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Post by The Captain on Feb 17, 2022 15:44:21 GMT -5
Happy Birthday Kurt!
In your honor, I'm going to take your book to my daughter's swim meet tonight and read it during the events she isn't swimming.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 13, 2022 16:58:01 GMT -5
Couldn't care less about the NFL (I haven't watched a game in seven years), but I'm rooting for the Rams, as Aaron Donald grew up in my hometown and we graduated from the same high school (quite a few years apart, however), and he is, by all accounts, a very humble guy who gives back to our town whenever he can.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 13, 2022 16:43:02 GMT -5
Do I have to binge the rest of SHIELD? I guess I might as well give up on Jessica Jones. I can only speak for myself, but I really enjoyed the final season. The final season of AoS was great. My younger daughter finished it first and loved it, and my wife and I both thoroughly enjoyed it when we finally got around to watching it ourselves. If you're speaking of the last season of JJ, yeah, you might be alone in that. It was OK, but nothing like the first one. I still need to watch DD S3, the last two eps of Luke Cage S2, and I haven't gone anywhere near the second seasons of either Punisher or Iron Fist, nor do I plan to.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 12, 2022 14:21:18 GMT -5
Moon Knight #8. Jed MacKay and Alessandro Cappuccio. Moon Knight is currently in jail due to the events in the Devil's Reign series. However Hunter's Moon steps in for Marc. A legend/mystery in the neighborhood known as Stained-Glass Scarlet pulls in Hunter's Moon who deals with her in a different way than Marc would. Despite this issue being done by the regular creative team it still felt like a fill-in. It did move along the weirdness that is Hunter's Moon as an ally/enemy. It also showed how he is very different from Marc. However the "new" villain Scarlet just wasn't interesting. With the heroes escaping from jail this week in the Devil's Reign series Marc will be back as Moon Knight next issue! I really liked this issue. The concept of "gods as stories" was interesting, allowing Hunter's Moon to do something really cool with Khonshu while fighting "Stained Glass Scarlet". Yeah, it was a fill-in, but I'm intrigued about how they might build on this in the overall Moon Knight/Hunter's Moon rivalry and mythology.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 7, 2022 14:43:08 GMT -5
Remember when you first discovered that polyhedral dice (other than d6) existed? The coolness factor of these exotic dice never wore off for me. I wouldn't want to use a system that only uses d6, it wouldn't feel like a proper RPG. Yes, I know it's not rational, and you can probably get a similar enough range of percentages with d6 dice pool shenanigans, but don't deprive me of rolling a d20, darn it! I checked out one episode of critical role, and I was struck by the... we're-narrating-a-novel style of play. Is this common among you guys? The one episode I started to watch almost reached Robert Jordan levels of detail. In the RPG boards and such I visit, I see contempt for the player who just says "I attack with my sword" instead of vividly narrating specific actions, but Critical Role, for me, goes too far in the other direction. I agree 100% about the dice. Not sure if anyone here is a fan, but I play a fair amount of sports board games.. in the old days Strat-o-Matic, for some things, used a deck of cards to generate a number from 1-20, which was a huge pain. As an adult, when I bought my own version of the game like 10 years ago, it came with a d20 instead... mind... blown. I'm not sure if I was more shocked that a game that wasn't an RPG was using a d20, or that I never thought of doing so myself. I played tons of Strat-o-Matic Hockey when I was in middle and high school. My best friend got a set for his birthday one year, then he and I kept finding the older seasons' teams at thrift shops and flea markets, and occasionally we'd order from the back of The Hockey News. I looked at some of those older sets (mid- to late-70s) on eBay and they are pricey! Never knew they changed to a d20. Bet it makes things far easier.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 4, 2022 17:01:58 GMT -5
From last weekend's trip to the LCS. Spent a little time going through the boxes of unsorted Magic cards first, pulling out about $75 of cards that I paid just slightly over $7 for, then moved onto the $1 comic boxes. Not a huge haul, but I'm happy with it. Random DC books that I gladly paid $1 for (bought the JLI issue since I already have the Suicide Squad half of the story) A few Bronze Age issues of Kull. Have managed to pick up a good portion of the series on the cheap (paid $2 for one issue, then $1 for the other 13 I own):
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Post by The Captain on Feb 2, 2022 9:24:33 GMT -5
Are they really doing a Werewolf by Night series? No idea what the current status of the character is in the comics but I liked the old Marvel Spotlight and then solo series with great artwork by Ploog in the early issues. From what I’m seeing, it looks like there will be a Halloween special starring WbN, rather than a full-blown series, at least at this point. It might make sense for Marvel to at least get the character out there in the Moon Knight series, since he isn’t exactly a household name, but at this point, they don’t have too many of those left to use (outside of FF and X-Men, and we all know they’re coming at some point).
