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Haven't heard of Fire Punch, but have heard only good things about Chainsaw Man.

I'm enjoying it. Its definitely pretty 'out there' at times, but I like the characters and I'm very curious about how the central mysteries are going to play out.

Using the theme song on this video reminded me that in the MISSION: IMPOSIBLE episode, "The Seal" (Season 2, Episode 9), the team actually uses a trained cat to help them retrieve some purloined Jade.

I'm currently reading Glepnir by Sun Takeda and any of the collections of Junji Ito's work. I have the first trade of Berserk by Miura on my 'to read' list. I'm probably going to pick-up Umezu's Orochi that Viz is reprinting since I liked (?) Drifting Classroom.

I was joking really, but FOTNS is basically using the Road Warrior / Mad Max 2 design aesthetic and putting it on burly anime manly-man martial artists. So lots of leather, shoulder pads and mullets (and chaps and mohawks, cloaks and wild hair).

Hmm, hadn't heard of Redline really. Or at least never watched a trailer for it. *watches trailer* When will companies learn that "from the studio that brought you ... Ninja Scroll..." isn't the recommendation they think it is? 😆 There's an interesting design aesthetic going on; not sure anything I see in the trailer really makes me want to rush out and see it though. Fist of the North Star? 😛

Mmm, Atlanta and an opening day loss...brings back such fond memories... 😁

Supēsu Kobura/Space Cobra Episode XVIII "Desugēmu! 0078 Ji" aka "Death Game! At 00:78 O'Clock" The game between The Team 1 players and Cobra's Team Z begins (with a literal recap of the end of the last episode) Fun episode; expected that the game would at least be two episodes long.

Hong Kong star Jimmy Wang Yu (One-Armed Swordsman, Master of the Flying Guillotine, Killer Meteors) at 79. Apparently he'd been in ill health for a few years.

Hahhaha. No. I'm currently booked up for some time on TV shows.

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Superman in comics early on was very much challenging the status quo (usually challenging the rich exploiting the poor, though), and in 1946 famously the Superman radio serial tackled the KKK in a serial that seems to have hurt the organization nationwide. So certainly a black Superman in the 40s dealing with the historical 40s fits the series/character.

I'm not opposed to it. A lot of it depends on the character and the story. Some characters origins are so vague, they could be anyone. Wildcat was a prize fighter who donned a costume and fought crime with his fists using his boxing skills and street smarts. Not much in that most stripped down version of the origin that implies a race. Batman might be tougher (mostly because the fact that he's rich due to generations of inherited wealth that goes back to the founding of Gotham 140 years ago or so might (or might not) be difficult to make work) but not impossible to make a straight flip. I'm more annoyed, for example, that they change Ms. Marvel's powers for the TV show (in the comics her powers are specifically designed to be odd, ungainly and unattractive because (a) the creators noted that most superhero teen girls got cute, sparkly powers and (b) the powers were because she was an Inhuman, so it tied to her genetics and thus became part of an allegory for body acceptance amid teenage girls for the character in her opening story arcs) than I am at changing the races of Black Adam, Hawkman and Cyclone in the Black Adam film. I agree with CC. Pardon me, however, while I indulge in a minor bit of comic pedantry- Miles Morales isn't a black Peter Parker, he's Peter Parker's successor from an Alternative Universe. Mattie Franklin is the third Spider-Woman (after Jessica Drew and Julia Carpenter) but was also a Spider-Man (pretending to be Spider-Man when Peter was gone) Anansi is a Spider-God and the main Spider-Totem that empowers spider-people Beta Ray Bill has a horse head. Frog Thor is Throg. In Marvel's comics, whosever is deemed worthy can lift Mjolnir and gain the Power of Thor and usually is called Thor (until Thor takes Mjolnir back; the other characters are typically spun off as a different character). Character's who've done that include Thor Odinson (of course), Jane Foster, Beta Ray Bill, Puddlegulp/Simon Walterson/Throg, Steve Rogers, Eric Masterson/Thunderstrike, and Squirrel Girl. DC has a weird development schedule for their properties, but has been working with more diverse casts in some of their re-occuring work outside of Bats/Supes in film and TV (the Shazam/Black Adam films, the Suicide Squad films/Peacemaker TV, Doom Patrol/Titans tv, Arrowverse TV). Does anyone care that Deadshot was a different race? Nothing in his origin or character ever really implied one. Not really? He's an alien - why should he only look like a white guy? It might make for a vastly different story for Superman if you're trying to establish Clark Kent in a period setting (since the 40s were a vastly different place depending on race in the US), but for a modern story...? There's a teen (early 20s?) clone of Superman/Lex Luthor and a biological son with Lois (who through alternate universe stuff is now also a teen).

The thing was I was thinking of watching it with my dad who grew up in the setting. While he likes modern westerns (which I gather, Justified is in many respects), having it shot in locations he'd possibly recognize would have made it a must watch...we'll probably get around to it still.

I haven't watched JUSTIFIED yet. Started to watch it because of the setting (my dad grew up in Harlan County), but then found out it wasn't actually shot there so the appeal of watching it with my dad was sort of lost. Still heard nothing but good things so I'm sure I'll watch it eventually when I finish the usual trash that I watch.

I don't think observing that what a lot of people think of as Batman would not be in the public domain because its from later, still protected stories as 'problematic', ie making doing it difficult to do, but something that'd just make it less attractive to do. Perhaps this seems like splitting hairs? People will do it, I don't think it's going to have the major interest you do.

I never said it was problematic (if I implied it it was unintentional). I just don't think that when batman hits public domain there's going the bonanza to telling stories since many of the major creators already can (and some have) create knockoffs of these characters. It'll be like a year before the theoretical PD Batman author can even use ROBIN and JOKER when Batman hits PD. That's why I think, in many ways, the fight for extending copyrights that Disney has done alluded to in the Florida fights Disney is probably a bit silly anyhow. As you yourself mentioned, probably not a lot of people rushing out to create new stories based on Steamboat Willie.

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I wasn't necessarily referring to post-public domain use as 'knockoffs', but that people have been trading in knockoffs of these characters for years. I know he's quit comics, but if you want to see what Alan Moore's run on Superman might have been like (outside of the three famous stories he did write for the character), you only need to look at his Supreme run (Supreme being Rob Liefeld's Superman knockoff). I may be wrong - I am on a lot of things - but I don't necessarily see there being a big rush to do Bruce Wayne-who-still-can't-have-the-trappings-of-Batman-iconography-or-non-PD-continuity that is greater than the number of creators who have, over the years, already done their version of Batman prior to any Public Doman considerations (Shadowhawk, Nightman, Midnighter, Black Fox, Moon Knight, Nighthawk, The Fixer, Bibleman, The Confessor, Darkwing Duck, Darkwing, The Owl, Catman, The Black Lion, Black Fury, etc). There will be some, of course, but without the entirety of the continuity in the PD (something that is vastly different scenario to Dracula or Robin Hood), they're going to still have to forge a different direction for the character ... like the already existing knockoff characters did. At least with the PD Oz book uses, they have 13 novels to base their Oz books on, even if they can't have the later Plumly-Thompson or Neil books from the original run which is a substantial amount of Baum character to play with. It'll be something like 36 years or so after the first Detective Comics appearance before you can use the League of Shadows in your PD Batman stories and reclaim that origin for the character, and many Batman fans see that as a definitive aspect of the origin (particularly after its use in the Nolan films). Sure, a big name creator can do a knockoff version of that origin...but then they already could do that with their knockoff-Batmans.