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Post by The Captain on Apr 28, 2021 12:27:57 GMT -5
Howdy everyone, haven't been around since Saturday, ended up having to go to the ER on Sunday and was admitted into the hospital. Just got discharged this morning and am home now. Everything is fine now, but I am laying low the rest f the day and will be back around at some point tomorrow or the next day. -M Glad you're back home and doing "fine", but please make sure you are taking care of yourself and not overextending. If there is one thing that having COVID taught me, it's that while we might FEEL better, our bodies will let us know if we ARE better. |
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Post by The Captain on Apr 28, 2021 9:26:37 GMT -5
So back before this new comic speculation bubble began, I speculated on exactly two modern age books, both of which I amassed several copies of at only slightly above cover price: Teen Titans #37 (1st Miss Martian) Batman #655 (1st Damian Wayne) Teen Titans #37 is up to about $20 a copy. Promising, but I think it will pay off a lot more if I wait a few more years. Batman #655 just went crazy over the release of the new Robin #1. I'm going to give this a few more days to see where things are, but I think I'm about to make some nice cash. I had Batman # 655 but got donated it years ago because there were no bites on eBay the one time that I tried to sell it. It's a random thing with books that I don't collect whether I dump them or not. For example, I don't really keep Captain America books except for a few runs that I enjoyed but I do have # 34 the first Bucky as Cap. And I also have Thor #1 that featured Jane Foster as Thor for the first time in continuity. I'm not so crazy about selling through eBay these days. IRT the bolded...WTF is wrong with you?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! |
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Post by The Captain on Apr 26, 2021 15:45:33 GMT -5
If we're talking strictly comics, then it has to be Deathlok for me, seeing as I have never read a comic book with Cyborg in it as far as I can remember.
If we're talking all media, then Cyborg takes the win due to Teen Titans Go!, which was a favorite around our house about four or five years ago.
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Post by The Captain on Apr 22, 2021 19:11:40 GMT -5
is that Patton Oswalt voicing? sounds like him. It damn sure is Patton Oswalt voicing MODOK. |
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Post by The Captain on Apr 22, 2021 16:03:03 GMT -5
We tried. We really tried tonight. Put on episode 3 and gave it our best shot. We all agreed to shut it off after 25 minutes. The writing is so bad. Less the dialogue than the internal logic. Why does character X do Y except to further the plot? Oh, and that was three, count 'em, THREE dramatic scenes of Falcon, Bucky, and Zemo just walking in the span of roughly five minutes. I'll never fault someone for enjoying something nor attempt to take away their joy, but yikes. We can't watch this thing. And I even LIKE Zemo. He's the only developed character in this thing. I respect the larger issues this series is trying to tackle, but I can't get past the storytelling itself. I get your feelings on the show. The first episode is kind of weird from the standpoint of setting things up, and the second and third are not good. It was just very disjointed and felt like they didn't know what direction to take the series. I will say, from my perspective, that it DOES improve greatly with Episodes 4 and 5. If you can push through the third one, you may be pleasantly surprised at the improvement. |
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MODOK!
Apr 22, 2021 6:29:42 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by The Captain on Apr 22, 2021 6:29:42 GMT -5
Was going to drop Hulu at the end of April, but...
Yeah, I'll definitely be watching this.
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Post by The Captain on Apr 20, 2021 11:06:09 GMT -5
It looks like fun, but of all the Marvel movies it looks like it's the furthest from its source material. More like a Jacky Chan film than a Shang-Chi one. Chi doesn't come across as much of a philosopher in the trailer, but at least he looks like a good guy with a positive attitude. Plus his moves are better than Iron Fist's! To be fair, though, an unconscious sloth would have better moves than Iron Fist. That was such a misfire in casting. |
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Post by The Captain on Apr 19, 2021 20:42:34 GMT -5
Let's see what kind of feeding frenzy the dropping of the Shang Chi teaser trailer will cause. -M Looks like #26 (first Fah Lo Suee), #29 (first Razorfist) and #115 (first Death-Dealer) are the first books to catch the wave. I'm seeing eBay copies of #115 up to $25-$35 with 2 days left on the auctions, while #29 is going for $30+ and #26 going for $20+ already. #105, which has a Razorfist appearance, is getting prices of $10+. |
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Post by The Captain on Apr 19, 2021 12:27:51 GMT -5
Ice cream, no question.
My favorite "normal" flavor is Rocky Road, with mint chocolate chip a close second.
My favorite "specialty" flavor was at Bruester's (it's a chain, but I'm not sure how widespread they were in the US) and it was Chocolate Raspberry Truffle. There is only one location still in the Pittsburgh area to my knowledge, but it's about 35 minutes away, which is a bit far to travel for an ice cream cone.
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Post by The Captain on Apr 19, 2021 11:23:41 GMT -5
They sold me on this 100% when I saw Razorfist in the trailer.
Only way they could make me more excited is if they were also utilizing The Cat and/or Zaran.
