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Pathetic, but expected.

Apparently Linda McMahon's Super PAC promised to spend millions of dollars in Florida, which is why they agreed to continue letting them run.

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The Frank Miller run still holds up so well with Bullseye. It's soooo good. I always felt like Bullseye fits the more grim style of Daredevil really well, but it's always such a refreshing change when he's thrust out of it like in Thunderbolts, Deadpool, or Dark Avengers. In those elements, you can see just how much of a monster he really is (or, alternatively, just how much he really doesn't care about any collateral damage and wants a good laugh a la with Deadpool). I really don't like a lot of Daniel Way's Deadpool, but I thought he did a perfect job with the Bullseye storyline.

And I would say with the sheer obsessive nature Bullseye has towards Daredevil and the fact that so many absolutely horrendous things that have happened in Daredevil's life as a result of Bullseye, he is the definitive Daredevil archvillain though.

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House of X/Powers of X Issue 10

So we open up this issue with Forge talking with Xavier about making his Cerebro copy mutant minds as well. Hickman, dude, put a little graphic with "Forge: Intuitive inventor" or something. If I didn't know that bandanna and mustache, I wouldn't have known who the hell this was until the last line of the conversation.

Then we cut to Xavier and Magneto talking to Emma Frost about their big idea and she rejects it at first and claims it's not heroic, but they want her to be the distributor of the mutant drugs they were making using her Hellfire Club connections. And she even gets convinced to bring back Sebastian Shaw.

We jump to Xavier contacting all the bad mutants around until he gets to Namor, who commends him for realizing that they are better than humans, but that Xavier won't acknowledge that Namor is better than them and that he shouldn't come back until he does. Oh Namor, such a dick.

And then back in 1000 years in the future, the Celestials plan to absorb the intelligence of the planet and also devour the planet entirely. ...Not a tremendous trade off.

House of X/Powers of X Issue 11

Xavier gives a big speech to the world about how mutants are getting a seat at the UN and they're done letting humans dictate them. It's honestly a really good speech. Hickman has a way with words!

We come to the present where we have the trial of Sabretooth, wherein they decide no mutant can murder a human and it was pointed out by Magneto he told Sabretooth not to kill anyone but Sabretooth be Sabretooth. Everyone there agrees Sabretooth is a horrible murdering asshole and he needs to be punished. And so he gets sent to the middle of Krakoa for all eternity, or when a writer feels like using him again he is offered a chance at redemption.

There's a montage of mutants partying and my favorite one that stood out was Jean Grey offering Emma Frost a beer of all things. Hah, nice.

House of X/Powers of X Issue 12

So we get another recap of Moira MacTaggert meeting Xavier again for some reason, and then we go to 1000 years in the future to the mutant dome where Wolverine is there and tells the Librarian that he's been teaching the mutants there about freedom and an uprising every day. Nice, Logan. Oh, and Moira is there too. Hi Moira. Guessing this is life six. The Librarian rambles on about how s/he is going to send Moira away so she can't go back and stop things. The plan is for them to be a part of a time/space hivemind deal and live on at all times and then Logan murders the hell out of the Librarian, now that they know what the plan is. And then he kills Moira too.

We flash to when Moira and Xavier met and Moira says that she needs to break the part of Xavier that is good and sees the good in people in order for the mutants to not be completely eradicated. Moira seems put off that they promised to bring Destiny back to get Mystique on board, because the mutants can't know that the mutants always lose, but Xavier and Magneto say it's no big deal and they'll put it off. Oh, and Emma has a mystery seat still. But they seem to just kind of blow Moira off now, and they don't seem particularly... I don't know, great as this point? Anyway, we end with Xavier and Magneto talking about how they won't lose this time and they're willing to do whatever it takes to win.

House of X/Powers of X Final Thoughts

So I like a ton about this story. I think it has a really nice premise and set up for the future of mutants, and it sets up what I assume is Hickman's run here in a unique way. The literal future was interesting too, but some of it feels, I dunno, unnecessary? Like why focus on a lot of the 100 years in the future stuff when not a ton of it actually matters much. I found the most interesting parts the present day stuff, but I also found the resurrection thing to be a cop-out. Like this is the time where a literal suicide mission ends with all of the X-Men on that team dying? And now they just have the means of bringing them back? I dunno. It's not my favorite plot.

I'm also on the fence about this giant retcon of Moira. I know why they did it, but it feels like it might have been better with a totally different character. With a new character, nothing honestly changes in this story. It seems like it was Moira just to make a shocking change to an existing character. If it were just some random woman eventually finding Xavier, showing him all that, and telling him "YOU NEED TO CHANGE DAMNIT!" then I think it would work just as well.

Nimrod and Sinister are my standouts of this story, oddly enough. I liked their little parts in the story and found them entertaining to read most of all.

