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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.

Somwhat ON topic, Richard Donner has passed away at 91, The director of movies like The Omen, The Goonies, Lethal Weapon and, of course, Superman, it's safe to say he shaped a LOT of our childhoods, and the perceptions of action, horror and superhero movies in particular over the past forty years.

The US has pulled completely out of Afghanistan after nearly twenty years.

In the UK, the Prime Minister announced that England is, essentially, going back to a pre-pandemic state (in terms of masks no longer being required, but recommended in certain situations, social distancing being removed) as of 19th July. This has been, as you might imagine, greeting with mixed reactions. Even those who are endorsing the move agree it's a gamble. Infections are still on the increase, though serious cases of covid and death are much, much lower than they were thank to vaccinations.

Iceland's experiment with a four day working week has apparently proved very successful

Netflix Transformers: War for Cybertron - Kingdom has a new trailer, and a release date of 28th July

Random question of the week - Favourite current music?

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From:

leahandillyana

On day of Tbilisi Pride March, queer orgs were attacked by neonazis spurned by hateful orthodox propaganda, with some orthodox priests joining the violence. The howling horde also attacked journalists who came to the event and bystanders who „looked queer”. A Polish tourist was non-fatally stabbed, but other people are fighting for their lives in hospitals. Pride march was cancelled, and in its place homophobic mob was celebrating on the city’s streets. It is suspected that police worked with coordination with the neonazis. A law is being written to outlaw insulting religious and national feelings in Georgia, similar to the one in place in Poland, but like, ON STEROIDS. What I find personally particularly upsetting is that a handful of grassroots environmentalist and ecologist groups joined the nazis. I knew nature conservation in Georgia goes hand in hand with social conservatism, but didn’t foresee the scale of ideology.
A serial killer was caught in my hometown. He killed three teenagers, and another teen girl committed suicide after being assaulted by him. The young man was known to the law, yet almost nothing was done – and instead the police kept suspecting local Romanis, I feel like smashing the fingers of whoever gave that order with a bat. It’s an extremely triggering topic. If you want to talk to me about me, use pms please.
Poland continues to work hard to catch up with Russia, Belarus and Georgia as the worst place to live in Europe (even with transition and open queerness being still legal, we had long surpassed Hungary). There’s a string of arrests of human rights activists under bogus charges, but since the judical arm now belongs to the governing party, nothing stops them from putting their enemies in jails. And despite all this, PIS consistently has over 50% popular support. Why, people, why? Is schadenfreude your national fetish, to the point you’ll sacrifice your own freedom and happiness to see someone you dislike suffer even more than you?
I opened a birthday charity event on Facebook and the platform banned my account IMMEDIATELY. Like, in literal SECONDS. And I just really wanted to quest for some money for the charity I am involved in! I feel so hopeless. My banking account is almost empty, I want to help people and animals, but I am not sure if I’ll be able to help myself! I wanted to visit a palm house for my birthday, but now even that is debatable.
Like, I’m trying to be realistic. I am not being actively persecuted and I am not in danger for living here, and at the same time I have easy access to drugs and other medical services I am in a need for. Meanwhile, if I left, I’d be the object of persecution in whatever country I find myself in, as a foreigner, and with my disabilities finding a job would be nearly impossible – I only have my job because somebody took pity on me. And I’m scared what would happen to my parents, my cats, my wild animal friends, my garden and my mother’s precious musical instruments if I left, and I cannot take them with me. (It’s the joke about Jews and pianos, only it was never funny.) I honestly don’t know what to do.
Some asshole put pins in the wheels of my father’s car. They must have done so when my father was at work, at home the car is in a locked garage. Dunno if it’s related to me.
(I am also a tiny bit salty that a post with one sentence clickbait lead got infinitely more attention than posts where I introduced some of my favorite recent comics :/ )

From:

iamrman

I have been re-reading History of the Marvel Universe and it has gotten me thinking. Now that Marvel is publishing Conan the Barbarian again, where does the Hyborean Age fit in to the Marvel time line?

I have been enjoying some Archie comics as well. Especially the rebooted Josie and the Pussycats and Jughead. The rebooted Archie is good as well, but a bit too serious.

One of my favourite parts of the rebooted Josie and the Pussycats is when Melody says they can't fight crime because nobody's mother is called Martha. An easy shot, but it amused me.

As for Jughead, I really liked the second arc guest-starring Sabrina the Teenage Witch. I had such a crush on Sabrina back in the day, so I look forward to getting around to reading her rebooted series.

From:

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where does the Hyborean Age fit in to the Marvel time line?

Same as it did before? Long, long time ago, but recently enough that several-thousand-year-old by that point Selene had a longstanding vendetta against Kulan Gath?

Bringing the crack since December 2003

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