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Post by The Captain on Apr 17, 2021 6:49:50 GMT -5
WandaVision and Falcon & Winter Soldier have shown that "comic book cinema" doesn't have to be mindless strings of fights and explosions and witty one-liners that take the place of actual story and character development. If Disney can continue to put out series like these, they are going to find themselves being very successful long-term. As for this episode: {TheCaptains Episode 5 Thoughts}That opening fight scene between Walker, Sam, and Bucky was BRUTAL, but not just the physical action. You could just see the mental agony that John was in trying to justify his killing of one of the Flag-Smashers as "justice" for Lamar's death. It was this moment that he realizes that he is in way over his head, and that while he was an exemplary soldier, he would never measure up to Steve Rogers.
The scene between Sam and Isaiah was heartbreaking. Yeah, it's fictional, but it really isn't, is it?
My daughters loved "Domestic Bucky". They enjoyed seeing him smile and not look miserable the entire time.
Nice scene between Sam and Bucky where Sam tells Bucky what he has to do to make the nightmares stop. The writers are really doing a good job developing the relationship/friendship between the two, which, to be honest, they never had the chance to do with Steve and Sam. Sure, we see Sam helping Steve in Winter Soldier and Civil War, but how did they become so close that Steve would entrust the shield to Sam? This medium, with the longer structure, has allowed more character development and can show things that the movies just couldn't.
The scene between Bucky and Zemo was understated but powerful. I liked how Zemo knew his only option was to surrender, but he knew that his work had been done. Much better than the comic book version, who I've always felt was essentially a knock-off combination of Red Skull and Baron von Strucker, used as a break from bringing out them yet again.
Julie Louis-Dreyfus killed it as The Countess, and her introduction obviously opens up whole new avenues of plotlines. Agree with @mrp that this could easily get a second season or even a film. So much to build on.
Post-credit scene was nice. Walker isn't going to go down quietly, which is how they need him to be. |
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Post by The Captain on Apr 15, 2021 11:20:51 GMT -5
Super excited to see how this turns out. Will be keeping track regularly.
My friends and I did something similar to this about 20 years ago, just with Magic The Gathering cards. There was one guy in our group who could sell space heaters on the Equator, so we would go to MTG tournaments with a simple proposition for him. We would give him 5 junk rare cards (typically valued at $1 or less), cards that had niche usage at best but usually just sat in trade binders forever, and we would see how much value he could trade up to using just those five cards over the course of the day. He couldn't make any trades unsupervised (dude was a serious shyster), but if he reached a certain $ value in return, we'd cover his portion of the gas and his meal on the way home.
At one tournament, he wound up generating close to $150 in excess value from his starting point. Just found the right people at the right time, made one deal and then another and then another, ending up with two cards worth roughly $75 each after starting with $5 in assets.
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Post by The Captain on Apr 15, 2021 10:31:01 GMT -5
Iron Man #8
The Korvac storyline drags on, and I do mean DRAGS on. This issue focuses primarily on Hellcat and her getting some psychic assistance from Moondragon in order to restore her previously-removed mental abilities (picking up a plot point from Defenders #77).
These scenes are intermixed with a spaceship chase battle between Tony's Legion of Losers and Korvac's Kut-Rate Krew. It's not very exciting, and Korvac gets some weird vision in the middle of it that will probably take six months to resolve.
Finally, Patsy sums it up best at the end of the issue when she asks "Where the hell is Tony?" Good question. An entire issue of Iron Man and not a single glimpse of the titular character.
Dropping this title. So bad and so boring. Used to love IM, but this just sucks.
2/10
Darkhawk: Heart of the Hawk One-Shot
I have to come clean that I am a long-time DH fan. When his original solo series was released back in 1991, it was the first Marvel book that I ever started collecting from issue #1. Sure, there were a lot of parallels with Spider-Man, but they were trying to create a new character that wasn't a mutant, which was nice.
This book, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the character, has three stories in it from content creators from his history. The first story, done by Danny Fingeroth and Mike Manley, tells a story that probably slots into the end of the first year of the original continuity and uses Savage Steel, one of DH's original foes, as the antagonist.
The second story is by Dan Abnett and takes place after the War of Kings storyline. I didn't keep up with that story when it was released, but Abnett does a good job of working in enough details to explain the situation without impeding the story, which finds Chris Powell on a remote planet just trying to keep his head down but somehow finding some serious trouble.
The last story, by Kyle Higgins (whose work I'm not familiar with), is basically a set-up for the bumper page at the end of the book. It catches us up with what is happening to Chris right now and sets the stage for the return, in some form or fashion, of Darkhawk later this year.
For a fan of Darkhawk, this was a fine little walk down memory lane while also giving some hint of a future.
7/10
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Post by The Captain on Apr 14, 2021 19:48:35 GMT -5
Did wind up ordering the second Conan the Barbarian Epic Collection from Amazon on Sunday, and it was delivered on Tuesday. Have the first 26 issues in collected format, as well as 15-26 as floppies, then 27-115 in floppie only.
Also bought The Doll's House TPB today, collecting Sandman 9-16, marking this as my Sandman TPB purchase for April.
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Post by The Captain on Apr 14, 2021 14:05:00 GMT -5
Trying a new hazelnut flavoured brand that's been imported from Malaysia....details soon. Sounds fantastic. I will only buy my coffee from one roaster in my city. My go-to year-round flavor is hazelnut, while ﹰI rotate between secondary flavors like pumpkin spice, amarettto, and sea salt caramel mocha, usually dependent on season. |
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