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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 22, 2020 12:39:43 GMT -5
I don't think I've ever read a Spider-Ham appearance and/or title. Funny animal stuff really isn't my thing.
I do have the Hulk issues with Rocket Raccoon. But I bought them way back when Annihilation Conquest came out and he was in the Star-Lord mini. In fact, I went back and bought every first apperance of the Star Lord team except RR. Only because I didn't know he made a cameo appearance (unnamed) Marvel Preview #7. Which was on my want list for the Santana story. But alas thanks to the MCU the going prices are so ridiculous, I may never have the entire series in my possession.
:-(
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 21, 2020 18:48:58 GMT -5
Raising two teenagers is starting to kill me worse than a toddler and a baby at the same time.
There I said it!
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 21, 2020 15:17:46 GMT -5
For me personally, I enjoyed the 2099 comics and Age of Apocalypse. But I will agree that for the most part Marvel wasn't that good. I liked 2099 too, shame that they really never had much of an overall plan for it except "Marvel characters in a cyberpunk future". Punisher 2099 is probably my favorite title from the line because of how pure and unabashedly over the top it is. I liked what I've read of Doom 2099 and Spider-Man 2099 Punisher is the one I never got any of except the one title crossover they did. Mostly because 616 Punisher never appealed to me. But I do have all 2099 comics one my want list. Which is mostly Punisher with some Ghost Rider, Ravage and Doom. All three titles I didn't read at the time, but have since then started finding and reading. I'm waiting till I get all the Doom issues before I read through it though. I still have a handful of issues left to get in the latter half of the series.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 21, 2020 15:12:14 GMT -5
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 21, 2020 12:10:02 GMT -5
I could be remembering wrong, but I seem to recall Walt Simonson doing well with Sif, especially around the introduction of Beta Ray Bill. With Thor actually being able to utilize her as a almost equal warrior in helping Bill help his people.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 21, 2020 12:06:07 GMT -5
Good to know some worthwhile comics came out in the 90's. The 90's, as far as comic books go, gets unfairly crapped on a lot by a ton of people. I love DC, Valiant, and Malibu Ultraverse from that period. Marvel was just kind of a lost cause until the crash hit and made it re-evaluate itself For me personally, I enjoyed the 2099 comics and Age of Apocalypse. But I will agree that for the most part Marvel wasn't that good. Meanwhile for me the passing of the torch in GL, GA, and Flash really made DC interesting for me, as that was right about when I was getting into comics and it was nice to see new faces that I didn't have a whole lot of back story to find like I would have with their predecessors.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 21, 2020 7:56:01 GMT -5
Not too long ago our dryer went out. No heat, so figured it was thermometer or heating element. A quick google and my wife found that model is notorious for the thermometer going out. Quick search on Amazon and we found one for $7. One last quick search and see found a video on youtube on how to replace it. In any other time I would have either overpaid a repair man or chunked it.
