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My fav Harrison flick is The Mosquito Coast, it’s a fabulously odd tale of a American nutter who decides to up sticks with his family to the Amazon because he feels the country has gone to the dogs and builds a giant ice maker in the middle of the jungle. TLC is the fourth best Indy flick. I respect KotCS for at least trying something different, plus Cate is divine as usual.
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TwoPair posted:Anyway whatever. All-New Captain America Special: Wow, I guess Anthony Mackie is devoted to keeping kayfabe.
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May 22, 2018 11:32
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They totally need to have Thumper and the Funny Bunny in one of the films. A girl dressed as Napoleon decking chumps with a oversized comedy boxing glove because she didn't get a pony is too good to leave languishing on the page.
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May 23, 2018 00:03
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5ing this Unbeatable page.
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Jun 1, 2018 16:31
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Nipponophile posted:Since when? The White Queen was always a New England old money type. Besides, didn’t Claremont create her? We all know what he thinks a Southern Belle sounds like and I certainly don’t recall him ever writing her to sound like *that*.
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Jun 9, 2018 10:53
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Looking at that Ultimates sequence now, I'm just wondering where Pietro and the atomised mulch he took for a ride actually ended up when he stopped. Tierra del Feugo?
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Jun 26, 2018 12:43
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cant cook creole bream posted:Not as far as I know. But the idea that she, America, Gwen and probably Clint don't dunk on him any chance they get seems inconceivable to me. A-force and Hawkeye Had so much of that. Looking forward to him trying to sneak a look into Gwen’s mind and discovering not only does she know everything about him but also everything about him he had absolutely no idea of (his entire existence resulting from the fictional scribblings of an insane bald Scotsman).
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Jul 12, 2018 19:00
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I miss Spider-Man & the X-Men.
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Aug 4, 2018 15:44
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Nothing says more about poor Otto’s desperate need for mental help than the fact he was all set to marry a six thousand year old mummified corpse lady. May must have had The Hardest Life of all, and maybe a meth habit.
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Aug 12, 2018 12:01
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Infinitum posted:Was legitimately going to ask if that was Constantine with a new haircut or something, as I read the comic before your initial comment. It was pretty much the first time the Devil met him, I think. From first meeting to #1 on the Devil’s shitlist in five minutes is some going but that’s John for you.
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Aug 26, 2018 11:27
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Still mad this wasn't one of the unlockable suits in Spider-Man PS4. I want my web-wings, dammit.
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Sep 19, 2018 15:47
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TwoPair posted:I know Venom's tongue is always nuts but I feel like Hulk should look over at him and go "goddamn dude what is happening with your jaw?" Eddie saw Fright Night at an impressionable age.
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Oct 18, 2018 13:59
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Was he supposed to become Krang or something?
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Oct 31, 2018 20:32
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Lurdiak posted:Don't worry he never loving used it. Everything you wrote is bollocks. The actual reason was because some fuckwit called James Ferman ended up as head of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) and he had a massive hate boner against graphic violence in films and banned the poo poo out of loads of 70s and 80s exploitation flicks, and imposed scores of cuts on others (so getting hold of the US version of, say, Robocop on VHS could make you the most popular kid in school for the summer). He particularly hated nunchuks not because they represented the ‘sinster, far more dangerous technology of the inscrutable orientals’ but because guns were hard to come by while any dope could get hold of a chain and some sticks. Bruce Lee made it look like the coolest poo poo in the world so every kid was desperate to go to Ninja 2000 and get hold of some. Eventually - thankfully - the miserable bastard retired and hosed off never to be seen or heard from again and, wonder of wonders, his replacment rescinded the ban on nuchucks soon after. Pristine copies of Enter the Dragon immediately turned up on shelves and Mikey was no longer left holding bugger all. It feels like it’s literally been decades since anything’s had the kind of gently caress awful cuts or bans that were the norm while that uptight arsehole was calling the shots. Last thing I recall was Obi-Wan headbutting Jango Fett in AtoC, some dope decided that it would encourage kids to go around headbutting each other.
