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Jul. 20th, 2021
Batman: Reptilian #1: Quick and Dirty
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superboyprimeTrigger warning: Rape
"About five years ago I wrote the story for Steve Dillon, figuring that it would be the best way to cement his comeback. He’d been ill for a while but was now keen to get back to where he’d been, and with the Preacher show about to kick off, I thought it would gain the maximum publicity possible -- the Preacher team doing Batman (I suppose I could have gone for X-Men or whatever instead, but I have my limits). Probably my most cynically commercial decision ever. Anyway, not long after I wrote the last script, fate intervened in the worst possible way…" - Garth Ennis
"For me, the book isn’t a tribute to Steve, it’s just something that in practical terms exists because of him. I don’t think anyone would be too surprised to learn that were I to celebrate Steve’s life it wouldn’t be with a Batman comic or any kind of comic -- it would be with a large donation to his favourite charitable cause, the Arthur Guinness Foundation. But I do like to think of him having a good old laugh at Mr. I-hate-superheroes ending up writing Batman." - Garth Ennis
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"About five years ago I wrote the story for Steve Dillon, figuring that it would be the best way to cement his comeback. He’d been ill for a while but was now keen to get back to where he’d been, and with the Preacher show about to kick off, I thought it would gain the maximum publicity possible -- the Preacher team doing Batman (I suppose I could have gone for X-Men or whatever instead, but I have my limits). Probably my most cynically commercial decision ever. Anyway, not long after I wrote the last script, fate intervened in the worst possible way…" - Garth Ennis
"For me, the book isn’t a tribute to Steve, it’s just something that in practical terms exists because of him. I don’t think anyone would be too surprised to learn that were I to celebrate Steve’s life it wouldn’t be with a Batman comic or any kind of comic -- it would be with a large donation to his favourite charitable cause, the Arthur Guinness Foundation. But I do like to think of him having a good old laugh at Mr. I-hate-superheroes ending up writing Batman." - Garth Ennis
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Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday
Jul. 20th, 2021 11:13 amicon_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.
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
Britain is currently hot, VERY hot, swelteringly hot... So this will be short as concentrating is hard, and I need to save some for actual work.
England has also opened up completely from COVID lockdown, with no social distancing or mask wearing being legally enforced. Night clubs are opened again with no limits on how many can come in (beyond existing health and safety laws). Businesses can request that people wear masks though, and many are. (Scotland, Wales and Ireland are taking things more cautiously, and boy do I envy them that right now)
Our Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer are having to self isolate after contact with our Health Secretary, who has tested positive for COVID. The first thing the PM did, apaprently, was enquire how he could get out of self isolation. The public backlash to this was so instananeous and powerful that he reversed his decision almost immediately and is now self-isolating like the rest of us plebs would have to. (The fact he assumed it was something he'd be allowed to get away with in the middle of ongoing debates about how there seems to be one law for the powerful and another for the not-so-powerful speaks volumes IMHO)
Watched the first couple of episode of "Schmigadoon" a sort of long form spoof of "Brigadoon" as a couple find themselves trapped in a weirdly staged looked town where people keep bursting into complexly choreographed song (and everything is in various shades of pastel).
Pretty much every song is a direct spoof of a musical classic (from Carousel, The Pajama Game, Guys and Dolls, and Oklahoma! (especially Oklahoma!)) and I think that might be part of why I'm not enjoying it as much as I'd hoped. A terrific cast including Kristin Chenowyth, Alan Cumming and Dove Cameron give it their musical all, but aside from finding the two main characters not that interesting yet, I get so distracted trying to work out what song it's spoofing (and my stage musical knowledge isn't THAT great, so I've never seen The Pajama Game or remember much about Carousel), that I lose focus on what they're singing about as relevant to the show itself.
It's no "Galavant", alas (I'm not sure it's even "Teen Beach Movie" or Supergirl "Duet" yet) but here's hoping.
Just finished a Kareem Abdul-Jabbar penned Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes novel, the first of his I was able to find in the library. That was fun!
John Oliver did a web exclusive clip about Danish animation series 'John Dillermand' which is... quite something. Probably not entirely safe for work viewing given the subject matter, but you decide if you want to risk watching clips from a series whose basic premise is the same smutty joke people have been making about Reed Richards since 1963.
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
Britain is currently hot, VERY hot, swelteringly hot... So this will be short as concentrating is hard, and I need to save some for actual work.
England has also opened up completely from COVID lockdown, with no social distancing or mask wearing being legally enforced. Night clubs are opened again with no limits on how many can come in (beyond existing health and safety laws). Businesses can request that people wear masks though, and many are. (Scotland, Wales and Ireland are taking things more cautiously, and boy do I envy them that right now)
Our Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer are having to self isolate after contact with our Health Secretary, who has tested positive for COVID. The first thing the PM did, apaprently, was enquire how he could get out of self isolation. The public backlash to this was so instananeous and powerful that he reversed his decision almost immediately and is now self-isolating like the rest of us plebs would have to. (The fact he assumed it was something he'd be allowed to get away with in the middle of ongoing debates about how there seems to be one law for the powerful and another for the not-so-powerful speaks volumes IMHO)
Watched the first couple of episode of "Schmigadoon" a sort of long form spoof of "Brigadoon" as a couple find themselves trapped in a weirdly staged looked town where people keep bursting into complexly choreographed song (and everything is in various shades of pastel).
Pretty much every song is a direct spoof of a musical classic (from Carousel, The Pajama Game, Guys and Dolls, and Oklahoma! (especially Oklahoma!)) and I think that might be part of why I'm not enjoying it as much as I'd hoped. A terrific cast including Kristin Chenowyth, Alan Cumming and Dove Cameron give it their musical all, but aside from finding the two main characters not that interesting yet, I get so distracted trying to work out what song it's spoofing (and my stage musical knowledge isn't THAT great, so I've never seen The Pajama Game or remember much about Carousel), that I lose focus on what they're singing about as relevant to the show itself.
It's no "Galavant", alas (I'm not sure it's even "Teen Beach Movie" or Supergirl "Duet" yet) but here's hoping.
Just finished a Kareem Abdul-Jabbar penned Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes novel, the first of his I was able to find in the library. That was fun!
John Oliver did a web exclusive clip about Danish animation series 'John Dillermand' which is... quite something. Probably not entirely safe for work viewing given the subject matter, but you decide if you want to risk watching clips from a series whose basic premise is the same smutty joke people have been making about Reed Richards since 1963.