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Sep. 22nd, 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.
I feel we have to mark the passing of SCOTUS Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who died on Friday at the age of 87. Her combination of absolute willpower, ferocious intellect, biting wit and her tireless campaign against gender discrimintation has helped shape the social playing field in the US for decades.
In contrast, the unseemly scrambling of the current administration to fill her vacant seat before the November election is a display of breathtaking hypocrisy, even by the standards of orchestrator Mitch McConnell, who notably prevented the Obama administration from appointing a Judge to SCOTUS 10 MONTHS before the 2016 election because it was "too close". We shall see what develops, but it's unlikely to be edifying.
In the UK, the Prime Minister is about to announce yet another set of changes to the rules about social interaction in light of a rise in Covid-19 cases. As you might imagine, we are breathless and agog for this latest, what feels like the 413th, amendment in the past six weeks, and this time to close things down further.
In good news, the WHO has confirmed that the WHO African Region is free of wild poliovirus.
Sadly, Netflix and the Henson Company have confirmed there will be no Season 2 of "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance", the day after it won an Emmy for Outstanding Children's Program. (Not sure I'd have said it wasa children's program)
Miraculous Ladybug has a movie "Miraculuous World" on Disney Channel this Friday as Paris' finest visit New York and meet THEIR local heroes.
Watched "Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous" a new animated series on Netflix which is a sort of side story about the advanced preview visitors to what sounds (as so many things do in JW) like the cool idea of a kids summer camp within the grounds of JW but which (as so many things do in JW) is a complete disaster in terms of Health, Safety and general Survivability. It's... okay, the kids are generic but, with one exception (a neurotic kid who has read ALL the emergency procedures before arriving), they have the survival instinct of a depressed lemming and that's before the events of "Jurassic World" happen at the other end of the island... It's kind of hard to root for them to be honest, but it's set up so there's a season 2.
Random question - Your favourite dinosaur?
I feel we have to mark the passing of SCOTUS Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who died on Friday at the age of 87. Her combination of absolute willpower, ferocious intellect, biting wit and her tireless campaign against gender discrimintation has helped shape the social playing field in the US for decades.
In contrast, the unseemly scrambling of the current administration to fill her vacant seat before the November election is a display of breathtaking hypocrisy, even by the standards of orchestrator Mitch McConnell, who notably prevented the Obama administration from appointing a Judge to SCOTUS 10 MONTHS before the 2016 election because it was "too close". We shall see what develops, but it's unlikely to be edifying.
In the UK, the Prime Minister is about to announce yet another set of changes to the rules about social interaction in light of a rise in Covid-19 cases. As you might imagine, we are breathless and agog for this latest, what feels like the 413th, amendment in the past six weeks, and this time to close things down further.
In good news, the WHO has confirmed that the WHO African Region is free of wild poliovirus.
Sadly, Netflix and the Henson Company have confirmed there will be no Season 2 of "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance", the day after it won an Emmy for Outstanding Children's Program. (Not sure I'd have said it wasa children's program)
Miraculous Ladybug has a movie "Miraculuous World" on Disney Channel this Friday as Paris' finest visit New York and meet THEIR local heroes.
Watched "Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous" a new animated series on Netflix which is a sort of side story about the advanced preview visitors to what sounds (as so many things do in JW) like the cool idea of a kids summer camp within the grounds of JW but which (as so many things do in JW) is a complete disaster in terms of Health, Safety and general Survivability. It's... okay, the kids are generic but, with one exception (a neurotic kid who has read ALL the emergency procedures before arriving), they have the survival instinct of a depressed lemming and that's before the events of "Jurassic World" happen at the other end of the island... It's kind of hard to root for them to be honest, but it's set up so there's a season 2.
Random question - Your favourite dinosaur?
shakaloolooWhen will bad guys learn to stop messing with Judge Anderson? She's defeated Satan Himself! Yet they keep trying...
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Big Girls #2
Sep. 22nd, 2020 02:20 pmshakaloolooSo, it's basically your standard mech-action story. Only the pilots ARE the mechs!
And, as always, there's absolutely nothing wrong with killing the mindless monsters attacking the city...
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And, as always, there's absolutely nothing wrong with killing the mindless monsters attacking the city...
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A Correspondence in Straw
Sep. 22nd, 2020 06:30 pmcyberghostface
John Lees (I've posted his work here in the past, the most recent being Hotell) just released a four-page Batman fan comic that he wrote.
( Comic under the cut... )