This setting for the X-Men is pretty great though, and Hickman has done a great job bringing a whole new landscape for the mutants. I have my complaints, but as a stand alone story it's pretty outstanding. I feel like some trimming of the fat could've been done to focus on what I feel is most important: the present day stuff.

Hickman is great at thinking outside the box, and I'm glad he's getting a chance to do that with X-Men. I'm actually pretty curious to see where X-Men has gone after he's set them up like this.

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Just picked up Dark Nights: Metal! So I'll be taking a break from 52 to read that! But for now, I am about to read the rest of House of X/Powers of X!

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SNAKE GOT IT!

My favorite Marvel villain is absolutely Bullseye.

He's been on the Thunderbolts and Dark Avengers and, if you count it, The Hand.

He's never been adapted into an animated series probably because he's such an unrepentant psychopath they can't tone him down enough.

He's been in the Daredevil movie and the Daredevil series (RIP Season 4).

He's had, by my count, three miniseries.

He has never been even remotely heroic in his life. He's just the worst, even when he pretended to be Hawkeye.

And there is nobody who has ever been a bigger archvillain to Daredevil than him. I would place him above Kingpin.

Bullseye is my favorite villain because he is legitimately evil and there is no redemption for him. He's efficient and obsessed and is willing to commit heinous acts just to give himself a laugh. His dark humor always gets me, every single time. And he's just such an utter psychopath who only cares about mayhem and murder, and that's always why I gravitated to him is because it's honestly that simple and that terrifying. I seriously believe there is no villain in the Marvel universe who would be more terrifying to run into than Bullseye, because he would have no qualms with straight murdering you just for a chuckle.

And as an antagonist to Daredevil, he's just a perfect foil. Matthew Murdock, pushed by his beliefs in balance of law and order and Bullseye with zero regard for any rules or sensibilities. Bullseye makes it intensely personal with him and it started by the man with perfect aim not being able to hit Daredevil, and it's just escalated so out of control that Bullseye takes absolute joy in ruining Daredevil's life in any way he can.

He's a menace, a monster, and I believe he's more of a rarity in the Marvel universe in that he is just among the most evil villains imaginable. And all in all, he's just a man who has perfect aim. No super powers aside from that. But he still manages to be a more terrifying presence than most villains with abilities.

So @Snake5555555555 , let me know what you want me to pick up after House of X/Powers of X!

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Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer enabling WWE to keep open. Who would have guessed?

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Nope, Carnage and I think almost all Spider-Man villains have been adapted in an animated series I think!

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Planning on maaaaybe finishing up this afternoon with House of X/Powers of X.

And I'll pop back over to 52 after this unless someone guesses my favorite Marvel villain. I'll add one more hint.

1) Has been a member on a team, but has never led a team before.
2) Has never been adapted into an animated series.
3) Has been adapted in live action before.
4) Has had multiple miniseries.
5) Is absolutely an evil villain and has never been heroic ever.
6) Is THE definitive archvillain for a hero.

I'm trying not to make it too obvious but I may if nobody gets it after this hint.

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House of X/Powers of X Issue 6

Alright, so we begin with Cyclops forming a team to go and destroy Mother Mold. We have Archangel, Wolverine, Marvel Girl, Mystique, Nightcrawler, and... two women I don't know. One is Monet.

We go to the trial of Sabretooth and he seems to not care that he's about to go to jail. "You think chains will stop me from turning your insides to your outsides?" See, I like this Sabretooth a lot. But Emma Frost comes to set him free with two of the Cuckoos? There's three, right? I know something happened with one of them but I can't remember. Also, Emma Frost is awesome in this scene. She's legitimately great and I always enjoy seeing her. She gets Sabretooth let free even though he's a fucking horrific monster and he brags about it. She gets a gun put on her and she just says she could make her stick that gun where her last boyfriend left her. Ouch.

Back with the other X-Men, Nightcrawler bamfs onto the station and apparently Karima is someone that we know? No idea who this character is actually. And I'm not often stumped. One of them tries to blow himself up and the X-Men's ship to take them out and... that's the issue!

House of X/Powers of X Issue 7

So the Cuckoos manage to use tech to make a mind link with Jean and... wait, they killed Archangel just like that? And Husk (who I now know was the blonde in that group). Then whoever Monet is kinda turns into Lady Deathstrike and tells Jean that she needs to work better because Jean says she needs her to do it. Badass last stand. The wife of the man who blew himself up is out for blood and sucks Mystique through an air duct and then starts the Mother Mold. Nightcrawler then teleports Wolverine to the Mother Mold and he blows it up as they both die. Cyclops attempts to escape with Jean but gets attacked by Karina and blown the eff up. And then they all come and presumably kill Jean too.