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Post by The Captain on Feb 1, 2022 18:43:43 GMT -5
That’s Season 2, after they have a Werewolf by Night series and whatever they’re doing with Blade. I think it would be great if they had the Werewolf cameo here before getting its own series. It's Marvel. They excel at world-building. I'd be shocked if Werewolf didn't show up in some form or fashion here.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 1, 2022 11:55:35 GMT -5
Personally, I'd rather Reese the vampire woman Moon Knight has with him in the latest series. That’s Season 2, after they have a Werewolf by Night series and whatever they’re doing with Blade.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 31, 2022 20:17:10 GMT -5
I agree that it totally depends on the character.
Wolverine drops a $#%£ bomb in the middle of a fight, I have no problem with that. He’s rough around the edges, older than dirt, and that’s part of who he is.
Captain America? Nope. It’s just not him, even fighting Red Skull with the fate of the world in the balance, to go there. It’s why the “language” joke in Age of Ultron fits perfectly.
Black Panther? Not him either. T’Challa’s royalty, with a world-class education, and he knows how to carry himself.
Thing? I could go either way, but I would lean toward him dropping some colorful language pre-space flight, so it wouldn’t be a shock.
Nick Fury (original)? $&%# straight he would.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 28, 2022 14:14:49 GMT -5
I still have to watch the DVD of The Hidden Fortress I bought three years ago. I still need to see both of the Kill Bill movies. There's no excuse for me not having seen these in the theater. With the recent talk about Coen Brothers films, for me, it's Tarantino films that I'm woefully behind on watching. Of the 9 films that he's written & directed, I've only seen one in it's entirety, Pulp Fiction. I saw that in the theater and was mightily impressed by it, especially it's story structure (though the sodomy scenes with Rhimes and Willis were uncomfortable to watch) I've seen the latter half of Kill Bill Vol 1, specifically Thurman's confrontation with Lucy Liu. I've seen the last half hour of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood but that's about it. Beyond those, I loved his guest appearance in Desperado and oddly enough, my favorite film by Tarantino is one he wrote but didn't direct, True Romance. Do yourself a favor and watch Inglourious Basterds. It's my favorite Tarantino movie. Django Unchained is good but tough to watch. I've seen it once, and that was enough. My sister swears by The Hateful Eight, which I have yet to see, but I trust her recommendation.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 28, 2022 12:02:52 GMT -5
I'd happily trade with some of you, here in Holland it's been consistently 40 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit all January, so no snowy days. I want at least a little bit of winter. :/ My wife and I have this dream of moving to Wales when we retire. When it was 5 degrees here in Western PA earlier in the week, it was 45 in Swansea. I could live with that.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 28, 2022 10:13:47 GMT -5
Well, here in NY they are saying anything from 8-12 inches. I hate this stuff to the point of having anxiety about it. Now I feel sorry about complaining about the 4” we got in the past 24 hours. Stay safe and warm out there, George.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 27, 2022 7:01:07 GMT -5
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Post by The Captain on Jan 26, 2022 19:39:47 GMT -5
Got to go with Trimpe. He did the quintessential "classic" Hulk for me, and he was great to talk with about his work on the book when I met him at the Pittsburgh Comicon shortly before his passing.
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