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Post by tingramretro on Jan 24, 2017 15:48:53 GMT -5
Who's this "we"? The way I collect hasn't changed. I wouldn't waste my time or money on digital comics; I want and need the real thing.
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 24, 2017 14:24:30 GMT -5
Tom Baker helped to bring Doctor Who fame and prosperity into the good old USA. It was his turn in the blue box which was syndicated to PBS delivering this long running series to us. To many he is the 1st Doctor seen and their best Doctor. I had seen Doctor Who when i was younger as the Pertwee era was syndicated out to local independent television stations but it ran very early in the morning around 5 or 6 am as the start off against Saturday morning cartoons here in Phoenix. I clearly remember 1st seeing the Daemons and being entranced and having seen a few other of the Pertwee episodes here and there but once PBS premiered Tom Baker's version on a daily schedule that i could watch each night after coming home from work it was his Doctor's charm and wit that caught on. Once i had moved out from home on my own with a room mate where we both pitched in for one of those new fangled expensive as all get out VHS recorders it was Doctor Who recording time. Those poor old VHS tapes episodes were recorded over and over several times since i found out how easily the tapes broke so i would have several copies recorded so i wouldn't lose them whenever the tapes screwed up. From there it was buying up Doctor Who monthly in the comic book shop so i could find out all that i could and read the monthly comic book story installments. Now the Doctor lives on for me with the Titan comics which perfectly capture each version of the Doctor and present some truly wonderful stories and artwork. I have every DVD season since the relaunch of Nu Who, purchased the DVD's of the Tom Baker era's at Phoenix Comic-con years ago and in the last year have since recorded all the other Doctor episodes available from Retro Television. As it happens, your PBS stations inadvertently provided an invaluable service to British Doctor Who fans! Old Doctor Who was seldom reshown over here. When home video started to become a thing, and before BBC Video really caught on to the potential for revenue, hardcore fans started finding less "official" ways to watch it, buying bootleg tapes often recorded from American TV. I still remember, as a teenager, trekking up to Heathrow airport with a mate and the £50 we'd scraped together to hand over to a pilot who'd recorded half a dozen or so early Tom Baker stories while on layover in the States. I still have the tapes, and they still play! |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 24, 2017 13:23:27 GMT -5
Agreed, but to a Trump supporter it presumably seems like a smart move. I mean, from their viewpoint, what Trump has done here (as I understand it) is slash the amount of U.S. tax payer's money that gets sent abroad to help women in need of abortions in foreign countries. I imagine that would be regarded as a perfectly sensible thing to do by those Trump voters of a more isolationist nature. Never mind the fact that it leaves those foreign mothers who are rape victims without access to proper medical care or the mountains of independent research that proves that easy access to family planning/abortion services results in fewer unplanned pregnancies and maternal deaths from abortions. Actually, Confessor, it is not a cut in funding per se so there might be no economy; it is a modification of the conditions under which an NGO can receive funding. They must no longer perform, encourage, or give information about abortion. "What's wrong with that?" one might ask. It's just a stance on abortion, and as valid to one person as the opposite stance might be to another. That is correct; intrinsically, there's nothing wrong with having that opinion, if we understand what it entails. It's the same as being for or against higher taxes, for or against the death penalty, or for or against immigration. The message is however clear: the Trump administration just signed a document that is actively against abortion. The women who marched in the streets last week-end were right to be worried about certain rights. It won't come to that immediately, but with a conservative new judge in the Supreme Court (now that Congress no longer has to block the process), Roe vs Wade could be fair game in the coming years. It is still paid lip service by many high ranking conservatives ("it's the law of the land, now") but the subject keeps resurfacing. As for the president, his position on the matter is still ambiguous and has changed over the years. I have the impression that he'd rather not deal with that particular hot potato, but that his more conservative constituents would like him to. Actually, I don't consider an anti-abortion to be as valid as any other. I consider it ridiculous, in the early 21st century. Ridiculous, oppressive and inhumane. Nobody has any right to tell anyone ele what they can or cannot do with their own body. That should be self evident. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 24, 2017 12:19:57 GMT -5
Just read a recently released collected edition reprinting two classic serials from the short lived but well remembered British girls comic of the 1970s, Misty. The first story, Pat Mills' Moonchild, is basically a rip-off of Carrie about a bullied young girl who develops telekinesis, but the second story, Malcolm Shaw's The Four Faces of Eve, is bizarre even by the standards of British comics of its time; a young girl wakes up in a hospital with no memory of her past but plagued by nightmares of the death of a girl she doesn't recognize, and gradually uncovers her own terrible secret-she s actually four girls, having been created by an unscrupulous surgeon masquerading as her father from the corpses of three dead teenagers! Misty's target audience, incidentally, was girls aged from 9-12...  |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 24, 2017 4:37:34 GMT -5
