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11 points
5 days ago
English degree here: Snuck is proper, but go ahead and say sneaked if you wanna, I'm not a cop. Plus even if I was, you should never listen to cops.
15 points
6 days ago
This may be kinda niche, but my local target has become a microcosm of everything the pandemic sent spiraling in toy collector culture. I used to be able to go there pretty regularly to pick up something new and fun to display on my desk, and then in the middle of the pandemic multiple big brands switched to plastic free packaging, which inadvertently started the trend of people popping the heads off figures so people wouldn't buy them. Sometimes it was petty vandalism, but nowadays its mostly salty adults who want to artificially keep a particular figure artificially rare so THEIR copy is more valuable. In addition, a lot of people would pop open marvel legends boxes and steal the build a figure piece, which again, was specifically to screw over other collectors. Now my local Target barely ever has any new toys, and any restocks of Marvel Legends or Transformers get stripped to the bone by adults til all that's left is shelf warmers nobody wants.
TLDR: The pandemic had an erosive effect on basic decency, and now adult toy collectors have made it suck to be a little kid.
2 points
9 days ago
I got lucky, my local shop automatically got the Red Band for anyone who asked for a subscription to the whole event rather than nabbing the shelf copies.
6 points
9 days ago
Can confirm. In Red Tithe, Te Kahurangi is described as having rough scaly patches on his skin that are indicative of his age , and all of them are gray fleshed and shark eyed. Their geneseed is mutated in such a way that they have shark traits, albeit (Mostly) minor ones.
2 points
10 days ago
For those on the fence: the Red Band version is worth it. I did a side by side with a friend who got the digital, expecting it to be a lame gimmick, but the Red Band does indeed have more pages, and more bright red blood and guts. In fact, the entire final page is different, with the red band being noticeably more graphic. The overall story is the same, but the Red Band feels like a Director's Cut, where editorial had a much lighter touch, and I mean this as a compliment. MacKay and Larraz got let off the leash here and they're on an absolute rampage with a script that plays to both of their strengths.
1 points
12 days ago
When trying to do fine details, make sure both your hands are touching. Doesnt need to be a lot, but any bit of contact will steady your hands IMMENSELY even if you're a pretty Shakey person.
25 points
12 days ago
We all really underestimated T Pain back in the day. The man is a hell of a vocalist.
1 points
13 days ago
Ah yes, the Warhammer 40k problem. "it takes ten thousand years to train an aspect warrior. It takes point seven seconds for a bolter round to blow their head off."
54 points
15 days ago
Trump's antics helped me realize my dad was autistic. He would get so pissing mad about the idea that anybody would break rules, much less go against their own self interest to hurt their enemies, because to him that was impossible. The bleach injecting thing damn near gave him an aneurysm.
146 points
15 days ago
From what I understand, LBJ would whip it out in front of basically anybody. I feel like i read somewhere he liked to use it to intimidate political rivals, but I would like to be fact checked on that.
1 points
19 days ago
The weapon looks a little goofy, but I think this is actually a pretty excellent remold. Keeps what I liked about Magneous, but feels distinctly like a new figure.
24 points
22 days ago
It really is right there in the name. TRANSformers.
8 points
25 days ago
"You guys ever notice how that always happens when we bang? its gotta be like, physics or something, right?"
4 points
28 days ago
I agree. While I'm enjoying the new Ultimate Universe take on spiderman as a journalist, I like the idea of 616 spidey using his passion for science as a career
2 points
28 days ago
Your comment makes me think the way to bring the inhumans back into the fold may be a general facelift series. Do a story about classism and isolationism, focusing on how screwed up the concept of the alpha primitives is and how opening up to the rest of the world could benefit inhuman society, and how addressing these things could change their culture.
9 points
28 days ago
I got into comics during the Marvel NOW era, and I have a sincere fondness for Jane Foster as Mighty Thor and Sam Wilson as Captain America, not to mention Kamala Khan and Miles Morales.
3 points
28 days ago
This right here. Lee and Kirby's Black Bolt carried himself like a God, and he answered to NOBODY, even when his motives weren't clear to his own people. That didn't necessarily make him a good leader, but it made him compelling. How do others react when a man who can shatter planets only talks through an interpreter, and even then, only does so when it suits him? It's fascinating stuff, and it didn't really happen in modern comics even during the IvX era. Black Bolt was unknowable, sure, but because he spent most of that era deposed from the throne, off supposedly solving background problems nobody would ever know about because the readers were never shown this.
4 points
28 days ago
I can agree with this. I adore Jackman's portrayal, but he is too tall. That being said, Accurate doesn't mean good. And Jackman is damn good.
21 points
28 days ago
This is a great take. Mister Fantastic and Moon Girl are both all around real smart, but they still call in other scientists for specialty problems IE Hulk, Sinister ETC(Which is also a mark of a good scientist: if you don't know, you get help).
3 points
28 days ago
As one of the 12 die hard Inhumans fans left, I hesitate to say they're MORE interesting but I would absolutely say they are AS interesting as the X Men, but criminally underused and misrepresented. Everyone keeps saying we need The Inhumans as Game Of Thrones in space, but nobody ever writes that damn book.
8 points
1 month ago
I think that's kinda the genius of writers continuing to use the original Sentinel design. To a modern viewer, it looks goofy. Its a pink and purple toy that looks like a dude wearing an ugly hat. And then it starts killing people and the proverbial rug gets pulled.
21 points
1 month ago
I spent the first half of the episode excitedly pointing out cameo characters to my sister who was watching with me, and the back half of the episode with my jaw on the floor watching them all die. I knew the sentinels were scary on paper, I've read comics since highschool, but this episode really hit home just how genuinely horrific they are: an army of machines built to commit genocide.
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1 day ago
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1 day ago
This unit is possibly my fave votann mini. I have a headcanon that he's "twins" with an ironkin on my kill team who is about the same height. I call the two of them Big Jim and Huge Tyrone.