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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 19, 2015 9:08:39 GMT -5
So being from a place where real sport is played, I'd never heard of Berra until coming across a slew of quotes a couple of months ago. If even half are actual quotes, and not just urban myth, that guy is a legend. He talks enough shit to be a true kiwi. He would have been a great guy to get on the piss with. No urban legend where Yogi was concerned. He's been famous (infamous) for decades for his mastery/butchery of the English language. Some of my favorites: "It's deja vu all over again" and "The future ain't what it used to be".
I've never been to New Zealand, but if kiwis sound anything like Yogi Berra, it must be a truly interesting place.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 18, 2015 17:13:24 GMT -5
Thunderbunny-Created by Martin Greim 1st appearance Charlton Bullseye # 6 Mar 1982 A thankful alien gives Bobby Caswell the usual set of super powers. The drawback being he turns into a man sized pink rabbit in Spandex. If he remains in that form for to long, the change will be permanent. The character might hold a record for different publishers in which he appeared in. Originating in fanzines, he hopped over to Red Circle when Charlton went belly up. Warp Graphics and Apple Comics also provided homes. He teamed up with The Mighty Crusaders and The T.H.U.N.D.E.R. agents. He even teamed up with previously discussed Pat Parker,War Nurse and Magicman
I have never, ever heard of this character in my lifetime and I was chuckling when I saw this cover Ish and I was surprised to see this character to team up with The T.H.U.N.D.E.R. agents and having said that this is regrettable as you come. This thread is getting more interesting as I read it. The Thunder Bunny/T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents teaming came during the period where the Agents were thought to be in public domain and a bunch of publishers used them for an issue each (excepting Deluxe Comics that put out 5 issues).
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 18, 2015 16:50:44 GMT -5
I think they wanted to avoid confusion with Ka-Zar, who had his own color and b&w mags around that time (he was the star of Savage Tales after Conan). I thought of that after I turned off my computer. Duh! It's pretty obvious that's what they were doing. I can't believe it wasn't the first thing in my head. First thing I thought of was that Lo-Zar was too close to "loser".
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 18, 2015 12:24:11 GMT -5
Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway. Anne Lamott -M Bananas Suck.
DE Sinclair
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 18, 2015 11:47:29 GMT -5
A few facts, courtesy The Economist: “After refugees are referred by an American embassy or the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, they are screened by Department of State Resettlement Service Centers all over the world. They undergo multiple investigations of their biographies; biometric checks of their fingerprints and photographs; in-depth interviews by highly trained Department of Homeland Security officers; medical screenings as well as investigations by the National Counterterrorism Center and by intelligence agencies. The entire process can take longer than three years. If a potential terrorist is determined to enter America to do harm, there are easier and faster ways to get there than by going through the complex refugee resettlement process. Of the almost 750,000 refugees who have been admitted to America since 9/11, only two Iraqis have arrested on terrorist charges; they had not planned an attack in America, but aided al-Qaeda at home.” As usual, the conservatives are the first to want to jettison every value that our nation says it exemplifies the second they can whip up fear among their supporters. They want “boots on the ground,” but their sons and daughters won’t be wearing them. They want mosques closed, but they rant about a war on Christians. They want the borders closed, no refugees accepted (unless maybe they’re Christians), and the President to talk tough. Because that always solves problems. The “hard-ass governors” (whose ranks shamefully include our own Ivy League-educated, charter-school-loving, union-hating man of privilege here in the somewhat progressive Commonwealth of Massachusetts) are cowardly, xenophobic, Obama-hating panderers who’d tell you that your shit was shinola if they thought it would get you to vote for them. They have no legal, constitutional grounds to scream like impaled pigs, and they know it, but since when has that ever stopped a reactionary from sowing fear and reaping knee-jerk support? Talk is cheap. And you know who are the experts at talking tough? Here are a few: Trump. Cheney. Every single f***ing Bush. Rumsfeld. Wolfowitz. Huckabee. Cruz. Carson. Rubio. Fiorina. All of them make war sound like it's just a schoolyard brawl. Shameless, every simplistic duplicitous one of them. Please see the following article from CNN about the response to the refugee crisis from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Association of Evangelicals. Just because loud-mouthed politicians are looking to score points with their tough talk doesn't mean that everyone is falling in line with them, even those that they are courting. "Don't scapegoat Syrian refugees..."I'm not Catholic, but I fully endorse what the Chairman of the Catholic bishops' committee on migration, Bishop Eusebio Elizondo, said in this article:
"Instead of using this tragedy to scapegoat all refugees," the bishop continued, "I call upon our public officials to work together to end the Syrian conflict peacefully so the close to 4 million Syrian refugees can return to their country and rebuild their homes."
