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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 21, 2024 6:01:43 GMT -5
Impossible Team-up: Impossible Jones and American A.N.G.E.L. (2024) This is the fourth and, apparently, final volume of these Impossible Jones team-ups by Karl Kesel, David Hahn et al., again the result of a successful Kickstarter campaign. (My review of the preceding issue can be found here – which in turn has links to the earlier reviews). This one involves Imp having to deal with a villain named Krampus, a creepy thief who’s supposed to be dead and who was previously an ordinary guy who used gadgets, but now has apparently magical superpowers. After an initial confrontation, she barely makes it out alive… …and then enlists the aid of other supers in the city, including yet another new heroine in this universe, American A.N.G.E.L. However, pretty much all of the heroes, and anti-heroes, from preceding stories make at least an appearance here, and this one in particular has more callbacks to the preceding issue. The ending indicates that there will be more Imp stories in the future. It was, as usual, lots of fun. Also, as usual, it also has two Even Steven back-ups, the first written by Lee Allred with art by Steve Lieber… …while the second one is by Kesel and Hahn. Again, but are ‘origin’ stories which may or may not be true, and the second ends in a bit cliff-hanger, indicating that Kesel is planning to do more of these.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 21, 2024 3:26:11 GMT -5
Finally got around to watch one of *the* most talked about movies last year, Barbie...
I don't have much to add to the general discussion; I'll just say I found it generally quite entertaining, and also pretty thoughtful. And don't believe the hype from some quarters of the internets, gentlemen, it's not 'emasculating'.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 20, 2024 11:58:43 GMT -5
Rome had a good ending. (...) Many of Romans of the time would have begged to differ, methinks.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 20, 2024 7:05:25 GMT -5
Cross-posting this from the RIP thread... Just learned that John Trimble has passed away. 'Who?' you may be asking. Together with his wife Bjo, Trimble launched the letter writing campaign to save the original Star Trek from getting cancelled, so that NBC decided to shoot a third season. And that, according to the link, made it possible to put the show in syndication, where it eventually became a pop culture phenomenon and then on that basis became the mass media juggernaut that it is today.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 20, 2024 7:02:58 GMT -5
Just learned that John Trimble has passed away. 'Who?' you may be asking. Together with his wife Bjo, Trimble launched the letter writing campaign to save the original Star Trek from getting cancelled, so that NBC decided to shoot a third season. And that, according to the link, made it possible to put the show in syndication, where it eventually became a pop culture phenomenon and then on that basis became the mass media juggernaut that it is today.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 20, 2024 3:06:57 GMT -5
I have to pik a nit, MRP wanted us to post the Actual comic we own, not a scan from the internet. I've been doing that, but maybe some folks don't have easy access to the book in question (i.e., it's possibly in the bottom long-box in a big stack of long-boxes) and/or don't have time to snap a pic, so they're just going with an online image. As you can see, MRP himself used an image from mycomicshop this time around.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 19, 2024 14:20:29 GMT -5
I want my money back...
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 19, 2024 9:18:10 GMT -5
This week I'm going to go with a very old favorite, Amazing Spider-man Annual #10: For me, just that cover is so iconic, as it's the first Spider-man annual I ever had, and in fact the first annual I ever had. And I always wondered why the Fly never became a more regular fixture in Spidey's rogues gallery - he was a pretty cool and formidable opponent.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 19, 2024 7:21:05 GMT -5
By the way, I stumbled onto a really good album by an artist with whom I was completely unfamiliar on YouTube (the algorithm apparently recommended it because I was looking for tracks by, e.g., Funkadelic, Betty Davis and Quincy Jones when compiling my 1974 list):
What Color is Love (1972) by Terry Callier. I'll admit, that very alluring album cover got me to click the link, but I ended up liking the first track, "Dancing Girl" quite a bit, and gave the whole thing a listen, and ended up listening to it a few times more. It's very nice music, a sort of combination of folk and soul/R&B, with occasional jazzy elements.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 19, 2024 7:12:54 GMT -5
(...) Parks and Recreation: Boy they tried, but that whole final season was weird. Not so much weird as kind of superfluous. I'll admit that I think a lot of it is still funny, but the last episode of the preceding season was just such a perfect way to end it. And yeah, TNG had a great ending. So did Voyager. And, yes, Newhart.
A show that sort of had two endings, neither of which I liked back in the day when I absolutely *loved* it, was Magnum, P.I. Apparently, it was supposed to end with the 7th season, but then another one was added, so the last episode of what became the penultimate season ended with Magnum dying from a gunshot wound - which is a really downer way to end a more-or-less light-hearted show. Then in the actual final episode, he rejoins the navy - which I thought was almost worse than having him die.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 18, 2024 14:15:47 GMT -5
Hey, Slam_Bradley , berkley , and EdoBosnar , I'm just drawing up my 1994 list and I'm wondering if it's OK to include live albums in our yearly lists? Or is it best we limit it to studio albums only? I'm not generally a fan of live albums, but there are a few exceptions (one of which came out in '94). But by their very nature, live albums almost always feature songs from across a band's whole career, so they aren't representative of a set period in that artist's history like a studio album is. Thoughts? Catching up with this thread, again, and noticed that I'd been tagged here. Since I see these posts as Slam's show, I really have no stance on rules (even if I did, they would be extremely flexible). And otherwise, I'll basically be bowing out of drawing up any lists from this point forward, as 1992 was sort of a cut-off year for the way I had consumed music (and much of pop culture) up to that point - just as it ended up being a cut-off point in my life (it's when came to Croatia and then ended up staying here for the long haul). I would only very, very casually and superficially follow music for the next decade, and I never really got back into it the way I used to. (For example, I'm rather familiar with the song "Jailbird" - it got a lot of radio airplay over here - but until I saw you post about Primal Scream I never knew the band's name.) All that to say that I'll be following this thread more passively for the time being. Edited to add: yeah, that album cover is awful...
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 18, 2024 5:34:36 GMT -5
Actually, according to X-Men #10, it's pronounced "Kay-Sar." (...) Close to how, reportedly, the ancient Romans actually pronounced Caesar (i.e. Kye-sar).
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 18, 2024 3:54:06 GMT -5
Good show, and it was nice to hear Rob Allen. And it's nice to see Roy Thomas getting discussed - strangely enough, he never really seems to be the sole focus of any of the comics podcasts I've listened to over the years. Otherwise, since Roquefort Raider breached the topic of pronunciation, I have to say that I found it quite interesting that all of you were pronouncing Ka-Zar the same way I (and a buddy of mine) did back when we were kids (i.e., with the short 'a' sound) - which, of course, we all later learned was incorrect, as it's apparently supposed to be 'Kay-Zar'.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 18, 2024 2:36:31 GMT -5
This just needs to be shared, one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. There's a bonus to watching it all the way to the end. Personally, I found the cold open the very funniest part of what I saw of that show...
...but I love all of those close encounter sketches featuring Kate McKinnon as 'Miss Rafferty'. They're absolutely hilarious.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 17, 2024 6:31:07 GMT -5
(...) This is my pick, I don't know how they ended up chained together in this manner. It's explained in the story, which is actually pretty good, almost like a little horror short from one of the b&w magazines (the first dozen plus issues of the original Spiderwoman series were not bad).
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