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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.

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.

The UK is baking in temperatures our buildings and lifestyles aren't really designed to cope with. we've officially hit 39.1C, which is a new record, and may hit 40C. Stay cool and hydrated as best you can, UK folks! (And everyone else as well, of course, especially in those places with dangerous wildfires going on around them)

The unengaging media mediocrity morass which is the Conservatives choosing their new leader, and thus our next PM continues in all it's sulky, sniping unglory. As one commentator put it; To start with they staged TV debates so that people could see what the candidates were really like. They've now cancelled the next TV debatese because people were seeing EXACTLY what the candidates were relaly like, and it wasn't edifying.

I finally got around to watching Doctor Stranger and the Multiverse of Madness and was not overly impressed by the story, and thought some of the visuals were creative, even if they didn't do very much with them. But we have a NoScans post about it somewhere I might check in on.

Too hot to focus on much today, so will leave this short, but will end this with a suggestion: If there’s someone you’ve been meaning to speak to, or message, or just reach out to to get back in touch with, but haven’t got around to yet for whatever reason.

If you can, just stop what you’re doing at the moment, and go do it now.

We promise we'll still be here when you get back.

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From:

zachbeacon

I’ve never really thought of Bob’s Burgers as having great animation but the movie has some really impressive movements (especially in some of the musical numbers). I do think the murder mystery aspect falls flat. “Trr, V jbaqre jub gur xvyyre vf. Fheryl vg pbhyqa’g or gur oenaq arj punenpgre eryngrq gb gur gjb cevzr fhfcrpgf.”

Not sure if the last of episode of Ms. Marvel was meant to be a comedy but it was hilarious.
Gur Qnzntr Pbageby ynql pbagvahrf gb or fb pnegbbavfuyl enpvfg naq vapbzcrgrag gung fur znxrf ure pb-jbexref ybbx tbbq ol pbzcnevfba.
Gur qnl vf fnirq ol Mbr; n punenpgre gurl arire obgurerq gb qrirybc ba fperra. Nfx lbhe pbzvp-ernqvat sevraqf nobhg ure, V thrff.
ZPH Zf. Zneiry vf n ZHGNAG nyvra? OJNUNUNUNUN.
Ercynpvat gur rzovttravat cbjref jvgu raretl pbafgehpgf jnfa’g terng ohg tvivat ure gur funcrfuvsgvat cbjref gung fur hfrq znlor bapr va gur pbzvpf vf gur jrveqrfg pbafbyngvba cevmr.
Some things I did like:
Gung gur erfg bs gur snzvyl nyernql xarj nobhg Xnznyn’f qbhoyr yvsr orsber ure pbasrffvba. V jbhyq unir cersreerq gurz gb svther vg gurzfryirf ohg n pybfr-xavg snzvyl orvat hanoyr gb xrrc n frperg jbexf gbb.
Jngpuvat gur pbzzhavgl pbzr gbtrgure gb onpx hc gurve ureb jnf bar bs gur ener zbzragf vg sryg yvxr gur pbzvp.

After being repeatedly being delayed by Barnes and Noble, the order I placed for the Impossible Jones trade got cancelled. It looks like the book might be rescheduled until October but I no longer see anyone offering preoders. That’s not a great sign especially for an indie book.

(Though some of the print runs for some major publishers have been microscopic the past few years too.)

RE Batman Urban Legends vol 2: I think I mentioned it before but I really hate the way they collect this series. Thankfully this volume is all Batfamily or Outsider (close enough) stories and not 50% Grifter stories that happen to be set in Gotham. Admittedly I’ve already read half the stories in this collection because I got worried the Tim stories wouldn’t be collected and bought the first six single issues digitally and some of the other stories are collected elsewhere. Of the new stuff, I thought the time travel story was the most substantial. I liked what the Jean Paul story set up …but it does just feal like setup. I was surprised by how much I liked the Kate story both because it’s a Fear State tie-in and because I don’t think I’ve actually enjoyed a Batwoman story since Rucka.

