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Post by The Captain on Jan 24, 2022 20:14:43 GMT -5
I had my Covid booster vaccine today (was Pfizer, whereas my first two jabs were the Oxford AstraZeneca one). Of course, having caught Covid last month over the Christmas period, this is a little like shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted, but still. No, no, no. You did the right thing. Agree 100%. I got Covid last April, got my vaccine in June/July (Pfizer), and just got my booster last Thursday. I'm certain I will wind up getting sick again, but I would like to minimize the damage it does by taking as many precautions as possible.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 21, 2022 14:19:48 GMT -5
Thanks for posting this, Prince Hal. I put a notice in the Moon Knight Trailer thread a few days ago, but never got around to adding it here.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 21, 2022 14:07:41 GMT -5
Grew up going to see RHPS in Houston Texas, and the film *always* started with the full video of "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" on the giant screen . . before the big red lips appeared. Interesting. Our theater always played the videos for “I Do the Rock” and “Paradise Garage” by Tim Curry before they showed the movie.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 21, 2022 12:00:16 GMT -5
So sad to see this in the news this morning. I still remember the first time seeing him as Eddie in Rocky Horror and going "that's Meat Loaf!!". Very much a classic icon, and another sad loss, RIP Meat Loaf! Both my older daughter and my wife texted me this news this morning. Very sad about this, as I have seen RHPS more times than I can count, going all the way back to high school. And of course, as fate would have it, I planned the menu for the week back on Sunday, and what was pencilled in for tonight? Yup: Meatloaf. I’ll be putting on a party hat and asking Riff Raff to deal me a slice. RIP Eddie.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 19, 2022 12:31:03 GMT -5
Tragedy has struck the show before its premiere, as actor Gaspard Ulliel, who is portraying Anton Mogart, known to comic fans as Midnight Man, has died after being involved in a skiing accident in France. He was only 37 years old.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 18, 2022 18:16:04 GMT -5
I'm a huge MK fan and this looks pretty decent. We'd watch it regardless in my house because my daughters are into all things Marvel, so the fact that it looks a little deeper and more "adult" than a lot of superhero fare (looking sideways at you, DC shows on CW) certainly helps get me a bit more interested.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 17, 2022 13:15:00 GMT -5
I really don’t like winter.
Had to clear my driveway of roughly six inches of snow this morning in close to 0 degree windchill temps. Even with a snow blower, there was enough I had to shovel (around my daughter’s car, the front steps and porch, the snow the blower didn’t get) that left me with an aching back.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 14, 2022 10:16:23 GMT -5
Silly Silver Age “Science” is the only explanation. Comic books were aimed at a younger audience that wasn’t going to question it.
Look at Iron Man’s “transistors” or every instance of “radiation” or “magnetism”. They worked the way they did because the story called for it to work that way.
I did love how, years later, the writer of X-Men had Emma Frost’s consciousness inhabit Bobby’s body and she showed him how he had been wasting his Omega-level powers with childish things like making snow cones when he could be freezing the water in his enemies’ cells or slowing the flow of their blood.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 13, 2022 20:15:39 GMT -5
Considering that #94 essentially begins a whole new series, I don't see the merit in owning the complete run, myself. In my own situation, I decided a long while back that I was never going to be able to justify the cost of acquiring the first thirty issues, so I bought those in Masterwork format, collected #32-66, and then skipped to GS #1 and #94+. Similar situation here. I own the first 66 issues in Omnibus format (along with 10, 13, and 51 in floppie) Giant-Size #1 as a Milestone issue (the ones they did with the silver cover borders), and then own 94 up in floppies.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 13, 2022 18:33:48 GMT -5
I had a good number of the reprint issues for years, but eventually sold them because they were redundant.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 12, 2022 21:09:56 GMT -5
Bloodstone #1, by Abnett and Lanning from 2001, is currently selling on eBay for $200+ raw. It’s the first appearance of Elsa Bloodstone, a fairly obscure character from a fairly obscure mini-series, but the rumors are out that since she’s dating Deadpool in the comics, she might make an appearance in a third Deadpool movie.
This is currently selling for more than the highest price I’ve paid for any comic in my entire collection, which is utterly absurd.
On the flip side, however, I happened to pick up this obscure mini-series when it first came out, so...
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Post by The Captain on Jan 11, 2022 11:24:55 GMT -5
I did a quick check on FF # 94 ( First Agatha Harkness). I'm surprised that it's still up in price. I actually just read that issue for the first time last night, although it was in an Epic Collection.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 8, 2022 20:08:20 GMT -5
I’m not typically a cartoon fan, but this concept actually looks interesting, and if Bru is involved, he’s going to elevate it.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 8, 2022 17:03:55 GMT -5
I discovered D&D in 1982, when I got my first boxed set at the age of 9 for my birthday. I didn't really get into it until middle school, when I DM'ed a few campaigns for my friends, and then in high school, I found another group of guys who were really into it and we played a lot through graduation.
Got to college and one of the guys down the hall in the dorm was a HUGE player, so he and I alternated running campaigns for a couple of years for people (guys and girls both) in the building. He left school before I did, so I lost my partner in the endeavor and the games came to a slow halt (he had WAY more books than I did, and I didn't have the resources to get my own copies that the time).
Since college, I've only played a couple of times in the past 25 years or so. There were a couple of guys at my first company who played and one guy pulled together a group that included his girlfriend, encouraging the rest of us to get our significant others involved, whether they'd played before or not. However, it got awkward real quick when it became clear they were using it as a way to find swinger partners, as there was a lot of alcohol involved during game nights and the game encounters were quite sexually charged. It made working with him uncomfortable as well, but thankfully, he got fired shortly thereafter and the rest of us just laughed about it for the rest of our time there.
I've looked at a couple of those "Looking for D&D player" posters at the various LCS I frequent, but I think that my time with the game is long past. I still love the concept of the game, but I'm not the most social person and just joining a group with a bunch of total strangers isn't in my comfort zone.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 8, 2022 16:20:30 GMT -5
Finally had a free Saturday, so my younger daughter and I hit the road early to deplete some of our Christmas money. Wound up starting at a comic and toy shop that we'd never been to before; in fact, I didn't even know it existed up until January 1st, when one of the employees at one of my regular haunts told me about it. My daughter is getting into Funko Pop figures and wound up picking up Valkyrie from Thor: Ragnarok for herself, while I grabbed Beta Ray Bill for myself. I tend toward the classic comics characters rather than the movies, while she likes the MCU characters. We also got a Kylo Ren figure for her sister. As for comics, the only one I picked up there was this pre-owned Masterworks for $7: Then we found out that this particular store has a SECOND location on the other side of town, so we headed over there next. No Pop figures, but I did get the following, all out of the $1 bins (they were all unsorted, so I didn't want to waste too much time since I had my daughter with me): The Jonah Hex issues moves me to just 11 left on my list to complete the series, and I have been picking up the Secret Society of Super-Villains books whenever I see them for $2 or less. Lunch at Taco Bell. It's our place to go when we're out. Last stop of the day was at a toy and pop culture shop in the town next to ours, where I got nothing but she grabbed the MJ Funko from "Far From Home". She is OBSESSED with the MCU. She got one Spider-Man t-shirt, two Hawkeye t-shirts, and a Midtown Science & Technology School hoodie for Christmas, and my sister got her a replica version of Yelena's vest from Black Widow, as she wants to start cosplaying as Yelena at conventions.
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