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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. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake. And remember, there is always hope.
David Tennant opened the BAFTA's (British Academy of Film and Television Awards) in energetic style. Pleased to see that Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, won two major awards!
Saturday Night Live, celebrated 50 years of broadcasting. Which probably means a lot more to Americans than it does to me, who hasn't seen a single episode.
Spoiler photos of Nicholas Galitzine from the new Master of the Universe have leaked. He's certainly for the look/hair/dress sense of a Prince Adam, and might confirm rumours that, in this iteration, Adam grows up on Earth, unaware of Eternia until he gets the Sword. Which, whilst pretty harmless, seems like a bit of chickening out, because it's not like "Eternia as high-fantasy setting with added super-tech", is a particularly complicated setup to explain, given they sold the concept to seven year olds without any actual origin in the original cartoon.
I remain that weird balance of impressed and baffled by the live Action How to Train Your Dragon, now we have a full trailer. It looks perfectly cromulent, with the actors doing a fine job of their roles from what I can see, but if it's just a scene for scene remake of the barely 15 year old CGI movie (Which is already barely even based on the original books) what is the actual point?
Finally got around to watching the end of Umbrella Academy Season 4 and I can see why the ending was viewed as divisive.
The confusingly named "Number 1 Sentai Gozyuger" launched in Japan, (especially confusing because it's the 50th anniversary series, given they started in 1975, but it's the 49th season (since they didn't all last exactly one year), and the 50th Super Sentai Team (since LupinRanger vs PatRanger had two different teams in one series). But don't worry, it's apparently confusing to them too.
Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper are reuniting as the Ninth Doctor and Rose for Big Finish
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. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake. And remember, there is always hope.
David Tennant opened the BAFTA's (British Academy of Film and Television Awards) in energetic style. Pleased to see that Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, won two major awards!
Saturday Night Live, celebrated 50 years of broadcasting. Which probably means a lot more to Americans than it does to me, who hasn't seen a single episode.
Spoiler photos of Nicholas Galitzine from the new Master of the Universe have leaked. He's certainly for the look/hair/dress sense of a Prince Adam, and might confirm rumours that, in this iteration, Adam grows up on Earth, unaware of Eternia until he gets the Sword. Which, whilst pretty harmless, seems like a bit of chickening out, because it's not like "Eternia as high-fantasy setting with added super-tech", is a particularly complicated setup to explain, given they sold the concept to seven year olds without any actual origin in the original cartoon.
I remain that weird balance of impressed and baffled by the live Action How to Train Your Dragon, now we have a full trailer. It looks perfectly cromulent, with the actors doing a fine job of their roles from what I can see, but if it's just a scene for scene remake of the barely 15 year old CGI movie (Which is already barely even based on the original books) what is the actual point?
Finally got around to watching the end of Umbrella Academy Season 4 and I can see why the ending was viewed as divisive.
The confusingly named "Number 1 Sentai Gozyuger" launched in Japan, (especially confusing because it's the 50th anniversary series, given they started in 1975, but it's the 49th season (since they didn't all last exactly one year), and the 50th Super Sentai Team (since LupinRanger vs PatRanger had two different teams in one series). But don't worry, it's apparently confusing to them too.
Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper are reuniting as the Ninth Doctor and Rose for Big Finish
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Date: 2025-02-18 03:56 pm (UTC)And we haven't even got to the review bombing yet.
But apparently it's made its budget back already, so that's... good? I think?
Might try and go see it this week. Hopefully the internet will be too busy being distracted by the world being on fire to spoil the plot.
(and we've still got Thunderbolts yet to go, which looks like... hmm.)
Apparently the second volume of Classic Guardians of the Galaxy's Epic Collection is out this week.
'Apparently' because the local's been... spotty with Epic Collections the last few months.
So we'll see. Or not see.
Rereading some old Astro Cities.
I know Busiek's on record saying none of the characters are directly based on any from the Big Two that could be named but... Vivi Vector has a lot of Doctor Doom in her.
(Speaking of his Doominess, kept getting this horrible thought that Marvel might do some synergysing next year, and we'll get a Secret Wars II... 2!)
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Date: 2025-02-18 05:57 pm (UTC)Thunderbolts* I was more looking forward to before I saw the most recent trailer; it's looking more and more like a Marvel Suicide Squad, right down to the team of people with guns being sent into a shadow-covered area of the city that has been taken over by a super-powered government asset gone rogue. On the other hand, Florence Pugh and David Harbour...
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Date: 2025-02-18 09:47 pm (UTC)'oh Captain America's going to fight the protestors the isn't he?The people who don't blindly accept the'- no he's going to fight the evil government man
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Date: 2025-02-18 11:30 pm (UTC)(That and lots of people being brainwashed. But also being against evil governments.)
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Date: 2025-02-19 07:41 am (UTC)no subject
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