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Sep. 6th, 2022
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.
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.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than me.
Well, Boris Johnson is out and Liz Truss is in as British Prime Minister (Making her our fourth in six years... Yay stability?). Of course, BJ had to have one last go at a self-aggrandizing ego-boost in his final speech as PM, and didn't exactly encourage confidence in those hoping we might have seen the last of him by comparing hismelf to A) The booster rocket that falls back to earth (ie reusable) and B) Cinncinnatus, a Roman general who famously returned to the simple life of a farmer after achieving a major victory... until he returned ten years later as Dictator. Sigh...
In the US, President Biden caused much gasping and clutching of pearls when he finally announced he was tired of trying the bipartisan approach and called out MAGA Republicans as being anti-democracy.
I am slightly shocked that we have reached the 30th Anniversary of Batman: The Animated Series! This seminal series launched on 5th September 1992! (Though I will note, for the umpteenth time, that Britain got it first, as "The Cat And the Claw" was broadcast on the Saturday morning of 5th September, as opposed to the US which showed "On Leather Wings" later in the day (not even including the time difference!)
Amazon released the first two episodes of "The Rings of Power".
Sorry, meant this to be a bit longer and more profound, but such is life.
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.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than me.
Well, Boris Johnson is out and Liz Truss is in as British Prime Minister (Making her our fourth in six years... Yay stability?). Of course, BJ had to have one last go at a self-aggrandizing ego-boost in his final speech as PM, and didn't exactly encourage confidence in those hoping we might have seen the last of him by comparing hismelf to A) The booster rocket that falls back to earth (ie reusable) and B) Cinncinnatus, a Roman general who famously returned to the simple life of a farmer after achieving a major victory... until he returned ten years later as Dictator. Sigh...
In the US, President Biden caused much gasping and clutching of pearls when he finally announced he was tired of trying the bipartisan approach and called out MAGA Republicans as being anti-democracy.
I am slightly shocked that we have reached the 30th Anniversary of Batman: The Animated Series! This seminal series launched on 5th September 1992! (Though I will note, for the umpteenth time, that Britain got it first, as "The Cat And the Claw" was broadcast on the Saturday morning of 5th September, as opposed to the US which showed "On Leather Wings" later in the day (not even including the time difference!)
Amazon released the first two episodes of "The Rings of Power".
Sorry, meant this to be a bit longer and more profound, but such is life.
How many Robins is too many?
Sep. 6th, 2022 12:32 pmicon_ukIn honour of Batman: The Animated Series 30th Anniversary, here's one of my favourites.
"How many Robin's is too many?" (Oh the retrospective irony)
The cover introduces the story nicely...
( Be warned, this post contains violence to Robins )
"How many Robin's is too many?" (Oh the retrospective irony)
The cover introduces the story nicely...
( Be warned, this post contains violence to Robins )
Immortal X-Men #6: "The Devil's Party"
Sep. 6th, 2022 11:35 pmalliterator
"You don't just learn about their plans...you also learn about them as people, what drives them. It's surprised me -- I've just finished the Shaw issue, and he absolutely revealed himself to me in ways I've never thought about. Er...I mean in an emotional way, not in a reclining-in-the-sauna-at-the-Hellfire-Club way."
-- Kieron Gillen
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