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Thank you to those who let me know of Miqque’s passing. Goodbye my friend, you’ll be sorely missed and always remembered.

 

Life dealt Miqque a hell of a shit sandwich, and yet despite everything he coped with a love of life. You always saw the kindness of his spirit and the rascal in his soul when he posted here. I know this place was an oasis for him, and he valued the friendships he built up here over the years. I’m glad to have been a part of it and to have met him here. I think all of us have a Miqque story, and no doubt if we were in the bar they’d be locking up while we remembered some shit he said or got up to over the years. Old posters or new, everyone got to know Miqque and he was always kind and welcoming to everyone. He took the time with you if you gave any time to him (and even if you didn’t give him much time!).

Those 20,000 word ramblings that only the brave tackled were one of his signature behaviors, but for me it was the twinkle in his posts where you were never sure if he was kidding or not. Sometimes I didn’t know if Miqque was smoking the weed or if the weed was smoking Miqque.

 

I’d always hoped that one day I’d be traveling close enough to him to meet. I’m terribly sorry that it’ll never happen now, but I’m glad I got to know him well enough to consider him friend. He was a good, kind, fun loving, self effacing, entertaining and gentle soul. He was decent, even with everything he endured. I wish life had given him more. He deserved it.

2020 is just the worst fucking year and this now is the worst part of it. I know Miqque had strong faith and I hope he was right in that regard, that’s there’s more to life that what we see. Whether there is or isn’t he lives on in our memories and every time we smile thinking about him.

 

Rest In Peace Treebeard. I’ll never forget you.

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Hello. Just wanted to pop in and say congratulations to Jacowboy for finally getting what you always wanted.

 

It’ll still be terrible, you can’t make a steak dinner out of dogshit, but at least we’ll get to give Snyder his chance and the Internet will move on to something else. Great PR move by HBO.

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I’m just here to represent Preacher. Luckily Jacow is here to talk it up too.

 

And Mandalorian. And Warrior. And Movies that Made Us. And last Kingdom. And Peaky Blinders. And Ms Maisel. And Kingdom. And The Terror.

And Righteous Gemstones.

 

It’s been a  good year for TV.

Anonymous wrote:

So I didn’t see the latest episodes but baby Yoda is already using the force? That seems to indicate their whole species is just naturally force sensitive, yuck.

He’s also 50 years old. We don’t know anything about him or his background or what training he might have done.

The Toys that Made Us is entertaining – they have a nice storytelling side that makes the hour fly by and makes all the internal corporate politics interesting. It’s always fun to see just how small that world was in the 80’s.

as for toy lines, my boys play with action figures from Batman, Daniel Tiger, Paw Patrol and Peppa Pig, and they buy those disposable toys like LOL and Shopkins and Hatchimals. They love pretend roleplay, it’s still their favorite game. I think the action figure is still fine as a toy line. Toys just have to split the spend with video games now and you’re not going to get a singular toy that becomes a national conversation as we’re in a very fragmented world now.

Paw Patrol are actually a nice example of a new brand taking off and capturing market share. And it’s a fun cartoon too.

This show is the best Star Wars since ROTJ and it’s not close. I’m loving everything about it. Wish it’d been a movie.

All this debate about Terminator misses the main point – there’s no more market for the franchise. There’s not the audience to support the necessary budgets. If only there was a word to describe what’s happened to the franchise…

You’re not going to get many truly original IP’s specifically for movies anymore. You’re much more likely to get that in TV. Part of what drives a movie is some sort of name recognition (in an age where movie stars or directors don’t guarantee an audience). And of course you’re competing against huge IP machines with massive budgets too. So almost every decent sized movie budget is going to be based on something with a history.

John Wick was a $20 million movie that made less than $100 million worldwide. It realistically should have just died after the first movie but it was cheap and had some buzz.

Honestly I think we’re reaching franchise fatigue. I think Some of these big brand movies are failing because they’re appealing to a generation that have streaming and prefer staying in than going out, and the franchise doesn’t have the same appeal to the younger crowd. It’d be like selling Western movies in the 1980’s. After a certain point a story stops being interesting and it’s time to move on to a new story.

That’s what I think we’re going to see over the next few years. The reemergence of the new idea.

Gar, you’ll never be a good dictator if you go around asking other peoples opinions. Just choose and charge forwards. You’ll never please anyone so you may as well at least please yourself!

Finally caught the ending of Preacher. I think it did a great job, but I’m a little sad because the show is ending and I really enjoyed it. I’ll miss it very much – the cast were so strong and the production so wild that you just never knew what was going to happen. I found it was always best when it meandered around rather than hitting necessary plot points. It really added a large amount to the comic book series, and I think ranks among the best comic book adaptations – even though I know many didn’t like it. Ennis should be very happy with how it finished, this odd book and TV show that defined his career.

I’ve noticed that on my desktop I stay logged in so long as my browser is open, but on my cell phone it logs me out automatically after a certain period of time. Is this a setting that can be modified?

njerry wrote:

Jim wrote:

This feels like wearing someone else’s panties.

So, a familiar and comforting feeling, then?

I see you too are a gentleman of culture and taste Jerry.

[Jim]

Name: To you guys, Jim O’Hara
Age Range: Fourty fucking four. Probably lived more than half my life at this point. So that sucks.
Comics you’re currently buying: Only the books Millar makes.
Favorite Millar book? It’s like picking a favorite child. I can’t answer.
Favorite comic characters: Rocket, Blue Beetle, Starlord (but I think he’s a bit shit now). Huck, Corbin & Danny from Chrononauts, Edison Crane, Hit Girl.
Top TV shows right now: Preacher as I haven’t seen the finale yet. After that I have no new show to watch. I’ll watch Peaky Blinders, but it’s not as good as it used to be. And it was never that great. Supernaural I guess, but it feels like it’s gone on too long.
Best movie you saw in the last year: Thor Ragnarok (I watched it again last week).
Where do you live? In my own wee bubble
What do you like about Millarworld The Carrier? That I’m not footing the bill anymore.
If you could change one thing about the world, what would it be? Everyone would be naked.
If you could have one last meal before your glorious death in the Thunderball arena, what would you eat? Shepherds Pie.
Top 5 fictional characters you’d go to Vegas with? James Kirk, Rocket Raccoon, Dean Winchester, Ragnar Lothbrook and Apone from Aliens.
If you could visit one place, where would you go? The North Pole
If you had to room with another Millarworlder, who would you pick? Does it have to be just one? Can’t we have a commune?

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This feels like wearing someone else’s panties. It’s weird, but I think I might like it.

That video is great. It’s funnyhow no matter how advanced society gets, clown shows are still amusing.