Missy

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  1. What'd you think overall?
  2. I've seen few of her movies, but I would suggest: Julie & Julia and Arrival.
  3. The Brave and the Bold #57-58: With the passing of Ramona Fradon, I thought I'd give her co-creation, Metamorpho, a try. Glad I did too, because her art grabs you from page one and holds on tight. Showcase #34: With my Ant-Man reading through (more in a moment), I opted to try his DC counterpart. Only got one issue in, but he's so much more compelling after one issue than Hank was after a dozen. Hell, and I like Ant-Man. Tales to Astonish #27, 35-69: For this, I went back and read the Ant-Man, Giant-Man, and Wasp stories, and I was shocked to discover Giant-Man is mostly boring. The stories are fun, but they have to find ways to make him weaker than Ant-Man to generate peril. Hank constantly refers to Janet as being scatterbrained, yet she never demonstrates this. He's just a prick to her. The Human Top is a majorly compelling villain, and Egghead is an absolute dork. Janet is Janet Van FUCKING Dyne, so she's always on fire. Tales to Astonish #84-101, The Incredible Hulk #102: Continuing my look at the early years of The Hulk, and this book is wild. It has some downs for sure, but it drills into who The Hulk is, abandoning Banner for long stretches, so we get to know the man that people see as the monster. February Issues: 58 Total: 127
  4. Interesting. It sounds like Spotify pulled them from the site and stored them on their own servers.
  5. Hi, Davy! The basic story is this: Despite paying for unlimited storage and bandwidth, GoDaddy has a hissy fit whenever the storage size becomes too big. (They can never define what "too big" means, so there's no known cap I can push against.) Under threat of terminating my service, they force me to nuke everything. To this end, I keep only a few episodes up at a time. That said, if you DM me here, I can maybe get something working for you.
  6. During part of her tenure on Voyager, Jeri Ryan was married to Jack Ryan, an investment banker. They wound up getting divorced in 1999. Reports at the time were it was due, in part (more on this later), to Jeri's Voyager filming schedule. Jack was known to be a controlling man, after all. In 2004, Jack decides he wants to run for the US Senate. Because he's a political candidate and because everyone knew something was off about their divorce, the records are unsealed. What did they find in those records? Jack forced Jeri to visit sex clubs with him and made her perform sexual acts on other men. This revelation nukes all political aspirations for one Jack Ryan. So who should fill the vacuum left by Jack Ryan? Who should win the US Senate seat Ryan was after? Barack Obama. And thus begins the political career of the future POTUS. From there we all know how Trump treated Obama (RE: birtherism) and how Obama making one joke led to Trump finally deciding to run for POTUS himself. And here we fucking are. Addendum: Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is tied to this as well, because it was Obama's vacated Senate seat he tried to sell, which is what put him in jail.
  7. 2000AD #2-18: Got into a Judge Dredd kick, and these are solid short tales. This group also includes the first storyline, The Robot Wars, which very much sets up the world of Mega-City One as an oppressive place for some, and makes no bones about the Judges being authoritarian. Detective Comics #1062-1065: This is the start of the Ram V run. It's different, I'll give it that, and I appreciate different when it comes to Batman stories. I'll see where it goes somewhere down the line. The Incredible Hulk #1-6, Tales to Astonish #59-83: When Stan and Jack created The Hulk, it was clear they had no real direction for him besides "monster runs from the military." You can feel them trying to find their footing, while also slowly losing interest, so the end of the first run was a mercy killing. Then Steve Ditko is given Tales to Astonish and holy shit does it take off. Ditko gives us rage-changes, The Leader, Glenn Talbot, and Hulk being his own man with his own friends and feelings. I could read Ditko Hulk stories all day, but Kirby returned. Thankfully they don't drop Ditko's additions to Hulk, but the art is not great. That is, until Bill Everett joins as Jack's finisher, and the series has life once more. At the point I am now, I'm not sure Stan is scripting it - despite being credited. I'd bet money it's Roy Thomas. But, Stan's the credited writer until #101, when the book shifts to the second volume of The Incredible Hulk, so who knows. Wesley Dodds: The Sandman #1-4: For decades now, I've wanted to get into Golden Age Sandman - based solely on his look. And this book did the trick. Absolutely loving it. And it finally got me to read... Sandman Mystery Theatre #1-4: Wow. Just wow! This is everything I've wanted and more. However, a note: if you read the original physical (or scanned) comics, be prepared for anti-Semitism, racism, sexism. Not of the 1990s variety, but that of the late 1930s. The digitized reprints, however, edit this out. WildCATs: Covert Action Teams #0, 1-4; WildCATs Special #1; WildCATs Trilogy #1-3: This tosses you right into a pre-built world and gives zero fucks if you understand a damn thing that's going on. I appreciate the balls of that. However, a lot of it does feel like slightly tweaked unused X-Men ideas. Issues: 69 😎
  8. It's been a while on both, but I'm thinking Black Swan.
  9. Des, do you know the impact Voyager had the world? How it literally changed the course of human history? Not unless it happened in the first 2 and a half seasons and I can't think of it.
  10. Boomerang, The Flintstones, The Call
  11. Wow! That is an amazing touch! And nice catch!