The Unholy Dragon
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Well played sir. But I think that kind of come is spelt differently
No I'm pretty sure his come room is the fuck dungeonOnly person in the world whose come room is full of coca-cola and not cocaine.
Depends if you're going for noun or verb.
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I'm sure it's easier on the career but it kills me that they have Del Rey and Stock as trainers only. Just drop them and Kana in with Bayley and it's better than the 4 Horsewomen era already (aside from Sasha being gone).
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Bryan and Zayn( arguably the two best workers in the company) being out isn't helping the high end match quantity. Too many main roster matches have devolved into mindless spotfests. To me Brock is the one guy that works outside the box and stands out on the main roster from bell to bell.
It's funny actually because the guy on the main roster who's spent the most time figuring out how to mash up good storytelling with huge spot stuff?
Cena. Which is why he's having a ridiculously good in-ring year above guys who come from the style.
Then again, I've felt for a while Cena is the closest to a King's Road style wrestler in the US. Good storytelling around bombs. And like King's Road going into NOAH era, he's hit a point where he can't have a match without nerfing finishers. Still fun to watch though.
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On the subject of bogus move claims, I didn't realize until Tommy Dreamer announced he was done taking Chokeslams that Heyman has sold the idea he invented the Chokeslam for 911.
Dreamer tried to argue that Taue adopted the Nodowa after 93, but I've seen him throw them in earlier matches and Undertaker was already using Nodowa style Chokeslams as a signature in 92 (Summerslam with Kamala).
My question becomes then, what's the earliest Chokeslam on record?
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Long term the New 52 alienated a lot of hardcore fans and didn't attract new ones basically. DC You is starting to fix that but it'll take a while for confidence to build. Marvel diversified their line ages ago so that multiple books have their own feel and don't just satisfy diminishing returns of completism.
Also Bleeding Cool recently crunched some numbers and found Marvel's superhero sales are about level with DC's. Their Star Wars stuff is just selling enough to account for 10-15% of the sales chart alone.
I legitimately don't get how it's been *this* successful.
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I watched Looper last night. It wasn't what I hoped it would be, it's got an interesting premise, but I don't think the actual story lives up to it. And it goes out of it's way to say "We're a time travel movie but we aren't going to talk about time paradoxes at all" and then the ending is a massive time paradox. And all that prosthetic make-up they stuck on Joe Levitt's face to make him look like a young Bruce Willis didn't make him look like a young Bruce Willis. They made him look like Joe Levitt with a bunch of crap stuck on his face.
I liked it but couldn't get over how white the future was. Obvious exception aside, there's not a lot of people of colour in that film. Like, even background characters. And given it was all supposed to be in low income neighborhoods in a major metropolitan city it actively became bizarre enough to take me out of the movie.
The gender politics are also actively terrible.
It's a good enough time travel movie though.
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The Salander novel I couldn't tell you since it's been hugely controversial. It's popped up in my newsfeed a few times on Facebook and I don't even know many people all that into the series.
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My problem with Season 3, is that Ra's is supposed to be a million steps higher on the food chain than Deathstroke, but the way it played out made him somehow seem less threatening than Slade.
Different styles. Deathstroke's attack had this real premeditated ferocity to it. He took on Ollie from all sides but the Miracle also gave him an obvious advantage. Ra's was as deadly without a weakness and more or less just dismantles him effortlessly as soon as he decides that's the play. I found Ra's had more or an endboss feel but the Slade arc was more satisfying due to how personal it was and the way they tied past and present together.
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If anything, I thought Emp actually rocked maybe a little too much this time around. We saw her beat a whole buncha heels, but didn't get to see the aftermath of any of it (except her being broken and crying, as per usual). None of the jackass "heroes" who constantly doubt and mock her were really forced to eat any crow, to show any comeuppance. Also: how fucking dumb are the big superhero council, to not realize what had already happened to 524? Sometimes, I think Warren overdoes things when it comes to stacking the deck against Emp in order to get sympathy for her. (Let me note that these are all just nitpicks, though: like I said before, best indy comic in the world.)
See, I really liked the twist. It diversified her skillset and provided a great reason for her to get through.
And hey, there was always
Deathmonger's brick shitting return. Which was needed as that was actually the book where I felt she got through a bit easy.
But I mean...Warren has been levelling her up for ages. I thought this paid that off well.
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FINALLY. Greatest indy comic in the world, aside from how goddamn long we have to wait between volumes.The new Empowered Vol. 9 is pretty great too. A real CMOA for Emp. Also, EEL DUCE!
It averages about one per year which is about right. Great series, this volume rules. Adam Warren is a pretty good dude too slash good salesman. I was drooling over his original art at TCAF but my whole budget was less than a page. Instead I got a page rough for $20 signed. Which is a hell of a deal.
Somehow I have like a half dozen pages of original comics art without having more than like, $40 for a page.
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This is going to end with Cena going to a shady wrestling gym in Tokyo during the next Japan tour, paying Chapparita ASARI to teach him some moves, and breaking his neck trying to do a Sky Twister Press, isn't it?
I audibly chuckled at that. Fantastic.
