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Let's leave the good stuff DC TV is doing as far as possible away from the DCCU shitshow

Nail Yakupov has asked Edmonton for a trade, apparently, and the team has given him permission to shop himself to other teams. Listen, it hasn't worked out, there's no defense of that. But he's a really great young man and I sincerely hope he gets his career back together anywhere but Vancouver or Calgary. Basically my dream is to see Nail Yakupov score 30 goals for the Las Vegas Butts, slide on his knees to center ice screaming, while the PA plays Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas with an arena display of lasers and showgirls. This is what I want. This is the future I would craft if I was God.

Is Barrett giving away all his shit before he quits?

http://deathvalleydriver.com/2016/03/27/dvdvr177/ DEAN~! touches himself to EDDIE GUERRERO~! RIPPA~! touches himself to MARK HENRY~! YOU~! touch yourself to CHELSEA~! SEIYA SANADA~! MR. LEO~! HIROSHI YAMATO~! JOE COFFEY~! NAOMICHI MARUFUJI~! And, of course, TERRY FUNK~! Let’s all go to the MALL~!

It's not specific GOTCHA examples that matter so much as the spirit behind things, what it represents, and what it could represent. To go against any of that has a huge cost and the benefit better damn well be worth it. Some sensationalist deconstruction that represents how fucked up our country is in 2016 doesn't seem to cut it to me. It seems like it's the time when we need what Batman represents the most.

I got a big-ass tax return.

Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom check out the WWE (It is Regal vs. Jericho so clearly wizards are smart enough to not boo Regal)

Because we're speaking directly about this iteration and you're bringing up Daredevil! If Johnny steals something from a store and gets away with it and then I steal and get caught, saying, "well Johnny did it too!" doesn't make it any better. I think there's plenty to talk about, but you make it difficult to do so when you keep deflecting and avoiding addressing the issue by pointing the finger to something else instead. It's stupid. Maybe people are talking about Batman in this way and not Iron Man or Daredevil or whatever else because they really fucking like Batman, or Superman, and they care more about them, their history, who they are at a fundamental level, and this means more to them at this point in time, or any point in time, than any other character.

Marvel's done four things exceptionally well. 1. They struck a fun tone with Iron Man, modernizing it while keeping enough details to make it work. 2. And this is most important, I think: they got Captain America right. That's the iconic character right there and they proved that he could work even in a post-modern world. Superman could too. 3. They hit the marks on Avengers, not all of them, but enough. 4. They managed to launch a few smaller properties successfully, leaning on some specific house style elements that people enjoy while differentiating them with separate genres. Dr. Strange is next, which is magic horror, and thus unlike anything they've been doing. It all feels different. It all feels the same. Building on what Brian said, has Superman killed? Yes. But it led to Exile. It was shown as a massively horrible mistake and had huge, huge costs. It was also not the story that they led the post-crisis Superman with, and it existed within a broader spectrum than that. If you're only going to do one story every 3 years, or whatever, there are different things you can and can't get away with relative to if you're putting out four comics a month. If you do one Spider-Man movie every three years, you probably shouldn't do the one where Doc Ock takes over his brain. That's an interesting twist on the formula to see what something different would look like, but they're still trying to establish the movie baseline, and they went far afield because that's what excited Snyder and that's what WB thought that America would lap up because it loves seeing its heroes fall and shown to be even more horrible than we are. Look at the popcorn eating and hand-wringing in something like the Cosby note. It's a spectator sport, our national pastime.

IIRC, it was in late 1940, just over a year after Batman's first appearance, that the no killing and no guns rule went into effect. There have been exceptions here and there since in the comics (Son of the Demon and All-Star Batman and Robin, The Boy Wonder he definitely kills people, TDKR and The Killing Joke there's debatable killings, and probably a few others I'm forgetting as far as killing. Batman with a gun happened at least a couple times early in the Silver Age by a new creative team that wasn't aware of the rule, and it's been a go-to "shit just got so serious Batman is breaking his rule!" moment for decades.) but it's mostly been a hard and fast rule since then. Miller's work is influential as hell, but I'd point out that his only major Batman story that was actually considered in continuity is Year One.

I disliked the Burton's with time, But yeah, in Batman 89, Bats blew the shit out of Ace Chemicals with a bomb from the Batmobile, that dropped right in front of the mooks shooting at it. So the kill count in 89 was pretty high since there seemed to be a bunch of mooks in that Chemical plant alone.

F Snyder and F burton and F Nolan are not mutually exclusive.

Fuck Snyder.

I was shocked to find out Christopher Nolan films better car chases than Zack Snyder.

The pdf version http://deathvalleydriver.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/DVDVR177.pdf

In my opinion Neville/Finn was better than any of the Zayn/Joe matches and I'm one of the biggest Joe marks around here. You really didn't dig that one?

After seeing some of what's been going on in this thread this week, a few of you clearly need to watch this and chill out:

As someone that didn't love the first season, I actually liked the second season better than the first. I think the second season was structured and paced better than the first season. That said the first half of this season was definitely better than the second half. The first half was well paced and organized, the second half seemed a bit unfocused and felt a little like they didn't know how they wanted to get the characters to where they wanted to leave them at. Plus the off and on commitment to the mysticism of The Hand made for clunky storytelling. Matt ends up coming off like Scully in the later seasons of The X-Files where the viewer starts to become frustrated with the character's refusal to believe. I have to get around to watching Jessica Jones but Luke Cage should be fun.

