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by kav
better call Saul
by The Mighty Thor
Association: #128

by bodega
lol
by kav
I'll tell my friend.

:D
by The Thing from Another World
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Association: Carrying

omg did she really die in that issue??  asking for a friend-

No, she died in this issue. ;)

Association: Carrying

by kav
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Association: Carrying

omg did she really die in that issue??  asking for a friend-
by bodega
Association: Carrying

by kav
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By the way, if you want power you'll have to leave Marvel and go to Superman!

Superman has taxed the creative abilities of writers for decades before I was born. In the beginning, Superman leaped in to save the day with the bullets bouncing off his chest. But it didn't take many stories before that gets boring. So he got more powerful, and more powerful and still more powerful taken to an extreme that became his signature.

The problem was Superman's invulnerability made it hard to write a good story. They solved it in 2 ways. Kryptonite made him weak as a kitten and he began fighting villains that were even more powerful than he was.

Kryptonite was good while it lasted, but here too, it's only effective for a handful of stories. Worse yet, with Kryptonite as an option one begins to question whether he's Superman anymore. At some point DC gave up and found a way for Superman to be immune to Kryptonite. A bold move from which they couldn't go back.

But Superman became the embodiment of paradox. He was the hero that gets beaten to a pulp in the worst ways by villains more powerful than him. He even was killed. On the one hand, Superman was the most powerful hero in comics. On the other hand, he took horrible beatings for 80 years and counting.

Would you want to be Superman if it meant you had to take so many massive beatings?

My favorite chain of events was in the 1980 movie. Superman went from thwarting a mugger who shot at Lois Lane and rescuing a cat from a tree to lifting the entire San Andreas fault with his bare hands and it didn't end there! When Lois and Jimmy were found dead he went into a rage like no other and flew around the earth turning back time. That movie kept my rapt attention to the very end.

The other one I liked was the second movie with General Zod. Zod was from Krypton too and had the same powers as Superman. I loved watching them beat the hell out of each other while smashing the city around them to pieces. It ended with the highly controversial move of Superman killing him. In general, Superman and even Batman don't kill. I for one thought General Zod deserved it!

The only reason the Superman movies were so good was because DC experimented and tried things for a very long time. This is a post about comics not movies.
In the 60s Superman's dilemmas were cerebral.  How to avoid getting exposed as Clark Kent or being charged with murder when he was framed. It took a lot of imagination to make those stories and I love them.  He wasn't getting in fist fights like the Marvel heroes.  And they used established solid science fiction writers like Edmond Hamilton and Otto binder.
by ruben
By the way, if you want power you'll have to leave Marvel and go to Superman!

Superman has taxed the creative abilities of writers for decades before I was born. In the beginning, Superman leaped in to save the day with the bullets bouncing off his chest. But it didn't take many stories before that gets boring. So he got more powerful, and more powerful and still more powerful taken to an extreme that became his signature.

The problem was Superman's invulnerability made it hard to write a good story. They solved it in 2 ways. Kryptonite made him weak as a kitten and he began fighting villains that were even more powerful than he was.

Kryptonite was good while it lasted, but here too, it's only effective for a handful of stories. Worse yet, with Kryptonite as an option one begins to question whether he's Superman anymore. At some point DC gave up and found a way for Superman to be immune to Kryptonite. A bold move from which they couldn't go back.

But Superman became the embodiment of paradox. He was the hero that gets beaten to a pulp in the worst ways by villains more powerful than him. He even was killed. On the one hand, Superman was the most powerful hero in comics. On the other hand, he took horrible beatings for 80 years and counting.

Would you want to be Superman if it meant you had to take so many massive beatings?

My favorite chain of events was in the 1980 movie. Superman went from thwarting a mugger who shot at Lois Lane and rescuing a cat from a tree to lifting the entire San Andreas fault with his bare hands and it didn't end there! When Lois and Jimmy were found dead he went into a rage like no other and flew around the earth turning back time. That movie kept my rapt attention to the very end.