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I appreciate Cena bringing flashes of indy offense to big matches. It's especially hilarious both as a way to troll the "You can't wrestle" crowd as well as in-canon to be able to surprise tough opponents who have his usual bombs well scouted.
That said, he needs to realize he's a bigger power guy pushing 40 and not the Amazing Red circa 2002. Dude should not be trying Yoshi Tonics.
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Stars and STRIPE is fun but his Wally Flash run has the fun and gravitas until it kinda loses the fun. Johns' run isn't as good as Waid's but it's a clear second.
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Well, they wanted to do Batmobile because Batmobile. The problem is, the glide system was so efficient it's typically faster than the Batmobile so they needed a way to force you to use it.
Honestly though, after time I think a lot of the problems with the game come down to singular or lazy work. No haracter choice for AR missions? Very few AR missions anyway? No character select freeroam once the main story is done? Not even at 100%? Super repetitive side missions most of which are just against militia? Unnecessary repetition of side missions to stretch length ala Firefly and Man Bat? Batmobile boss fights like the Arkham Knight x2, Firefly, and Deathstroke?
This isn't even getting to story stuff like the gross sexism all over it, weird decision to write Tim as skinhead Dick, Arkham Knight repeatedly being like "I'll kill him now. Or not.", and the fact that Scarecrow is some kind of weird preening villain who somehow knows Batman's every move...he's Joker. He's basically written like boo scary Joker.
I mean, I enjoyed it on virtue of always wanting more Batman games using this engine/system/world but uh. It's pretty clearly the least of the series. Including Origins. And that's not down to the Batmobile alone. (Which for the record is a lot of fun when not being forced on you)
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There's some really great comics in that sale. Gotham Central is obvious but Lemire's run on Green Arrow was the best post reboot and maybe the best since the high parts of Winnick's run. The sale also includes Blitz which is probably the high point of Johns' run on The Flash (Rogue War is also good, but without the other parts of the build mostly just works as a Blitz sequel.
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I mean I've enjoyed the game enough not to feel ripped off by full release price and season pass but at the same time, I think you're safe to wait for a price drop.
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Detective Comics hasn't been far off under Manapul and Buccellato. Bullock is the obvious lead with Montoya and a solid crooked cop arc sharing time. Batman is in it but with more of a cop's eye view which is interesting with Bullock knowing it's Gordon now. It's not the same, but it's a totally acceptable substitute.
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Got I forgot about Serpent and the Rainbow. So great.
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I have the original run trades but I may grab that for a complete pretty bookshelf edition since the original trades skipped some issues.
I also just like big bookshelf editions and if it's a series I like may buy multiple times. Thus my Absolute Editions, Kingdom Come special edition hardcover, and three copies of Arkham Asylum by Morrison. Shit, I just bought the Gothic hardcover since it was the only Morrison Batman book I lacked in HC.
I have a problem.
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I've been saying this on Facebook and the like: There weren't a ton of Craven films I loved individually, but almost no other creators had the balls to try new shit constantly the way he did. Nightmare is incredible and the way New Nightmare twists it is great. Scream is a brilliant concept even if the movies are eh. Even something like They is a great and creepy idea hampered by a low budget and thus bad actors.
The guy was amazingly creative and that more than anything made him a favourite of mine.
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Cliff Curtis gets cast as basically every non-White ethnicity. He's played quite a few Latino characters but he was also Ozai in that shitty Last Airbender movie. Pretty sure he's also played Arabic and Native American roles. There's an article about it I tried to post but making links work on here is janky on mobile.
Hollywood is pretty shitty toward non-white people.
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Throne of Atlantis has multiple beheadings, people being sliced to pieces, and just blood everywhere. Son of Batman is Ninja Scroll levels of gory but at least you can kind of excuse it with a ninja centric Batman story.
But seriously the level of gore in that stretch from Flashpoint Paradox to Throne of Atlantis was out of control. Batman vs. Robin and Gods and Monsters seem to have scaled it back so that's good.
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Honestly there was a while I genuinely preferred DKSA to DKR. I've come around but I still don't think DKSA is as bad as it's made out to be.
Then again, I'm also aboard for ASBAR being great and legitimately being disappointed the rest isn't happening apparently.
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Gods and Monsters was the best DCAU flick in ages by virtue of being less violent than the last two JLA movies despite really being able to go further given the concept.
Actually used dark and gritty in a positive way. The whole world was neat and well thought out. So noted, peep the prequel comics/shorts for max effect.
NXT 2015 - Q4
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Wasn't saying they're better than Sasha. Or even Bayley necessarily. But miracle performance aside, Becky Lynch is still incomplete. I love her but she's not at that top level yet. And Charlotte outright sucks but has her weaknesses hidden through booking and superior talent. They'd be missing Sasha, but Stock, Del Rey, Kana, and Bayley would have better quality wrestlers as cornerstones on balance.
This is all moot anyway unless WWE and the wrestlers themselves change their mind about Del Rey and Stock being trainers only.
It's a shame Cheerleader Melissa has the combo of too old and the wrong look for WWE.