The I-Man's Realm

Where I post about random junk, mostly involving comics, and Gail Simone-stuff!

[nb-nightwing-deactivated2022111]

they posted a full version lol it’s mr Stacy’s dad for me

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[atopfourthwall]

Heyo, long time watcher, first time asker!

Barring a patreon request, do you think you'd ever take a look at Grant Morrissons The Invisibles series? It's honestly one of our personal favourite comic series ever, just because of how utterly insane it is, and we'd love to hear your take on it... or maybe we just wanna watch you slowly going insane trying to wrap your head around it. Either way, thoughts?

I know absolutely nothing about it (other than I hear it's good), sooo I wouldn't be against looking at it but I have no plans to do so, sorry!

[mst3kgifs]

Too... strong... the pain!

[atopfourthwall]

Are you able to program where the ads show up on YouTube?

Because in the Invincible review, both ad breaks happened you were mid-sentence while the designated spaces for them came and went without ads.

Okay, well I'm pissed now. See, this made my tilt my head. I DO control where ads are placed in my video. If you see the screen go to black for a second, that's where the ad is supposed to be. Thing is, the Invincible review is 26 minutes long and in my opinion, there should be no more than one midroll - placed around the 13-minute mark. So you can imagine my confusion with this ask when they said "both ad breaks." Now, there can be several explanations for this, like if the video was paused and then gone back to - Youtube will often play another ad when you resume a video after a while. It has nothing to do with midrolls and everything to do with how Youtube works. But then I decided to double check the video... and yeah, there were like six fucking midrolls in addition to the SINGLE midroll I had added - one of them TWENTY SECONDS after that manual ad. I did not select Automatic midroll placement (at least I don't recall doing so). Youtube help says that's only supposed to happen if I check the box for it, which I do not recall doing. Maybe it was already checked and I just didn't see it, but I'm usually more careful about that. What's dumber is that I deleted the ads (including my manual placement) and then put the manual one back in... and now Youtube is saying they're "reviewing the placement" to see if ADS WILL ACTUALLY PLAY AT THAT POINT, and I am VERY baffled what THAT is supposed to mean?! Needless to say, if this happens again, feel free to let me know. I know how annoying ads can be. They pay my bills so indeed I still encourage you to let the ads play (as long as they're not ludicrously long - you don't need to watch a whole damn 2-minute movie trailer and certianly not any full-length videos that they sometimes put in the slots because WTF, but maybe whitelist Youtube in your adblocker and manually skip an ad if you'd like), but a 25 minute video does not require that many ad breaks and you shouldn't have to sit through ads every two minutes. That's ridiculous.

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[marithlizard]

It’s weird to think this comic predates the rise of Internet spam, though otherwise it reads like it could’ve been drawn yesterday.

[impormable]

I’ve been thinking about the phrase “verbing weirds language” for nearly 30 years

[atopfourthwall]

[legomocfodder]

DC's The Movement

Virtue, Tremor, Katharsis, Mouse, Vengeance Moth, and Burden

I first read this short series in 2019, and made minifigures at the time (you can check them out here). But it's been 5 years and I reread this series and decided that it was time to update these minifigs.

[atopfourthwall]

Full disclosure, I just want to push your Trek nerd button, since your love of the franchise is infectious. In your opinion, what are some of the best and worst examples of the characters following the Prime Directive? Both you and SF Debris talk about the PD and why it exists but also about how some episodes very badly misuse or misunderstand it.

Of FOLLOWING the Prime Directive? Harder to see that because often the Prime Directive is used for the characters to do stupid things. However, the Klingon Civil War is a good example of them following it - while politically they ASSUME that the Duras family has Romulan aid, the civil war IS an internal struggle until the Romulans are officially involved. Thus the blockade to expose Romulan support was a better use of their time, and potentially more life-saving, than if they had openly aided Gowron with military support. Worst example... well, we have plenty to work with. Maybe "Homeward," where Worf's brother has a plan to save a single village from a planetary extinction and Picard not only says no but later when they're watching the planet die he's all "Yeah, this sucks but noninterference is more important." I can understand them not being able to save the planet (I can't recall if there was a way to stop it, pretty sure there wasn't), I can understand the moral dilemma of "Who are we to pick one village to survive while EVERYONE else dies?" But to then say no to the plan to save as many lives as they can JUST because their culture might change and then being like "Yep, this was the right thing to do!" Horse shit. Only reason I'm not counting Enterprise's "Dear Doctor" is because while they invoke the future Prime Directive with their bullshit, it's not official policy in Starfleet - just a very, very bad decision on the part of Phlox and Archer, with it being the character-ruining moment of Phlox for me. But if we did count it, then yes - Dear Doctor is the worst for its failure to understand genetics, evolution, and ethics in general. Horrible, horrible episode.

