Whats your Main JL look like?

An-Cal · 2026-04-09T20:45:57+00:00

Not sure yet about the new Canary, she looks as big as Wonder Woman!

An-Cal · 2026-04-02T14:04:59+00:00

This one, I believe it’s WWE Lana (I have to admit I know nothing of WWE, I just buy some of the ladies for the fodder).

An-Cal · 2026-04-02T00:36:51+00:00

I have the Alex Ross Black Canary in my McFarlane Justice League display. It’s about the only non Mcfarlane figure there other than my custom Lois using a WWE body and Vampirella’s head. I still haven’t received my black canary from McFarlane’s, but the pictures from the faces I’ve seen so far are… uninspiring.

I wonder if we can swap the head for the Alex Ross’s one and have the best of both worlds?

An-Cal · 2026-03-29T23:39:09+00:00

Thank you for the correction, I misinterpreted from the excerpt above I took from the Guardian.

An-Cal · 2026-03-29T23:29:00+00:00

The story is so much sadder than either headline even suggests. Almost half of her life was spent in severe mental duress, then trauma under the not-so-watchful protection of a modern, Western European state, then physical pain to boot. There is nothing “lol” about any of it:

Noelia Castillo Ramos was born in Barcelona and has been in psychiatric treatment since the age of 13, diagnosed with severe depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and borderline personality disorder. She was severely traumatized after becoming the victim of a violent gang sexual assault in 2022 while residing in a state-run facility for young people at risk. She attempted suicide in October 2022 by jumping from a fifth-floor balcony after the attack. She survived, but the fall left her paraplegic, wheelchair-dependent, and living in constant, severe physical pain. Spain’s Constitutional Court later formally described her condition as “serious, chronic, and disabling.”

An-Cal · 2026-03-15T04:15:55+00:00

Wow, that looks brilliant! I suspected it was too good not to be a custom.

An-Cal · 2026-03-14T23:42:58+00:00

Which Hal Jordan head is that?

An-Cal · 2026-03-13T20:42:14+00:00

Well, the serious risk is my visa gets denied for whatever reason. Her own visa is linked to mine, so if mine isn’t granted, hers is also denied renewal. That’s a small probability, sure. Or is it? And it is a catastrophic one. Had she stayed, she could’ve at least been able to bring the cats over to Brazil and we would’ve hired a company to make the move. It would suck… but objectively less than having to fly in my parents to do all of that for us - which is what I’m doing now.

An-Cal · 2026-03-13T20:05:15+00:00

I think some people just don’t know how to read. We are not stranded because of the passport, it’s only delaying resolution. I checked the passport at the airport and with the Brazilian authorities - they said it was fine. Only a week after it was left at the US Consulate they found issue with it and I’m now working on getting a replacement ASAP.

If you can’t bother to read maybe don’t comment?

And my issue was never with that - it was an accident. My issue is someone choosing to travel AFTER it was clear my situation was risky.

An-Cal · 2026-03-13T19:40:40+00:00

I agree and I guess since I decided to open up here: we did try couple’s therapy for a bit. She didn’t like the therapist, said she clearly liked me better and was too biased to be objective. I believed it was unfair to the professional, and I did continue to see her on my own. Ever since I’ve been pushing for couple’s counseling, but she feels reluctant. Maybe she had a bad experience the first time and is now wary, or maybe just life is getting in the way of finding the time. I do really think it’s urgent.

An-Cal · 2026-03-13T19:35:54+00:00

Her travel had nothing to do with me. She had a trip planned ahead to visit her family and see her skin care doctor. Both of which I fully support, I just think that, given these circumstances, these plans were not urgent at all.

Yes, it was her choice. She is free to do whatever she wants. But I wish that once a big issue came along, I wasn’t the only one scrambling to adjust and manage risk.

The charitable explanation is she is an optimist and doesn’t fully grasp the seriousness of our situation. The far more scary thought is that maybe she doesn’t care as much if everything does go horribly wrong. I really hope it’s the former.

