Thursday Night's ONT Needs A Hero!

I've been consuming a lot of comic book related entertainment lately, so I thought I'd talk about comics in tonight's ONT. If that's not your bag, just scroll down and join the gabfest, but meanwhile I'm going to talk comics, how'd that sound?

(As always, if any of these images are too small to read, right click on them and open them in their own tab)

Personally, I've always been a DC guy. Marvel just never caught my interest as a kid. I was aware of Marvel, and kinda knew some of their heroes (enough to laugh at these parody Spider-Man strips, (Fappo! and French Kiss are the funniest)), but it was DC that I spent my money on. I have seen all of the MCU films as an adult and will admit that they are much better than any DC live action films since Christian Bale played Batman.

Back in the day comics were silly. Ever see one of those ridiculous covers where Superman is guarding a fire plug from the citizens of Metropolis who are dying of thirst or where Joker is threatening Batman with a pair of fish?

Silly

Originally, they would draw the cover first, and then have the writers concoct a story to fit it. It made for a lot of silly stories, and panels that were unintentionally erotic (unintentional? Maybe sometimes, but is it any surprise that the guy who invented Wonder Woman, a busty woman in a skin tight suit with wrist cuffs who tied men up with her magic lasso was a SDMB freak? His name was William Marston and he was a psychologist who lived with three woman in a “love unit” and also invented the lie detector).

I rest my case

Unintentional?

By the time the 80s rolled around and I started buying comics, all that had changed and comics weren't silly anymore.

He thinks they weren't silly!

OK, some of that had changed. Aside from the inherent silliness of a grown ass adult putting on a costume and prowling the streets at night looking for bad guys, there were still silly plots galore. There was serious stuff too, however. Neil Gaiman's Sandman was a formidable bit of literature. Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns wasn't kid's stuff either. It's not so much that comics “grew up” as it is that they started adding mature stories to the traditional Biff! Pow! Sock! superhero slugfests they had always published. And humor. There is a surprising amount of humor to be found in comics, much of it poking fun at the conventions of the medium.

By the 90s I had pretty much stopped buying comics, and that's where things stayed until about a year ago, when someone mentioned a comics arc that seemed interesting (Injustice. After Joker tricks Superman into killing Lois Lane, who was pregnant with their child, Supes murders Joker and decides to rule the world with an iron fist to keep everyone “safe”. He's not a benevolent dictator either, he's one of the most powerful beings in the universe who ruthlessly murders anyone who opposes him).

That got me interested again, and I found that I had missed a lot. DC and Marvel ran a whole series of books under the “Amalgam” label which featured a combined universe.

This is either stupid or brilliant, I don't know which

Warner Brothers also owns DC and there have been a number of, er, questionable crossovers.

I haven't read any of them, but I'm intrigued they exist. I don't really read comics much, even now, but I have taken to watching DC animated movies and TV programs. Many of these are in fact excellent. There's a new Harley Quinn series that just wrapped its second season that is not canon and is most definitely NOT for kids. Where did it end up? Here's a clue:

This still is not from the series, but as a meme it nails it

Ahh yes, memes. Superheroes abound in memes. Here's a good example from today's headlines:

And here's a piece of fan art that is not only well drawn, but it's a neat little melding of fandoms as well:

And that's about it. Basically this ONT came about because I had all of the images above in my ONT pictures folder and crafted an ONT around them. If you don't like it, I'm sorry, I doubt I'll do one like this again. I hope it at least amused you, most of the above pics wound up in the folder because they amused me.

Tonight's ONT brought to you by impeccable logic:

Bonus Cartoon:

Posted by: WeirdDave at 10:00 PM

Comments

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1 Third!

Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 09, 2020 10:00 PM (HuH1F)

2 A-HOOOyah!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 09, 2020 10:00 PM (Dc2NZ)

3 Heck.

Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 09, 2020 10:01 PM (HuH1F)

4 First

Posted by: Jmel at July 09, 2020 10:01 PM (bVhJi)

5 Good Evening

Posted by: wing at July 09, 2020 10:01 PM (JFzNN)

6 Is this comic night?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 09, 2020 10:01 PM (wPVhA)

7 CLose~!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at July 09, 2020 10:01 PM (eTZoJ)

8 Evenin' Morons.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at July 09, 2020 10:01 PM (AiJty)

9 ****POW****

****BLAM****

Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:02 PM (TOyHQ)

10 Guten Abend, Fapperen und Fapperinen!

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at July 09, 2020 10:02 PM (prJfn)

11 coulda been a contender

Posted by: boomers remember stuff at July 09, 2020 10:02 PM (+U5Yr)

12 Royal ugly dudes!

Posted by: Drink Like Ted Theodore Logan at July 09, 2020 10:02 PM (Yi0TC)

13 not FIST

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 09, 2020 10:03 PM (oAY8z)

14 hiya

Posted by: JT at July 09, 2020 10:04 PM (arJlL)

15 Archie and Jughead didn't make the cut?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 09, 2020 10:04 PM (wPVhA)

16 Last cartoon looks like it could turn Brazzers in the next frame.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 09, 2020 10:04 PM (z79tQ)

17 Another day, another gazillion schlong goblins PDT has to fight. God bless him and give him strength!

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 09, 2020 10:04 PM (Yi0TC)

18 Who's the chick with the bukakke eyes?

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 09, 2020 10:05 PM (Yi0TC)

19 Yes, I know I said cartoon. I'm a moron.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 09, 2020 10:05 PM (z79tQ)

20 Wow, this is different... in a good way??

Posted by: Barrel it up at July 09, 2020 10:05 PM (fz0iQ)

21 Bonus Cartoon:

I like it !

Posted by: runner at July 09, 2020 10:05 PM (zr5Kq)

22 Wish I couls speall betr!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at July 09, 2020 10:06 PM (eTZoJ)

23 Looks like the Fat Slob Governor of Nevada got is ass riming from Pelosi and Schumer to slow down his economic recovery. People of Nevada tell him to F**k Off and tell him to take off that stupid mask he always wears.... What a clown this guy is....What's next Goofnor Sissylak..... Men need to wear Tampons !!!

Posted by: James at July 09, 2020 10:06 PM (qM84C)

24 A girlfriend got me the Sandman collection for an anniversary. It was a pretty badass gift. That was the only comic I ever got into.

Posted by: hogmartin at July 09, 2020 10:06 PM (t+qrx)

25 Interesting content, but it reinforces my opinion that the hard-core comics community is, on the whole, rather messed up in the head.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2020 10:06 PM (Vgw1E)

26 I'm parched.

Posted by: Muad'dib at July 09, 2020 10:07 PM (MAF74)

27

Giada and both of her Tits are on Beat Bobby Flay.

Tasty...

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at July 09, 2020 10:07 PM (pvqpT)

28 SPLIT!

BEEF!

COIFFE!

GRACKLE!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, what likes stuff at July 09, 2020 10:07 PM (x8Wzq)

29 My only comics were Zap and Yellow Dog,

Posted by: Harly8r at July 09, 2020 10:08 PM (AzGB3)

30 Lol at some of these comics.

Horde; does any one have a link to that quote where it runs down the virtues the left swears it wanted in a leader and then runs down everything the left called our candidates and this is how they got Trump?

1000 quatloos to the linker

Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 10:08 PM (IYHxL)

31 Groo
Don't call me a mendicant

Posted by: Asko at July 09, 2020 10:08 PM (uM4/2)

32 Ginger Thursday ONT Compliance Pics

https://tinyurl.com/ycekx882

https://tinyurl.com/ycmhnwly

https://tinyurl.com/yamdz8h8

https://tinyurl.com/y7zobgg4

https://tinyurl.com/y7pasatj

Posted by: kbdabear at July 09, 2020 10:09 PM (qAR6u)

33 ****POW****

****BLAM****
Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:02 PM (TOyHQ)

****WOOSHH***

****THWACK****

*****RAAAAAHHHH****

Posted by: runner at July 09, 2020 10:09 PM (zr5Kq)

34 Word has gone out that you will bend the knee and mask up.
Many new commercials seen today with all the people wearing masks.

Hey, it you don't, they'll put you back in your boxes. You don't want that, do you?

Well, DO YOU?

Time for some civil disobedience, but it will have to come from the small business owners, who will feel the gov. boot on their necks to force compliance.
I don't see it happening. They need to eat too.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 09, 2020 10:09 PM (z79tQ)

35 I can't read the words in the Marvin the Martian strip?

Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:10 PM (TOyHQ)

36 Tales... from the Crypt

The Cryptkeeper is more coherent and has a better worldview than Incontinent Joe...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 09, 2020 10:11 PM (Yi0TC)

37 Scrolling, scrolling thru the content. Lots and lots of images. Scrolling, scrolling.

Still shorter than an Ace movie review.

Posted by: Hands at July 09, 2020 10:11 PM (786Ro)

38 More Ginger Thursday ONT Compliance Pics

https://tinyurl.com/ybld8wte

https://tinyurl.com/y9b5p347

https://tinyurl.com/y728zufg

https://tinyurl.com/yayla5op

https://tinyurl.com/y9weqzk9

Posted by: kbdabear at July 09, 2020 10:11 PM (qAR6u)

39 The compliance pics meet with my approval.

Posted by: Muad'dib at July 09, 2020 10:11 PM (MAF74)

40 Well the last one is funny...

Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at July 09, 2020 10:12 PM (gtatv)

41 33 ****POW****

****BLAM****
Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:02 PM (TOyHQ)

****WOOSHH***

****THWACK****

*****RAAAAAHHHH****

Posted by: runner at July 09, 2020 10:09 PM (zr5Kq)

You forgot

****REEEEEEEEEE****

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at July 09, 2020 10:12 PM (eTZoJ)

42 Evening.

Chris Claremont's ten bajillionty year long X-Men run was outstanding.

Posted by: Robert at July 09, 2020 10:12 PM (3hJwm)

43 18 Starfire. Robin/Nightwing's (Dick Grayson) girlfriend.

Posted by: Weirddave at July 09, 2020 10:12 PM (CvJaM)

44 Thirst!

Posted by: redc1c4 at July 09, 2020 10:13 PM (Cuq7U)

45 The first few DC Animated movies are good. The Suicide Squad movies, especially the Assault on Arkham, are way better than the movies.

The quality doesn't last, sadly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:13 PM (d1uFV)

46 Rule 34

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:14 PM (NWiLs)

47 You forgot

****REEEEEEEEEE****
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

favorite dialogue of that supervillain, The Woker.

Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:14 PM (TOyHQ)

48 Keith Giffen's Justice League run had lots of comedy and dialog. It also had lots of Feminism, which pretty well ruins a lot of the fun.

Lobo was fun for a while, got me back into comics in time to discover The Punisher. I recognized him as an Executioner (Don Pendleton) rip off, but he became my spirit guide all the same.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:14 PM (d1uFV)

49 I don't see it happening. They need to eat too.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 09, 2020 10:09 PM (z79tQ)

Comrade, you will be made to understand the true power of an out of control state whose only goal for existence* is to protect you from your potentially bad decisions!

* although teh virtually unlimited graft for the rulers is rather nice now that I think about it!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at July 09, 2020 10:15 PM (eTZoJ)

50 Comic books? I only know Richie Rich, Little Lotta and Archie

Posted by: LASue at July 09, 2020 10:15 PM (Ed8Zd)

51 I can't read the words in the Marvin the Martian strip?

Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:10 PM

Marvin: "Oh, hello."

Green fellow: "Moons of Mars..."

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at July 09, 2020 10:15 PM (prJfn)

52 Funny thing about graphic novels/comics. I admire the artwork, bigly. but even as a kid I never got hooked. I would look at the artwork in, say, a Spiderman comic, but the story simply did not capture my interest.

Still, as an amateur artist, I see that the work is often stunningly wonderful.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, what likes stuff at July 09, 2020 10:15 PM (x8Wzq)

53 If that was Catgirl, why not just use the Bat Laser Pointer?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 09, 2020 10:15 PM (NgKpN)

54 Someone posted this on the Don lemon thread below, sorry I can't remember?

Lizbeth?

Anyway...

https://tinyurl.com/y8do6qtm

It's by Rod Dreher and he's comparing this "white fragility" bullshit to the dehumanization of the Jews in the early 20th century prior to the Holocaust.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READ!!!!!

Posted by: Robert at July 09, 2020 10:15 PM (Udx7m)

55 is there a comic strip that uses current events from the right pov?
coz there should be

Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:16 PM (TOyHQ)

56 Lobo was fun for a while, got me back into comics in time to discover The Punisher. I recognized him as an Executioner (Don Pendleton) rip off, but he became my spirit guide all the same.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:14 PM (d1uFV)

Frank Castle is my homeboy.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:16 PM (NWiLs)

57 favorite dialogue of that supervillain, The Woker.
Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:14 PM (TOyHQ)

Thank you, I needed that today!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at July 09, 2020 10:16 PM (eTZoJ)

58 I comics have gone #woke, the least they could do is have Betty & Veronica eating sushi naked

Posted by: kbdabear at July 09, 2020 10:16 PM (qAR6u)

59 52 Funny thing about graphic novels/comics. I admire the artwork, bigly. but even as a kid I never got hooked. I would look at the artwork in, say, a Spiderman comic, but the story simply did not capture my interest.

Still, as an amateur artist, I see that the work is often stunningly wonderful.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, what likes stuff at July 09, 2020 10:15 PM (x8Wzq)

Interesting.

I avoided the Sandman comics, cuz the art didn't grab me. When I started actually READING comics, I realized how good Neil Gaiman is at short form fiction. His novels suck. But his comics and short stories are Quality.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:16 PM (d1uFV)

60 41 33 ****POW****

****BLAM****
Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:02 PM (TOyHQ)

****WOOSHH***

****THWACK****

*****RAAAAAHHHH****

Posted by: runner at July 09, 2020 10:09 PM (zr5Kq)

You forgot

****REEEEEEEEEE****
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at July 09, 2020 10:12 PM (eTZoJ)

Budda Budda Budda Budda

Posted by: Sgt. Rock at July 09, 2020 10:17 PM (NgKpN)

61 58 I comics have gone #woke, the least they could do is have Betty & Veronica eating sushi naked
Posted by: kbdabear at July 09, 2020 10:16 PM (qAR6u)

Best lesbian tease in all comic-dom. The art in Archie is delicious in terms of girl art.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:18 PM (d1uFV)

62 Back to comics, I just recently picked up an omnibus edition of John Byrne's complete run on Sensational She-Hulk.

Ooohhhhh

Myyyyyy

GAAAAWWWWWD!!!!!!

I knew it was cheesecake but holy shit Byrne could be downright dirty.

Posted by: Robert at July 09, 2020 10:18 PM (Udx7m)

63 Wouldn't having sex with Superman be kind of deadly? You figure at climax he'd blow Lois's innards out

Posted by: kbdabear at July 09, 2020 10:18 PM (qAR6u)

64 I can't say I am into comics, but the panel with Wonder Woman all tied up was, well, interesting...

Posted by: Mookie at July 09, 2020 10:18 PM (3vIkC)

65 8 I comics have gone #woke, the least they could do is have Betty & Veronica eating sushi naked

Posted by: kbdabear at July 09, 2020 10:16 PM (qAR6u)

If Betty & Veronica are really woke, it wouldn't be sushi they were eating!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at July 09, 2020 10:18 PM (eTZoJ)

66 56 Lobo was fun for a while, got me back into comics in time to discover The Punisher. I recognized him as an Executioner (Don Pendleton) rip off, but he became my spirit guide all the same.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:14 PM (d1uFV)

Frank Castle is my homeboy.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:16 PM (NWiLs)

:fistbump:

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:18 PM (d1uFV)

67 Yeah.. never been into comics. So I scrolled right on by as you suggested WD.

Posted by: Jewells45 at July 09, 2020 10:19 PM (dUJdY)

68 Gov. Ducey of Arizona is a weak little little man. The only thing I can think of is he has Quest Diagnostics stock. I know he's on the board of XGen a vaccine company. He is implementing Project Catapult to basically test everyone at the governments expense. At least I got a vicious heavy bag workout thanks to him.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 09, 2020 10:19 PM (Jx5Qs)

69 �****POW****
****BLAM****
Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:02 PM (TOyHQ)
****WOOSHH****
****THWACK****
*****RAAAAAHHHH****
Posted by: runner at July 09, 2020 10:09 PM (zr5Kq)
You forgot
****REEEEEEEEEE****
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

****MGMPH****
****GLORPH****
****BLRPF****
****SPLURT****
*Wipes chin*
You left out a big one. I took care of it.
****BURP****

Posted by: Guzzlin' Cap'n Billi Kristol at July 09, 2020 10:19 PM (Yi0TC)

70
Weird, WeirdDave

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2020 10:19 PM (mht8P)

71 Best lesbian tease in all comic-dom. The art in Archie is delicious in terms of girl art.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:18 PM (d1uFV)

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You know where he got the name Jughead, right?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 09, 2020 10:19 PM (wPVhA)

72 They fucked up Hulk.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 10:19 PM (IYHxL)

73 63 Wouldn't having sex with Superman be kind of deadly? You figure at climax he'd blow Lois's innards out
Posted by: kbdabear

there was some kinda fanfic about that, I think it was called:
Man of Steel, Woman of Tissue

Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:19 PM (TOyHQ)

74 63 Wouldn't having sex with Superman be kind of deadly? You figure at climax he'd blow Lois's innards out
Posted by: kbdabear at July 09, 2020 10:18 PM (qAR6u)

They riffed on this exact thing in the director's cut of Hancock

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:19 PM (NWiLs)

75 63 Wouldn't having sex with Superman be kind of deadly? You figure at climax he'd blow Lois's innards out
Posted by: kbdabear at July 09, 2020 10:18 PM (qAR6u)

Famously described by Larry Niven.

But it depends on who is doing the writing.

It's also why lately Superman has been paired with Wonder Woman instead, since she's apparently now Alpha level or some shit instead of being just 'super normal' with magic gadgets, like in the old days.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:20 PM (d1uFV)

76 Since were talking about, what's the Horde's choice?

Betty or Veronica?

Veronica has her appeal but I'm a Betty kinda dork.

Posted by: Robert at July 09, 2020 10:20 PM (Udx7m)

77
Just woke up from a nap. Is everyone dead from WuFlu yet?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2020 10:20 PM (mht8P)

78 Since were talking about, what's the Horde's choice?

Betty or Veronica?

Yes.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:20 PM (NWiLs)

79 I used to shop lift comics when they were 12 cents but gave up on them when the price was raised to a quarter

Posted by: Regular joe at July 09, 2020 10:21 PM (L9P9s)

80 72 They fucked up Hulk.
Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 10:19 PM (IYHxL)

Modern comics are shit. Stick to indie creator-owned stuff or kickstarter comics or you will get incompetent product.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:21 PM (d1uFV)

81 Larry Niven did a short story about Superman and Lois Lane.
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex.
Funny as hell.
The sperm would perforate her, blowing the top of her head off. His cousin Supergirl would've been the only possible uh... outlet for him, but you'd have to be a pervert to suggest that.

Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at July 09, 2020 10:21 PM (d9Irc)

82 Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 09, 2020 10:19 PM (Jx5Qs)

What a noble man, risking his stock fortune all so he can protect his ~~subjects~~ citizens from deadly diseases!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at July 09, 2020 10:21 PM (eTZoJ)

83 77
Just woke up from a nap. Is everyone dead from WuFlu yet?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2020 10:20 PM (mht8P)

Yep. Every last one of us.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:21 PM (NWiLs)

84 -
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Back to comics, I just recently picked up an omnibus edition of John Byrne's complete run on Sensational She-Hulk.

Ooohhhhh

Myyyyyy

GAAAAWWWWWD!!!!!!

I knew it was cheesecake but holy shit Byrne could be downright dirty.

Posted by: Robert at July 09, 2020 10:18 PM
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Hi there!

Posted by: The Jolly Green Gi-Clit at July 09, 2020 10:21 PM (RVcmP)

85 76 Since were talking about, what's the Horde's choice?

Betty or Veronica?

Veronica has her appeal but I'm a Betty kinda dork.
Posted by: Robert at July 09, 2020 10:20 PM (Udx7m)

Embrace the might and power of the word

AND

Posted by: Sgt. Rock at July 09, 2020 10:21 PM (NgKpN)

86 Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:19 PM (NWiL

Solid flick

Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 10:21 PM (IYHxL)

87 Frank Castle is my homeboy.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:16 PM (NWiLs)

casting Jon Bernthal in the tv series was a good choice, imo

Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:21 PM (TOyHQ)

88 Just woke up from a nap. Is everyone dead from WuFlu yet?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2020 10:20 PM (mht8P)

#twoweeks

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 09, 2020 10:21 PM (3JYDJ)

89 Veronica is hotter. Better is a better choice. Veronica's personality isn't...great.

It's not nearly as close as contest as Ginger Vs Mary Ann

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:22 PM (d1uFV)

90 I never got into mainstream comics too much as a kid because the paper was garbage and the art was mediocre. I read Savage Sword of Conan, which had solid art. It wasn't until Image comics emerged and spurred some improvement that I really became interested for the most part though.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 09, 2020 10:22 PM (H5knJ)

91 Just woke up from a nap. Is everyone dead from WuFlu yet?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2020 10:20 PM (mht8P)

No, because thank God, Mayor Joe McKaren of Indy has saved us all with his Sharia Mask Mandate.

Posted by: Mookie at July 09, 2020 10:22 PM (3vIkC)

92 there was some kinda fanfic about that, I think it was called:
Man of Steel, Woman of Tissue
Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:19 PM (TOyHQ)

Larry Niven essay. I used to have it.

Ssssooooooo damn funny!

At one point it's just super sperm flying through the air all over the world.

Posted by: Robert at July 09, 2020 10:22 PM (QuEzD)

93 71 Best lesbian tease in all comic-dom. The art in Archie is delicious in terms of girl art.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:18 PM (d1uFV)

----------

You know where he got the name Jughead, right?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 09, 2020 10:19 PM (wPVhA)

Honestly, I don't know the origin of his name.
The Riverdale TV series made him gay. I can see it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:23 PM (d1uFV)

94 My 1960s Marvel Comics collection was stolen in 1979. Couldn't look a comic in the face after that until I saw a spinner that had a Spider-Man story of death of Aunt May. When Ditko first drew her, she looked like she was already one foot in the grave, so I thought good, time she died.

She got better and became Marisa Tormei and caught Robert Downey's eye. Somehow.

Anyway, after the breakthrough of buying dead Aunt May, I started looking at comics again, just in time for the incredible 1980s explosive revolution of comic shops and independent and small-time publishers. Over here in the corner, that big wall of long boxes? Mostly 1980s - almost everything published in those years.

I've noted to our kids before that when they read them, they'll find the X-Men and all the comics sort-of stop about the time the twins were born!!!

I thought I was collecting for posterity, for my kids to enjoy these treasures. They don't care. Everything's online and old yellowing comic books smell funny.

The one comic I didn't pick up on at the time was some cheap-looking black-and-white comic that was obviously riffing off of Teen Titans and X-Men and the then-hot Ninja craze mixed with anthropomorphics. Yes, I put Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 back on the shelf.

Did I tell you about when I first read Amazing Fantasy #15 with the origin of Spider-Man? How about when we met Stan Lee?

Posted by: mindful webworker
Amendment V: Loopholes
at July 09, 2020 10:23 PM (cGpV0)

95 87 Frank Castle is my homeboy.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:16 PM (NWiLs)

casting Jon Bernthal in the tv series was a good choice, imo
Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:21 PM (TOyHQ)

Agreed. Excellent casting decision.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:23 PM (NWiLs)

96 Back in the olden days, when we had to be employed by our 8th birthday, I had bought a paper route, because you also had to literally buy your way into work, then you had to buy the papers to deliver whether or not you got paid by the customer. Long story short, the whole $20 a week profit went to comic books.

Posted by: Menack at July 09, 2020 10:23 PM (buTO7)

97 81 Larry Niven did a short story about Superman and Lois Lane.
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex.
Funny as hell.
The sperm would perforate her, blowing the top of her head off. His cousin Supergirl would've been the only possible uh... outlet for him, but you'd have to be a pervert to suggest that.
Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at July 09, 2020 10:21 PM (d9Irc)

Well, he did grow up in Smallville. Kansas, so almost South.

Posted by: Sgt. Rock at July 09, 2020 10:23 PM (NgKpN)

98 At one point it's just super sperm flying through the air all over the world.
Posted by: Robert at July 09, 2020 10:22 PM (QuEzD)

Wouldn't that reverse time?

Posted by: hogmartin at July 09, 2020 10:23 PM (t+qrx)

99 "At one point it's just super sperm flying through the air all over the world."

Winding back time to save Lois from the earthquake?

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 09, 2020 10:24 PM (Yi0TC)

100 Sundown Joe is proposing a "the end of shareholder capitalism"

That would blow the shit out of pension funds, hedge funds, and congressional slush funds I would think

Posted by: kbdabear at July 09, 2020 10:24 PM (qAR6u)

101 John Byrne likes hot girls. He can also write, but no one wants to meet his rate, so he doesn't work much.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:24 PM (d1uFV)

102 ha ha this is GREAT btw thanks WeirdDave for this ONT!

so Fat Jacks is a place in Philadelphia

I was this sort of personage there

the cool geek girl

the geek goddess!

someone there advised me on when to buy first issues. it worked out well. I got all kinds of firsts in the 90s, including all the Image Comics firsts.

...including Spawn.

anyway. obviously this is my thing - look at my nic!

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfPrivilege at July 09, 2020 10:24 PM (j9HX3)

103 Whenever I see Nanzi Palsi speak I need the Batbucket. Every.single.time.

Posted by: JC. Idaho bot. at July 09, 2020 10:24 PM (377Zs)

104 Gotham did a pap smear on Bruce Wayne and this is how we were gifted with Coronaman!

Posted by: Fritz at July 09, 2020 10:24 PM (95j/9)

105 My husband is playing Backstreet Boys songs on his phone. Somebody please kill me.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 09, 2020 10:24 PM (3JYDJ)

106
Yep. Every last one of us.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:21 PM (NWiLs)

It's your fault for venturing beyond your house instead of cowering in fear like a good ~~citizen~~ subject. What were you thinking anyway?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2020 10:24 PM (mht8P)

107 Beautiful ONT. Respect!

Posted by: Oblivious at July 09, 2020 10:24 PM (uyo0b)

108 I never got into comic books or Star Wars/Star Trek, I did date in high school, though. So i have that!

Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at July 09, 2020 10:25 PM (Rz2Nc)

109 "Not only does the Court discover a Creek reservation that spans three million acres and includes most of the city of Tulsa, but the Court's reasoning portends that there are four more such reservations in Oklahoma. The rediscovered reservations encompass the entire eastern half of the State's million acres that are home to 1.8 million people, only 10% to 15% of whom are Indians.""
_Townhall

https://tinyurl.com/y7ly3n8y
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y7ly3n8y

It's time to neuter the supreme court
They've gone insane

Posted by: Braenyard at July 09, 2020 10:25 PM (gfCY0)

110 Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:21 PM (TOyHQ)

Perfect casting choice but horrible writing. It took too long to Castle getting to what he does best. Plus all the moral dilemmas be faced? Fuck that. Punisher punishes. So much so that super heroes hunt him down to stop him.

