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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 27, 2024 12:58:02 GMT -5
I’m going to be the pebble in your shoe and say as much as everyone professes to not want a political thread again ….
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 26, 2024 9:40:06 GMT -5
I never could stomach Seinfeld. The characters were all obnoxious and I never found their antics funny. I don't like "cringe" comedy (one of the reasons I loathe The Office) and avoid it as much as I can. I enjoyed the first couple of seasons of Friends but burned out on it after that (I wanted to beat Ross with a nail-studded baseball bat). No matter what genre a given show is (sitcom, police procedural, medical drama, etc), I have to like the characters if I'm going to tune in week after week. Thus I've had no incentive to watch shows like Breaking Bad, Dexter, House of Cards, The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, et al, that wallow in their characters' vices and criminality. I don't have a problem with anyone who does enjoy such shows. They're just not my cuppa. Cei-U! I summon my quirky TV habits! My wife is a fan of Sons of Anarchy which is the epitome of wallowing in people with almost zero redeeming qualities. They all were either killing or [use your imagination]. And she would sometimes watch that before I would go to bed when her insomnia was bad. And I would have to literally sleep with headphones and music in my ears just to drowned out the sounds coming from that TV that I didn't want to hear. I have no idea how people can enjoy things like that. It was like it was directed by Quentin Tarantino who made an entire career with movies like that. Which is why that one scene is my favorite part of Desperado.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 25, 2024 11:17:32 GMT -5
I understand that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a different thing , but I hate that they made Adam Warlock a fool in the last Guardians movie There I said it. Well I guess I am glad I went with my instinct to not watch it after GotG2 being the train wreck that it was. I guess that proves that GotG was the one off actual good MCU movie of the whole bunch. Though I will admit I am curious about Black Panther. But after GotG2 I just gave up on the MCU. And it seems that was a good plan.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 24, 2024 11:20:09 GMT -5
Incredible Hulk #333 (July 1987)
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 23, 2024 8:27:56 GMT -5
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 23, 2024 8:24:47 GMT -5
I tend to agree. When I peruse Lone Star there seems to be a reflection of the asking price of unslabbed comics when there is also a listing for a slabbed comic of the same title and issue. As in Incredible Hulk #340 was always a bit pricey, even back in the 90's when I started collecting because it was Hulk vs Wolverine as it was in #181. I think around that time it was $40 or so. I bit pricey for me first starting out and not really understanding the value of back issues. Right now on Lone Star there is not a single unslabbed issue available to make my point though.
Now you take something like Bettie Pages that's not even as old as the Hulk issues in question, fetches a fairly good price. But they are literally scare. No manufactured demand from other media to influence their "value". I've paid $20 or more for some issues, and I feel that's justified as they are hard to come by. But they differ in that, I would say outside of the comic book community and fetishist no one really knows who Bettie Page is. So the demand for those issues is genuine and not from people speculating and outside industries ramping up their popularity whether the contents of the comic is worth the "value".
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 18, 2024 8:05:03 GMT -5
A crossover by Todd McFarlane with Batman, Spider-Man and Spawn. It would create a lot of buzz and would be historic as a crossover between the biggest 3 publishers. would they battle their their own evil sentient capes? Well McFarlane has drawn all three before so .....
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 17, 2024 8:04:02 GMT -5
Aliens Special #1 (1997)
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 12, 2024 10:53:13 GMT -5
Are there as many variations of Hulk vs The Thing as their are colors of the rainbows of Hulks and Green Lanterns? Personally I think for the most part most the Hulk vs Thing battles were pretty bland and just repeats. Though the one I do like a lot that someone posted in the cover contest, The Big Change MGN is really good. And before anyone accuses me of being a Starlin fanboy, it also had Bernie Wrightson art too! There I said it. Wait ..... wrong thread.
Beside the fact that the one thing we should be thanking Byrne for is Aliens: Earth Angel .... wait no no ... his contribution to creating Terrax.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 12, 2024 8:57:26 GMT -5
My pick would be one of the MGN that really wowed me when I first read it. It' a great non-superhero suspense stroy. It reminds me of the those forbidding 70's no one knows about films that has all of like 3 actors in the movie. It bare bones, no frills story about the colder side of humanity. Those movies that you walk away from the theater looking over your shoulder and wishing you hadn't parked so far away from the theater entrance. Oh and it was based on a true story. Arena GN #1 (1989) Writer/Artist Bruce Jones
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 8, 2024 9:28:05 GMT -5
I guess this conversation is out of my grasp as I have that Avengelyne/Glory comic. Among other things. Like a disproportionately large amount of Bettie Page photos, biographies, art, posters and prints our walls. Along with some Vamperilla. Emma Peel, Oh My Goddess! and I think I have a poster of Lady Gaga too. Call me a perpetually 15 year old middle school boy. Probably not something I am going to outgrow.
I also asked my wife this morning if I turned up the heater would it be enough that she would wear less than sweat pants, a hoodie and two pairs of socks to bed. She smiled and rolled her eyes and told me to go to work. *shrugs*
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 5, 2024 7:21:55 GMT -5
If we could all lick it as fast as Tony Stark there wouldn't be no AA.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 4, 2024 11:15:53 GMT -5
I agree with shaxper on Starlin setting up Jason to fail as Robin. Even if Death in the Family never happened he wanted to portray Jason as reckless, disobedient and crass. I don't know if Starlin just didn't like the idea of another Robin. Or if that's how he was told to write the character with some liberties. One way or the other, in my opinion, I think either Starlin, DC or both were only keeping Jason around as a short plot line rather than a permanent addition to the Batman family.
As much as I hate the idea of Jason coming back alive after all these years, I will admit Under the Red Hood (the animated movie, never read the comics) is just about as predictable as a comeback like that would be, but believable. Who else would he blame for being "killed" (I guess "left for dead") by the Joker? He isn't going to blame himself for choosing to fight crime as a child with a man that dresses like a bat. He's going to blame Bruce. I can't think of much of another lane to take in another "what if Jason didn't die" story. I feel like it would just rehash Under the Red Hood for the most part. Unless this is a story about just Jason and not involving Batman and crime fighting. Just the story of a young man coping with the trauma of what just happened to him seems to be a good alternative. But I doubt that DC would do something non-superhero like that.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 3, 2024 10:23:47 GMT -5
Not sure if you game or not, but I recently replayed through the first rebooted Tomb Raider game from 2013 and it still holds up. Like someone mentioned above about other entertainment media, a lot of games that have come around since then have imitated what Crystal Dynamics did with Tomb Raider. But I think they still did it best. (Besides who doesn't like listening to Camilla Ludddington. That British accent oh my.) The second installment of the TR trilogy was real good too. A much more involving story and they even upped the details of gun customization. If you do game and like third person shooters I would highly recommend them for at least one play through.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 1, 2024 16:45:36 GMT -5
I'm going to try not to derail this thread as I don't know much about the character in questions besides the Teen Titans cartoon. But I agree with tonebone about Sokka. After many, many attempts to get me to watch it by our oldest boy, "making him more palatable" will completely flatten any stories they try to tell. Not every character can or really "needs" to be sensible. And besides as far as I can remember Sokka does "come around" when it comes to his more negative qualities through the journey and making the friends that he did. You could really say the same about Toph's abrasiveness that softens and her ego comes down a few notches as she learns teamwork. I think these kinds of characters are what distinguish a story being told that can maybe teach the reader about how other people work. It gives us a broader scope of humanity and how we are all different whether our negative qualities show or not.
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