Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday
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scans_dailyIn the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
If you are in the US and planning on voting in the Mid-Term elections (and we always encourage members to vote in their local and national elections), you might want to double check that you are registered to do so.
Mentioning this as apparently Texas has quietly unregistered about a million people from it's electoral rolls. This page helps you identify if you are still registered to vote in your State
It made the addenda of last week but worth reflecting on the scale of the pop culture icons we lost last week, with Dolly Parton, Tim Curry and Peter Cullen in the space of three days.
"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds", surprised everyone by having something akin to a "regular" Star Trek episode!!
"Lanterns" episode 3 steered straight into some fascinating, and uncomfortable to watch, social and political commentary on how John Stewart trained to become a Green Lantern, and the Guardians being REALLY bad at their prep work when recruiting on a planet for the first time.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
If you are in the US and planning on voting in the Mid-Term elections (and we always encourage members to vote in their local and national elections), you might want to double check that you are registered to do so.
Mentioning this as apparently Texas has quietly unregistered about a million people from it's electoral rolls. This page helps you identify if you are still registered to vote in your State
It made the addenda of last week but worth reflecting on the scale of the pop culture icons we lost last week, with Dolly Parton, Tim Curry and Peter Cullen in the space of three days.
"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds", surprised everyone by having something akin to a "regular" Star Trek episode!!
"Lanterns" episode 3 steered straight into some fascinating, and uncomfortable to watch, social and political commentary on how John Stewart trained to become a Green Lantern, and the Guardians being REALLY bad at their prep work when recruiting on a planet for the first time.
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A touch of Curry
Aug. 28th, 2026 03:22 pmtwistedchickI never met Tim Curry, but back in the 1980s I saw him in a production of Shakespeare's "Pericles, Prince of Tyre", at Chautauqua Institution. Chautauqua has probably half a dozen stages here and there on its grounds; this performance was at an outdoor stage, not under cover, and we did keep checking the clouds to make sure the rain that was predicted wouldn't stop the show.
It was a small production; I suspect the audience may have been 200 at most. We were all fairly close to the stage.
What I remember most of all was the shipwreck. Shakespeare's plays have plenty of shipwrecks -- they're a standard plot bit in Twelfth Night, The Tempest and quite a few others. But here the wreck didn't happen offstage, it was front and center.
To portray the shipwreck, the entire cast became the ship. Tim was at the front as the figurehead, with his arms back around the shoulders of two people whose arms were on his shoulders and on two more behind them and so on. Their upper bodies stayed fairly still, but their legs *writhed* and so the whole assembled ship pitched and yawed on the invisible waves. And the cast is all still talking during this, describing what is happening until the ship breaks, and they all fall to the groumd.
It was spectacular. I still can see in my mind Tim Curry being a figurehead, saying his lines sardonically. I wish I'd had the chance to meet him, but the sidestage area was crowded when it ended and I didn't want to have to deal with that.
It was a small production; I suspect the audience may have been 200 at most. We were all fairly close to the stage.
What I remember most of all was the shipwreck. Shakespeare's plays have plenty of shipwrecks -- they're a standard plot bit in Twelfth Night, The Tempest and quite a few others. But here the wreck didn't happen offstage, it was front and center.
To portray the shipwreck, the entire cast became the ship. Tim was at the front as the figurehead, with his arms back around the shoulders of two people whose arms were on his shoulders and on two more behind them and so on. Their upper bodies stayed fairly still, but their legs *writhed* and so the whole assembled ship pitched and yawed on the invisible waves. And the cast is all still talking during this, describing what is happening until the ship breaks, and they all fall to the groumd.
It was spectacular. I still can see in my mind Tim Curry being a figurehead, saying his lines sardonically. I wish I'd had the chance to meet him, but the sidestage area was crowded when it ended and I didn't want to have to deal with that.
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Superman #41
Aug. 28th, 2026 03:50 ammastermahan posting in scans_daily
Turns out that giant Kryptonite meteor was all Zod's evil plan.
But how is his personal life going?
( Read more... )
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Aug. 27th, 2026 06:56 pmtwistedchickAfter much checking up with the Apple support person (who honestly didn't seem to believe that I could have 25 tabs open in two browsers without problems), the answer to the signal problem was the operating system. Apparently several of the updates that I've scheduled to happen late at night never happened. So now I have the latest operating system and everything works again.
And I am still crying about Dolly and Tim, and the drummer from ZZTop.
And I am still crying about Dolly and Tim, and the drummer from ZZTop.
VENOM MINUS 1: SEED OF DARKNESS.
Aug. 26th, 2026 03:19 pmstarwolf_oakley posting in scans_dailyIn July 1997, Marvel Comics had a special FLASHBACK event. Series got "Minus One" or #-1 issues, set before the rocket flight that created the Fantastic Four. This was during HEROES REBORN, so the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, Iron Man and Captain America weren't involved.
Venom got a special MINUS 1. Rookie reporter Eddie Brock is looking for a big story.
( Someday they'll be sorry. )
Venom got a special MINUS 1. Rookie reporter Eddie Brock is looking for a big story.
( Someday they'll be sorry. )
RIP Tim Curry
Aug. 26th, 2026 12:34 pmsettiaiCome on, universe. If you're taking Dolly Parton and Tim Curry from us back-to-back, you've got to take an asshole for the third death to even it out.
And, I mean, if you want to stick with 80-year-olds...
And, I mean, if you want to stick with 80-year-olds...
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RIP Dolly Parton
Aug. 25th, 2026 08:42 pmsettiaiJesus. 2026 keeps throwing the deaths at me that really fucking hurt, doesn't it?
I'm currently watching The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas in memory of her. It's one of those movies that I never should have been allowed to watch as a child, but I grew up on it because my parents had a sweet spot for it as they went to see it on one of their first dates. So rewatching it for the five thousandth time feels appropriate.
I'm currently watching The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas in memory of her. It's one of those movies that I never should have been allowed to watch as a child, but I grew up on it because my parents had a sweet spot for it as they went to see it on one of their first dates. So rewatching it for the five thousandth time feels appropriate.
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Aug. 25th, 2026 01:40 pmtwistedchickFor some reason I'm not getting enough internet signal here to watch a reel on FB, let alone load pages without waiting or go into Second Life. It's like the 300 baud days are back, but worse. If you don't see me, that's why.