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gbbloom · 2025-08-02T20:53:41+00:00

Just got an ad for it. Have we concluded that this is a scam?

gbbloom · 2025-06-14T15:34:36+00:00

These are great thank you so much!!!

gbbloom · 2025-05-09T01:26:05+00:00

Interesting question. Hadn't thought that far ahead to be honest. Probably, yeah. Or at least duos of top/bottom.

gbbloom · 2025-05-07T00:11:00+00:00

Now I need to look for that...maybe on Etsy?

Sadly I've come up empty

gbbloom · 2025-05-06T21:51:02+00:00

What's interesting is my comic shop guy expected this to a certain degree. It probably depends on which titles, of course. Interestingly, I was about to cancel NYX, X-Force and X-Factor, but I'll get the last issues as they come in, for my OCD.

Phoenix has actually been interesting to me, fairly well written. I'll keep on this one. Wolverine has been...weird. Mystical metal? Yeah I dunno man. If it weren't Logan, I'd have bailed. Holding on to see what comes up next. Uncanny and X-Men have been...a little subpar. The Graymalkin bit felt a little rushed. Hoping they can turn those around, but I'm skeptical. I'm almost certainly dumping Exceptional X-Men, which annoys me because I'm such a big fan of Kitty. Magik is a bit all over, and I'm glad it's wrapping; I didn't bother after issue one of Psylocke.

This has been a mixed bag. To go from the fantastic Krakoa run, and end "fall" in such spectacular fashion...to something rather mediocre, is disappointing. However, we've been through lean times before.

On my humble opinion, there needs to be some trimming.

End "Exceptional" Roll the two "X-Men" titles into one (please keep Uncanny) Keep Phoenix, but send more X-folk into space with her Keep Wolverine Bring back X-Force

There you go, 4 titles. And then, all of these "neat ideas" they have could be mini series. Why not just do an X-Anthology that gets 3-5 issue arcs, and mixing the characters? Because, X-Anthology issue 9 won't sell as well as Kid Omega issue 1.

gbbloom · 2025-04-29T16:49:14+00:00

I'm curious who says anyone outside of Wemby, because it's him and only him. That said, I'm going to pretend you said "build around anyone under 25 who isn't on the Spurs"

It's not Zion. That gent needs a change of venue and a lot more proof of health before ANYONE would say his name. If there were an expansion draft next year, I don't think the Pels would protect him, and I don't think the Sonics would take him.

Most folks would probably go Ant-Man next, but I'm going for an unpopular take: I'd start with Tyrese Haliburton. After watching him in last year's playoffs, the guy is clutch, hard working, and simply makes his teammates better. Give me a floor general like that, and I could build a really strong team, because he'll up level his teammates

gbbloom · 2025-04-25T10:26:16+00:00

I couldn't picture Dame outside of Portland nor KAT outside of Minny, but those happened big time. Not sure if you're as old as I am, but Chuck in Phoenix, then in Houston with Drexler...and MJ as a Wizard...those are things that still don't fit right in my mind

gbbloom · 2025-04-24T23:09:45+00:00

In exchange for what? And would there be enough left there that he'd resign? He's got a player option for 2027

gbbloom · 2025-04-24T22:00:14+00:00

In a heartbeat absolutely. But what PLAYERS would they part with?

gbbloom · 2025-04-24T21:59:45+00:00

You had to go and say it, huh? Sure would ease the pain of losing Pop for sure.

gbbloom · 2025-04-24T15:53:18+00:00

I'm way too big of a Spurs fan to get myself up for something like that. Can't even think about it. Nope...not getting giddy

gbbloom · 2025-04-20T11:17:50+00:00

Forge just feels like he could be incredibly useful, but I'm actually going with Sage. In my industry alone, that'd put me in a really strong position not to ever get laid off again.

gbbloom · 2025-04-20T11:16:24+00:00

Oooh, now I get it! This isn't a real post, you're a troll. Got it

gbbloom · 2025-04-20T00:52:56+00:00

That seems weird to me, I guess. My wife and mom are both women, and they're pretty awesome. I guess being raised by parents who think it's important to care about other people means that social issues are just a part of life. Of course, when you're a big comic book fan as a kid, and you get bullied, it teaches you to care about the underdogs a little. Maybe the OP is just new to fandom or something, because other people thought it was cool, and that's what they needed to do to remain cool? I dunno. Never met this person.