But I agree most social media is a plague because we as humans (not the first time in history nor the last) use something potentially beneficial for things most unbeneficial.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 20, 2020 16:11:13 GMT -5
I really, really, really want there to be life elsewhere in the universe... but as you say, physics suggest that traveling from start system to star system makes our meeting rather implausible. Ditto with simple communication, although that seems a little more likely. Only the sheer vastness of the universe gives me hope that it may happen someday. In any case, meeting life that looks like us strikes me as wildly unlikely. And I don't mean humanoids with just a bumpy forehead... Even cutting evolution a lot of slack, I mean something close enough that we'd recognize it as something animal or vegetal. Given the very long chain of unrelated events and circumstances that led to the development of our current living world, the odds of finding the same process (or a similar one) occurring elsewhere are vanishingly small. Should we ever find aliens, I expect that Dr McCoy's line would definitely apply: "it's life, but not life as we know it". Unless... Unless the panspermia model actually works, and that life can be disseminated through spaces as bacterial spores hitching a ride on the debris of asteroid impacts. Once again given the vastness of time and space, that might make the development of kindred life forms on more than one planet. (Again kindred in the sense of "based on a similar type of biochemistry", not in the sense of "they're like us, only green"). I'm not as educated in science as you, but it's the one thing I've always found "unrealistic" (for the lack of a more pointed word) about science fiction in movies. Granted I know earlier in movie history special effects were limited so we got humanoids with bumpy faces. But I've always imagined that we might not even recognize it as alien. Like Rocket Raccoon just happens to look like a raccoon. But he's not an actual talking raccoon. Or like in Abyss where the aliens had been here on earth in ocean for many years. If I remember correctly the amount of the ocean we have explored is about as miniscule as space. There could be "aliens" in the ocean. Even if it's undiscovered sea life.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 20, 2020 14:51:34 GMT -5
Her/Kismit would fit that description as a cosmic villainess. She first appeared to battle Hulk and Dr. Strange. Then as Kismit she crossed paths with Moondragon, Thing, Starhawk and High Evoluntionary and Warlock in Marvel Two In One. And then Claremount used her as Alyesha in the rebooted FF after Heroes Reborn. She's definatly got cosmic connections even though her origin was the second attempt by the Beehive (though I think it was called something different) to make a perfect super being like they tried with Him/Warlock.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 20, 2020 12:45:30 GMT -5
One of the more powerful female villains I read was Nebula. She was created in the 80’s. I thought she was at her best not competing/along side Thanos. She had some good solo stories in Silver Surfer, and a few other cosmic minis in the 90's that I really enjoyed. I own her first appearance in Avengers but almost remember nothing about the issue. May go home and read it tonight to refresh my memory.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 20, 2020 11:19:02 GMT -5
Things that can be supported with data of some kind, even if the data is not complete is far more scary to me then what isn't. Is there creatures/entities of this realm that we are mistaking as the lost soul of humans? Maybe. But I haven't seen/read anything that convinces me of that yet. Alien abduction? That I have read a lot about. And there's just too many coinciding and corroborated stories that I at least think that there are extra-terrestrial entities involved or interferring with humanity. Are they like the Hollywood movies? Don't know, I thank God (if they are malevolent) haven't experience that yet. But the evidence to me is far more convincing of some kind of extra-terrestrials than there is ghosts. So that's why after finally watching Exorcist I was like "meh people were/are scared of this movie?" Communion on the other hand made me look around corners in the house for months after watching it.
I will say, though, and I don't know why, The Omen got to me. Maybe it was just a well made film, with a great cast and it made it at very convincing, even if I don't believe Satan inhabits little boys named Damien.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 20, 2020 8:41:39 GMT -5
I have yet to be convinced that ghosts exist, so there's really no fear of them. I'd have less stress/fright watching Exorcists than Communion. And as Batflunkie pointed out sometimes nothing is more scary than what's right in front of you. Unless it's xenomorph. Those *%$@$*$ are scary. IDK, when I first started living in the house that my mom grew up in, I swore that I could hear footsteps on the carpet leading up to my bedroom. They stopped once I found a box of my Dad's things that me and my mom got from his live-in girlfriend when he passed away I do think that there are certainly things out there beyond our own understanding and comprehension
I certainly agree that there are things in this world we might not yet understand or comprehend. I just tend to feel we can with science at some point (as we have with many things in our species existence) as oppose to spirits roaming our plane of existence in some kind of limbo over something more ... corporeal.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 20, 2020 8:38:12 GMT -5
John Wayne at least impressed my parents in his role in Quiet Man. I got named after his character. Trooper? Oh just tell everyone!
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 20, 2020 8:37:05 GMT -5
hondobrode
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 19, 2020 13:22:06 GMT -5
I have yet to be convinced that ghosts exist, so there's really no fear of them. I'd have less stress/fright watching Exorcists than Communion. And as Batflunkie pointed out sometimes nothing is more scary than what's right in front of you.
Unless it's xenomorph. Those *%$@$*$ are scary.
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