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Post by The Captain on Jul 18, 2022 7:33:51 GMT -5
Also not really a bad thing, but really? Has Emma never met Tony Stark outside of his Iron Man armour before? They must have had meetings at social gatherings before. During the Civil War event, there is a scene where Tony and Emma are having lunch (tea?) together. During the conversation, it is revealed that they had an “arrangement” to hook up if either of them weren’t dating at a particular time, back when she was in the Hellfire Club. While it would be nice if Duggan could be aware of every interaction like that, Marvel hasn’t exactly been known for its attention to continuity over the past quarter-century, so one can forgive him for missing a throwaway moment like that. If I have some time later, I’ll try to dig up the exact issue that occurred in.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 15, 2022 12:12:52 GMT -5
I've also been wondering where the garter snakes went. I would see at last a few every year as a kid. I haven't seen any in decades, and I've always lived within 50 miles of my childhood home. You can come hang out at my house. We still see plenty of them, along with some big black snakes. Go about an hour to the east, and we’ll find you some rattlesnakes if you’re interested.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 14, 2022 5:54:17 GMT -5
Watched the finale with Mrs. MRP this evening and thoroughly enjoyed it and the series overall. -M Watched this with my crew last night. Disney/Marvel definitely did this one right, creating something that appealed to both of my daughters as well as something that my wife and I could really get into. Even though it wasn’t aimed at me, Ms. Marvel may be my second-favorite D+ show. I still like Hawkeye just a little bit more, but I think this surpassed Falcon and Winter Soldier for the next slot down on the list.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 10, 2022 19:59:27 GMT -5
I see by his minor league stats the past 2 years that he shows plenty of home run power, barely hits above .200 and strikes out a ton. He could be the next Joey Gallo Yeah, I used to call that the Rob Deer prototype back in the day. -M And before Rob Deer, it was Dave Kingman. And between Deer and Gallo, it was Adam Dunn, although he had a superior OPS due to being the living embodiment of the “Three True Outcomes”.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 10, 2022 18:42:07 GMT -5
I live in a small town in Buckinghamshire, England, amongst the Chiltern Hills and just to the North West of London. An hour's car drive (traffic willing) or tube journey East will put me smack in the middle of central London and an hour West will find me in Oxford. Our town is in a semi-rural location; with just a 10 minute walk I can be out in rolling countryside and there are a number of farms just outside of the town. It's actually a beautiful part of the world and I'm pretty lucky to live where I do. Was scrolling through this thread and saw your post. I knew you lived in the UK but didn't know exactly where. If you would, hit me up with a PM with any places/things that I NEED to see in Oxford, or if you have any restaurant/pub recommendations. I'm going to be in your neck of the world next month and we are planning on heading up to Oxford one day (I'm hoping to get tickets for the football match between Swansea City and Oxford United on Tuesday the 9th, but if not, we're still going to go up there and check the city out).
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Post by The Captain on Jul 10, 2022 18:37:13 GMT -5
I live in a small town in a subrural area just east of Pittsburgh, PA. Officially, we have just over 3000 residents as of the 2020 census, but we're surrounded by a township that has about 20K residents living in it, making our school district a medium-sized one for the area.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 10, 2022 18:26:53 GMT -5
I liked this movie, but didn't love it. There were some fun moments and some good action sequences, but it was a disjointed outing, much like Thor: Ragnorok. Credit to Taika Waititi for trying to do something out of the norm for Marvel, but he keeps missing the mark. The best part of the movie was Christian Bale as Gorr. You could feel for him while also being creeped out by him, but when you cast great actors, you tend to get great performances if you give them something to work with, which the writers did in this case. Natalie Portman also delivered a better-than-expected performance and showed some chemistry with Chris Hemsworth here that was absent from her first two outings. Maybe giving her an actual role instead of being "love interest cypher" energized her. The movie was certainly not without flaws. Some of the CGI, especially in the first fight with Thor, is atrocious (like "close to She-Hulk trailer" bad), and there were a few jokes that were painfully corny instead of being witty like they intended. Russell Crowe probably put on 25 pounds chewing all that scenery, and they also pushed the envelope with the language that I felt was out of place for the most part, but I'm an old man and I don't like kids on my lawn either, so take my assessment with a giant grain of salt. {Spoiler: Click to show} I was worried that the trailer's blurring of Chris Hemsworth's ass would stay in the film, which would have been off-putting, but Disney actually allowed the first nudity in a MCU film. It certainly wasn't for me, but there were three ladies I attended the showing with that didn't seem bothered by it in the least.
Love them giving a small scene to Darcy with Jane. When you have the history that the MCU has, bringing back fan favorites is a nice touch.
First post-credits scene gave us the introduction of Thor's greatest frenemy, while the second was a nice touch to give closure to a couple of characters (although who knows how the afterlife works for Asgardians).
The goats' screams are both incredibly annoying and amusing. I must have them as my text alert, because I'm an ass like that.
