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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.
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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.
Banksy admitted that a new work in London is indeed his. Not always a fan of his work, but this one "Blinded by the Flag" is pretty nifty, if not exactly subtle.
What I have to assume is the end of Season 1 of "Maul: Shadow Lord" happened, as there's a lot of setup for a Season 2. The mother, father and several uncles and aunts of a sabre duel happened, with six characters involved, which must have been quite the challenge for the animators speciailisng in spinning, flipping and hacking. Yet again, I find myself wishing they would be a little more specific about dates in these spin-offs as I was surprised that one character was apparently having their first meeting with... another significant character (as they had no idea who they were)
Finally caught up with "Project Hail Mary", loved it.
Oh, and a note that parts of the UK have Local and General elections this week so we actively encourage you to exercise your vote and make sure you have your say in civil matters.
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.
Banksy admitted that a new work in London is indeed his. Not always a fan of his work, but this one "Blinded by the Flag" is pretty nifty, if not exactly subtle.
What I have to assume is the end of Season 1 of "Maul: Shadow Lord" happened, as there's a lot of setup for a Season 2. The mother, father and several uncles and aunts of a sabre duel happened, with six characters involved, which must have been quite the challenge for the animators speciailisng in spinning, flipping and hacking. Yet again, I find myself wishing they would be a little more specific about dates in these spin-offs as I was surprised that one character was apparently having their first meeting with... another significant character (as they had no idea who they were)
Finally caught up with "Project Hail Mary", loved it.
Oh, and a note that parts of the UK have Local and General elections this week so we actively encourage you to exercise your vote and make sure you have your say in civil matters.
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Date: 2026-05-05 09:46 am (UTC)Guardians of the Galaxy. Behold the character find of 1990: Taserface! He is ridiculous, I love him!
Solo Avengers. Man, the backup stories really are scraping the barrel. I mean, Doctor Druid?!
Hawkman. Geoff Johns tries to fix the mess that was Hawkman’s continuity. Did it work? I don’t know. What even is Hawkman’s story now any way?
Impulse. The best Young Justice boy. Not that I dislike Robin or Superboy, I just gravitated towards Impulse more. Bart is a good bean.
Infinity, Inc. Roy Thomas insists on referring to the members of the team as “Infinitors”. Sounds like a perfectly cromulent word if you ask me and is very Roy Thomas.
Incredible Hulk. The Hulk’s love Jarella is on Earth. I am sure everything will be fine and nobody will end up getting fridged.
Iron Man. I always thought Tony’s first battle with alcoholism ended a bit too neatly, so I’m not mad when Dennis O’Neil rehashes that old story beat.
Journey into Mystery. Loki discovers that their actions have consequences. Namely, an unwanted litter of Hel-pups. Naturally, Loki gets lumbered with the problem child of the litter.
Man-Thing. A property developer called F.A.Schist? Real subtle! Richard Rory is such a downer. He’s supposed to be Steve Gerber’s self-insert character, right?
New Avengers. I’m not even mad that Squirrel Girl got written out for the Standoff tie-ins. That did mean she ended up missing out on the American Kaiju fight, though. One of the captions said “American Kaiju: America is a giant monster.” Make of that what you will.
Also, the Marvel Masterworks have been put on indefinite hiatus? Bugger. I was counting on those to fill in the gaps of my collection.
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Date: 2026-05-05 10:42 am (UTC)Alright the alien bats making the children supersmart so they can hack reality is a bit silly (both in concept and execution)
Did the Doctor fail to save anyone?: Not in the final episode no, but there was a deleted scene where he took one of the students to see the nurse, and it turned out she was one of the aliens and ate the kid. I can see why they cut that.
Thinking about it, I'm not sure the Doctor actually realising the aliens have been eating the students. Like when he talks with the alien leader and tells them this is their last chance to knock off their plan he doesn't mention them eating the kids and I don't think he'd bother asking them to stop if he'd knew. Huh so I guess he never figured that out.