I'm expecting some crazy shenanigans from all of this and I have no idea what they may be.

House of X/Powers of X Issue 8

Holy shit Mister Sinister. lmao "I. Love. That. Cape. Why do I not have that cape?" "It's a crime, sir. An outrage. I've always felt you should wear one." "Well if you really thought that, why didn't you say something?" "...It slipped my mind." "EXECUTE THIS MAN!"

So Xavier and Magneto want Sinister's database of mutant DNA. Makes sense. This is all starting to come together. Sinister seems to oppose it before another Sinister--apparently the real one--murders the other one and says he'll help. It looks like Xavier did some mind mojo on him because you don't trust freaking Mister Sinister.

We jump to Xavier in Krakoa with... somebody. Hickman, I'm begging you man, give names to these people in dialogue or something so I know who the hell some of them are. I'm starting to sense a trend where he just does that. Anyway, Xavier uses this other mutant guy to translate a giant tree's speech. Apparently Apocalypse shut down all access to Krakoa. THIS IS CYPHER, OKAY! Why do I need to learn this from an infographic after all of the important stuff is said?

We jump to 1000 years in the future and the Celestials want important technology. They seem like they want the technology that they have to offer. Okay.

House of X/Powers of X Issue 9

Back in the present, Polaris and Magneto are hanging out while he talks about humans. But wait, Golden Balls Mutant Guy actually shot eggs? Fucking what? But him and some other mutants--the only other one I recognize is Eva Bell whose mutant name I don't remember--all are creating life? Anyway, it takes us to the opening of the series with mutants hatching out--I figured it was going to head here after everyone died. Xavier can now use Cerebro to give mutants back their souls which... I dunno, it feels cheap and easy even if there is this whole weird process. All the mutants that died are now back again as they were before they died.

It's a giant weird propaganda thing where Storm declares she knows each person who was resurrected. And then we learn that during a UN meeting, Emma Frost changes the minds on an important vote to support Krakoa... and Xavier is cool with it. Okay, this feels... wronger and wronger? Is it supposed to start feeling wrong?

They then bring literally all of the evil mutants to their place. Like all of them. Apocalypse and Mister Sinister and even Gorgon are there. Apocalypse says this is what he hoped for all mutants and agrees to work with everyone.

Alright, I'm done for the night! Hoping to wrap up tomorrow!

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SwiftyDC posted...

Nice! There is an order to read them. Start off with House of X #1 and at the end of it there should be an order list.

Oh, it seems to be leap frogging House of X and then Powers of X every other issue. So I'm going in the order of this collection.

Edit: Wait it doesn't leap frog. I just assumed it did. I messed up the entire order. I'm just going to do House of X/Powers of X Issue #. lol

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House of X Issue 1

Weird open. Someone's coming out of a plant pod it looks like, and then we learn that the X-Men are making their own plant building? There's an Esme and Sophie and I don't know either. I know Magneto, who is going to speak on Xavier's behalf to these government folk who want to use miracle flowers.

Oh, wow. They really went with Jean Grey's old campy outfit, didn't they? ...Don't love it. I don't know anything about Krakoa, which apparently has eyes everywhere here? And there's a Sage? I am lost. lol Anyway, Wolverine is here hanging out with children and Xavier.

And then we cut to a bunch of people trying to board a space station called Forge with a giant head there. Aight, I like Hickman's writing a lot, but I feel like sometimes he isn't as clear as he ought to be sometimes, because there are multiple times I've paused and wonder if I need to know more before reading this.

But hey! Familiar stuff! Mystique, Toad, and Sabretooth are trying to hack into things--SINCE WHEN CAN TOAD HACK!? That's funny to me for some reason. Anyway, they try to escape and Human Torch and Thing go to stop them. Whoops.

And we learn that the mutants have made their own language...? That's a strange idea. They explore the area and it's honestly super trippy and is honestly not doing much to give people reasons not to fear mutants!

But hey, the new Fantastic Four outfits are awesome. And when Invisible Woman stops Sabretooth from escaping, Cyclops comes out. Does the entire Marvel universe not hate Cyclops now? I remember they did for a long while. Good though! And Thing is married? What are these revelations I'm getting now. lol Apparently you can get amnesty as a mutant if you go into the Krakoan building. And then Cyclops seems like he's going to fight with the Fantastic Four over this........... and then says they can keep Sabretooth and they'll deal with it later. Hahaha, good stuff. Invisible Woman has an issue with this and honestly I can see why, but Cyclops has a compelling case honestly.

Oh, hey. There's a list of Omega Level mutants on this next page. Neat.

Apparently all the Ambassadors have no intention of really working with the mutants all too well judging by the one psychic girl's assessment and Magneto strips a double agent of his weapons and then tells everyone they have new gods now and that agreements will be on their terms. ...Am I supposed to not feel very good at all about the mutant arrangement here? It may just be Magneto being Magneto, but it doesn't paint this in a tremendous light.