Fun fact they had a comic run called "The Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe"

Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 10:25 PM (IYHxL)

111 The sperm would perforate her, blowing the top of her head off. His cousin Supergirl would've been the only possible uh... outlet for him, but you'd have to be a pervert to suggest that.
Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at July 09, 2020 10:21 PM (d9Irc)

How close cousins are we talking here? I mean, if they're not *first* cousins....

Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2020 10:26 PM (Vgw1E)

112 someone there advised me on when to buy first issues. it worked out well. I got all kinds of firsts in the 90s, including all the Image Comics firsts.

...including Spawn.

anyway. obviously this is my thing - look at my nic!
Posted by: BlackOrchidOfPrivilege at July 09, 2020 10:24 PM (j9HX3)

I was a YUGE Spawn fan.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:26 PM (NWiLs)

113 About the only comic series I ever collected and read was called The Maxx.

It was pretty strange. Kind of a dual-reality psycho-thriller.

I think MTV did a Liquid Television version of it. Never watched it though. I lost interest Liquid TV after they stopped showing Aeon Flux's boobs and Beavis n Butthead got their own gig.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 09, 2020 10:26 PM (38/p9)

114 102 ha ha this is GREAT btw thanks WeirdDave for this ONT!

so Fat Jacks is a place in Philadelphia

I was this sort of personage there

the cool geek girl

the geek goddess!

someone there advised me on when to buy first issues. it worked out well. I got all kinds of firsts in the 90s, including all the Image Comics firsts.

...including Spawn.

anyway. obviously this is my thing - look at my nic!
Posted by: BlackOrchidOfPrivilege at July 09, 2020 10:24 PM (j9HX3)

I'm just glad you nic isn't 'Black Kiss'.

Howard Chaykin has talent and....issues.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:27 PM (d1uFV)

115 What a noble man, risking his stock fortune all so he can protect his subjects citizens from deadly diseases!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at July 09, 2020 10:21 PM (eTZoJ)

Follow the money. What REALLY pissed me off was the lecture like we were in 1st grade about washing hands social distancing blah fucking blah Also, he mentioned peer pressure about wearing masks. If some amateur epidemiologist-germaphobe gets in my face they're are going to fucking regret it.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 09, 2020 10:27 PM (Jx5Qs)

116 SCOTUS seems to be a buncha weirdos

Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:27 PM (TOyHQ)

117 I was a YUGE Spawn fan.

Spawn is teh awesome

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfPrivilege at July 09, 2020 10:27 PM (j9HX3)

118 I was a YUGE Spawn fan.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:26 PM (NWiLs)

Seeing Jerry Nadler play Violator in the movie was creepy.

Posted by: hogmartin at July 09, 2020 10:27 PM (t+qrx)

119 Comic books were not an affordable luxury in my growing-up years.

And I find that if it's not wired into the circuits at an early age, then it's just not gonna "take", later on. It hasn't, doesn't and won't.

That said, I would on occasion drop dimes on a cherished and to-be-hidden-away copy of MAD magazine.

Even in single-digit ages, I *got* that kind of humor and it still resonates, today.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 09, 2020 10:27 PM (QzJWU)

120 113 About the only comic series I ever collected and read was called The Maxx.

It was pretty strange. Kind of a dual-reality psycho-thriller.

I think MTV did a Liquid Television version of it. Never watched it though. I lost interest Liquid TV after they stopped showing Aeon Flux's boobs and Beavis n Butthead got their own gig.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 09, 2020 10:26 PM (38/p9)

Cartoon was better than the comic, which is rare.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:27 PM (d1uFV)

121 118 I was a YUGE Spawn fan.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:26 PM (NWiLs)

Seeing Jerry Nadler play Violator in the movie was creepy.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 09, 2020 10:27 PM (t+qrx)

*snort*

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:27 PM (NWiLs)

122 Blue beetle and Booster Gold in the Justice League was damn funny, They made Guy Gardener a sympathetic character when they started to write why he puts up the Tough Guy front

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 09, 2020 10:28 PM (dKiJG)

123 I could never afford comics either, Jim.

I used to read them at the barber's and library. So I caught the bug there.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:28 PM (d1uFV)

124 I'm not sure why I never really got into comics. I had a few here and there, but never threw myself into them, and by all logic I should have been into them because I was a huge sci-fi freak growing up. It wasn't that I didn't read, I was always reading. My mom taught me to read by the time I was in kindergarten. I never could figure it out. All I can come up with is maybe because they were so thin and didn't last long. No clue.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2020 10:28 PM (9Om/r)

125 Betty or Veronica?

Veronica has her appeal but I'm a Betty kinda dork.
Posted by: Robert

---

Don't discount Ethel. She may be the most grateful woman on the planet and conduct herself accordingly.

Not that I would have any experience in that sort of thing.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 09, 2020 10:28 PM (Rvt88)

126 It's your fault for venturing beyond your house instead of cowering in fear like a good citizen subject. What were you thinking anyway?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2020 10:24 PM (mht8P)

Point of order, stylebook says the usage should be

"~~subject~~ citizen"

to capture the proper level of contempt!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at July 09, 2020 10:28 PM (eTZoJ)

127 https://youtu.be/IRlPPzydSyM

Nice short video on the Wuflu

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 09, 2020 10:28 PM (YynYJ)

128 I never liked buying comic books. Spend my hard earned allowance and 15 minutes later it was done. Prostitutes were better.

Posted by: george at July 09, 2020 10:28 PM (NEavq)

129 More like SCROTUS. Too many decisions lately are ballz.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 09, 2020 10:29 PM (Yi0TC)

130 hmm I remember The Maxx

sort of dimly

I think aside from Gaiman things my favorite comic was Hellbl*zer

I didn't like Preacher or The Walking Dead, but I like the shows a LOT more than the comix!

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfPrivilege at July 09, 2020 10:29 PM (j9HX3)

131 How close cousins are we talking here? I mean, if they're not *first* cousins....

Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2020 10:26 PM (Vgw1E)

This. How hot are the cousins?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 09, 2020 10:29 PM (Jx5Qs)

132 Long story short, the whole $20 a week profit went to comic books.
Posted by: Menack

Shoulda got a job delivering and losing/stealing comic books.

Posted by: Miklosian Breakage and Wastage at July 09, 2020 10:29 PM (QzkSJ)

133 Anyone know the name of a comic about a super smart scientist who made four androids who were named for elements? Gold was leader android. Platinum girl android. Iron. And some red dude.

Posted by: Flyover at July 09, 2020 10:29 PM (Rbu5d)

134 131 How close cousins are we talking here? I mean, if they're not *first* cousins....

Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2020 10:26 PM (Vgw1E)

This. How hot are the cousins?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 09, 2020 10:29 PM (Jx5Qs)

That is the only relevant question.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:30 PM (NWiLs)

135 Childish... but we all have our faults.

Posted by: Pixybanned at July 09, 2020 10:30 PM (lgkZ1)

136 I liked Marvel back in the day. There was a Conan comic for awhile by an artist with a very distinctive style. I don't know his name and those are the ones I wish I'd kept.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 09, 2020 10:30 PM (YynYJ)

137 And I find that if it's not wired into the circuits at an early age, then it's just not gonna "take", later on. It hasn't, doesn't and won't.

That said, I would on occasion drop dimes on a cherished and to-be-hidden-away copy of MAD magazine.
Posted by: Jim at July 09, 2020 10:27 PM (QzJWU)

The only comic series I ever read all the way through was The Sandman. And I didn't read that until I was in high school and just afterward. Maybe there are others I'd like, but I never had the interest.

My parents would always get me a copy of MAD when I was home sick from school though, when I was really little.

Posted by: hogmartin at July 09, 2020 10:30 PM (t+qrx)

138 Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:26 PM

First black super hero movie too. Followed by Blade which was.terrific.

The Maxx was a fucking head.trip to a pre teenage me but I'll be damned if he wasn't cool looking and whomever said Aeon Flux? Yes that also weirded me out but I saw drawn titties so it was a wash.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 10:30 PM (IYHxL)

139 At one point it's just super sperm flying through the air all over the world.

Posted by: Robert at July 09, 2020 10:22 PM (QuEzD)

And you could be my boyfiend, you surely can

Just let me quit my boyfriend called Superman"

I said, "He's a fairy, I do suppose

Flyin' through the air in pantyhose

He may be very sexy or even cute

But he looks like a sucker in a blue and red suit"

I said, "You need a man who's got finesse

And his whole name across his chest

He may be able to fly all through the night

But can he rock a party 'til the early light?

He can't satisfy you with his little worm

But I can bust you out with my super sperm!"

Sugarhill Gang being VERY non-woke in 1979....

Posted by: Mookie at July 09, 2020 10:30 PM (3vIkC)

140 And some red dude.

Posted by: Flyover at July 09, 2020 10:29 PM

Bromine?

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at July 09, 2020 10:30 PM (prJfn)

141 It's a gift! She likes to do macrame! Oh, ok...No point in visiting her now...

Posted by: Hillary! at July 09, 2020 10:30 PM (KDCRD)

142 110 Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:21 PM (TOyHQ)

Perfect casting choice but horrible writing. It took too long to Castle getting to what he does best. Plus all the moral dilemmas be faced? Fuck that. Punisher punishes. So much so that super heroes hunt him down to stop him.

Fun fact they had a comic run called "The Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe"
Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 10:25 PM (IYHxL)

Frank was GREAT in Secret Wars 2, when he had all the power of Doctor Strange for a while. He killed The Hulk in two words.

But honestly...Frank doesn't really want to kill everyone. The Punisher has had more character derailment than anyone else in comics. Marvel HATES him and hates Punisher fans. But the want the money so....

But Punisher: Born is legit good, despite being written by a fucking Brit who does not fully grasp the character.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:30 PM (d1uFV)

143 when I was very small my uncle gave me his horror comix

those made an impression!!!

Tales of Horror

Weird Tales

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfPrivilege at July 09, 2020 10:31 PM (j9HX3)

144 Posted by: Braenyard at July 09, 2020 10:25 PM (gfCY0)

Time to check your #RedPrivilege!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at July 09, 2020 10:31 PM (eTZoJ)

145 Man of Steel, Woman of Tissue
Posted by: vmom 2020

I was amused to note that, in the current Supergirl tv series, in a nod to that old argument, Superman and Lois head off to a chunk of Krypton with a red sun to have their baby. Problem solved. No superbaby springing like Alien from Lois's gut.
____

I thought Wonder Woman's creator just had his wife and "secretary," not a third gal. But it's been a long time since I read about it. Or cared.

He sure dug bondage, though.

Posted by: mindful webworker
Amendment V: Loopholes
at July 09, 2020 10:31 PM (cGpV0)

146 Spend my hard earned allowance and 15 minutes later it was done. Prostitutes were better.
Posted by: george

---

But still 15 minutes and done, right?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 09, 2020 10:32 PM (Rvt88)

147 136 I liked Marvel back in the day. There was a Conan comic for awhile by an artist with a very distinctive style. I don't know his name and those are the ones I wish I'd kept.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 09, 2020 10:30 PM (YynYJ)

Barry Windsor Smith?

Lots of well known Conan artists.

My favorite is Frank Frazetta.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:32 PM (d1uFV)

148 This. How hot are the cousins?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 09, 2020 10:29 PM (Jx5Qs)

In an ideal world, all cousins are Daisy Duke.

Posted by: Them Miklos Boys at July 09, 2020 10:32 PM (QzkSJ)

149 Supreme Crazies of the US

Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:32 PM (TOyHQ)

150 I just finished watching Jurassic World for the first time.

It's sooooooo stuuuupid.

Posted by: Vlad the impaler, whittling away like mad at July 09, 2020 10:32 PM (d6mdH)

151 The Maxx was a fucking head.trip to a pre teenage me but I'll be damned if he wasn't cool looking and whomever said Aeon Flux? Yes that also weirded me out but I saw drawn titties so it was a wash.
Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 10:30 PM (IYHxL)

Aeon Flux was...different.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:32 PM (NWiLs)

152 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:30 PM (d1uFV)

Secret wars were early 90s yes? I was under the age of 10 if so and while I LIKED comics it was.more the art than me grasping the stories.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 10:33 PM (IYHxL)

153 67 Yeah.. never been into comics. So I scrolled right on by as you suggested WD.
Posted by: Jewells45 at July 09, 2020 10:19 PM (dUJdY)

Hi Jewells! My rearview mirror charm is supposed to be here tomorrow. I'm excited!

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 09, 2020 10:33 PM (3JYDJ)

154 Was pretty hilarious to see Washington Joe spout off that President Trump has no idea what it's like to be a single mom. Like you do, dickhead? Most single mom's I know don't have lucrative connections to Ukraine. Or am I missing something in their lives?

Posted by: Mookie at July 09, 2020 10:33 PM (3vIkC)

155 WD - I was a graphic designer for Todd McFarlane (Image) from 98 - 02. Great experience, but pay was shitty. Also I was the only conservative in the office. By 2001 the SJW Was making in roads.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 09, 2020 10:34 PM (DjiZK)

156 Fuck me, I hate turning into an old man.

So my knee has basically given up on me.

My bowels want to go whenever they feel like,

Ain't got a woman.

Ugly no matter what I do.

I should have been a blues guitarist.

Posted by: Robert at July 09, 2020 10:34 PM (/4xdf)

157 143 when I was very small my uncle gave me his horror comix

those made an impression!!!

By uncle I guess you mean "uncle".

Posted by: The Extended Miklos Family at July 09, 2020 10:34 PM (QzkSJ)

158 70's. Epic and Eerie Magazines.

Great stories, good art.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 09, 2020 10:34 PM (NgKpN)

159 I want to find that W.B. and Batman mashup.

Incredible. I have to read this comic. And I don't read comics.

Elmer Fudd and Batman. I never realized I needed this.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist at July 09, 2020 10:34 PM (hVARR)

160 come on, that "Punish me daddy!" REALLY needed to have Lois Lane in it!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2020 10:34 PM (V2Yro)

161 Never read any of The Sandman stuff

Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:35 PM (TOyHQ)

162 158 70's. Epic and Eerie Magazines.

Great stories, good art.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 09, 2020 10:34 PM (NgKpN)

Endorsed.

And Elfquest, if you're into elves.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:35 PM (d1uFV)

163 And Elfquest, if you're into elves.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:35 PM (d1uFV)

And quests.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:35 PM (NWiLs)

164 155 WD - I was a graphic designer for Todd McFarlane (Image) from 98 - 02. Great experience, but pay was shitty. Also I was the only conservative in the office. By 2001 the SJW Was making in roads.

this is AMAZING Quilter! what on earth are you doing slumming here!!

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfPrivilege at July 09, 2020 10:35 PM (j9HX3)

165 156 Fuck me, I hate turning into an old man.

So my knee has basically given up on me.

My bowels want to go whenever they feel like,

Ain't got a woman.

Ugly no matter what I do.

I should have been a blues guitarist.
Posted by: Robert at July 09, 2020 10:34 PM (/4xdf)

I'll make you a deal.

Posted by: The Devil at July 09, 2020 10:35 PM (CLteG)

166 I didn't like Preacher or The Walking Dead, but I like the shows a LOT more than the comix!

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfPrivilege at July 09, 2020 10:29 PM (j9HX3)

As far as TWD goes, I'm of the opposite opinion. I never read the graphic novels religiously, but to me they were a lot better than the show.

As for Preacher, I watched the first two episodes of that, and it was f*cking retarded. So the comic must have been REALLY bad.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2020 10:36 PM (Vgw1E)

167 Last comic I bought was Spider-Man 400 in 95.

The comic biz jumped the shark then with its zillion variant cover bullshit.

Now most comics are digitally drawn and look like dog shit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 09, 2020 10:36 PM (pxPu3)

168 161 Never read any of The Sandman stuff

it's good stuff

there's a new audio"book" of the entire Sandman run - just came out - very good

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfPrivilege at July 09, 2020 10:36 PM (j9HX3)

169 Never read any of The Sandman stuff
Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:35 PM (TOyHQ)

Took me a while to realize why I liked it, but basically it's not about a good guy fighting bad guys. He's just a guy with a job that lets him meet some interesting people.

Posted by: hogmartin at July 09, 2020 10:36 PM (t+qrx)

170 Anyone know the name of a comic about a super smart scientist who made four androids who were named for elements? Gold was leader android. Platinum girl android. Iron. And some red dude.
Posted by: Flyover at July 09, 2020 10:29 PM (Rbu5d)

Metal Men.

Posted by: Robert at July 09, 2020 10:36 PM (nZIav)

171 I'll make you a deal.
Posted by: The Devil at July 09, 2020 10:35 PM (CLteG)

Just give me the crossroads address. I'll meet you there at midnight.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:36 PM (NWiLs)

172 162 158 70's. Epic and Eerie Magazines.

Great stories, good art.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 09, 2020 10:34 PM (NgKpN)

Endorsed.

And Elfquest, if you're into elves.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:35 PM (d1uFV)

Had a friend on my first ship who had the whole Elfquest series.

Had not thought of them in years.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 09, 2020 10:36 PM (NgKpN)

173 Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:32 PM (NWiLs

If I remember correctly it's a highly regulated society with a few freedom fighters or some shit? Fuck if I know but one scene stuck with me forever; Aeon did some parkour ninja shit to some fence to meet some guy, contorts her body against the fence, said gut goes to fence, drops trou and pounds away until they cut to a scene of sperm flowing. I remember thinking "this is so wrong and weird. Where are the tits?!"

That and her catching thebfly with her eyelashes. Those writers had to be on drugs.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 10:36 PM (IYHxL)

174 150 I just finished watching Jurassic World for the first time.

It's sooooooo stuuuupid.
Posted by: Vlad the impaler, whittling away like mad at July 09, 2020 10:32 PM (d6mdH)

when it first came out, nobody had done lifelike Dinosaurs like that so it was awesome. Now every PBS and Nature show has got them in it, so big deal.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2020 10:37 PM (V2Yro)

175 As for Preacher, I watched the first two episodes of that, and it was f*cking retarded. So the comic must have been REALLY bad.

ha ha Dr T

well to each his own. I never liked the comic but the Irish actor playing Cass on the show (Preacher) drew me in

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfPrivilege at July 09, 2020 10:37 PM (j9HX3)

176 152 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:30 PM (d1uFV)

Secret wars were early 90s yes? I was under the age of 10 if so and while I LIKED comics it was.more the art than me grasping the stories.
Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 10:33 PM (IYHxL)

First series was the 80s'. Then 2005. And 2011??? And 2015 has the Punisher with the power of Sorcerer Supreme, I think.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:37 PM (d1uFV)

177 That and her catching thebfly with her eyelashes. Those writers had to be on drugs.
Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 10:36 PM (IYHxL)

Oh yes. Big time.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:38 PM (NWiLs)

178 That and her catching thebfly with her eyelashes. Those writers had to be on drugs.
Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 10:36 PM (IYHxL)

That show was when I realized that a show could be better when you're high, but that still doesn't mean I want to watch it.

Posted by: hogmartin at July 09, 2020 10:38 PM (t+qrx)

179 I probably should read Sandman - I just never ran across it

now I don't really read comics / graphic novels/ manga anymore

Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:38 PM (TOyHQ)

180 Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 09, 2020 10:34 PM (DjiZK)

Stories bro. Stories.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 10:38 PM (IYHxL)

181 My parents would always get me a copy of MAD when I was home sick from school though, when I was really little.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 09, 2020 10:30 PM (t+qrx)

Oooh. thanks for mentioning MAD. I loved Mort Drucker's work as a caricature artist. There was never, and I mean never, any confusion as to whom he was drawing. The man was simply brilliant. When I became familiar with his work, he was doing the Godfather, Star Wars, Jaws, Kramer vs. Kramer, and Alien.

King of caricature. RIP.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, what likes stuff at July 09, 2020 10:38 PM (x8Wzq)

182 Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:26 PM (NWiLs)

Worked in the Spawn world for 4 years. When Todd did covers and Greg Capullo did the interiors.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 09, 2020 10:38 PM (DjiZK)

183 Batman/Punisher crossover was epic.

Posted by: Defund NeverTrump at July 09, 2020 10:38 PM (0jZvB)

184 Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns still kicks ass.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:38 PM (NWiLs)

185 Wouldn't having sex with Superman be kind of deadly? You figure at climax he'd blow Lois's innards out

Posted by: kbdabear at July 09, 2020 10:18 PM (qAR6u)

Larry Niven wrote a nice little short story about that. Interesting from a number of angles.

Posted by: Michael Bolton at July 09, 2020 10:39 PM (ZSK0i)

186 I'll make you a deal.
Posted by: The Devil at July 09, 2020 10:35 PM (CLteG)

If you're the real Devil you'll make a five foot tall buxom 24 year old appear on my lap.

Once that happens, then we'll talk.

Posted by: Robert at July 09, 2020 10:39 PM (bhmfn)

187 That show was when I realized that a show could be better when you're high, but that still doesn't mean I want to watch it.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 09, 2020 10:38 PM (t+qrx)

Let's talk about H R Puffn'Stuff.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2020 10:39 PM (V2Yro)

188 Just give me the crossroads address. I'll meet you there at midnight.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo

does the Devil make deals with lawyers?
Seems like there's a non-compete clause somewhere against that...

Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:40 PM (TOyHQ)

189 Posted by: Defund NeverTrump at July 09, 2020 10:38 PM (0jZvB)

This happened? Wow.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 10:40 PM (IYHxL)

190 MyDad got me into the Justice Society of America and The Shadow.

The Shadow was really good, I always enjoyed how he got his agents.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 09, 2020 10:40 PM (dKiJG)

191
Fuck me, I hate turning into an old man.

So my knee has basically given up on me.

My bowels want to go whenever they feel like,

Ain't got a woman.

Ugly no matter what I do.

I should have been a blues guitarist.

Posted by: Robert at July 09, 2020 10:34 PM (/4xdf)

Metal...metal guitarist. Keeps you young, chicks fall from the sky, and if your knee gives out and you shit your pants the crowd will just think it's part of the act. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2020 10:40 PM (9Om/r)

192 No love for The Badger? Dreadstar? Grimjack? Not even Sable or Evangeline?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at July 09, 2020 10:41 PM (SchxB)

193 184 Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns still kicks ass.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:38 PM (NWiLs)

It does. But you need to have the basics of the Batman mythos for it to work. You have to start with the heroic Batman, the young Batman, to get to and earn the DKR.

Today, they want to jump right to Dark Knight without laying the groundwork first.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:41 PM (d1uFV)

194 @154

It came out in 86 and was probably the apex of the comic biz.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 09, 2020 10:41 PM (pxPu3)

195 192 No love for The Badger? Dreadstar? Grimjack? Not even Sable or Evangeline?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at July 09, 2020 10:41 PM (SchxB)

Do I look like a Yib Yob?

I loved Badger and Dreadstar. Though Jim Starlin has gone woke.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:41 PM (d1uFV)

196 Worked in the Spawn world for 4 years. When Todd did covers and Greg Capullo did the interiors.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 09, 2020 10:38 PM (DjiZK)

Oh hell I probably have those issues.

Posted by: Robert at July 09, 2020 10:41 PM (JOnKI)

197
It does. But you need to have the basics of the Batman mythos for it to work. You have to start with the heroic Batman, the young Batman, to get to and earn the DKR.

Today, they want to jump right to Dark Knight without laying the groundwork first.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:41 PM (d1uFV)

This is true.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:42 PM (NWiLs)

198 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:41 PM (d1uFV)

He came back like in his 50s right? It's been awhile since I've read it. Or was that when he came back from Bane breaking his back?

Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 10:42 PM (IYHxL)

199 I've been reading the Locke Key comics. I hear they're making a video series about it. Modern gothic horror about a house with doors and keys that allow you to go strange places and do things. And about the family that live there. Creepy and Lovecraft-ish. One door makes you into a ghost, another makes you 100 feet tall, a key opens your mind to have things taken out or put in, lots of weird stuff. But I like it.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 09, 2020 10:42 PM (l6b3d)

200 Anything Punisher related that Chuck Dixon writes is worth your time. Chuck gets the character.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:42 PM (d1uFV)

201 I loved Badger and Dreadstar. Though Jim Starlin has gone woke.

Didn't know he'd joined the walking dead.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at July 09, 2020 10:42 PM (SchxB)

202 Metal...metal guitarist. Keeps you young, chicks fall from the sky, and if your knee gives out and you shit your pants the crowd will just think it's part of the act. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2020 10:40 PM (9Om/r)

If only I'd followed a different path in life...

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:42 PM (NWiLs)

203 Posted by: BlackOrchidOfPrivilege at July 09, 2020 10:35 PM (j9HX3)

Young and lucky. Crazy time in my early design years. Todd was a minority owner in the Edmonton Oilers - I was junior designer on the Oilers 3rd Jersey. My Art Director did the design and did some of the production. Great experience, but very long hours. Married with a young daughter, I eventually chose family over work and glad I did.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 09, 2020 10:43 PM (DjiZK)

204 199 I've been reading the Locke Key comics. I hear they're making a video series about it. Modern gothic horror about a house with doors and keys that allow you to go strange places and do things. And about the family that live there. Creepy and Lovecraft-ish. One door makes you into a ghost, another makes you 100 feet tall, a key opens your mind to have things taken out or put in, lots of weird stuff. But I like it.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 09, 2020 10:42 PM (l6b3d)

It's already been made and on Netflix.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:43 PM (NWiLs)

205 201 I loved Badger and Dreadstar. Though Jim Starlin has gone woke.

Didn't know he'd joined the walking dead.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at July 09, 2020 10:42 PM (SchxB)

Twitter reveals all, sadly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:43 PM (d1uFV)

206 Posted by: banana Dream at July 09, 2020 10:42 PM (l6b3d)

Netflix has the series (season 1)

I like it
does not seem.woke

Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:44 PM (TOyHQ)

207 199 I've been reading the Locke Key comics. I hear they're making a video series about it. Modern gothic horror about a house with doors and keys that allow you to go strange places and do things. And about the family that live there. Creepy and Lovecraft-ish. One door makes you into a ghost, another makes you 100 feet tall, a key opens your mind to have things taken out or put in, lots of weird stuff. But I like it.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 09, 2020 10:42 PM (l6b3d)

Ending is rushed.
Written by Stephen King's kid.
He's not terrible but doesn't quite have all the tools.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:44 PM (d1uFV)

208 Reaaalllly not a Dr Who fan, but the Batman fanmade crossover was hilarious! The double entendre at the end was the best part, though.

The newest Jawbreakers should be in my mailbox in a few months. I'm looking forward to Meyer's take on what being deployed in Afghanistan in 2008 was like. I'm sure he's got stories, and some of them might not even feature a goat!

Posted by: ya girl pookysgirl at July 09, 2020 10:44 PM (XKZwp)

209 Twitter reveals all, sadly.

Yet another reason to hate on Twitter, it allows you to meet your heroes.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at July 09, 2020 10:44 PM (SchxB)

210 Was pretty hilarious to see Washington Joe spout off that President Trump has no idea what it's like to be a single mom. Like you do, dickhead? Most single mom's I know don't have lucrative connections to Ukraine. Or am I missing something in their lives?
Posted by: Mookie at July 09, 2020 10:33 PM (3vIkC)

Hunter's latest baby mama certainly knows what it's like to be a single mom. You know, the one Hunter denied for years and avoided subpoenas. Has grandfather Joe acknowledged or met his newest grand baby?

Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at July 09, 2020 10:44 PM (Rz2Nc)

211 202 Metal...metal guitarist. Keeps you young, chicks fall from the sky, and if your knee gives out and you shit your pants the crowd will just think it's part of the act. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2020 10:40 PM (9Om/r)

If only I'd followed a different path in life...
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:42 PM (NWiLs)

No shit.

This calls for heavy drinking.

Posted by: Robert makes a note to drink heavily when he gets back home at July 09, 2020 10:45 PM (/ABg1)

212 Someone tell Laura Ingram it's the PAC 12, not PAC 10.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 09, 2020 10:45 PM (axyOa)

213 If you enjoy weird covers, and you're ever at a con where Scott Shaw! does his Oddball Comics presentation, catch it.

Strangest is probably the one where they appear to have repositioned a sci-fi cheesecake cover as a sci-fi western, but only partly converted the woman on the cover into a cowboy.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 09, 2020 10:46 PM (2lndx)

214 198 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:41 PM (d1uFV)

He came back like in his 50s right? It's been awhile since I've read it. Or was that when he came back from Bane breaking his back?
Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 10:42 PM (IYHxL)

Dark Knight Returns?

(Sorry, lots of threads I'm responding too as comics are one of my 'things')

I think Bruce is actually 60 or so in Dark Knight returns. Last gasp and all that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:46 PM (d1uFV)

215 Ending is rushed.
Written by Stephen King's kid.
He's not terrible but doesn't quite have all the tools.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:44 PM (d1uFV)

I should give his books a try
Ii watched NOS4A2 and I liked the concept

Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:46 PM (TOyHQ)

216 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 09, 2020 10:46 PM (2B9A/)

217 Barry Windsor Smith is the right time frame but I've yet to see a sample of what I remember. This had a different feel. I'd say like Maxfield Parrish but
Conan so more warrior like. And everyone knew Frazetta at that time.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 09, 2020 10:47 PM (YynYJ)

218 209 Twitter reveals all, sadly.

Yet another reason to hate on Twitter, it allows you to meet your heroes.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at July 09, 2020 10:44 PM (SchxB)

Never meet your heroes. So very, very few of my favorite authors weren't assholes when I actually met them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:47 PM (d1uFV)

219 Ii watched NOS4A2 and I liked the concept
Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:46 PM (TOyHQ)

O...k. Sure.

Did this become the chess thread somewhere?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 09, 2020 10:47 PM (2B9A/)

220 Now here is a funny comic, and quite NSFW:

https://www.comicextra.com/harold-hedd/chapter-2

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 09, 2020 10:47 PM (0doVh)

221 Donald Trump doesn't know what it's like to shit yourself and not know it until the nurse pulls your pants off!

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 09, 2020 10:48 PM (qAR6u)

222 211 202 Metal...metal guitarist. Keeps you young, chicks fall from the sky, and if your knee gives out and you shit your pants the crowd will just think it's part of the act. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2020 10:40 PM (9Om/r)

If only I'd followed a different path in life...
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:42 PM (NWiLs)

No shit.

This calls for heavy drinking.
Posted by: Robert makes a note to drink heavily when he gets back home at July 09, 2020 10:45 PM (/ABg1)

Drinking won't change anything, trust me.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:48 PM (NWiLs)

223 215 Ending is rushed.
Written by Stephen King's kid.
He's not terrible but doesn't quite have all the tools.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:44 PM (d1uFV)

I should give his books a try
Ii watched NOS4A2 and I liked the concept
Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:46 PM (TOyHQ)

They're worth a read. You might spark on them and really like them. They have good ideas, just the execution of them all sorta....peters out.

Like 'Heart Shaped Box' which turns the hard core Metal rocker into a lame simp by the end of the book.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:49 PM (d1uFV)

224 Can't have a comic book post without mentioning

Cerebus. An amazing work, right up to the halfway point.

Then Sim just fell apart. I have the bound collections up 'til then, and not the earliest but most of the monthly issues. His rages about feminism-emotionalism versus reason-masculinity were ... fascinating, and prescient.

Sad the series bombed. I don't even know if he ever reached his goal of 400 issues or whatever it was.

But then, when you start your comic off with a misspelled name on the main character... what can you expect?

Posted by: mindful webworker
Amendment V: Loopholes
at July 09, 2020 10:49 PM (cGpV0)

225 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:46 PM (d1uFV)

I dig it and you're correct the movies confused me because that iteration of Bruce was clearly in his late 30s

Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 10:49 PM (IYHxL)

226 159...
Elmer Fudd and Batman. I never realized I needed this.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist at July 09, 2020 10:34 PM (hVARR)

It's on Kindle. Showed my husband, he went and found it.

Posted by: Flyover at July 09, 2020 10:49 PM (Rbu5d)

227 Barry Windsor Smith is the right time frame but I've yet to see a sample of what I remember. This had a different feel. I'd say like Maxfield Parrish but
Conan so more warrior like. And everyone knew Frazetta at that time.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 09, 2020 10:47 PM (YynYJ)

Are you thinking of John Buscema?

Posted by: Robert makes a note to drink heavily when he gets back home at July 09, 2020 10:49 PM (/ABg1)

228 Metal...metal guitarist. Keeps you young, chicks fall from the sky, and if your knee gives out and you shit your pants the crowd will just think it's part of the act. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2020 10:40 PM (9Om/r)

My BFF, been friends since 4th grade can no longer play because he's got nerve damage in his left hand. I worry about him. He fucking shredded. Collected and played Jackson, ESP and BC Rich guitars. now he can't even do simple chord progressions. His dad told him to keep a couple of his axes as collectors, at the very least.

Really sucks. I was always a very mediocre player. I have a good acoustic guitar and an '89 BC Rich Gunslinger. They feel neglected right now. I feel them glaring at me.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, what likes stuff at July 09, 2020 10:49 PM (x8Wzq)

229 Did this become the chess thread somewhere?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 09, 2020 10:47 PM (2B9A/)

it's the license plate of the villain, who has certain vampire -like qualities
fantasy-horror

Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:49 PM (TOyHQ)

230 #RedPrivilege

Thought I was part Indian, took a blood test
Not one drop

Posted by: Braenyard at July 09, 2020 10:49 PM (gfCY0)

231 219 Ii watched NOS4A2 and I liked the concept
Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 10:46 PM (TOyHQ)

O...k. Sure.

Did this become the chess thread somewhere?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 09, 2020 10:47 PM (2B9A/)

NOS4A2 = Nosferatu

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:50 PM (d1uFV)

232 KingdomCome is a Must read, Joker Kills Lois Lane, then He is found Not Guiltily for being Insane and then some New Hero Kills him, Superman leaves and retires. These new guys kill a Nuclear Powered Hero turning some of the country into a wasteland, So Superman decides to lock up heroes and villains if they don't follow him

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 09, 2020 10:50 PM (dKiJG)

233 Metal Men.
Posted by: Robert at July 09, 2020 10:36 PM (nZIav)

Thanks!

Posted by: Flyover at July 09, 2020 10:50 PM (Rbu5d)

234 John Buscema Conan art

https://tinyurl.com/y8fonyj6

Posted by: Robert makes a note to drink heavily when he gets back home at July 09, 2020 10:50 PM (z83q6)

235 Robert DeNiro is claiming that coronavirus has hammered his finances and he can't pay his ex the alimony she's demanding

I hope it's true, and I hope lots of Hollywood lefties are getting pounded in the bank accounts due to the virus hysteria they are championing

Posted by: kbdabear at July 09, 2020 10:50 PM (qAR6u)

236 Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 10:38 PM (IYHxL)

When came on in 98 everyone still hated Leifeld. Worked with Frank Miller, Mike Mignola, J Scott Campbell and a bunch of others. Answering the private line at work was always crazy, never knew who was calling in to get ahold of Todd.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 09, 2020 10:51 PM (DjiZK)

237 Never meet your heroes. So very, very few of my favorite authors weren't assholes when I actually met them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:47 PM (d1uFV)

You know, when the internet was new (think 199

I actually dropped emails to a lot of my favorite authors at the time.

Nicest: Michael A Stackpole. He replied with at first kind of a formulaic email with various bits of info, then sent another reply and apologized for sending a form letter and thanked me for liking his books. It is not like we opened a dialogue, but I thought he seemed like a nice guy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 09, 2020 10:51 PM (2B9A/)

238 Lol wat. Seems convoluted, where the hell is Batman?

Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 10:51 PM (IYHxL)

239 I think a roommate of mine talked me into reading a short series called The Melting Pot because it was illustrated by Kevin Eastman, who I had no idea who that was at the time.

I was smoking a lot of pot at the time and decided I would buy them all and read them. I don't remember if it was particularly good.

I don't really remember much of anything from those years actually. I may have some grown children out there somewhere.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 09, 2020 10:52 PM (38/p9)

240 NOS4A2 = Nosferatu
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:50 PM (d1uFV)

Ah-ha! Now I feel like a moron.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 09, 2020 10:52 PM (2B9A/)

241 There is a surprising amount of humor to be found in comics...

*************

Perhaps the most profound thought ever expressed on the internet.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 09, 2020 10:52 PM (Fc5rx)

242 I hope it's true, and I hope lots of Hollywood
lefties are getting pounded in the bank accounts due to the virus
hysteria they are championing

Posted by: kbdabear at July 09, 2020 10:50 PM (qAR6u)

The best part is they deep down think it's all gonna be worth it when it causes Trump to lose in November....

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2020 10:52 PM (M7Sjc)

243 208 Reaaalllly not a Dr Who fan, but the Batman fanmade crossover was hilarious! The double entendre at the end was the best part, though.

The newest Jawbreakers should be in my mailbox in a few months. I'm looking forward to Meyer's take on what being deployed in Afghanistan in 2008 was like. I'm sure he's got stories, and some of them might not even feature a goat!
Posted by: ya girl pookysgirl at July 09, 2020 10:44 PM (XKZwp)

I like his 'Iron Sights' slightly more. Very 100 Bullets

(100 Bullets is a GREAT crime comic...until the ending)

Though the second book really went in a...different direction for a sequel. I feel like yelling at him, but I doubt he'd notice or care, even if I was a backer of his comics.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:52 PM (d1uFV)

244 Listening to Iron Maiden, Journeyman right now.

FWIW

Posted by: Pug Mahon, what likes stuff at July 09, 2020 10:53 PM (x8Wzq)

245 I've read that most of the money that musicians make is from live performances, not record sales of which they get surprisingly small cuts of

Tay-Tay might have to sell one of her 5 mansions and penthouses so she can lecture us about how our greed is killing the planet

Posted by: kbdabear at July 09, 2020 10:53 PM (qAR6u)

246 >>> 215
Ending is rushed.

Written by Stephen King's kid.

He's not terrible but doesn't quite have all the tools.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:44 PM

I didn't know that. Just looked up Joe Hill on google and within seconds of seeing his picture, wow! that is Stephen's son! Looks exactly like him. A younger him. The comic books have been good so far. But he has a lot of loose ends and I guess a sloppy way would be to tie them up quick.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 09, 2020 10:53 PM (l6b3d)

247 I'm complaining about endings a lot, because it's what you remember, usually.

But I have mad props for any comic that actually ENDS.

Worst thing about comic books...no endings. No permanent death. So you get crap piled on crap, forever.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:53 PM (d1uFV)

248 I wonder if Jane Austen was an asshole. She's on my three people I'd like to have dinner with list.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2020 10:53 PM (M7Sjc)

249 Not comics, but for WWII buffs, a very nicely done documentary on the St Nazaire raid of 1942, hosted by Jeremy Clarkson.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y956lbpj

Posted by: rhomboid at July 09, 2020 10:54 PM (El6T/)

250 Can't have a comic book post without mentioning

Cerebus. An amazing work, right up to the halfway point.

Then Sim just fell apart. I have the bound collections up 'til then, and not the earliest but most of the monthly issues. His rages about feminism-emotionalism versus reason-masculinity were ... fascinating, and prescient.

Sad the series bombed. I don't even know if he ever reached his goal of 400 issues or whatever it was.

But then, when you start your comic off with a misspelled name on the main character... what can you expect?
Posted by: mindful webworker
Amendment V: Loopholes
at July 09, 2020 10:49 PM (cGpV0)

He aimed for 300 and finished sometime in the middle of the aughts.

I have volume one of the TPBs and some random issues scattered about.

His letter columns were lively. I'm

Posted by: Robert makes a note to drink heavily when he gets back home at July 09, 2020 10:54 PM (rxbgV)

251 I like Joe Madueira(sp?) And his art ALOT. I found out about Battlechasers due to his video game which is awesome. Never knew it was a comic but the story the game told was dope AF.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 10:54 PM (IYHxL)

252 I've read "Tay-Tay" owns an entire block in Manhattan...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at July 09, 2020 10:54 PM (prJfn)

253 246 >>> 215
Ending is rushed.

Written by Stephen King's kid.

He's not terrible but doesn't quite have all the tools.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:44 PM

I didn't know that. Just looked up Joe Hill on google and within seconds of seeing his picture, wow! that is Stephen's son! Looks exactly like him. A younger him. The comic books have been good so far. But he has a lot of loose ends and I guess a sloppy way would be to tie them up quick.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 09, 2020 10:53 PM (l6b3d)

The pacing of the first few graphic novels is wonderful. But I get the feeling he was told, 'You have two more books, wrap it up' and he put everything on fast forward.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:54 PM (d1uFV)

254 Posted by: mindful webworker
Amendment V: Loopholes
at July 09, 2020 10:49 PM (cGpV0)

Ah yes the "phone books".

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 09, 2020 10:54 PM (DjiZK)

255 Metal...metal guitarist. Keeps you young, chicks
fall from the sky, and if your knee gives out and you shit your pants
the crowd will just think it's part of the act. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2020 10:40 PM (9Om/r)

If only I'd followed a different path in life...

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:42 PM (NWiLs)

No shit.

This calls for heavy drinking.

Posted by: Robert makes a note to drink heavily when he gets back home at July 09, 2020 10:45 PM (/ABg1)

I joke about it a lot, but it was not all fun and games. You really need to have screws loose to do that shit. There was only a very few periods where it wasn't a struggle.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2020 10:54 PM (9Om/r)

256 One sound that always makes me laugh is a cat snoring

My kitteh is buzzing and snorting away now

Posted by: kbdabear at July 09, 2020 10:54 PM (qAR6u)

257 NOS4A2 = Nosferatu

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:50 PM (d1uFV)

I see that and I think of the excellent song "C11H17N2O2SNA (Sodium Pentathol)" by Anthrax...

Posted by: Mookie at July 09, 2020 10:54 PM (3vIkC)

258 I unsubscribed from any YouTuber who fed any bullshit this last few months on BLM etc. Fuck 'em.

Get in reality or get out of my life.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2020 10:55 PM (M7Sjc)

259 "Never meet your heroes."

Had a chance to meet Sergio Aragones at ChicagoCon one year. A wonderful gentleman in person. Wife, daughter, and niece were weak-kneed charmed by that tall mustachioed Cuban.

Posted by: mindful webworker
Amendment V: Loopholes
at July 09, 2020 10:55 PM (cGpV0)

260 248 I wonder if Jane Austen was an asshole. She's on my three people I'd like to have dinner with list.
Posted by: ... at July 09, 2020 10:53 PM (M7Sjc)

A little brittle, standoffish, bitchy maybe in a passive-agressive Brit way. But not an asshole, based on her letters.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:55 PM (d1uFV)

261 Notsothoreau, here is a discussion of the vaccines and immunology involved with Corona virus

https://peterattiamd.com/stanleyperlman/

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2020 10:56 PM (WyVLE)

262 I joke about it a lot, but it was not all fun and games. You really need to have screws loose to do that shit. There was only a very few periods where it wasn't a struggle.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2020 10:54 PM (9Om/r)

Tradeoffs, grass is always greener on the other side, etc... But I do wish I'd at least tried, instead of letting fear rule me.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:56 PM (NWiLs)

263 Listening to Iron Maiden, Journeyman right now.

FWIW
Posted by: Pug Mahon, what likes stuff at July 09, 2020 10:53 PM (x8Wzq)

Best song on that album!

\m/

Posted by: Robert makes a note to drink heavily when he gets back home at July 09, 2020 10:56 PM (k27mQ)

264 I got out of comics probably ten years ago. Civil War was fun and had some great storylines, they were still rooting out a few Skrulls here and there, and Norman Osborn's Dark Avengers were in the saddle.
Oddly enough, Osborn as Iron Patriot, trying to work out Sentry's issues with him, was as much actual humanity as you'd ever read in comics.
Also oddly enough, in the 2000's, some of the best stories were to be found in the cheesecake sector, stuff like "Witchblade."
I got out when it started getting all woke. 0bama on the cover of Amazing Spider-Man was the death knell, so I guess that was circa 2009 or so.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at July 09, 2020 10:56 PM (+3rQF)

265 the art outstrips the dialogue, always.

Posted by: iandeal at July 09, 2020 10:57 PM (bLfy6)

266 His rages about feminism-emotionalism versus reason-masculinity were ... fascinating, and prescient.

My take on it at the time was that it was something that needed to be said, but not in that format. I tried reading it and my eyes tended to glaze over. Either the font he used or the ink color on the newsprint, or the layout of the text.

Contradicting myself, a lot of it was stuff that you just learned by hanging around men in a sane society, and of it isn't a sane society writing it down in a comic book isn't going to do any good.

But maybe doing it like he did reached some people who needed it. Comic book readers are a superstitious lot.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 09, 2020 10:57 PM (2lndx)

267 Though Jim Starlin has gone woke.

So, was he a Nazi then?

I'd really like to know how these better-than-yous reconcile their previous lives and condemn people for being the way they used to be.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 09, 2020 10:57 PM (oVJmc)

268 If I had anyone from history at my party, I'd surely invite Chopin to sit and play the piano for a while

Posted by: kbdabear at July 09, 2020 10:58 PM (qAR6u)

269 I see that and I think of the excellent song "C11H17N2O2SNA (Sodium Pentathol)" by Anthrax...
Posted by: Mookie at July 09, 2020 10:54 PM (3vIkC)

John Bush on vocals on that album. One of my favorites.

But he will always be the voice of Armored Saint. Now that's a band that only got better with age, despite the untimely demise of Dave Pritchard. I have some of their recent stuff, and it's really good.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, what likes stuff at July 09, 2020 10:58 PM (x8Wzq)

270 237 Never meet your heroes. So very, very few of my favorite authors weren't assholes when I actually met them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:47 PM (d1uFV)

You know, when the internet was new (think 199 I actually dropped emails to a lot of my favorite authors at the time.

Nicest: Michael A Stackpole. He replied with at first kind of a formulaic email with various bits of info, then sent another reply and apologized for sending a form letter and thanked me for liking his books. It is not like we opened a dialogue, but I thought he seemed like a nice guy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 09, 2020 10:51 PM (2B9A/)

I've met Mike, he's ok. Wish I could get down to do his workshops.

You know who was a prince? Brian Michael Bendis.

I was a big fan of him when he was just an indie guy. His Goldfish and other comics. When I told him that, he HUGGED me.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:58 PM (d1uFV)

271 I loved reading PRIME then the writer/creator turns out to be a PEDO, is crushing.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 09, 2020 10:58 PM (dKiJG)

272 I think I'd invite Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein just to watch them get drunk and insult the shit out of each other

Posted by: kbdabear at July 09, 2020 10:59 PM (qAR6u)

273 Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 10:54 PM (IYHxL)

Love Joe Mad's stuff and Marc Silvestri as well. Joe just could never deliver a comic on deadline. He and Wilce Sportacio were very talented.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 09, 2020 10:59 PM (DjiZK)

274 If I had anyone from history at my party, I'd surely invite Chopin to sit and play the piano for a while
Posted by: kbdabear

With whom lying across the piano?

Posted by: Miklos has Questions at July 09, 2020 10:59 PM (QzkSJ)

275 So I watched a show on Netflix called "Southern Survival" basically its a long form ad for a company called Battlebox which tests and kits up survival, camping, and hunting equipment. Ostensibly they test stuff out with goofy tests and see how useful they are (and they have shown some pretty cool stuff).

But mostly they are like a bunch of 'rons, out being dumb and crazy with survival equipment. I'm pretty sure the Nikki woman on there is one of the ettes. Its kinda fun to watch and like I said some of the gear is pretty amazing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:00 PM (KZzsI)

276 Tradeoffs, grass is always greener on the other side, etc... But I do wish I'd at least tried, instead of letting fear rule me.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:56 PM (NWiLs)

Well you were at least trying to do the right thing. I'm pretty sure you're probably younger than me, and I'm still a reckless asshole, so its never too late. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2020 11:00 PM (9Om/r)

277
John Buscema Conan art

https://tinyurl.com/y8fonyj6

Posted by: Robert makes a note to drink heavily when he gets back home at July 09, 2020 10:50 PM (z83q6)

He was one of the best and did some great work on The Avengers

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 09, 2020 11:00 PM (onP/l)

278 I'm a huge fan of One Punch Man. The anime specifically. Shits hilarious.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 11:00 PM (IYHxL)

279 Sorry. I tend to geek out when the subject of metal music comes up in a thread.

Right now? Edguy.

Random setting on the iToonzes.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, what likes stuff at July 09, 2020 11:01 PM (x8Wzq)

280 Well you were at least trying to do the right thing. I'm pretty sure you're probably younger than me, and I'm still a reckless asshole, so its never too late. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2020 11:00 PM (9Om/r)

Heh. Not that availed me a whole hell of a lot in the end. I could do with a bit less caution, a little more reckless asshole.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 11:01 PM (NWiLs)

281 John Bush on vocals on that album. One of my favorites.

It's a great album. Despite linked to bad memories.

Posted by: Mookie at July 09, 2020 11:01 PM (3vIkC)

282 A little brittle, standoffish, bitchy maybe in a passive-agressive Brit way. But not an asshole, based on her letters.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:55 PM (d1uFV)

Thank you. Sounds like my type of gal actually.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2020 11:02 PM (M7Sjc)

283
NOS4A2 = Nosferatu

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:50 PM (d1uFV)

I see that and I think of the excellent song "C11H17N2O2SNA (Sodium Pentathol)" by Anthrax...

Posted by: Mookie at July 09, 2020 10:54 PM (3vIkC)

The opening lines of Hiroshima Mon Amour from Alcatrazz.

It was newborn and ten feet tall,
But they called it little boy,
And C7, H5, O6, N3 they called him
T-N-T.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 09, 2020 11:02 PM (EGyGV)

284 I dropped out of comics around Civil War. It was a decent idea for a story but all wrong for Marvel Comics to make it that real and that critical to the universe. It crossed a line where you shouldn't in superhero stuff to asking questions that have no good answers in a comic book world. Its okay to do alternate dimension stuff like that (say, Marvels or Kingdom Come) but doing it in your main universe is just a bad precedent.

The last comic I ever read from Marvel was one where Captain America was against the (extremely thinly veiled) Tea Party.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:02 PM (KZzsI)

285 Oy vey.

I'm out.

I got a delivery in the morning and right now my knee is making me miserable.

I'm gonna see about making an appointment with a doctor. Maybe I can get my knee replaced with a Gatling gun.

I bet I'd get all the chicks to swoon over my awesome Gatling gun knee. That would be do fucking sweet.

Anyway...

Remember...Betty all the way!

Good night!

Posted by: Robert makes a note to drink heavily when he gets back home at July 09, 2020 11:02 PM (tS8C7)

286 Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 09, 2020 10:59 PM (DjiZK)

Probably why he started a game company. Other people have to make the deadlines.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 11:03 PM (IYHxL)

287 A lot of the early Image stuff was great. Groundbreaking, even. It was a huge breath of fresh air, hot young creators busting out and making their own studio.

Almost none of them could keep a schedule going or wanted to. Erik Larsen and Todd MacFarlane were the exceptions.

The early issues of WILD CATS had SO much potential...so did Wetworks. But Jim Lee gets bored too easily and fucked off from his own creation. And Portacio had some health issues, if I remember right. So that comic withered on the vine. As did The MAXX and most of the rest....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 11:03 PM (d1uFV)

288 200

Posted by: ALH at July 09, 2020 11:03 PM (kuNgM)

289 Robert makes a note to drink heavily when he gets back home at July 09, 2020 11:02 PM (tS8C7)

G'night.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, what likes stuff at July 09, 2020 11:03 PM (x8Wzq)

290 278 I'm a huge fan of One Punch Man. The anime specifically. Shits hilarious.
Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 11:00 PM (IYHxL)

Love that one,

I get so strong by doing 100 pushups

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 09, 2020 11:04 PM (dKiJG)

291 okay, 300

Posted by: ALH at July 09, 2020 11:04 PM (kuNgM)

292 I do wish I'd at least tried, instead of letting fear rule me.

I don't think it was fear, just an abundance of good sense and wise caution preventing excesses which might have been fun but weren't productive. I'm not saying that you should not have, only that a life lived carefully has its own rewards that balance out the fun you may have missed.

But I know that doubt. I've lived a very safe life with very few crazy outliers each of which ended very, very badly.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:04 PM (KZzsI)

293 dagnabbit

Posted by: ALH at July 09, 2020 11:04 PM (kuNgM)

294 278 I'm a huge fan of One Punch Man. The anime specifically. Shits hilarious.
Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 11:00 PM (IYHxL)

My problem with One Punch Guy is it's deconstructive.

I have had a belly full of deconstructive comics.

I want HEROES. Men and women with power, doing stuff with it. Not slackers who look like a peeled onions for a head.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 11:05 PM (d1uFV)

295 And some red dude.

**********

Ferrous Bueller?

Posted by: Muldoon at July 09, 2020 11:05 PM (Fc5rx)

296 I have watched... 'way too many of these DC superduper shows -- Arrow, Supergirl, Flash.

I cringed and struggled with the increasingly SJWness of Supergirl.

First they make her stepsister a lez and we waste a bunch of screen time on her and her girlfriend. (All these shows could be cut down to 15 minutes and be much better.)

Then there was the awful "Supergirl is stronger than Superman episode." Well, who cares, it's just on Earth Fem.

Then, for no good reason, they introduce an alien "trans" - apparently extraterrestrials have body dysphoria problems, too.

I finally had to give it up, though, when a scene opened with a bedroom, and Brainiac 5 has obviously just spent the night with the not-a-girl ET who is still lolling in bed. Aaakkkkk. Enough is too much.

Posted by: mindful webworker
Amendment V: Loopholes
at July 09, 2020 11:05 PM (cGpV0)

297 You know who was a prince? Brian Michael Bendis.

I was a big fan of him when he was just an indie guy. His Goldfish and other comics. When I told him that, he HUGGED me.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:58 PM (d1uFV)

He is a great guy, he did some great writing on Sam and Twitch. Guy totally gets it from a fan perspective.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 09, 2020 11:05 PM (DjiZK)

298 UP THE IRONS!

Posted by: Ha at July 09, 2020 11:06 PM (LRt8K)

299 I donno. Comics never appealed to me. Even as a kid.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 09, 2020 11:07 PM (eJn7u)

300 The early issues of WILD CATS had SO much potential...so did Wetworks. But Jim Lee gets bored too easily and fucked off from his own creation.