Well that's no ordinary 18 year old.

The Double Stomp never looks that good, and the Corner Dropkick isn't even the best on the NXT roster now that Aries is there. His apron kick looked just shitty on this one, and his cutoff running forearm also didn't look great by any stretch. The idea Finn has been the best part of NXT this year over Joe, Asuka, Emma, Jordan and Gable, or the Revival to me seems really really, well, wrong.

Adrian street! Wendell Cooley! Adrian Street and RIP FUCKIN' ROGERS! James

Please let Michael be hammered before he gets the mic, please let Michael be hammered before he gets the mic, please let Michael be hammered before he gets the mic...

Wahoo McDaniel vs The Grappler in an Indian Strap Match...in WING 1992 Tokyo, Korakuen Hall

Oh, of course he does.

Saint should be in the HOF. Maybe he will go in, if WrestleMania is ever in London. Might be the only way any British guys do get in. My class for the HOF that year: British Bulldogs William Regal Lord Alfred Hayes Johnny Saint Mark Rollerball Rocco Big Daddy Giant Haystacks Kendo Nagasaki Kent Walton Chris Adams Mick McManus Jackie Mr TV Pallo Fit Finlay Ceremony to be held at the Royal Albert Hall.

I appreciate this tournament for the introduction to Dragon Lee. He's awesome.

My first robot has this odd limp, and he looks pitiful. I keep expecting him to come up to me and say "kill me. Put me out of my misery. I beg of you." Tweaks are needed.

THEY'RE GOING TO WIN THE EUROS EE-AYE-ADIO THEY'RE GOING TO WIN THE EUROS

Dope old school Simpsons reference on this episode too.

It's at least a 50/50 chance The New Day show up wearing various outfits from the Freebird Road video, right?

.........I had the same dream.........

It's depressing to think about how even with the injuries, how much better this Wrestlemania could have been with better booking. After the Rollins injury, turn Roman heel, have him become the new Corporate Champ, screwing Ambrose in the finals of the tournament for the vacant title at last year's Survivor Series. This leads to Ambrose winning the Rumble and getting this rematch against his former friend. Instead of running Taker vs. Lesnar III at last year's Hell in a Cell, save it for Mania. Have Shane face Triple H for control of the company, the guy that actually took his spot as heir to the throne. Make the giant mess of a ladder match the US Title match, and give Owens and Sami a one-on-one match for the IC Title.

Who's a good boy?

If we're saying Batman killed people, then we also assume that most goons in every comic book film are dying from the various energy blasts and punches from meta humans and mutants they are eating. Also, it's pretty blatant that Batman was driven over the edge and Superman brought him back to who he is. That's why he doesn't brand Luthor. There were a lot of issues in the movie but I didn't think any of them were Batman.

Cheap plug, if I may -- I run WCWworldwide.com and have been scanning and posting a lot of items this week in regards of the 15th Anniversary of the WCW Buyout. 15 years! I bet you all feel like senior citizens now after reading that! Anyways, I just transcribed an entire WOW Magazine interview with Eric Bischoff that took place in between the timeframe where Fusient Media announced their purchase of WCW but before the actual deal fell through. It's a great read considering it's Bischoff laying out the future of a company that didn't really have one, it's a real "What-If?" deal. I scanned in and transcribed a "Vader, Bloody Vader" article from RAW Magazine a couple of days ago. Monsoon_Classic from YouTube has joined the site and is always giving updates on the crap-ton of videos he uploads every week. My next major scan will probably be getting this gem onto the Internet: Just a quick "hey" to anyone here who'd be interested or lives on here through their phone never seeing my huge-ass signature block promoting all my hot garbage.

I added "CaliRed" which was done by the same guy who did the Blue and Black ones. I am just seeking a green one that works. I was cock-teased by the theme that someone did that made the Version 4 board look like the Version 3 - thus all you who hated change would be happy. Sadly - the theme is already out of date and doesn't work.

My brother still keeps an old Zenith at his house for Drunken Duck Hunt Fridays with his friends.

Best two words to hear: NOT GUILTY. I just got my client the first NG in that court since October, broke a streak of 17 straight convictions for that judge and those prosecutors. Judge was visibly upset. Prosecutor left for the bathroom after the verdict and threw up. I love my job.

This is like FSW after Punk beat Ryback...

Because why wouldn't you wanna see Eddie Gilbert and Lanny Poffo wrestle in ICW? James

The back story on Lesnar's absence is that he refused to get off his iPhone, watching the Mil Muertes/ him bracket.

I'd pay to see No Ma'am take on League of Nations at Mania.

I'd have forgiven Bane's voice if he'd have at least killed Hines Ward, but the stupid bastard couldn't even do THAT.

Also the Christen circling Edge saying 'please retire, please retire' and Edge saying 'I already did...didn't you too' and Christen looking sad saying 'I can't talk about that' before walking off with his head down. got an lol from me

In my head I always pronounce "Chi Chi Cruz" like Les Nessman pronounced "Chi Chi Rodriguez." Yes, I'm weird.