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 18, 2015 8:42:28 GMT -5
An ISIS low-life is not likely to reveal himself as that, the strategy would be to 'blend in' and look just as beleaguered and downtrodden as genuine refugees. SCENARIO: 7 of them come in, praising America openly but silently wishing to seize the White House, cut off Obama's head and turn the USA into a Muslim province. Hardly likely in the long haul but in the short term, bombs go off, Americans die, and the scum hide among their own to remain indistinguishable. I can't blame the hard ass Governors for not wanting them around. Humanitarian or not. Your people will get killed. And what then? Another France? I'm intrigued that Anonymous has stepped in. A few facts, courtesy The Economist: “After refugees are referred by an American embassy or the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, they are screened by Department of State Resettlement Service Centers all over the world. They undergo multiple investigations of their biographies; biometric checks of their fingerprints and photographs; in-depth interviews by highly trained Department of Homeland Security officers; medical screenings as well as investigations by the National Counterterrorism Center and by intelligence agencies. The entire process can take longer than three years. If a potential terrorist is determined to enter America to do harm, there are easier and faster ways to get there than by going through the complex refugee resettlement process. Of the almost 750,000 refugees who have been admitted to America since 9/11, only two Iraqis have arrested on terrorist charges; they had not planned an attack in America, but aided al-Qaeda at home.” As usual, the conservatives are the first to want to jettison every value that our nation says it exemplifies the second they can whip up fear among their supporters. They want “boots on the ground,” but their sons and daughters won’t be wearing them. They want mosques closed, but they rant about a war on Christians. They want the borders closed, no refugees accepted (unless maybe they’re Christians), and the President to talk tough. Because that always solves problems. The “hard-ass governors” (whose ranks shamefully include our own Ivy League-educated, charter-school-loving, union-hating man of privilege here in the somewhat progressive Commonwealth of Massachusetts) are cowardly, xenophobic, Obama-hating panderers who’d tell you that your shit was shinola if they thought it would get you to vote for them. They have no legal, constitutional grounds to scream like impaled pigs, and they know it, but since when has that ever stopped a reactionary from sowing fear and reaping knee-jerk support? Talk is cheap. And you know who are the experts at talking tough? Here are a few: Trump. Cheney. Every single f***ing Bush. Rumsfeld. Wolfowitz. Huckabee. Cruz. Carson. Rubio. Fiorina. All of them make war sound like it's just a schoolyard brawl. Shameless, every simplistic duplicitous one of them. Thanks, you just made a response to Jez's comment unnecessary. Obviously, ISIS won't present ISIS ID cards at the boarder. Obviously, the US needs to do all these checks to try to weed out any ISIS terrorists trying to sneak in, and that's what they're doing. But I'm not willing to turn away thousands of innocents that are just trying to stay alive (and turn our backs on all our ideals) because we're scared a couple of ISIS bastards might get through.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 17, 2015 17:04:04 GMT -5
I read Watchman much after the fact, and my appreciation of it was dulled by the countless clumsy attempts to jump on the bandwagon. After a few readings, I've come to appreciate it more, along with a number of bits that were truly ground breaking at the time. With the "Black Freighter" interludes I understand the point to them, but they were never my favorite part. They always seemed like an interruption to the story I was more interested in. I also never saw them as being in the "pirate" genre, but much more in the "horror" category with a sea-borne theme. And horror comics have never really hooked me.
As far as endings, I think both endings are where they belong. The "space squid" would never have played well to the movie going public, so Dr. Manhattan made a good substitute. And Dr. Manhattan wouldn't have been "over-the-top" enough for what was going on in the comics.
