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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 15, 2022 19:21:44 GMT -5
Alright, I admit it of my own free will: I have rarely read any of the text stories in old comics. There. I said it. What purpose did those serve anyway? To show that there was some merit to comics by helping to raise literacy?
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 15, 2022 19:15:27 GMT -5
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 14, 2022 8:41:39 GMT -5
Here's some tat from the BBC Archive
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 12, 2022 20:32:02 GMT -5
I absolutely love Daredevil's original yellow costume, and never really liked the red version nearly as much. Never been a fan of Daredevil, but his yellow costume feels more pulp-novel like. Red costume suits him better I think
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 12, 2022 17:16:38 GMT -5
Really enjoyed the first episode. I recently reread the first arc that introduced Kamal Khan and aside from the powers/origins alteration, it was an amazingly spot on adaptation. -M I did the same, the way it captured the heart of Kamal and her family was perfect. One thing did bother me, and that has to do with the fact that her parents are so grossly over-protective
Have maybe read a little bit of the comic, but not much, so I have no clue if that's faithful to the book or what
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 12, 2022 17:04:37 GMT -5
I know he was very popular, but I could never get into Jake the Snake. He never really did it for me. I liked Jake because he was fantastic talker. I'd be lying if I said that I could actively recall a match of his
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 12, 2022 16:39:41 GMT -5
It's a sickness. seriously, I have more than a few formats of my favorite series he Avengers. I have the comics, essentials , Dvd- rom , reprint comics. I also have various collected omnibuses and tpb's. He funny thing is that I find myself reading Marvel Unlimited these days rather than pulling out the actual books. I'm still mad that I bought Marvel Essentials Captain America 1 & 2 just as the first two epic collections were coming out. I probably will never by them because of the fact that they collect less than what's in the Essentials collections. And personally, after Kirby leaves Cap the first time, it kind of becomes a tad boring (I was never really big on Englehart's run, regardless of what it did for the book sales wise). 80's Cap is where it's at for me, that's why I'm glad I bought Dawn's Early Light and have Monsters And Men coming soon. Hopefully they'll collect Cap after Kirby came back the second time at some point, because I remember loving Roger McKenzie's run
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 12, 2022 12:07:00 GMT -5
I would say much as retro appreciation has always existed with every generation, things feel particularly wide open which is awesome. Yeah, I don't really agree with this. It is undoubtedly easier for young people today to find and listen to old music, but I don't believe they are any more open to it than we were in the 80s and 90s. Which is wonderful in it's own way. I grew up listening to music that my mom liked, most of it new age dance like Enigma and Deep Forest and alternative. As I got older, I started having a taste for classic rock, eurodance, and New Wave. This was right around the time that Napster was becoming prevalent, it was like a goldmine that I don't think I'll ever get the chance to ever really experience again. Spotify and Pandora are nice though, I like Pandora more because it seems to find songs that you might like better
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 11, 2022 14:13:28 GMT -5
I gave up on radio ages ago. When I want music, I either listen to one of the 300+ albums in my Spotify library or one of the 25-odd playlists I've compiled on the same. With that much variety (I have eclectic taste), I never have to worry about overdosing on individual tracks. Cei-U! I summon the groovy goodies! I have enough music on my MP3 player with a wide variety of genres to keep me happy for a while. I also have my wonderful Sony CFD-E75 for occasional CD, Casssete (which thanks to working at goodwill, I've gotten a ton of), and Radio usage (mostly just classic rock and alternative)
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 11, 2022 13:37:05 GMT -5
More likely ignoring continuity to deliver a PSA, which was happening quite a bit, at Marvel. The movie approach worked a little better, that he metabolized the alcohol faster. I've seen other examples where Gruenwald cherry-picked continuity to suit his story and ignored something that contradicted. I don't think he was that different from other writers who emphasized what they wanted and ignored what they didn't like. He was more concerned with who fought whom, and when and the overall timeline, rather than that detailed a character trait. Well, and too, at this point Steve doesn't know Diamondback/Rachel all that well, so he could just be lying about his past until he feels more comfortable around her
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 11, 2022 13:28:41 GMT -5
Radio just went downhill, by the 80s, with outside programming and the lifting on ownership restrictions in local markets, which led to all of the stations in an area being bought up by conglomerates and then given the same formatting as the stations that conglomerate owns in other areas, so that one station is Classic Rock, one is Urban, one is Contemporary Pop, one is Hard Rock and one is Country (but never plays anything older than about 1987, so forget Hank Williams Sr, Patsy Cline, Buck Owens, Charlies Rich and Pride, Conway Twitty, etc, etc and damn sure no Bill Monroe or Grandpa Jones!). We used to have some great stations here that would play nothing but 80's and even had old re-runs of American Top 40. But it was too good to last, one became a Talk Radio station and the other became a generic "top 40" hits
Would be great if we had a dance station, but considering that I live in Alabama, that ain't happening anytime soon
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 11, 2022 13:13:43 GMT -5
So, was thinking about this while posting on a comic book group on Facebook in regards to a poster of Captain America talking about Alcoholism.
In Captain America #261, Steve is shown drinking Sangria with Josh and Sam and getting very drunk in the process (and somehow managing to fight off muggers afterwards) But then in Captain America #371, while Steve is on a friendly date with Diamondback, he talks about how he doesn't drink because of his father's Alcoholism
Now, granted these issues are roughly a decade apart and from writers who had very different approaches on how to write Steve, but considering the fact that Gruenwald prided himself on having an almost textbook knowledge of Cap's history, this seems like a very large oversight
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 11, 2022 11:56:22 GMT -5
Now, everyone has suddenly discovered Kate Bush, because of Stranger Things. I bought The Hounds of Love, while in college, after seeing the video for "Running Up That Road" on MTV (though they were showing a clip from Wogan, not the official video). I hear Patty Smtyh's "The Warrior," constantly, on radio, thanks to GLOW. Heard a cover Running Up That Hill by Placebo through a Wrestlemania promo. Didn't know it was a cover of Kate Bush. Also for some reason had an American Gladiators CD with The Warrior on it
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 11, 2022 11:29:53 GMT -5
Captain America #371-#380
Just got done reading the "Streets Of Poison" arc, thought it was pretty damn good even if it read like one big anti-drug PSA
Also, not to spoil the conclusion, but isn't this like the second time Steve has gotten de-powered?
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 10, 2022 21:25:47 GMT -5
Falcon and Winter Soldier had pacing issues and the lack of a truly compelling villain in The Flagsmashers and Karli, but the reappearance of Zemo, the introduction of John Walker, and Sam picking up Cap’s mantle made up for its shortcomings for me. I think the biggest problem I had with the show was the characterization of Walker being so drastically different from his comic book origins. Wyatt Russel looks like he had fun portraying the character, so there's that
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