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Post by mr. excellent on Dec 9, 2016 1:09:03 GMT -5
The Clone Saga was so stupid. I remember when I was a kid, I bought a random issue of ASM and it featured Ben Reilly going around saying he was Peter Parker. It was so confusing! They should hire the guys who wrote "Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe" to make "Spider-Man Kills The Clone Saga". I hear ya. My first readings of Spider-man books were from JMS's run in the early 2000s. He's great on characterization, but people hated his totem storylines and what he did with Gwen Stacy and Norman Osborn. In retrospect, the Gwen and Osborn thing is pretty terrible. However, I loved the totem stuff, but maybe wouldn't have taken to it as much if I'd been more well versed in all the original history prior to reading. Just a classic case of what I was exposed to first.
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Post by brotherandbassist on Dec 9, 2016 13:48:22 GMT -5
The first Spider-Man comic I ever read was the first appearance of Peter's parents and at the same time, my mom got me an issue with the first appearance of the villain Shadrak. I've always appreciated that villain ever since then
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Post by brotherandbassist on Dec 10, 2016 19:04:12 GMT -5
I normally don't double post, but I'd really appreciate it if you guys would check out this awesome testimony from one of my favorite musicians!
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Post by mr. excellent on Dec 14, 2016 16:15:51 GMT -5
I felt a lot of sympathy with John Campea with regard to his meltdown about WB and the DC line up. Start the video at 8 minutes.
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Post by brotherandbassist on Dec 14, 2016 22:52:57 GMT -5
You guys remember when we had some kind of awards ceremony type thing on the boards? I remember it vaguely and thought maybe it was something we could do here, but I don't really remember enough details to really fully explain it
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Post by Webber3000 on Dec 14, 2016 23:48:06 GMT -5
Our community might be too small for that, haha. The way it used to work, if my memory serves me right, is that people would vote for their favourite fellow member in different categories, like "best sig maker" and things like that. The most popular picks would be nominated, and people would vote again for the big prize, which was some sort of virtual trophy. The winners would then be announced in a ceremonious, over-the-top fashion. It was fun role-playing, but there were ten times more active members there than there are here. It sadly just isn't feasable now.
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Post by brotherandbassist on Dec 15, 2016 0:07:36 GMT -5
There's only five active members counting me and you. It would be incredibly biased if the five of us, who all seem to really like each other and get along fairly well, voted on a poll for one another. I feel like it would be highly biased XD. I'd nominate myself for most irrelevant and annoying lol
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Post by mr. excellent on Dec 15, 2016 1:28:38 GMT -5
I so want to expand our community.
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Post by brotherandbassist on Dec 15, 2016 11:27:51 GMT -5
Me too! I even made a thread one time about inviting old members. Spider-Tim, Climperoonie, bds, dewzy, brocksir, lizard5474? (i forget the rest of the numbers) were all cool members
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Post by Webber3000 on Dec 15, 2016 13:11:49 GMT -5
Yeah, getting a hold of old members might be difficult. I'm even down for newcomers. But it's hard to give our boards any good publicity, even if we somehow get the word out there. I mean, would you even consider reading the posts in and joining a forum with four or five active members talking about random, mostly geeky stuff? It's not like we're the official/go-to discussion spot of any given popular topic.
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Post by mr. excellent on Dec 15, 2016 17:34:05 GMT -5
We could start with people we know.
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Post by brotherandbassist on Dec 15, 2016 18:48:57 GMT -5
^ I second this. I know a few people I might could get to join. My friend Vinny that I befriended at a summer camp I worked at this past May, June, and July, is big into comics and movies like the five of us are. He's very knowledgeable and he's the only person I know in really life that I can actively engage in deep conversation about storylines and ideas and he actually know what I'm talking about beyond what you see in the movies. I think he would love it here if he ever made an account.
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Post by mr. excellent on Dec 15, 2016 19:49:34 GMT -5
Awesome! I vote that we bring Vinny in. Is that a thing? Are we voting? Can we? I have a 3 or 4 friends who I can pass this place onto that might actually take to this site. I doubt it'll be super active even with us doing this, but it wouldn't decrease activity at least.
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Post by brotherandbassist on Dec 15, 2016 21:20:01 GMT -5
i txted five or six people inviting them. My friend AJ and my fore-mentioned friend Vinny said they would join later on when they had more time.
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Post by mr. excellent on Dec 16, 2016 16:10:45 GMT -5
Sounds good. I texted 5 people. We'll see how it goes.
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