Rorschach #4

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"I also tried to see the things that I'm starting to lean into and that make me comfortable. I was like, okay, I'm getting rid of repetitions. I'm not going to use repetitive dialogue on this -- almost on an architectural level, I was like, I'm going to use longer sentences and word balloons. I'm going to use a character in the detective that has no background story for the first time. You know, absolutely zero background story. I'm going to take the things I'm sitting on that make me comfortable and make it easy to write, and I'm going to throw those out the window and try to start again and do something new and try to push myself in order to make better comics. I feel like people just become sort of comfortable with your style and it's no longer impactful." - Tom King

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Mod Post: Off Topic-Tuesday

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In 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 UK has been hit by some severe, by our standards, temperatures, with some parts of the country hitting -16C last night, and more to come (or less, depending on how one views temperatures I suppose).

Protests continue in both Myanmar (over the military coup which was, in a surreal 2021 moment, caught on camera by someone recording a fitness video ) and Russia, following the imprisonment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

"Impeachment 2: Democratic Boogaloo" gets underway today. Enjoy?

The Pope has appointed a woman to a key position in the Catholic Synod of Bishops, which is a first for the role

Mary Wilson, one of the co-founders of The Supremes has died aged 76

The makers of Cyberpunk 2077 have been hit with a ransomware attack

WandaVision episode 5 managed something quite breathtaking, something that I think warrants it's own NoScans post, so please don't post spoilers in this thread.

For those who wondered how "Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie" got as bad rep as it did, there's an interesting bit here about deleted scenes which might have made it hang together more... a bit... possibly... or not... probably not.

Catching up on Jurassic Park: Camp Cretaceous" season 2. Still surprisingly dark for a show of this sort, but it does seem to be doing more interesting things with the concept of Jurassic World than the movies did, like "What would dinosaur behaviour be like if they're NOT being governed by humans?")



Random question: What was your favourite kids show as a kid (Not what you might have reapprised since then as a grown up, but as a kid, what did you race home to watch, whether it's good or bad in retrospect?)

Rorschach #5

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NS: New look at Jared Leto as Joker in Justice League

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One of the big additions to the upcoming 'Snyder Cut' is the return of Jared Leto's Joker. I personally felt he got the short end of the stick with Suicide Squad; the facial tattoos and capped teeth were awful but I didn't think his performance was as bad as people made it out to be.

In the Snyder cut we see Joker in a post-apocalyptic future teaming up with Ben Affleck's Batman and he's sporting a new look.

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NoScans: WandaVision Episode 5 and it's bigger impact to the MCU

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Okay, now this was a pretty big episode with a LOT of implications, so I think it deserves it's own post.

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King in Black: Thunderbolts #1

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"When The Kingpin put this team together it was clear this is not a team with a long life expectancy, unfortunately. And when you are fighting a threat like Knull, who is basically evil Iggy Pop but with space dragons, having a guy dressed like a rhino and a guy who calls himself 'the leaper' doesn't set you up for the big win. But who knows? Maybe The Thunderbolts are the ones that beat him. Or maybe space dragons eat all of them. Only time will tell." -- Matthew Rosenberg

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