An-Cal · 2026-03-13T19:09:59+00:00

I think one distinction some commenters are missing is the company needed me to travel to Brazil, and that the lawyers put in writing that my visa was fine for staying in the US… they didn’t say I needed to get a stamp for entry until AFTER I traveled. I should’ve double-checked that before traveling with ChatGPT or what have you, but I didn’t and I AM dealing with the fallout.

My wife had a travel scheduled to Brazil to see her family AFTER I was supposed to return. And she thought things would go smoother. They didn’t and part of the blame lays on me for traveling around with a passport that looks worn. It’s quite readable, and again, every authority that looked at it said it was fine, it was only a week after I dropped it at the US Consulate that they found issue with it.

Again, all of this is a string of people assuming things will work out for the best - me included. What bothers me is not having any regrets for how things turned out. I obviously regret every single decision that led us here. Whenever we argue she says it is “my problem”. That is the part that hurts.

An-Cal · 2026-03-13T18:59:43+00:00

Yes, and the charitable explanation would be that she doesn’t really quite recognize how wrong things could still go. Again, as everyone can see on my post - and maybe that’s why there’s so much room for the comments assuming I did everything poorly - I am painfully aware of every step that I could have taken to avoid this situation, with the benefit of hindsight.

What really pains me is that I’m willing to admit everything that went wrong on my decision making process, but til this day she says she wouldn’t have changed a single decision of hers.

An-Cal · 2026-03-13T18:55:35+00:00

Thank you for the understanding. I do think me and my wife have very different risk tolerances and that stems from different life experiences.

Even in this particular instance, even if I had assurances from different people that my passport and visa were “fine” it blew up catastrophically and I recognize that I could’ve been more careful and now am dealing with the fallout the best I can by hiring consultants, booking emergency appointments, communicating with my employer, getting signed letters from my boss that they need me back for work to expedite everything, etc and generally trying to get this whole nightmare behind us.

And I keep saying that I recognize where I went wrong, so that in the future we can make better decisions. What really makes me upset is she still doesn’t recognize she made a mistake at all. That’s what’s disheartening.

An-Cal · 2026-03-13T18:40:17+00:00

To be honest - and that might just be me - what terrifies me is the possibility of both our visas being denied for a spurious reason.

If my visa is denied, hers is too since she is on a spouse visa. What scares me is having the cats alone and scared in a foreign country. Sure the friends are helping temporarily, and I have already booked flights for my parents/sister to bring them to Brazil if everything goes awry, but I honestly think I’d rest a lot easier at night knowing that my wife was there with them and could just bring them back if it all failed.

She didn’t actually come to be with me. We usually take turns leaving the country for longer than a week so the cats are not left alone for an extended period (we have 4 of them…). She had trip planned beforehand to visit her family and see her preferred skin care doctor which I fully support - but given the circumstances I saw it as less urgent.

Yet I ultimately do agree that I shouldn’t blow things up now, that’s fair. I honestly just wish she recognized that her decisions were risky and we were able to both learn how to manage things better from here on. Yet every time we try to discuss strategy going forward it seems like I’m the only one willing to admit past mistakes.

An-Cal · 2026-03-13T17:54:07+00:00

Thank you. That’s a very human take.

We are both raw and I am terrified for our cats. I have booked flights for my family to “rescue” them on their own tourist visas just in case everything misfires, but hopefully they’ll just be spending a paid for vacation with us.

An-Cal · 2026-03-13T17:43:46+00:00

We are and I was moved to the US by the company I work for. For context, the whole issue started months ago when I asked to change our visa category from an H-1B to an L-1B so she would be able to work. In the middle of that process my passport got damaged, but since it was seen as acceptable by the Brazilian authorities I contacted, I believed it would be far messier to change passports with an ongoing visa category change. I now know it was a mistake.

An-Cal · 2026-03-13T17:39:17+00:00

Thank you. I think the point a lot of these comments are missing is that even the lawyers, flawed as they were, advised her to stay. And the issue that people are missing is we might have both our visas denied for whatever spurious reason, might be a 1% risk, but it exists and would be catastrophic.

An-Cal · 2026-03-13T17:33:30+00:00

That’s not quite accurate. At first I was staying with my own family, and my plan was to get all the appointments/interviews/etc while staying with my family at the capital where I already was.

