Off-Topic Tuesday! - The Back to work/school edition... yay?

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It's "Off-Topic Tuesday" time!

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.

Was the festive season what you hoped it would be?

Hopes for 2016?

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Section 8 #6: "He's Gotta Be Strong and He's Gotta Be Fast and He's Gotta Be Fresh From the Fight"

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"I think the team maintain their own space by virtue of their sheer lunacy; no regular character’s dignity is going to survive prolonged exposure to them, and no editor would be dumb enough to try to disprove that theory." - Garth Ennis

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Countdown to Final Crisis #45-44

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Head Writer: Paul Dini
Writer for #45: Jimmy Palmoitti & Justin Gray
Writers for #44: Adam Beechman
Artist for #45: Jim Calafiore
Artist for #44: Carlos Magno
Inkers for #45: Mark McKenna
Inker for #44: Jay Leisten
Colorist for #45: Tom Chu
Colorist for #44: Rod Reis
Senior Editor: Mike Marts
Associate Editor: Jeannie Schaefer


Hey, it's been a while since we looked at Countdown...let's get back to it now that I'm out of Austen's Action Comics' issues.

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Reed Richards Is Not Useless

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Princess Leia #1

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Star Wars: Princess Leia by Mark Waid and the Dodsons is pretty good. It has the same sort of tone and fits in with the world of the books while Leia remains Leia.

When Princess Leia Organa was captured by the Empire, she never betrayed her convictions - even after the complete destruction of her home world, Alderaan. When her rescue came, Leia grabbed a blaster and joined the fight, escaping back to the Rebel Alliance and helping strike the biggest blow against the Empire - the destruction of the Death Star! But in the aftermath of that victory, the question remains... what is a princess without a world? As Leia comes to grips with her loss, a new mission leads her to the underground world of Sullust.

The series starts straight after the medal ceremony at the end of A New Hope
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The Punisher #2

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LEST AULD ACQUAINTANCE BE FORGOT: NAMOR AND SUE A LA MORRISON (#3 in a Series)

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Third in a series, looking at the recently deceased Namor the Sub-Mariner. The other two are here and here.

Namor had many relationships. His most enduring one during the Golden Age was with policewoman Betty Dean, blessedly normal, brave, a champion swimmer and able to talk Namor out of his sometimes murderous rages, a Jane Foster to his noble princely ways. Betty was the normal human touchstone which let us relate to this sub-sea prince.

But his great love during the early Silver/Marvel age was Sue Storm, before she married Reed Richards...

And sometimes...after.

From Marvel Knights, Fantastic Four, "1234", 2001. Doom has a plan, using his robot, the Prime Mover, and several FF foes, to mousetrap all the Fantastic Four. Story by Grant Morrison, art by Jae Lee.

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The Ultimates: Grand Theft America - Part 6

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He's one of Toyo Harada's most human inhumans.

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He wouldn't like to be called that, though.

He's not uncomfortable with what he isn't, but comfortable with what he is.

He has preferences, and likes when they're respected.

( He prefers the kind of work where he doesn't have to be party to killing. )

Chrononauts #4

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All-New All-Different Avengers #2

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'Our first story is, as near as Brevoort and I can remember, the first time since 1963 that someone’s actually done an Avengers origin story; because when we pick up after Secret Wars, there is no formal “Avengers” team for the first time ever.' -- Mark Waid

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