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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 26, 2024 11:55:19 GMT -5
My wife has no idea what you are talking about... but she won't let me shave it off. She likes the look of a 19th century cavalry officer, but from the neck down I look more like a 19th century quartermaster. (I'm still at home in a saddle, though... poor horse.) My wife more stares me down when I try to change my hair more than my facial hair. I don't have long hair to my shoulders or in a ponytail because I like it. I'd shave my head with a bic razor if I had my way. But alas I don't. Now to get back on topic.... Ultimate Spider-man is the only thing of Bendis' that I have read that is any good. He's (or was not sure his status now) an overrated writer. There I said it! His Daredevil run, Powers and even the Avengers books were interesting.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 26, 2024 12:06:56 GMT -5
Beards had long been outlawed in the Navy, due to breathing gear, for firefighting. You can't get a good seal on the mask, with a beard. Glad they were okay during the Big One.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 26, 2024 13:23:27 GMT -5
Beards had long been outlawed in the Navy, due to breathing gear, for firefighting. You can't get a good seal on the mask, with a beard. Glad they were okay during the Big One. Maybe this drawing was fake news...
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 26, 2024 14:20:31 GMT -5
My wife has no idea what you are talking about... but she won't let me shave it off. She likes the look of a 19th century cavalry officer, but from the neck down I look more like a 19th century quartermaster. (I'm still at home in a saddle, though... poor horse.) My wife more stares me down when I try to change my hair more than my facial hair. I don't have long hair to my shoulders or in a ponytail because I like it. I'd shave my head with a bic razor if I had my way. But alas I don't. Now to get back on topic.... Ultimate Spider-man is the only thing of Bendis' that I have read that is any good. He's (or was not sure his status now) an overrated writer. There I said it! I liked a lot of hs pre-Marvel indy stuff like Powers, Torso, etc. and at Marvel I liked his DD, Alias, and what I have read of his Ultimate Spidey stuff. I like some of his Icon/indy stuff after he went to Marvel (like United States of Murder Inc. with Oeming), but a lot of his work-for-hire stuff has been hit or miss. The Batman story he serialized in the Wal Mart Giants was decent as well, but I haven't read a lot of his other stuff after he went to DC. He really is a hit or miss writer for me, and it is usually who he is collaborating with that determines if I will give it a try, not his presence along. On a side not, I hate the term overrated when used in this content. It implies a certain level of hubris and conflating personal taste with a level of objective quality to me-"I don't like this thing that a lot of other people do, so I must be right and it's not good and they are all wrong for liking it" hence it being overrated. If something that a lot of people like is not to your taste, that's fine, tastes vary, that doesn't mean everyone is wrong for liking it, they just have different tastes. It just feels like a part of the problematic us/them tribalism dichotomy that has become rampant, and it really rubs me the wrong way. But again, I could be the one wrong here, so if people want to keep using the term, it's their prerogative, I just find it a form of lazy thinking and analysis. If you don't like something, you don't like it. Tell me why and I'm cool, but calling it overrated contributes nothing of merit to the discussion imo. There I said it. -M
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Post by impulse on Jan 26, 2024 16:46:43 GMT -5
I tried to grow a beard about once a year every year since I turned 18. The first decade or so, I would shave off the embarrassing attempt and go back to shaving twice a week to keep stubble.
By my late 20s, one year it finally was respectable enough to stick, and I've kept a beard since. I keep it fairly short. I trim to a #3 to a #5 every month or two. I grew it out for a bit for my buddy's wedding where all the men were invited to wear kilts, so I leaned into it, but it's too tedious to maintain, so back to short.
I will also shave it clean once every year or two just to see my face, but my wife and I both prefer my face when it's covered in facial hair.
I also grew my hair out again during COVID. (The first time was at 30, cut and donated to a charity for kids when my daughter was a baby.) Like the beard, longer hair is both easier to maintain and my wife prefers it, so no brainer there.