Powers of X Issue 1

So back in the day Xavier is at a fair and then I think Moira McTaggert is saying she was looking for him?

Meanwhile, Mystique and Toad enter Krakoa and give up their USB information and Mystique has a funny exchange with Xavier.

We jump to 100 years in the future and mutants are having a rough time. Real talk: time travel is my least favorite part of X-Men stuff. There's a Rasputin there, who can turn to metal and also uses a magic sword? That's... kind of unlikely she'd have the same abilities as the two Rasputins. Anyway, Rasputin is trying to save a mutant in a damned future and she refuses to leave without her. Oh... wait. The next page shows a bunch of information about this. Apparently they are products of Mister Sinister's work? Unsurprisingly, Mister Sinister betrayed all mutants. Sounds about right. But that makes sense why the Rasputin has those powers at least.

They take the black brain psychic girl to... Nimrod? Holy crap that's a name I haven't thought of for a while. He tries to apologize to the black brain girl about this and says he's ashamed for breeding them as mutants and them not being subservient and that he's going to kill them all. Cold, dude. But Nimrod also puts the black brain mutant in a pod and promises to strip her down to only data and information... yikes.

So then we have Rasputin and red Nightcrawler who meet with..... Old Man Logan, Magneto, some floating skull face person, and not-Groot. I can't tell if I should know them or not.

Then we jump to 1000 years in the future where Nimrod is a small floating computer and there's... maybe a mutant who absorbs information of mutants like black brain. And we learn that the human-machine-mutant war ended and apparently the mutants are all rounded up in a dome.

House of X Issue 2

...Sorry, Moira MacTaggert is a mutant? Who resurrects and maintains her memory? I don't know how much I love this. It feels like it kind of cheapens the character to me, since I've always liked her as a human ally. But apparently she relives a new life constantly in the same time frame? She lives an uneventful life at first, then one where she discovers Xavier and then dies in a plane crash, and then she uses her third one to find a mutant cure, but the Brotherhood of Mutants mess the place up? Destiny (hey, there's a character I haven't seen in forever) understands Moira is a mutant and tells her that the cure will destroy them all, which she's probably not wrong, and then proceeds to threaten to end her if she revives and tries to get rid of her first. And then she has Pyro burn her alive so she remembers what death feels like. God damn. That's rough.

Her fourth life included her falling in love with Xavier and then being murdered to death by Sentinels, which motivates her in her next life to fight back harder. They skilled Moira's sixth life for some reason and jumped to her seventh one where she killed all of the Trask family to try stopping the Sentinels from being created but fails. Eighth life, she tries with Magneto and fails. But then ninth life, she tries with Apocalypse and fails.

And the tenth and current life is the current timeline where Xavier knows all of this beforehand. It's kind of interesting, but I think I need to see how all of this plays out with her.

Powers of X Issue 2

So Moira and Xavier decide the only way for mutants to not be murdered dead is for Xavier and Magneto to just fuck already work together, which makes sense. Hence why we have what we do here now. We learn that Mystique found plans for a Mother Mold who can create Master Molds. That's the space station thing from issue 1. Now I'm catching up, Hickman. Magneto and Xavier tell Cyclops they need to stop this because this is where their Nimrod is created and Cyclops is all in on that.

Back 100 years in the future, apparently Apocalypse is hanging out with the other mutants too. And Nimrod murders some humans dead because they talked back. Nimrod is a cold MFer and I like him a lot. He even mimes talking with one of their skulls. You can tell Hickman is having a ball writing for him. Wait, flamehead is Xorn? What?

House of X Is

So Immortal Hulk Volume 2 isn't out yet. Whoops. I would think it would be considering how long ago these issues were out!

So I checked out House of X/Powers of X and it's on a huge discount this week. So I'll be reading that! @SwiftyDC I'll start reading tonight. I'm not sure what format this will be since the collection I have includes both.

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https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/exclusives/wwe-talent-say-company-sent-memo-about-positive-coronavirus-covid-19-test

So wait, somebody who works for WWE but not "on the roster" has tested positive for Coronavirus and has last been at tapings on March 26 and they're still going on and they told talent it was "low risk" that any one of them got it.

Holy shit. The talent just needs to fucking unionize over this shit. The amount of irresponsibility is outrageous and if they ever had a chance to unionize, it would absolutely be right now while their nuts are in a vice over their TV contracts.

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Final bump for guesses before I either start Immortal Hulk Vol. 2 or someone gets it and I change it!

Hints for my favorite Marvel villain:

1) Has been a member on a team, but has never led a team before.
2) Has never been adapted into an animated series.
3) Has been adapted in live action before.
4) Has had multiple miniseries.
5) Is absolutely an evil villain and has never been heroic ever.