Overall, I'm saying a solid 8.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 17, 2015 10:15:40 GMT -5
I'm sorry you've chosen the path of evil (fruit). Any chance you could switch to pancakes instead? They saved Hellboy after all. I have to for personal reasons but it's not a bad thing, I don't mind bananas. If it's something you're forced into, then you have my sympathy.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 17, 2015 10:12:15 GMT -5
Unfortunately, Coulter doesn't have a monopoly on stupid, bigoted crap. Sunday the Green Bay Packers observed a moment of silence in respect for the dead and wounded in the cowardly attacks in France. During the moment of silence, some moron screamed out an anti-Muslim slur that was audible all the way down to the field. Our quarterback Aaron Rodgers denounced the fool in his post game interview.
In other news, 20 US governors (including our idiot-in-chief, Scott Walker) have come out saying that they intend to refuse entry into their states by any Syrian refugees, in case ISIS members try to sneak in. Granted, any ISIS low-lifes should be refused entry, but what about the thousands that are just trying to get out of Syria to survive? Improve the screening process to try to weed ISIS out, sure, but virtually all of these refugees are just innocent victims of these same cowards.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 17, 2015 9:52:05 GMT -5
I know that this thread is anti-bananas No, no, no, there's a separate thread for that, the poor souls. Sorry, but the official thread title is "The coffee (and bananas) thread" so anti-banana rants are acceptable. Technically, pro-banana rants would be allowed too (mrp, I'm looking at you), though I can't understand why anyone would want to.
The other banana thread is for anti-banana rabble rousing. As the song says, "someone's got to raise some hell, it might as well be me".
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 17, 2015 9:47:21 GMT -5
I know that this thread is anti-bananas but I have to share that I have to start adding bananas to my diet. I'm sorry you've chosen the path of evil (fruit). Any chance you could switch to pancakes instead? They saved Hellboy after all.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 17, 2015 9:42:56 GMT -5
Hi all, Just found this forum after a google search on Aftershock Comics. It seems like such a friendly and active site so I hope you won't mind my joining in the fun. My real name is Darin Henry and I'm originally from Central Pennsylvania, though I relocated years ago to Los Angeles where I write TV sitcoms like Seinfeld, Futurama, and currently Disney's hit spy comedy KC Undercover. I've loved comics since before I could read and I recently started a comic book company called Sitcomics that mixes my day job with my hobby. I'll keep lurking in the forum and join in when I can. bye... Welcome wonderlad & sitcomics! We're always glad to have new members so feel free to join in. We get into everything from comics, toys, movies, politics, foods we hate, and life in general. Pull up a stack of comics and hang around a while.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 17, 2015 9:04:09 GMT -5
pakehafulla
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 13, 2015 16:40:59 GMT -5
Don't want to make an overly big deal about this, but I just don't see this three-panel sequence... as clumsily handled by either O'Neil or Adams. Carelessly colored, yes (Look at GL's gloves), but it's simple, direct, and devastating. Melodramatic? Of course. We're neither expecting nor looking for Samuel Beckett here, though. Now, it's been a while since I reread the story, so I can't swear to the skill, or lack thereof, with which those panels were woven into the story, but standing alone, they don't strike me as clumsy in execution. And I know that especially in the light of history, O'Neil's writing, which was written in the heat of the moment was often as subtle as a pile-driver, but still, those three simple panels clumsy? I just don't see it. And it ain't my way to be snarky, at least to dem as I likes, D.E. I appreciate it, and never thought you to be anything but totally sincere, certainly not snarky. In all honesty, I wasn't really happy with my phrasing as "clumsy", but couldn't think of a better way to put it, until you did. "Subtle as a pile-driver" sums it up well.
The other thing that bothered me about that is that he is suggesting that GL should be making socio-economic change happen for the "black skins" because he did so much for aliens, and based on the fact that he hadn't, he was being racist. But GL never, to my recollection, restructured the social, economic, or political culture for anyone else, alien or terrestrial, just saved their lives, planet, etc., just as he had everyone on Earth multiple times. So why should he be shaming GL, insinuating that he made life cushy for aliens but not for one group on Earth based on skin color? He did the same for earthlings as he did for aliens, saved their lives multiple times.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 13, 2015 16:26:33 GMT -5
I would like to see her debate Ben Carson. She'd wipe the floor with him.
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