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Post by Webber3000 on Mar 7, 2016 18:47:02 GMT -5
Ah, that's not too bad, especially considering the drive from here is about 6 hours in the winter.
And goddamn Excellent, that sounds like one hell of a trip!
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Post by brotherandbassist on Mar 16, 2016 15:01:02 GMT -5
I've been to Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and Indiana. Been to Tennessee more times than I can count, I've stopped in Georgia twice on the way to Florida, been to Florida twice, South Carolina once on a mission trip, and I've been to Indiana three times. Don't think I could ever beat Mr. Excellent's state visits XD
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Post by BackinBlack on Mar 18, 2016 18:55:45 GMT -5
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Post by Webber3000 on Mar 21, 2016 15:39:41 GMT -5
Accurate. Man, I still remember the days when everybody hated on Joe Quesada. I even did this back in 07 or 08. XD
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Post by mr. excellent on Mar 22, 2016 1:24:22 GMT -5
A crazy trip it was friend. That little animation you did is pretty funny. Tell you all what, I hated Quesada. Totally bought into all the rage against him. His controversial opinions about Spider-man would've been okay by me were he not in the position to wreak all the havoc on the character that he did. He's done a lot of other things too at Marvel though, so I suppose after a while it was time to just move forward.
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Post by BackinBlack on Mar 22, 2016 6:12:15 GMT -5
Indeed. As the years went by, the pain of what happened didn't hurt as much, even though it's still one of the worst things to ever happen in comics. At least after awhile the book got good again.
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Post by Webber3000 on Mar 22, 2016 15:43:25 GMT -5
At least you guys had a reason. I didn't even read comics at the time... I was confused by it all, but I was told I should be mad at him, and angry I became! somewhat... At least angry enough to spend a couple hours on a stick figure animation. It was my very first, too!
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Post by mr. excellent on Mar 23, 2016 16:19:12 GMT -5
That may be your funniest admission yet. Believe you me, I had this grudge against Quesada since late 2003 or 2004. Around that time I'd read my first Spider-man comics, written by JMS. Controversial as his stories were/are, Straczynski's characterization is magic. This is especially with regard to the world of Peter Parker. Shortly after being mesmerized by collections such as "Revelations" and "Until the Stars Turn Cold", I read an interview in Wizard Magazine of Joe Quesada. He felt that Spider-man's life as a married man had lost the excitement and adventure of his swinging bachelor days. He didn't like how Spider-man considered his super heroics a patrol/watch, and wanted to go back to the days of Spider-man being more naive and inexperienced in life. To me, at that time, those were fighting words. Here's my first comic book experience with the character, the best part being the marriage and how Spider-man has these great little relationships with the people of the city while he's on patrol (it kind of reminds me of how Matt Murdock makes allies out of certain civilians that the audience gets to know in the Netflix Daredevil Series) and Quesada is taking a dump on all of it. A year or two later, I read more interviews with Quesada reaffirming what he said in the original Wizard interview (and no doubt other interviews) and promising to shake things up with the Civil War story. From there, the shit in Parker's life progressively built up to his deal with Mephisto. None of it was necessary though. You have this great story idea in Civil War that didn't actually need Spider-man to be in the center of it*, the story didn't need to go in that direction, but because it could be used as a catalyst to bring Spider-man back where one of Marvel's big wigs wants him to be, that's what Marvel did. Straczynski was still on the books at the time, but was pretty vocal about not supporting the direction Marvel (Quesada) was taking the character. To be honest, I do think they did a good job with the story. There was a lot of talent that worked on those books, so it's not like the book was crap. It's just that at that time, all it took was one guy at Marvel who didn't like where decades of character development had taken the character, to undo it all. With regard to what you said BIB, the Spider-man stories did get good again, thank goodness. After Brand New Day, I honestly lost interest in staying current on everything (the books were coming out so fast) and got a lot more choosy about the stories I read. No doubt, I've missed a lot of good stories post BND. However, I'm currently reading The Superior Spider-man. I got through the first 16 issues. Never thought I'd say this, but of all the post BND Spider-man material, this has been my favorite. Maybe we could talk about it more in the Books section. *See Black Panther's story. Hell, the movie should drive this point home even further, even if it is a big deviation from the comic story.
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Post by Webber3000 on Mar 26, 2016 17:53:01 GMT -5
I bet you Americans are following the elections. I know talking politics is risky business (and possibly overdone), but I'll chance it. How do you feel about the Primaries so far?
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Post by mr. excellent on Mar 27, 2016 15:25:20 GMT -5
Haven't studied any of the candidates positions thoroughly enough to warrant a solid opinion. All I can provide is surface level commentary. Those being, Donald Trump is crazy. Hillary wants to be President really bad (part 5). Young people really like Bernie Sanders, but will he be able to accomplish what he sets out to do? Ted Cruz is... fighting with Donald Trump. See, all surface level commentary.
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Post by Webber3000 on Mar 27, 2016 20:28:18 GMT -5
You know, for "surface level commentary," it's pretty accurate.
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Post by mr. excellent on Mar 27, 2016 22:35:48 GMT -5
It's all I got, and the hyperbole on Hillary's attempts was actually an accident. I meant to type 2, haha.
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Post by Webber3000 on Mar 28, 2016 21:15:33 GMT -5
Can't blame you... It can be hard keeping track of a year and a half long campaign.
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Post by mr. excellent on Apr 9, 2016 15:27:08 GMT -5
Sway interview with new Spider-man actor Tom Holland
Check out that Avengers hat!!! Found this interview a couple of weeks ago and tried to post it unsuccessfully. In the original comment, I mentioned being uncertain on how well Tom Holland would be able to make his character stand out against actors who were already so familiar with each other. The actors all seem to get along really well, so how do you come in as a 19 year old and act opposite of these other more experienced guys who are practically family with each other during filming. Then I watched this interview with Sway, and I see how likable and confident this kid is. He's certainly different than Tobey and Andrew. It was impressive, quite frankly. I suppose now that early Twitter reactions have sung universal praise for Tom Holland as our new Spider-man, those questions have been put to rest.
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Post by Webber3000 on Apr 9, 2016 16:41:16 GMT -5
Meh, the whole interview felt rather fake. I never really care about how actors perform in Interviews. I understand the importance to some; many people like to look up to celebs and whatnot. But frankly, all that matters to me their ultimate performance in the films they star in.
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