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Now I think about it, The Evil Dead used to staight up banned, I’m sure of it. That, Driller Killer and a host of others that you’re just as likely to find showing on Horror on any given weeknight now. I want to say The Texas Chainsaw Massacre too, even but not entirely sure. The Exorcist was basically only viewable at repository cinemas for years, it didn’t get cleared for home release until the mid/late 90s I think. God, he was such a tosser. Even in the 90s they were still liable to freak out. Tarantino sent them into fits of apoplexy, Reservoir Dogs and Natural Born Killers got a load of heat. A lot of it was due to media shitstirring, there was one film critic in particular, Alexander Walker of the London Evening Standard, who was always getting outraged over something or other. Oh god, the fuss over A Clockwork Orange, hah. Region locked DVDs/BluRays aren’t so much of a thing these days. The main reason for bothering is to get hold of special Criterion editions, obscure releases that no one bothers to release in the region, or if something did get censored but like I said, since Ferman quit, things have been immeasurably better on that front.
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Nov 1, 2018 21:09
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Wheat Loaf posted:Fun fact: James Ferman was actually an American expat. Actually not entirely a surprise, we’ve been far less bothered about sex than violence for long while now, haven’t we? Nothing everyone loves more than a steamy costume romp on BBC2/C4. Ah, all those French ‘art’ films C4 would show back in the day. Halcyon days.
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Nov 1, 2018 21:33
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Samuringa posted:I didn't even notice them until you pointed it out. Same, the weirdo pile of monster mulch in the background had all my attention.
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Nov 12, 2018 18:04
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Conrad_Birdie posted:That issue of JL Quarterly was legit one of the first comics I ever read, and is thus extremely near and dear to my heart and weirdly formative to me in general! I would buy copies of it whenever I would come across one, and it took YEARS for me to realize it was a parody of the first Galactus storyline. All my copies of it got destroyed in the NC hurricane this year though. The only series I already own and rebought as a collected/omnibus edition is Planetary. The only other series I’d do this for is the complete JLI. Give me all of it, the whole darn thing because I loved every minute of that gloriously silly series, it just doesn’t get enough love.
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Jan 2, 2019 14:08
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Saoshyant posted:If you have the money to burn, I sure would like to know more about it. All the reviews can't stop raving about the sound effects, so they must be really something. It was this weird little period some 25 years ago (give or take) where Radio One would squeeze in a mid-afternoon audio drama for 5-10 minute chapters amid its usual song playlist stuff. I never heard the Death of Superman adaptation but did catch some of their Knightfall and Judge Dredd ones. I remember thinking they sounded surprisingly good back in the day but not listened to them since, plus you were stuffed if you missed a chapter here or there.
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Mar 5, 2021 20:49
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Other than the dog kick, this will forever be the most perfect Cobra Commander moment, I feel: A later uplifting storyline has him reconnect with his estranged son, decide to cut the bullshit and pack it all in for him*... ..only for one of his elite troops to be rather miffed at wasting years of his life and even having plastic surgery for Cobra so he shoots CC in the back, buries him in a shallow grave and goes back to Cobra Island claiming to be Cobra Commander (badly) for a couple of years before the house of cards finally collapses. * I am convinced the insane accountant dressed in a giant bird suit also contributed to this, mind.
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May 6, 2021 20:47
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:Bonus: The Real American Heroes: Poor Bongo remains a sore point with me even now. I'm still holding out for Scrap Iron to get what's coming to him. 
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May 7, 2021 10:35
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Batman was the first DC character I loved as a kid but that was thanks to the TV show. Firestorm was the first DC comic I actually got into, so I've always had a soft spot for him. The constant disrespect for my Nucular Bro stings, man. For reals though, I still think it's one of the more fun concepts DC had, the meathead kid worrying about all his high school poo poo welded to some genius old guy, a nicely blossoming rogues gallery combining Spidey-style mad (nuclear) science and straight up weird poo poo (werehyenas), more melodrama than you can shake a stick at, and a dope chimney head for [reasons]. He's never recovered from all the lame fire elemental poo poo Ostrander went with though.
