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Post by The Captain on Mar 4, 2021 14:14:19 GMT -5
Prior to all of them getting killed in Thor:Ragnorok,, I would have said The Warriors Three. Could have been a light-hearted adventure series as they traveled Asgard and the other realms, eating (Volstagg) and seducing (Fandral) and...being grim (Hogun).
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Post by The Captain on Mar 4, 2021 13:03:40 GMT -5
I literally own thousands of comics I've never read. Probably a good 4K or more.
I started buying and reading comics in the early 80s, but it was only a handful of series to start. Got a bigger pull list when I went to college, then let it dwindle over the course of the 90s as money and interest waned.
After graduating college with my second degree, getting married and settling down, and securing a good-paying professional job, I got back into the hobby. Relying on dollar boxes and the Warehouse Sale at New Dimension Comics in Ellwood City, PA (could fill a long box for $225 back in the day), I compiled long runs of the major Marvel titles going back to the late Silver/early Bronze Ages, picking up books pre-MCU that are impossible to find cheap any more. Lots of keys for $1 or less that today run $20 or more.
Doing that twice a year created a backlog that I am still to this day, 15 years later, working my way through.
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Post by The Captain on Mar 1, 2021 20:31:52 GMT -5
Winter: Heat is set at 69 during the day, 65 overnight and when we're out for the day.
Summer: AC is set at 78 during the day, 74 overnight. I just want the humidity out of the air, not necessarily to have the house cold (my wife couldn't stand it much below 75 during the day when she is awake). We have ceiling fans in every bedroom, and I have a floor fan that blows directly on me for overnight comfort.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 27, 2021 8:09:44 GMT -5
I really hate the movie Elf. I'm mostly indifferent to Will Farrell. But I hate that movie. And a "bah, humbug" to you as well, my friend
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Post by The Captain on Feb 27, 2021 8:05:44 GMT -5
I was a little disappointed in this weeks episode... I don't feel like I needed an Origin story.... seems added in. It was a well done origin story for sure, but still. It was a bit more than an origin story though as it basically retconned parts of the MCU concerning Wanda, Hydra, and how she got her powers and put the use of sitcom stylings throughout the show in a tragic context that completely reframed the entire series and changed/redefined the thematic underpinning of all the early episodes. It changed the lens through which the series is perceived and will shape how the events of the concluding episode will be seen. That's not a simple add-on, it's the crux to understanding the thematic context of the entire series. -M Agree with you completely there, @mrp. Brilliant analysis as always. Even if it were JUST an origin story, some fans need that. My wife has been clamoring to know HOW Wanda got her powers from the outset, because she's a person who loves to understand the "hows and whys" of everything. She's seen 95% of the MCU movies (only skipping GotG2), so she knows what we saw on-screen previously, but she wanted to know what, if anything, was behind that. This episode answered some of those questions, although we did have a vigorous discussion about the first flashback/vignette and what was true versus what was Wanda's rationalization of the events. For me, the episode was perfectly acceptable. It was the "bridge" episode, getting from the Agatha reveal to the endgame of the series while laying the groundwork for bigger things in the MCU. Marvel doesn't drop revelations like the ones at the end (both Agatha's proclamation in Westview as well as the post-credits scene) without it meaning more than just entertainment value; it's what they've been doing for more than a decade with the MCU, which is why it works so much better than DC's cinematic nightmare.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 26, 2021 18:52:07 GMT -5
If it's anything like Coates' Black Panther or Captain America runs, Superman will get about 15 minutes of screen time while Coates develops complex storylines for new characters he created or for supporting characters.
Hard pass.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 26, 2021 11:35:38 GMT -5
Haven't been reading many comics lately, but I'm actually using the time productively. Been getting back into my genealogy research, which has allowed me to couple my love for history with my detail-oriented approach to things as well as work in some of my OCD for completionism. Really digging into one particular line of my paternal grandmother's ancestors, which has been a little tough (they're Welsh, which has all kinds of issues with naming conventions), but I'm hoping some of the places I could use for physical research (there is a LTD family research center about 8 miles from my house, and there is a huge collection of Quaker historical documents at a university on the other side of PA) open up soon as the pandemic gets a little more under control. On another note, sorry I can't help you, Cei-U!. If you needed the Tales of Suspense or Captain America ones, I could easily send them, but I didn't get the Dr. Strange one. Best of luck finding out who has it!
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Post by The Captain on Feb 26, 2021 9:01:29 GMT -5
I think for me it was back when Mike Myers was there, the Wayne's World days. I don't get Farrell's popularity, he's never made me laugh much. Farrell is okay in very, very small doses. I actually really liked him as the straight man in Stranger Than Fiction. That's a fun movie. Agree on the small doses thing. He's fine in things like Wedding Crashers where he only has 10 minutes or so, but when he has to carry a movie, he wears thin pretty quickly (although I will admit that I love the first Anchorman, because it's just SO absurd, but a lot of that is due to the great work by the supporting actors). Only other exception is Elf, which I watched for the first time with my daughters over the holidays; I'd seen it before and thought it was just OK, but seeing it with them was a much different experience. I don't know of any actor at that time who could have pulled off the character of Buddy without it seeming forced, while Farrell truly makes Buddy's innocence/cluelessness and excitement over Christmas feel real.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 26, 2021 8:55:17 GMT -5
The good old days were when SNL featured Gumby, dammit! My wife and I recently showed our daughters all of the old "Gumby" and "Mr. Robinson" sketches. Tremendously funny stuff there.