Yeah the first story run of WILDCATS was intriguing, it had an interesting universe but he is like a cat that runs after the next thing. They should have consulted with someone like John Byrne before starting up their little projects. Byrne wouldn't start something without like 3 years of scripts ready out of the box, then adding to them as he went.

The early Image guys had like 1 year, maybe, just one storyline run and they dove right in. Some of it was pretty good and interesting. Early Savage Dragon was wild and wooly fun, then went... very weird. The most consistent and prepared creator was Todd McFarlane but he wrote himself into a box because there did not seem to be any end game for his character, but he put a time limit on him anyway.

Gorgeous art and wild ideas only can take you so far.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:07 PM (KZzsI)

301 Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 09, 2020 11:04 PM (dKiJG)

The writing cracks me up.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 11:05 PM (d1uFV)

Agree to disagree. I like the fact the show is winking at you. And there are some moments that you think Saitama is getting it. Like in the manga when he fight Garou.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 11:08 PM (IYHxL)

302 Ferrous Bueller?
Posted by: Muldoon at July 09, 2020 11:05 PM (Fc5rx)

Gneiss! You're basalt of the earth, good man.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, what likes stuff at July 09, 2020 11:08 PM (x8Wzq)

303 Not that availed me a whole hell of a lot in the end. I could do with a bit less caution, a little more reckless asshole.
Posted by: Insomniac

With burning times at the door, a fella couldn't be blamed for making up for lost time...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 09, 2020 11:09 PM (Yi0TC)

304 Testament. Formation of Damnation.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, what likes stuff at July 09, 2020 11:09 PM (x8Wzq)

305 258 I unsubscribed from any YouTuber who fed any bullshit this last few months on BLM etc. Fuck 'em.

Get in reality or get out of my life.
Posted by: ... at July 09, 2020 10:55 PM (M7Sjc)

That day if the"black squares" did it for me. Off instagram fir good. I was there b/c we were thinking about launching a YT channel; that happened, and I cut the cord.

Posted by: Flyover at July 09, 2020 11:10 PM (Rbu5d)

306 300 The early issues of WILD CATS had SO much potential...so did Wetworks. But Jim Lee gets bored too easily and fucked off from his own creation.

Yeah the first story run of WILDCATS was intriguing, it had an interesting universe but he is like a cat that runs after the next thing. They should have consulted with someone like John Byrne before starting up their little projects. Byrne wouldn't start something without like 3 years of scripts ready out of the box, then adding to them as he went.

The early Image guys had like 1 year, maybe, just one storyline run and they dove right in. Some of it was pretty good and interesting. Early Savage Dragon was wild and wooly fun, then went... very weird. The most consistent and prepared creator was Todd McFarlane but he wrote himself into a box because there did not seem to be any end game for his character, but he put a time limit on him anyway.

Gorgeous art and wild ideas only can take you so far.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:07 PM (KZzsI)

Yup, goes back to endings. Spawn especially needed to have an end state in mind. But...nah, it'll be fine, seems to have been Todd's attitude.

Erik Larsen went weird and woke, bad combo, but he did new and interesting things in comics.

Sadly, WILDCATS got turned over to Alan Moore and he augered it into the ground. Fucking half talented hack, just phoning it in. But the opening 6 issues....man I want that back, and have it not suck after that. Should have hired Chris Claremont to write it

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 11:10 PM (d1uFV)

307 40 Well the last one is funny...
Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at July 09, 2020 10:12 PM (gtatv)

Is Catwoman pouncing? And Batman seizing?

Posted by: Fox2! at July 09, 2020 11:10 PM (qyH+l)

308 I think I'd invite Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein just to watch them get drunk and insult the shit out of each other
Posted by: kbdabear
----------

Linked to before. Ayn Rand, Mickey Spillane, and Ernest Hemingway meet for drinks:

https://tinyurl.com/y8jahzf8

Posted by: Arad at July 09, 2020 11:10 PM (WD9ZA)

309 The Shadow was really good, I always enjoyed how he got his agents.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 09, 2020 10:40 PM (dKiJG)

Are you following Razorfist's the Shadowcast?

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y9ou9rtx

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2020 11:11 PM (WyVLE)

310 It's a school night.

Later.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, what likes stuff at July 09, 2020 11:11 PM (x8Wzq)

311 With burning times at the door, a fella couldn't be blamed for making up for lost time...
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 09, 2020 11:09 PM (Yi0TC)

There is that. And I have a fuckload of lost time.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 11:11 PM (NWiLs)

312 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 11:03 PM (d1uFV)

Watch the documentary The Image Revolution. It explains a lot and the struggles after selling 300,000 issues in one month and finding out you just set the bar and have to do it again next month. And Rob Liefeld does a really good impression of McFarlane.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 09, 2020 11:12 PM (DjiZK)

313

I like the Lileks comments on comic book covers.

https://tinyurl.com/ydg9wauz

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2020 11:12 PM (aKsyK)

314 Claremont's indy comic (I can't remember the name of it now) was just... something was missing. He needed additional creative input, him on his own wasn't nearly as good as when he worked with Cockrum and Byrne.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:13 PM (KZzsI)

315 312 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 11:03 PM (d1uFV)

Watch the documentary The Image Revolution. It explains a lot and the struggles after selling 300,000 issues in one month and finding out you just set the bar and have to do it again next month. And Rob Liefeld does a really good impression of McFarlane.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 09, 2020 11:12 PM (DjiZK)

Thankee, will watch

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 11:13 PM (d1uFV)

316 Would Super Gay Boy be as strong as Superman?
We know his assless costume would be just stunning.

Posted by: Case at July 09, 2020 11:14 PM (aDSHr)

317 Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 09, 2020 11:12 PM (DjiZK)

Was Shadowhawk an Image brand? I happened on ONE book the one where he went after the Hawk's shadow who happened to be a KKK racist. The n bomb was dropped. I remember liking the issue but coming into a fucked up strange storyline like that turned me off to it. Jim Lee was a bad ass artist for Image too.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 11:14 PM (IYHxL)

318 Leifeld was such a hack. I get that he was energetic and dynamic and had tons of ideas, but almost all of his ideas were crap. And his art was awful. But sadly it inspired thousands of crappy imitators, when all he was, was a very much less talented Art Adams imitator.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:14 PM (KZzsI)

319 Heh. Not that availed me a whole hell of a lot in the end. I could do with a bit less caution, a little more reckless asshole.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 11:01 PM (NWiLs)

Well you said you were playing again, right? Last I remember you weren't exactly playing easy stuff, so you have to have some kind of skill. There are tons of dudes out there that get together and jam for fun. They aren't looking to gig, or tour, or become rock stars, they just do it for fun. I would hook up with a group of dudes and make some fucking noise. Its good for the soul. Seriously, I would do it if you can swing the time. Trust me on this, there is power in that shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2020 11:14 PM (9Om/r)

320 My party would be Andrew Jackson and a selection of modern sporting arms.

Posted by: Jean at July 09, 2020 11:15 PM (9Jfas)

321 314 Claremont's indy comic (I can't remember the name of it now) was just... something was missing. He needed additional creative input, him on his own wasn't nearly as good as when he worked with Cockrum and Byrne.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:13 PM (KZzsI)

Claremont doesn't seem to have good ideas about character creation. Give him an existing character and some freedom and he'll craft interesting and complex complications.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 11:15 PM (d1uFV)

322 "Is Catwoman pouncing? And Batman seizing?"

I dunno, but the Joe Biden superhero Heyman is fingerfucking

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 09, 2020 11:15 PM (Yi0TC)

323 No, I'm going with early Barry Windsor Smith although I can't find a matchup for my memory. But these look closer to it.

https://tinyurl.com/y8zxxrlm

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 09, 2020 11:15 PM (YynYJ)

324 Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2020 11:12 PM (aKsyK)

That's good stuff.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 11:16 PM (IYHxL)

325 That Gorsuch opinion on half of the state of OK being Creek Indian territory is just plain stupid. And now every Indian, or every person who is willing to claim they're Indian, who has been tried and convicted of a crime in that half of the state is going to appeal their conviction, and probably get it thrown out (if it was a state conviction, which most crimes are), all because Gorsuch and the leftist loons wanted to protect some pervy Indian creep (a Seminole, not even a Creek) who had forcibly raped and sodomized his wife's 4-year old granddaughter.

This was just sheer idiocy from Gorsuch, and not for the first time.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at July 09, 2020 11:16 PM (k4dH2)

326 Liefield is a hack. But he is charming and can run a business, strangely enough. That has taken him far.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 11:16 PM (d1uFV)

327 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2020 11:14 PM (9Om/r)

Phrasing?

Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 11:17 PM (IYHxL)

328
235 Robert DeNiro is claiming that coronavirus has hammered his finances and he can't pay his ex the alimony she's demanding.

He's lying. Because DeNiro.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 09, 2020 11:17 PM (pNxlR)

329 ust woke up from a nap. Is everyone dead from WuFlu yet?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2020 10:20 PM (mht8P)

Yep. Every last one of us.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 10:21

I still don't know anyone who has had it. Other than people who have mentioned it here. Who here has had the Chinese Lung Rot?

Posted by: Farmer at July 09, 2020 11:17 PM (8fYj1)

330 That Gorsuch opinion on half of the state of OK being Creek Indian territory is just plain stupid.

Yeah I cannot work out where the hell he pulled that out of. One of the worst supreme court decisions in history, Scalia would have ripped him a new one for not even beginning to consider the consequences of his ruling. Its not good enough to make a judgment, you also have to consider what that judgement will lead to and become in the hands of future judges. I swear there's LSD in the water coolers at the SCOTUS.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:17 PM (KZzsI)

331 235 Robert DeNiro is claiming that coronavirus has hammered his finances and he can't pay his ex the alimony she's demanding.

He's lying. Because DeNiro.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

I bet the meetings with his divorce lawyers are a hoot.

"Just send Pesci after her!!"
"Bob, for the 11th time, this isn't a movie..."

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 09, 2020 11:19 PM (L2ZTs)

332 Who here has had the Chinese Lung Rot?
______________

Not me, and I'm in AZ, one of the states where we're all supposedly dropping dead from the shit.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at July 09, 2020 11:19 PM (k4dH2)

333 If 6 months of not making another phone it in crap movie has destroyed DeNiro's finances he's worse with his money than a recently signed football player from the ghetto.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:19 PM (KZzsI)

334 Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 11:14 PM (IYHxL)

Ya, that was Jim Valentino's title, he transitioned to managing publisher for Image. He brought a lot of talent on board Image in early 2000's. His studio was ShadowLine.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 09, 2020 11:19 PM (DjiZK)

335 332 Who here has had the Chinese Lung Rot?
______________

Not me, and I'm in AZ, one of the states where we're all supposedly dropping dead from the shit.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at July 09, 2020 11:19 PM (k4dH2)

Only the Red States are in any danger, just ask the MSM

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 11:19 PM (d1uFV)

336 Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 09, 2020 11:19 PM (DjiZK)

Any opinion on that title? Should have stuck with it or was I not missing much?

Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 11:20 PM (IYHxL)

337 And Elfquest, if you're into elves.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:35 PM (d1uFV)

And orgies.

I discovered it in 2nd grade!

Posted by: lowtech redneck at July 09, 2020 11:20 PM (hfClf)

338 I like his 'Iron Sights' slightly more. Very 100 Bullets

(100 Bullets is a GREAT crime comic...until the ending)

Though the second book really went in a...different direction for a sequel. I feel like yelling at him, but I doubt he'd notice or care, even if I was a backer of his comics.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:52 PM (d1uFV)

Iron Sights sounded interesting, but not my cup of tea. And I think you could probably get a response from Meyer as long as it was constructive criticism. I've emailed him twice and got short but immediate answers.

Posted by: ya girl pookysgirl at July 09, 2020 11:20 PM (XKZwp)

339 Thanks, Kindltot. I will tackle it in the morning since I'm starting to burn out.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 09, 2020 11:21 PM (YynYJ)

340 There is that. And I have a fuckload of lost time.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 11:11 PM (NWiLs)

Iron maiden said it best in the song Wasted Years
So, understand
Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years
face up, make your stand
And realize your living in those golden years

Seriously, think about it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2020 11:21 PM (9Om/r)

341
I never got into comics. My friend's brother followed Spiderman and Fantastic Four in the mid-60s, so I got to read those. F4 was so angsty to the point where I wondered, "Why don't the four of you just off yourselves?"

I was way, way more into Mad Magazine.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 09, 2020 11:22 PM (pNxlR)

342 Well you said you were playing again, right? Last I remember you weren't exactly playing easy stuff, so you have to have some kind of skill. There are tons of dudes out there that get together and jam for fun. They aren't looking to gig, or tour, or become rock stars, they just do it for fun. I would hook up with a group of dudes and make some fucking noise. Its good for the soul. Seriously, I would do it if you can swing the time. Trust me on this, there is power in that shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2020 11:14 PM (9Om/r)

That's a good idea. Once things get a bit more settled I should see what I can do to make that happen.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 11:22 PM (NWiLs)

343 133 that was the Metal Men

Posted by: Weirddave at July 09, 2020 11:23 PM (CvJaM)

344 Cerberus was... really weird. Great art, but I'd heard so much praise for it, and picked it up as a sub at the comic shop for a couple years. It was like an extended acid trip mixed with dime store philosophizing. I think I caught it just at when it went bad, because it was just annoying.

But Groo the Wanderer was always fun. Every issue.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:24 PM (KZzsI)

345 I like the Lileks comments on comic book covers.

Lileks has some funny books about the odd art direction in old cookbooks, too. Gallery of Regrettable Food.

I love fifties cookbooks, and sixties/seventies cookbooks still stuck in the fifties. But they must have had a completely different sense of what food was supposed to look like.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 09, 2020 11:24 PM (2lndx)

346 340 There is that. And I have a fuckload of lost time.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 11:11 PM (NWiLs)

Iron maiden said it best in the song Wasted Years
So, understand
Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years
face up, make your stand
And realize your living in those golden years

Seriously, think about it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2020 11:21 PM (9Om/r)

I hear you. I'm working on it, but it's a definite struggle for me not to stay tethered to the past. Day by day, a little at a time.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 11:25 PM (NWiLs)

347 UP THE IRONS!
Posted by: Ha at July 09, 2020 11:06 PM (LRt8K)

I wonder how many British people thought that a certain soccer team had suddenly developed a huge international fanbase.

Posted by: lowtech redneck at July 09, 2020 11:25 PM (hfClf)

348 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 11:16 PM (d1uFV)

He could never draw feet. The two guys who were very exceptional at Image were Jim Lee and Marc Silvestri. Silvestri inspired guys like Michael Turner.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 09, 2020 11:26 PM (DjiZK)

349 So OK is a giant rez now?
Does that mean pale face laws don't apply anywhere there?

Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 11:26 PM (TOyHQ)

350 I am in Oklahoma. I went with my newly found brother and sisters to the top of Mount Scott and we set the ashes of our father free in the sunset.

It was a good day.

Posted by: blaster at July 09, 2020 11:26 PM (Ieq1i)

351 348 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 11:16 PM (d1uFV)

He could never draw feet. The two guys who were very exceptional at Image were Jim Lee and Marc Silvestri. Silvestri inspired guys like Michael Turner.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 09, 2020 11:26 PM (DjiZK)

Feet and hands. Very difficult for most people to draw for some reason.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 11:26 PM (NWiLs)

352 One contribution of Wuhan Virus to the world of sports:

Looks like college football will shed those awful cupcake non-conference games, at least for this year.

That, I can dig.

Posted by: logprof at July 09, 2020 11:26 PM (oZuI0)

353 But they must have had a completely different sense of what food was supposed to look like.

The old photography methods they used didn't help any. Especially as they age and the colors aren't right.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:27 PM (KZzsI)

354 349 So OK is a giant rez now?
Does that mean pale face laws don't apply anywhere there?
Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 09, 2020 11:26 PM (TOyHQ)

Tax-free smokes! Woohoo!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 11:27 PM (NWiLs)

355
So OK is a giant rez now?
Does that mean pale face laws don't apply anywhere there?
Posted by: vmom 2020

Did you ever see "A Man Called Horse?"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2020 11:28 PM (aKsyK)

356 Feet and hands. Very difficult for most people to draw for some reason.

Because everyone knows exactly how they should look. Not that they can draw them or explain, but they know from looking at hands all day long. If you get it wrong, they just look stupid. You can mess up eyes, they're simple. You can mess up hair. But if you get a little bit wrong on hands, they look like a child drew them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:28 PM (KZzsI)

357 Justice needs to serve justice every few years

Posted by: Jean at July 09, 2020 11:28 PM (9Jfas)

358 Oklahoma means "Red Man"

Posted by: attila the thrilla at July 09, 2020 11:28 PM (w7KSn)

359 Neil Adams was the all-time great. He kicked ass.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 09, 2020 11:28 PM (oVJmc)

360
So OK is a giant rez now?
Does that mean pale face laws don't apply anywhere there?

Tax-free smokes!

A casino in every back yard!

Screw game limits - fishing and hunting!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 09, 2020 11:29 PM (pNxlR)

361 But Groo the Wanderer was always fun. Every issue.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:24 PM (KZzsI)

And smarter than many of our trolls ...

Scary thought.

Posted by: Adriane the Meme Mixing Critic ... at July 09, 2020 11:29 PM (LPnfS)

362 Oklahoma means red people.

Posted by: blaster at July 09, 2020 11:29 PM (Ieq1i)

363
That's a good idea. Once things get a bit more settled I should see what I can do to make that happen.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 11:22 PM (NWiLs)

Damn right it is. Get your shit together, while thats happening use the time to brush up on your skills, look at some want ads for musicians. Maybe try bandmix.com or other sites on the net, and go make some noise. Seriously, its life changing shit when you experience that power. It changes you in ways I can't describe. It happened to me. My entire life turned on a dime because of that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2020 11:30 PM (9Om/r)

364 Chew Red Man

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2020 11:30 PM (aKsyK)

365 I cringed and struggled with the increasingly SJWness of Supergirl.

Posted by: mindful webworker
Amendment V: Loopholes
at July 09, 2020 11:05 PM (cGpV0)

I couldn't even make it through the first season, and I really wanted to like that show-I'm a sucker for that whole adorkable thing.

Posted by: lowtech redneck at July 09, 2020 11:31 PM (hfClf)

366 54---HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READ!!!!!
https://tinyurl.com/y8do6qtm

Posted by: Robert at July 09, 2020 10:15 PM (Udx7m)
-------------------------------------
I second the recommendation.
Or third it! (You said someone else had posted the link earlier.)

This is as concise, yet thorough, an exposition of what we are dealing with as I have seen.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 09, 2020 11:31 PM (M/9m0)

367 Great thread, WeirdDave - thanks for this!

For anyone interested in dipping into some relatively modern comics, I highly recommend Jonathan Hickman's run on Fantastic Four - it's a great story about fatherhood and the importance of family.

https://bit.ly/2ClAh1Q

Posted by: Chip Alexander at July 09, 2020 11:31 PM (4B52w)

368 Any opinion on that title? Should have stuck with it or was I not missing much?
Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at July 09, 2020 11:20 PM (IYHxL)

It wasn't a bad title, just got delayed a lot wit Jim rounding up new talent. Late 90's early 2000's I think Jim did a short Shadowhawk story arc and I think Todd published it. Things were nuts when I was there. We did comic book design, but the big push was McFarlane Toys advertising and packaging.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 09, 2020 11:31 PM (DjiZK)

369 Biden, his nose buried in her mane.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 09, 2020 11:31 PM (vuisn)

370 It seems like an inevitable phase as we age that we spend a while looking back and regretting. Its difficult to avoid, especially as you start to see the finish line coming closer and know there's less and less time to work with.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:31 PM (KZzsI)

371 Vermont means white people.

Posted by: Case at July 09, 2020 11:31 PM (aDSHr)

372 You know where he got the name Jughead, right?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 09, 2020 10:19 PM (wPVhA)

Honestly, I don't know the origin of his name.
The Riverdale TV series made him gay. I can see it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:23

WTF, Jughead is gay? I thought he was just to stupid to get a chick.

Never read that much, I was into Superman. For some reason my conservative, rural raised IL mother thought that was not allowed. I snuck a few until she found them and came around. WTF? Did anyone else experience this in the 60s?

Posted by: Farmer at July 09, 2020 11:31 PM (8fYj1)

373 Yeah I cannot work out where the hell he pulled that out of. One of the worst supreme court decisions in history, Scalia would have ripped him a new one for not even beginning to consider the consequences of his ruling. Its not good enough to make a judgment, you also have to consider what that judgement will lead to and become in the hands of future judges. I swear there's LSD in the water coolers at the SCOTUS.
_________________

He got it from the text of individual statutes, read in isolation, and completely ignoring the larger context. Gorsuch is big on textualism -- but apparently only when he can read the "text" in a way that allows him to reach the conclusion he wants to reach. So he can ignore the fact that the text of Title VII used the word "sex" to actually mean biological sex and not "whatever sexual identity I imagine myself to be today" or "whatever person I feel like screwing tonight" so that he can interpret it as prohibiting discrimination against LGBTQRSTUV freaks and people who "identify as" a biological sex they are not. But he can't read the text of the numerous acts of congress and other contemporaneous documents that show that half the friggin' state of Oklahoma is not a Creek Indian reservation and was never intended to be.

It's maddening, and it does not portend well for the future that he is this much of a crackpot.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at July 09, 2020 11:33 PM (k4dH2)

374 For all the screaming the Head Ewok does about sjw pandering in comics today, i still buy new and old stuff. And action figures. And guns and beer.

Posted by: hurricane567 at July 09, 2020 11:33 PM (fDWco)

375 It's maddening, and it does not portend well for the future that he is this much of a crackpot.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at July 09, 2020 11:33 PM (k4dH2)

How did his hearings go? There ya go.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2020 11:34 PM (M7Sjc)

376 We did comic book design, but the big push was McFarlane Toys advertising and packaging.

I think there was a lot more money in the toys and merchandising than the comics.

And yes, Neal Adams was incredible. I remember that early Sinkiewicz stuff was all Adams clone art until he developed his own crazy abstracted style.

Adams was brilliant at putting his characters into impossible poses that make every artist's jaw drop trying to figure out how the hell he could do that and get it right.

He and Steranko changed comics. I love Kirbys energy and layouts, I love a lot of those earlier artists but those guys took comics to a whole new level of artistic quality.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:34 PM (KZzsI)

377 So OK is a giant rez now? Does that mean pale face laws don't apply anywhere there
Tax-free smokes!
A casino in every back yard!
Screw game limits - fishing and hunting

Time to import firewater and boomsticks. Or as Iron Maiden sums it up:
"Selling them whiskey and taking their gold,
sleep with the young and destroying the old."

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 09, 2020 11:34 PM (Yi0TC)

378 Because everyone knows exactly how they should look. Not that they can draw them or explain, but they know
from looking at hands all day long. If you get it wrong, they just
look stupid. You can mess up eyes, they're simple. You can mess up
hair. But if you get a little bit wrong on hands, they look like a
child drew them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:28 PM (KZzsI)

I think it's also because feet and hands look downright *weird*. They don't look weird to us because we're so used to seeing them. But they look really fucking weird. That's what makes them so easy to get wrong. They don't look how we think they look in our minds because we've normalized the weirdness, but we obviously know how they should look.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2020 11:36 PM (M7Sjc)

379 Time to import firewater and boomsticks. Or as Iron Maiden sums it up:
"Selling them whiskey and taking their gold,
sleep with the young and destroying the old."
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 09, 2020 11:34 PM (Yi0TC)

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Half-breed, that's all I ever heard
Half-breed, how I learned to hate the word

Posted by: Cher at July 09, 2020 11:37 PM (wPVhA)

380 Not me, and I'm in AZ, one of the states where we're all supposedly dropping dead from the shit.

Yeah, we're dying in AZ. I must have died, oh I don't know, three or four times before breakfast. Still didn't get me out of work.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at July 09, 2020 11:38 PM (SchxB)

381 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:34 PM (KZzsI)

Steranko Wolverine Nick Fury match up was awesome. Two other guys who furthered comic books - Simon Bisley and Dave Sienkiewicz.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 09, 2020 11:38 PM (DjiZK)

382 Well, I have hopes for Zack Snyder's Justice League next year.

Not high hopes, but hopes ...

Posted by: Adriane the Meme Mixing Critic ... at July 09, 2020 11:39 PM (LPnfS)

383 Time to bail. Y'all have a good night.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 09, 2020 11:39 PM (NWiLs)

384 One of my favorite things I learned about human anatomy when learning to draw is that the head does not pop straight up out of the shoulders. It projects forward. When you see the neck drawn coming vertically up from the shoulders it looks crazy and ridiculous and like a kid drew it but you don't know why because, again, we've normalized how it looks. We (people unfamiliar with anatomy) think our own head pops straight up 90 degrees from our body.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2020 11:39 PM (M7Sjc)

385 Yeah, we're dying in AZ. I must have died, oh I don't know, three or four times before breakfast. Still didn't get me out of work.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at July 09, 2020 11:38 PM (SchxB)

Net neutrality did me in ...

Posted by: Adriane the Meme Mixing Critic ... at July 09, 2020 11:40 PM (LPnfS)

386 Massachusetts means Land of Assholes.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2020 11:40 PM (M7Sjc)

387 @374.posted by hurricane.

No offense, but I never want to be anywhere around you.

Posted by: Case at July 09, 2020 11:41 PM (aDSHr)

388 105�My husband is playing Backstreet Boys songs on his phone. Somebody please kill me.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 09, 2020 10:24 PM (3JYDJ)

----

Two to the back of the head? Iiiiii want it thaaaaat wayyyyyy.

Posted by: TheHoser at July 09, 2020 11:41 PM (ioRP+)

389 Time to import firewater and boomsticks. Or as Iron Maiden sums it up:

"Selling them whiskey and taking their gold,

sleep with the young and destroying the old."

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 09, 2020 11:34 PM (Yi0TC)

I really like Manowar's Spirit Horse of the Cherokee if you want a serious blend of metal power and a native Indian theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8_lxa8_btc

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2020 11:41 PM (9Om/r)

390 Net neutrality did me in ...

I think coronavirus kills us in the morning, then net neutrality comes around in the afternoon and kills us some more. That's like 10 million deaths in AZ... daily.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at July 09, 2020 11:42 PM (SchxB)

391 There was an artist who was busted not long back who was tracing glamour and porn models for his female characters, just straight up take the picture with a lightboard and use them in the comics. So you'd get these women in outrageously sexualized and ridiculous poses -- even for comics. He got busted for it and I don't even think he's in the business any longer.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:43 PM (KZzsI)

392 </lurk>
Throughout high school and into college, I just knew I was going to go into comics as a penciller, I had hoped to be the next John Byrne or George Perez...but God and life had different plans for me. I stopped reading comics back in 1990--sold my entire collection for rent money. I never really looked back much, as I was already eyerolling too often at the "gritty realism," and the beginning of the retconning trend meant stories I cared about no longer mattered.