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In other news, Penelope Ford has the most quality theme in AEW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmXMJFrRHJI

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This is actually a legitimate strategy.

https://twitter.com/TrevorDame/status/1249061960877916162?s=19

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Oh, and just because I know it would piss me off if this was the case, I'll remove all doubt.

There is absolutely no way that this character could be construed as a hero. Like, it's not a hero who has been good in the past or currently or is known as a hero in any way. In fact, I'll just say that this character has never been heroic at all.

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Akinator got it in 25 questions!

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Let's not go crazy here. WWE won't fold. It has too much name brand that at worst it will be bought by someone else.

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So a lot of this depends on what Fox wants to do now.

On one hand, I can't imagine that they haven't reached out and said "Okay, due to extenuating circumstances of the pandemic..."

On the other hand, I can see them having smacked their hand away after that and, due to being pissed off that they thought they'd be getting Ronda and Lesnar constantly, and the lower ratings than they expected, and they said "Oh, well... due to the extenuating circumstances of the pandemic....... we may need to change our agreement."


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I'll go ahead and say nobody has gotten it yet. I swear it's not some obscure pick where you guys will be like "Why the hell is THAT his favorite?"

Another hint: This character has not only had their own miniseries, they've had multiple ones.

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You guys will kick yourselves when someone gets it. Hahaha.

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52 Issue 24

We open with Green Arrow taking a call from the new Firestorm who assembled an utter garbage team of Justice League members. Wtf. lol They ask where Martian Manhunter is and he's been infiltrating governments and getting shit done. He gets Checkmate (whatever that is) shut down entirely to avenge Ted Kord, who died for it and apparently nobody listened to him when he tried to get them to do something. And he says he accomplished it to the Booster Gold statue with the rest of the fallen JLA members. Awwww.

Anyway, the new crappy JLA is fighting ghost pirates. Real talk: I know Ambush Bug is supposed to be annoying and quirky and funny, but I kinda don't like him. Should I like him? But a really really shittier team comes to help save the day, including "Immortal Bald-Man-In-Armor". I feel like Grant Morrison wrote literally all of the new Justice League stuff in this issue. Apparently these losers are from the Lex Luthor project and Skeets is here! And blasts the hell out of Firestorm. He's trying to get someone's attention. Why Skeets whyyyyyy!? Skeets murders the everloving fuck out of the Super Chief buffalo head guy and then his grandfather uses him as an example to say to Ralph Dibny to be careful. Oh.

While that's going on, Black Adam is shutting down the plan with China and calling for not murdering every metahuman now while they diss on him. And... Osiris doesn't seem quite right. Like the kid seems kind of blood thirsty.

Amanda Waller hates that Black Adam is doing Black Adam things and then gets... Atom Smasher of all people to form a new team to take him out, apparently. Uh oh.

52 Issue 15

Aight. Has Bruno Mannheim always been this fucked up? Like he's straight murdering people left and right (including Kite Man, hell no!) and eating them? What? I don't remember him ever being like this.

Meanwhile, the Black Marvel family saves Halloween from a hell demon and steals Mary Marvel and Marvel Jr.'s thunder.

And then in like hell or something, Doctor Fate shows Ralph Felix Faust, a down on his luck asshole who bargained with his soul so much that he is trapped in hell for all eternity.

And even more and then, we have Alan Scott talking to a Michael who I'm not sure who that is about the goings-on after Infinity Inc. stops Tigress and Icicle.

And back on the Mad Scientist Island, Magnus refuses to create a Plutonium Robot and.... uh... Bruno Mannheim.... has.... a giant egg creature... named Chang Tzu... having his back. What the fuck.

52 Issue 26

So the Black Marvel family drops Question and Montoya on a frigid mountain with I guess Richard Dragon there?

Then the Black Marvel family go to have dinner with Sivana's ex-wife and commit to finding Sivana for her? And there's a giant big gag of all the mad scientists being nerds who fawn over a woman? And then Osiris runs off and a lizard man wants to be his friend?

Not a tremendous issue. Also didn't we leave off on a giant cliffhanger with the space folks? Oh well.

That's it for volume 2! I think I'll actually follow Volume 2 of Immortal Hulk, actually. Unless someone guesses my favorite Marvel villain, that is!

The hints were, and I'll add a third one too:

1) Has been a member on a team, but has never led a team before.
2) Has never been adapted into an animated series.
3) Has been adapted in live action before.

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Yeah, the SF Bay was the second place to shelter because Tacoma was first. I remember because my boss saw that Tacoma was becoming a shit show and asked me to cancel his flight there, and they closed down right before then, and when I went to gather my things to work from home, they announced the shelter in place as I was headed back.

