2021-09-21
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Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday
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.
Canada's Liberal Party has narrowly won the snap election, but will have to form a minority Government.
The Brexit "Wheel of Catastrophe" ("Wheel of Catastrophe, Turn Turn Turn, Show us the lessons we should learn") has decided to stop and settle on "Energy Crisis" (after previously stopping at Food shortages, HGV shortages, farm worker shortages and so many others).
The US has apparently rather suddenly decided to open it's borders to visitors the UK and Europe fromm November. I don't know about any of my fellow Europeans (and yes, I still count myself as such) actually WANT to got to the US at the moment, but for those with family/friends they haven't seen in so long or have other urgent needs, I wish them a safe journey and return.
A rally in support of the January 6th protestors went about as well as can be expected, with Mark Hamill delivering a rather elegant put down, though the fact that anyone showed up at all is disturbing.
The new CGI He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoon dropped on Netflix and I have to say I rather enjoyed it. It's a complete do-over, using charatcer names, and some aspects of the original characters, but beyond that it's it's own thing.
Very little of it is groundbreaking, it's toyetic as heck and it's using pretty much every "action based teen hero found family" trope going (It owes a lot to Max Steel and Team Turbo with it's "Main character empowers their friends who get their own transformation sequences") but it's FUN!
I like the Master’s new designs, especially Teela and Man-At-Arms. Even He-Man’s absurdly cartoonishly proportioned form works better than I’d expected (If still a little disconcerting). Plus I ADORE that their new take on Ram-Man is female, and has adopted the name Ram-Ma'am, which is paradoxically the only possible name WORSE than Ram-Man, and therefore the only possible BETTER name!
For those looking for that perfect Halloween gift, we have the next Transformers crossover toy: A Transformer based on a classic Universal Monster... meet Draculus!"
Or for something even CREEPIER, Queen Studio's are releasing a life-sized bust of Tom Holland as Spider-Man which is at the level of eerily lifelike looking that makes you want to check the real one is actually still with us. (Vincent Price was unavailable for comment.... Coincidence? I think not)
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.
Canada's Liberal Party has narrowly won the snap election, but will have to form a minority Government.
The Brexit "Wheel of Catastrophe" ("Wheel of Catastrophe, Turn Turn Turn, Show us the lessons we should learn") has decided to stop and settle on "Energy Crisis" (after previously stopping at Food shortages, HGV shortages, farm worker shortages and so many others).
The US has apparently rather suddenly decided to open it's borders to visitors the UK and Europe fromm November. I don't know about any of my fellow Europeans (and yes, I still count myself as such) actually WANT to got to the US at the moment, but for those with family/friends they haven't seen in so long or have other urgent needs, I wish them a safe journey and return.
A rally in support of the January 6th protestors went about as well as can be expected, with Mark Hamill delivering a rather elegant put down, though the fact that anyone showed up at all is disturbing.
The new CGI He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoon dropped on Netflix and I have to say I rather enjoyed it. It's a complete do-over, using charatcer names, and some aspects of the original characters, but beyond that it's it's own thing.
Very little of it is groundbreaking, it's toyetic as heck and it's using pretty much every "action based teen hero found family" trope going (It owes a lot to Max Steel and Team Turbo with it's "Main character empowers their friends who get their own transformation sequences") but it's FUN!
I like the Master’s new designs, especially Teela and Man-At-Arms. Even He-Man’s absurdly cartoonishly proportioned form works better than I’d expected (If still a little disconcerting). Plus I ADORE that their new take on Ram-Man is female, and has adopted the name Ram-Ma'am, which is paradoxically the only possible name WORSE than Ram-Man, and therefore the only possible BETTER name!
For those looking for that perfect Halloween gift, we have the next Transformers crossover toy: A Transformer based on a classic Universal Monster... meet Draculus!"
Or for something even CREEPIER, Queen Studio's are releasing a life-sized bust of Tom Holland as Spider-Man which is at the level of eerily lifelike looking that makes you want to check the real one is actually still with us. (Vincent Price was unavailable for comment.... Coincidence? I think not)
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cyberghostface2021-09-21 11:00 amEntry tags:
Batman Secret Files: Miracle Molly #1
"This is legitimately one of my favorite single issues I’ve written in the last few years... This issue unpacks who Miracle Molly is, and why they call of the Unsanity Collective appealed to her. It’s an ode to the cyberpunk genre, which I absolutely adore." -- James Tynion IV
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cyberghostface2021-09-21 02:00 pmStephen King/comic mash-ups
Today is Stephen King's 74th birthday so here are some fun pieces artists have done mixing together Stephen King's work with various comic characters. (Comicbook Resources has more here.)
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shakalooloo2021-09-21 10:06 pm2000ad Prog 2250 - Not Judge Dredd
It's another bumper-sized 'all-new stories jumping on point' issue, and Pandora Perfect finally gets her own series She's Practically Poison In Every Way, but boy is the art good:
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It's always difficult having to obey the 1/3 rule for a three page Future Shock, so why not cut straight to the chase and just throw in the pun:
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And finally some talking rucksack, language barriers and random-looking aliens fun.
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It's always difficult having to obey the 1/3 rule for a three page Future Shock, so why not cut straight to the chase and just throw in the pun:
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And finally some talking rucksack, language barriers and random-looking aliens fun.
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