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Post by tingramretro on Jun 12, 2017 1:50:43 GMT -5
I've had an idea kicking around for years for a one-shot called Madame Fatal and the Spider Widow, a classic love story about two average youngsters who fight crime dressed as old ladies in 1940s New York... I believe Spider Widow is a public domain character. Is Madame Fatale also? Madam Fatal is a former Quality character currently owned by DC. Spider Widow was also a part of the Quality stable, all of which was sold to DC, but they have never used her so she would be in the public domain now. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 11, 2017 12:19:42 GMT -5
I've had an idea kicking around for years for a one-shot called Madame Fatal and the Spider Widow, a classic love story about two average youngsters who fight crime dressed as old ladies in 1940s New York...
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 11, 2017 7:46:40 GMT -5
The definitive screen Batman. Another chunk of my childhood gone...
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 10, 2017 10:07:32 GMT -5
I just have dozens (and dozens) of boxes that have massively mixed up titles (one or two issues of each thing) all just stored together. yeah.. . I'll never find anything ever again. I would literally not be able to sleep at night...  |
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 10, 2017 9:41:33 GMT -5
The kind who can't be bothered to have a separate box for half a dozen copies of random Image titles (probably all I've bought from that company in twenty years) and who therefore files his two issues of WildC.A.T.S between a solitary issue of Wild Cards [/ic](Epic) and the Wild Dog limited series (DC) because it seems to make sense and to make them easier to find. Likewise, Tarzan has had multiple publishers, but why would I not want all my Tarzan comics in the same box?
You paid money for two separate issues of WildC.A.T.S? What kind of animal are you? Actually, I think they were part of a collection I bought as a job lot. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 10, 2017 8:18:57 GMT -5
It depends how you normally organize thing. The bulk of my collection is boxed alphabetically regardless of publisher, though certain characters I'm fond of have their own boxes which also include spin-off books (eg The Defenders, who have a box also containing their appearances in Marvel Feature plus limited series' starring Nighthawk, Hellcat and Gargoyle). Boxed alphabetically, regardless of publisher? What kind of animal are you? The kind who can't be bothered to have a separate box for half a dozen copies of random Image titles (probably all I've bought from that company in twenty years) and who therefore files his two issues of WildC.A.T.S between a solitary issue of Wild Cards (Epic) and the Wild Dog limited series (DC) because it seems to make sense and to make them easier to find. Likewise, Tarzan has had multiple publishers, but why would I not want all my Tarzan comics in the same box? |
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 10, 2017 1:57:26 GMT -5
It depends how you normally organize thing. The bulk of my collection is boxed alphabetically regardless of publisher, though certain characters I'm fond of have their own boxes which also include spin-off books (eg The Defenders, who have a box also containing their appearances in Marvel Feature plus limited series' starring Nighthawk, Hellcat and Gargoyle).
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 10, 2017 0:20:54 GMT -5
I find it hilarious that some people are finally discovering that the DUP is a bigoted, religious fundamentalist party now that they're provided the necessary votes for Theresa May to form a government. They've always been that way. People just ignored it so they could avoid the ugly truth of imperialism in Northern Ireland. I don't think people are "just discovering" it. It's just that they weren't particularly relevant to anyone outside NI until now. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 9, 2017 12:20:07 GMT -5
I liked Hawkman's Golden Age origin. Though the silver/bronze age versions were alright though not my cup of tea, I think Hawkman was far better as a constantly reincarnated Egyptian prince exposed to alien tech that crash landed in the desert. Like a smarter version of Ancient Aliens I agree completely. For all the rest of the Silver Age reboots, I think the latter-day versions are more interesting and dynamic, but the Golden Age Hawkman was always a much more compelling character. I think I'm probably in the minority here but, much as I enjoyed pre-Crisis continuity, particlarly the Earth Two stuff, I actually liked Crisis and the new universe it created, despite all its problems, mostly because it brought the Golden Age characters firmly into the "main" continuity and ended up giving us wonderful concepts like the Flash as a legacy character, which I really enjoyed. I doubt we'd ever have seen stuff like James Robinson's Starman without Crisis, or seen nearly as much of characters like Jay Garrick and Alan Scott cropping up all over the place as they did from the early 90s onwards. I thought the idea of a merged Earth had a lot going for it, but what they did with it turned me off DC. They either ought to have: (a) done what Marv Wolfman wanted to do (and what DC ironically did decaded later), and start everything over from scratch with new #1's and new continuity; OR (b) carefully crafted everything into a seamless web with people like Wolfman, Roy Thomas, and E Nelson Bridwell at the core. Instead, they came up with hodgepodge of mixed soft and hard reboots and a feeling that they didn't care at all about the legacy they had spent decades crafting. It completely alienated me as a fan and eventually I stopped buying mainstream DC titles. It actually took awhile for things to start going seriously wrong though, and when they did, it really had nothing to do with Crisis. Like the Hawkman fiasco, which didn't start until three years later, really. Or the Challengers of the Unknown thing. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 9, 2017 7:47:08 GMT -5
Bye bye Teresa  Not gone yet, but purely a matter of time after her baldly-political decision to run an unnecessary election has blown up in her face. Except that having called and lost an unnecessary election, and despite the fact that many in her own party want her to resign, she has now announced her intention to form a minority Conservative government with the backing of the Democratic Unionist Party, saying they are "clearly" the only ones "legitimately" in a position to do so, and to continue doing everything she said she intended to do before the election, including giving more powers to the police and intelligence services to "combat extremism". Anybody got a contact number for that weirdo in the Guy Fawkes mask? I think we might need him... |
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 9, 2017 7:35:29 GMT -5
I think I'm probably in the minority here but, much as I enjoyed pre-Crisis continuity, particlarly the Earth Two stuff, I actually liked Crisis and the new universe it created, despite all its problems, mostly because it brought the Golden Age characters firmly into the "main" continuity and ended up giving us wonderful concepts like the Flash as a legacy character, which I really enjoyed. I doubt we'd ever have seen stuff like James Robinson's Starman without Crisis, or seen nearly as much of characters like Jay Garrick and Alan Scott cropping up all over the place as they did from the early 90s onwards.
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 8, 2017 13:17:02 GMT -5
"Trump shares more strategic goals with ISIS than he does with the Mayor of London." I can believe that. He wants us to be afraid. And having heard Theresa May say that if civil rights laws need to be changed in order to combat extremism, they will, I am afraid. But not of Islamic terrorists. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 8, 2017 2:33:12 GMT -5
Unsurprisingly, Captain Britain.
Though the original Flash (Jay Garrick) comes a close second, as do Nighthawk of the Defenders, Vision and Swordsman of the Avengers, Angel of the X-Men, Alan Scott, Wildcat, Power Girl, Red Sonja and Judge Dredd.
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 8, 2017 2:24:16 GMT -5
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 7, 2017 7:35:33 GMT -5
I couldn't find my cat for over 12 hours. At 4am this morning I did a thorough search of my apartment and even looked outside and didn't find her. Then at 430am I rolled over and looked and saw her at the food bowls. By doing this she has avoided her medication two nights in a row. You might need to keep her confined until her course of treatment is up. That's what we had to do when one of ours had a similar condition. |
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Not gone yet, but purely a matter of time after her baldly-political decision to run an unnecessary election has blown up in her face.
