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Post by The Captain on Jan 3, 2022 7:00:18 GMT -5
Woke up this morning and turned on my phone just to see this horrible news. This is a gut punch of epic proportion.
Farewell, Bruce. Your passing will be felt and your presence missed here at CCF for a long time to come.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 2, 2022 16:14:17 GMT -5
Season One of The Witcher is very good. It’s complex, requires thinking, and has a wide set of compelling characters and situations.
I’m only 3.5 episodes into Season Two and it is a definite step down. Some of it, it seems, is due to where the story is going, which requires a different pace to the storytelling along with a different style of story to be told, but I’m not as rabidly excited about this season. To wit, I started to doze off in the middle of Episode Four on Christmas Eve afternoon and made no effort in the past nine days to go back and finish it.
I’m not saying it’s bad (like pizza or sex, even though it’s “just OK”, it’s still better than a lot of other things), but that it just hasn’t grabbed me in the same way as Season One.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 31, 2021 18:53:13 GMT -5
....pushing me just over $200 spent on classic comics in 2021.
I think my shipping charges for Dec alone is more than that To be fair, however, that’s just floppies. Collected editions were MUCH more than that over the course of the year. It helps that I live in a city that has a thriving comic scene, so I have access to a lot of different stores. Heck, there’s even going to be a fire hall comic show on Sunday this weekend, which I plan to attend to get the new year started right.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 31, 2021 17:42:25 GMT -5
Nothing special, so no pictures, but I did pick up Batman #434, Jonah Hex #26, and Conan the Barbarian #259 today for $1 each, pushing me just over $200 spent on classic comics in 2021.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 31, 2021 17:38:36 GMT -5
I feel anyone who surpasses the age of 85 is blessed and playing with house money. My comment on anyone who makes it past 80 is “well, they didn’t get cheated on this carnival ride”. That said, is there anything more 2020/2021 than losing Betty White just shy of her 100th birthday? This is the kick in the nuts that we all knew was coming in some form or fashion from the Two Years of Hell we’ve all been through.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 31, 2021 9:39:41 GMT -5
Green Goblin because of his impact on Peter's life. Menaced him for years, killed the TRUE LOVE of Peter's life, and then his "death" led to Harry's issues, which continued to plague Peter.
Lizard because of his sympathetic nature. Curt Conners wasn't a bad guy trying to get rich or dominate the world, but rather just a scientist trying to solve a problem affecting him and many others, with the Lizard persona being the horrible side effect of his work.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 31, 2021 9:02:56 GMT -5
@mrp , sorry for the delay. Been a CRAZY week. My 16-year old just got her learner's permit AND we've been trying to get her ready to leave for Disney with the HS chorus/band tomorrow morning at 2:00 AM, AND she's had swim practice every day this week AND both she and her sister have done nothing but run around and hang out with friends (requiring rides from us for all of that). Oh, and I had to work all week. Bah, humbug. My Secret Santa treated me right, dropping a rakishly charming, fairly handsome English gentleman down my chimney for the holiday (although my older daughter was disappointed it wasn't Tom Hiddleston, David Tennant, or Matt Smith). Been trying to put together the entire Delano and Ennis runs in TPB recently, so this helps me along the way. Thanks Santa!!
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Post by The Captain on Dec 30, 2021 12:08:10 GMT -5
What’s up with the last 5 on the bottom, lower right? Did those come out later as an homage to the 25th anniversary? They did, as did the last one (far right) in each of the other lines.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 30, 2021 8:10:56 GMT -5
Trying to keep it simple for 2022:
Buying Goals (things I'll actively seek out) 12 issues of Jonah Hex, to complete the run. 5 issues of the Killraven stories in Amazing Adventures, to complete the run Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection #8 (if Marvel publishes this in 2022) Sandman TPBs "Endless Nights" and "The Dream Hunters" Hellblazer TPBs, at least to complete the Delano and Ennis runs Possibly some early Incredible Hulk Masterworks/Epics to cover gaps in my floppie collection
Cheap Buys (no more than $3/issue, preferably no more than $2) Random issues of Batman and Detective if I like the villain. Handful of issues of the various Kull books that Marvel put out that I don't own Bronze Age Pre-Crisis Flash issues, particularly if they have one of the main Rogues in them.
