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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 3, 2024 16:51:34 GMT -5
My wife. "You know how bad I am with names... can you tell me who these people are???"
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 3, 2024 11:41:47 GMT -5
Steeplechase
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 3, 2024 10:13:24 GMT -5
Knick knacks
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 3, 2024 6:42:45 GMT -5
Something that's weird to me is the amount of people who find Mayo on a hamburger revolting. Personally I enjoy it on a Whopper when I have one on the rare occasion but I see a lot of people treat it like a crime against humanity Also, found out about this earlier. MeTV (the people who air Svengoolie) is creating a sister channel called "MeTV Toons", a 24 hour cartoon channel that's on good old rabbit ears. Couldn't be more excited variety.com/2024/tv/news/metv-toons-network-launch-weigel-broadcasting-warner-bros-discovery-1235988916/
Mayo on french fries (or pommes frites), however, I'll leave that to the Belgians, the French, and the Dutch.
Mon Dieu! Mayonnaise on zuh frites ees what zey serve in Heaven!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 3, 2024 5:06:46 GMT -5
Show
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 2, 2024 16:59:19 GMT -5
Lump
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 2, 2024 16:35:32 GMT -5
hypertrophied
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 2, 2024 11:33:23 GMT -5
Make that four! And those bound volumes look amazing. Make that five. I think. You see, I’ve only seen the film, not the TV series, nor the book. I really liked the novel and its sequel. (I didn't read the third book).
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 2, 2024 9:49:34 GMT -5
Bought in May 1984 :
Arak #36, still in Arabian Nights territory.
Batman #374. All I remember from this one is the cover, but as the issue is pencilled by Don Newton it must have had pretty good art.
Conan #161. Oy vey! Now they decide to bring back Fafnir, the red-haired Vanirman who died in issue #20. (They seem to think his name is "Redbeard" most of the time, though.) Fafnir's death had been a poignant moment; bringing him back here is truly pissing on a great story. Oh, and he's now got a demon hand because we've never seen that before in sword and sorcery stories. No way will that paw cause trouble down the line, right?
Conan the King #24, continuing the excellent run by Alan Zelenetz. Conan's first born is supposed to be dead, and his second son is turning out to be very unlike his father. He's not strong, he's not brave; he's however petty, arrogant and very interested in magic. This issue has something we don't see enough of: a magic practitioner who's barely competent. Too often witches and wizards are shown as ominously powerful; here we get the Dollar Store version.
Kull #5, once again with a nice Michael Golden cover. We abandon the double-sized format, but this book stays really good.
Secret Wars #5. The entire concept of this series was silly. I look forward to its redeeming scene, in which Doom steals the Beyonder's power.
Micronauts #59. This is the end of the most recent war against a returned Baron Karza, and it is rather unsatisfying. The good Baron came back from the dead recently and assumed control of the Microverse once again (an event that defies all logic considering how quickly the status quo from issue #1 was reinstated, but one that was welcome as far as the book's interest went). Over the past year, our heroes have done all they could to topple him from his throne once again. However in the past few months the Micronauts/X-Men miniseries came along, a series in which the two teams joined forces with Karza to face the evil Charles Xavier, who was busy destroying the entire microverse with his mental powers. (Apparently, Evil Xavier's powers have omnicidal proportions. Why are evil versions of our heroes always more powerful than their good counterpart?)
That miniseries concluded, we now pick up where we had left... the Micronauts go back to the Microverse after a brief journey to Earth, and they find the place an utter shambles. Karza has killed everyone on Homeworld, or turned them into monsters in his body banks. Good guys and bad guys trade punches, Princess Mari stabs the Baron in the chest...the end.
Wait, that's it? After all this build up, we get Indiana Jones shooting that sword-wielding guy in the market? Yup. The creators of the mag are going away, and we have to finish this.
Then we reset the status quo once more: Mari isn't angry at Rann anymore, Microtron and Biotron are resurrected (or more correctly acceptable copies of them), we get rid of Fireflyte, and the team gets a new ship, the Endeavour II. Now concerning that ship... The original Endeavour was a masterclass in science-fiction vessel design. We could easily have used a new version thereof in this issue. But no, we get the most generic spaceship you can imagine; and furthermore, mention is made of its having variable geometry -weasel words meaning that we won't bother drawing it the same way two issues in a row. Then the tale is over, and the back cover informs us that Mantlo and Guice are leaving the book to work on Swords of the Swashbucklers. There would be an extra issue introducing the new creative team, but talk about a coitus interruptus finale!
New Mutants #19, with the Demon Bear and more Sienkiewicz. An uncommon artistic approach for a super-hero comic, and I for one was delighted!
New Teen Titans #1. I'm pretty sure I bought that, if only because it was a #1 issue (a rarity in those happier days). Both this title and the new Legion of Super-heroes were basically created to give their star artists, George Perez and Keith Giffen, a higher grade of paper; alas, both gentlemen would move away almost immediately.
Sub-Mariner #1. I remember that this mini-series was available at our local tobacconist, so I bought all four issues. It had Banny Bulanadi inking. But beggars can't be choosers.
Savage sword of Conan #102: an excellently-drawn issue, thanks to Gary Kwapisz.
Savage sword of Conan #103: a contender for the title of "worst issue of SSoC ever". It didn't win, but still. (It has Pablo Marcos art, though, if you are interested).
Tales of the Teen Titans #45. I had no idea there was an Aquaboy. Er, I mean Aqualad.
Thor #346-347. Slowly inching toward another Ragnarok, aren't we? More of the famous Simonson run.
Transformers #1. What, this comic was published that late? I could have sworn it was many years earlier! Anyway, I bought it... but not the rest of the miniseries. The art was very lackluster, as I recall, despite a Sienkiewicz cover.
West Coast Avengers #1. First issue... of course, I'd buy it! I might send my kids to college thanks to this book, one day! I always had a soft spot for Hawkeye, too.
X-Men #184. Professor Xavier, once again on his two feet and eager for action, wears a very ugly yellow bodysuit (a fact acknowledged by Nightcrawler in a letter page, somewhere). Here Xavier and the X-Men fight the Black Queen Selene, a character I would have killed as fast as I could if I had been, say, Wolverine. It turns out Wolvie would instead try to kill Rachel when she'd try to to that exact thing a little while later, because "X-Men don't kill". Ah, plot-mandated variable morality...
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 2, 2024 9:19:16 GMT -5
This was all a test to see if I could do it, since I wanted to bind Logan's Run, and Captain Carrot. Three Logan's Run fans! We should start a club Make that four! And those bound volumes look amazing.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 2, 2024 9:04:51 GMT -5
Capitalism
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 2, 2024 5:07:51 GMT -5
Eat
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 1, 2024 17:33:45 GMT -5
zipper
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 1, 2024 10:39:52 GMT -5
Interrupted
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 1, 2024 7:52:04 GMT -5
Danger
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