Speaking of Mr. Byrne--if you are at all curious as to what the X-Men would've been like had he stayed on the book and Claremont left instead, then you really need to visit his Forum and enjoy X-Men: Elsewhen. It is the only comic book material I have remotely enjoyed in 30 years. Link: https://tinyurl.com/ycuvx8b4
<lurk>

Posted by: goozer at July 09, 2020 11:43 PM (PwwcI)

393 I found on /r/worldbuilding (reddit... I know) a claim that the Louisiana Purchase contained a codicil that the Union was bound to protect "the free men of color" there.

Since the states of Louisiana and Arkansas broke that promise, the Louisiana Purchase reverts back to ... France.

Wonder if Gorsuch is going to go with that, next.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 09, 2020 11:44 PM (ykYG2)

394 I like pie.

I think pecan pie is the best.

Sometimes, though, I enjoy a tasty cobbler with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Especially if it is fresh blackberry cobbler from a wild blackberry bush.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 09, 2020 11:44 PM (38/p9)

395 When I sat down and started thinking of the OK/Indian reservation decision, I came to the conclusion that in some ways that might not be so bad. The fed and leftists are afraid of fucking with the Indians, and being on a reservation means a lot of independence from DC.

It'll be interesting to see where this might go.

Posted by: Sooner - White Blue-eyed Debil at July 09, 2020 11:44 PM (veosV)

396 I am in Oklahoma. I went with my newly found brother and sisters to the top of Mount Scott and we set the ashes of our father free in the sunset.
It was a good day.
Posted by: blaster at July 09, 2020 11:26

Very cool. Now there's a story behind that. Care to share to honor yoeeur Dad's memory?

Posted by: Farmer at July 09, 2020 11:44 PM (8fYj1)

397 So my kids school sent the two options for parents to choose for the kids. One is study at home but with a lot more control and he king in than the chaos of spring. The other is in Scholls but with masks and massivmassiv

Posted by: Ripley at July 09, 2020 11:45 PM (sGobE)

398 a claim that the Louisiana Purchase contained a codicil that the Union was bound to protect "the free men of color" there.

Given that Napoleon was a bigot and cared nothing for "men of color" free or not and the term was not used then, this sounds utterly ridiculous to me. From the fevered brain of someone who worships the French Revolution without realizing that Napoleon basically wiped his Italian rear end with it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:45 PM (KZzsI)

399 I like blueberry pancakes.

Posted by: Fabienne at July 09, 2020 11:45 PM (M7Sjc)

400 Heh, I'm reading old comics this week, too. Byrne's run on Fantastic Four.

Just finished his first Galactus story. Some of the action took place on the Twin Towers. It hurt to look at those panels, knowing what happened 20 years later.

So tell me -- in light of SCOTUS' new inanity, where do I live now? Is my driver's license still valid? How about my voter registration?

Will somebody please invent time travel??!!

Posted by: Weak Geek at July 09, 2020 11:45 PM (u/nim)

401 Of all the hills to plant your flag on, a pedophilic rapist, Gorsuch? Really? That's the guy to make your signature decision around to help out??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:46 PM (KZzsI)

402 Chris Taylor, I did say I found that bullshit on reddit ... which means it's probably binding law in Gorsuch's head

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 09, 2020 11:46 PM (ykYG2)

403 So OK is a giant rez now?
Does that mean pale face laws don't apply anywhere there?
________________

It has all kinds of implications, some of them we probably can't even guess at yet.

For starters, any Indian who has been convicted of a state crime (e.g., murder, rape, robbery, burglary, fraud, whatever) in that half of the state can now appeal to have his or her conviction thrown out, on the grounds that the state of OK lacked jurisdiction to prosecute them -- and the appeals will have to be granted.

And then there are civil matters. Like, for example, all the non-Indians who own property in that half of Oklahoma -- do they even own the property now, since Gorsuch and his lefty loon buddies have decreed it's an Indian reservation? Are thousands of title insurers going to have to pay off hundreds of billions of dollars in claims because titles to real estate in the "reservation" half of the state can't be transferred legally now?

And that's just for starters. There are many more issues that will have to be resolved, and it will be a huge damn mess that will cost the taxpayers of OK a fortune before it's all resolved, if it ever is.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at July 09, 2020 11:47 PM (k4dH2)

404 Blueberry pancakes are good.

With boysenberry syrup and whipped butter between each pancake.

I'll always look back fondly on blueberry pancakes when the burning times come and we don't have time to cook pancakes because we have to get up and shoot meth heads and millennials off the front porch in the mornings.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 09, 2020 11:47 PM (38/p9)

405 and yeah, I'm aware that Bonaparte was an asshole even by Frog standards, invading Haiti to put the slavemasters back in.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 09, 2020 11:47 PM (ykYG2)

406 235 Robert DeNiro is claiming that coronavirus has hammered his finances and he can't pay his ex the alimony she's demanding

I hope it's true, and I hope lots of Hollywood lefties are getting pounded in the bank accounts due to the virus hysteria they are championing
Posted by: kbdabear
_______________

So the Red China Flu reaches back into the past and wipes out royalties? Good to know.

Posted by: Furious George at July 09, 2020 11:47 PM (rDq8D)

407 Given that Napoleon was a bigot and cared nothing for "men of color" free or not and the term was not used then, this sounds utterly ridiculous to me.

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Napoleon was consistently anti-slavery until Haiti went into the red.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 09, 2020 11:48 PM (wPVhA)

408 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:43 PM (KZzsI)

I think that was Greg Land. Alex Ross would have models pose for him so he could get water color shadows right, but never used porn as reference.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 09, 2020 11:48 PM (DjiZK)

409 My husband is playing Backstreet Boys songs on his phone. Somebody please kill me.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 09, 2020 10:24 PM (3JYDJ)

My house would erupt in gunfire. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2020 11:48 PM (9Om/r)

410 Jordon61 are you still off of the smokes?

Day two is almost in the books here.

I was particularly cranky today.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 09, 2020 11:49 PM (38/p9)

411 Evening, my fellow wits, pimps, drunkards, and cocks.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 09, 2020 11:50 PM (KAi1n)

412 And that's just for starters. There are many more issues that will have to be resolved, and it will be a huge damn mess that will cost the taxpayers of OK a fortune before it's all resolved, if it ever is.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at July 09, 2020 11:47 PM (k4dH2)

Maybe western Oklahoma could declare war on the Indian Territory, conquer it, and deport all the Indians to Georgia?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 09, 2020 11:50 PM (QVwWn)

413 John Byrne was an amazing artist, loved his Wolverine. But man he was a bitter mother f*cker.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 09, 2020 11:51 PM (DjiZK)

414 Blueberry pancakes are good.

With boysenberry syrup and whipped butter between each pancake.

I'll always look back fondly on blueberry pancakes when the burning times come and we don't have time to cook pancakes because we have to get up and shoot meth heads and millennials off the front porch in the mornings.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 09, 2020 11:47 PM (38/p9)

Lemon Ricotta pancakes, with berries if you choose.
That's where it's at.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 09, 2020 11:51 PM (oAY8z)

415 So my kids school sent the two options for parents to choose for the kids. One is study at home but with a lot more control and he king in than the chaos of spring. The other is in Scholls but with masks and massive control and social distancing .

Two shifty options for my kids to be propgandized which no doubt will be worse than ever this year, considering the totally woke emails I get all the time about BLM.

Really thinking of just picking None of the Above tand keeping the kids out of school until sanity is restored. This is ridiculous and I can'tell play along anymore.

Posted by: Ripley at July 09, 2020 11:51 PM (sGobE)

416 There's nothing wrong with using photo reference but yeah just tracing them is weak stuff. And it was only the women, so they looked hyper real next to the guy who were basic comic book muscle dudes. It was sad stuff.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:51 PM (KZzsI)

417 "Basically this ONT came about because I had all of the images above in my ONT pictures folder and crafted an ONT around them. If you don't like it, I'm sorry, I doubt I'll do one like this again. "

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Greetings, Weird Dave! While comics aren't my thing at all, I recognize and respect the talent. Both in the comics and in your ONT skills. Well-assembled content!

Interesting semi-related note. I recently sold a decent sized comic book collection to a local store that deals in such items. The collection belonged to a family member who had been collecting since the 60s. One box of comics had unfortunately been severely water damaged over the years. Much to my dismay, it contained about 100 completely ruined early Disney comics that would have been worth at least $20 each in typical "good" condition. Much more in better condition. I still got a decent check for the collection - but that ruined box was tough to throw away.

Posted by: Doof at July 09, 2020 11:53 PM (mZUr4)

418 Napoleon was consistently anti-slavery until Haiti went into the red.

The revolution set slaves free in France and weakened slavery in their colonies (although didn't free them). When Napoleon took over he started to reverse all those policies but you know, couldn't do it all at once, even with his power and popularity.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:53 PM (KZzsI)

419 iven that Napoleon was a bigot and cared nothing for "men of color" free or not and the term was not used then, this sounds utterly ridiculous to me.

I've heard the term 'free people of color' ...

Not anything in legal historical, though.

Posted by: Adriane the Meme Mixing Critic ... at July 09, 2020 11:53 PM (LPnfS)

420 Maybe western Oklahoma could declare war on the Indian Territory, conquer it, and deport all the Indians to Georgia?
_______________

Or maybe they could just secede from the Union and we can get this civil war that the left seems to want so badly going already.

In the new and improved country the survivors will form afterwards, no more lifetime appointments for Supreme Court justices, that's for damn sure.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at July 09, 2020 11:53 PM (k4dH2)

421 here we go -
avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/louis1.asp

Article III
The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all these rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.

Nothing singling out "the free men of color" but that would be assumed, as equal citoyens under French law.

here's le reddit - tinyurl.com/yczm59q4

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 09, 2020 11:54 PM (ykYG2)

422 Good for you, Blaster. Everytime I've been involved with an ash scattering ceremony, it's been good.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 09, 2020 11:55 PM (YynYJ)

423 Lemon Ricotta pancakes, with berries if you choose.
That's where it's at.
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 09, 2020 11:51 PM (oAY8z)

recipe link?

Posted by: Adriane the Meme Mixing Critic ... at July 09, 2020 11:55 PM (LPnfS)

424 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:51 PM (KZzsI)

Ashley Wood, a very talented artist we used sent over a mock cover for Curse of the Spawn. I looked at it and told my AD that he directly lifted the Imagery from the 70's horror movie Prophecy. Sometimes it's not lack of talent, but lack of time management.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 09, 2020 11:56 PM (DjiZK)

425 @393.There has always been free men of color in the South. And some of them owned slaves. I'm surprised there are a lot of people that don't know this. Slavery was called the peculiar institution for a reason. Many laws had to be followed.

Posted by: Case at July 09, 2020 11:56 PM (aDSHr)

426 have no idea what's going on
how's everybody doing

Posted by: harley at July 09, 2020 11:56 PM (2EU+/)

427 Article III

Obviously, Jefferson would have had zero problem with any of that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:56 PM (KZzsI)

428 I am in Oklahoma. I went with my newly found brother and sisters to the top of Mount Scott and we set the ashes of our father free in the sunset.
It was a good day.
Posted by: blaster at July 09, 2020 11:26

My condolences if you're serious and my congratulations if this is ... post SCOTUS decision irony ...

Posted by: Adriane the Meme Mixing Critic ... at July 09, 2020 11:57 PM (LPnfS)

429 There has always been free men of color in the South.

Sure. And everywhere else. But the TERM "free men of color" is a modern one.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 09, 2020 11:57 PM (KZzsI)

430 https://www.cookingclassy.com/lemon-ricotta-pancakes/#jump-to-recipe

here you go

there's other, similar recipes out there.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 09, 2020 11:58 PM (oAY8z)

431 Ashley Wood, a very talented artist we used sent over a mock cover for
Curse of the Spawn. I looked at it and told my AD that he directly
lifted the Imagery from the 70's horror movie Prophecy. Sometimes it's
not lack of talent, but lack of time management.

Prophecy wasn't so much horror, as just horrible. And Mr. Wood should be ashamed of himself for stealing from such garbage.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at July 09, 2020 11:59 PM (SchxB)

432 Napoleon had a Black General,

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 09, 2020 11:59 PM (dKiJG)

433 can't see my keyboard
stupidv29 yr did eyes

Posted by: harley at July 09, 2020 11:59 PM (2EU+/)

434 speaking of pancakes..
My aunt Pat was born on St. Patrick's day.. hence the name..

My birthday is the next day.. the 18th.. So we kinda shared birthdays..

She would always make me a lemon meringue pie for my birthday, which was my favorite..
Sometimes, though, I would get to stay over at my aunt's house and she would make THE best pancakes..
And I got to have them just the way I like them,,
butter.. and syrup.. AND powder sugar sprinkled! perfect!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 09, 2020 11:59 PM (CjFDo)

435 Aeon Flux had Man Ass.
My theory was that the character was a tranny.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 09, 2020 11:59 PM (8u1cU)

436 Napoleon had a Black General

Alexandre Dumas' dad. Distinguished himself very well in the French wars, amazing life.

But Napoleon always disliked him and treated him poorly, according to Dumas himself.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 10, 2020 12:00 AM (KZzsI)

437 because we have to get up and shoot meth heads and millennials off the front porch in the mornings.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger
-----
Little Orphant Annie's come to our house to stay,
An' wash the cups an' saucers up, an' brush the crumbs away,
An' shoot the meth heads off the porch, an' dust the hearth, an' sweep,
An' make the fire, an' bake the bread, an' earn her board-an'-keep;

Posted by: James Whitcomb Wryly at July 10, 2020 12:01 AM (bk3Sg)

438 Napoleon had a Black General,
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 09, 2020 11:59 PM (dKiJG)

So do many male pr0n st... oh, wait.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2020 12:01 AM (QVwWn)

439 Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at July 09, 2020 11:59 PM (SchxB)

I actually asked him what he thought about radioactive mutated bears.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 10, 2020 12:01 AM (DjiZK)

440 397 So my kids school sent the two options for parents to choose for the kids. One is study at home but with a lot more control and he king in than the chaos of spring. The other is in Scholls but with masks and massivmassiv
Posted by: Ripley at July 09, 2020 11:45 PM (sGobE)

No recess here, how the hell can you have an 7 in one room all day

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 10, 2020 12:01 AM (dKiJG)

441 There has always been free men of color in the
South. And some of them owned slaves. I'm surprised there are a lot of
people that don't know this. Slavery was called the peculiar institution
for a reason. Many laws had to be followed.

Posted by: Case at July 09, 2020 11:56 PM (aDSHr)

If I remember right, one of them was one of the richest plantation owners in the south. If I remember right.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 10, 2020 12:01 AM (9Om/r)

442 I actually asked him what he thought about radioactive mutated bears.

The bear in that movie seemed downright mercurial.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at July 10, 2020 12:03 AM (SchxB)

443 Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes are more my speed.

Posted by: Dave (in Ma) at July 10, 2020 12:03 AM (0EVQt)

444 Weird Dave, I appreciate all the effort that went into this ONT. Used to buy lots of Superman Batman comics in the 60's. I am not a fan of any of it since 1970 but I get that a lot of people are (my 40 year old son included).

Thanks for an interesting thread that is a little off the beaten track.

Posted by: cfo mom at July 10, 2020 12:03 AM (RfzVr)

445 the key is having something that gets the lemon zest without scraping too deep into the bitter, white pith of the lemon.

A "microplaner" is well worth the $$ (less than $20) and it's also great for finely grating hard cheeses like pecorino Romano or parmesano reggiano

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 10, 2020 12:03 AM (oAY8z)

446 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 10, 2020 12:01 AM (9Om/r)

Richest and largest owner of slaves I believe.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 10, 2020 12:04 AM (DjiZK)

447 434 speaking of pancakes..
My aunt Pat was born on St. Patrick's day.. hence the name..

My birthday is the next day.. the 18th.. So we kinda shared birthdays.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry

mine is the 16th
always celebrated on st, pattys day

Posted by: harley at July 10, 2020 12:05 AM (2EU+/)

448 Posted by: James Whitcomb Wryly at July 10, 2020 12:01 AM (bk3Sg)

.....

Lovely.

***Hums Animal Crackheads in my soup***

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 10, 2020 12:05 AM (38/p9)

449 If I remember right, one of them was one of the richest plantation owners in the south. If I remember right.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 10, 2020 12:01 AM (9Om/r)

iirc, the wife of the Amelia Island plantation (aka Duval County, FL) was an African princess who brought many slaves as dowry to the marriage ...

In its heyday, the farm went from the Atlantic Ocean as far in as NAS Jax.

Posted by: Adriane the Meme Mixing Critic ... at July 10, 2020 12:06 AM (LPnfS)

450 The bear in that movie seemed downright mercurial.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at July 10, 2020 12:03 AM (SchxB)

Along with Armand "Iron Eyes" Asante

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 10, 2020 12:07 AM (DjiZK)

451 This was just sheer idiocy from Gorsuch, and not for the first time.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at July 09, 2020 11:16 PM (k4dH2)

I fear it will not be the last time either, sadly!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 10, 2020 12:08 AM (eTZoJ)

452 ghost of hallelujah at July 09, 2020 11:58 PM (oAY8z)

Thank you, muchly ...

I may just cheat and spike it with lemon extract if the zest doesn't lemony it enough.

Posted by: Adriane the Meme Mixing Critic ... at July 10, 2020 12:11 AM (LPnfS)

453 Free Man of Color sounds like a Joni Mitchell song.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2020 12:11 AM (aKsyK)

454
Stockpile the bare necessities
The simple bare necessities
Forget about your worries and your strife
I mean the bare necessities
Ammo, dry goods and big boobies
That brings the bare necessities of life

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 10, 2020 12:12 AM (38/p9)

455 So, I am driving home from Calgary this afternoon, and I am approaching Beiseker, and I see a bunch of black and white somethings moving around on the pavement a half mile ahead. I'm thinking, "Eh, a flock of magpies feasting on gopher guts from road-killed gophers, which are plentiful there."

I get a little closer, and the whole mass sort of undulates across the lane, like a black and white shag carpet rippling in the sunlight. I lay on the brakes hard, and pull up a few yards short of a mama skunk and 4 or 5 young ones, all waddling across the road. Good thing I didn't try to blow right through, eh?

The little stinkers all made it safe across the road, and I didn't get rear-ended by the traffic behind me.

Beiseker's town mascot is a skunk. Maybe they know something.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2020 12:12 AM (YEC5t)

456 Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 10, 2020 12:12 AM (38/p9)

Triggers, tin cans and titties.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 10, 2020 12:13 AM (DjiZK)

457 Re: the new OK Rez.
I think the Supreme Court just gave themselves years, if not decades, of work.
There will be so many lawsuits, so many questions of jurisdiction, that it is inevitable that they will rise to a level to be decided by the Supreme Court, unless they substantially reverse their decision.
Who does a homeowner decide to sue with respect to his property rights?The State? The tribe? The federal government?
Can a property owner simply refuse to pay taxes now? Are property taxes even in effect now?
These questions and many others will be disputed, conflicting resolutions will occur, and all this bullshit will be appealed all the top. And the SC will have to wade through this shit, ultimately.
Good job, fuckheads.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2020 12:13 AM (ufFY8)

458 Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2020 12:12 AM (YEC5t)

hail, skunks, fire ...

** takes a few careful steps back **

Posted by: Adriane the Meme Mixing Critic ... at July 10, 2020 12:15 AM (LPnfS)

459 So I'm looking up my cousin's husbands obit, he died 7/7, didn't know him well. I found some weird stuff, like an arrest record and him using her maiden name as an alias in the past.

Does anyone know of a reputable site to check out people? This one isn't right, that dude doesn't have an income of 70 to 80 thousand I'm sure. If that isn't right how much of the info is false?

Posted by: Farmer at July 10, 2020 12:15 AM (8fYj1)

460 @192 --

GrimJack? Dreadstar? Jon Sable? American Flagg!?

Oh hell yes.

Plus prime Marvel and DC -- Simonson's Thor, Ostrander 's Suicide Squad and Spectre, Moore's Swamp Thing ...

Shit, I wish I'd started on this thread much sooner. I could rattle about comics all night.

Gawd, when I would get offended at leftist bias in stories, I would console myself:

"At least they're writing fiction and not policy."

NOW look ...

WHAT IN THE HELL HAPPENED???!!!

Posted by: Weak Geek at July 10, 2020 12:15 AM (u/nim)

461 "always celebrated on st, pattys day"

St. Paddy's Day-March
St. Patty's Day-August

--annoying pedantic Mick

Posted by: Dave (in Ma) at July 10, 2020 12:16 AM (0EVQt)

462 Rack time. WD thanks for the comic book ONT. Had fun geeking out with the horde. TGIF eve guys.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 10, 2020 12:17 AM (DjiZK)

463 hail, skunks, fire ...

** takes a few careful steps back **
Posted by: Adriane the Meme Mixing Critic ... at July 10, 2020 12:15 AM (LPnfS)

The little critters are cute, though. The young ones are better than half grown. Not babies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2020 12:18 AM (YEC5t)

464 St. Paddy's Day-March
St. Patty's Day-August

--annoying pedantic Mick
Posted by: Dave (in Ma) at July 10, 2020 12:16 AM (0EVQt)

When is St. Pancake's day?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2020 12:19 AM (YEC5t)

465 > If that isn't right how much of the info is false?

A lot of those sites are scams. They make shit up and then charge people money for "correcting" it.

Human scum.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 10, 2020 12:20 AM (8u1cU)

466 464
St. Paddy's Day-March

St. Patty's Day-August

--annoying pedantic Mick

Posted by: Dave (in Ma) at July 10, 2020 12:16 AM (0EVQt)

When is St. Pancake's day?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2020 12:19 AM (YEC5t)

St. Pancras' Feast Day is in May

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2020 12:21 AM (ufFY8)

467 Weasel Zippers uses the word "worthless" to describe DeBlasio. I could not disagree more. Have known many people that are a net negative. Don't want them mucking up production, don't want them talking to customers, just having them on the premises is an insurance risk factor. People like DeBlasio need a great deal of personal self improvement to rise to the gold standard of "worthless".

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at July 10, 2020 12:22 AM (AgR7f)

468 The little critters are cute, though. The young ones are better than half grown. Not babies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2020 12:18 AM (YEC5t)

I'm glad all went well
: -))

I watch bat rescue videos on youtube for gosh sakes.

Posted by: Adriane the Meme Mixing Critic ... at July 10, 2020 12:24 AM (LPnfS)

469 Welp, I'm gonna be up for a while, thanks to a longer than normal nap.

Posted by: SMH at July 10, 2020 12:25 AM (RU4sa)

470 AOP - Good thing you weren't driving a station wagon car.

Posted by: Loudon Wainwright III at July 10, 2020 12:25 AM (830x5)

471 Weasel Zippers uses the word "worthless" to describe
DeBlasio. I could not disagree more. Have known many people that are a
net negative. Don't want them mucking up production, don't want them
talking to customers, just having them on the premises is an insurance
risk factor. People like DeBlasio need a great deal of personal self
improvement to rise to the gold standard of "worthless".
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at July 10, 2020 12:22 AM
(AgR7f)

there was a poll out: Who has done more damage to New York City, Bill DeBlasio or Mohamed Atta?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 10, 2020 12:25 AM (WyVLE)

472 DeBlasio is an intriguing mix of terrifying incompetence and depraved malice.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 10, 2020 12:25 AM (wPVhA)

473

You want a good comic that deals with reality, then try Day by Day, done by Chris Muir.
Very right leaning conservative.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 10, 2020 12:25 AM (KATBx)

474 St. Pancras' Feast Day is in May

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2020 12:21 AM (ufFY

Not Pancras. Pancake. Rachel Corrie of the D9.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2020 12:25 AM (YEC5t)

475 Ex-girlfriend just texted me asking if I will take her elderly dog to be euthanized.

"Who do I know that has no feelings. I know! Let's text Bitter! He has no soul."

Great.

Third animal I've had to take in the last four months to be euthanized, only one of them mine (RIP Cleo cat).

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 10, 2020 12:26 AM (38/p9)

476 AOP - Good thing you weren't driving a station wagon car.
Posted by: Loudon Wainwright III at July 10, 2020 12:25 AM (830x5)

True, dat. Although a Suburban is a big station wagon, to some people.

If I had squashed six skunks with it, it would probably have become a write-off.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2020 12:28 AM (YEC5t)

477 BOOM!

Posted by: The New Normal In Iran! at July 10, 2020 12:28 AM (I2/tG)

478 Bitter Clinger - Both my animals are fading. Pretty damned hard.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 10, 2020 12:28 AM (830x5)

479 @441. You remember right. But there were several very rich free men of color in the South.
Someone said this morning that Indians owned slaves. This is true. Some blacks in the South were never slaves. Some were given their freedom. Just because a person was black in the South does not mean they were a slave. A free person had the same rights as anyone.

Posted by: Case at July 10, 2020 12:28 AM (aDSHr)

480 Was there an update of what these protesters are pissed off about besides black lives matter, that nobody ever contested as untrue, before or after.

Posted by: I'm out of the contest! at July 10, 2020 12:28 AM (buTO7)

481 Sometimes, though, I would get to stay over at my aunt's house and she would make THE best pancakes..
And I got to have them just the way I like them,,
butter.. and syrup.. AND powder sugar sprinkled! perfect!
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 09, 2020 11:59

That reminds me of a time at my grt aunt Helen's. She cooked the scrambled eggs in the bacon grease, it was awesome. First time I ever experienced that and I replicate sometimes today. Awesome still.

Posted by: Farmer at July 10, 2020 12:29 AM (8fYj1)

482 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 10, 2020 12:28 AM (830x5)

....

Sorry my friend.

My golden about broke me when so had to let her go years ago.

The cat was almost a relief, though she was my buddy. She was 20 and couldn't get around much.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 10, 2020 12:31 AM (38/p9)

483 @243 --

(100 Bullets is a GREAT crime comic...until the ending)

Oh, ain't that the truth!

Ninety-nine issues of awesome ... then fizzle!

So disappointing!

Posted by: Weak Geek at July 10, 2020 12:32 AM (u/nim)

484 "She cooked the scrambled eggs in the bacon grease, it was awesome."
There is some other way to cook eggs?

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at July 10, 2020 12:32 AM (AgR7f)

485 Seems the MFM is doing some prepping IRT DeadWomanWalkingWhoDiddlesKids.

Now there's "concern" stories she may harm herself while in custody.

Uh huh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8lLgdpZbRc

Posted by: SMH at July 10, 2020 12:37 AM (RU4sa)

486 @259 --

Aragones signed three Groo issues for me at a con in KC area (Johnson Co.).

For each, he did a different sketch of Groo.

Those will be part of my estate.

Posted by: Weak Geek at July 10, 2020 12:38 AM (u/nim)

487 > Someone said this morning that Indians owned slaves. This is true.

Little-known fact: the last legally-owned slaves freed in the United States were owned by the Tlingit tribe in Alaska, when the United States purchased Alaska from Russia.

The Tlingit were pissed about it, too. They had quite the slave empire going there, running slave raids as far south as Northern California.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 10, 2020 12:42 AM (unn44)

488 Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2020 12:13 AM (ufFY

Better, it sounds like the State has been collecting Illegal taxes in Indian country for over 100 years.