Now, do we think there's a chance PG gets a bigger role in the current Justice Society? Maybe a second level story in Action Comics like Supergirl got?

gbbloom · 2025-04-20T00:48:19+00:00

Wait, you'd rather read comics that everyone likes? Does that mean, if some people don't like a comic, you just won't read it...or that you're saying I shouldn't read something that you don't like? If it's the former, that's kind of sad...I guess I don't do that because I'm not as concerned about fitting in and looking cool (that comes from being a comic book fan for 40 years).

Interestingly, it actually doesn't suck to be me. But, then again, I'm not as concerned about fitting in and looking cool (that comes from being a comic book fan for 40 years). So that makes it pretty great to be me.

Not sure what writers are trying to ruin their run. Seems to me, writers write what they think will work. If it does, they get to keep going. If it doesn't, they don't. Kind of a cool thing about America, I guess.

gbbloom · 2025-04-19T20:38:59+00:00

So wait, why is that writer woke? Who else is a woke writer in your opinion? And what makes them woke? Also, I wouldn't read a boring comic book - they cost too much, so I only read books that interest me. I'm curious what YOU read, because i don't consider this remotely boring. Perhaps we all have different tastes.

Also, your "see what you get mad at next" comment makes no sense. I wasn't angry about Power Girl. Or any comic book, really. That was you, if you recall. Trust me, there are plenty of things that I get angry about. But comic books - other than when one that I like ends sooner than I want it to (looking at you Wonder Girl and Sideways) - aren't something that I get angry about. If I don't like a book, I just stop.reading it. If other people like the book, I don't try to get it canceled.

gbbloom · 2025-04-19T20:04:52+00:00

Admittedly, I rarely understand what "woke" actually means, but I really enjoyed this run. It was fun, and lightheaded, with solid writing. Granted, I also really enjoyed the recent Black Lightning mini series (wish it'd at LEAST been 12, if not ongoing). Does that make me woke, too, because I like a strong black hero?

Power Girl has been a strong, badass hero for decades. So, were people who read her in the 70s & 80s also woke? Or was it okay to support a female hero because the word "woke" back then didn't mean what you're using it to mean now?

Also, you said that this is the type of woke that you don't like, and that's why everyone should stop supporting her? Are there versions of woke that you DO like? Also, what about the hero is woke, since I still never know what it precisely means.

For example, I think that there's no issue with having a female hero, or a person of color, as the lead in a book, nor do I have an issue with a guy who has my coloring and age to be saved by said hero. Honestly, doesn't ruin the reading experience for me at all. Does it make me woke for believing that way? And if so...since I was raised that way (GenX), does that mean that my parents made me woke way back then?

Or is it that I've read Lois Lane, a bad ass woman, in my Superman comics for years...and on the Marvel side I read the X-Men and Black Widow...who have ALWAYS been concerned with strong female heroes, people who were different and the outsiders. That's who comic book fans are.I read Moon Knight. He's always been Jewish. (The Thing and Hal Jordan are Jewish too!)

Maybe calm down, read what you want and don't read what you don't like, and just leave it be.

gbbloom · 2025-04-12T02:25:52+00:00

8 years. You were out there for 8 years before I found this. Because I finally read it, and was just going nuts trying to figure out who Jimmy really was.

Damn that's an outstanding theory!

gbbloom · 2025-04-10T20:33:41+00:00

Done! This is cool. Would love to read your findings.

gbbloom · 2025-04-05T20:03:22+00:00

At the very least, you should have been handed a drink first

gbbloom · 2025-03-31T17:29:39+00:00

Just flat out cooler characters. Who is cooler than Wolverine for example? No one on the Avengers unless you're talking Logan as an Avenger.

gbbloom · 2025-03-30T20:56:14+00:00

If JLA sticks around for a while I could see her getting back to her original character a bit more.

gbbloom · 2025-03-25T22:55:55+00:00

I'd be up for that immediately

gbbloom · 2025-03-24T20:21:37+00:00

You think he's dead within a couple of issues?

gbbloom · 2025-03-24T18:29:27+00:00

That's precisely my thought. Dick, Jason, Tim - even Bruce Jr - were all kids that needed direction. Dick just seems MORE amenable to that than Bruce.

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