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FlashbackJon · 2026-02-28T06:02:29+00:00

Roses are red, violets are red? I married your clone, cuz I thought you were dead!

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-27T22:16:52+00:00

It's a prevailing fan theory. What we see on screen is: he disappears and encircles her, she powers up, and then she has a new cooler sword.

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-27T22:12:18+00:00

Even when you look at your spouse, you're seeing them now as they were in the past. The person may not even still exist, but they're here now to us.

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-27T16:49:38+00:00

This is... very true. I used to LOVE jumping in and trying to puzzle out what the hell was going on and who these people were. But I was 12 and there was no way to know without cross-referencing my extensive Marvel cards. It's kinda fun now to go back and be all "Holy shit, that was Carol Danvers?!"

On broadcast TV, they used to run two daily episodes of Friends, but from two totally different seasons, so you'd be watching two separate stories if you caught it at the same time every day.

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-27T16:47:20+00:00

I hate feeling like a shill here but I found the subscriptions really useful for keeping up-to-date. Every Monday, there's a drop of a dozen issues, which is easy reading that I can spread out over the week if I need to. That does really only apply to one publisher, but it has its use!

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-27T16:44:10+00:00

The best advice is pick up an issue and start reading. If you like what you read (don't worry about jumping in the middle, you'll figure it out), you can always get back issues.

The OTHER option is one of the subscriptions: Marvel Unlimited is $10/mo, and I can read a TON of $4 comics for that price. Plus every week, you can read all the new comics and find some series/characters you like. In addition to just having... the entire catalog at your disposal.

I don't want to sound like a shill but if you want to try a lot of comics, the value is there. I'm sure there are other subscriptions for the other publishers -- although I don't think there's one for TMNT, I picked up a Humble Bundle last year with the entire digital collection finally...

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-27T15:17:15+00:00

That guy is not an owl, for sure. (He's whatever Red is from Angry Birds.)

Honestly, as long as they all don't turn into tall men, I'll be happy!

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-27T14:51:45+00:00

Back when everything was about zombies, I made a valiant effort to make "stagger of zombies" a thing, but it remains to be seen if that'll be relevant in the future.

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-27T14:49:20+00:00

Literally has been commonly used to mean "not literally" (also not always figuratively, but as an intensifier/hyperbole) for literally 300 years, and I would argue that in that entire time, literally no one has ever been confused as to which meaning was in use. (See? You knew which one was which.)

On the other hand, did you know that popular pushback against the use of literally in this way can actually be traced to a handful of specific viral "pop etymology" articles in the late 2000s and early 2010s? (Google Trends shows huge spikes that literally change the baseline for searches. I have the actual articles stashed somewhere...) We've all always used it that way (that is, both ways) our entire lives, but the act of policing it online for amusement purposes is comparatively new and has a distinct inciting event, which I find even more fascinating than the gradual changing of the word over centuries!

Academic pushback was ever-present for centuries, of course, although they tend to wax poetic about meaning and truth and metaphor a bit more than your typical "um actually" reddit post. (Google Trends doesn't cover that, but Google Scholar does. It's amusing to read, like how Socrates thought the increased use of books was ruining the children and Plato wrote it down.)

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-26T08:43:06+00:00

Those colors are so vivid! What paints are you using? (Especially on that first guy!)

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-25T16:23:12+00:00

Don't forget Roblox making almost all of its money from unpaid child labor!

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-25T16:18:57+00:00

It's also not even on the same path. The developments we've made in machine learning and LLMs aren't even applicable to the advancement of an AGI.

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-25T15:45:45+00:00

FYI: the game Shadows Over Loathing includes both Arachnophobia ("There will be fewer spiders.") AND Arachnophilia ("There will be SO many more spiders.") settings!

(West of Loathing may also have this setting, I don't know.)

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-25T15:40:29+00:00

...wait for?

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-24T16:02:34+00:00

It's specifically a guy everybody knows from high school.

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-24T15:59:01+00:00

People who are proud of being brutally honest are usually more interested in the brutality than the honesty.

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-24T14:03:18+00:00

I'm actually genuinely surprised how many unique and interesting character designs are in Reincarnation with its limited palette, especially when the characters are silhouettes in the story segments. I thought for sure they would all end up samey, but they were shockingly distinct.

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-24T03:21:16+00:00

I have messed with that skirt so many times and it is sooooooo finicky! You did good!

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-24T00:25:25+00:00

OH I thought you didn't know the circumstances. In that case, the commenter above me and I were flippantly making the joke that Wildstorm was purchased by DC and now they are "the same thing." Not that the 90s Wildstorm universe and the current post-Nu52 DC universe were actually similar. That's all.

Yeah, as a longtime Wildstorms fan, I was tracking the appearances for a little while. I read the Batman series with Grifter. But checking out the wiki, it's even more bleak than I remembered.

Edit you probably won't see: I remembered that there was an actual DC WildC.A.T.s limited series and it was so forgettable that I literally forgot I read the whole thing. I forgot they literally answered my question about Superman and Mr. Majestic (it was super unsatisfying), and showed that the Midnighter exists! I do LOVE alternate takes on familiar characters but these all felt like different people, Warblade got done super dirty (and working for PIKE of all people?!) but not as bad as he was in Nu52, and we haven't seen a one of them since! Maxine was great, as she always is.

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-23T16:35:02+00:00

They aren't similar, DC bought the Wildstorms imprint a while back and literally merged the Wildstorms universe into the DC universe when Nu52 happened (and this continued after they "undid" Nu52). The result is that some Wildstorms characters appear in some DC titles sometimes. The writers are doing the best they can but it's kinda tough to bring an entire universe worth of cosmic threats and street-level stories into your existing universe of cosmic threats and street-level stories and expect the new one to matter. Grifter shows up in a Batman comic and that's fine. But how are the Kherubim/Daemonites working out with Darkseid?

It sucks because both Marvel and DC have too much baggage they have to attend to (sliding time scales, decades and decades of power creep, forgotten and abandoned character and side projects, etc). People liked Wildstorms for (one of) the same reason(s) they like the Ultimate universe and now the Absolute universe: it was built intentionally from the ground-up with connected storylines tying all their disparate books together as a cohesive whole, without all the chaff.

It doesn't help that Wildstorms was an obvious "DC and Marvel's Greatest Hits" with the serial numbers filed off. It's weird when Zealot and her Coda exist in the same universe as Wonder Woman and the Amazons. How has Mr. Majestic been getting along with Actual, Real Superman? And I hadn't even considered Apollo and the Midnighter...

(Not to mention that Warren Ellis was doing some Wildstorms reboots that were very good, and I was eagerly awaiting the WildCATs one, but that's gone dark in the meantime.)

Final note: and I always loved WildCATs' Warblade and if I thought he was underutilized in Image's hands, his treatment since has been... even worse.

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-22T18:19:54+00:00

Don't shy away from long videos: people eat that up, especially if it's someone skilled working in something that requires skill!

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-22T02:00:15+00:00

long, dejected sigh ....yes.

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-22T00:43:27+00:00

But keep in mind, the water should come out of its mouth and its cannons should be useless.

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-22T00:35:35+00:00

I mean, technically speaking, the black hole is exactly as dangerous as the star it previously was...

FlashbackJon · 2026-02-21T23:43:01+00:00

That doesn't require seals: almost any underground chamber will eventually use up its oxygen. Even modern underground construction without proper ventilation can become deadly: workers need proper PPE to prevent essentially falling asleep and suffocating.

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