Seems like the Tribes should be able to collect.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2020 12:43 AM (NgKpN)

489 Popping back in to pass along this Profound Realization I had to hasten to share with the Moronitude...

wait... what was it?

Oh, yeah....

There are more memes produced EVERY DAY now than existed in all of the time up to the invention of the WWWeb.

Posted by: mindful webworker
Amendment V: Loopholes
at July 10, 2020 12:43 AM (cGpV0)

490 From my township republican president: Already for the 2020 election in my county in Illinois 3000 Mail in ballots have been requested, of which 450 are identified as republican. That is statistically nearly inpossible.

Posted by: Eli Cash at July 10, 2020 12:44 AM (67sg6)

491 "Who do I know that has no feelings. I know! Let's text Bitter! He has no soul."

Great.

or ...

Who do I know has the strength to do what needs to be done? I know! Let's text Bitter. He's a good guy.

{If you say yes, maybe ask for one of the ex's dirty tee shirts so there is a familiar scent.}

Posted by: Adriane the Meme Mixing Critic ... at July 10, 2020 12:44 AM (LPnfS)

492 491 "Who do I know that has no feelings. I know! Let's text Bitter! He has no soul."

Great.

or ...

Who do I know has the strength to do what needs to be done? I know! Let's text Bitter. He's a good guy.

{If you say yes, maybe ask for one of the ex's dirty tee shirts so there is a familiar scent.}
Posted by: Adriane the Meme Mixing Critic ... at July 10, 2020 12:44 AM (LPnfS)

My answer would have been, no.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2020 12:45 AM (NgKpN)

493 It's rough to read people posting about euthanasia, especially when next to my computer is a 5x7 photo of my cat Dorkie Dork back in her full fluff and 4-legged days. She's sitting on my upstairs neighbor's deck railing, looking regal with a touch of bashfulness. Both of her front paws point straight forward (after she had her right, rear leg amputated in '16, she adjusted by widening her front legs and eventually pointing her feet out about 60 degrees). Her right foot is a dark gray but her left foot was cream-colored and she had orangey paw pads on that one.

Before you have an animal euthanized (if it's not in acute distress), do some research. If it's an animal you love, euthanasia is only the best gift you can give him/her if it's done right. If it's done wrong (or done maliciously), it will haunt you forever. Especially if you promised your companimal that when the time came, you wouldn't let them suffer.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 10, 2020 12:46 AM (KAi1n)

494 Ninety-nine issues of awesome ... then fizzle!

So disappointing!
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 10, 2020 12:32 AM (u/nim)

Dang! Who ever heard of such a thing?!?

Posted by: Got Season Eight ... at July 10, 2020 12:46 AM (LPnfS)

495 My answer would have been, no.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2020 12:45 AM (NgKpN)

No blame.

But if someone asked me, I'd say yes from the fear that the act of asking means they couldn't do it ... properly.

Please don't ask me to define properly ...

Posted by: Adriane the Over Committed Critic ... at July 10, 2020 12:51 AM (LPnfS)

496 "But I don't want to cure cancer! I want to turn people into dinosaurs!"

This was one of the ?Andrew Garfield? movies.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 10, 2020 12:52 AM (LxTcq)

497 SFGoth at July 10, 2020 12:46 AM (KAi1n)

Sorry, SFG.

3 cats, 3 cancers. Doesn't get any easier.

Posted by: Adriane the Over Committed Critic ... at July 10, 2020 12:52 AM (LPnfS)

498 Oy.

Chores to do.

Take care, all ...

Posted by: Adriane the Over Committed Critic ... at July 10, 2020 12:53 AM (LPnfS)

499 Gone try again.......
Clears throat....fingers over the home keys.....

nothing.....just growing terminal anger with a a mindset out of GOT...we may have to go that route...can't let the Marxists drive the narrative to November.

Maybe time for us to "un" peaceably protest.

Posted by: The Nightwatch at July 10, 2020 12:54 AM (u1WYs)

500 we just had 2 barncat kittens adopt us...cute as buttons. Love how they almost do everything together - explore, eat, sleep, assist covering up in the litterbox

Posted by: a dude in MI at July 10, 2020 12:55 AM (SxBH1)

501 Posted by: SFGoth at July 10, 2020 12:46 AM (KAi1n)

.....

Agreed.

Cleo cat went from dry food, to canned food, to blended food, to couldn't keep down water.

I almost wanted to let her die at home naturally, but she kept looking at me like I could fix it.

She was a beautiful tortie and by the end was skin and bones and couldn't even clean her feet off anymore and gave the silent squeak.

Death was a relief for both of us.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 10, 2020 12:56 AM (38/p9)

502 493

Just remember the Ruth (mummy) Ginsberg recently opined about Planned Parenthood being a 1920 version of Eugenics for population control.....(lips have still not been sowed up for embalming) so sorry she still speaks.

Posted by: The Nightwatch at July 10, 2020 01:00 AM (u1WYs)

503 Death was a relief for both of us.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 10, 2020 12:56 AM (38/p9)

---

Dang, it's dusty in here...

*looks over at 13 wk-old ginger kitteh currently doing the blanket-sucking and kneading*

Yeah, they're heart-stealers, alright.

Posted by: SMH at July 10, 2020 01:02 AM (RU4sa)

504 Nite all. Work beckons tomorrow Be well.

Posted by: Farmer at July 10, 2020 01:03 AM (8fYj1)

505 Out. Had fun.

Head bowed, palms compressed.

Posted by: Weak Geek at July 10, 2020 01:03 AM (u/nim)

506 Niters, Farmer.

Posted by: SMH at July 10, 2020 01:04 AM (RU4sa)

507

If any of y'all are using Seresto flea and tick collar made by Bayer, TAKE IT OFF YOUR PET. I wound up with a very sick Lab who's just now coming around.

She was off her food big time, ate tons of grass, very lethargic (a field Lab thus very active by nature) and was drinking huge amounts of water.
My vet listened to the description, then she CUT the collar off Lizzie, they shampooed her thoroughly (to remove any residual from the collar) and told me to monitor her closely, feed her normally and water her good.

I think, unknowingly, I damn near killed my dog.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 10, 2020 01:05 AM (KATBx)

508 If the healthcare system is turned over to the Marxists come November.......

You (and remember how Sarah Palin was mocked for this) will be at the mercy of "Death Panels".

So sorry, your life with the current cancer will be a burden on the system....you are free to seek out of country resources but the STATE will not cover any further treatment....

NEXT!!!!

Posted by: The Nightwatch at July 10, 2020 01:08 AM (u1WYs)

509
Hello, all.

#TwoYears

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2020 01:08 AM (G51Gf)

510 507

Just like COVID is about to KILL our Republic Grandpa?

Posted by: The Nightwatch at July 10, 2020 01:10 AM (u1WYs)

511 Well, been a long day. Time for me to hit the sack.

Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2020 01:12 AM (YEC5t)

512 Yeah...let me comment on DOG COLLARS...and DOG WHISTLES...and the DOGS OF WAR!!!

Posted by: The Nightwatch at July 10, 2020 01:12 AM (u1WYs)

513
Is this old news?

Veto-proof majority of Seattle city council pledges to defund the police department by at least 50%; one part of the plan they're considering would remove Seattle's 911 dispatchers from police control

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2020 01:14 AM (G51Gf)

514 I'm not sure how the subject got around to pet euthanasia, but here's a cartoon I've had in my pics folder for a long time but never used on the ONT. Just...not right for the ONT itself.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/Feels.jpg

Posted by: Weirddave at July 10, 2020 01:20 AM (868NO)

515 It's on Kindle. Showed my husband, he went and found it.

Posted by: Flyover at July 09, 2020 10:49 PM (Rbu5d)

Thanks, Flyover.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist at July 10, 2020 01:24 AM (hVARR)

516 Biden........Trump

Death........Hope..make a snide comment if you must,

but this guy Trump (CIC) has been a "in your face, fucking with the swamp, knee to the groin MSM puncher since day 1.

And we had to keep our mouths shut over 8 years of that MF Obama....least the majority of Republicans did (Ryan you little bitch) Trey you little bitch with your false flag temper tantrums. NEVER getting anything done.

Choices now. What I believe, where I will move to, Where I will stand on that hill.

No shit horde.....no shit.

Posted by: The Nightwatch at July 10, 2020 01:27 AM (u1WYs)

517 Covid's killed more people than C.B. DeMille!

Posted by: klaftern at July 10, 2020 01:28 AM (RuIsu)

518 anyone else get well and truly F'ed over by the FireFuck update today screwing with most of the pages they visit/use?

Fing script kiddies need to start digging canals.

Posted by: redc1c4 at July 10, 2020 01:28 AM (Cuq7U)

519 Nightwatch!

hey there neighbor....

things will betting froggy here come Sunday evening... gotta shitload of reading and writing to do this weekend.

the look on their faces?

priceless.

and we still gotta go shooting, one of these days....

Posted by: redc1c4 at July 10, 2020 01:33 AM (Cuq7U)

520

Goodnite, good people.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 10, 2020 01:35 AM (KATBx)

521 Goodnite, good people.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 10, 2020 01:35 AM (KATBx)

---
HEY!
what about the rest of us, huh?

Posted by: redc1c4 at July 10, 2020 01:36 AM (Cuq7U)

522 521

Yeah Grampa .....no nod to the "Rough of us " stepping up on the wall?

Like we are not going to do so?

Posted by: The Nightwatch at July 10, 2020 01:43 AM (u1WYs)

523
Veto-proof majority of Seattle city council pledges to defund the police department by at least 50%; one part of the plan they're considering would remove Seattle's 911 dispatchers from police control
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
--------

What could go wrong?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 10, 2020 01:43 AM (GBHAb)

524 These major cities following through on their (out of the blue, last 6 weeks) insane jihads to defund/shrink/cripple police - WTF. Seattle. Mpls - not sure where that stands, but they were doing more than a head-fake at it.

NYC - admit I haven't looked at details of what the council actually did, but the NYPD seems to be hemorrhaging personnel, and things seem out of control.

Atlanta - ditto. And Chicago - kind of like NYC (idiotic, nasty, disastrous mayor at war with her police force), just with an existing years-long unchecked ongoing gang war producing daily casualty counts that sound like Vietnam in 1969.

Can we even imagine the business, commercial, and touristic prospects of these places as this unfolds?

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2020 01:46 AM (El6T/)

525 519

Hope we don't have to go out.....naw strike that......

Posted by: The Nightwatch at July 10, 2020 01:46 AM (u1WYs)

526 redc, Nightwatch - LA seems a mixed bag, lots of talk, mixed action - in terms of detonating civil order by drastically weakening police.

Any real uptick in festivities, overall, or even in the usual places, since the "protests" peetered out? Haven't heard about any, unlike NYC.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2020 01:49 AM (El6T/)

527 Goodnite, good people.
Posted by: irongrampa

WAIT WAIT! I need my Proud to Be Americans, Head Up, Shoulders Back sign-off.

Really helps.

Like Salty's morning salutation of Smile and Be Happy, it's part of my daily litany.

Posted by: mindful webworker
Amendment V: Loopholes
at July 10, 2020 01:52 AM (cGpV0)

528 524

This is nothing more than the plan (digging for origins) to bring November to a fatal blow for the Republic.

At least this I am sure of....

The Marxists smell blood in the water and are now pushing hard to see their dream come true. Just check the MSM and their daily yellow journo they pimp as NEWS.

Posted by: The Nightwatch at July 10, 2020 01:52 AM (u1WYs)

529 Morticia, you still up? Wondering if our time at UC/SD overlapped. I was there 85-87, Muir college.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 10, 2020 01:56 AM (KAi1n)

530 526

Still we are now manipulated by the likes of Mayor Yoga pants and Getty Boy Newsom.....I refuse to bend a knee to these two freaks.

Posted by: The Nightwatch at July 10, 2020 01:56 AM (u1WYs)

531 AAaargh,

gotta sleep. Tomorrow, gotta get real and start to train up to Mil level...baby steps.... I thought I would NEVER have to do this again.

Morons....Ettes consider.... time to think about "THE BIG SHOW!"

And with that...

The Nightwatch

out.

Posted by: The Nightwatch at July 10, 2020 02:05 AM (u1WYs)

532
Can we even imagine the business, commercial, and touristic prospects of these places as this unfolds?

Posted by: rhomboid

========

I can't imagine rebuilding in a place where all the forces and elements of destruction are still at large.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2020 02:13 AM (G51Gf)

533 I can't imagine rebuilding in a place where all the forces and elements of destruction are still at large.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
--------

Being implemented...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 10, 2020 02:15 AM (cGzEU)

534 Right, that was my kind of obvious/heavy-handed implication there - who the heck is going to build in, do business in, or visit such places?

Quite a bit of variation from place to place, for many reasons, of course.

Actually we'll probably see the corporate robots of the Gleichschaltung - Target, and seriously all of them these days - re-opening stores in some cases. Because.

But mom/pop, small business? Tourism?

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2020 02:23 AM (El6T/)

535
Morticia, you still up? Wondering if our time at UC/SD overlapped. I was there 85-87, Muir college.
Posted by: SFGoth

=======

I think we were there at the same time. It's fuzzy, I transferred to UCSD for ~1.5 years before returning to UCLA, but I think that was the period.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2020 02:24 AM (G51Gf)

536 I gotta say, this story about the former marine/high school wide receiver who caught a kid dropped from a burning building, I hope it's legit because it is one feel-good story.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 10, 2020 02:28 AM (KAi1n)

537
Right, that was my kind of obvious/heavy-handed implication there - who the heck is going to build in, do business in, or visit such places?

Quite a bit of variation from place to place, for many reasons, of course.

Actually we'll probably see the corporate robots of the Gleichschaltung - Target, and seriously all of them these days - re-opening stores in some cases. Because.

But mom/pop, small business? Tourism?

Posted by: rhomboid

=======

It's the rebuilders I don't get. A mob trashes your sandwich shop for the sheer pleasure of it -- with impunity. You clean up (saving them all the work) and present your shining face to them a second time. Shining faces are exactly what they like to hit.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2020 02:28 AM (G51Gf)

538 Morticia, want to play the "do-you-know?" game?

Posted by: SFGoth at July 10, 2020 02:29 AM (KAi1n)

539 514 I'm not sure how the subject got around to pet euthanasia, but here's a cartoon I've had in my pics folder for a long time but never used on the ONT. Just...not right for the ONT itself.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/Feels.jpg
Posted by: Weirddave at July 10, 2020 01:20 AM (868NO)

Wow.

Well there are some feels.

Totally see why you couldn't find a place to put it.

Posted by: Bete at July 10, 2020 02:29 AM (Ojki1)

540
we'll probably see the corporate robots of the Gleichschaltung - Target, and seriously all of them these days - re-opening stores in some cases.

Posted by: rhomboid

=======

Maybe.

I know a Berkeley mall that died because the anchors pulled out. So much theft it was pointless.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2020 02:29 AM (G51Gf)

541
Morticia, want to play the "do-you-know?" game?
Posted by: SFGoth

=======

What was your field of studies? I only remember like two English profs -- I tended to take the same guys for multiple classes. I might also remember some Anthro people.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2020 02:33 AM (G51Gf)

542 Maybe.

I know a Berkeley mall that died because the anchors pulled out. So much theft it was pointless.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2020 02:29 AM (G51Gf)

Northridge mall in Milwaukee (well, a suburb) got a rep as unsafe. From what I recall some whackjob followed his wife there a killed her, and that was the final straw. Don't think it was even that slow a death, it just became the place that suburban people wouldn't go anymore, and that was all she wrote.

Number of years later, someone managed to steel some of the giant roof air conditioners off the vacant building. How does that even happen?

Posted by: Bete at July 10, 2020 02:34 AM (Ojki1)

543
Wait, three English profs! Another one just came back to me. Another repeat guy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2020 02:34 AM (G51Gf)

544 I'd buy Galileo a pizza, get him to tell me some stories. In English. Not New York style pizza.

Posted by: klaftern at July 10, 2020 02:37 AM (RuIsu)

545 Blonde M., like I said, there will be a different story in every place. I don't know Seattle or Mpls well enough to have any sense of what may happen. Obviously there are some businesses that are gone for good.

If there is zero political blowback for any of this in these locations (prediction: 99% chance there is none, bupkis), then impact is even worse of course.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2020 02:38 AM (El6T/)

546 Do you know:

... what percent are really blond (blond)?

Posted by: Fun Times at July 10, 2020 02:39 AM (X8GWW)

547 45 The first few DC Animated movies are good. The Suicide Squad movies, especially the Assault on Arkham, are way better than the movies.

The quality doesn't last, sadly.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 09, 2020 10:13 PM (d1uFV)

But the last one, Apocalypse War, goes out on a hell of a high note.

Posted by: The Waco Kid at July 10, 2020 02:41 AM (Ojki1)

548 They can print money for a while.

States can't but they can funge it around till Nov. at least.

Expect it to change (qualitatively) (only) after.

Posted by: Fun Times at July 10, 2020 02:43 AM (X8GWW)

549 I got banned from PowerLine for telling Paul Mirengoff to "Bite me." I can't imagine how I'll live without being able to tell a supposed "free speech" lawyer to piss off when I disagree with him. Darn it all! The right is adopting tactics from the left to use against their own compatriots. Bye, U.S.

Posted by: Dion at July 10, 2020 02:45 AM (1rRtN)

550
If there is zero political blowback for any of this in these locations (prediction: 99% chance there is none, bupkis), then impact is even worse of course.

Posted by: rhomboid

=======

At what point does the cycle of self-destruction stop? I shudder to think of Victor Davis Hanson's image of the illiterate descendants of the Greeks growing their food in the early ruins of hte Parthenon wondering who built that thing and why.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2020 02:48 AM (G51Gf)

551
in the early ruins of hte Parthenon

in the *shadow of the early ruins...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2020 02:49 AM (G51Gf)

552 Every so often I find myself thinking I should got write that Demon Faye vs Superman arc...

Posted by: Voyager at July 10, 2020 02:50 AM (7X6Ww)

553
Well morons, I have to be up and chipper in six short hours, so I'll leave it to you to greet Skip when he shows up with links and Ramirez. See you tomorrow, and please hold your really funny remarks for when I'm off work.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2020 02:56 AM (G51Gf)

554 Well, luckily, I don't mind talking to myself. At least we understand each other.

It never stops. If you somehow escape they will find an Other.
If everyone somehow escapes they will turn on their own.

The real question is "from where does it come?"

What's the source ?

That is part n parcel with how to stop it.
Can we?

But no one is interested in the ultimate outcomes so ...
We only think of now, tommorrow, next week, next year,
When the system has already shown how the previous
50 and next decades will go unless the system is changed.

A judge, a law, a homeschooling provision ...
this will change how things have gone for decades ?

That's foolish.
There is no reason to think that will change anything,
Except blind hope. And hope never saved a soul.

The smart play is to save what you can and ...

Faith did however.

Posted by: Typed myself to booze at July 10, 2020 02:59 AM (X8GWW)

555 Hi guys, its too early for morning.

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2020 03:14 AM (6f16T)

556 i talk to myself every day:

that's because i am authorized a minimum of at least one intelligent conversation daily, and it's the most efficient way to make it happen.

Posted by: redc1c4 at July 10, 2020 03:14 AM (Cuq7U)

557 Got a half hour left, to rest.without sleeping or getting up is the qusetion. Does just resting do you any good?

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2020 03:25 AM (6f16T)

558 I talk to myself all the time.

Not any weirder than the conversations I have with my dogs.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2020 03:26 AM (H5knJ)

559 I ask my cat questions alot, but the occasional response makes no sense.

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2020 03:46 AM (6f16T)

560 No.

since you asked.

it just makes you moar tired and wish you could have fallen asleep.

Posted by: redc1c4 at July 10, 2020 03:51 AM (Cuq7U)

561 Good Morning Morons today is Friday, July 10, 2020. On this day in 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" began of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act. It turns out that this highly publicized trial day was a fraud cooked up to generate tourism for this small town. The MFM still pushes this as a big bad religious conservatives are anti-science. How about big bad local government perpetuates a fraud for economic reasons instead.

Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2020 04:00 AM (mpXpK)

562 Fox's this day in history.

https://tinyurl.com/yy5fdacy

Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2020 04:00 AM (mpXpK)

563 Kanye West has got that old time religion. And he is attacking Planned Parenthood and it origins with genuine racist Margret Sanger.

https://tinyurl.com/y9kbvhv9

Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2020 04:00 AM (mpXpK)

564 SCOTUS is expected to issue their final rulings for this term. Two of these are dealing with the corrupt NY AG trying to get Trump's tax returns so he can go on a fishing expedition.

https://tinyurl.com/y88x26sc

Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2020 04:01 AM (mpXpK)

565 And speaking of NY's AG he is proposing a bill that would take away De Commio's authority over the NYCPD.

https://tinyurl.com/y8yquota

Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2020 04:01 AM (mpXpK)

566 Trump loses that one above to SCOTUS, he must turn over his tax records to that corrupt NY prosecutor who is on a fishing expedition for the Democrat Party.

https://tinyurl.com/ya7tdty7

Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2020 04:01 AM (mpXpK)

567 Some good news for a change. The Far Side is back!

https://tinyurl.com/ydzclfvz

Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2020 04:02 AM (mpXpK)

568 OK loses one to SCOTUS as they rule that a lot of OK falls under the ownership of the the Muskogee Nation.

https://tinyurl.com/yc6vepmz

Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2020 04:02 AM (mpXpK)

569 You folks in the NE get ready for some heavy rain and wind because a tropical storm is heading your way. We have already had our rain this month. Nothing but rain.

https://tinyurl.com/ybvxl4hc

Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2020 04:02 AM (mpXpK)

570 Vermont 'officials' have gone bonkers. Vermont citizens can no longer throw food scraps in the trash. They provide a variety of reasons for this but none of them make any sense.

https://tinyurl.com/y9nnn8qg

Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2020 04:03 AM (mpXpK)

571 Pelousi: It's An Injustice That Tax Payer Money Does Not Fund Abortions

The senile old hag has finally gone insane. Who does she think she is going to win over with this? The communists already have PP in their back pockets.

https://tinyurl.com/yctduj7z

Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2020 04:04 AM (mpXpK)

572 RAMIREZ (repeat)

https://tinyurl.com/y7rtdq4m

And that's it for today.

Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2020 04:04 AM (mpXpK)

573 Rush explained the tax ruling was a worst a kick back to a lower court, no Trump taxes are being revealed. And going back to a lower court is putting it well into next year.

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2020 04:06 AM (6f16T)

574 573
Rush explained the tax ruling was a worst a kick back to a lower court,
no Trump taxes are being revealed. And going back to a lower court is
putting it well into next year.

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2020 04:06 AM (6f16T)

The ruling was that he had to turn them over to that GJ (i.e. the prosecutor). But their reasoning was that they would not be revealed since GJ testimony is "confidential". Anybody who believes that fairy take needs to hang up their law license because Democrats reveal GJ testimony at will when they think it will help their Party. And they are NEVER held accountable for revealing it.

Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2020 04:10 AM (mpXpK)

575
On rare occasion have I found resting replenishes.

If during wake, only torture.

A key to life is (wanting) to jump out of bed.

[find something to accomplish this]

You can quote me on that.

Posted by: 20200710 at July 10, 2020 04:11 AM (X8GWW)

576 The conceit of Revolutionaries is that they are indispensable to their movements. They are correct. That is a good thing.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 10, 2020 04:14 AM (KAi1n)

577 Pelosi.
Virtue signal to the devil that she's still on his side

Posted by: My life is insanity at July 10, 2020 04:14 AM (AnTUn)

578 Yes there definitely is no accounting to the government dictators.

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2020 04:17 AM (6f16T)

579 My hair is an array of tendrils extending into the sky.

Posted by: johnd01 at July 10, 2020 04:18 AM (TXvM3)

580 Mornin', all

Posted by: My life is insanity at July 10, 2020 04:22 AM (AnTUn)

581 Great ONT. Thanks, WeirdDave!

Some kind soul translated the original Niven essay into HTML and posted it, here:
http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html

It's a quick, if gruesome, read. Very funny.

All y'all Arizonans forgot the d--- heat is what kills us all in the afternoons. Forecast high for Sunday is 116. This is why I usually travel in July. Were it not for the Rona I would not be around to be vaporized. Alas.

Posted by: quietI at July 10, 2020 04:24 AM (T0lUe)

582 116! Yeah, that'd be warm. Some people around here complain when it's in the 80s!

Of course the saying "it's not the heat, it's the humidity" is included

Posted by: My life is insanity at July 10, 2020 04:26 AM (AnTUn)

583 My tendrils flop over.

Posted by: JAS at July 10, 2020 04:28 AM (2BZBZ)

584 Vic, isn't the grand jury testimony issue already before the Supreme Court? I know this following statement may be hubris, but if the process really is part of the punishment, and since this whole thing must be an intellectual affront to most of the justices (let's benefit from arrogance for a change), and the only reason they have to deal with it is because of Dem party chicanery (watch someone claim that's a slur against Chicans), so they send Trump back as a subterfuge to get them to overplay their hand so the Supreme Court says no GJ transcripts in Meuller. Then Trump makes the executive branch decision to release the transcripts since they're the equivalent of some outstanding Cracked Magazine spoofs in the late 1970's -- i.e., the political equivalent of what 11 year old boys found funny without getting punished for it -- and the Dems get laughed at because it looks so amateur. From a judicial jurisprudence standpoint, it's a great case to do justice and make the line bright (where it needs to be). Who's being protected by not releasing them? No one - nothing happened; it's not like an informant will be revealed. So the proper test case is the one where the Supreme Court can't ruin someone's life depending on how they rule since there're no innocent people here on the witness side.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 10, 2020 04:29 AM (KAi1n)

585 582
116! Yeah, that'd be warm. Some people around here complain when it's in the 80s!

Of course the saying "it's not the heat, it's the humidity" is included

Posted by: My life is insanity at July 10, 2020 04:26 AM (AnTUn)

An old friend of mine in CA called me yesterday. She said that it was running between 110F and 115F there where she is at daily. And she said her A/C was out on her car.

Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2020 04:29 AM (mpXpK)

586 584 Posted by: SFGoth at July 10, 2020 04:29 AM (KAi1n)

The way I read the article their reasoning was that he was not "exempt" from a subpoena by the GJ and since the GJ testimony is confidential his tax records would not be revealed. Trump has been audited by the IRS almost continuously for many years. This prosecutor is a Democrat looking for dirt or something embarrassing to hit Trump with. There is no reason for the GJ to get these records other than political BS.

Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2020 04:36 AM (mpXpK)

587 Vic - that's crazy! I remember about 3 years ago we had 106 in S.F. I walked by an outdoor temperature display. 106. Dang. Look (fat, here's the thing), S.F. doesn't normally get anywhere near that, ever. It's like major league pitching. Every year we top out at the "if you could keep it up, kid, that 92 might let you eat out for a few years", and downtown, that warms up. But the far side of 100? 106? It was blazing. Dry though, thankfully, but unbelieveably hot. And I am one of those who complains when the temperature reaches the 70s. If I don't get stuck on 69, I don't like it getting hotter than 68.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 10, 2020 04:37 AM (KAi1n)

588 Trip to Grand Canyon in a car without air conditioning in August I say was like putting the oven on, set a fan on the open door and sitting in front of it.