I’ve been reading Symbiote Spider-Man by that writer we don’t talk about. Having a male lead means the Greg Land art isn’t as porny as it could be but there’s at least one panel with Betty Brant Leeds that’s unintentionally hilarious. The Felica/May meeting is really nice and I liked that Felica didn’t see the fragile old lady that Peter sees and told him he should share his secret with her (though Black Cat never does ask Peter to go back to school). I love a good villain friendship and now Mysterio and the Spot is a team-up I didn’t know I wanted. I also enjoy the running gag where everyone else clocks that there’s something off with the black costume and they either don’t tell him or he doesn’t believe them. My biggest criticism is that most of these stories don’t really feel like they matter*. I know that’s asking a lot for a bunch of stories set in a very specific era of the past but after the first mini most of these stories take place in an alternate reality, another dimension, or end with a memory wipe. They do seem to be going all in on the MCU synergy though; even the King in Black prelude mini prominently features the 80s versions of characters being pushed in Phase Four of the movies.
*Though the brief Chameleon cameo makes the BND Obama story funnier in hindsight. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Catching up on several months’ worth of Big Ethel Energy. I tend to be bad about staying current on these Webtoons generally but this series would be exhausting to read weekly.
Gjb bs gur qrafre pnfg zrzoref unir unq guvatf fcryyrq bhg sbe gurz naq gurl frrz gb or ernpgvat va irel qvssrerag jnlf. Ubcrshyyl Rgury qbrfa’g frys-fnobgntr zber guna fur nyernql unf.
V yvxr Xrryl zber rirel gvzr fur fubjf hc.
(Cerggl fher Rgury jnf guvaxvat nobhg zheqrevat gung xvq gung pnyyrq ure ”Zn’nz”)
“Sbbqghore Whturnq” znqr n ybg bs frafr. “Ergverq Grpu Oeb Whturnq” whfg znxrf zr qvfyvxr uvz zber naq ur jnf nyernql bar bs gur jbefg Whturnqf.
Ba n eryngrq abgr, V nffhzrq Ubg Qbt unq cnffrq ohg V jbhyq unir engure unir abg unq gur pbasvezngvba.
V guvax V fnvq vg orsber ohg Nepuvr ernyyl crnxrq va uvtu fpubby, uhu?
Irebavpn naq Erttvr ner na vgrz va guvf havirefr? Qvq gurl rfgnoyvfu gung nyernql? Va nal pnfr …tebff. V qb guvax gurl’er orvat n yvggyr gbb uneq ba Erttvr naq n yvggyr gbb rnfl ba Irebavpn ohg arvgure qrfreirf gur fgnyxre.
Jbeevrq Zf. Tehaql vf va sbe fbzr urnegnpur.
V yvxr Frgu yrff rirel gvzr ur fubjf hc.

Since my Dr. Strange read-through has been stalled for a while, I decided to skip the remaining miscellanea (mostly one-shots and Defenders stuff) for now and jump right into the Death of Doctor Strange. V unira’g svavfurq vg ohg V yvxr gur uvtu pbaprcg bs vairfgvtngvat lbhe bja zheqre. Gur rkrphgvba pbhyq hfr fbzr jbex ba Fgrcura’f cneg, gubhtu. Crbcyr tvir Gbal Fgnex n uneq gvzr sbe abg univat erprag onpxhcf ohg guvf thl vf sebz fb rneyl va gur Qvgxb ren gung ur qbrfa’g erpbtavmr Pyrn. Vgf qbhoyl shaal gung ur jnf fhccbfrqyl perngrq gb chg Qe. Fgenatr’f nssnvef va beqre rira gubhtu ur xabjf irel yvggyr bs jub ur orpbzrf naq jub vf vzcbegnag gb uvz. V’z abg fher jung cnfg Fgenatr pbhyq nppbzcyvfu gung Jbat pbhyqa’g gubhtu fb sne “chggvat nssnvef va beqre” unf vaibyirq unaqvat Fcvqre-Ora n “gb qb” yvfg.

From:

tripodeca113

Have continued watching more of the 90's Spider-Man cartoon. Season two ended with a two parter about the Vulture. I know he's a classic Lee/Ditko era villain, but not every villain deserves a multi-part story.
Watching season three we have gotten to the introduction of no-ones favourite Spider-Man character: Madame Web.

My brother also ordered the DVD of the 90's Fantatsic Four cartoon. It's....not very good. I think it's meant to be light hearted, or tongue-in-check, but it doesn't really work. It feels like a lost Hana-Barbera cartoon.
Also the Thing raps in this.

I've started Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. I WILL find a Gerudo women and take a screenshot of her and her abs.

The government has rolled out a new unemployment system, and naturally several weeks after release the website is still missing key features, rendering it basically unusable.

From:

iamrman

Have you gotten to Morbius and his horiffic hands yet?

If I remember correctly, the Fantastic Four gets better in its second season.

Breath of the Wild has tall buff ladies, you say?

Bringing the crack since December 2003

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