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37 minutes ago, kav said:

You dont like SA spiderman, FF, Thor, avengers?

Nope. Can’t say I much care for any of Stan Lee’s writing. Let’s just say if it was prose and didn’t feature popular super hero IP nobody would be reading it

I wouldn’t say he was a savant at writing dialogue

Spawn #1 is already hotter than it deserves to be. I think the 90’s UXM/Wolverine comics will never be dollar comics again, not even the rare odd issue that didn’t introduce a new character. 

Just now, William-James88 said:

Aren't comic books hotter than they have ever been right now? Books that were worth very little just last year are now hot collectibles. It's pretty crazy. 

Four years ago I took all my Usagi Yojimbo comics (I had pretty much all of them up through the Dark Horse run except Albedo #2) to the record store and got 50 cents each for them

39 minutes ago, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

Maybe.. Remote? 

Definitely way darker in tone than that. There was a sweaty trailer park sex scene with a child peeping Tom watching 

10 minutes ago, Dr. Dank said:

Bill Hicks was an angry guy but I doubt he'd beat up a kid

My kids would push him to the limit 

15 hours ago, PopKulture said:

Ken, I'm really not trying to pick a fight, but I respectfully ask can anyone seriously suggest there's much that's liberal about modern progressives? Don't today's progressives try to ban free speech and the open exchange of ideas everyday, as well as rewriting history?

Someone speaking on campus today you don't agree with?  Defeat them on the merits and strengths of your arguments? Heck, no - ban them from speaking. Don't like something in a book or movie from a different era? Well, do we provide historical context or even (gasp) let people glean that for themselves? No way: ban that, too.

I urge anyone who thinks they are so "progressive" in their thoughts and actions to study the classical liberalism of the nineteenth century and earlier. No classical liberal would deign to defend the rabid collectivism of today while so forcefully dismissing the individualist flickerings of yore.

I do believe the semantical ship has sailed: the terms "liberal" and "progressive" appear irreconcilable and really have little correlation in relation to today's modern political spectrum. 

And lest we ignore those aforementioned sins of the past, at the dawn of the previous American century there were self-touted "progressives" then as well. Their champions included Margaret Sanger and Woodrow Wilson. Those are two of the most racist and xenophobic people who ever roamed our public corridors.  

No books or movies have been banned. If the IP owner decides not to reissue it, for whatever reason, that’s their right and it happens all the time. 
 

As far as colleges go, I agree that students have their right to free speech on campus, but if you’re not a student you’re SOL

3 minutes ago, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

Almost sounds like The Hills Have Eyes.. 

it wasn’t horror, it was like an early 90’s thriller. Pretty sure it was r rated though. I don’t remember anyone getting hurt, the kids certainly didn’t 

1 hour ago, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

There’s one I’ve been looking for forever, my grandma had it on VHS back in the day. All I remember is it was a trailer park in the middle of the desert, like New Mexico or something. There was a boy with an RC car who would spy on the other people in the park. I think there was a slightly older little girl who saves him from angry Hicks or something. Can’t remember anything else

13 hours ago, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

Maybe find it in Walmart, but most of the malls have been closed for years.. They all remodeled and became open air / out door shopping centers. The rest just shuddered permanently.  The common misconception about Florida is that we are all naked , retired, or look like Miami Vise. When really most of it looks more like this.. 

This looks like a good movie 

My mom was a huge Elvis fan and I have never understood it. I watched his movies, I listened to his songs. He’s fine, but I wouldn’t put his picture up in my home. My mom has though 

I went out in public with shorts and long socks and my girl told me I looked like an old man. I told her I’ll stop wearing shorts before I put on a pair of ankle socks

A few years back we had a party at the house and I realized I was the oldest person there. I’ve gotten used to my social group being younger but it still feels good to come here and feel like a kid again

12 minutes ago, kav said:

There's also the holy moley grail-a book so rare it doesnt exist!!!!