The scene with the kids imbued with Thor's power at the end was both kind of silly but also pretty cool, because they accurately showed what kids would do with the power of a god. Big props to Ballerina Girl and Stuffed Bunny Girl and their use of what they were given.
They showed two Celestials in Omnipotent City and there was a Celestial head statue in Eternity's realm, further tying the Eternals into the MCU, which they desperately needed if they want to make the Eternals a thing.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 5, 2022 15:52:52 GMT -5
Picked up tickets this afternoon for a Thursday night showing of this movie. Had to do it this way since my older daughter works Friday and Saturday, and I will be out of town at a wedding on Saturday as well. My younger daughter would have lost her mind trying to avoid spoilers until Sunday when we all could have gone.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 4, 2022 9:07:25 GMT -5
There are some minor errors. Captain America #100 seems arbitrary for an opening as it concludes a storyline that began in Tales of Suspense. Also, why stop Captain America at #111? Issue #112 is the "Album Issue", printed because Steranko couldn't meet deadlines (which, of course, led to him pitching a fit and quitting the book), but #113 finishes his entire story. This is like telling someone to watch Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back but not mentioning Return of the Jedi.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 3, 2022 21:27:17 GMT -5
I used to be OK with the 4th of July when fireworks were done by towns or municipalities on the actual day itself.
Now, with the rise of fireworks stores, any yahoo can buy himself some and put on his own show. As I type this, I have at least six neighbors setting them off the night before the holiday. It's freaking the hell out of my cats, and frankly, with how dry it's been around here lately, making me a little nervous about someone's yard or an open field of brush catching on fire.
Just not a fan.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 2, 2022 6:20:44 GMT -5
driver1980 - I had been thinking about doing a thread exactly like this entitled "The Old Bait and Switch" for a while now, but life has kept me busy and I never got around to it. Thanks for getting it started! badwolf - my inspiration for the thread I'd hoped to start was that exact same Alpha Flight comic. I bought it out of the $1 bins recently, because I'm a sucker for weird, little used villains (Diablo, U-Foes, Psycho Man, etc.) and was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO disappointed when I read it and found that it was all a flashback in Gilded Lily's origin story. Sure, it was only $1, but I still felt cheated.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 1, 2022 17:00:23 GMT -5
CAPTAIN AMERICA SYMBOL OF TRUTH #2. Written by Tochi Onyebuchi. Art by R.B. Silva. After the events of issue one Sam Wilson needs information. The person with that info is Deadpool. Who is in a Latverian prison. Lots of action that ends with Sam & Deadpool being prisoners of Doom... I am loving two issues of Capt America every month. Each have their own unique voice as they showcase Sam in this title and Steve & Bucky in the other title. Both have great story & art. I usually can't stand Deadpool but he was decent here, I really liked the way he played off of Sam. The plot about the Triple-S is also shaping up well, the mystery and political intrigue is building up nicely and I'm excited to see how the interaction with Doom goes next issue. I’m in the same space. Normally I cringe at Deadpool appearances, but he was actually tolerable here, probably because he was written straight and not as a fourth-wall breaking Looney Toon. Book’s been good so far. Hoping it keeps up.
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Post by The Captain on Jun 23, 2022 18:31:53 GMT -5
I watched the first two episodes. It's...fine. I'm clearly not the target audience and I've never read a comic with Kamala Khan, so I'm not remotely invested. Which is fine. Good for them for doing something to expand their representation. It's still better than Moon Knight or the incredibly dire What If? I’m not the target audience either, although I did read the entire first series via TPB borrowed from my local library a number of years ago. The show is faithful in a lot of ways, and I’m enjoying it enough that I would keep watching it even if... ...my two teen daughters, who ARE the target audience, weren’t thoroughly engaged with it. They watch it, rewatch it, check out the social media posts about it, and my younger daughter is spending her own money, made from working in the snack bar at our swim club, on the TPBs for her own collection. Representation damn sure matters, be it for Brown girls from Jersey City or teen girls from the suburbs of Pittsburgh. Guys like us are getting older and won’t be around forever, so Marvel is doing a good job of creating their next generation of fans in new ways.
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Post by The Captain on Jun 20, 2022 11:53:18 GMT -5
Yeah, I had the same feeling with Boone, though agreed, so far this year can't complain! Right, he's done so much with so little talent at his disposal... That was always my argument about the people saying what an awesome manager Joe Torre was. He was putrid with the Mets, thoroughly mediocre in Atlanta and St. Louis, OMG TEH GREATEST MGR EVAH with the Yankees, then mediocre with the Dodgers to finish out his career. It’s almost as though having a lot of talent and a lot of money to spend acquiring more talent to patch any holes is the recipe for success, not the guy filling out the lineup card and pulling pitchers.
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Post by The Captain on Jun 17, 2022 21:12:46 GMT -5
My wife and I forgot about something this morning... Our 33rd anniversary!
Looks like we're both sleeping on the couch tonight. Which is fine, as we'll be together.
Congrats!
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