Off-Topic Tuesday

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It's "Off-Topic Tuesday"!

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 amongst yourselves.

Richard O'Brien set to return to Rocky Horror Show for first time in 20 years to play the Narrator

Was "Force Friday" everything you wanted it to be?

Sam Smith to sing theme song for new Bond film "Spectre"

Or, y'know, non trivial-entertainment-stuff (Work with me here, it's 8am and I'm still trying to work out the whole "being awake" thing!)

Blackcross #5

[laughing_tree]

'Superhero fiction itself started out as the combination of three or four other fictional forms. I don’t think there’s a “pure” form of superhero fiction, and if it’s going to continue, it will need to take on new fuel. I think of Blackcross itself as the reverse – it’s a ghost story using elements of superhero fiction. Just to see if I can get a new sound out of it.' -- Warren Ellis

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The Authority: Brave New World - Part 2

[history79]

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The Tale of Izzy the Smasher

[informationgeek]

Izzy and her wedgie-giving costume all artists like to detail.


If there was one thing I really liked during Jonathan Hickman's Avengers run, it was Issue #5, the introduction to Isbael "Izzy" Dare (later changed to Isabel Kane), the new Smasher. I thought it was a great issue that was filled with character, emotion, drama, no pretentiousness, and more. I walked away from the comic liking the character a lot and was excited to see where Hickman would take her... unfortunately, it didn't go so well.

As such, follow me as we look at everything she got to do and how little she did during this Avengers series.

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NS: The Death of the Superhero Movie?

[starwolf_oakley]

“We were around when the Western died and there will be a time when the superhero movie goes the way of the Western. It doesn’t mean there won’t be another occasion where the Western comes back and the superhero movie someday returns. Of course, right now the superhero movie is alive and thriving. I’m only saying that these cycles have a finite time in popular culture. There will come a day when the mythological stories are supplanted by some other genre that possibly some young filmmaker is just thinking about discovering for all of us.” Steven Spielberg

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Letter 44 #8

[superboyprime]

"President Blades in the book is not Obama, and former President Carroll is not Bush. But I do think this story resonates with people because they can see it from a number of political viewpoints." - Charles Soule

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