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2020 04:37 AM (6f16T)

589 587
Vic - that's crazy! I remember about 3 years ago we had 106 in S.F. I
walked by an outdoor temperature display. 106. Dang. Look (fat, here's
the thing), S.F. doesn't normally get anywhere near that, ever. It's
like major league pitching. Every year we top out at the "if you could
keep it up, kid, that 92 might let you eat out for a few years", and
downtown, that warms up. But the far side of 100? 106? It was blazing.
Dry though, thankfully, but unbelieveably hot. And I am one of those who
complains when the temperature reaches the 70s. If I don't get stuck on
69, I don't like it getting hotter than 68.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 10, 2020 04:37 AM (KAi1n)

The entire time I lived in the Bay Area I don't think I ever saw it get over the high 80s in the Summer. Now if I got on my motorcycle and went for a ride inland into the valley I would see some heat. I would bet that SF temp of 106 was sitting in the direct sun or was malfunctioning. Remember that old Mark Twain quote about the coldest winter he ever had was a summer in SF.

Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2020 04:41 AM (mpXpK)

590 So, Robert De Niro is having financial problems. That is what happens when you piss it away.

Posted by: JAS at July 10, 2020 04:42 AM (2BZBZ)

591 I'm heading out, iced coffee in my mug.

Off to the land of spotty cell service after work today. (the U.P.) Hopefully weather will be pleasant, much outdoor work to be done.

Mske it a good day, all.

Posted by: My life is insanity at July 10, 2020 04:43 AM (AnTUn)

592 My bad. De Niro is lying his ass off to avoid paying out to the ex-wife.

Posted by: JAS at July 10, 2020 04:44 AM (2BZBZ)

593 Well time to go fix breakfast. BBL

Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2020 04:48 AM (mpXpK)

594

First off Great Comics WeirdDave,,,

". Vermont citizens can no longer throw food scraps in the trash. They
provide a variety of reasons for this but none of them make any sense."
Yeah Vic we're a Just a bunch of country hicks run by much more

smarter out of staters ,,, lots of Haaavarrd types you know....

they also banned plastic bags this month because the chinese asian and afticans are dumping their trash in the ocean... never explained how ours would get there...

Posted by: beanervt at July 10, 2020 04:56 AM (pyQkH)

595 powerlineblog.com/marquette weasels
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y9bwv8qb

More on Samantha Pfefferle the pro Trump girl trying to get into Marquette.

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2020 04:58 AM (6f16T)

596 For my love if coffee, ir its not hot I don't want it.

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2020 04:59 AM (6f16T)

597

"My bad. De Niro is lying his ass off to avoid paying out to the ex-wife.

Posted by: JAS"

The dirt bag is a Leftist Puke thru and thru....slimey f'in Rat

Posted by: beanervt at July 10, 2020 05:01 AM (pyQkH)

598 596 do over
For my love of coffee if its not hot I don't want it

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2020 05:04 AM (6f16T)

599 From the Vermont story...

Keeping food scraps out of the trash saves landfill space and reduces greenhouse gas emissions, the food scrap ban guidance states. "Reducing food waste saves resources. Food donation has nearly tripled since the law was passed."

So they have to set up a way to collect the food GARBAGE and take it to a compost site, I'm assuming by bicycle otherwise the carbon emissions will still be there, , plus the food donations (formerly GARBAGE) has tripled

We got some fart smellers in Vermont

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 05:09 AM (vd8XM)

600

"569
You folks in the NE get ready for some heavy rain and wind because a tropical storm is heading your way. Vic"

Figures it's hitting VT as my 2nd Vacation starts....I got 2 wks to get
get some good air though.

Posted by: beanervt at July 10, 2020 05:12 AM (pyQkH)

601 Supposed to rain here today, heavy at times

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2020 05:14 AM (6f16T)

602 And I'm so happy!! Rained here most of the night. Now I don't have to water in the grub killer my guy put down on Wednesday

Winning!!

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 05:14 AM (vd8XM)

603 sweet sweet rain. Been dry and HOT. Had about 1.3" yesterday afternoon and raining again...happydance

Posted by: a dude in MI at July 10, 2020 05:14 AM (SxBH1)

604

"and reduces greenhouse gas emissions, the food scrap ban guidance states."

Yeah Bruce,,,, next the ijits will be killing off the Cows .. our

flatlander legislature wrote the book on stupid ideas.. next to commfornia..
it's like we're in competition... and we got Burnie too

Posted by: beanervt at July 10, 2020 05:18 AM (pyQkH)

605 594

First off Great Comics WeirdDave,,,

". Vermont citizens can no longer throw food scraps in the trash. They

provide a variety of reasons for this but none of them make any sense."
Yeah Vic we're a Just a bunch of country hicks run by much more

smarter out of staters ,,, lots of Haaavarrd types you know....

they
also banned plastic bags this month because the chinese asian and
afticans are dumping their trash in the ocean... never explained how
ours would get there...

Posted by: beanervt at July 10, 2020 04:56 AM (pyQkH)

I can't believe somebody in one their planning meetings did not ask them what difference would having one 4 or 5 acre city dump with garbage make vs 10,000 individual individual home compost piles would make. And that assumes that we have global warming, which we don't.

Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2020 05:20 AM (mpXpK)

606 https://tinyurl.com/y8mkgxn7
Another on Sullivan from American Thinker

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2020 05:26 AM (6f16T)

607 Morning, 'rons. I've been taking a break from all news lately because rage strokes kill people too. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure I contracted the 'Rona and I'm on day three of feeling like a stomped sack of burning dog squeeze. I won't get the test results back til Monday so all I have to do is poke around the webz. I was thinking as I hacked up a portion of lung #2 this morning that if this pandemic had happened during the Reagan years we would have shut China's economy down and made them beg for mercy. Our government IS the enemy and my heart says that the Dems were in on this from the beginning.

Posted by: cornbred at July 10, 2020 05:31 AM (hJSaw)

608 We have had mandatory recycling and composting for 10 years comrades. There are color-coded 3 bin receptacles everywhere and Karen gets mad if you don't through your crap in the right bin.

So now there are employees who are paid to re-sort all that or else the garbage company sends you a fine, complete with pictures of the mixed garbage, or worse, you get a visit from the garbage gestapo.

Don't ask how I know this. But if it happened here, it's coming at you.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 10, 2020 05:32 AM (EZebt)

609 americanthinker.com/puppet biden promises a command and control economy
In there a quote from Don Surber - Biden won the nomination, the Communists won the party

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2020 05:33 AM (6f16T)

610 I can't believe somebody in one their planning meetings did not ask them what difference would having one 4 or 5 acre city dump with garbage make vs 10,000 individual individual home compost piles would make. And that assumes that we have global warming, which we don't.
Posted by: Vic

And the story says that it's to reduce greenhouse gases, then it says....

From there, people are instructed to compost the scraps, coordinate a curbside pick-up or drop them off at a composting site.

I'm thinking a curbside pickup is another plastic (OMG) container being picked up by another truck (carbon emissions OMG!!!)
All because.....?

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 05:34 AM (vd8XM)

611 And thanks for the early news Vic

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 05:35 AM (vd8XM)

612 Got to go
TGIF, stay cool

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2020 05:35 AM (6f16T)

613
". And that assumes that we have global warming, which we don't.

Posted by: Vic"
Yeah Vic,, the boards are all infested with leftist climatetards who
are also 90% out of staters ... another stupid climatetarded law passed
is a group can sue the state if it doesn't meet their dumbass standard they
set.. these people are oozing pure leftist crap..

Posted by: beanervt at July 10, 2020 05:39 AM (pyQkH)

614
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 10, 2020 05:40 AM (oxHzV)

615 608
We have had mandatory recycling and composting for 10 years comrades.
There are color-coded 3 bin receptacles everywhere and Karen gets mad if
you don't through your crap in the right bin.

So now there are employees who are paid to re-sort all that or else
the garbage company sends you a fine, complete with pictures of the
mixed garbage, or worse, you get a visit from the garbage gestapo.

Don't ask how I know this. But if it happened here, it's coming at you.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 10, 2020 05:32 AM (EZebt)

We had mandatory trash sorting for recycling for years but not composting. You had to dispose of food garbage in special yellow bags that were sold in all the grocery stores in our county. Steel cans went in one bin, aluminum stuff went in another bin, news papers and magazine went in another bin, et al.

It was supposed to be bought up by companies who specialized in recyling. The people got really tired of it after a while. When word got out that the ONLY thing actually being recycled was the aluminum cans the people really went beserk. They were just taking all the other stuff to the dump and dumping it all in one common pile.

So in the end they got rid of that program, but they added a $50 trash disposal fee on everybody's property taxes and we found out what the real reason was. It was another soak the taxpayers with another hidden tax.

Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2020 05:42 AM (mpXpK)

616 613 Yeah Vic,, the boards are all infested with leftist climatetards who
are also 90% out of staters ... another stupid climatetarded law passed
is a group can sue the state if it doesn't meet their dumbass standard they
set.. these people are oozing pure leftist crap..

Posted by: beanervt at July 10, 2020 05:39 AM (pyQkH)

Yeah ya'll are being invaded by Massholes who want to turn VT into another MA which they fled. I have always wanted to change the residency laws for voting and holding office. 10 years in State for voting, 20 years in State for holding office. That would cure the problem of the locusts devouring one State after another.

Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2020 05:46 AM (mpXpK)

617 Harper's runs an anti cancel culture piece with 150 signatories, it became public, and...well, you'll see....

https://tinyurl.com/y7jl8c8l

Posted by: jsg at July 10, 2020 05:46 AM (VI/HZ)

618

another truck (carbon emissions OMG!!!)

All because.....?

Posted by: Bruce"

All because of Alberto the Gorebicle and his Warmongering scheme..
we got top of the line fruit loops running the show here Bruce...
they got more room for trash since they removed 1 use plastic bags
in that ban..

Posted by: beanervt at July 10, 2020 05:46 AM (pyQkH)

619 602 And I'm so happy!! Rained here most of the night. Now I don't have to water in the grub killer my guy put down on Wednesday

Winning!!
Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 05:14 AM (vd8XM)

Nice. Supposed to be on and off rain all day today here.

Posted by: jsg at July 10, 2020 05:48 AM (VI/HZ)

620 I am the youngest of a large family. I remember watching TV and there was some mention of a thing called "leftovers." I look at my mom and asked "What are leftovers?"

Posted by: JAS at July 10, 2020 05:48 AM (2BZBZ)

621 When I worked for the food manufacturer, we had started a program of recycling all of the cardboard we received raw materials in. When we first started we got money for the stuff. Soon, everyone was recycling and then we had to start paying them to take it away. The upper management types would occasionally say "REEEEEEE we have to find someone to pay for this bestest cardboard ever!!" and expect someone, usually me, to find that someone.
I'm sure we paid the money to a "recycler" who recycled a good portion of it into landfill anyway

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 05:53 AM (vd8XM)

622 I look at my mom and asked "What are leftovers?"
Posted by: JAS at July 10, 2020 05:48 AM (2BZBZ)

Around here, they are the next day's lunch unless it wasn't very good.

Posted by: jsg at July 10, 2020 05:54 AM (VI/HZ)

623

"Nice. Supposed to be on and off rain all day today here.

Posted by: jsg"

I wish,,, 95 with a 99 degree heat index,, was 97 yesterday and tomorrow
same as today.. sucks to be me with no A/C....

Posted by: beanervt at July 10, 2020 05:55 AM (pyQkH)

624 I look at my mom and asked "What are leftovers?"
Posted by: JAS at July 10, 2020 05:48 AM (2BZBZ)

Around here, they are the next day's lunch unless it wasn't very good.
Posted by: jsg

Mom and dad worked. She would usually make a meal with the thought of another meal (at least, heh) to come out of it.

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 05:56 AM (vd8XM)

625 I wish,,, 95 with a 99 degree heat index,, was 97 yesterday and tomorrow
same as today.. sucks to be me with no A/C....
Posted by: beanervt at July 10, 2020 05:55 AM (pyQkH)

Wut?? Not even your bedroom?

Not sure I could sleep.

Posted by: jsg at July 10, 2020 05:57 AM (VI/HZ)

626 I wish,,, 95 with a 99 degree heat index,, was 97 yesterday and tomorrow
same as today.. sucks to be me with no A/C....
Posted by: beanervt

Yeesh..I've got air and hate this heat. We get a break for a few days though. After 2 weeks, I have the windows open now, and I'm hoping the next 3 days or at least the nights

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 05:58 AM (vd8XM)

627 Mom and dad worked. She would usually make a meal with the thought of another meal (at least, heh) to come out of it.
Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 05:56 AM (vd8XM)

Exactly. I have a leftover chicken breast and a slice of blueberry pie today.

Posted by: jsg at July 10, 2020 05:59 AM (VI/HZ)

628 I eat fast. I figure it is because when I was a kid, I had to race through firsts to get any seconds.

Posted by: JAS at July 10, 2020 06:00 AM (2BZBZ)

629 Wut?? Not even your bedroom?

Not sure I could sleep.
Posted by: jsg

Same here,
I grew up with no air. But now, I don't think I could do it

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 06:00 AM (vd8XM)

630 More night terrors so lurking here awhile. Might go up to 24 hour jack in box... wait, cant sit down. Or the 24 hour winchell's donuts... wait, they even removed the bench outside. WTF

Posted by: banned with nightmares at July 10, 2020 06:02 AM (Cw7u6)

631

"I'm sure we paid the money to a "recycler" who recycled a good portion of it into landfill anyway

Posted by: Bruce"

Yeah Bruce,,, money for burying it and it don't take long for it to denigrate either... they use it around here to break up the clay soil

Posted by: beanervt at July 10, 2020 06:02 AM (pyQkH)

632 I eat fast. I figure it is because when I was a kid, I had to race through firsts to get any seconds.

Posted by: JAS

Same here. My MIL could dawdle over a meal for a half hour. I feel guilty at Thanksgiving or Christmas when the meal that took 4 hours to put on the table, I finish eating in 10 minutes

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 06:02 AM (vd8XM)

633 Festival in October cancelled because of the 'Rona. So dumb. It's over 3 months away, idiots. Now we're living on Could Happens.

That doesn't bode well.

Posted by: jsg at July 10, 2020 06:04 AM (VI/HZ)

634 Yeah Bruce,,, money for burying it and it don't take long for it to denigrate either... they use it around here to break up the clay soil
Posted by: beanervt

Denigrate? The cardboard was "criticized unfairly"?

That's a tough landfill!!!

Damn autocucumber

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 06:04 AM (vd8XM)

635 good morning

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2020 06:06 AM (JFO2v)

636 Same here,
I grew up with no air. But now, I don't think I could do it
Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 06:00 AM (vd8XM)

I mean, we could get by if we had to. But knowing what you're missing, you'd want it back ASAP. Growing up, we didn't have it, either, so there was no missing it.

Posted by: jsg at July 10, 2020 06:07 AM (VI/HZ)

637 Festival in October cancelled because of the 'Rona. So dumb. It's over 3 months away, idiots. Now we're living on Could Happens.

That doesn't bode well.
Posted by: jsg

Depending on the festival, I think that the organizers don't want to get into or spend money for something that some power hungry ASSHOE can cancel on a whim

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 06:07 AM (vd8XM)

638 I mean, we could get by if we had to. But knowing what you're missing, you'd want it back ASAP. Growing up, we didn't have it, either, so there was no missing it.
Posted by: jsg

True. We had a power outage after a big storm a few years back. A hot spell on top of it. Worse was you couldn't even run a fan

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 06:08 AM (vd8XM)

639

"Wut?? Not even your bedroom?

Not sure I could sleep.

Posted by: jsg"

Nope JSG,,, just run 2 fans upstair 1 in 1out on opposite sides
and 1 blowing in downstairs all night gets the old farm house (1872)
cool enough to shut the windows and close the shades.. I work 3rd
shift so sleeping before it gets hot

Posted by: beanervt at July 10, 2020 06:09 AM (pyQkH)

640 Depending on the festival, I think that the organizers don't want to get into or spend money for something that some power hungry ASSHOE can cancel on a whim
Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 06:07 AM (vd8XM)

I get that.

It was an open street festival.

Where does it end ?

Posted by: jsg at July 10, 2020 06:09 AM (VI/HZ)

641 My sister had a house that had an all house fan in it. Big sucker that went into the attic. Open the windows in the bedrooms and a nice breeze came thru all night long.

That wasn't too bad

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 06:10 AM (vd8XM)

642 Grandma had a collection of hand fans for the El Paso heat when the swamp cooler was not up to the job.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 10, 2020 06:11 AM (A5zUN)

643 I get that.

It was an open street festival.

Where does it end ?
Posted by: jsg

Crap...I guess when they say it does. And after they say it does, they will no longer worry about any sickness or deaths caused by the Krud

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 06:12 AM (vd8XM)

644 Nope JSG,,, just run 2 fans upstair 1 in 1out on opposite sides
and 1 blowing in downstairs all night gets the old farm house (1872)
cool enough to shut the windows and close the shades.. I work 3rd
shift so sleeping before it gets hot
Posted by: beanervt at July 10, 2020 06:09 AM (pyQkH)

If it works for you is all that matters.

72 is my zone.

Posted by: jsg at July 10, 2020 06:12 AM (VI/HZ)

645 Crap...I guess when they say it does. And after they say it does, they will no longer worry about any sickness or deaths caused by the Krud
Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 06:12 AM (vd8XM)

I'm sick and tired of they

Posted by: jsg at July 10, 2020 06:13 AM (VI/HZ)

646 72 is my zone.
Posted by: jsg at July 10, 2020 06:12 AM (VI/HZ)

72 in the apartment is fine. 72 in the car is sometimes chilly.

And in the winter is definitely chilly.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 10, 2020 06:13 AM (A5zUN)

647 I'm sick and tired of they
Posted by: jsg

And "they" are tired of your attitude!
Do you need a vacation at our reeducation camp...er salon?

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 06:16 AM (vd8XM)

648 And in the winter is definitely chilly.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 10, 2020 06:13 AM (A5zUN)

I use a light blanket. Perfect.

Posted by: jsg at July 10, 2020 06:17 AM (VI/HZ)

649 Someone said this morning that Indians owned slaves.
This is true. Some blacks in the South were never slaves. Some were
given their freedom. Just because a person was black in the South does
not mean they were a slave. A free person had the same rights as anyone.

Posted by: Case at July 10, 2020 12:28 AM (aDSHr)

This is true... in fact, there were more than a few black slave owners in the South.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at July 10, 2020 06:17 AM (nAiE/)

650 72 in the apartment is fine. 72 in the car is sometimes chilly.

And in the winter is definitely chilly.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

HA! Funny how that is. 72 in the house now? Shorts and t shirt.
72 in the house in January? Jeans and sometimes a long sleeved shirt

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 06:18 AM (vd8XM)

651 And "they" are tired of your attitude!
Do you need a vacation at our reeducation camp...er salon?
Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 06:16 AM (vd8XM)

Oh, I am sure I do. The taking me away part is gonna suck for them.

Posted by: jsg at July 10, 2020 06:18 AM (VI/HZ)

652 637 Festival in October cancelled because of the 'Rona. So dumb. It's over 3 months away, idiots. Now we're living on Could Happens.

That doesn't bode well.
Posted by: jsg

Depending on the festival, I think that the organizers don't want to get into or spend money for something that some power hungry ASSHOE can cancel on a whim
Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 06:07 AM (vd8XM)

Cancelled Texas State Fair. total bullshit

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2020 06:19 AM (JFO2v)

653 Oh yeah.

TGIF !!

Posted by: jsg at July 10, 2020 06:19 AM (VI/HZ)

654 Oh, I am sure I do. The taking me away part is gonna suck for them.
Posted by: jsg

Not to worry. It's a nice farm upstate. You can run and jump and play with others of your kind. You'll love it.

Hey, does this towel smell like chloroform to you?

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 06:19 AM (vd8XM)

655 649 Someone said this morning that Indians owned slaves.
This is true. Some blacks in the South were never slaves. Some were
given their freedom. Just because a person was black in the South does
not mean they were a slave. A free person had the same rights as anyone.

Posted by: Case at July 10, 2020 12:28 AM (aDSHr)

This is true... in fact, there were more than a few black slave owners in the South.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at July 10, 2020 06:17 AM (nAiE/)

Reparation would be a nightmare. With DNA studies I bet many blacks would find out they are about as related to slavery as Lizzy is Injun.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2020 06:22 AM (JFO2v)

656
" they will no longer worry about any sickness or deaths caused by the Krud

Posted by: Bruce"

Not so sure it will End Bruce.. China has informed it's citizens

in neighboring Kazashitstan *spelling bad* that there's

a Pneumonia spreading faster then covid crap maybe worse too...

Posted by: beanervt at July 10, 2020 06:23 AM (pyQkH)

657 Not so sure it will End Bruce.. China has informed it's citizens

in neighboring Kazashitstan *spelling bad* that there's

a Pneumonia spreading faster then covid crap maybe worse too...
Posted by: beanervt

That damn Trump! What won't he do to them poor Chinesey folks?

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 06:24 AM (vd8XM)

658 WI state fair cancelled, too.

as are the county ones, at least around here.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at July 10, 2020 06:27 AM (0IMgo)

659
Good morning, Hordians.

Let's get out there and enrage the lunatics by living a good life today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2020 06:28 AM (mht8P)

660
Not so sure it will End Bruce.. China has informed it's citizens in neighboring Kazashitstan *spelling bad* that there's a Pneumonia spreading faster then covid crap maybe worse

I do not recall us issuing an RFP for someplace to be the world's petri dish for the creation and propagation of misery and disease.

#quarantinechina

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 10, 2020 06:30 AM (pNxlR)

661

"That damn Trump! What won't he do to them poor Chinesey folks?

Posted by: Bruce"

Actually Bruce it's a Chicom war of attrition and they got the

most people to play with....ps don't tell biteme,,, he'll be in his

basement crying for anther couple months..

Posted by: beanervt at July 10, 2020 06:32 AM (pyQkH)

662 I do not recall us issuing an RFP for someplace to be the world's petri dish for the creation and propagation of misery and disease.

#quarantinechina
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Maybe have an area for all people coming into the country to be tested and wait until we're sure they don't have some shithole disease?

Nah, that would be racist

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 06:33 AM (vd8XM)

663 I do not recall us issuing an RFP for someplace to be the world's petri dish for the creation and propagation of misery and disease.

#quarantinechina
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Right now he's not worried, he's fishing in the sump hole

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 06:34 AM (vd8XM)

664
Reparation would be a nightmare. With DNA studies I bet many blacks would find out they are about as related to slavery as Lizzy is Injun.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2020 06:22 AM

that's what worries me about the Supreme's Oklahoma / Indian reservation decision is it opens the door to reparations

obviously, there's no way ceding half of Oklahoma back to the tribes can work out, practically

after much hand-wringing, it will be decided that we can't just give the land back, but that the tribes were "wronged" by the sloppy legal language that established Oklahoma as a state

we can't "give it back" but the tribes were 'wronged"

therefore, the US owes the tribes compensation for their loss

the Supremes will decide that the tribes are due compensation, opening the reparations floodgate

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 10, 2020 06:34 AM (oxHzV)

665
For all the globalists, journalists and public intellectuals, China >>>> US.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2020 06:35 AM (mht8P)

666
We are forecasted to get 1+ inches of rain today from TS Fay. I shall be out in it getting our vehicles re-registered at the DMV.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 10, 2020 06:35 AM (pNxlR)

667 For all the globalists, journalists and public intellectuals, China >>>> US.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

They're so exotic, plus they use every part of the animal!

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 06:36 AM (vd8XM)

668 Just checked the gauge
1.5 inches!! WoooHOOOO!!!

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 06:36 AM (vd8XM)

669 Wow. For those interested, it has long been questioned when exactly the FBI learned they were working with and for the Hillary Clinton campaign against Donald Trump.

Now we have an answer: July 5, 2015. On that day Steele told the FBI who was paying him for his dossier fictions. Very first meeting between Steele and FBI. The FBI was knowingly colluding with Clinton from the very first moment.

So the FBI knew immediately that the dossier it used to justify a FISA
warrant targeting the Trump campaign was a political opposition research
product designed to help Clinton defeat her Republican opponent and did
not divulge the connection.

https://tinyurl.com/y9plw7x2

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at July 10, 2020 06:37 AM (NVYyb)

670
we can't "give it back" but the tribes were 'wronged"

We can always say the Injuns checked the "I have read and agree to the terms" box when they downloaded the treaty.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2020 06:37 AM (mht8P)

671 My coffee this morning tastes better than usual. For the first time ever yesterday my wife ran white vinegar through the machine, and I think it worked.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at July 10, 2020 06:38 AM (NVYyb)

672 My coffee this morning tastes better than usual. For the first time ever yesterday my wife ran white vinegar through the machine, and I think it worked.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

That'll help

Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 06:40 AM (vd8XM)

673
My coffee this morning tastes better than usual.

Life is too short to be drinking bad coffee.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2020 06:41 AM (mht8P)

674
They're so exotic, plus they use every part of the animal!
Posted by: Bruce

You lie, Round Eye! Your ravaging lust for the PRC's MIRACLE CHEMICAL, MELAMINE!, is as plaIn as that big nose on your face. But we will only share our NATIONAL TREASURE with those we deem worthy!

-- Your "could be" friends at the CCP

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 10, 2020 06:43 AM (pNxlR)

675 So the FBI knew immediately that the dossier it used to justify a FISA
warrant targeting the Trump campaign was a political opposition research
product designed to help Clinton defeat her Republican opponent and did
not divulge the connection.

https://tinyurl.com/y9plw7x2
Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at July 10, 2020 06:37 AM (NVYyb)

Lord Comey will be on twitter quoting bible verses soon.

We need some stretched necks.

We'll get jack shit.

Posted by: jsg at July 10, 2020 06:43 AM (VI/HZ)

676 My recollection is that the Oneida tribes had a similar suit against NY State that went on for years and years. They won a couple of litigation settlements and it was looking like they might have a claim to a significant part of upstate New York, to the state and a number of counties finally settled the suits. IIRC, the Oneidas won land, money and monopoly gambling rights, but gave up their land claims.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at July 10, 2020 06:45 AM (NVYyb)

677

"therefore, the US owes the tribes compensation for their loss

the Supremes will decide that the tribes are due compensation, opening the reparations floodgate

Posted by: AltonJackson"

Yeah AJ,,, Conn. did that years back with the Pequot descendants who
keep getting free everything.. Guy living there said it was no more

then just blacks with little dna drawing the free ride..they've been

scamming for years,,, beats working..

Posted by: beanervt at July 10, 2020 06:45 AM (pyQkH)

678 Good morning!

669>> Pretty sad that a British court is doing the work that our courts should be doing.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 10, 2020 06:46 AM (m/Sks)

679 Thursday Night's ONT Needs A Hero!

I need a hero!
I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night
He's gotta be strong
And he's gotta be fast
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight

I need a hero!
I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light
He's gotta be sure
And it's gotta be soon
Because I'm runnin' outta Valu-Rite!

