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ProfessorCrackPipe 5 points ago +5 / -0

Eh...I’ll believe it when I see it. They’ve been threatening us with a new Red Sonja movie for over a decade now, and one has yet to get out of pre-production. Having said that, this’ll be the one they’ll ram through, on spite alone.

The character is pretty much dead, anyway. Dynamite has run her into the ground with their shitty comics, just as they have with Vampirella. The only good things they’ve done for those two characters is keeping the old stuff in print.

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ProfessorCrackPipe 4 points ago +4 / -0

I haven't kept up with Spawn (I think I stopped around #170-190) but potentially interesting.

I checked in around the big anniversary issue milestone a while back. It was decent, but was certainly suffering from the same ‘exploded storytelling’ that everything else is these days.

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ProfessorCrackPipe 3 points ago +3 / -0

I’d agree on checking out the old stuff from Marvel and DC. I still have yet to read Frank Miller’s Daredevil stuff, and I’m happy I’ve got that to look forward to in the future. Even your average run-of-the-mill title by a lesser known creative team is probably going to look like a masterpiece compared to what’s being put out these days.

Check out classic 2000 AD stuff, too, if you never have. As to French (or Belgian, as is sometimes the case), I often prefer classic stuff, too. Tintin, Lucky Luke, Asterix. May be too lighthearted for some now, but checking out a few stories will be a bit of an education, if you are not familiar with them already. I’m no expert, but most of the modern French comics I’ve tried have been kind of dull and pretentious.

There’s some interesting Italian stuff, like Diabolik, but very little of it has been translated to English, and I don’t think it’s readily available. Mort Todd, who worked at Mad or Cracked years ago is publishing the old Killing photo comics as “Sadistik,” but I think only 6 issues have been done. They’re a riot, but photo comics are very 60s European, and may not be everyone’s thing.

Old comic strips (can you tell I like old stuff yet?) like Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, The Phantom, Dick Tracy, can be cool, too. Most of those should be pretty accessible to give a try without much or any money down.

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ProfessorCrackPipe 6 points ago +6 / -0

I think that’s finally enough for me. I barely play games anymore, but I’ve got plenty of Sony consoles sitting around. Time for those to take a trip to the used media store...

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ProfessorCrackPipe 11 points ago +15 / -4

I think a lot of people are missing the point. Chauvin’s life was over already. He was never going to be acquitted. It isn’t right, but I have no sympathy for him. Any cop that is too unsophisticated to understand optics and how the media can spin things doesn’t belong on the force.

Whatever the juror’s individual political positions are, they knew damn well it wasn’t Chauvin’s life that was on the line, it was theirs. If they had found him innocent, they, and likely their immediate families, would have all been murdered. They know it, we know it. Chauvin is irrelevant. What this represents is the final death of justice, where outside coercion can always determine the outcome of trials.

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ProfessorCrackPipe 20 points ago +21 / -1

Every time I see stuff like this, I think I need to go back and look at print video game ads from the 90s, but I never get around to doing it.

They’d make those blue-haired heads explode if they were published today. I don’t have any old video game magazines, but I’ve got hundreds of comic books from the 90s. Maybe I’ll go through some of them this weekend and see what I find.

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ProfessorCrackPipe 15 points ago +15 / -0

I think it’s likely that all these “popularizer of science” guys are tied in with the intelligence agencies to some degree. They’re useful tools for shaping public opinion.

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ProfessorCrackPipe 4 points ago +4 / -0

Yeah, that’s one of my favorites. Or the douchebags who stand up and drink through the whole flight, as though they’re at a bbq in their back yard or something.

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ProfessorCrackPipe 12 points ago +12 / -0

Does it have any protections for the man at all? For example, if a woman gets knocked up, and is angry with the guy, can she run up a huge bill during the pregnancy, basically bankrupting the guy right away, then get his ass thrown in jail when he can’t afford to make child support payments later?

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ProfessorCrackPipe 14 points ago +16 / -2

I’m all for people taking responsibility for their actions, but this is just dumping more on the man, and making it even easier on the woman.

Single moms already get child support. Some (I’m assuming most) States have programs like free healthcare for children of single moms. And then there’s the huge tax credits every year, which most of them spend on things unrelated to their kid(s).

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ProfessorCrackPipe 18 points ago +18 / -0

It’s easy to rag on Star Trek as being progressive crap, but if you look at it through Enterprise, it’s generally preaching classical liberal values. Mainstay elements of the series are completely opposed to modern leftist attitudes.

Just a few random thoughts: The Romulan neutral zone is a hard border. Wars are still fought. DS9 did a good job making things more realistic, and suggesting there’s still an economy of sorts, things don’t just magically work. Any number of Kirk and Picard’s speeches would leave an SJW seething. The shows (again, up to ENT) had sexy women who were clearly there to entice male viewers.

Was Roddenberry an irredeemable lefty? Yeah, I think that’s pretty clear. But thankfully all the series enjoyed other writers and producers that were trying to tell good stories about good people.

