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Hopefully she's not dead. Maybe the X-Men only think she's dead. I'd love it if she were alive, but couldn't tell her friends. Like, maybe, she and Lockheed have joined SWORD as secret agents. Yeah, it's silly, but it's better than Kitty freaking Pryde being dead.
Which wouldn't make sense. Joss Whedon freaking WORSHIPS Kitty Pryde. There's no way he'd remove her.
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Thank you, sir. I was actually going to start a thread like this myself.
I'm always going to be looking for ideas. At the moment, I'm actually looking at no less than four series, because I'm freaking insane. One of them was actually a suggestion someone made to me, of a show I'd never seen before and had actually barely heard of, and I'm loving it, so I'm getting introduced to new series, and that's been a really cool side effect of doing this.
(Another two of them are on your list.)
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That actually makes a lot of sense; I have heard the 13 weeks thing before. Saturday morning cartoons tend to get made in seasons of 13 episodes, and I know that in the 80s, when sydicated cartoons really got up and running, the first season was always 65 episodes for that very reason (13 weeks of no reruns).
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Holy crap.
Holy crap holy crap holy crap.
All right, Snyder. I'm in. I'm fucking well in.
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Sigh. My heart hurts.
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Dan Turbin
It's Turpin. :laugh:
It's "Toland". (What? Oh...)
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Isn't Michael Rosenbaum leaving? There is officially no reason to continue watching this show. Aargh. Fuck Lana.
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MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69.
He had been suffering from health problems for several years, including an abdominal aneurysm, said his wife, Gail Gygax.
Gygax and Dave Arneson developed Dungeons & Dragons in 1974 using medieval characters and mythical creatures. The game known for its oddly shaped dice became a hit, particularly among teenage boys, and eventually was turned into video games, books and movies.
Gygax always enjoyed hearing from the game's legion of devoted fans, many of whom would stop by the family's home in Lake Geneva, about 55 miles southwest of Milwaukee, his wife said. Despite his declining health, he hosted weekly games of Dungeons & Dragons as recently as January, she said.
"It really meant a lot to him to hear from people from over the years about how he helped them become a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, what he gave them," Gygax said. "He really enjoyed that."
Dungeons & Dragons players create fictional characters and carry out their adventures with the help of complicated rules. The quintessential geek pastime, it spawned a wealth of copycat games and later inspired a whole genre of computer games that's still growing in popularity.
Funeral arrangements are pending. Besides his wife, Gygax is survived by six children.
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Fuck bees.
The key is, of course, a clever disguise. Bees are consistently bewildered by the sudden apprearance of a Little Black Rain Cloud Hover Over The Honey Tree.
Plus, the mud is great for your skin, and also you're flying.
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Uh... Okay.
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I just don't get why people see Howard Chaykin as a legend. When DW compared him to Liefeld, he hit the nail on the head.
Chaykin did a lot of really good, cutting-edge stuff in the 80s (American Flagg, The Shadow), but I felt his strengths were much more as a writer than an artist. Nowadays he looks like he draws with his feet.
He wrote the Trickster episodes, though, so I will let it slide.
EDITED because "relaly" is not, in fact, a word.
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Watch yourself Deaux! Part of my winnings as contributor of the year are the powers to have one person tied to a chair for an entire year watching Death of the Batman...
Ahhhhh! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
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Dan, I see where you're coming from with your review of Logan #1. Some people might find the book tired. But if looked at as an homage, I think it succeeded.
I get what you're saying. Yes, it hits the same notes as the Claremont/Miller miniseries, which I loved. The first time I read it. Twenty-five years ago. I've just read too many variations on that same story - frequently by Claremont himself - over the years to be at all interested in another.
As an homage, yes, it works. You make an extremely valid point. I wasn't interested in an homage, though; I wanted a story. And as a comic book story, it's derivative crap, and expensive derivative crap at that. Your mileage may vary; that's why fandom rocks so hard.
You're wrong, though. :angel:
DW, awesome Punisher review. My office mates are all looking at me funny.
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Does your son have a piggy bank? :devil:
Oh, don't think he hasn't learned that lesson by now. The location of any money he may come into contact with is carefully rotated around to a number of hidden locations.
The fact that I just sometimes need candy doesn't seem to move him.
Father of the Year? Very possibly.
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Grumble!
Holdout for a new laptop, hon!
A new laptop? Hell, I'm not totally sure yet how I'm going to come up with the $7.25.
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I have to say my experience parallels Drq's. I bought a 360 for my son two Christmases ago, and as a video game system, it made a helluva paperweight right out of the box. While my initial experience with Microsoft tech support was like something out of a Kafka novel (literally a four-hour phone call, after which they pronmptly lost all my information and cancelled the work order), after that everything went very smoothly, and I had my 360 back about ten days after I sent it out. It hasn't caused a lick of trouble since.
Now, I've heard that it's gotten a LOT worse since then, and you're more likely to get someone else's broken 360 back than you are to get your own broken 360 back, and a brand new one is virtually unheard of any more.
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I've NEVER seen this show before, so I'm quite interested - not least by Mark Hamill's Trickster. Given that Hamill would go on to voice him in the DCAU, you almost wonder if it could be considered in continuity. Admittedly it would be pre-Wally West of the S:TAS/JL/JLU....and this show IS live action, but still. Much like his Joker voice was used to begin another DC live action show Birds of Prey (which I also didn't see), Hamill's career whoredom might well theoretically link ALL TV shows EVER to JLA!!
It's true... Mark Hamill is the center of the universe...
If you're interested, this is a video that gives a good idea of what Hamill did with the role.
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I finally got a chance to listen to this one. I really enjoyed your interview with Nelson. Outstanding job.
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The above is a post made by me because for some reason one did not appear magically....but I'm not letting it bother me...really!
That's okay, Des. I Believe In You.
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Do Warner Brothers not read my columns?!?!? They're about to tar some of DC's greatest heroes and set back proper feature films of them by years/decades just so Adam Brody and his seemingly Australian Justice League can fight Maxwell Lord in Canada.
Did Catwoman teach these people nothing? And do they really want to piss Chris Nolan off so soon after his Joker dying already limits his third film scope? Haven't the producers who suggested Superman can't fly when facing a giant spider been pensioned off? Can anyone persuade the writers to strike again?
I've got a million of these, trust me... :grumble:
So you're... disappointed, or... ?
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This game sounds amazing. I can't wait to start it.
As always, James, great job.
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Well, it was nice while it lasted.
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You're not going to get an argument from me on that score, but I haven't read Millar's story. Someone recently told me "Have you read The Twelve? It's the new Watchmen!" That was the most ludicrous thing I ever heard, until I actually read it and realized he might not be wrong. Someone someday is going to write the Wolverine story that blows Claremont/Miller away. It'll happen.