Reading Goals Would like to reach 1,000 books in 2022. This was the first year in over half a decade I didn't hit that number.
Reviewing Goals The dream is always to revive my Captain America review thread, but while the flesh is willing, the spirit is typically weak.
Collection Goals Would like to reduce the size of my overall collection by at least 10% this year, primarily targeting series that I've read and am unlikely to reread or that I've picked up in other formats (like Howard the Duck, as I have all of the floppies except two but also own the Complete Collections that cover all of these issues).
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Post by The Captain on Dec 27, 2021 11:09:30 GMT -5
I still buy current books if I like the character or creator, but I'm down to precious few at this point. My pull list right now has two ongoings and two minis, as the lists of new things being released interests me less and less with each passing month.
For floppies, the only things I am actively seeking are about a dozen issues of Jonah Hex and three issues of Amazing Adventures (the Killraven run) to complete those series. I pick up random old issues of Batman and Detective if I like the villain, and I will buy issues of Kull if I can find them cheap.
Mostly, I buy collected editions these days. Still waiting on one Amazing Spider-Man Epic to be released, need two more Sandman TPBs to have the whole run, and buy Hellblazer TPBs when I can find them used or cheap. Will occasionally buy a collection if they have a key issue in them and I don't want to handle the original book (like Captain America #117 or Tomb of Dracula #10).
Other than that, my buying days are mostly behind me. I have spent less money this year on classic comics than in any year in the past two decades, and I see that continuing to be the trend going forward.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 23, 2021 18:37:41 GMT -5
It's a bit small... but feeling pretty confident that's Kate Bishop in the scene with the doorway (assuming the other person is America Chavez, based on the jacket and her powers fit in with the movie. Cool that she'll be there, but seems an odd fit. If you’re talking about the doorway to the Multiverse, the other woman (the one standing next to Stephen) looks like Wanda, not Kate.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 23, 2021 9:54:07 GMT -5
Moon Knight #8 was really good, as majestic said. Much more grounded MK story than the Warren Ellis run, and I like that they’re using an underutilized villain (Zodiac) in this. Hawkeye: Kate Bishop #2 is fun. You have to learn to live with the “quirks” used when writing her (constant inner monologue, the text conversations with America and Cassie, etc), but it definitely has its own style and stands out; I now hear everything she says in Hailee Steinfeld’s voice. I thought I’d pick this up just so my daughters could read it, but I’m finding myself enjoying it as well.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 22, 2021 17:54:44 GMT -5
I’d add Blade to the list, because even though he has had no solo comic book success, he did have a successful three-film (two good movies, one that shall not be spoken of again) franchise long before there was an MCU and will be incorporated fully into that same MCU in the near future.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 22, 2021 10:28:55 GMT -5
Well, Lana’s father was a college professor! And Clark is Superman! And Lois ... uh ... isn’t she an army brat? She pick up Welsh when her father was stationed in Wales during the war. Ah, Welsh is easy; you just add, "Eh, boyo" at the end of sentences. The rest of it is just going up at the end of a sentence and adding Ls to the spelling of everything. Oh, and everyone is named Jones.IRT the bolded, you’re not kidding. I have lots of Welsh ancestors, and trying to do that genealogy is a nightmare. Cadwalader Jones’ son is John Cadwalader, whose son is Cadwalader Jones, whose son is John Cadwalader... As for adding letters, don’t forget lots of “y”s, double “f”s, and “th”s, usually in multiple combinations with one another.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 22, 2021 9:03:48 GMT -5
Counterpoint: Christmas IS intrinsic to the plot of Die Hard.
Without Holly’s company’s CHRISTMAS PARTY, to which she invited John, to which he flew across the country to hopefully patch things up with Holly, at which time he met his driver Argyle, who drove him to Nakatomi Plaza, none of this happens.
No company is going to throw a Easter Party, Halloween Party, Fourth of July Party or any other holiday party important enough and with enough pull to have Holly ask John to travel across the country.
Christmas Party? Damn right that’s significant enough, and this how Christmas is critical to Die Hard, this making Die Hard a Christmas movie.
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