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    Statue Collections

    in Comics General

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    He's lucky he didn't get one with chipping paint by the underarm. They were hit or miss. Either way it's an epic and massive piece.

     

    He had a list of things he was looking for based on what other people had posted. There was a few extremely minor items that he was OK with.

    Comic Book Coin is Coming!

    in Comics General

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    If I were designing the comic book coin, I would go with the Wally Pipp of comic books - Wendigo.

     

    The guy is on both covers of the two main Wolverine/Hulk books but ends up as a "Where is he now?" villain living in a double wide. Poor bastid.

     

    That would fit this offering to a T

     

    But his memory lives on in the X-Men arcade game.

     

    you know--- I don't think I ever read Hulk 182. As I recall, Wendigo was to fight the winner between the Hulk and Wolverine. Who won, did they fight? Or did Wendigo get relegated to video games and Hostess cupcake ads?

     

    nevermind-- I need to stop asking obvious google questions

     

    Fictional character biography

     

    Several people have been afflicted with the curse of the Wendigo, including Paul Cartier, Georges Baptiste, Francois Lartigue, Lorenzo, Mauvais and others.

     

    The curse is regional to the woods of Northern Canada and takes place, under the right conditions, when a person in the forests of Canada feeds on human flesh. This "Curse of the Wendigo" was created by the Northern Gods (also known as "the Inua") in an effort to deter human cannibalism.[3] The cannibal transforms into a superhumanly strong, nearly indestructible, fur-covered monster: the Wendigo. He or she then roams the woods eating human beings. The Wendigo has frequently fought the Hulk, Wolverine, and Alpha Flight. Paul Cartier transformed into the Wendigo, battled the Hulk, and escaped.[4] He battled the Hulk again and encountered Wolverine,[5] and then battled the Hulk and Wolverine; Paul Cartier was cured as college professor Georges Baptiste became the Wendigo.[6] He later terrorized a snowbound group.[7] He battled Wolverine, Nightcrawler, and members of Alpha Flight; the Baptiste Wendigo was captured and cured by Shaman.[8] Fur trapper Francois Lartrigue later transformed into the Wendigo, battled the Hulk when Bruce Banner stumbled across a cabin belonging to him, and Sasquatch, and was taken to be cured by Shaman.[9]

     

    What's not so funny is the nutcase that decapitated a guy much smaller than him on a greyhound bus and ate some of him and whispered kill me because there was a documentary on TV about the Wendigo legend. I think he spent two years in the hospital and is walking around free right now as we speak....

     

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/bus-beheader-article-1.1962579

    PROBATION DISCUSSIONS

    in Marketplace Probations

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    My thoughts (as a self recognized noob). If there is going to be a discussion of the HOS and what that entails, people have to forget about what it was. Come up with a new definition without being hampered by what the old definition was. Start from scratch almost.

     

    Now perhaps it ends up being what it originally was (or very similar), but take a fresh look at what people want it to be. Does it really matter now what someone did x numbers of years ago to get on the list? And perhaps once it is agreed upon (however that happens) maybe people on the list could be given an opportunity to "appeal" if they think what they did no longer warrants being on the list.

     

    As an example, some people say it should be the worst of the worst. In response to that others have pointed to one person in particular (can't remember his name) who didn't seem to do anything much worse than Hustruck. That doesn't automatically mean it can't end up being the worst of the worst in a new agreed upon definition.