[ouppygirlcity]

GARFIELD EVOLUTIONARY TIMELINE

1976: Proto-Garfield, side-character to Jon

1978: Earliest properly-recognizable Garfield, visual overhaul accompanies syndication and retitle of comic to Garfield

1979: Transitional state between proto-Garfield and 80s Garfield, marketed by increased anthropomorphization and larger, cartoonish expressions, while retaining a realistic body shape

1980-1984: 80s Garfield, facial structure has largely stabilized save for dimensions, noticeable retention of quadrupedal motion in most situations

1985-1992: Emergence of modern Garfield, shift towards predominantly vertical locomotion, expansion of feet, facial structure begins to horizontally compress and vertically extend

1989: [REDACTED]

1993-1999: Continued anthropomorphic shift, separation of head from torso and reduction of belly fat, noticeable

2000-present: stabilization of modern Garfield, head size reduced in final proportion alteration. Jim Davis had divined the final, perfect version of his pop culture homonculus.

...but the end of the road for one man is a broad horizon for the next...

[ouppygirlcity]

GARFIELD POST-EVOLUTIONARY TIMELINE

2008: beginning of post-Garfield, marked by the release of Lasagna Cat (Fatal Farm) and Garfield Minus Garfield (Dan Walsh), both depicting avant-garde alterations to the Garfield formula in ways that deconstruct the long-established formula, either by directly translating the jokes in their most banal form or by removing Garfield from the equation to portray Jon Arbuckle as deeply alone and psychologically tormented

2013: YouTube animator PilotRedSun releases the video "Garfielf", directing the trend of post-Garfield towards stylistic depravity while retaining the same mockery of modern Garfield.

2013 also marks the creation of "Hungry" by comic artist Dubblebaby, one of the earliest known iterations of the "Gorefield" genre of post-Garfield and the origin of its most popular namesake, "I'm sorry Jon". This piece in particular draws inspiration from the classic Creepypasta "Dogscape", itself based on 4chan horror edits of newspaper comic star Marmaduke.

2018: The beginning of the Gorefield genre proper, initiated by the release of SCP-3166, also titled "You Have No Idea How Alone You Are, Garfield" (taking its title from [REDACTED]). Multiple comics depicting Garfield (flashing lights warning for second link) become popular on r/surrealmemes. September 18th, 2018, however, marks the beginning of a series of posts by horror artist William Burke's depicting grotesque, monstrous versions of Garfield tormenting a hapless Jon, in what would be the proper establishment of Gorefield.

2018-2019: Primary era of Gorefield and r/imsorryjon, a subreddit dedicated to variations of horror-themed Garfield fanart. Standout posts to the community are typically standalone pieces seeking to explore new depths of inhumanity to twist classic Garfield concepts. Others, such as the Garfield Gameboy'd series by Lumpy Touch, explore short-term horror storytelling.

2019-2020: By this point, Gorefield had become route with the mainstream audience, and the internal community began to explore new interpretations of the genre. Drawing from its anti-commercialism roots, many artists began to explore similar body horror themes in other popular franchises while some instead deconstructed the Gorefield subject, returning to the comedic dynamic of classic Garfield while retaining his goofy appearance, or even injecting pathos of Jon and Garfield's owner-pet relation.

2020-2022: In sharp contrast to the prior dominance of horror-themed Garfield, artists began to seek to capture the warmth and charm of the late 70s to early 80s Garfield - an act standing in defiance of brand hegemony, as well as increased trends in pop culture towards franchise recycling. This wave grew to prominence in predominantly queer artist circles on Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram, correlating to a similar adoption of Snoopy and Hello Kitty as gay icons.

