Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday

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In 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.

The UK Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of "woman" is defined solely by biological sex (Whilst also mentioning the protections are still in palce for trans people), crowed over as vindication by those who you never want to see crowing, and leaving trans people in vague limbo whilst Government bodies look to rework their policies.

Pope Francis died at 88, the day after Easter and the day after meeting US VP Vance... coincidence? A Pope who, more than any before, shifted the boundaries in terms of seeking out the excluded and the marginalised and caused uproar when he said things like "If someone who is gay is seeking God, who am I to judge?" and permitted priests to give a blessing to same-sex couples. Not a perfect man by any means, nor as radical as some had hoped, but in terms of the inertia he was working against, probably more progressive than any would have dared hope for ten years ago.

Star Wars Celebration happened in Japan this past weekend, with many new projects announced

A live colossal squid was caught on camera for the first time and is as beautiful as you'd have hoped

And Doctor Who gave us "Lux", which I won't spoil further but was certainly different, in a good way.

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[scorntx]

I was enjoying that Doctor Who, up until the thirty minute mark.
Then it got self-indulgent. Massively, massively self-indulgent.
Apart from that, though, it was good.


The local has a whole bunch of Avengers back-issues.
Tempted mainly because it'd fill a hole in the collection. It's just they're from Dark Reign, so there's Bendis-speak and Murder-Hawkeye abounding...
And the Hood... brr...

(Looking through their Epic Collections is also frustrating. Some that look intriguing, but their storage methods seem to often leave them with massive dents, like someone tried to fold the damn things in half.)

Decided to give Justice League: Gods and Monsters a watch.
Actually quite interesting. Shame they didn't get to make any more.
(I mean, not absolutely wild about the blood-bath of named characters; always seems like a misstep when you're making a continuing universe.)

Ultimate Wolverine is... hmm.
On the one hand, it is ridiculously oppressively grim-dark.
But on the other, it's actually doing some world-building for what it's like being a Mutant in the setting. (I have long since abandoned any notion Ultimate X-Men will answer anything about anything. If it does so, it will only be by coincidence. ... same with Ultimate Black Panther.)
Though in-between the grim-dark there's also the notion that despite all the alterations to history, apparently everything happened pretty much the same for the X-Men, just that A: They don't call themselves the X-Men, and B: No Storm, Colossus or Cyclops.

Meanwhile, solicits for upcoming Ultimates seem to be promising a Clash of the Kooky Quartet.
And Ultimate Incursion's suggesting a crossover between Ultimates and BP.
And over in Ultimate Black Panther, that spooky priestess who looks and acts totally shifty? She's evil. What a tweeest.

Star Wars Celebrations confirmed that The Ninth Jedi is getting a follow-up and a whole sequel series.
Awesome.

[iamrman]

What Epic Collections, may I ask?

[scorntx]

You certainly may.
One of the Iron Mans - either War Machine or The Return of Tony Stark, I can't recall which, and a Sgt. Fury one that's been knocking around that shop for a while.
Which I'm guessing the big dent probably explains.
Not normally one for war comics (or just any depiction of WW2 stuff in general), but the NUU got me intrigued.
... ... plus, it's that or give into madness and buy the Stan and Jack X-Men one.
(Since there's still no sign of The Gift, or that they'll ever stock it, and just ordering off t'internet takes the thrill of the hunt out of it.)

[iamrman]

I haven't read Sgt. Fury, but I have read the Iron Man Epics you mentioned. Pretty standard 90’s stuff, if I remember correctly.

[scorntx]

I was mostly looking for them for the Rhodey coverage, really.