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Feb 25, 2021 10:21:22 GMT -5
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Post by The Captain on Feb 25, 2021 10:21:22 GMT -5
I'm not much of an Oreo guy, but my wife picked up a bag of the new caramel coconut flavor Oreo (going for the Girl Scout Cookie flavor market I guess), and I like it. Not going to threaten chocolate chip cookies for the top dog spot, but they pass muster. -M I tried those a while back (I am a HUGE caramel fan), and while I really liked them, I did find them to be a little too sweet. Will still eat them, just not more than two, possibly three, at a time.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 24, 2021 19:48:14 GMT -5
Feige, today at the Critics gathering, stated Falcon & Winter Soldier is only 6 hours of content, but was vague whether it would be 6 one hour episodes or 9 shorter episodes like Wandavision, but the 6 1 hour episodes seems more likely. -M They could do eight 45-minute episodes to get to six hours of content. That said, I'm just hoping whether it's 6 1-hours, 8 45-minutes, or something else that they aren't counting 5+ minutes of credits into the equation.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 24, 2021 12:35:30 GMT -5
Can anyone tell me why DC's Secrets of Haunted House #42 (1982 I think) is listed on ebay for $50?
Has one of my favourite short-horror stories....
It's LISTED there because the owners think they can get that much for it. A quick check of the Sold Items shows that since December 15 of last year, just five copies of this book have sold individually, ranging from $3.99 up to $17.50 for a copy marked NM- condition. That last book is the only one to break $8, excluding shipping. I never look at the asking prices as the going rate. Always check the Sold/Completed listings to see what the book is really valued at in the market.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 24, 2021 11:30:49 GMT -5
Absolutely. It's one of the all-time best. Other suggestions to watch (or rewatch, as the case may be): Sunset Boulevard Chinatown Any Alfred Hitchcock The French Connection The Bridge on the River Kwai Dr. Strangelove Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein
Yep all of the above Citizen Kane is genius (but I'm a big Welles fan - I'd add The Magnificent Ambersons, Lady From Shanghai and Mister Arkadin to the list) but Blazing Saddles? Really? Have you watched it recently? I watched it a couple of years ago with my daughter - "It's great!" I told her, "Very funny." (I hadn't seen it since I saw it in the cinema when it first came out and we had both seen, and enjoyed immensely, Young Frankenstein a couple of weeks before). After the initial funny gag of the black labourers conning the white bosses into singing The Campdown Ladies we sat there in stony silence. Unfunny mugging, endless rape 'jokes', dated references that had me struggling to find context (and were incomprehensible to her) Gross homophobic caricatures. She gave up and left. I struggled through to the end but I doubt if I will ever want to revisit. It hasn't aged well at all. I haven't watched Blazing Saddles in a very long time, so maybe my recollection of it is off. Now I'm not sure if I want to go back to check it to see. What you wrote about it is how I felt when I rewatched Animal House after a long break; it didn't hold up well at all, and I found myself wondering if it was ever really funny or if I was too young the last time to know any different.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 23, 2021 19:24:03 GMT -5
I never saw Citizen Kane. Is it worth it ? Absolutely. It's one of the all-time best. Other suggestions to watch (or rewatch, as the case may be): Sunset Boulevard Chinatown Any Alfred Hitchcock The French Connection The Bridge on the River Kwai Dr. Strangelove Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein
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Post by The Captain on Feb 23, 2021 11:51:48 GMT -5
Terry Beatty's been talking on Facebook how Batman Beyond #1 has suddenly shot up. A slabbed copy went for over $2K. Yeah. It's nuts. Just because the new Batman will have Terry McGuiniss the back issues shot up. It's the same with any property that's been licensed for film or TV. Back issues of Fantastic Four 94 have exploded with WandaVision as well in the past week. With all the upcoming things happening at Disney Plus, the possibility of any character's first appearance is going up. It's BS market that ruined comics in the 90s.Want to know what's really nuts these days? Non-Sports trading cards. All of those Marvel and DC trading card sets you have in your closet still are actually sellable. IRT the bolded, they're two entirely different things. I actually worked in comic book shops for two years in the early 90s, and we couldn't GIVE away back issues, first appearances or not. Even books like Iron Man #55 and Werewolf by Night #32 were tepid at best, and books like Avengers #196 and Ms. Marvel #18 were $1 bin fodder. What ruined comics in the 90s were multiple covers, gimmick covers, polybagging, and the like. We could sell that crap all day long without any problem. The store I worked at in college (93/94) could order 500 copies of a holo-foil Avengers cover (like #366) and be left with fewer than 10 of them at the end of the month. Death of Superman? We ordered over 1000 of the black polybagged versions and ran out within the first 24 hours, and the town my college was in only had 1800 residents and 14K students at the school; people were driving in from hours away later that week thinking they could scoop them up only to find our shelves were bare.
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