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ProfessorCrackPipe 29 points ago +29 / -0

Pretty much. Flight attendants have carte blanche to act like cunts now, and don’t think they won’t make the most of it.

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ProfessorCrackPipe 2 points ago +2 / -0

Disappointing to see from Shatner, but as someone else mentioned, the guy is 90 years old. He’s in the age group that 1) is actually at risk from covid, and 2) remembers when a vaccines were introduced that effectively wiped out polio.

Perhaps more relevant, he makes good money on the convention circuit. He’s probably hoping to milk that in one big farewell tour, if things get back to “normal” relatively soon. He seems to have a new movie with Christopher Lloyd out soon, You Tube threw a trailer for it at me in an ad earlier this weekend. Maybe he’s trying to virtue signal a bit while promotion for the film is going on.

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ProfessorCrackPipe 1 point ago +1 / -0

That’s my whole problem, though. Running year and a half campaigns for what amounts to two comic books is absurd.

EVS and Meyer alone could have made a real difference in the industry by starting something like a new version of the original Image comics. Instead, they decided to exploit a relatively small fanbase over and over again, and get rich off of it. Ultimately, that’s my real problem. In the beginning it was all about going their own way and trying to change things. That lasted about 6 months, if that.

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ProfessorCrackPipe 11 points ago +11 / -0

Yes, but it started earlier, during the holidays. I still tell myself to take the high road, and try to deescalate things. However, I can see that’s how we got in this mess. ‘Go along to get along’ doesn’t lead to good things. Maybe it’s time for them to face some consequences for their dishonesty, for once.

Of course it won’t accomplish anything. They’ll just sob to other family members that ‘oh muh gerd, I can’t believe he was radicalized by the far right!’

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ProfessorCrackPipe 4 points ago +4 / -0

I have not followed it for years, but the few times Joey Barton got called up are the only time I recall anyone ‘controversial’ on the team. Edit: apparently Barton only made 1 appearance, back in 2007. I thought it was 2 or 3, and did not realize it had been that long ago.

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ProfessorCrackPipe 22 points ago +22 / -0

Funny how standardized testing worked just fine when we had a cohesive society. One with, you know, shared standards.

And I always hear the complaints about standardized testing, but never any solutions. What are they suggesting? An interpretative dance in place of taking an algebra exam?

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ProfessorCrackPipe 33 points ago +33 / -0

England being disgraceful on the football pitch is nothing new, but at least it used to come after the match started.

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ProfessorCrackPipe 2 points ago +2 / -0

Not an attack on the OP, or anyone who likes EVS or comicsgate, but I’ll offer a counter point.

I can’t believe Ethan still hasn't finished this thing. I cancelled my order and got out of ‘ComicsGate’ so long ago, I don’t even remember. It’s been over a year, I’m sure of that. Closer to two. EDIT: I had to check, it’s been one year, exactly. It felt longer than that, but I guess that’s to be expected, it was 2020, after all.

The overall quality is no better than the product being put out by Marvel or DC. Ethan behaves exactly the same as the SJWs at those companies do, running off anyone he doesn’t like, and sending fans after them.

They’re selling a lifestyle, and the opportunity to be ‘part of the gang,’ more than they’re selling comics.

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ProfessorCrackPipe 8 points ago +8 / -0

I agree. I’m just not sure what it is. My suspicion is that it’s for a manufactured virus they will release in a year or so that will kill off all of us that didn’t get the vaccine. They kill off the people that have demonstrated that they’ll resist them, and get a little population control as a bonus.

But I’m paranoid and generally crazy, so what do I know...

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ProfessorCrackPipe 9 points ago +9 / -0

I think the ship’s name is “Ever Given,” and the shipping company is “Evergreen.” I presume all their ships are named “Ever” something or other.

Maybe this one should rechristened the “Ever Blocker.”

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ProfessorCrackPipe 19 points ago +20 / -1

Don’t experience anything for yourself, folks. Just stay home. Watch more tv, and buy more shit on Amazon.

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ProfessorCrackPipe 5 points ago +5 / -0

They’ve been editing stuff here and there for years anyway. From replacing the old WWF logo in some cases, to removing licensed music. So we were already headed down this path, to some degree.

I recall seeing that the small company that did the filming for ECW was selling all the footage from the shows. Uncensored, with all the unlicensed music they illegally used, and whatever else did not make the cut for broadcasting or later dvd and streaming releases. It would be cool to have that, but they were charging some obscene price, like $900-1000, if I remember correctly. My nostalgia for late 90s wrestling isn’t that strong.

Is the WWE is bad shape financially? Why are they selling streaming rights to NBC? I thought they had their own service for that?

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ProfessorCrackPipe 10 points ago +10 / -0

If you ever have to give someone a time frame resolving a clusterfuck, the smartest thing to do is to give them your estimate of the worst case scenario.

Scotty from Star Trek would be proud.

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