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I only recall one book called "Dago"; written by Robin Wood with Alberto Salinas as the first artist and Carlos Gomez as the second. Not sure if that's the same book or not. I believe it has not been translated into English, but I think it has been translated into Spanish (or started in Spanish and was translated into Italian, not sure which).

Foster's one of the greats, alright. I had him earmarked for reference as there are several US Comic strip artists like Foster worth mentioning.

Sony leaks of mails from Ike Perlmutter: http://www.vulture.com/2015/05/marvel-ceo-not-so-hot-on-female-superhero-movies.html To be fair to Mr. Perlmutter, the context of the email is unknown so it could be a misreading of the intent that's led to the scuttlebutt. I tend to not care about the gender of the protagonists; story/storytelling is ultimately going to be what's important. I think Marvel should have capitalized on Black Widow's popularity for a solo film. Instead they're hedging their first solo female hero by making it tie heavily into the existing mythology (since the Kree have factored into AoS and GotG).

Scuttlebutt is the bigwig for marvel doesn't think female starring super hero films will succeed. He supposedly had to be coerced to allow them to slate Capt Marvel

Actually Dougray scott said yes to wolverine. It was the overruns that mckellan alludes to on mi2 that forced scott to drop the part, as he'd already been filming mi but it's filming originally was not supposed to coincide with xmen, as I recall

I think you also have to remember that some people will support Trump simply because he is someone who could fund his campaign by himself; people see him as someone who isn't influenced by outside special interests or having to submit to the party line, play nice, or otherwise engage the Republican leadership if he doesn't want to.

Frank Castle/The Punisher was originally designed by writer Gerry Conway who drew a costume sketch, John Romita, Sr. fleshed the design out and Ross Andru drew his first appearance. For today, I give you a different Frank, UK Artist Frank Bellamy: Known for revitalizing Dan Dare, work in Eagle comics and TV Century 21, as well as the newspaper strip "Garth" and loads of illustrations, book covers and such. Passed away in 1976

There's actually East Coast fault lines, one (New Madrid Seizmic Zone) that is around New Madrid, Missouri and one (Eastern Piedmont Fault Zone) that's in the middle of South Carolina, IIRC. Occasionally the South East feels earthquakes from these (although most are so small to never be noticed). New Madrid I think is the most active. Nothing like the Pacific coast, though.

And Burmese pythons.

Actually, from what I recall of my time living in California, California has a lot of fairly conservative towns and cities...and then a few super liberal cities like LA. A state doesn't hold a referendum that ends up being in favor of banning gay marriage (even if said ban is struck down by the courts disregarding the will/tyranny of the majority) by being super liberal. Jokes based on perceptions aren't funny if you point out the perception is wrong. You killed that joke in its prime. You monster. Sorry: you're not the first one I've come across to make comments about California's "apparent" "overwhelming" liberalism, so when it comes up, I can't help but similarly comment... Joke. Killer. Yeah California isn't the super liberal state that its perception is. Shockingly Georgia isn't full of Banjo playing hillbillies either. And Texas isn't oil wells and cowboys and people fighting Mexico at the Alamo.

Actually, from what I recall of my time living in California, California has a lot of fairly conservative towns and cities...and then a few super liberal cities like LA. A state doesn't hold a referendum that ends up being in favor of banning gay marriage (even if said ban is struck down by the courts disregarding the will/tyranny of the majority) by being super liberal. Jokes based on perceptions aren't funny if you point out the perception is wrong. You killed that joke in its prime. You monster.

Yeah a director of a bunch of really bad movies. Might as well call yourself Cordwainer Bird, Stephen Greene, Norman Ashby, Robin Bland, David Agnew or Thomas Lee. That's the joke. Well I guess you can attract women who appreciate humor that way, but it seems like you might also attract women who really have bad taste in movies.

Yeah a director of a bunch of really bad movies. Might as well call yourself Cordwainer Bird, Stephen Greene, Norman Ashby, Robin Bland, David Agnew or Thomas Lee.

Not really sure Leiberman and Clinton are conservatives based on their "big ideas"; albeit I understand that its possible to be "conservative" in some areas and "liberal" in others - to the point that a binary nomenclature is useless in describing great variations like Monte suggests (but then these gradations are steamrolled in the US by our binary monolithic overlords, the Dems and Repubs). And anyhow you're in California, that makes you automatically more liberal than 90% of the USA.

That quick transition from, er, the 1950s? Did you miss the 80's and 90's or something? To be fair, I don't recall your example conservative, Joe McCarthy calling out 2 Live Crew or NWA or similar in congress in the 1980s. And while Jack Thompson took on 2 Live Crew and NWA in the 1980s and 1990s, I don't recall him trying to force average citizens to name their communist pals in the 1950s. So I can understand the confusion. Joking aside, there's an adage that the a guy who complains he think his wife is cheating on him despite having no evidence is probably cheating on her because he's applying what he'd do to her is probably appropriate with respect to censorship. Someone who would definitely want certain products or line of thought censored will probably assume that the other side would also want certain products or line of thought censored and probably feel their line of thought is part of that when discussing binary situations (Repubs-Dems, for example)

Saw Ant-Man. Thought it was amusing but a bit uneven.