Like the one where Batman sucks a

Sounds like comics are still safe for a while then, although the average age of high grade Gold and Silver key collectors might be in that range

23 hours ago, batman_fan said:

I thought it ws going to be a bunch of pictures of sandwiches 

Now that’s something I can collect

1 hour ago, kav said:

Grail is a book you may some day own.  Holy grail is a book you will never own unless you stumble on it at a yard sale.

I must have 2 or 3 dozen comics I’m looking out for that are that hard to find, but wouldn’t be particularly expensive if I ever did find them

35 minutes ago, ExNihilo said:

I thought you had to solve a series of riddles and then prove your worthiness in front an ancient ghost, and only then will you own your holy grail?

I think you need to melt some Nazi’s or something, been a while since I seen that movie

6 minutes ago, Hollywood1892 said:

Oh yeah

Trades are in

Millwrights make up to $40 per hour

The pay difference on PW jobs is crazy. My regular rate is $35, my PW rate is $79.80. So weeks on PW jobs are a lot different than weeks with no PW. It’s pretty much the goal to get stuck on one of those long term school or hospital jobs or whatever from the beginning. I know guys who have been working on the construction of a jail since like 2015. That’s kind of a life changing gig. I usually get a day or two of PW per week

1 minute ago, mattn792 said:

Sounds like me up to age 18.  Suffice to say, it DID NOT prepare me for adulthood.  Helicopter parents (like mine) deprive their kids of so much practical life experience.

The world is so different. None of these kids play outside anymore. None of them are allowed to ride the bus downtown to get a burger and a comic and just walk around. It’s all FaceTime and group chats and Fortnite. My parents used to go to Mexico and leave me alone for the weekend when I was his age. Pretty sure I’d go to jail if I did that to him

1 minute ago, mattn792 said:

As someone who largely coasted through school, I can confirm it gets even harder once college starts.

He has an older cousin who had been raised by strict parents with the sole purpose of getting into university. He had no time for friends and dating, it was all studying and sports and extracurricular clubs and all that. He did everything right. Still couldn’t get into any of the universities in Southern California and is now attending community college part time with a major change in plans for his future. If my kid has to take that route, and I assume he will have to because we aren’t going to force him to play a sport and he will have time for kid stuff, we are planning ahead for it. Luckily I’m a blue collar guy and know a ton of trade professions I can guide him toward if it doesn’t look like school is going to be his path. I just want him to keep that path a possibility until it’s time to choose. When I was a kid my dad was a laborer and he didn’t know anything but digging ditches and pushing wheelbarrows. He told me if I didn’t go to college that was my future. He made me dig ditches when I was in middle school, doing man work. I decided I wouldn’t ever be a laborer, but I didn’t know what else there was. Caused me to not really have a direction in life until about age 25. If college isn’t going to be in my kids future I’m going to let him know about stuff like geological technicians, who can make six figures their first year with a $400 two day certification course. 

2 minutes ago, Poekaymon said:

To be fair, a lot of people make good money playing games these days. 

If he can pull that off that’s fine. Like many kids his age he has always dreamed of being a Youtuber. I offered to help him set up a corner of his room with his computer and a webcam and a nice backdrop and get him some easy to use video editing software and he said nevermind, he thought he could just prop his phone up against the wall and record himself playing games and post it with zero lighting or backdrop or editing or good audio or even brushing his hair and getting out of his pajamas 😂

13 minutes ago, kav said:

Not a fan of GATE-I've taught several GATE classes and the students can be really lazy.  They say "We dont have to do any work we're already smart we're in GATE".  

He still manages to get straight A’s but he doesn’t try at all. Once in a while he will get a bad grade on an assignment because he rushed through it and didn’t read the directions properly but he always makes it up, and each time I tell him slow down and do your work more carefully, but he still just bangs it out. I don’t harp on his grades too much. He’s one of the best students in school. But I know school is going to get much harder when he hits high school and I’m trying to warn him