John42
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Mark Waid wrote this! No Age of Ultron knowledge necessary. This is a one-off Hank Pym biography that’s simultaneously a…
Read full review and commentsLast couple issues I rolled my eyes at a tired would-you-kill-Hitler debate. Now I get it: This is a comic…
Read full review and commentsJason Aaron is boiling over with empathy. He’s professed his love for grey-area characters, and that love is genuine. No…
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Pick of the Week #777 – Nightwing #79
May 3, 2021 3:00 pm Pizza! It's even worse than you described: Dick and Barbara are holding the pizza with 4 fingers on top, thumb on bottom. Like if you were holding a sword sideways in front of your face. That's gonna ruin your sleeve.
Homelessness! At least since the 2008 housing crisis, there are plenty of clean homeless people.
Journalism! Like him or not, Rich Johnston is a journalist. He has sources. Good rule of thumb is 'do they provide information that the companies don't want you to know.' He does that, or at least 'certain factions within the company don't want you to know'. Frankly he relies on official press releases less than most state department reporters.
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Pick of the Week #762 – Injustice: Year Zero #14
January 14, 2021 11:55 am Holy wow Josh you didn't so much give me a power as reveal my secret identity. In college I was very good at making it seem like I did the required reading.
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Special Edition – Wonder Woman 1984
December 31, 2020 12:07 pm Didn’t watch because, as a toddler parent with no time,, I realized if I just asked for an extra 45 minutes I could finally watch an “epically long” movie by one of the 3 greatest living filmmakers. Been liking the Irishman more the more I thought about it, heard WW84 has the opposite effect.
Without seeing it, just from the stills I’m with Ryan: with Max Lord’s hair, costume, make-up I thought “wow that is a really heavy-handed, super on-the-nose”. That hair is the iconographic equivalent of Gordon Gecko’s suspenders. Perusing reviews seems like the critical consensus is with Ryan
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Special Edition – Wonder Woman 1984
December 31, 2020 11:44 am The mental health literature strongly suggests that moving forward is correlated with positive quality of life outcomes.
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Pick of the Week #739 – DCeased: Dead Planet #1
July 14, 2020 12:36 pm Josh, it gets better as it goes on. Also, he took over the new 52 Earth-2 after James Robinson left and it was fantastic
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Pick of the Week #738 – Hawkeye: Freefall #6
July 9, 2020 12:01 pm And I think the first DC trans character after the Endless desire
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Pick of the Week #738 – Hawkeye: Freefall #6
July 9, 2020 9:39 am The Aeirie, the character you didn’t know from DCeased, was created by Tom Taylor for his current, awesome Suicide Squad run. I have never read SS (not the best acronym) before Taylor, didn’t care about any of the characters. In the first issue he made my heart break for a new character that I had know for maybe 10 panels, even less word balloons.
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Pick of the Week #728 – Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions
April 30, 2020 10:41 am Now that I think about it, given that your disagreements often come across as funny riffs- pound for pound how much I laugh, I can straight up legit say that the two jamokes are one of my favorite comedy duos.
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Pick of the Week #728 – Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions
April 29, 2020 3:51 pm Sorry Conor, regarding the left panel stacking email I don't really understand "trolling" either, right after I clicked send I thought "that probably wasn't a fair characterization." Maybe I figured it was a riff because it made me laugh. But you're absolutely right, I don't think there's anything in the universe that we've encountered that is more individual and unique as the brain and we all have our own grooves carved. So much so that the word "neurotypical" is starting to be replaced by "neuromajority", because there really is no such thing as typical with the brain.
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Pick of the Week #673 – The Green Lantern #5
March 11, 2019 5:11 pm Great show! Josh, You’re a Dan Savage fan, right? Have you heard him or his callers discuss ‘vore’? If not it’s worth an urban dictionary check, it adds a really visceral (literally) layer to the vampire planet Vorr. And given Morrison’s areas of interest, occam’s razor says it was named on purpose.
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