Not sure what we're considering "old school" given that we're listing a bunch of cool artists who are still doing work. Anyhow obviously as a fan of the medium there are a lot of artists I could count. But I'll try to pace myself: Nick Cardy: US comic artist, started in the "Golden Age" of American comics. Was a top talent with DC in the 60s (stints on Teen Titans, Aquaman, Bat Lash) as well as the late 60s cover artist for most of their line. Went on to do commercial poster art in the 1970s. Passed away in 2013. Don Lawrence UK artist, best know for The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire and Storm. Passed away in 2003. Akihiro Yamada Japanese illustrator of Record of Lodoss War: The Lady of Pharis; mostly moved to book illustrations and book covers. Reed Crandall US golden age artist; worked on a number of books in the 1940s (Blackhawks, Doll Man); did work for EC in the 50s, Warren, Tower and King Comics in the 60s and continued doing comic work until he suffered a stroke in 1974. He passed away in 1981.

EW has published photos with Psylocke, Storm and Apocalypse. http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/07/16/first-looks-at-psylocke-and-the-new-storm-from-x-men-apoclaypse/

I didn't ask for any of this gobbledygook! Just tell me if I was right, darn you! I can't even remember what a preposition or a predicate bloody well are...American education, I tell you...(or rather, how I completely and utterly failed to learn anything from it, particularly on this subject, ). (Unrelated: did you know that gobbledygook had a "d" in it? I sure didn't before Googling how to spell it!) I think so, the last sentence is a bit tricky but I think you were right on it. But English isn't my forte and I'm going on a lot of memory here (with a few glances over a grammar website).

IIRC, He walks He - Subject Walks - Verb An object is something that is acted upon by the subject, or by a prepositon She calls you She - subject calls - verb you - direct object She gave him advice She - subject gave - verb him - indirect object advice - direct object predicate He talks to you He - subject talks - verb to - preposition you - prepositional object

'Who' is the subject of the sentence 'Whom' is an object of a sentence Generally speaking, if you can replace it with "he/she" then "who" is correct. "Him/Her" then "whom" is correct. (Note some sentence structure elements may need to change, but generally it works). As an example, something is done "for him" or "for her", therefore "Do not ask for whom the bell tolls..." is correct to use "whom" rather than "who" as "for" makes "whom" an object of the sentence (reworded "Do not ask if the bell tolls for him/her...") This digression was brought to you by the letter Q and the number 42.

I do have a problem with the risk-averse big-budget model; it's been stifling creativity in the medium since its inception. That's not a good thing, and it won't magically turn into a good thing just because we now have the tools to circumvent it. (Also, while I don't consider myself to be an expert on movie history, didn't Hollywood operate on a similar principle until the... I think seventies? when the bubble suddenly burst and studios were forced to return to low-to-mid-budget productions with a strong authorial vision?) In any case, it's not the existence of big-budget games that irks me, it's the public perception of "gamers" as people who consume those big-budget games exclusively (and to the exclusion of all other activities). Film industry originally worked on the studio system were the studios made the pictures, owned the picture-houses and contracted stars to be in their films. The studios owning the theaters and block booking titles was ended by law in 1948 after an antitrust suit over block booking was levied against Paramount by RKO (albeit in practice ending in 1954). The result of this was that it became harder to get time for a "Prestige Film"; in the past if a theater wanted to sell a new star or a hard concept, they'd tie it to an existing star (so if a theater wanted the next two Mary Pickford films, they also had to book 5-10 other films that the studio was doing). This led to the ability to make a financial go of less popular fare being drastically reduced. It also meant that you needed to have prestige stars, directors and writers - or other hooks - to sell a successful film. While this led to a Renaissance in a way in the late 60s (as stars were able to make personal projects happen because their name guaranteed boxoffice and as most of the older stars were retiring new stars were taking their place with more modern and socially relevant to the times fare) it also set the stage for the blockbuster. When JAWS came out, it re-wrote the way the studios did business; you could run for years provided you can get a blockbuster to hit every now and then. This leads to now where a blockbuster can make a profit but not be blockbustery enough - the studios don't want to spend 10 mil to make 30 mil, they want to spend 10 mil to make 100 mil and so we get weird situations of films that actually make money being perceived as flops.

That... wouldn't be much of a progress from an artistic standpoint, would it. No. But the figurative Call of Duty that symbolizes the male dominated AAA and is the constant target of critique isn't an artistic masterpiece either. ...I thought we wanted better, not "roughly the same amount of crap, but now in pink". No matter what you intend, most of it will be considered poorly. Its the nature of the creative beast. Even assuming that gamers could agree on what is "better", wanting better will never make it better. Note that no creative person sets forth to create crap. That means that at some point in the development of both "good" and "bad" games, they were considered to be ideas worth pursuing by the majority of the creators in a position to make those decisions. Also a couple of pertinent quotes: Sturgeon: Kipling:

I dug the Suicide Squad (more meh on BvS). But then I liked the comic. I really enjoyed Prince of Darkness too; I personally think its a strong film, equal to In the Mouths of Madness (if without that films sense of humor).

Hope they're ants and not a termite swarm trying to start a new colony.