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Apr. 14th, 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.
We enter another week of global reaction to the pandemic.
Italy and France are looking to open things up slowly next month (last I heard), so that's a positive!
Trying to work out how to comment on the American Federal government reaction, as an outsider, feels like an exercise in surrealism, so all I can do is sympathise.
The UK is coming under more scrutiny for it's many perceived failures to act in a timely fashion. We shall see if/where that leads, but it does look likely we may end up with a higher toll than other European countries.
I will note that the UK lost Tim Brooke-Taylor to the virus. He was one of the stars of "The Goodies" in the 1970's, and worked consistently ever since, mostly on radio (A regular on "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" for example). He was one of the first people I can remember actually crying with laughter at whilst watching television as a kid (probably in black and white too), and that's not something you forget easily. Mornington Crescent will never be the same again. :(
Before all this started I picked a novel at random from the local library, about vampires revelaing themselves and becoming part of society, sort of like True Blood, but the vampires weren't ancient, they were a new development, and it tells their story from a variety of human viewpoints a a sort of social history. Had I been aware that the plot was actually about the appeatance of a mutant virus which triggered the transformation, I might have been just a liiiiiitle bit more cautious about picking it.
Kirameiger is making an interesting choice this year. KiraRed is named leader because he has the power of imagination (to the extent he designed and created the Zords by applying his imagination to their gemstone forms) and that's the tradition where their powers originate from. But KiraYellow is the leader in every sense other than title, he is actually the tactical genius who comes up with team strategies and plans against the bad guys and the fact he's NOT leader sort of rankles (and it's hard not to see his point). So what DOES make a leader? (Other than marketing)
It's been confirmed that next year Power Rangers series will be based on Ryusoulger, last years sentai about dinosaurs and knights, so expect something like "Power Rangers: Dino-Knights". A shame, as I'd have liked to see them try the constellation themed Kyuuranger, but such is life.
Oh, and if anyone has a preference for a Theme Week, do please mention them in the comments
We enter another week of global reaction to the pandemic.
Italy and France are looking to open things up slowly next month (last I heard), so that's a positive!
Trying to work out how to comment on the American Federal government reaction, as an outsider, feels like an exercise in surrealism, so all I can do is sympathise.
The UK is coming under more scrutiny for it's many perceived failures to act in a timely fashion. We shall see if/where that leads, but it does look likely we may end up with a higher toll than other European countries.
I will note that the UK lost Tim Brooke-Taylor to the virus. He was one of the stars of "The Goodies" in the 1970's, and worked consistently ever since, mostly on radio (A regular on "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" for example). He was one of the first people I can remember actually crying with laughter at whilst watching television as a kid (probably in black and white too), and that's not something you forget easily. Mornington Crescent will never be the same again. :(
Before all this started I picked a novel at random from the local library, about vampires revelaing themselves and becoming part of society, sort of like True Blood, but the vampires weren't ancient, they were a new development, and it tells their story from a variety of human viewpoints a a sort of social history. Had I been aware that the plot was actually about the appeatance of a mutant virus which triggered the transformation, I might have been just a liiiiiitle bit more cautious about picking it.
Kirameiger is making an interesting choice this year. KiraRed is named leader because he has the power of imagination (to the extent he designed and created the Zords by applying his imagination to their gemstone forms) and that's the tradition where their powers originate from. But KiraYellow is the leader in every sense other than title, he is actually the tactical genius who comes up with team strategies and plans against the bad guys and the fact he's NOT leader sort of rankles (and it's hard not to see his point). So what DOES make a leader? (Other than marketing)
It's been confirmed that next year Power Rangers series will be based on Ryusoulger, last years sentai about dinosaurs and knights, so expect something like "Power Rangers: Dino-Knights". A shame, as I'd have liked to see them try the constellation themed Kyuuranger, but such is life.
Oh, and if anyone has a preference for a Theme Week, do please mention them in the comments
thanekosThat was the work of Victor Fries, in response to one of Batman's early-in-his-career civilian assistants shattering his wife's body, heeding his wife-in-his-head.
Batman, setting out to stop the man's work, stopped by the " office " he'd set up for his team.
They'd left something behind for him.
( It reflected how he'd left them, and where they were. )
Batman, setting out to stop the man's work, stopped by the " office " he'd set up for his team.
They'd left something behind for him.
( It reflected how he'd left them, and where they were. )