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I'm a paralegal so I print letters and filings often to mail out.

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I need to print letters, but that's all I really need to print.

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I didn't watch but people were actually really positive about the league and hope that NFL adopts some things from it.

Which they won't because it's the NFL but still.

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My printer decided that it was inexplicably out of black ink despite not giving me a warning last time it was on, and I had to search everywhere to find a nearby place that has a replacement. So anyone working from home that needs to still print stuff, ink cartridges may also be on shortage too.

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52 Issue 19

So Skeets ends up finding Daniel Carter again who was an ex-football star and Booster's ancestor. He wants to join Lex's super kids club but Skeets convinces him to go and access Rip Hunter's safe base with the information in it. And Daniel dresses like Booster and........... WHAT THE HELL SKEETS!? WHAT IS HAPPENING!? NO SKEETS! NO! WHY!? How could Skeets turn!? He has to be malfunctioning or someone has to be tampering with him or something.

The other story they touch on is Pope Lobo which... you know, it's funny for a gag but doesn't do a whole lot for me. I like reading Lobo's dialogue but it's not a terribly compelling story. I feel like Starfire/Animal Man/Adam Strange needs someone else in that crew to kind of liven up the group a little bit. Also, Lobo straight up took Starfire's top and murdered Devilance while the three are debating if he's changed or not. How is this a debate? He's obviously not changed. You can see it with your own eyes. Come on guys.

Oh, and Supernova stops Weather Wizard who has a very awful outfit with Wonder Girl's help. She thinks he's Superboy though. Hmm. She's also batshit crazy though.

52 Issue 20

Supernova is creeping around the Batcave and he sees... the Infinity Gauntlet? Idk.

Steel is being a hero and embracing his steel skin, but Kala finds out that Lex can take away powers as easily as he gives them.

And then we focus on Lobo's space adventures. And Lobo doesn't want to use an eye when they're under attack, but Starfire does, and then yadda yadda some big evil death skull thing is coming to kill them all after using it. I'm losing my patience with this story I think.

52 Issue 21

Natasha talks to Luthor and gets speed girl's super hero gig back. Then Lex is leading them to take out the new Blockbuster, and they're called Infinity Inc. Kind of a good name, actually. They treat this mission like it's a show and Lex is talking about editing in post and stuff. Love it. Oh, and the real Teen Titans are there and, uh......... this is kind of a rough team. Beast Boy and Raven, alright. Power Boy? Little Barda? Zachary Zatara? Hot Spot? Jesus. lol Anyway, Lex was highly entertaining and then he becomes a FUCKING MONSTER at the drop of a hat. This is why he's one of the best villains. He can keep sucking you in as an entertaining dude before being the literal worst human on the planet. The Titans and Infinity argue and then Lex has Blockbuster break free and then when the speed girl goes after him, Lex cuts off his powers and then Blockbuster proceeds to snap her neck. Fuck.

After that, the Teen Titans break up at her funeral. What the fuck. lmao Time and place guys. And then Natasha freaks out when Steel wants to talk with her and Beast Boy offers to help him with his three man team of Titans.

While that's happening, Ralph Dibny is tying up monsters after sneaking them with elastic potions to get information.

And at the end some dude is making Red Tornado a new body out of scraps.

52 Issue 22

Holy shit Lex Luthor is peak Lex here. He's chewing out a scientist for having overheard Wonder Girl calling Supernova Kon-El and Luthor is basically calling the guy a fucking idiot for the best evidence he has being some idiot girl pining for her dead boyfriend. He's kind of in the right here honestly. lol And Supernova is just watching and Lex, in typical Lex fashion, claims he's SUPERMAN of course. But Lex wants to give himself powers now! But I guess Lex is not compatible with the procedure which he does not love. Later some dude just says Lex is a liar and gets thrown out of an opening and Steel talks with him.

And then some Native American dude throws a creep out a bus. And he is not a great person. He gets offered a costume but I guess he needs to kill his grandfather for it? What's happening here?

And we get back to Dr. Magnus and Mercury! They're chatting it up and Magnus only wants to have Mercury around...... until he gets attacked by the other Metal Men. He cleverly deals with them while Mercury gets fucking wrecked and then his home is blown the hell up. Maybe with him in it! But it appears only mad scientists are allowed, not reasonably sane ones.

52 Issue 23

So apparently Dr. Morrow created a mad scientist island for everyone as part of his big scheme to escape. God I hope they explain how he pulled this off. Magnus is being forced to work with them too.

But in Yemen, Montoya, Question, Black Adam, and Isis find Intergang doing some weird crime religion thing and beating the hell out of Isis' brother. After beating him nearly to death, Black Adam makes him say his name to heal and become... Osiris! Hah. Anyway, everyone is happy at least. Question wins though.

