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Apr. 7th, 2020
Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday
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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.
As March, one of the more difficult decades of 2020 so far, came to it's close we entered April full of hope, optimism and good cheer.
For Brits it's been an intense few days, with the Queen addressing the nation, which it has to be said, she did with aplomb (As she said, she did her first one of those when she was 13 in 1940, as a morale booster for evacuated children in WWII.. so she has quite the track record)
On the other hand, at almost the same time, our Prime Minister, who had been self isolating, was taken into hospital and is currently in Intensive Care. So that happened.
On the world stage, China has reported a day with no deaths from CVOI19 for the first time since January!
On to other, more trivial matters...
For those following the Doctor Who media, Steven Moffatt did a watch-along on "The Eleventh Hour" last week, and also revealed an additional little sidestory; The Raggedy Doctor
He's also written a short story for the Thirteenth Doctor: "The Terror Of The Umpty Ums".
And I feel we have to address the passing of actor Honor Blackman, at the age of 94. Whilst known to the world a Pussy Galore in "Goldfinger", she rose to promeinance in the classic UK TV action adventure series, "The Avengers" in the early 60's. As anthrolopogist (and martial arts expert) Dr Cathy Gale, she became the main partner to John Steed, and the fact that some of the scripts they had used for her introduction were originally intended for the previous sidekick to Steed, a male character, meant that she came across from the outset as a smart, competent, kick-ass character without a trait of damsel-in-distress in her DNA.
I think it's fair to say that there are very few, if any, female action characters in modern film and television who don't owe Honor Blackman's Cathy Gale a serious debt.
Yes, Duck Tales was a good as I'd hoped it would be, which was nice.
I'm having a harder time with the second arc in the Clone Wars series, I appreciate that Ahsoka is having to adapt to life away from the Jedi, but did she ever seem this naive before?
Will keep this short-ish, due to other matters I have to attend to, but on behalf of the mod Team, a "Happy Easter" to those who celebrate it, "Chag Pesach Samech" to those who celebrate Passover, and to those who celebrate neither I know we can ALL look forward to "Cheap Chocolate Eve" on Monday
As March, one of the more difficult decades of 2020 so far, came to it's close we entered April full of hope, optimism and good cheer.
For Brits it's been an intense few days, with the Queen addressing the nation, which it has to be said, she did with aplomb (As she said, she did her first one of those when she was 13 in 1940, as a morale booster for evacuated children in WWII.. so she has quite the track record)
On the other hand, at almost the same time, our Prime Minister, who had been self isolating, was taken into hospital and is currently in Intensive Care. So that happened.
On the world stage, China has reported a day with no deaths from CVOI19 for the first time since January!
On to other, more trivial matters...
For those following the Doctor Who media, Steven Moffatt did a watch-along on "The Eleventh Hour" last week, and also revealed an additional little sidestory; The Raggedy Doctor
He's also written a short story for the Thirteenth Doctor: "The Terror Of The Umpty Ums".
And I feel we have to address the passing of actor Honor Blackman, at the age of 94. Whilst known to the world a Pussy Galore in "Goldfinger", she rose to promeinance in the classic UK TV action adventure series, "The Avengers" in the early 60's. As anthrolopogist (and martial arts expert) Dr Cathy Gale, she became the main partner to John Steed, and the fact that some of the scripts they had used for her introduction were originally intended for the previous sidekick to Steed, a male character, meant that she came across from the outset as a smart, competent, kick-ass character without a trait of damsel-in-distress in her DNA.
I think it's fair to say that there are very few, if any, female action characters in modern film and television who don't owe Honor Blackman's Cathy Gale a serious debt.
Yes, Duck Tales was a good as I'd hoped it would be, which was nice.
I'm having a harder time with the second arc in the Clone Wars series, I appreciate that Ahsoka is having to adapt to life away from the Jedi, but did she ever seem this naive before?
Will keep this short-ish, due to other matters I have to attend to, but on behalf of the mod Team, a "Happy Easter" to those who celebrate it, "Chag Pesach Samech" to those who celebrate Passover, and to those who celebrate neither I know we can ALL look forward to "Cheap Chocolate Eve" on Monday
Comic Crowdfunding!
Apr. 7th, 2020 12:02 pmcaivuPartially as a result of wanting to do something different during quarantine, I've recently been looking through Kickstarter for interesting comic projects to support. I've never helped crowdfund anything before, so why not now?
Here are a few I've found that I like and that I think you will, too.
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Here are a few I've found that I like and that I think you will, too.
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Threads Of Red Jack
Apr. 7th, 2020 01:37 pmkthorjensenSo Daniel Kibblesmith wrote this and I drew it back in 2007. I just rediscovered it in the archives and thought I'd post it here, because any distraction is a good distraction right now.
( Threads of Red Jack: Decalogue )
( Threads of Red Jack: Decalogue )
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I think [the Silver Age] was a time when superhero characters were probably at their best and at their most appropriate to the culture. And I wasn't a fan of comics during the Silver Age; I became a fan when Neal Adams and Denny O'Neil were doing Green Lantern and the sort of weird stuff by Jim Starlin and Steve Englehart over at Marvel. So, for me, it was sort of going backwards and discovering that stuff and I just thought the stories were better, they were more universal and you could read them as an adult; those John Broome stories in The Flash and Green Lantern, in particular. -- Grant Morrison
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thanekos#194'd seen his early-in-his-career hand-picked team of civilian assistants in an op that'd gone bad.
#195 saw them on a follow-up, tracking the mobster Peter Scotta's meeting with Derek Parke, sole survivor of a cryogenic attack on researchers at his company.
The meeting was interrupted by the attacker, and former lead of that research team - Victor Fries, turned endothermic by an accident with technology similar to the freezing gun he was carrying.
The gun chilled and killed Scotta and his men.
Parke, his plan to sell that cryogenic technology to Scotta as a weapon scuppered, fled.
One of Batman's team broke cover to help him away.
Batman dropped out of the sky, putting himself between Parke and Fries.
( He landed in Scotta's pond. )
#195 saw them on a follow-up, tracking the mobster Peter Scotta's meeting with Derek Parke, sole survivor of a cryogenic attack on researchers at his company.
The meeting was interrupted by the attacker, and former lead of that research team - Victor Fries, turned endothermic by an accident with technology similar to the freezing gun he was carrying.
The gun chilled and killed Scotta and his men.
Parke, his plan to sell that cryogenic technology to Scotta as a weapon scuppered, fled.
One of Batman's team broke cover to help him away.
Batman dropped out of the sky, putting himself between Parke and Fries.
( He landed in Scotta's pond. )
