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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 11, 2017 0:14:11 GMT -5
I was a senior in high school when the Ted Bundy killings began. One of his victims was a friend of a friend. He was still at it--and not yet identified--when I started college in the fall of 1975. I was one of several dozen young men who volunteered to walk female dormies to and from their night classes. The tension eased considerably when the murders began happening in Utah and Colorado. A few years later, the Green River Killer started up but, since he seemed to be targeting prostitutes and drug addicts, there wasn't anything like the widespread terror Bundy had generated.
Cei-U! I summon the scary days of yore!
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 12, 2017 9:10:34 GMT -5
I remember the Son of Sam killings all throughout the news here in NY. I didn't have a car and lived in the projects so I figured it wasn't likely that I was in danger.
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Post by tingramretro on Feb 13, 2017 9:02:23 GMT -5
Why do Americans call braces "suspenders"? It's very odd. Braces are what you use to hold your trousers up instead of a belt; suspenders are what women use to hold their stockings up.
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Post by james on Feb 19, 2017 20:44:12 GMT -5
The Bryne Superman run was a good run. It's not considered to be bad at all. I was talking more about the opinions of Byrne, in general. Not so much his runs on things. Everything I have read that he he has written, I have loved. <----I am exhausted, surely there is a better way to have worded that? I do not think I'm going to ever read his Wonder Woman, though. I have heard many bad things. Just tried to read Byrne's Wonder Woman and it was pretty horrid.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 24, 2017 13:54:59 GMT -5
There was a certain charm to the Atlas line and their characters. Too bad it went under really quickly. There I said it.
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Post by brutalis on Feb 24, 2017 15:12:49 GMT -5
There was a certain charm to the Atlas line and their characters. Too bad it went under really quickly. There I said it. Kind of Marvel Lite. Like New Coke it just didn't taste quite right and Atlas left too soon before anyone could decide if they liked it or not. Several months is just not enough time for something to catch on with the public consumer, especially when after 2 or 3 issues you choose to totally change or revamp what you are doing with a character. Cancelled too soon
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Post by MDG on Feb 24, 2017 16:44:46 GMT -5
There was a certain charm to the Atlas line and their characters. Too bad it went under really quickly. There I said it. Kind of Marvel Lite. Like New Coke it just didn't taste quite right and Atlas left too soon before anyone could decide if they liked it or not. Several months is just not enough time for something to catch on with the public consumer, especially when after 2 or 3 issues you choose to totally change or revamp what you are doing with a character. Cancelled too soon Especially when you're asking comic readers to buy an unknown quantity instead of the another Marvel (or DC) title. And, as I think I said before, the industry didn't need a new company to put out mediocre Marvel stories--Marvel already had that market sewn up.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Feb 26, 2017 22:24:04 GMT -5
I've never read it so maybe this opinion is not a very good one but I feel that the new Superior Spider-Man story that had Doc Ock take over Parker and become Spider-Man is a blatant expansion on the original Kraven's Last Hunt idea.
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Post by Confessor on Feb 27, 2017 4:33:20 GMT -5
I've never read it so maybe this opinion is not a very good one but I feel that the new Superior Spider-Man story that had Doc Ock take over Parker and become Spider-Man is a blatant expansion on the original Kraven's Last Hunt idea. Ummm...I sort of see where you're coming from, but not really. I mean, yes, in both instances the villain took over the role of Spider-Man, but Kraven shot Peter Parker with tranquillisers darts, buried him and assumed the role of Spider-Man in order to prove that he was Spider-Man's superior. Doc Ock, on the other hand, was dying and, using "science", managed to swap his consciousness with Peter's, so that when Ock's body expired soon after it was Peter who actually died. From then on, Doc actually was Peter Parker, just with Ock's personality. He was no longer a villain either and actually became a hero, albeit a much more ruthless and cold hearted hero than the original Peter had ever been. In each case, the villain taking on the role of Spider-Man is similar, but the details and the villain's rationale for doing so is very different,
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Post by The Captain on Feb 27, 2017 9:24:05 GMT -5
Maybe it's just me, but I don't really understand the appeal of Hellboy. The stories are entertaining enough, but I cannot get past the art, which just seems too "out there" for me. I read some Hellboy in Hell over the weekend, and it was a struggle to get through five issues of sparse panels of misshapen objects drowned in murky colors.
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Post by brutalis on Feb 27, 2017 10:25:23 GMT -5
Maybe it's just me, but I don't really understand the appeal of Hellboy. The stories are entertaining enough, but I cannot get past the art, which just seems too "out there" for me. I read some Hellboy in Hell over the weekend, and it was a struggle to get through five issues of sparse panels of misshapen objects drowned in murky colors. I don't own any issues of Hellboy. Like Mignola plenty but just never started into the series or followed it during it's initial release due to finances at the time so therefore never got hooked into it. Seen both movies and enjoyed those. If series is anything similar then perhaps one day start picking up collected books. Just too many other things currently addicted to in comics to begin yet another "new" addiction
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Post by The Captain on Feb 27, 2017 10:48:14 GMT -5
Maybe it's just me, but I don't really understand the appeal of Hellboy. The stories are entertaining enough, but I cannot get past the art, which just seems too "out there" for me. I read some Hellboy in Hell over the weekend, and it was a struggle to get through five issues of sparse panels of misshapen objects drowned in murky colors. I don't own any issues of Hellboy. Like Mignola plenty but just never started into the series or followed it during it's initial release due to finances at the time so therefore never got hooked into it. Seen both movies and enjoyed those. If series is anything similar then perhaps one day start picking up collected books. Just too many other things currently addicted to in comics to begin yet another "new" addiction I should have been more specific. I like the character of Hellboy and the world that Mignola created, and I own both movies and watch them regularly. It's just that I can't develop any kind of love for the comics.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Mar 5, 2017 15:41:03 GMT -5
Punisher is Marvel's best movie to date.
There I said it.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 5, 2017 15:53:39 GMT -5
Punisher is Marvel's best movie to date. There I said it. What's your second favorite, Howard the Duck ?
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Mar 5, 2017 16:01:37 GMT -5
Punisher is Marvel's best movie to date. There I said it. What's your second favorite, Howard the Duck ? Guardians of the Galaxy. Though I don't have much faith in the sequels recreating the magic of the first one.
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