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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.
Today marks the Chinese New Year, so Happy New Year of the Fire Horse!
It's also Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Day if you prefer, so enjoy!
Toy Fair 2026 took place in New York, with nostalgia being mined to a level I don't think I've never seen before. Licences getting figures include the 1977 Battlestar Galactica, the original Duck Tales and even the 80's Tigersharks cartoon (Think Thundercats, but more watery).
Credit to Hasbro though, for announcing their 40th Anniversary celebration of The Transformers: The Movie by announcing their apology tour! :)
Sentai's first successor: "Gavan Infinity", a new take on Space Sheriff Gavan has debuted and... he's very shiny, isn't he?
Legendary screen actor Robert Duvall passed at 95 and better known for his TV work actor James Van Der Beek passed at 48, and I overlooked mentioning Catherine O'Hara's passing a couple of weeks back, but she more than earned an honourable mention.
I'd completely missed that there were a couple of trailers out for "Monarch: Legacy of Monsters" Season 2: The first, and the final
Also, as I type this the news is coming in that Jesse Jackson, one of the original Civil Rights champions of the 60's has passed away at the age of 84.
But not to end on a down note, the first kākāpō chick in four years hatched on Valentines Day, the first of hopefully many to arrive this year to help bolster a critically endangered species. (Kākāpō only breed ever 2 to 4 years, and there are only 236 left, so it's a long slog for the poor things)
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.
Today marks the Chinese New Year, so Happy New Year of the Fire Horse!
It's also Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Day if you prefer, so enjoy!
Toy Fair 2026 took place in New York, with nostalgia being mined to a level I don't think I've never seen before. Licences getting figures include the 1977 Battlestar Galactica, the original Duck Tales and even the 80's Tigersharks cartoon (Think Thundercats, but more watery).
Credit to Hasbro though, for announcing their 40th Anniversary celebration of The Transformers: The Movie by announcing their apology tour! :)
Sentai's first successor: "Gavan Infinity", a new take on Space Sheriff Gavan has debuted and... he's very shiny, isn't he?
Legendary screen actor Robert Duvall passed at 95 and better known for his TV work actor James Van Der Beek passed at 48, and I overlooked mentioning Catherine O'Hara's passing a couple of weeks back, but she more than earned an honourable mention.
I'd completely missed that there were a couple of trailers out for "Monarch: Legacy of Monsters" Season 2: The first, and the final
Also, as I type this the news is coming in that Jesse Jackson, one of the original Civil Rights champions of the 60's has passed away at the age of 84.
But not to end on a down note, the first kākāpō chick in four years hatched on Valentines Day, the first of hopefully many to arrive this year to help bolster a critically endangered species. (Kākāpō only breed ever 2 to 4 years, and there are only 236 left, so it's a long slog for the poor things)
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Date: 2026-02-17 10:55 am (UTC)Green Arrow. I very much prefer the Mike Grell version to what came before. The character is no longer preaching about whatever the Very Special Issue's theme is that month. Maybe I let the Dennis O’Neil/Neal Adams version of the character colour my opinion.
Green Lantern by Geoff Johns. Right in the middle of the war with Sinestro and his band of edgelords. Oh, God. I keep forgetting about Superboy Prime. Didn’t he go through a heel-face turn recently? Is there any reason I should care?
Guardians of the Galaxy. Re-reading the Valentino run from the 90’s. I love Tazerface, he is ridiculous. The art is still very 90’s, but I love that nonsense. Yes, even early X-Force.
Hawkeye/Solo Avengers/Avengers Spotlight. The series is actually called Solo Avengers, but Hawkeye gets his name on the Epic Collection. Maybe Marvel didn’t think he could sustain an ongoing series on his own and padded it out with the solo adventures of other Avengers?
Huntress. The Post-Crisis Helene Bertinelli version. I always knew her as an off-again-on-again member of the Bat-family, but had never actually read the series that reintroduced the character. Her appearance in Justice League International encouraged me to check it out.
For those of you who are fellow Big Meaty Men enjoyers, here are my present champions going in to Halloween Havoc, my October PLE in WWE 2K25:
World Heavyweight Champion: Jeff Hardy
Intercontinental Champion: Wade Barrett
World Tag Team Champions: The Dudley Boyz
Raw Women’s Champion: Roxanne Perez
Women’s Intercontinental Champion: Ivy Nile
WWE Champion: Kurt Angle
United States Champion: Aleister Black
WWE Tag Team Champions: The Rock and Mankind
Smackdown Women’s Champion: Chelsea Green
Women’s United States Champion: Wendy Choo
Women’s Tag Team Champions: Bayley and Mercedes Mone
Chelsea Green was the Money in the Bank winner and cashed-in right after Summerslam. Finn Balor is the Men’s Money in the Bank winner, but is yet to cash-in.
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Date: 2026-02-17 11:36 am (UTC)Now I currently work for one of them, though I am technically on the books with the other ones, but I haven't actually worked for them because
I don't want to work at 4AMof scheduling issues.Despite that they um....paid me about $1300 for work I haven't done....(and they specified in the on-boarding material you had to scan a QR code with the app they made you download in order to clock on otherwise they wouldn't pay you. so good work guys....)
On one hand I don't really want to fix this 'problem', but I do really on the jobseeker payment which requires me to report my income, and I think the government will probably notice the extra money I'm getting at some-point and will not take kindly to this sort of thing.
So it's a shame the people at the company haven't responded to any of my emails yet...
To celebrate Saint Valentine's feast day the book store had a 20% off sale.
I got the following:
Top 10 Compendium (I've had an urge to read all of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but that was the first comic by Alan Moore I ever read it kind of feels like I'll be closing the book on him forever, so I'd get his other stuff finished first. Well I'll probably give Lost Girls a miss...)
Hitman Omnibus volume one (You know I haven't actually read any of Garth Ennis' work before other than that one Star Wars comic he did. As I understand it like his brethren Mark Millar he he can write good stuff and edgy garbage. I believe Hitman will have strong characterization and tight plotting but with some bits that have aged badly)
80's Suicide Squad volume one
Catwoman Her Sister's Keeper (this miniseries introduced her sister. In the Ed Brubaker run she would be tortured into insanity by Black Mask, and then years later in Gotham City Siren's she would be turned into a villain by an evil angel which wasn't resolved by the time the New 52 happened)
Blackhawks Blood and Iron: (Some times you see something interesting and so you get it. And I guess I also liked the character's appearance in Sandman Mystery Theater)
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Date: 2026-02-17 03:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-02-17 04:20 pm (UTC)