There’s a two minute Raid: Shadow Legends ad after the intro.
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Tails is my favorite Sonicverse character.
I’m on record as really liking the black costume on Spider-Man because it makes him look more like a spider, man. It’s also easier to draw because you don’t need to do all those webpatterns. Get the white spider symbol correct, give a blue tint to the outer part of the body so it doesn’t blend into anything black (including itself), and you have a really good costume. The problem is by the time fans warmed up to it the creators were already trying to get rid of it after fans complained. Also Todd McFarlane but I don’t care what he thinks.
Going from “costume responding to Peter’s thoughts” to ” brain-eating symbiote” is quite the journey, but the following video by Overly Sarcastic Productions is more of an overview of Venom and the black costume, and how his early appearances have become a part of multiversal continuity. Like or hate him (and Sam Rami hated him but was forced to use him anyway), the various versions of the black goo symbiote are part of Spider-Man’s history and backstory. While Red and Blue don’t go over the entire history of Venom specifically and the symbiotes in general, and I wish it had been a full symbiote retrospective in comics, TV, and video games (this came out because of Venom’s debut in the Sony Spider-Man 2 game) but it’s still an interesting brief history and way too long for a quickpost. Also, I have thoughts I want to add. The title of the video is “The Symbiote: Spider-Man’s Perfect Flaw”, as they go over why Venom, or more specifically Peter’s history with the black costume have become part of Peter Parker’s story.
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My money’s on King Arthur.
War Of Kings #1
Marvel Comics (May, 2009)
“Asunder”
WRITERS: Dan Abnett & Andy Landing
PENCILER: Paul Pelletier
INKER: Rick Maygar
COLORIST: Wil Quintana
LETTERER: Joe Caramagna
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Michael Horowitz
EDITOR: Bill Roseman
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It’s the Critical Drinker. There’s swearing by a drunk Scot.
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You mean a South Park special attacked both sides of the debate? I haven’t seen it because it’s exclusive to Paramount Plus and the show’s general humor style is not to my taste in comedy and even I’m not surprised.
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Chapter By Chapter (usually) features me reading one chapter of the selected book at a time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
PART 3: KnightsEnd
When we last saw Bruce he was using Lady Shiva to regain his fighting spirit. As I mentioned there the logic is sound. Shiva is one of DC’s best assassins, alongside the likes of David Cain, Deathstroke, and others…most of whom fight Batman or Robin a lot I notice. She might find the idea of getting Batman, who doesn’t kill, a few lessons from the assassin side, since it’s practically a religion to her. Batman’s also beaten her before so he knows defeating her will mean Bruce is ready to retake the cowl.
Narratively, and I don’t know yet if the book or the original comics this is adapting took the opportunity, we have a chance to explore Bruce’s “no kill” rule, something fans of the “kill the Joker” group like to break out is that Batman (or The “Bat-Man”) did kill in his earliest appearances.
Wait, isn’t this the Joker’s origin?
Fair enough but that one could be an accident, even if that Batman didn’t seem bothered by it. Early Batman got his cues from pulp heroes like The Shadow, when killing the baddies were all the rage. Eventually DC (then known as National Comics before naming themselves after Detective Comics for a reason) decided that if kids were flocking to this character and back then they didn’t hate kids (or rather their money) maybe a killin’ Batman was not a good idea. Also the Comics Code happened. By now, however, the idea that Batman doesn’t kill is just part of his character, that he respects life and will not play judge, jury, and executioner. Let the courts kill him and if the Joker ain’t dead yet, stop blaming Batman. The problem with killing is that it gets easier and at some point, the argument used by opponents of the death penalty, you end up killing an innocent person.
Let’s see how this story uses Shiva, but first we should check in on Jean Paul. He’s not a well man.
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“My mortal enemies? I thought they were your mortal enemies?”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #15
Mirage Publishing (1998)
“Dome Doom!”
WRITER/PENCILER: Peter Laird
INKER: Jim Lawson
LETTERER: Steve Lavigne
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Well, I did have the clip in Shorts form but Universal pulled it down. I do understand that, but I wish they had done it BEFORE the article was set-up to post this morning. Anyway, here’s MatPat himself discussing being in the movie based on a video game he has done a looooooot of Game Theory episodes about.
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Finally, if you have a Peacock account (owned by NBCUniversal) you can see the Five Nights At Freddy’s movie. I don’t do a horror but a friend of mine said she and her kids love it. See if you can find all the other FNAF YouTube player cameos.
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