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Post by Head Mutant on Jul 9, 2007 15:53:20 GMT -5
Shalen, I know that it probably wasn't one of the most-watched things in the Mutant community, but that was a hilarious viewing nonetheless. What would we do without your dry sarcasm?
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Post by pfrsue on Jul 9, 2007 18:51:46 GMT -5
Oh my gosh, I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. I saw those JLA episodes just a few months ago. Your viewing brought it all back... and then some!
btw, I agree with you. I don't care what comic canon says. Hawk and Dove... yep. Yep. Yep.
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Post by TheLuckyOne on Jul 9, 2007 19:32:07 GMT -5
Very amusing, Shalen. I'm a fan of the JLU, and I still enjoyed it.  (In fairness, it wasn't the show's creators -- most of the same people behind the awesome Batman cartoon -- who deserve the "perverts" moniker. SG wore that outfit in the comics before she ever did on the cartoon. Maybe you'll prefer her modified outfit later in the show's run.) A totally non-snotty, non-pretentious FYI- Captain Marvel was created and published by Fawcett Comics circa 1941. His comic consistently outsold Superman and every other superhero in the 40s, so DC sued, claiming he was too much like Superman. Which he was, so they won the lawsuit and Captain Marvel disappeared. Decades later DC bought the character outright and started publishing him, but since Marvel had in the intervening years copyrighted the "Captain Marvel" name, any comic he's in now has to be called "Shazam!" instead of "Captain Marvel." -D |
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Post by Spiderdancer on Jul 11, 2007 11:40:16 GMT -5
Oh, so it was DC AND Marvel. Figures. I'm very interested to know that because I always wondered what happened to Captain Marvel - I knew he existed because of references in relatively recent comics, but he's never around now. I guess I just assumed something very bad happened to him a la Rogue and Marvel Girl. And you're right about Supergirl, too. I've seen her in comics as well and she always looks like some dirty old man's jailbait fantasy. As mentioned in the Crossfire debate way back when, I'm not a fan of most of DC's women, but at least most of them look like grownups. Funny you should say "I'm a fan, but." After all, if I hadn't liked it, I wouldn't have watched the whole thing three and a half times to do the Viewing.  The JLU is probably the only thing DC I will read/watch that doesn't center solely around Batman, since one doesn't generally see comics where Jason Blood alone is the protagonist. I think probably the only movies I've watched and not made fun of are Children of Men, which I hated, and Night of the Living Dead, which I consider sacred. Even parts of Passion were not sacrosanct ("Satan has a MAGGOT in his NOSE??"). |
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Post by StarOpal on Jul 11, 2007 13:52:41 GMT -5
Shalen, I laughed. Then I laughed some more. I laughed a lot.
Great Mutant Viewing.
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Post by starwenn on Jul 12, 2007 20:30:03 GMT -5
Funny you should review this; I've been wanting to see these. Nice work, Shalen. |
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Post by Spiderdancer on Jul 13, 2007 1:26:11 GMT -5
Thanks! Fortunately I didn't try to use any italics or capital letters for emphasis, so no content was lost. Unlike, say, my review of Duel... I keep forgetting Justin hates alternate word formatting.  |
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Post by CheshireKat on Jul 19, 2007 1:08:26 GMT -5
If you like the Captain Marvel story, you should hear about the Marvelman/Miracleman debacle. It's why Alan Moore will never again work for Marvel. Ever. I think DC pissed him off as well.
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Post by TheLuckyOne on Jul 19, 2007 7:54:08 GMT -5
If you like the Captain Marvel story, you should hear about the Marvelman/Miracleman debacle. It's why Alan Moore will never again work for Marvel. Ever. I think DC pissed him off as well. Kimota! Moore is always angry with Marvel. If it's not over Marvelman, it's for Chris Claremont planning to use The Fury and Mad Jim Jaspers in X-Men stories. (Stories that had to be rewritten with Mr. Sinister/the Marauders and the Adversary in their places.) And if it's not for that, it's for Marvel accidentally leaving someone's name out of a reprint of Moore's old (excellent) Captain Britian stories. Too bad, because nuts as he is, he's an amazing talent. -D |
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The JLU is probably the only thing DC I will read/watch that doesn't center solely around Batman, since one doesn't generally see comics where Jason Blood alone is the protagonist.