"Isis! Osiris! Black Adam!" "What are you doing?" "Seeing if it's contagious."

Question the best. Anyway, Black Adam and Iris plan to go to China to fix it. Oh no. Glad they didn't forget about the alliance.

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The olds were dedicated to seeing the ending of the Gargano v. Ciampa feud.

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Oh, well I guess that's probably why I thought to call him a detective chimp. lol

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You know, I have never not even once been impressed by Britt Baker in the ring, but her match with Hikaru Shida was legitimately outstanding. I know a lot of it has to do with Shida being outstanding, but I honestly think Britt did a tremendous job on her end too.

Good for Britt! Except for getting her nose busted open. That looked rough.

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AEW is worth watching this week for Chris Jericho's commentary alone.

He is such a legend.

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I don't understand how they are so bad at just simply planning things. Like, why book Fiend vs. Goldberg in the first place? Why not just book Goldberg against some too level guy who can stand to lose?

So dumb.

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Not going to read too much tonight.

52 Issue 17

So alright, I love the way Lex is handling his super hero team like he's a manager, bantering with most of them. It goes back to the thing where I am loving Lex, but I know he'll be sure to remind me what a piece of trash he is. Love that character.

Meanwhile, Adam Strange, Animal Man, and Starfire are busy in space doing space stuff when Devilance comes back to murder them. But Lobo comes and murders him super quick. lmao Okay, so my stance on Lobo is that he's honestly not a tremendous character, and I don't feel like he can carry anything on his own, but I like him. He's like a guilty pleasure, if that makes any sense. And... I guess it's kind of funny he demands Starfire's top for information? But he's against violence despite murdering the living hell out of Devilance? Not really sure about this one.

Anyway, Red Tornado is also in Australia and he's jacked up. Hi Red Tornado!

52 Issue 18

Oh hey, we have Doctor Fate's helmet, Ralph, and the detective chimp friend I can't remember the name of. They're here again. Ralph is looking better since the last time we saw him cradling a burned creepy mannequin. Eventually they take Doctor Fate's helmet to find a new successor, and there's... Ragman, Nightmaster, Blue Devil, Nightshade, and Enchantress. What a crew. Anyway, the helmet talks to Ralph and tells him to go on a journey with him and... they seem to be confused as Ralph walks away because the helmet is apparently not actually talking to him. Oh my.

Renee Montoya isn't dealing with killing a kid very well and her and Black Adam have a good exchange. Black Adam has no fucking chill and I love it. Dude just breaks down a building to find a drunk Renee Montoya getting some. But the unlikeliest dream team of Black Adam, Isis, Montoya, and Question are going to hunt down Intergang.

Oh god Booster has the worst celebration ceremony. In Cincinnati of all places. Poor guy doesn't deserve that! But Skeets is interested in some chubby dude apparently.

But that's all I'm gonna read tonight!

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I'm seeing some people loathing Gargano vs. Ciampa and some people loving it.

Give me your hot takes people who watched it.

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BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

You do realize that a vote for a third party candidate is for all intents and purposes a vote for Trump right? How does it feel to be a MAGA hat wearing imbecile?

You're right, you make a compelling argument and you were super nice about it. I'll vote for your candidate then.

Politics really brings out the utter shittiness in people.

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barreldragon88 posted...

When was the last time a third party even mattered??

The third party was all such an embarrassing dumpster fire that I couldn't vote for them last time.

I'm hoping at least one of them isn't humiliating to vote for and can actually encourage people to get out there and support them.

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Praying there is a decent third party candidate so I don't have to vote for a man who has pedophile tendencies and has also been accused of being a rapist.

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52 Issue 14

Alright, so we have three stories in this one, but this issue is mostly uneventful.

Khandaq adventures with Question and Montoya! They are fun. They look around Khandaq, and they find a building full of dead bodies. Oh, and they're being followed.

Steel is losing it over his niece being with Luthor. He made her the armor though. That's really, really sad.

And then we have Magnus where the government wants to give him money for his Metal Men and say he shouldn't give them personalities because they just want them as fighting machines. He disagrees and, worse yet, Morrow has disappeared from his cell. Not a good sign! But at the end the robot he's working on, Mercury, is alive and is extremely quirky, which Magnus seems thrilled about.

Slow issue. I anticipate the next will have more though!

52 Issue 15

"This is Metropolis! A City that Brainiac tries to shrink into bottle-size every Thursday!"

Hahaha nice Booster. He's in a hotel like a schlub trying to make a comeback. And... a giant sea creature pops up to ruin Metropolis and Booster is screwing everything up to the point that Clark Kent is trying to give him advise. And then people are just trashing on the dude hard until Supernova saves the day! And then Supernova just utterly destroys Booster.

