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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 scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
A shout out to all in Minnesota who are doing a spectacular job of peacefully pissing off people in power (That came out more Stan Lee than I expected).
More of the Epstein files were released, and I've lost track of what is being released to distract from what because it seems to be a Möbius strip.
In what I think must be a first, Disney+ dropped all the episodes of their Yahya Abdul-Mateen II led "Wonder Man" series. One might suspect lack of confidence in their product in not even giving it a weekly release.
On the plus side, The Muppet Show special airs this week, and I think we all need something like that right now.
A documentary about the current FLOTUS also arrived to be greeted by reviews which were a gift to the sarcastic (My favourite remains "If they showed this as an in-flight movie, the audience would STILL walk out") and lots of photos of empty cinemas, though it did manage to get bums on seats in the US.
The Grammy's happened but, since my musical awareness rarely extends beyond oompah-bands and/or Himalayan throat-singing I don't feel qualified to comment.
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 scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
A shout out to all in Minnesota who are doing a spectacular job of peacefully pissing off people in power (That came out more Stan Lee than I expected).
More of the Epstein files were released, and I've lost track of what is being released to distract from what because it seems to be a Möbius strip.
In what I think must be a first, Disney+ dropped all the episodes of their Yahya Abdul-Mateen II led "Wonder Man" series. One might suspect lack of confidence in their product in not even giving it a weekly release.
On the plus side, The Muppet Show special airs this week, and I think we all need something like that right now.
A documentary about the current FLOTUS also arrived to be greeted by reviews which were a gift to the sarcastic (My favourite remains "If they showed this as an in-flight movie, the audience would STILL walk out") and lots of photos of empty cinemas, though it did manage to get bums on seats in the US.
The Grammy's happened but, since my musical awareness rarely extends beyond oompah-bands and/or Himalayan throat-singing I don't feel qualified to comment.
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Date: 2026-02-03 10:12 am (UTC)(Though at some point they replaced the Art Of Watchmen book with a copy of Watchmen...)
I was able to recover the images on my USB. Or the ones it would have been really annoying to replace anyway.
I've been working on a project to compile interview for Avatar The Last Airbender. Now there's this lost video interview. I would have preferred to find a transcript of it on a forum, but finding a whole minute and a half of it on Tumblr is pretty good considering we had nothing before.
You sure go through a lot of different Internet era's when your trudging through twenty years of interviews.
A while ago I had this conversation with my brother:
"You know Wish the movie made to celebrate their 100th anniversary?"
"Vaguely. Is it about a young artist trying to realize their dream?"
"No it's the origin of the When You Wish Upon A Star star"
"That is part of the Disney iconography, but I think there's a bunch of other stuff which is about as prominent and would make a better plot for a movie"
Anyway the copy he got on Ebay arrived and we watched it.
It was terrible but kind of bizarrely fascinating.
it felt more like a first draft, where the work out the plot before adding the character and themes that would make it a real story.
For example they open with the narrator reading out a book about how the king founded the kingdom and grants people's wishes, and then we get a perfunctory and uninteresting introduction to our main character and her family, then she sings a song about how the king founded the kingdom and grants people's wishes.
It leaves some pretty important details about how the system is meant to work and focuses on stuff which ultimately doesn't matter. It's not like there's some dark secret to the kingdom's founding and they have to set it up. There's a lot of details that don't contribute to the story and it feels empty as a result.
Anyway the main character is a blank cypher, so I'm going to talk about how the evil king is a confusing character. They have him do some nice things which I guess is meant to humanize him, but only after he's done pretty evil things so we can't sympathies with him in anyway.
And his motives are confused he's evil but he also has a bunch semi-legitimate motives like he only grants a few of the wishes because he thinks they could have unintentional consequences that impact society for the worst. Or he's motivated by how his parent's kingdom was destroyed when he was a child and he had to flee? Or is he going to extreme lengths to try and protect his people from something he doesn't understand?
It's also odd how the moment he turns evil happens after he destroys a wish which releases the evil energy that turns him evil, but he also deliberately destroyed that wish to hurt someone so he isn't he already evil?
I thought maybe they'd have a moment when he realizes he's gone too far, and stops and lets the people rule themself. But no he ends up getting turned into the Magic Mirror from Snow White.
Speaking of which is he meant to be Walt Disney? Or the Disney Corporation. You know he founds a magical kingdom based on joy and creativity, bu he's actually commoditization these concepts for his own ends and selling the masses a watered-down version of the thing he promised them.
There's a lot of obvious parallels but it couldn't have been deliberate on their part surely?
So Disney's big 100th anniversary was focus-tested into a bland mess, symbolically about how they should be destroyed and lost 130 million dollars.
Also all the songs are bad.
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Date: 2026-02-03 10:44 am (UTC)Animal Man. Rick Veitch comes on board and bins off Grant Morrison's explanation for Buddy’s powers. Now it’s something to do with mystical Native Americans. Also, whatever the Hell Peter Milligan's run was about.
Avengers West Coast. Tigra's gonna cat. I commissioned an artist friend for some pics inspired by these issues, but now I am without somewhere to host my images, I have no way to share them.
Azrael. I had forgotten just how cheesecakey Barry Kitson's art was on this. Suster Lilhy is supposed to be a nun, or whatever passes for a nun with St. Dumas, but her vestments are *very* form-fitting. Then there is Talia Al Ghul, but baring flesh isn’t anything new for her. She has always had plunging necklines and very leggy dresses.
Detective Comics. I like villain team-ups and I like old horror hams, so of course I liked it when the various Clayfaces joined forces. It’s just a pity that DC seemed to forget about most of the Clayfaces after that. I suppose they became redundant after the original stole their powers.
Batman: Knightquest. I’m not the slightest bit mad that AzBats left Abattoir to die. He came off as a pretentious ass and immediately rubbed me up the wrong way. It’s not like DC would have killed off one of their “good” villains any way.
Booster Gold. It is always a shock to see Booster portrayed as a (semi) competent hero after only being aware of him as a member of the JLI. I had the same reaction when I read the Ted Kord Blue Beetle series.
Cable. It is only the third issue of the ongoing series and the art credits are already all over the place. It wouldn’t be so bad if the issue was more than two guys sitting in a bunker. At least the subplots keep it from being too much of a bore.
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Date: 2026-02-03 11:03 am (UTC)