2022-present: In tandem with the height of nostalgic Garfield art were increasing depictions of Garfield as one of the internet's most popular archetypes: a cat-girl. Design elements vary wildly depending on the Intern ecosystem in which they emerge and the taste of the artist; recent artists have sought to use Garfield to increase the amount of fat catgirl content. As with nostalgic Garfield, there is plentiful popularity in the queer community, and depictions of lesbian, butch, and/or transfem Garfield are common.

Garfield's popularity remains a deep paradox, where his deep-seated hold on pop culture exists in parallel to a deep-seated regard for the series humor as trite and repetitive. With this affection devoid of any attachment to the original media, it comes as no surprise how many radically different directions fanart have taken to find a new meaning for the character. At the end of the road, of course, I think Garfield will be with us for a long time, no matter what form they make take.

(All sources to depicted fan-media are linked in corresponding paragraph, please inform me if any are missing / erroneous)

[atopfourthwall]

You mentioned in your Batman vs Superman review that the quality of that film and Alan of Steel tainted your enjoyment of the rest of the DECU because they were connected to a version of Superman and Batman you hated

Any idea how you’ve managed to avoid feeling that with Star Wars despite every show sharing continuity with The Rise of Skywalker?

Easier to enjoy stuff from BEFORE the bad thing than it is when the bad thing is the START of everything.

[atopfourthwall]

I'm curious, is there any reason in particular as to why you haven't reviewed any She-Hulk or Power Girl comics given how popular they are as Marvel and DC superheroines? Like, not even for Secret Origins Month? Or when the She-Hulk show premiered on Disney+? I'm also surprised no one has Patreon-requested them because of that.

Not really. We'll get She-Hulk eventually if only for the US-1 stuff, though.

[theimancameron]

It'd be fun to see Power Girl featured on AT4W, if only for the possible SF Debris cameo.

[atopfourthwall]

I'm curious, is there any reason in particular as to why you haven't reviewed any She-Hulk or Power Girl comics given how popular they are as Marvel and DC superheroines? Like, not even for Secret Origins Month? Or when the She-Hulk show premiered on Disney+? I'm also surprised no one has Patreon-requested them because of that.

Not really. We'll get She-Hulk eventually if only for the US-1 stuff, though.

[goshyesvintageads]

Transcience Corp, 1968

[atopfourthwall]

Linkara, as a fellow MSTie, I am in need of some insight. Me and my roommate want to have a MST3K night with a few friends who haven’t seen any episodes before. My question to you: What episodes would you recommend for a first time viewer? Can be from any era, though preferably the Joel era (since that’s mine and my roommate’s favorite era).

Later-season ones are better, IMHO, since they feel more polished than earlier ones which both had weird sound issues (hearing lots of lip smacks and just a weird sound balance issue, I've felt) and more of a feel of people just chill and throwing whatever at the screen, which is certainly a nice vibe but not necessarily funny enough to get people into the show. Specific recommendations for Joel-era, then, would be: -I Accuse My Parents (It's just so goofy and stupid and with plenty of great riffs throughout) -The Magic Sword (A not-so-bad movie to help ease someone in if they're not usually a bad movie watcher) -The Painted Hills (Recognizable figure and likeable protagonist in Lassie while also being a pretty good riff overall) -Bride of the Monster (Good riff, the crappiness of Ed Wood movies is universally laughable and funny even without the riffing)

[atopfourthwall]

What's your opinion on Moral Grayness?

Only in Minnesota. Everywhere else it's Moral Gooseness.

[terrypratchettestate]

Announcing the Discworld Graphic Novel Universe | Terry Pratchett

Announcing the launch of the Discworld graphic novel universe, bringing the work of Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld to new readers.

Announcing the Discworld graphic novel universe.

We are thrilled to announce that the work of Sir Terry Pratchett is being adapted into graphic novels, to be released by Penguin Books. But what one will we start with? How about three...

Read more at terrypratchett.com.

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