The other one I liked was the second movie with General Zod. Zod was from Krypton too and had the same powers as Superman. I loved watching them beat the hell out of each other while smashing the city around them to pieces. It ended with the highly controversial move of Superman killing him. In general, Superman and even Batman don't kill. I for one thought General Zod deserved it!

The only reason the Superman movies were so good was because DC experimented and tried things for a very long time. This is a post about comics not movies.
by kav
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Galactus is a different sort of villain. I think the message that Stan Lee tried to get across is that Galactus isn't really evil. In order to survive, he has to feed on entire planets. Here too, Galactus elicits sympathy. The hand of cards he's dealt is a bum deal.

Galactus makes us think and brings out the philosopher in all of us. Would you starve to death to save innocent lives? Galactus ups the ante by making it the lives of a whole planet, but the principle doesn't change just because we're talking about billions of lives. Or does it? That's a tough question.

The short answer is most wouldn't require such a sacrifice of everyone. Furthermore, people are separated into 2 camps. Some would applaud such a sacrifice as extremely heroic while others would merely call him a fool.

Hunger does terrible things to a person and it's worse when you've been hungry for a long time.
I fasted for a week once. All you think about is food. I read a cookbook. You don't get weak though like people say I still worked out 3 hours a day like normal. For a week at least there is no weakening of the body.

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by kav
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pics gone again.  deleted.

WHY
Dunno, I am not getting involved in an image hosting site ever again.  I am STILL getting notifications from Photobucket that my account is about to be deactivated.  I wish they would just deactivate it already. 
I have never used an image hosting site.  I just get an image from Google or facebook, open image in new tab and copy the web address.
by Buzzetta
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Oh, and the Junk Shop that I mention so frequently here is in the basement of a thrift shop on Merrick Road in Baldwin.




I told Juan about it but he's too fancy for it!


pics gone again.  deleted.

WHY
Dunno, I am not getting involved in an image hosting site ever again.  I am STILL getting notifications from Photobucket that my account is about to be deactivated.  I wish they would just deactivate it already. 
by Buzzetta
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What is behind the Dang BBQ / Jiffy Lube? I have never been.


The American Legion Post south of Merrick Rd on Penatiquit Ave used to be the indoor home for some Flea Markets.  It looks like the Merrick Train Station one and the Bellmore Train Station one will overlap at some point.   I think that that the American Legion Post is a splinter of one of those groups while the Temple one is for the other. 


by Buzzetta
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Went to what I thought was the Bellmore indoor festival by Dang BBQ on Sunday.  The gun show was there instead. 

Went to the Merrick Train Station Flea Market.  That made the Bellmore Train Station Flea Market appear very high end.  

Shrugged and went home.

Is the Bellmore Lions Club flea market still at the hall behind the Jiffy Lube and Dang BBQ or has it moved?
The winter home of the Bellmore flea market is at the temple in Merrick down on Clubhouse Road south of Merrick Road.


Just got back and did the rounds.  I was tempted by a vintage Tonka Truck to put at the foot of a table in my home office but then I remembered I could just get the one that is still at my parent's house and clean it up. 

I did the rounds today and that led me to the Temple on Clubhouse Road.  Thanks for that as I did not know about that.  Then I looped around to the Merrick Train Station Flea Market.  I walked around.  Saw some interesting things and then came across the WWII artifacts table.  I looked it over for the novelty of it as the pieces were in very nice condition so much so you could still make out insignia's on the helmets and daggers and things.  I walked away when I saw the lightening bolts.  I want no part of that.  

Went home and here I am.   Going home empty handed wasn't that bad of a thing. 
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Oh, and the Junk Shop that I mention so frequently here is in the basement of a thrift shop on Merrick Road in Baldwin.




I told Juan about it but he's too fancy for it!


pics gone again.  deleted.

WHY
by mrwoogieman
Oh, and the Junk Shop that I mention so frequently here is in the basement of a thrift shop on Merrick Road in Baldwin.




I told Juan about it but he's too fancy for it!


by mrwoogieman
What is behind the Dang BBQ / Jiffy Lube? I have never been.