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Jul 7, 2022 21:50
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NorgLyle posted:One of my favorite parts about early X-Factor was that, in order for their clever ruse of being mutant hunters to work, they (editorial, not the characters) needed Beast to not be blue and furry so they came up with a random cure for his blueness and furitude that, for some reason, also made him really really dumb. And everyone else on the team acts like this is just normal Hank stuff despite him being for all intents and purposes a completely new character and different person than any of them had ever known before. No, the cure didn't make him dumb. Almost a year and a half after losing the fur he barely survives their first fight with Pestilence, whose power reacts with his already messed up body/immune system to cause it. It took a further half dozen issues before he got to a dumb-as-bricks stage and within a year from there, he was cured and back to being smart and fuzzy again.
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Darthemed posted:
lmao Maybe we should have a thread just for letters from insane readers, this poo poo is gold.
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Nov 6, 2022 13:48
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The Frank in the chest logo kills me every time. I always thought singling out Steve for it was a bit harsh given how many other artists were just as guilty as well (one sacred cow in particular seemed only to have one male face, best described as 'misshapen swivel-eyed loon'). Something I really didn't like though was the colouring on his Marvel work - don't know who was doing it but it was frequently flat and lifeless compared to that of his Vertigo stuff, no subtlety to it at all. Given the dreadful news today, I'd post something by Kevin O'Neill but I guess Torquemada in full on ranting horror mode probably isn't everyone's idea of a Funny Panel..!
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Nov 8, 2022 01:21
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Endless Mike posted:
Bullshiiiiiiiiit that he would ever permit so cheap, common and pedestrian a device. Give Vulpes a sixer for this outrage.
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Dec 21, 2022 18:53
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SimonChris posted:Recent discussion of the Valerian reminded me of how the movie removes the central gag from the story that they are vaguely adapting: The macho space hero is kidnapped at the beginning of the story, leaving the female sidekick to resolve the crisis on her own, while having to deal with hysterical men who crack under pressure: Is that the series where a idiot guy from a space fairing civilisation picks up a woman from a much more primitive one and she turns out to be way savvier and more competent in almost every situation? I didn’t bother with the film because I can’t abide Dane Dehane, he unfortunately is cursed with one of the most punchable faces on Earth.
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Dec 24, 2022 14:38
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Endless Mike posted:I definitely almost bought an HD CRT at one point. Decided against it at the last minute, thankfully. Good call. I bought a 28" widescreen CRT back in the day, drat near snapped my fibia/tibia/whatever trying to get the bastard on its stand. The picture quality was amaaaaaaaaaaaazing but I do not miss the age of the Big Biffa TV.
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Apr 11, 2023 21:08
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I've always wondered what the deal was with Doc's hair. The Planetary version likewise had the same baffling thing going on, like is he wearing a metal hairpiece, what's going on there?
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May 9, 2023 13:26
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FFT posted:I'm begging you to please stop using imgpile Hah, thought it was just me but yeah, roughly only a third of that dude's posts ever show anything for me.
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May 24, 2023 13:05
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I always forget the weird reversal in Firestorm of the jock being hassled and bullied by the turbonerd.
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Jun 4, 2023 15:26
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Man, the Punisher letters pages are a gift that keeps on giving.
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Jun 13, 2023 17:29
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There's nothing spoilery in story terms here but as this panel is from this week's X-Men issue, I've put it in tags so the 'surprise' is preserved for those who haven't read it yet. I just think it's a wonderful combination of caption and art, someone trained by a master ninja using the subtle art of KICKING A MOFO SUPER HARD IN THE DADDY BAGS. Just beautiful.
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Aug 2, 2023 20:05
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I only read a few of the NU books. I sorta liked Spitfire but the other two were just boring af (so much so, I can't even recall their names), the entire setting just seemed so dull compared to the regular Marvel output. I imagine I'd probably appreciate it all a lot more these days but oh well.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I was probably five when I read that issue of "GREEN MAN HULK". It was the saddest god drat thing I'd ever read. It was the first issue of Hulk I ever read, it was collected in a compilation annual along with a Neal Adams X-Men vs Sentinels story. And yeah, the ending was just miserable, poor, poor dude.
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Toby Jones is...The
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