I suppose if he did know it would make him look pretty bad at the end when he actually does consider the alien bats offer to join forces and rewrite reality. But on the other hand they are still a group of interplanetary conquerors who've wiped out entire species so he does look kind of dumb regardless.
The villain does make some weird looking faces, but that does see fitting for an alien bat whose turned himself into a human.
Hey look we have the alleged titles of season three of the live action Avatar show. Now Book Three of the original does have some structural issues so I've been curious to see how they'd tackle things.
Okay it looks like they'll start off the season with the eclipse and invasion of the Fire Nation, then they'll combine our heroes aimless wanderings from the first and second half of the original into a single stretch of episodes, then do Sozin's Comet. I thought they might do that (assuming the titles are real of cause)
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Date: 2026-05-05 12:20 pm (UTC)Though I could have done without the "I put my private life on hold because of my feelings for you" bit, because Sarah-Jane never struck me as the sort to have that sort of a feeling about the Doctor (Three and Four are amongst the hardest to imagine getting romantic with a human... Four and Romana on the other hand.. What poor Adric probably had to listen to through the walls of the TARDIS)
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Date: 2026-05-05 02:22 pm (UTC)I would so prefer to retire.
Marvel Puzzlequest is doing "creations" theme, with chase character Frankencastle.
Over at my blog, I look at the pentultimate issue of Adventure Comics: https://www.skjam.com/2026/05/05/comic-book-review-adventure-comics-502/
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Date: 2026-05-05 04:26 pm (UTC)Fortunately, it still had the stuff saved elsewhere. But that was a scary twenty minutes.
(I hate spreadsheets.)
In celebration of some movie about fashion coming out, Classic FM At The Movies played the whole theme to The Devil Wears Prada.
Which would mean anything if they didn't play it every week anyway.
But they did also have The Godzilla March. That was awesome.
Out of boredom and / or curiosity, started looking up Bendis' work at DC, which is a bit hard when you've only got the internet and the wiki to go by.
Wild stuff.
Jon Kent gets shoved onto a bus.
Superman discards his secret identity and everyone talks about how this is an amazing, brilliant idea that only a sexy genius could've come up with.
Tim Drake decides to rename himself 'Drake'.
Thorn and / or Rose is apparently an immortal or something?
One of the Manhunters goes nuts, dresses up as a turian and wipes out all the secret agents for some reason?
Lois Lane has a secret brother who is also a spy.
(If I had a quid... that'd be three and a half quid. The half is the Ultimate Parkers, because the idea was already there. But he used it as well.)
The abridged Multiverse 'Saga' Rewatch continues.
Love and Thunder. Weird, less irritating than I thought it was going to be.
Yeah, the humour is overused in some places, but strangely didn't find it so bad. Hmm.
Wakanda Forever. I forgot how long this film is...
Doing the best they probably could with the situation they had.
... I think Louise-Dreyfus does a good job at being a total, despicable piece of work. The problem is she also does it too well.
Val is just so awful and unpleasant it sucks any potential enjoyment out of watching her. And given the type of character she is, there wasn't much of that to begin with.
Quantumania. ... full disclosure, I actually forgot I'd watched this one for a moment.
Which is unfortunate, given that was last night.
Hoo. What a waste. ... especially of William Jackson Harper. Maybe not an actual crime, but probably deserving of some form of ironic if disproportionate punishment.
(Oh? The movie? ... wait, what movie? What were we talking about again?)
Skipping The Marvels. Not a knock on it, btb, just until we get confirmation any of them are in Doomsday beyond him in the credits scene, it's not on the list.
So up next is Captain America: Brave New World. A tense political thriller getting in the way of the bit the trailers spoiled to buggerty.
(I am annoyed that we got a D-Man In Name Only and then they killed him, but not quite as annoyed at how they killed Battlestar as well.)
We're in May, and Lego's already advertising advent calendars.
I like how the Marvel one has DOOM holding an ice cream. Is he eating it? Is he giving it to someone? I prefer the later, just for the hilarity potential.
Like, who would Doom be giving ice cream to?
Also, looking at the upcoming Ninjago sets and... those ice monsters just look so cute.