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Jun. 11th, 2019
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icon_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 among yourselves.
The unique form of melee combat known as "Who wants to be the next Prime Minister of the UK" is now officially in session, with the first round being name calling before it progresses to the physical. One of the main contenders, Michael Gove, admitted to having taken cocaine about 20 years ago, and there's nothing that says "Tory Party Leadership contender" quite like a middle aged, privileged white guy admitting that being privileged and white is the likely reason he wasn't prosecuted.
(Personally, my money is still on Larry the Downing Street cat... though he has admitted to having had a serious catnip addiction in the past.)
If you wish to discuss further tariffs, trade wars, political unrest or the rest, please feel free but I already have a headache this morning.
Though I will express my bitter disappointment in the Vatican issuing guidance on gender which is sure to cause controversy (and in Pride Month, no less) by basically denying the concept of gender being a fluid concept or anything other than fixed at birth as male or female.
Swamp Thing was cancelled after the first episode aired, for reasons that are unconfirmed but about which rumours are rife.
Netflix saw both a new season of Black Mirror drop, AND the new series of "Tales of the City", extrapolated from Armistead Maupin's famous series of newspaper columns turned novels about queer life in San Francisco in the 70's and 80's with a rich and varied cast of characters.
He's revisited the characters a couple of times since then in follow up nocels (they've aged in real time), and added new ones. The new series uses all these characters and some of the cast of the original TV adaptations from 1993 (Notably Laura Linney, Paul Gross and Olympia Dukakis). The timeline has been revised a little (Since the original novels were now set over 45 years ago the cast are some years younger than they should be). Maupin isn't writing this series, but the writers room is entirely LGBTQ+ and led by the writer of Orange is the New Black. It's extremely well done, and though I'm not sure I warm to this series as much as the originals, this isn't a series aimed at me, it's aimed at people the same age I was when I first read the novels, which is as it should be.
I tried a new anime on Crunchyroll, "Sarazanmai" which is... not to put too fine a point on it, deranged, depraved and downright weird (I'd been advised it was odd, that does not BEGIN to describe it). Three guys irritate a kappa and get turned into kappa, and have to help him defeat monsters in order to become human again, but to do so must make their innermost secrets known to each other.
On the one hand, it's sort of inclusive inasmuch as one of the three guys crossdress's, and another has a crush on the guy who is the crossdresser, and two policemen who show up are as much a couple as you're going to get in an anime (apparently in the spin-off manga, they're boyfriends), on the other hand, as defeating each monster involves the kappa literally (and graphically) sucking a mythical organ out of it's ass, I'm at somewhat of a loss.
Oh, and at the other end of the scale "Carole and Tuesday" so far seems a charmingly life-affirming series about two girls seemingly unlikely friendship and making your own music in a world of corporate mass-produced media.
The unique form of melee combat known as "Who wants to be the next Prime Minister of the UK" is now officially in session, with the first round being name calling before it progresses to the physical. One of the main contenders, Michael Gove, admitted to having taken cocaine about 20 years ago, and there's nothing that says "Tory Party Leadership contender" quite like a middle aged, privileged white guy admitting that being privileged and white is the likely reason he wasn't prosecuted.
(Personally, my money is still on Larry the Downing Street cat... though he has admitted to having had a serious catnip addiction in the past.)
If you wish to discuss further tariffs, trade wars, political unrest or the rest, please feel free but I already have a headache this morning.
Though I will express my bitter disappointment in the Vatican issuing guidance on gender which is sure to cause controversy (and in Pride Month, no less) by basically denying the concept of gender being a fluid concept or anything other than fixed at birth as male or female.
Swamp Thing was cancelled after the first episode aired, for reasons that are unconfirmed but about which rumours are rife.
Netflix saw both a new season of Black Mirror drop, AND the new series of "Tales of the City", extrapolated from Armistead Maupin's famous series of newspaper columns turned novels about queer life in San Francisco in the 70's and 80's with a rich and varied cast of characters.
He's revisited the characters a couple of times since then in follow up nocels (they've aged in real time), and added new ones. The new series uses all these characters and some of the cast of the original TV adaptations from 1993 (Notably Laura Linney, Paul Gross and Olympia Dukakis). The timeline has been revised a little (Since the original novels were now set over 45 years ago the cast are some years younger than they should be). Maupin isn't writing this series, but the writers room is entirely LGBTQ+ and led by the writer of Orange is the New Black. It's extremely well done, and though I'm not sure I warm to this series as much as the originals, this isn't a series aimed at me, it's aimed at people the same age I was when I first read the novels, which is as it should be.
I tried a new anime on Crunchyroll, "Sarazanmai" which is... not to put too fine a point on it, deranged, depraved and downright weird (I'd been advised it was odd, that does not BEGIN to describe it). Three guys irritate a kappa and get turned into kappa, and have to help him defeat monsters in order to become human again, but to do so must make their innermost secrets known to each other.
On the one hand, it's sort of inclusive inasmuch as one of the three guys crossdress's, and another has a crush on the guy who is the crossdresser, and two policemen who show up are as much a couple as you're going to get in an anime (apparently in the spin-off manga, they're boyfriends), on the other hand, as defeating each monster involves the kappa literally (and graphically) sucking a mythical organ out of it's ass, I'm at somewhat of a loss.
Oh, and at the other end of the scale "Carole and Tuesday" so far seems a charmingly life-affirming series about two girls seemingly unlikely friendship and making your own music in a world of corporate mass-produced media.
