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I don't know if this would be helpful to you at all, but I noticed if you're subscribed, I can still listen to old episodes on my podcatcher (Spotify) even if they're not available directly on the site at the moment.
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5 hours ago, Donomark said:
An icon...perhaps the last of the old guard? He'd been working since the late Golden age.
In terms of the original Bullpen, Larry Lieber is still with us. Ramona Fradon got her start in the late Golden Age as well, and she's almost 100.
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10 hours ago, Donomark said:
I agree with Dan
BE LIKE DONOVAN
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This one's pretty goofy. There were others, certainly. I'm reminded of "Cobrathon", when Cobra once again is low on funds and solves this by taking over the public airwaves and hosting a fundraising telethon, which includes Destro in a ruffled tuxedo telling Henny Youngman-esque jokes and doing it quite poorly.
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Help! hasn't been historically viewed as bad, per se, just a silly inconsequential romp that wasn't at the level of their first film. It's certainly more clever than the vast majority of rock-star-cash-in flicks of the same era, and it's also the more obvious template for the Monkees' TV show the following year. It's only in the recent past that people have really looked at it and realized, oh hey, there are a lot of English character actors pretending to be South Asian and putting on accents and maybe that's not okay. (Not unlike a distressingly large number of comedy movies and TV shows in the same era, unfortunately.)
Magical Mystery Tour has to be viewed as more of a psychedelic period piece and less as a story with a plot. Individual sequences (not unlike Head, the ones that are essentially music videos) are great. The sketches, less so.
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On 3/21/2023 at 10:14 PM, dc20willsave said:
Criterion is running a sale right now and I nearly picked up that BBS boxed set that had Head in it.
There are SEVERAL great reasons to own that box. Those movies are iconic for a reason.
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1 hour ago, Missy said:
I still cannot believe how much I enjoyed Head.
Heyo!
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I expected to get fucking CRUCIFIED for this one.
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Thanks for your insight, Donovan. Obviously Japan doesn't have the same history with the depiction of Black characters in media that we do here, and I rarely feel like it's done out of malice when I see it in anime or manga, but that still doesn't make it acceptable or fun to see. And the backstory regarding Fist of the North Star definitely lends a different perspective on the depiction of Mari.
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Hey, so long as SOMEONE gets to take on Dracula.
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1 hour ago, Donomark said:
I enjoyed this! From the eclectic cast to the sleazy subject matter, and Steel and Lace elicited some big laughs from me. Any upcoming list of movies or tentative schedule to look out for?
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Things are evolving, as they do, so I'm not sure about laying out the schedule right now.
I can say that future episodes, which will come out every other Friday, will feature such luminaries as Rowdy Roddy Piper, various Ramones, a guy in a bird suit, Doctor Who but also he's a Dracula, Special K minus Boogaloo Shrimp, and a cop with a face as big as a stop sign.
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On 3/14/2021 at 8:28 PM, Professor said:
I just got the new warnings today as well.
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4 hours ago, slothian said:
Hey, comics readers - riddle me this.
I'm currently watching through the first season of the 90s Spider-Man series (THAT season, not the 35 that followed) and I've watched the Scorpion origin story. Now in both the cartoon and, according to wikipedia re: the comics origin, Jameson basically turned Gargan into the Scorpion to take down Spider-Man. So my question: has Jameson EVER been jailed/held responsible for this, other than Gargan targetting him out of vengeance? You'd think that'd be quite disqualifying for him holding his brief as editor of a newspaper.
Jameson was able to keep his involvement in the creation of the Scorpion a secret for years, but he came clean when the Hobgoblin used it against him in a blackmail scheme. He did end up having to step down as the Bugle's editor-in-chief and eventually had to sell the paper altogether. (For a while. Because, you know, comics.)
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The Power of Shazam! Vol. 1: In the Beginning hardcover: Collects the 1994 The Power of Shazam! graphic novel and issues #1-12 of the ongoing 1995 series.
This was incredibly fun. The graphic novel constituted the second post-Crisis origin story for Captain Marvel, and it was almost entirely done by Jerry Ordway. Ordway was basically put on this Earth to write and draw Captain Marvel stories, and he's able to modernize Cap just a bit while keeping everything that worked so well for the character in the 40s. This graphic novel is basically perfect.
