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 intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

In the UK, our Secretary of State for Health was caught on camera in a romantic clinch with an aide. But in what is perhaps a more , his subsequent resignation was NOT because of "likely adultery" (Or even "deeply dubious business activities" or "general incompetence"), but because the hug broke COVID regulations that he was responsible for establishing and enforcing for months now.

It'll be the Fourth of July in the US before the next OTT, so let me wish all Americans a "Happy Treason Day!" from this side of the Atlantic! ;)

The Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Tournament is starting, for those who want some sports beyond soccer filling up their news sources.

An interesting piece on LGBTQIA+ history, "Section 377" is the law introduced by Victorian Britain across many of the countries it colonised, which helps explains why so many countries are STILL so anti-LGBTQIA+ even if, pre-colonisation, they had a history and culture which were inclusive.

For complete cuteness overload wooly jumpers wearing wooly jumpers.

Late news: "Good Omens" Seaons 2 looks like it is going ahead!

Oh and I did forget to mention the chaotic trash-fire unleashed when Jensen Ackles announced a possible spin off to Supernatural (a prequel detailing the love story of... Sam and Dean's parents!! Which sounded like the least desirable spinoff imaginable, given how frankly pretty awful both those characters were), and Jared Padalecki got upset because no one had told him about it... it got.. messy.

Just caught the first episode or two of "Bakuten!!", the sports anime for those who felt that handsome young men splashing around in minimal swimwear with sesiemic levels of UST over at "Free! Iwatobi Swim Club" just wasn't enough, since the sport is Men's Rhythmic Gymnastics, which means they get flashy spandex outfits like "Yuri On Ice" too! (Motion capture CGI floor routines and heart eyes abound.)

Random question of the week - And podcast recommendations?

Archie's 80th anniversary: The Man from R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E. vs. the Toymaker

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Throughout much of the sixties, glitzy spy films and T.V. series (such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) were all the rage. Thus was born, in 1966, yet another alternate version of the core Archie characters: The Man from R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E. These stories, which ran through 1967, saw the teen agents of P.O.P. (Protect Our Planet) use their wits and high-tech gadgets to keep the world safe from their rival agency, C.R.U.S.H. (acronym never explained, but it's a play on The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'s THRUSH (no periods, and also never explained)).

( 'I've unreeled exactly 22 feet of super strength nylon thread from my sock!' )

The Incredible Hulk #1 (2011)

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2000ad Prog 2238 - Brains in Jars

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Robotic empathy. And brain surgery.

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Chimpanzee-ic empathy. And tentacular surgery.

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Doctor Doom Takes A Vacation

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Canto Bight was fully booked.

Take a drink at every hypocrisy to consign your liver to DOOM.

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