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I was reading reaction to the 'Arrow-verse' crossover Crisis on Earth-X (which personally I thought was a lot of fun) and found myself weirdly bugged when a poster made the statement that the original Freedom Fighters characters were purchased at the same time as DC bought Fawcett Comics characters. 'Busy' Arnold sold his Quality Comics stable to DC in 1956; DC continued publishing GI Combat, Blackhawks, Heart Throbs and The Three Musketeers. They revived Plastic Man in the 60s and then The Ray, Black Condor, Phantom Lady, the Human Bomb, and Uncle Sam in the early 70s for CRISIS ON EARTH-X, one of the annual Justice Society - Justice League cross-overs as the Freedom Fighters (which then led to a short-lived late eponymous 70s comic). Also in the 1970s they brought back Quality's Kid Eternity and then in the 1980s they revived Quality's Midnight, The Red Bee, Manhunter, Firebrand, The Jester, Magno, Miss America, Neon the Unknown and The Invisible Hood. The 1980s also saw the end of the longest surviving Quality Comic, GI Combat. By contrast, DC didn't purchase the Fawcett Comics characters until around 1994 or so (from IIRC then owner Ballentine). Any appearance prior to that date was from a license DC had. The only connection between the two companies or their characters was that in the 1970s a DC story made their licensed version of Fawcett's Captain Marvel, Jr. the brother of Quality Comics character Kid Eternity (who had, prior to that point, not had a name and no relations outside of a grandfather killed by Nazis). And then I realized it was weird to be bugged by somebody getting such minutiae wrong, and probably weirder that I know all of this **** to begin with.

I guess its more than the dice that's haunted...ooooOOOOOOO0000000OOOOOOOOOoooooo

*backs away slowly*

Have the same thing on this end as well.

Its not aerodynamic enough to serve as an airplane, and not tasty enough to serve as food?

Can't you take a screenshot of your character and turn it into a portrait I'd you really want this?

John Horne's A Year in Fiji indicates there were some form of firefly there in ~1876. Now, or not, I dunno.

Perhaps I'm wrong (and its probably been suggested before as I only skimmed the thread) but it seems to me that perhaps the idea is that if your PoE was picking a lot of "fighting" talents for your druid, you were already creating a Fighter-Druid multiclass and that idea is being codified into the multiclass system.

Speaking of 2nd half collapses, the Georgia Dome is demolished - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvfuPqsv36E

Mel Tillis, who had a 60 year career in Country music (as well as film and TV work). Earl Hyman stage actor (nominated for a Tony in 1980 for his work in THE LADY FROM DUBUQUE), tv actor (was Grandfather Huxtable on THE COSBY SHOW) and voice over actor (Panthro on THUNDERCATS)

Justice League - Its structurally sloppy, but its heart seems to finally been in the place as the characters feel closer to what I'd expect they should be. I'd disagree with Kermode that the characters aren't given enough to do, I thought they did a decent job actually with that. I'd agree with him the story is a mess but I think a lot of his snark is just snark for snarks sake.

1. Captain America: Death Too Soon (1979) TV Movie 2. Captain America (1979) TV Movie 3. The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988) TV Movie 4. Exo-Man (1977) TV Movie (based on a story by Martin "Cyborg/Six Million Dollar Man" Caiden)

I loved the game and would love to see a movie adaption of it. But by all appearances this isn't really an adaption of the game, but slapping the name of the game on a movie about giant animals because it has name recognition.

The Hanging Tree with a Chainsaw.

Do we really know Luke & Vader will have significantly better stats, or is it speculation based on their prominence within the original stories that make people assume they'll be unbalanced in game play? EDIT - I also believe EA has announced they're lowering the 40hrs to 15 for Luke and Vader, then 10 for the others (and 5 for one of them?)

I'm somewhat torn about the SW thing. On the one hand, I understand the frustration of having content locked out under a lengthy time commitment. On the other hand I can think of quite a few single player games that had lots of grinding in them to beat ultimate bosses - is this really all that different but geared to multiplayer gaming?

I think you'll see a lot of companies try to be Netflix competitors (like Amazon and Hulu are currently, or CBS is trying with All Access) of the traditional content providers. Most will likely fall by the wayside with those content providers going back to a Netflix or merging with one another until you have a handful of streaming distribution channels.

Woman pleads guilty to incest after marrying mother French Institute believes a nuclear incident happened in eastern Europe / Russia

This is probably the most funny if you've ever seen the 80s TV show Automan:

Sounds like Amunet Black has a bit of a downgrade - IIRC her powers in the comics were mechanokinesis - she could control machines and deconstruct them to increase her physical powers.

Weirdly, perhaps, I always saw the roadshow format of 4 hour + overture, intermission and such to be the rarer thing than the norm. To me a 90 minute film seems more natural (excepting B and Z grade films, and serials)

I think with Dark Tower, WB wasn't sure what to do. Remember their plan was to do the movie (set in a cycle after the book series) and then a prequel series (about a younger Roland from a cycle before the book series). I think they needed to be thinking more about plot than their long term media plans... MCU has made Thor a comedy relief, which is strange because he never really was in the comics or any of the cartoons... well unless we're talking about Throg (Frog version of Thor). MCU has pretty much given Thor the "All brawns, no brain" element which makes him not unlike Hercules or Conan The Barbarian. I guess it makes sense that they would do that on the screen though, it seems to tranlate well. I can't wait for Black Panther. I only hope they introdce some more hero movies (with different heroes). But yes, Marvel movies squash the DC movies... the same can't be said for the tv shows. Marvel tv shows aren't doing so well while DC tv series such as Smallville, Arrow, etc remain top rated. Strange but that's just the way things work I guess. The director said he was influenced heavily by BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA and saw Thor as kind of a Jack Burton character. I can see it in the way they presented him. He's not dumb, but he's also clearly not the smartest person either. And his ego gets in the way, but he has a good heart and a lot of determination. About 109 minutes, according to IMDB.

Technically there were mass shootings that we know of going back into the 1920s in the US although they were typically crime related (St. Valentine's Day Massacre, for example). But if you ignore crime violence, you still get something like the Kelayres Massacre in Pennsylvania in 1934 that killed 5. And if you expand away from guns, you get the Bath School Bombing in 1927 that killed 45 and injured 48. What is new, in a way, is the number. You got one to three, roughly, a decade until 1972 or so when the frequency goes up to one or two every two-three years, and then by 1988 you get at least one a year.

Marvel's The Runaways? Did it already release in other countries? IIRC the US premiere on Hulu isn't until the 21st. The trailers seem true to the comic; what didn't you like about it?