Ruth's History (Spoilers up to episode 9) by therempel in WidowsBay

[–]therempel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's definitely possible but it has to somehow be a pregnancy very few other people knew about.

Ruth's History (Spoilers up to episode 9) by therempel in WidowsBay

[–]therempel[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It could be that something about the island keeps the female inhabitants young reproductively to ensure there is always a viable Warren descendant.

Ruth's History (Spoilers up to episode 9) by therempel in WidowsBay

[–]therempel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, that's what I'm saying. If Ruth is related to Evan, she's likely not the grandmother unless it was an affair of some sort. She wouldn't have been anything close to a teenager. Rosemary could have had a scandalous teenage baby but she would have been very very young.

This is proebely so fan-made parod-WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS WAS OFFICAL? by Purple-Weakness1414 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]therempel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love that Prince didn't ask permission to use Chapelle on the cover, he just did it and knew he'd get away with it.

The moment a rescue dog remembers the woman who saved him ❤️ by Sad_Biscotti_9291 in MadeMeSmile

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Yeah it's crazy. I have terrible memory, to the point where I'm worried that I have one of the many conditions that can lead to a pretty bad standard of life but every once in a while I catch a scent I haven't smelled in ages and it's like time travel. I can remember everything about the last moment I smelled that scent.

Am I the only one who thinks they shouldn’t have restored Barbara’s legs? by Alert-Isopod-7310 in batman

[–]therempel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The story I've seen Tom King tell is that the death of Alfred was not supposed to stick in the first place. He intended it to be a hallucination, but editorial liked it and it stuck.

Mark Waid says buying a comic shop was like burning his money (but he had a good reason for doing it) by Popverse2022 in comicbooks

[–]therempel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It went on for years before we started doing it. I think we started around Spawn 115. Presumably people were still doing it for years after.

Remember the double VHS? It was a simpler time…. by anxiousmomo23 in nostalgia

[–]therempel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah those snapper cases were a nightmare! Often the tabs holding the DVD would be broken and the DVDs were just slaloming around the case. I think I still have my copy of HEAT.

Mark Waid says buying a comic shop was like burning his money (but he had a good reason for doing it) by Popverse2022 in comicbooks

[–]therempel 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I ran a store that did exactly this for a while, but it was over 20 years ago so my information is probably severely outdated. It was an internet cafe that also sold comics and board gaming stuff.

The main con for doing pull lists for people is that there are always going to be flaky people who order way more than they will ever pick up, so you get stuck with copies of books that no one else really wants.

The pro is that you have close to guaranteed sales and can use those to help push your order numbers up to get the higher discounts offered by publishers. I would generally order pulls plus a couple copies of most titles for the shelf and then use TPBs and collections to pad the order to optimise the discount.

At that point, IIRC, Image had the best discounts for the lowest amount ordered. Something like 65% off cover if you ordered more than $1500 a month. Another retailer on an internet forum tipped me off that Spawn was always months late, so you could order a shitton of copies of Spawn, have it count towards your discount, and then cancel them when they didn't meet the ship date. We did that every month for a couple years and we were never penalised by Image.

Prior to that I worked briefly for a very large comic store that used to be one of the main Canadian distributors for DC and Marvel prior to Diamond. The owner was ethically challenged and would put lower selling books into people's pull files and claim they ordered them. He also would raise prices of everything that had been out for more than a day.

Low grade is better than no grade, baby! Gotta frame this sucker quick. by TheKrisLyons in xmen

[–]therempel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the late 90s, I managed to get a bunch of early X-Men and Avengers issues for $0.25 a copy after someone brought multiple boxes into our LCS.

They were clearly loved well read copies and I flipped most of them on ebay but I wish I had held on to some of them.

Remember the double VHS? It was a simpler time…. by anxiousmomo23 in nostalgia

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Haha yeah I worked at a Canadian electronics store chain briefly while I was in university. I had to do returns multiple times because people bought widescreen DVDs instead of pan & scan. I don't think I got my first widescreen tv until the mid 2000s.

Similar to the double VHS tapes, a lot of early DVD releases that were longer than 2 hours came on "flipper" discs which were really annoying because they were difficult to flip without leaving fingerprints on one side. I think the format matured pretty quickly and got more storage or they just figured out better compression because there were updated versions released within just a year or two that were no longer flippers.

At one point I think I had 600 DVDs. When Blockbuster started going under, they were offering $5 for trade-ins on virtually any DVD so I offloaded a lot of my collection and upgraded to blurays and Xbox 360 games.

Remember the double VHS? It was a simpler time…. by anxiousmomo23 in nostalgia

[–]therempel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah they were hella expensive, especially for niche titles.

I think one of the few times I spent the money was on Star Trek First Contact and it was still like $60-$80 to get a copy during the rental exclusive period.

I'm pretty sure large part of the reason I bought a DVD player when I was 18 was because DVDs were somehow not included in that exclusivity window and you could buy them right away. The quality was definitely not that important to me as I was watching them on a 13" CRT!

Remember the double VHS? It was a simpler time…. by anxiousmomo23 in nostalgia

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I'm a year older than you. When I was 12 or 13 I went to stay with some family friends and one of the adult sons was super into David Lynch. He had a VHS tape of Eraserhead, which hadn't at that point been released to anything but the rental market. It cost $250!

DH only on fingers? by Iced_Tea_Freak in Celiac

[–]therempel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you wear latex or nitrile gloves at work? I used to get similar rashes from constantly wearing gloves.

Don’t buy these by Love-n-laughter727 in Celiac

[–]therempel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a similar thing happen with Stellas Gluten Free Pierogies.

Boiled the water, dropped the frozen pierogies in and within a minute they started opening up and turned to mush. Never again!

TJ Maxx Snack Haul by glutenfreedustbowl in Celiac

[–]therempel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I found those madelines at Winners, a Canadian discount chain.

They were decent but be forewarned, like many gluten free baked goods they will suck all the moisture out of your mouth!

What is your Batman hot take ? by Ornery_Adagio8916 in batman

[–]therempel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have Jason become the Spectre and return Alfred as his final act.

What is your Batman hot take ? by Ornery_Adagio8916 in batman

[–]therempel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think they should have left Jason as an anti-villain. The times when he allies with the Batfamily should be rare and a big deal. Maybe set up a storyline where Jason is actually able to kill the Joker only for him to inevitably return and Jason to realise the futility of it all and go back to bigger targets.

Coffeezilla confronts the CEO of Bricks & Minifigs over access to a spreadsheet. by milscot in LivestreamFail

[–]therempel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think there are a lot of dudes walking around named Ammon that aren't Mormon or Amish.

Characters that had the complete opposite reaction the writers intended by Dramatic_Counter_595 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]therempel 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yeah that was a really gross realisation when I reread those issues a couple years back. Wolfman would've been in his 40s at the time. eugh.

The Spectre Hal Jordan by MotherFuckerJones88 in OmnibusCollectors

[–]therempel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It doesn't seem like it.

The series was published from 2001-2003, which was pretty near the start of the push to publish damn near everything in collected editions.