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Comic Historian, Audio Recorder of Panels, Crazy compiler of the The Combined Best Comics & Graphic Novels of [YEAR] list.
Former Eisner, Doug Wright and Joe Shuster Awards Judge.
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Growing up all winters were like this until the late 1980s, then we started having 'green christmas' on the regular, where it's Xmas morning and no snow on the ground. I was 12 in 1988, got a remote control car and played with it outside X-mas day. Upper NY gets more snow than we do regularly now.
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You got the hair right, that's for sure.
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That Freeland is 3rd in donors and 4th in money raised (barely) is a surprise.
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Also in a "picture story." Published in 1947, done by Ted Carroll. Also about Jack Dempsey. A couple of internal pictures are here: www.hakes.com/Auction/Item...
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Doin' good, taking it easy after finishing my combined best comics thing. It's a nice feeling when you finish a long project and can just chill for while.
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Yo! back. How you doing?
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I recall Dwayne McDuffie having to educate Mark on why having a black man be a new Bucky was not a smart thing to do, which Mark immediately corrected.
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25 years ago, I was being trained by a Korean American. I think she was in her late 20s. She told us her birth parents left her on the side of the road as a baby where an American couple/tourists found her and adopted her. She said that was not uncommon in Korea at that time.
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Some people stay 39 forever.
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Yeah, I think so. Recency bias is a thing as time goes on, less and less people will rave about how good a series is. By then they are used to that good thing if it's more of the same. The new thing that they hadn't seen before wows them. Even happens with American made comics.
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Yeah, they publish a lot of books and it seems everybody likes something, but it's not all the same book. Usually publishers have a few big hits. I don't know Viz's sales, so maybe that's still the case commercially, but it's not critically right now.
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Yup, that is indeed proof.
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I was wondering if you were going to do a list this year. Thanks!
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IE our donors are also GOP donors, they want this to happen so we're going to do the normal flimsy, weak and ineffective "resistance" like we're told to and are happy to do.
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I call it "google brain" because if my brain knows I can look something up easily, it decides it doesn't need to remember it.
Which I don't like as it makes me feel dumb sometimes not remembering basic things I really ought to know. It also makes me wonder if I've got early set Alzheimer's.
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That would be an improvement. There is a thing in sports known as the "Drake Curse". Which means if he bets on you to win, you will lose. It comes from a long list of bets he made and pretty consistent results.
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He'll probably best $500,000 on the losing team.
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I think Jim Crow is just the first step. 2nd step is slavery or a cheaper equivalent of it.
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They are probably not trying to convince liberals. They are likely trying to convince conservative CEOs/Investors as they hope they can get Trump to reverse the decision, but I doubt any of them watch Rachel Maddow.
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Mine:
Vogue
Like a Prayer
Crazy for You
Material Girl
Ghosttown
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Drugs anti-peer pressure message we were hit with as kids worked on us when it came the things we liked. So when that peer pressure came to drop it, we just said no and continued to enjoy what we enjoyed, but often in secret. Until we discovered somebody else who liked the same thing. 2/2
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I sometimes feel my generation was the first to ignore this, particularly when it came to comic books. My older brothers said when they went from elementary school to high school (grade 9) you dropped comics, toys and other 'childish' things so you'd be more 'mature/adult'. The whole War on.. 1/
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The money is probably already in Elon's account, with a cut going to Trump.
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ON never elects the same party for both Fed and Provincial. Ford saw Liberals numbers tanking Federally and knew if PP got elected, he would lose his next election. I think he's playing 'better me than you' here and using Trump to help him win.
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You would think Trump would want that too, otherwise it's like adding another California. That doesn't do the republicans any favours in terms of seats and electoral college.
But he said it himself "you don't have to vote anymore." You're likely not going to get anymore elections.
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It sounds like we're going to be doing a lot more direct trade with Mexico, which means avocado's will probably be fine.
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Hopefully, although I could see them raising the price of lobster to make up for the lack of income from US sales.
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Great, although personally I'd like to see the back of the original art to see the ACMP/CCA date stamp on there. Just to clear up some comic history related questions about Avengers #1.
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Is she running for Ontario Premier or the Mayor of Toronto?
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Andre's fart's weren't that bad man.
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I think America is about to find out.
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You'd think Sweden would be better at this.
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I have doubts about tolls were ever only supposed to be temporary. Likely what they said just to reduce peoples opposition to them and get them installed. The rich douchbags wanted a freeway all to themselves and thanks to Harris, they got one.
Tolling the DVP wouldn't solve any problem.
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You mean like the Nib used to do, but with just OJST work?
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There a few creators with Ai in their name and I'm already cringing over people thinking their work is that.
Among them: Ai Weiwei, Ai Tanaka, Ai Yazawa
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The 407 was built with the intention of taking the pressure of the 401. Then fucking Mike Harris decided to sell it to a private company on a 99 year lease, let them charge tolls, but the government would pick up the tab of maintenance and speed enforcement. Contract should be broken by any means.
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So do I. Got the full 32 issue run. In my early days on the net back in the mid 90s, somebody very generously mailed me few issues towards the end for free. Although issue #14 doesn't age well.
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Are you missing Metamorpho's baby?
I hope the team's name is Metamorphorce.
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I am a fan of Harvey Comics. I read a handful when I was a kid. After my first San Diego Comic Con my brain was fried. I needed something short, light & easy to read on the way home. Saw some Harvey's in a long box, thought yeah that would do nicely. Bought them and I've kept buying them since.
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After Avengers 276 the next Avengers comic I saw was 278. I very much wanted 277 but did not know of comic shops or back issues. Eventually a friend told me he had 1 issue of the Avengers, I asked him if I could see it. It was 277, I got excited and traded for it. I think I traded 2 or 3 for it.
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No idea. I starting buying from a convenience store (This one: www.google.ca/maps/place/C...) . First comic I bought was Avengers #276. I did see DP7 #2 on the stand, but didn't recognize any of the characters and passed it buy. Next time I went in, I saw it was still there and decided to buy it.
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Myron Fass apparently did this too and actually tried to shoot a business partner after a dispute.
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More:
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Alright, what's your The comics and books that were formative to you. At least four, more if you're nasty.
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Yes, people knew both parties had the exact same policy, just slightly different rhetoric about it. That's why they stayed home.
I was surprised by the ceasefire, but doubt it will hold for long, if it even starts
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There is also this poll:
www.imeupolicyproject.org/postelection...
The same issue is likely why that 30% didn't show up. They couldn't stomach voting for Genocide.