Another step backward. No surprise, though. Just sadness. But hey, that's how democracy works... that's what enough people voted for. What is wrong with these people? |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 24, 2017 3:10:54 GMT -5
MDG
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 23, 2017 10:58:08 GMT -5
Gordon Kaye, star of the long running BBC wartime sitcom 'Allo 'Allo, has died aged 75. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 23, 2017 8:04:43 GMT -5
I'm posting this after writing it and staring at it for almost an hour now. I've gone back and forth in my head multiple times as to whether I should just delete it or not, but I've decided to hit "Create Post" in the end. I apologize if anyone takes offense to it, as my intent isn't to anger or upset, but rather to raise what I believe to be a valid discussion topic, related to the conversation between thwhtguardian and Roquefort Raider, in a respectful manner. I have to side with thwhtguardian on this one, RR. Do we tell the Jewish boy he cannot wear his yarmulke in class because the school has banned hats? What about the Muslim girl who wants to wear a hijab? In those instances, they are not harming anyone by their attire, so why should they not be granted exceptions, even if the exception is based on a religious belief? ; I suspect our opinions do not differ that widely. I completely agree with the "they don't harm anyone" aspect, which I would express as "they're not disruptive". Regarding the yarmulke or hijab: as long as everybody is allowed to wear them, I have no problem with kids wearing them. The point where we may differ is that I just do not recognize that someone's religion is more important to them than whatever deep non-religious belief might be to someone else. In the real world, I probably wouldn't tear my shirt if a school banned baseball caps in class and allowed kippas; I can see how the first really isn't that big a deal for the immense majority of baseball cap wearers. Allowing kids tp wear a hijab or kippa is not discriminatory against all hat wearers; sure, all are carried on one's head, but they do not all have the same function. Besides, and perhaps far more importantly, those are unintrusive accomodations. Less easily settled so is the problem of the ceremonial dagger. Even less so is the matter of construction sites where hardhats are mandatory. And what about jobs that demand one to wear a uniform? Are we to allow certain cops to dress in orange because they're Hare Krishna? I know the example sounds extreme, but should it ever present itself, I do not agree that the religious card should trump the normal dress code of the police force simply because we're talking religion. (Wearing a kippa or hidjab, however, is far less disruptive; one can easily wear them and a police uniform at the same time so the fat their origin is religious as well as cultural really shouldn't be discriminated against). Gotta go to work... sorry to cut this short! In the UK, followers of the sikh religion who wear turbans are exempt from the law requiring all other motorcyclists to wear protective hemets. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 23, 2017 4:04:40 GMT -5
Linda Sarsour is wrong. Sharia law is not reasonable. It is atrocious. Or if they really feel the need to administer it, do it in their own countries but don't come to the civilised western world and demand its implementation. This disgusted me in England.  I was incensed by this, too. They should have been arrested, or at the very least ordered to disperse, immediately. Instead, they were allowed to continue. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 23, 2017 3:33:50 GMT -5
The sewer dwelling Manhole Man, a regular mmember of Cheeky's supporting cast.  |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 21, 2017 17:31:21 GMT -5
They also tended to crease and, once creased, they were basically ruined. I know, "slightly" less flimsy, but still flimsy. 😸 I have all of the F / Q Dredd Rules! I bought as a teenager and they are all in really good shape. That was around the time I started bagging and boarding as much as I could afford though. Those were really underappreciated books. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 21, 2017 17:18:06 GMT -5
I wish comics came with covers which were more sturdy. Like made of polymer, as certain currency notes are. Ordinary paper covers get dinged and creased too easily. There, I said it. Some Dark Horse and Fleetway / Quality comics in the 90's had cardstock covers, which I always thought were pretty cool. They are only slightly less flimsy though. They also tended to crease and, once creased, they were basically ruined. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 21, 2017 17:07:06 GMT -5
Her time as Binary was an interesting era. I always wanted a team-up with her and the Silver Surfer, but to my knowledge, they never interacted. I do like the classic Ms. Marvel costume as a design. It's a great costume. Which one? To me, tbe "classic design" is the first one, not Cockrum's redesign. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 20, 2017 11:41:47 GMT -5
I was trying to tidy up my home-office. But despair set in after about 25 minutes so now I'm just sitting here,idly surfing the net.
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 20, 2017 9:28:19 GMT -5
Tom Baker, still the definitive Doctor to many of us, is 83 today. Happy Birthday, Tom!  |
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