Rob Liefeld is a dick, part #4092:
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are anything to go by. I don’t think Twitter should ever be taken as representative of the general reaction like that.
You’re right, it’s just people – what do they know? Here’s the tweet in question. Good luck finding all those Liefeld fans in the replies.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Marvel/status/1408472733072101376
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This is just how a lot of media aimed at older kids and adults used to be. Raiders had faces melting off, Star Wars had a close-up of a bloody severed arm, etc.
That’s not the same thing though. I’m not talking about the level of gore – both of those things are shock/gross-out moments. In Sweet Tooth there’s no gore – they’re terrible things done by ordinary people to ordinary people, not by or to cartoonish villains.
I haven’t read the comic, but the impression I get is that it probably isn’t aimed at kids, whereas the TV show feels and looks like it is – right up until it isn’t.
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Just me then who’s the lone voice of dissent with regard to Sweet Tooth?
I couldn’t really figure out who it was aimed at; it seems like a kid’s show (were we really supposed to take that weird animatronic/CG chipmunk thing seriously?) but then there are people being burned alive in their homes and hybrid kids being dissected, so
Also, I still don’t really understand how a virus causes hybrids – is that ever explained in the comics or is it just classic “comic book science?”
I didn’t even think the kid was that great – the moment he was called upon to do anything more dramatic than look slightly confused and cute, his shortcomings were glaring.
Like 90% of TV these days, I thought it took way too long to say nothing very interesting.
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Presumably the sub-heading was “Yeeahh, baby!”
(from Journey Into Mystery #59, by Lee, Kirby & Ayers.)
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Getting kind of frustrated with this show now – more pointless talk bookended by some pointless fighting.
Why isn’t there any urgency about the sacred timeline being bombed? Why were they on the train to the Ark if Sylvie knew the Ark was going to be destroyed? Why didn’t Loki use his powers (that can apparently hold giant pieces of falling rubble in the air) to get them to the Ark quicker? Why hasn’t Loki asked what Sylvie’s plan is? I’d sure like to know!
On the plus-side, the show sounds and looks great – I assume they’re using the Unreal volume, same as The Mandalorian. The integration works well – most of the time.
Also, I keep forgetting this show drops on Wednesdays…
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Dozens of people here and at Millarworld have been telling you this for more than a decade, Al.
There will be changes here
You’ve been saying that for more than a decade too.
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I keep seeing CRT, thinking it’s Cathode Ray Tube and wondering why people have started getting aggro over obsolete tech.
To be fair, a lot of old TV was quite racist.
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Don’t we all?
Dammit…
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I freaking love this Moon Knight variant by Alex Garner. I thought it was a 3D render at first, but it’s painted (digitally of course.)
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I think my biggest disappointment with it so far is how passive Loki has been. I think I’d envisioned a series where Loki was in control, causing mayhem across various timelines with the TVA in pursuit, whereas instead things like the DB Cooper thing have just been little throwaway moments, and the bulk of the show has been him and/or Agent Mobius sitting around talking. “Talky talky…”
It just hasn’t been nearly as much fun as it should have been. Hopefully now they’ve got the set-up out of the way, things will pick up.
EDIT: Here’s a nice article breaking down the timelines that scrolled up on Judge Renslayer’s screen when the timebombs were triggered. They could all be nothing more than easter eggs, but they could also turn out to be spoilery, so click at your peril!
Also, I’ve only just realised that Judge Ravonna Renslayer is the Ravonna who in some timelines becomes Kang’s bride.
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“Too much life….” A headline from a column in the Times (which was subsequently changed.) There are some sections of society that won’t be happy until workers are the mindless drones from Metropolis.
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Can the cameras differentiate between happy smiles, creepy smiles, and deranged-serial-killer smiles? Because, y’know…
Probably not, since I can’t imagine anyone’s smiling genuinely in that office.
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Figured this deserved a bigger audience than just the Star Trek thread since I’ve been laughing non-stop at it for the last few minutes:
This is joyful.