"Don't listen to these people's insults Booster. You're not going to pay attention to them, are you? I mean, why start now?"

So Booster and Supernova fight until Skeets tells him that the sub is leaking radiation, to which Booster decides he'll save the day and begins to brag about it. ........And then explodes. ........And Booster is dead? What the fuck?

Oh and Question and Montoya escape Khandaq prison but who cares after that ending what the HELL!?

52 Issue 16

We start off with Black Adam proposing to Isis. Woah bro. You think you might be going a bit fast my dude? You only have all eternity with her. No need to rush. And the wedding is the same week!? Black Adam my dude when you want it you go all the way buddy. Surprisingly he wants the Marvel Family to be at the wedding too and for Captain Marvel (is it bad if it feels better to call him Shazam now?) to officiate.

Meanwhile, Question and Montoya figure out that there's going to be a suicide bomber. A little girl, to be precise. And Renee tries to stop her but Question tells her to shoot her. And... holy shit, Renee does. Didn't expect that. Uh, happy wedding but dead child? Good work Renee...?

Oh and the Animal Man, Starfire, and Adam Strange team are escaping the planet finally after like another 8 weeks it feels like.

That's all for tonight!

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_SecretSquirrel posted...

Got laid off/furloughed. Hotel/casinos ain't exactly essential.

Yeah, my law firm does a lot of work for Marriott and they've just been worried the whole time and are struggling right now. We won a case for them recently and they were so relieved. We're trying to get another one dismissed for them to ease them as well.

We're also trying to navigate a tricky OSHA question wherein a group of hospitals have had five employee deaths related to Coronavirus from on the job and they want to provide relief to the families, but they're afraid if they do that it's like admitting to OSHA that their company is the reason for their death.

This is the worst for companies.

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Is this about the Shawn Michaels agenting shitty matches thing?

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Let's be real. If there is any production value behind the game (and there is) and it isn't a total technical mess, there was no way that any critic was going to trash the story part for a Final Fantasy VII Remake. They will want Square to keep giving them advanced copies and they don't want to be the critic who burned the FFVII Remake.

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Man. Jimmy Havoc is really bad on commentary.

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I have questions.

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I potentially spoiled myself on the Black Widow movie, but if those spoilers are real then I think I'll love it.

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Dana White holy shit what a sociopath.

My favorite part of this is Meltzer being surprised Dana White is this big of an asshole.

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Immortal Hulk #10

So everything has gone to hell. Creel is in two pieces. His vertebrae and demon skull is thrown back at him. He's shambling off away while everyone is trying to take down Hulk, including Gamma Flight and the black op army group. Oh, and Absorbing Man is sorry.

So everything looks horrific and nightmarish until we finally get to that Green Door Hulk has been talking about. Aaaaand... everything is now a hellscape. That's really, really, really bad. Curious where it goes from here! But that's all that's in this volume except for...

Avengers #684

This is a recap issue for Hulk/Banner. So maybe I can figure out how he's alive and such.

And I learn a lot of LORE here. Banner wants Hawkeye to kill him for reasons that aren't clear, but maybe it's just because of The Hand having their demon magic in him? Someone please help me out here. lol Doctor Voodoo is here though! I like that guy.

Wait. Hold on. The Supreme Leader put something in a part of his brain and that's why he asked Hawkeye to shoot there? Oh, it looks like they put an image at the end of the volume though that tells you all the times Hulk has died. That's pretty cool! If there's interest, I can post it here.

Immortal Hulk Vol. 1 Thoughts

So this is probably the best Hulk book I've ever read. The issues where they just explore Hulk and Banner are easily the best and I love reading them. More of that, please. I like the visuals a lot too, with the horrific body morphing stuff with Hulk that you can tell Ewing just wants to really explore. It took me a while to remember what I read of Ewing that I liked, but it's his Loki series. I enjoyed that. He has a very interesting way of viewing characters that's honestly refreshing.

Concerning the actual plot, I'm liking how everything is kind of merging now. No clue where it goes from here but the ride there has been fun. This demon is an interesting take--something that science did awakened a dark unholy force is actually a more interesting take on things. And it's something I absolutely didn't expect from a Hulk book either. It's an interesting villain for the guy who otherwise has a hard time with compelling villains otherwise.

Overall, really outstanding book. Definitely the best Hulk I've ever read!

I'll pick up with 52 unless someone guesses my favorite Marvel villain before I get the chance! Scroll up to the post before this for another hint to really narrow down things!

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Ah, see. I didn't make that connection. I feel like they should've made that a little more clear at the very least. But I do understand the purpose now.

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Okay I finally watched the Fire Fly Funhouse match. It was really good but I just don't understand including the nWo thing towards the end though. Everything else seemed to line up except that. Aside from that, it was quite sports entertaining.

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