Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

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BostonBeaneater wrote:
22 Dec 2021, 9:00pm
Be good to the children.

The Boss was full-on into Harry Potter and will watch the movies when they come on. I went to see one of the movies in the theatre—don't ask me which one—but it isn't my thing. Just not into that stuff.
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BostonBeaneater wrote:
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Be good to the children.

Our daughter still watches everything and anything Harry Potter, drives her fiancé nuts.
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Hmm, maybe this capitalism stuff is for suckers.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
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Hmm, maybe this capitalism stuff is for suckers.
I can't see Pietro following anyone's orders. This villainous character has some kind of mind-control, right?
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Kory wrote:
03 Jan 2022, 2:20pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
26 Dec 2021, 10:24am
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Hmm, maybe this capitalism stuff is for suckers.
I can't see Pietro following anyone's orders. This villainous character has some kind of mind-control, right?
A heavily annotated copy of Atlas Shrugged is all he needs to conquer their weak minds.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
03 Jan 2022, 2:26pm
Kory wrote:
03 Jan 2022, 2:20pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
26 Dec 2021, 10:24am
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Hmm, maybe this capitalism stuff is for suckers.
I can't see Pietro following anyone's orders. This villainous character has some kind of mind-control, right?
A heavily annotated copy of Atlas Shrugged is all he needs to conquer their weak minds.
Is this Michael Caine?
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Kory wrote:
03 Jan 2022, 3:19pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
03 Jan 2022, 2:26pm
Kory wrote:
03 Jan 2022, 2:20pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
26 Dec 2021, 10:24am
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Hmm, maybe this capitalism stuff is for suckers.
I can't see Pietro following anyone's orders. This villainous character has some kind of mind-control, right?
A heavily annotated copy of Atlas Shrugged is all he needs to conquer their weak minds.
Is this Michael Caine?
Cross-thread jokery! Now that's what sets this place apart from Fox News.
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This connects with my recent watching of The Boys. Started reading the comic yesterday. I'm six or seven issues in and, perhaps because I found the adaptation first, I prefer the tv version. More so, however, there's a terrible blackness in the comic w/r/t human character. Thus far, people on all sides are really awful because they can be. Not so much that Ennis doesn't like/trust superheroes, but that, like Bill Gaines said in the 50s re. EC's comics, "people are no damn good." We're monsters seeking an opportunity. The tv series shades strongly to blaming late capitalism for encouraging and rewarding people to do awful things—and shows growing numbers rejecting and revolting against the cancer on their humanity—but the comic so far just exudes in nastiness. In the tv series, some people resist, some revel in brutality—there's real tension there in terms of how people respond to ideology and reward/punishment. I'll keep reading, but not sure I'll be able to make it to the end because, so far anyway, its depiction of humanity is so dark.
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https://www.theguardian.com/culture/202 ... irrel-girl

Some lunatic wrote a book about reading every single Marvel comic. :twitch:
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
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This connects with my recent watching of The Boys. Started reading the comic yesterday. I'm six or seven issues in and, perhaps because I found the adaptation first, I prefer the tv version. More so, however, there's a terrible blackness in the comic w/r/t human character. Thus far, people on all sides are really awful because they can be. Not so much that Ennis doesn't like/trust superheroes, but that, like Bill Gaines said in the 50s re. EC's comics, "people are no damn good." We're monsters seeking an opportunity. The tv series shades strongly to blaming late capitalism for encouraging and rewarding people to do awful things—and shows growing numbers rejecting and revolting against the cancer on their humanity—but the comic so far just exudes in nastiness. In the tv series, some people resist, some revel in brutality—there's real tension there in terms of how people respond to ideology and reward/punishment. I'll keep reading, but not sure I'll be able to make it to the end because, so far anyway, its depiction of humanity is so dark.
Well it IS Ennis—he's not really known for positivity in general. I agree that it leans pretty hard into darkness but I still think it's better than Preacher. But neither of them are as good as Transmetropolitan, which always reads like Warren Ellis doing Garth Ennis to me.
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The C&H and second Far Side ones are the best.
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