Picard’s popping comm badge.(Created by Spock Pointy-ears Vulcan on Facebook https://t.co/4p0a9SgNYp) pic.twitter.com/i4FeuNDDfb
— Dr Jamie Gallagher (@JamieBGall) June 16, 2021
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Canon put cameras in its offices in China that only let you enter if you’re smiling.
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I know this is a parody of Doctor Manhattan, but what am I missing… what’s the symbol supposed to be?
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Oh, apparently in the credits in foreign language versions she’s not called “The Variant”, she’s called “Sylvie,” i.e. Sylvie Lushton who was an alternative Enchantress from Young Avengers.
So yeah… called it!
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So, female Loki… is she just a female variant or is she the Enchantress? Three reasons she might be:
The spell she uses to control people is “enchantment.”
She has blonde hair – not a typical Loki trait.
She tells Loki she hates that name, and he should call her Randy (the name of the guy she’s enchanted.) Enchantress’ real name is Amora… Amora/amorous/randy?
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“Azaleas are half off” got a big laugh from me.
That took it’s time, but at last the series has got going – I really enjoyed the last 10 minutes.
EDIT: Also I love the music in this show. From the theremin in the title music, to the cello stabs as shit was going down at Roxxcart, it’s wonderfully weird and atmospheric.
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I’m more pessimistic. It presumably has some generous financial backing to get started with (although from what I’ve heard of the production values, not a huge amount). It can weather losing some advertisers, I think, assuming it manages to create enough scandals that get reported on by other outlets and drive viewers in.
The little clips I’ve seen online make it look appallingly amateurish, and I’m not sure there’s a big enough market in the UK for a commercial news channel, no matter how cheap it is.
People seem to be enjoying trolling it though – “Mike Hunt” was trending briefly on Twitter this morning because they fell for that joke, as well as “Mike Oxlong” within the space of half an hour – so maybe it can survive on just its ability to generate memes.
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I’ve learned to avoid step 3 on that chart, then nobody ever knows I didn’t get past step 2.
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Gotta be honest, I find Star Lord’s hair deeply offensive.
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Batman never really struck me as the type to go downtown, anyway.
He’s missing out then.
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What the hell kind of show is Harley Quinn that they thought they could get away with that??
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On a bench in Margate:
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This French Spider-Man comic repurposed Kingpin as Kang. Kangpin!
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You see the strangest things on Streetview…
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No comment… for now.
Could you let us know when we can expect a comment from you, Al? I’d like to make a note in my diary.
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Kate Beckinsale is quite the gift on Instagram:
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I adore super-pets. But the only way they work is if they are treated with 100% seriousness.
So you want… a Snyder Cut??
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I suspect Trimpe was told to draw like that in the 90s which resembles Erik Larsen more than his previous stuff.
No, Trimpe says it was his choice. He clearly knew he had to move with the times though.
That said, I think he was incredibly naive expecting any kind of loyalty from Marvel, when they’d treated people like Kirby, Ditko and even Stan so shabbily over the years.
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There’s been a load of stuff on Twitter the last day or so about Herb Trimpe, started by some asshat who was trashing Trimpe’s later work, thus causing both fans and pros alike to leap to his defence. (The asshat in question has since made his Twitter account private!)
Personally I was never a huge fan of Trimpe’s work, and certainly not his 90’s stuff, but this guy was being such a dick it made me want to react the same way as the Trimpe-fans.
This was the page he posted with some comment along the lines of “can you believe Marvel paid somebody to draw this with their own human hands!”
Anyway, somebody posted an article from the New York times that Trimpe wrote, featuring extracts from his diary starting in 1996, when Marvel was about to go bankrupt, forcing many of their old-school creators into redundancy.
Here’s the article. Depressing, but interesting reading.
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This looked moderately interesting, if completely clichéd… right up until I saw it was written by Simon Kinberg.
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The TVA are from Walt Simonson’s run on Fantastic Four. He had their agents looking more like Judge Dredd though.
As for the Timekeepers, they originally showed up in an old Thor issue, and were then retconned as part of the TVA.
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if the point is to have a different incarnation of Loki that hasn’t gone through the events of the later movies why show him everything that happened to his main timeline version?