Posted by: Bonnie Tyler at July 10, 2020 06:47 AM (Do5/p)

680 Morning all

The R's are suing Houston and it's Mayor for cancelling the R state convention.

Lawfare from an R, finally.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 10, 2020 06:47 AM (dJ11I)

681 I sue for being a slave to the grind.

Posted by: jsg at July 10, 2020 06:47 AM (VI/HZ)

682
****
Conn. did that years back with the Pequot descendants
****

Yeah, as kids we used to love going to Fort Shantok, a State Park on the Thames River in Montville. Its tribal land now.

Posted by: squeakywheel at July 10, 2020 06:48 AM (tjW8E)

683 666 The backwards state of Arkansas has online registration. Registered and paid online, real easy to navigate site, and had the new stickers in my mailbox 5 days later. I couldn't believe it having lived in PA.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at July 10, 2020 06:49 AM (C1Lsn)

684 677 I was getting a haircut yesterday at the barber over in OK. There were four or five guys hanging out there, and it looks like everybody in OK has some Indian blood. They were getting a pretty good chuckle out of the decision.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at July 10, 2020 06:52 AM (C1Lsn)

685 Mom and Dad visited 4 corners when they went on their Ride thru the West vacation 4 or 5 years ago.

Said it was very bleh and they would only take cash.

Not on my bucket list.

Posted by: jsg at July 10, 2020 06:53 AM (VI/HZ)

686 676

IIRC, the Oneidas won land, money and monopoly gambling rights, but gave up their land claims.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at July 10, 2020 06:45 AM

Yeah, it looks like the Oh-Needers.

No... the ONE-ders.

Got it. Looks like the Oh-Needers.

Heh, sorry, first thing that came to mind seeing Oneidas.

Second thing was thinking it looked like Oreida, as in the potatoes.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 10, 2020 06:53 AM (Do5/p)

687 So here is total deaths for first 26 of year 2014 thru 2020:

1324841
1392174 5.08%
1381620 -0.76%
1436219 3.95%
1463519 1.90%
1451633 -0.81%
1508980 3.95%

So 2020 is a little higher with the 6 year average at 1.43 Million. So maybe deaths up some. They are saying whuflu 132k deaths. But as you can see here years often vary 4 to 5%.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2020 06:53 AM (JFO2v)

688 Julie Kelly, who has a fine rack btw, has been cutting David French to shreds these last several days. He is way out of his league having picked a fight with her, and he was his usual insufferably moral superior about it. What a prig.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at July 10, 2020 06:54 AM (NVYyb)

689

Oh ya read a good one over at Zippers..
remember when Playboy offered Sara Palin 4 million to pose nude

Then came the offer to Mooseshelle da bell from National Geographic
$50.....
Then KFC offered the Hilly pac,, two small breast with 2 huge thighs...
Now KFC is offering the Nazi pelousie ,, nothing but left wings and chicken shit......

Posted by: beanervt at July 10, 2020 06:55 AM (pyQkH)

690 So the FBI knew immediately that the dossier it used to justify a FISA
warrant targeting the Trump campaign was a political opposition research
product designed to help Clinton defeat her Republican opponent and did
not divulge the connection.

https://tinyurl.com/y9plw7x2
Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at July 10, 2020 06:37 AM (NVYyb)

And when Mueller walked in and ask what do you have they handed him a folder with nothing in it or at best a folder with a list of the 30 something claims in the Steele dossier NONE of which could be verified.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2020 06:56 AM (JFO2v)

691 Aren't the Cherokee pretty staunch Republicans? I recall a woman involved in leading a tribe there worked closely with Professor Jacobson to nail Lizzie Warren on her faux Cherokee claims.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at July 10, 2020 06:58 AM (NVYyb)

692 680 Morning all

The R's are suing Houston and it's Mayor for cancelling the R state convention.

Lawfare from an R, finally.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 10, 2020 06:47 AM (dJ11I)

Cancelling 6 days out is very weaselly. Fuck You Sylvester.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2020 07:00 AM (JFO2v)

693
Aren't the Cherokee pretty staunch Republicans?

After what Andrew Jackson did to them?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2020 07:06 AM (mht8P)

694 rhennigantx, I'm just happy to see the R's not rolling over.

I might even throw them a little money to let them know I appreciate the effort.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 10, 2020 07:07 AM (dJ11I)

695 691 Cherokee seem to be staunch Republicans, and hate Lieawatha's guts. Now, the Choctaw I don't know. They just seem to go about doing their business, which is business. Pretty diversified far beyond the usual casino stuff.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at July 10, 2020 07:07 AM (C1Lsn)

696 Maybe have an area for all people coming into the country to be tested and wait until we're sure they don't have some shithole disease?

Nah, that would be racist
Posted by: Bruce at July 10, 2020 06:33 AM (vd8XM)

Maybe slap a big, ugly, oxidized metal statue there? Stick a plaque with a nonsensical Lennonesque poem on it? Hmmm?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 10, 2020 07:08 AM (6FeV1)

697 G'morning, all.

The Cherokee across my back fence says the SCOTUS ruling on Oklahoma is going to create chaos.

This issue really flew under the radar. I had no idea the case was even extant. And neither did anyone else, judging from the reaction.

Posted by: The Deep State at July 10, 2020 07:09 AM (XxJt1)

698 Ooops.

De-socking.

Posted by: creeper at July 10, 2020 07:10 AM (XxJt1)

699 I'm Cherokee, and I'm a Republican.

Well, my grandmother's grandmother was Cherokee. And i've never set foot in Oklahoma. And i'm really only registered R to vote in primaries, haven't lifted a finger to help the party directly since the early '00s....

but... yeah!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 10, 2020 07:11 AM (6FeV1)

700 Gah! That was yesterday's sock. Talk about reek!

Posted by: creeper at July 10, 2020 07:11 AM (XxJt1)

701 creeper, Good morning to you.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 10, 2020 07:12 AM (dJ11I)

702 The little town of Roland OK has a big number of medical marijuana dispensaries, gentlemen's clubs, and on and off pill mills some quack will open and take the money and run. Next hot thing will be DNA testing and tribal blood card issuance centers.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at July 10, 2020 07:13 AM (C1Lsn)

703 Loved the samples of comic art.

I had my comics period from age 9-11 during what people call DC's "Silver Age." I'm glad I did; it gave me an appreciation of the dramatic story, and a love for the mystery and the puzzle for its own sake. The Mort Weisinger Superman "family" of comics were not about war between planets and star systems, but more about exploring the corners of the universe. Silly covers, yes, but often neat mysteries were tucked into the stories.

Example: Superman is exposed to red kryptonite. We know that it affects Kryptonians, temporarily, a different way each time. But nothing seems to be out of the ordinary with Superman. It turns out that all this chunk did was give Superman a sixth finger on each hand -- which are clearly drawn in nearly every panel. If you were observant, you'd spot it. A fair clue.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 10, 2020 07:13 AM (rpbg1)

704 Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2020 06:56 AM (JFO2v)

Come on guys, Comey was fired, what more do you want?

Posted by: RNC Commissar Hrothgar -That's who WE are!- at July 10, 2020 07:14 AM (eTZoJ)

705 Does the SCOTUS ruling confirm the state government cannot prosecute crimes committed on that land and only the Feds can? And that land is not under the purview of the state of OK?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 10, 2020 07:14 AM (m/Sks)

706 704 Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2020 06:56 AM (JFO2v)

Come on guys, Comey was fired, what more do you want?
Posted by: RNC Commissar Hrothgar -That's who WE are!- at July 10, 2020 07:14 AM (eTZoJ)

Fired? Like, with a kiln?

Posted by: Warai-otoko Clinton at July 10, 2020 07:14 AM (6FeV1)

707 704 Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2020 06:56 AM (JFO2v)

Come on guys, Comey was fired, what more do you want?
Posted by: RNC Commissar Hrothgar -That's who WE are!- at July 10, 2020 07:14 AM (eTZoJ)

Public Shaming and Hanging. Maybe drawn and quartered.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2020 07:15 AM (JFO2v)

708 Warai-otoko, the Indians around here are solidly conservative. Need to learn more about who filed the suit and under what circumstances. This is atypical, for the Cherokee. They're not boat-rockers.

Posted by: creeper at July 10, 2020 07:16 AM (XxJt1)

709 I wonder if any of the Justices ever set foot in East OK (maybe Thomas).

Posted by: bill in arkansas at July 10, 2020 07:16 AM (C1Lsn)

710 Ben! Good morning, my friend.

Posted by: creeper at July 10, 2020 07:17 AM (XxJt1)

711 Another great mystery in Jimmy Olsen comics. He and Lucy Lane, his unrequited love and Lois's blonde sister, wake up to find themselves shrunken down to less than doll-size in a big room of furniture. They don;t know why (and I've forgotten what the villain's plan was). At one point Jimmy rips open a feather pillow, and we see him sneezing and Lucy making fun of him.

That's the crucial clue, and Jimmy sees it: The feathers are normal size to Lucy and him. If the two had really been shrunken, the feathers would have been gigantic. The whole thing is a hoax!

Now I don't remember why anybody would build a room of gigantic furniture for this purpose. But the essential clue was something worthy of Ellery Queen.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 10, 2020 07:17 AM (rpbg1)

712 mornin' y'all

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at July 10, 2020 07:18 AM (eMtQa)

713 Come on guys, Comey was fired, what more do you want?
Posted by: RNC Commissar Hrothgar -That's who WE are!- at July 10, 2020 07:14 AM (eTZoJ)

Fired with a 7 figure book deal? Did anybody read that crap? Soros money laundering? No I want these people charged and convicted, not show up in another administration of another "light bringer".

You know who else was called a light bringer? I knew you knew.

Posted by: CN at July 10, 2020 07:18 AM (ONvIw)

714 Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown is perfectly okay with just some protestor violence:

We are willing to allow some vandalism but then they returned and
started to breach windows. We just cannot allow
that to happen.

Posted by: fly at July 10, 2020 07:18 AM (2M/TV)

715 By the way: Good morning, folk!

Got to run up to the grocery this a.m., and as for work-work I have to order a computer for one of the faculty. Otherwise, pretty quiet (if savagely hot) day. You?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 10, 2020 07:19 AM (rpbg1)

716
Does the SCOTUS ruling confirm the state government cannot prosecute crimes committed on that land and only the Feds can? And that land is not under the purview of the state of OK?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 10, 2020 07:14 AM

that's the way I understand it

it stems from some criminal claiming that the state of Oklahoma can not prosecute him for his crime because the state has no jurisdiction on tribal lands

and, yes: the tribal lands / reservations are ultimately under federal purview

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 10, 2020 07:19 AM (oxHzV)

717 Come on guys, Comey was fired, what more do you want?

A 0300 no knock raid to take him into custody, a very public trial for sedition, and to see him shackled and perp walked to a federal PMITA prison for the remainder of his life. Or hanged. Whichever is easier.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 10, 2020 07:19 AM (m/Sks)

718 Robert Di Nero is having financial problems. Let me go get my very tiny violin.

Posted by: fly at July 10, 2020 07:19 AM (2M/TV)

719 >>>Need to learn more about who filed the suit and under what circumstances.

=================
I believe it was some guy, a bad dude, who raped a little kid. He objected to Oklahoma prosecuting his crime, no surprise there, but iirc his lawyer was able to prove the Tribe had a treaty that covered the area in question. So Oklahoma prosecutors have no jurisdiction.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at July 10, 2020 07:20 AM (NVYyb)

720 So wouldn't the natural solution to this mess be to abolish the concept of a reservation all together?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 10, 2020 07:20 AM (6FeV1)

721 A 0300 no knock raid to take him into custody, a very public trial for sedition, and to see him shackled and perp walked to a federal PMITA prison for the remainder of his life. Or hanged. Whichever is easier.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 10, 2020 07:19 AM (m/Sks)

I like hanged, works for him McCabe, Strzok, Brennan, Clapper, Rice...

Posted by: CN at July 10, 2020 07:20 AM (ONvIw)

722 718 Robert Di Nero is having financial problems. Let me go get my very tiny violin.
Posted by: fly at July 10, 2020 07:19 AM (2M/TV)

He's lying to avoid coughing it up to the ex.

Posted by: CN at July 10, 2020 07:21 AM (ONvIw)

723 719 Hoo boy, if all of a sudden it's fed jurisdiction, it's going to suck being the operator of a medical marijuana dispensary mentioned above.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at July 10, 2020 07:22 AM (C1Lsn)

724 IIRC, the Oneidas won land, money and monopoly gambling rights, but gave up their land claims.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at July 10, 2020 06:45 AM

Yeah, it looks like the Oh-Needers.

No... the ONE-ders.

Got it. Looks like the Oh-Needers.

Heh, sorry, first thing that came to mind seeing Oneidas.

Second thing was thinking it looked like Oreida, as in the potatoes.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 10, 2020

*
*

There was an Oneida Street in Denver. I used to tell Linda it was named for the American Indian tribe who were famed for their excellent china and glassware. (She didn't believe me. Smart girl.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 10, 2020 07:22 AM (rpbg1)

725 I like hanged, works for him McCabe, Strzok, Brennan, Clapper, Rice...
Posted by: CN at July 10, 2020 07:20 AM (ONvIw)

Firing Squad.

Reflecting Pool.

At Sunset.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 10, 2020 07:22 AM (6FeV1)

726 Not a good year for the carnival guys. Pretty much all festivals, carnivals, fairs cancelled. Hopefully they can survive. Not much fun anywhere, no kids showing off their prized bulls, pigs, cows, horses, nothing. The end....Probably no rodeo's anywhere. No beer tents, no sausages and onions cooking on the grills....The end.

Posted by: Colin at July 10, 2020 07:23 AM (R9XOS)

727 I think Gorsuch will turn out to be the gift from the Deep State (and McConnell) that will keep on giving long after President is out of office.
I want to blame Trump for this mistake, but he was, and still is, surrounded by traitors on all sides, and I am sure Gorsuch got the same kind of glowing recommendations that John Roberts got!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at July 10, 2020 07:23 AM (eTZoJ)

728 711 Another great mystery in Jimmy Olsen comics. He and Lucy Lane, his unrequited love and Lois's blonde sister, wake up to find themselves shrunken down to less than doll-size in a big room of furniture. They don;t know why (and I've forgotten what the villain's plan was). At one point Jimmy rips open a feather pillow, and we see him sneezing and Lucy making fun of him.

That's the crucial clue, and Jimmy sees it: The feathers are normal size to Lucy and him. If the two had really been shrunken, the feathers would have been gigantic. The whole thing is a hoax!

Now I don't remember why anybody would build a room of gigantic furniture for this purpose. But the essential clue was something worthy of Ellery Queen.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 10, 2020 07:17 AM (rpbg1)

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That would take an awful lot of feathers to fill a pillow that large. Must have been lots of geese waddling around nude!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 10, 2020 07:23 AM (CAJOC)

729 hanged is good, fired in a kiln would be okay too.

"justice delayed is justice denied"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at July 10, 2020 07:23 AM (0IMgo)

730 Firing Squad.

Reflecting Pool.

At Sunset.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 10, 2020 07:22 AM (6FeV1)

I'm agreeable, any method that keeps the out of power forever is fine.

Posted by: CN at July 10, 2020 07:24 AM (ONvIw)

731
the Supremes will decide that the tribes are due compensation, opening the reparations floodgate

--

And conveniently, one more thing Congress doesn't have to actually pass and take a side on! Let SCOTUS do it!

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 10, 2020 07:24 AM (O+I8R)

732 714 Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown is perfectly okay with just some protestor violence:

We are willing to allow some vandalism but then they returned and
started to breach windows. We just cannot allow
that to happen.

Posted by: fly at July 10, 2020 07:18 AM (2M/TV)

We are willing to allow some tax cheats
We are willing to allow some stop sign running
We are willing to allow some yard code violations
We are willing to allow some unlicensed businesses

WORD YOU WILL NEVER HEAR

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2020 07:24 AM (JFO2v)

733 Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 10, 2020 07:22 AM (6FeV1)

A perfectly good National Mall should be used for public displays of the consequences of treason!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at July 10, 2020 07:24 AM (eTZoJ)

734 733 Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 10, 2020 07:22 AM (6FeV1)

A perfectly good National Mall should be used for public displays of the consequences of treason!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at July 10, 2020 07:24 AM (eTZoJ)

Should be spelled "National Maul" then....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 10, 2020 07:25 AM (6FeV1)

735 Huck Follywood, the capitol of the Cherokee Nation is just up the road in Tahlequah. Twila Barnes is the Cherokee genealogist who has disproved Liawatha's tall tales. Barnes was harassed by Warren supporters but she did not cave and the truth finally came out.

Posted by: creeper at July 10, 2020 07:25 AM (XxJt1)

736 DeNiro's lawyer said in a court filing he's made over $500 million in the last fifteen years. That's...staggering.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at July 10, 2020 07:25 AM (NVYyb)

737 736 DeNiro's lawyer said in a court filing he's made over $500 million in the last fifteen years. That's...staggering.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at July 10, 2020 07:25 AM (NVYyb)

Only $33 mil a year? No wonder the poor guy is crying poverty!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 10, 2020 07:26 AM (6FeV1)

738 The little town of Roland OK has a big number of
medical marijuana dispensaries, gentlemen's clubs, and on and off pill
mills some quack will open and take the money and run. Next hot thing
will be DNA testing and tribal blood card issuance centers.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at July 10, 2020 07:13 AM

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Most of the Eastern tribes have closed new registrations, not sure about Western tribes though.

If you ain't related to a current tribal member, you ain't getting in. I.e. new babies and such.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 10, 2020 07:28 AM (JUOKG)

739 Posted by: creeper at July 10, 2020 07:25 AM (XxJt1)

===============

Fauxcahontas picked the wrong fight when she tried claiming Cherokee blood. Twila Barnes was excellent as I recall.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at July 10, 2020 07:28 AM (NVYyb)

740 DeNiro's lawyer said in a court filing he's made over $500 million in the last fifteen years. That's...staggering.

--

No wonder he took gobs of Trump's PPP money. Poor little dear was just barely scraping by!

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 10, 2020 07:28 AM (O+I8R)

741 I want to blame Trump for this mistake, but he was, and still is, surrounded by traitors on all sides, and I am sure Gorsuch got the same kind of glowing recommendations that John Roberts got!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at July 10, 2020 07:23 AM (eTZoJ)

The Federalist society has been infiltrated by lying pieces of shit; typical Repuke losers who are embarrassed by their base. I think we're fucked thanks to the party of cowards.

Posted by: Captain Hate at July 10, 2020 07:28 AM (y7DUB)

742
No beer tents, no sausages and onions cooking on the grills....The end.

Posted by: Colin at July 10, 2020 07:23 AM (R9XOS)

*weeps silently*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2020 07:28 AM (mht8P)

743 Bill, I don't think it's going to be federal jurisdiction, for the most part. The tribe is perfectly capable iof dealing with its own criminals and has been doing so for a century.

Posted by: creeper at July 10, 2020 07:29 AM (XxJt1)

744 736 737 I think DeNero makes a lot of money from being in a lot of movies, a lot of them pretty bad. The studio pays him to bill his name, not for his role.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at July 10, 2020 07:29 AM (C1Lsn)

745 I feel like i have my Moron Card torn up for this, but....

in the sidebar.... who the hell is "dri"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 10, 2020 07:30 AM (6FeV1)

746 That's the crucial clue, and Jimmy sees it: The feathers are normal size to Lucy and him. If the two had really been shrunken, the feathers would have been gigantic. The whole thing is a hoax!

Now I don't remember why anybody would build a room of gigantic furniture for this purpose. But the essential clue was something worthy of Ellery Queen.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 10, 2020 07:17 AM (rpbg1)

---------------------------

That would take an awful lot of feathers to fill a pillow that large. Must have been lots of geese waddling around nude!
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 10, 2020

*
*

True! Looking back as a grownup, I realize how illogical the setup is, like a Superman-universe version of Dr. Cyclops. But the essential clue is a good one -- stunningly simple and presented cleverly, so that you're laughing while the important clue is right in front of you.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 10, 2020 07:30 AM (rpbg1)

747 From now on just put Alito and Thomas in charge of recommending names to PDJT.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at July 10, 2020 07:30 AM (NVYyb)

748 The Federalist society has been infiltrated by lying pieces of shit;

--

It's a strategy that has worked beautifully, hasn't it? Infiltrate and then reek havoc on true Constitutional conservatism.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 10, 2020 07:31 AM (O+I8R)

749 743 That's true, what with tribal police and courts. However, the feds, being feds ,could use this to get the camel's nose under the tent.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at July 10, 2020 07:32 AM (C1Lsn)

750 Di Nero's ex-wife looka like a man.

https://tinyurl.com/ycm9f62u

Posted by: fly at July 10, 2020 07:32 AM (2M/TV)

751 the Supremes will decide that the tribes are due compensation, opening the reparations floodgate
--
And conveniently, one more thing Congress doesn't have to actually pass and take a side on! Let SCOTUS do it!
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 10, 2020 07:24 AM (O+I8R)

The proverbial foot in the door...

Turtle McConnell "Hey now, WE in congress dindu nuffin!"

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at July 10, 2020 07:33 AM (eTZoJ)

752 Ol Yeller referred to the Supreme Court as the Politburo with 2 judges and 7 politicians.

Posted by: Captain Hate at July 10, 2020 07:33 AM (y7DUB)

753 Huck, the Indians' attitude toward Warren is interesting. They don't get mad and stomp and scream. They treat her like a child. It's refreshing to watch.

Posted by: creeper at July 10, 2020 07:33 AM (XxJt1)

754 722 718 Robert Di Nero is having financial problems. Let me go get my very tiny violin.
Posted by: fly at July 10, 2020 07:19 AM (2M/TV)

He's lying to avoid coughing it up to the ex.
_______________

Isn't she black?

This must mean he's raaaaaaacist!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at July 10, 2020 07:34 AM (k4dH2)

755 https://tinyurl.com/yc6vepmz

Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2020 04:02 AM (mpXpK)

Vic... whatever the merits of this decision, it certainly does not give ownership of OK to any tribe.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at July 10, 2020 07:34 AM (nAiE/)

756 743 Bill, I don't think it's going to be federal jurisdiction, for the most part. The tribe is perfectly capable iof dealing with its own criminals and has been doing so for a century.
Posted by: creeper at July 10, 2020 07:29 AM (XxJt1)

The case in point was a child rapist that said the state laws was invalid and he cannot be tried by the state. SCOTUS agreed.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2020 07:35 AM (JFO2v)

757 Gorsux; lemme show you a real bone.

Posted by: azalea city at July 10, 2020 07:35 AM (WX+x0)

758 Come on guys, Comey was fired, what more do you want?

A 0300 no knock raid to take him into custody, a very public trial
for sedition, and to see him shackled and perp walked to a federal PMITA
prison for the remainder of his life. Or hanged. Whichever is easier.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 10, 2020 07:19 AM (m/Sks)

I vote for a very public hanging (with the company of all his fellow traitors).

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at July 10, 2020 07:36 AM (nAiE/)

759 My neighbor told me last night all the towns around here are going to mandatory mask rules.

In Oklahoma.

We are SO screwed.

Posted by: creeper at July 10, 2020 07:36 AM (XxJt1)

760 I don't think the Indian tribes look very fondly on BLM. Driving to a nearby Indian Rev. nothing about BLM anywhere. I doubt the fake squall has any interest in them either.

Posted by: Colin at July 10, 2020 07:37 AM (R9XOS)

761 rhennigan, he can and will be tried by the tribe. Believe me, he's no better off for that.

Posted by: creeper at July 10, 2020 07:38 AM (XxJt1)

762 >>>My neighbor told me last night all the towns around here are going to mandatory mask rules.

In Oklahoma.

We are SO screwed.
+++++

Don't wear one. If confronted by law enforcement, tell them you're on federal land and to get bent.

Posted by: fly at July 10, 2020 07:39 AM (2M/TV)

763 720 So wouldn't the natural solution to this mess be to abolish the concept of a reservation all together?
_________________

Maybe congress can fix it by just declaring that the eastern half of OK is not actually a Creek Indian reservation. Gorsuch got that from the text of some old statutes, but what one (or more) statute(s) can give, others can take away.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at July 10, 2020 07:39 AM (k4dH2)

764 Bonjour fappeurs!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 10, 2020 07:39 AM (NWiLs)

765 759 The barber I've been going to in OK is a I will not comply kind of guy. Yesterday, no masks, guys just hanging out, business as usual. I hope he doesn't get hassled.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at July 10, 2020 07:39 AM (C1Lsn)

766 The Federalist society has been infiltrated by lying pieces of shit; typical Repuke losers who are embarrassed by their base. I think we're fucked thanks to the party of cowards.

Posted by: Captain Hate at July 10, 2020 07:28 AM (y7DUB)

As we huddle in our caves, burning trash from the gated community dump, we'll be saying "If only we had really paid attention to the kind of people we kept electing to congress!"

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at July 10, 2020 07:40 AM (eTZoJ)

767 Elizabeth Warren: "Squawt".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 10, 2020 07:40 AM (6FeV1)

768 No BLM signage on your home or business; burn it down.

Posted by: azalea city at July 10, 2020 07:41 AM (WX+x0)

769
Not a good year for the carnival guys. Pretty much all festivals,
carnivals, fairs cancelled. Hopefully they can survive. Not much fun
anywhere, no kids showing off their prized bulls, pigs, cows, horses,
nothing. The end....Probably no rodeo's anywhere. No beer tents, no
sausages and onions cooking on the grills....The end.

Posted by: Colin at July 10, 2020 07:23 AM (R9XOS)

This will likely be the case until carnival/festival/fair planners just go ahead and open and dare authorities to do anything about it.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at July 10, 2020 07:41 AM (nAiE/)

770 This will likely be the case until carnival/festival/fair planners just go ahead and open and dare authorities to do anything about it.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at July 10, 2020 07:41 AM (nAiE/)

Let me tell ya a ting or two consairning Demohcracy, boyo...

Posted by: Warai McOtoko at July 10, 2020 07:42 AM (6FeV1)

771 Noodus JJ Report

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 10, 2020 07:44 AM (rpbg1)

772 755 Vic... whatever the merits of this decision, it certainly does not give ownership of OK to any tribe.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at July 10, 2020 07:34 AM (nAiE/)

Not yet, but it does say that people in those areas are covered by tribal law, not OK law. That is the first step.

Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2020 07:45 AM (mpXpK)

773 Fireman's carnivals are also big around here. Help support the local vol. fire dept's. I'm sure the people of NYC have never heard of such a thing. And the country fair is big on demolition derby's, (guys just ramming each other's cars) Draws big crowds, noisy as hell, but the last car able to run wins. They have several heats, afternoon and evening. Lots and Lots of souped up cars with big exhaust pipes. No city person would even know what that is.

Posted by: Colin at July 10, 2020 07:50 AM (R9XOS)

774 *tries to scrap off sock*

Posted by: Bete at July 10, 2020 08:12 AM (Ojki1)

775 If the author ever gets down this far: One upvote for this post. I loved it. The Batman as Time Lord strip was inspired!

Posted by: Uma Thurmond's Feet at July 10, 2020 09:55 AM (bb97x)

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