It was followed a year later by an ongoing series, written by Ordway and drawn by Peter Krause and Mike Manley (unusually for the Big Two, the artists were credited before the writer). These aren't as amazing as the original novel, but are still a hell of a lot of fun, picking up four years after the events of the novel and slowly bringing Cap's lore back into his story. Mary and Freddy come into the story about halfway through, and introduce the wrinkle that the power of Shazam is finite; that is, Cap is as strong as he's going to get, and when the other two turn into their own superpowered identites, Cap's power is halved or thirded as a result. So while Cap can stand toe to toe against Black Adam by himself, if Mary or Junior are Shazamed up, Billy is going to get murdered. It's a very quick read that stayed entertaining throughout.
The Amazing Spider-Man by David Michelinie and Todd McFarlane Omnibus: collects The Amazing Spider-Man #296-329.
I spoke about this a little on Twitter, but this made me realize that I have historically been harder on Todd than he deserves. His issues really are demonstrably more exciting than the issues that precede his. The first year or so, when he still had to listen to his editor, is VERY good. Micheline was a longtime Marvel Bronze Age writer and he produces largely solid work. It's hilarious to see where he's had to cover for Todd's tendency to be way more violent than Marvel usually allowed in the 80s, and he has to explain that no, really, Spidey actually saved that guy off panel after we clearly saw him get smashed head first into a wall at terminal velocity. By the time "The AssassiNation Plot" happens it's starting to get ridiculous, but before that this is some solid-to-great Spidey comic work.
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On 3/18/2021 at 4:16 PM, Donomark said:
Zack Snyder's Justice League: Directed by Zack Snyder
It was alright.
Yeah, it was what it was. It truly did hang together as a story better then the Whedon version, but shit was FOUR HOURS LONG and entirely joyless.
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The season is... fine. Not awesome, not bad, just kind of okay. Chibnall is deliberately trying to do something different with the modern series - i.e., a series entirely comprised of one-and-dones like the classic series - but as a whole the episodes have not been stellar. The cast is great, and Whittaker is definitely a good Doctor.
Also, a not-zero amount of the backlash has been from people gnashing their teeth about the Doctor having boobs.
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10 hours ago, slothian said:
As an aside, it is interesting how nationalities view certain words more harshly. I brought up 'faggot' in a recording with Mike in the last 12 months - not as a slur, but quoting someone for something and I forget the immediate context - and that got bleeped. Conversely, the UK are a lot more sensitive to 'retard/retarded' than the US are, which I found out as a throwaway lyric in a Weird Al parody. And a recent one too (Word Crimes).
I believe the offending word in "Word Crimes" is "spastic", which is not really on the radar here in the US, but I understand is VERY not okay in the UK.
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4 hours ago, The Master said:
Not sure when I started censoring that word, but it felt like the right thing to do. It's one of those words I use in the UK sense (think Trainspotting), but totally understand why people bristle at it.
Stepping in to say that I 100% agree with this. Not using it in a misogynistic way doesn't mean a LOT of people hear it that way when the word is used and "that's not how I meant it" doesn't mean it's not genuinely offensive to a lot of people.
It's kind of like "I would NEVER call an actual 'r-word' the r-word."
(Yes, I've had to rethink a lot of my childhood vocabulary.)
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26 minutes ago, The Master said:
The solicitations sounded fun but maybe too one-note for my liking, so I'm glad to hear otherwise.
I took a chance on it because the co-writer, Sarah Beattie, is fairly funny on Twitter, if (again) kind of one-note. Glad I did.
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Money Shot #1-5: I walked in expecting a ridiculous sex comic. I got a surprisingly intelligent story with some solid science fiction and three-dimensional characters in a thoroughly cheerful sex-positive comedy. This was much, much, much better than I anticipated and I'll be reading the next arc as soon as I can.
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I've seen the VHS box in video stores but never brought myself to actually rent it.
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8 hours ago, Molly said:
Oh my God, she's Dolly Parton with everything appealing stripped away.
I mean, not everything.
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2 hours ago, dc20willsave said:
She did a ton of Horror films in the 80s. She was also Suzanne in Night of the Demons and Denise in Silent Night, Deadly Night, and is still doing films in the genre.
As a longtime USA Up All Night aficionado, I have a great deal of affection for the oeuvre of one Linnea Quigley, myself. Nightmare Sisters, man.
Episode 167 - Fugitive of the Judoon and Praxeus
in Bigger on the Inside
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Thanks, Jack! We have no plans to stop doing the show. C37 is taking up a lot of my time right now, and while I won't speak for Mike, I know that while I don't dislike Whittaker's Doctor at all, it's hard to get excited about the Chibnall era. So when he and I both have time to do something besides B-movies, BOTI doesn't tend to be the first thing either of us suggests. However, as you say, this is the sixtieth anniversary year, and I think we'll likely get into that.