which it was assumed people had already watched. I confess I had to look her up on Wookiepedia.
We also saw a trailer for LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy which shows that even Star Wars can get in on the "What If...?"/"Mirror Universe"/kinda Multiverse gig, and is perhaps better placed than most to address how thigns can be rebuilt. Also featuring a long held fan theory!
And wave 10 of the McFarlane Batman 66 line of action figurs will include one I've been hoping for and one I never expected to see: The former is Roddy McDowell's Bookworm, and the latter is the fabulously 70's Burt Ward Nightwing as seen in the "Batman 66 meets Wonder Woman 77" comic of a few years ago.
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Date: 2024-05-07 08:26 am (UTC)I had this great idea for a storyline that was a bit of a subversion of the usual legacy hero deal, but I was never able to quite fit it into the project I had earmarked it for because of timeline issues and it had so many larger implications that it seemed impossible it wouldn't take over the narrative. Now I think it would fit better into this other project I'm doing about a retired hero (retired hero, legacy hero, see how it's all fitting together?) and this could actually give that second story a spine. I imagine it as a webcomic running for 150 pages or so, collect it all in a TPB, maybe keep going after the big finish or maybe call it a day.
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Date: 2024-05-07 09:01 am (UTC)Well that's Andor done. When the credit's started I saw there was another four minutes left, so I stopped because post-credits sequences are the devil's work.
I guess the show was alright, but Mon Mothma's segments were probably more interesting for people who didn't know she'll be fine until season three of Rebels (even without that I do think her plot in the last episode lacked something. Maybe her daughter could have said she hated her or something).
Sometimes media has Johnny Fascist essentially go "The people are resisting [cries a single tear] Our thousand year reign is over." I get not everything can be Wolfenstein The New Order, but if your writing about resistance and the struggle for freedom I feel you should actually put the effort in to it. Now Andor's message seems to be "You should fight against totalitarian regimes, but it won't necessarily work out for you".
Cobra Kai season six has an airdate. It's going to be 15 episodes long and be released in three parts.
Finished reading Sweet Tooth. It had a very conclusive ending, so I have no idea what The Return miniseries could be about.
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Date: 2024-05-07 09:55 am (UTC)Cable Classic Vol. 1. Spider-Man doesn’t have a monopoly on clone shenanigans.
Captain America Epic Collection: Monsters and Men. Zemo doesn’t fall off a thing, 0/10.
Daredevil Epic Collection: Mike Murdock Must Die! Matt gaslights his friends by pretending to be his non-existent twin brother.
Ms. Marvel Epic Collection: The Woman Who Fell To Earth. It’s all downhill for poor Carol Danvers after her solo series gets cancelled.
New Warriors Classic Vol. 1. Something-something teenagers with attitude.
Venom Epic Collection: Symbiosis. Venom: The Early Years.
X-Treme X-Men Vol. 2: Invasion. Alien overlord invades Earth and wants Storm as his bride, because of course he does.
On other news, WWE Backlash was... disappointing. Things started of well with a tag team street fight, but everything else was pretty standard.
Ordered pizza while I watched the wrestling. 12 inch pizza, a side of your choice and a can of drink for less than it costs for pizza on its own from Domino's. Their winhs come in a range of flavours. I usually go for garlic and parmesan.
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Date: 2024-05-07 11:50 am (UTC)(Oh, that's right, there was that Vargas guy first, wasn't there?)
Think he's like, the third villain Claremont named Khan.
After that Iron Fist guy, and Shaka Khan (CRIME LORD OF ALL NEW YORK!)
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Date: 2024-05-07 12:01 pm (UTC)Also, *KHAAAAN*
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Date: 2024-05-07 11:10 am (UTC)So mostly just been binging that.
(with occasional 'help' from family members wandering in and going "this is silly".
And they weren't even there for Doom Patrol GO!)
Bought that Thunderbolts Epic Collection Vol 2: Now with Hawkeye!
(The only problem is that there was a printing error mixing up the order of pages. It's not the biggest deal, but at forty quid a pop you at least expect the pages to be in the right order...)
Tales of the Empire... was okay? For an anthology series of fifteen minute episodes.
We already knew the Inquisitors were pretty dang awful at their jobs, but it's impressive to know they're so bad at it they recruit someone who doesn't want to be cartoonishly evil and convince her to reform on her first day.
Always helps to have a reminder.
This week on The Nostalgia Series:
Oh, hello Val Cooper! Nice of you to pop in and do something bone-shatteringly stupid there.
For a minute I was concerned you wouldn't.
"I didn't join this ominously named government project to hurt people!"
"... what did you join it for, then?"
"Um..."
Having missed FCBD due to having to housesit a neurotic dog (and also the local just being... really bad about FCBD samples in general), apparently the NUU has no Wolverine or Sentry.
On the downside, no Savage Land. (Those poor dinosaurs... and all the other Mesozoic creatures...)
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Date: 2024-05-07 12:06 pm (UTC)I have been getting my scans from the Classics trades.
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Date: 2024-05-07 12:21 pm (UTC)And again, credit to the show for making Bastion's incomprehensible past (He was super-future Sentinel Nimrod, AND modern super-Sentinel Master Mold, after Nimrod had started to rethink his programming and be less of a monstrous genocide-bot, when they got thrown together through a mystic gateway that considered them alive enough to have their pasts rewritten for them and ended up being just as bad, if not worse than either had been before) and turning it into something briefer, but even more disturbing.
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Date: 2024-05-07 01:56 pm (UTC)See, every other character in the show talks like they're in X-Men '97. Word choice, speech patterns/cadence, ect. Bastion doesn't. He sounds like he's from a different, more modern series. Since...he's kind of from the future, it makes sense.
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Date: 2024-05-07 11:46 am (UTC)Might have a cracked molar or a cavity that I'm getting looked at in a bit. :-/
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Date: 2024-05-07 04:13 pm (UTC)Free Comic Book Day was a decent haul, also picked up a local artist's small press graphic novel.
Jetpack locked "stats" for my blog behind a paywall, and it won't let me certify I'm a non-profit.
New chase character for Marvel Puzzlequest seems to be tied to promote X-Men '97--vampire! Jubilee.
Over at the parts of my blog that are still accessible, I look at a recent mecha anime that went all in on the homoeroticism. https://www.skjam.com/2024/05/06/anime-review-bang-brave-bang-bravern/
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Date: 2024-05-07 05:55 pm (UTC)Trying to consider if I'm going to the Dungeons and Daddies live show they just announced for near me. Just checking to see if anybody wants to go with me first.
The Gencon events catalog just came out. This is my second time going and the first time I'll be taking this seriously, as I didn't expect the events to sell out so quickly last time, and also severely underestimated the time zone issue. Three hours is worse than I thought it would be.
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Date: 2024-05-07 08:37 pm (UTC)I just finished up Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE the other day. I liked it a lot! It lacks technical polish in a few areas, I think the first case is probably the weakest of the bunch and I have a question or two about the ending, but I really enjoyed the characters (though I’m conflicted about Desuhiko), the twists were a lot of fun to solve and the setting really excites my imagination, especially after the big ending twists. If you like Danganronpa I think you’ll get a similar kick out of this - and what a coincidence, they literally just announced today it’s going multi platform. I hope it gets a bigger following and I’m looking forward to what Too Kyo does next.