In order to bring him to the realisation that it’s pointless to go back to that timeline, and his alternatives are either death or helping the TVA.
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I thought it was a little bit slow. The direction was kind of languid, lingering on moments that should have been much snappier. And for a show about Loki, it should have been funnier – I only laughed once, and that was when the God of Mischief actually acted mischievously. I did like the twist, if you can call it that – it was suitably Rick & Morty. And I’m guessing we’ve already met at least two other versions of Loki this episode.
It looked great though – the retro-futuristic design of the TVA worked brilliantly and it was nicely shot.
I’m not really a fan of de-mystifying/deconstructing a character like this – it can kind of ruin what makes them so great in the first place. But since that’s what we’re doing…
B-minus. Must try harder next time.
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It’s certainly awkward that a show about Korean-Canadians is getting a spin-off starring one of the very few non-Korean members of the cast.
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Today on Men Over-compensating For Their Tiny Penises; Richard Branson aims to fly into space before Jeff Bezos.
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Well that adds a whole other level to his involvement in the Black Panther franchise…
It certainly makes sense given that Black Panther was the first MCU movie with an almost completely non-white cast. Martin Freeman and Andy Serkis called themselves, “the Tolkien whites.”
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Namor clearly sees himself as some ethnicity other than white. This is how his first appearance ended:
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Greedy Piiiigs iiiinnnn Spaaaaace! Jeff Bezos will go into space in July.
““You see the Earth from space, it changes you,” Jeff Bezos said in a video announcing his plan. “It changes your relationship with this planet, with humanity.”
We can only hope, Jeff…
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Macro photos of eyes creep me the hell out. So share my pain!
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Apparently there’s a new Captain America, who’s a Filipino woman named Ari Agbayani. Unfortunately in Tagalog “ari” is a slang word for female genitalia, making the literal translation of her name Heroic Vagina.
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I have no idea what Amazon Prime Day is. Is it like Bandcamp Friday?
I have no idea what Bandcamp Friday is. Is it like Amazon Prime Day?
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Ah, the WTF that was the Mantlo Alpha Flight run.
You mean you didn’t think Puck being a full-size man who was shrunk by a demon sorcerer was an awesome idea??
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That’s not a very good likeness of Millar.
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Publishers like Image have designers, marketing teams, legal teams, relationships with printing companies, distributors, retailers, and so on.
Companies like Millarworld have none of those things which is why they need publishers to publish things.
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I’m a big Jackfan but this is a confusing trailer that completely failed to sell me on the idea.
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What the hell did they spend $200 million on?? Certainly not the cast! Or those costumes!
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A Black Cat movie has been “in development” for years. I guess a lot is resting on “Morbius” to see whether Sony’s revolutionary “Spider-verse Without a Spider-man” universe can extend beyond Venom movies.
EDIT: Also I just realised Morbius has now been shunted back to January 2022 – i.e. after Venom 2 – so I’d guess Sony’s faith in Morbius isn’t exactly sky-high.
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Holy shit Hemsworth is huuuuuuuuuuge… for some reason he looks more like Thunderstrike thna Thor right there…
The leather jacket he’s carrying is red and sleeveless.
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That was designed by a 5-year-old using Lego, right?
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I chose “I’d rather sandpaper my eyeballs than ever sit through a Zack Snyder movie again.”
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I never usually like single-person commentaries, but Blessed is more than able to keep up the energy by himself.
I doubt anyone else would have been able to get a word in – Blessed is an Olympic-level anicdotist.
I’ve seen him in the wild – I once stood behind him in the queue at a petrol station. He was much smaller than I expected (and quieter) and he had a very shabby-looking BMW.
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There’s possibly the glimmer of a good idea in here, buried under the Mark Wahlbergness of it all.
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Tom Cruise is just the guy who makes Mission:Impossible movies these days, interspersed with the odd sci-fi movie. When I was young he did a lot more interesting work, from Rain Man to Born on the Fourth of July.
Not even Tom Cruise is this generation’s Tom Cruise.
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He does, doesn’t he.
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Throwback to that time DC asked their readers if they’d be interested in reading about black people…
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