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Post by Rags on Jan 26, 2024 23:41:36 GMT -5
I had mixed feelings about making a play for these 36 Archies from the mid 60s, still in their subscription wrappers. Thought they might be a fun add for a time capsule after I read them. The original 'owner' either never got his copies or kept them folded in half in their original mailers. In the end I declined...subscription copies folded in half are just too much to bear....even if they are a historical blast-from-the-past. I wonder how many subscribers balked after getting their books like this...and yeah, I know it was the norm back then. The lot eventually went for $66....not too bad at less than $2 each....
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 27, 2024 3:21:02 GMT -5
I’ve never seen comics sold online that way. They must be older than the hills.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 27, 2024 8:06:04 GMT -5
I had mixed feelings about making a play for these 36 Archies from the mid 60s, still in their subscription wrappers. Thought they might be a fun add for a time capsule after I read them. The original 'owner' either never got his copies or kept them folded in half in their original mailers. In the end I declined...subscription copies folded in half are just too much to bear....even if they are a historical blast-from-the-past. I wonder how many subscribers balked after getting their books like this...and yeah, I know it was the norm back then. The lot eventually went for $66....not too bad at less than $2 each....
The only novelty would be if you kept them in the wrapper.
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Post by Rags on Jan 27, 2024 11:42:21 GMT -5
I must say whoever preserved those copies in their original wraps did a great job, they look like they just came out the mailbox.
Think I'll get just a few subscription copies for their historical relevance, they show up ever so often.
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Post by MWGallaher on Jan 27, 2024 15:02:02 GMT -5
In the early 70's, when I bought my first subscriptions, the ads never mentioned that the comics would be mailed folded, so it was one of the two shocks I got, the other being that the comics arrived 2 weeks or more after I saw them on the racks, making it a frustrating experience, not a fun one. I seem to recall that in the early 80's, the subscription ads started proclaiming "All comics mailed flat!". One of the two titles I was subscribed to, DC's THE SHADOW, was cancelled before I got all the issues I paid for, and I was not offered an alternative for the 2 or 3 issues I was owed. Compensating for that, though, my other subscription was to BRAVE & BOLD, which published six 100-page Super-Spectacular issues and one giant during my subscription, and I got the full 12 issues for the price of twelve 20-cent issues I originally paid for. Those Super-Spec issues, by the way, were mailed flat.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 27, 2024 18:10:45 GMT -5
Kind of a scam for them to send you some random comic when the one you wanted was canceled.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 27, 2024 20:18:19 GMT -5
I tried to grow a beard about once a year every year since I turned 18. The first decade or so, I would shave off the embarrassing attempt and go back to shaving twice a week to keep stubble. By my late 20s, one year it finally was respectable enough to stick, and I've kept a beard since. I keep it fairly short. I trim to a #3 to a #5 every month or two. I grew it out for a bit for my buddy's wedding where all the men were invited to wear kilts, so I leaned into it, but it's too tedious to maintain, so back to short. I will also shave it clean once every year or two just to see my face, but my wife and I both prefer my face when it's covered in facial hair. I also grew my hair out again during COVID. (The first time was at 30, cut and donated to a charity for kids when my daughter was a baby.) Like the beard, longer hair is both easier to maintain and my wife prefers it, so no brainer there. That's the first time I had the opportunity to grow the ungainly stubble on my chin into an actual beard, at the ripe age of 55... and the $&# thing was already white! My wife likes it, though, so I kept it. I really envy the people who can look like Santa Claus in a matter of days. The best I could ever manage if I tried hard would be Fu Manchu.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 27, 2024 20:25:41 GMT -5
56 years old and I’ve yet to see a gray hair anywhere on my body.
I do have a natural hole in my haircut, but we take our victories.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 27, 2024 21:19:56 GMT -5
56 years old and I’ve yet to see a gray hair anywhere on my body. I do have a natural hole in my haircut, but we take our victories. Hell, I had 'em in my thirties; body hair even!
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Post by Mormel on Jan 28, 2024 7:18:26 GMT -5
Last time I grew out my beard (months ago) I counted four grey hairs (age 36). I usually keep both my scalp and my cheeks/chin clean shaven because I find it easy-maintenance.
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