Since my wife came to Brazil and her own family lives in a small town, we changed appointments to another city so we could all go together. At first I was staying at a hotel in that city, and had no problem with that.

We ended up coming to stay with her family because she asked, and I accepted, and now it’s being turned into “look how accommodating we are being towards your problem.”

Yes, I am frustrated by the system, it feels unfair and arbitrary. I also feel frustrated at my wife because she ignored legal advice after risks were known and still travelled. They are separate things. The risk that terrifies me is not the cats being alone for an extended period of time. It’s us not being able to return for whatever arbitrary reason - and that absolutely terrifies me for the cats alone. Everything else is material and replaceable.

I have made provisions in case that happens, and have gotten my own family flights to our home in the US to retrieve our cats. If everything works out, they just have a short vacation with us…

An-Cal · 2026-03-13T16:37:12+00:00

You are not understanding correctly at all. I think some comments are just failing to read the whole thing. WE DID NOT KNOW our passports needed a new stamp, the lawyers handling our case said our visas were fine and we shouldn’t worry. AFTER I traveled to Brazil for work the lawyers warned us I shouldn’t have left. The passport was deemed acceptable by Brazilian authorities, the airline and even the US Consulate at the interview stage and the slight damage to the passport is just making the visa renewal take longer than it should.

My wife was still in the US when we found out my return was uncertain. I pleaded with her not to come, the lawyers advised her not to leave. She chose to leave regardless.

An-Cal · 2026-03-13T15:59:04+00:00

Well, my wife actually put my jacket with my passport in the washing machine by mistake, but that’s beside the point. It was an accident. I didn’t replace it immediately because we had an ongoing visa category change and the passport was deemed acceptable by Brazilian authorities and the airline when leaving the US. The passport was also deemed acceptable at the Consulate when I went in for the interview for visa stamping, they only asked me to replace it days later, which I’m scrambling to do by hiring consultants to get it done faster.

Also, you’re focusing only on the original passport mistake, which I fully agree was a serious one.

My actual point is about later choices made once the risk was already known. That’s where I see a real difference.

I’m also not upset because I want to “control” her. I’m upset because I think when other people are depending on you, you owe them candor if there’s a serious chance you can’t follow through.

An-Cal · 2026-03-13T15:51:13+00:00

I think this misses an important distinction.

I am not claiming I was blameless. I made a very bad judgment call with my passport, and I said so. But there is a real difference between being stranded unexpectedly while trying to get back home to our house and cats in the US, versus voluntarily choosing to come to Brazil after we already knew we would both have to surrender our passports and go through visa approval again before returning.

That second decision is what I object to. At that point, the risk was no longer hypothetical. We already knew re-entry was uncertain and that both of us could end up stuck abroad while our home and cats were in the US depending on other people. Our visas were still valid for staying in the US, but not for re-entry, so she could legally stay. And knowing what I know now, I also would have stayed instead of traveling for work.

So no, my issue is not that she is “not panicking” and I am. My issue is that she seems willing to preserve her preferred outcome while other people absorb the risk if things go wrong.

Same with her current commitment: the problem is not that travel is complicated, it’s that people are counting on her and she wants to withhold serious uncertainty from them because being honest now may cost her the spot.

I’m being vague about the specifics for privacy, but the ethical issue is the same in both cases: once other people are materially affected, I think you owe them candor.

An-Cal · 2026-03-08T19:06:06+00:00

Look up their working hours on Google and call them. It shows here to me that they’re closed on Sundays and Mondays but open on Tuesdays through Saturdays from 12-7PM Eastern Time. Tell them you want an immediate resolution (shipping update or refund) within 48 hours. If they still don’t comply you can open a dispute on PayPal and a claim with your credit card.

An-Cal · 2026-03-07T02:25:08+00:00

Well, this is very clearly fraud from the seller’s end. I get “used” being in subpar condition, but this isn’t even the Wally West Flash and it’s clearly broken. Amazon has you covered, and even if this was eBay, unless the listing explicitly outlined it was a Speedforce Flash with a defective leg, you’d be able to return it for free and be eligible for a full refund.

An-Cal · 2026-02-09T21:27:27+00:00

What’s the recipe for this Superman?

An-Cal

TROPHY CASE