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Feb. 13th, 2018
Top 10 #4: Eight Miles High
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♫I’m tired of trampling Tokyo. No interest remains
In eating cars or tearing down the elevated trains
And I long for Monster Island
In the late Cretaceous silence
Where every night between the perfect stars
The tiny twins hold hands and sing
While Mothra play guitar.
I’m bored to death when my every breath sets the boulevard on fire
I’m saving my residuals and I’m planning to retire
Far away on Monster Island
In the radioactive twilight
Sipping X-rays underneath a cocktail sky
Where the surf booms like Hiroshima
And the fishes really fly.
Me and Robert Oppenheimer, we shared a drink the other night
I told him, Bob, if you quit your job, or if things aren’t going right
Come with me to Monster Island
Where the palm trees gleam like pylons
Where the luminous lagoon night never ends
And all my monster friends
Are singing Gojira! Gojira! Go!
And I’m so tired of trampling Tokyo.♫
- Alan Moore
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Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday
Feb. 13th, 2018 11:53 amicon_ukIn 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.
The Winter Olympics in South Korea are underway, involving lots of people, from all over the world, doing things in the cold.
This year celebrates 250 years of Britain having circuses (as we understand the modern term), which is... something... i suppose.
Star Trek Discovery finished it's first season with what seemed a slightly abrupt end to it's longest arc, some nice assertions of Starfleet principles, and a teaser at the end which was NOT expected. This has been a remarkable series on many levels, and one I've thoroughly enjoyed.
Playing catchup on The Flash, I was very pleased to see Corinne Bohrer guest-star as Prank (very much a prototype for Harley Quinn), the enabling sociopath who worked so well with Mark Hamill's original Trickster in the 1989/90 series and now worked in as the younger Trickster's mother.
Jacob Zuma, the President of South africa, is refusing to resign, despite calls from everyone for him to do so, including his own party. A vote of no confidence now seems likely.
The UK Government has unveiled an IT tool which it claims will block extremist material. That's not a scary tool to have in a Governments hands now is it?
Thanks to a passing reference on Xplainthexmen, I have had Tom Lehrer's "I Got it from Agnes" stuck in my head for hours... and I don't see why I should suffer alone.
Recent (but no longer) White House aide Omarosa Newman has been on US Celebrity Big Brother and has not exactly been complimentary about her old boss, though she does comment that "We would be begging for days of Trump back if Pence became president", which seems like a fair comment. But not to worry, after all, POTUS45 promised to have the best staff in post during his tenure and what could possibly go wrong with that?
Black Panther opens this week, to ecstatic previews and reviews. (and "The Shape of Water", which has also had amazing reviews, also opens in the UK if you can't get into BP).
Saint Seiya Gold Saint underwear is apparently a thing, for those confident enough in themselves to wear such things.
Lent starts tomorrow for those who follow such things. So it's adieu chocolate and dialling back on the videogames for this guy for the next six weeks or so. Sigh...
With a certain about of irony, Ash Wednesday is also Valentines Day.
And of course, tomorrow being Valentines Day, you would be most welcome to post scans of your favourite romantic moments from comics history, and this being scans daily, you can think outside the box a little and include textual, subtextual or just plain context-less pairings! :)
The Winter Olympics in South Korea are underway, involving lots of people, from all over the world, doing things in the cold.
This year celebrates 250 years of Britain having circuses (as we understand the modern term), which is... something... i suppose.
Star Trek Discovery finished it's first season with what seemed a slightly abrupt end to it's longest arc, some nice assertions of Starfleet principles, and a teaser at the end which was NOT expected. This has been a remarkable series on many levels, and one I've thoroughly enjoyed.
Playing catchup on The Flash, I was very pleased to see Corinne Bohrer guest-star as Prank (very much a prototype for Harley Quinn), the enabling sociopath who worked so well with Mark Hamill's original Trickster in the 1989/90 series and now worked in as the younger Trickster's mother.
Jacob Zuma, the President of South africa, is refusing to resign, despite calls from everyone for him to do so, including his own party. A vote of no confidence now seems likely.
The UK Government has unveiled an IT tool which it claims will block extremist material. That's not a scary tool to have in a Governments hands now is it?
Thanks to a passing reference on Xplainthexmen, I have had Tom Lehrer's "I Got it from Agnes" stuck in my head for hours... and I don't see why I should suffer alone.
Recent (but no longer) White House aide Omarosa Newman has been on US Celebrity Big Brother and has not exactly been complimentary about her old boss, though she does comment that "We would be begging for days of Trump back if Pence became president", which seems like a fair comment. But not to worry, after all, POTUS45 promised to have the best staff in post during his tenure and what could possibly go wrong with that?
Black Panther opens this week, to ecstatic previews and reviews. (and "The Shape of Water", which has also had amazing reviews, also opens in the UK if you can't get into BP).
Saint Seiya Gold Saint underwear is apparently a thing, for those confident enough in themselves to wear such things.
Lent starts tomorrow for those who follow such things. So it's adieu chocolate and dialling back on the videogames for this guy for the next six weeks or so. Sigh...
With a certain about of irony, Ash Wednesday is also Valentines Day.
And of course, tomorrow being Valentines Day, you would be most welcome to post scans of your favourite romantic moments from comics history, and this being scans daily, you can think outside the box a little and include textual, subtextual or just plain context-less pairings! :)
Michel Fiffe did a Secret Wars story.
Feb. 13th, 2018 09:48 pmthanekosIt was in the Secret Love one-shot.
It took place on the part of Battleworld where an Inferno was raging.
It concerned Karen Page and Matt Murdock.
(It's got a " Nocenti and JRJR " dedication.)
( She was thinking about him. )
It took place on the part of Battleworld where an Inferno was raging.
It concerned Karen Page and Matt Murdock.
(It's got a " Nocenti and JRJR " dedication.)
( She was thinking about him. )
