Shadow Hawk

Why bring Rob Liefeld into this?

I don't think DC's approach is that coherent.

When The Sport You Love Doesn’t Love You Back

"What cat?"

Never Underestimate The Force
 
 
More cuteness here

Dude, no.  Just no.
 
I played all the way through the first Baldur's Gate game and have read a number of the Forgotten Realms novels, and I can say with great confidence that it is not a medieval setting.  How do I know?  Well one, in actual medieval times living dragons weren't a thing and magic didn't work, and two, the Forgotten Realms doesn't have the Catholic church or any obvious stand-ins for it.  The Catholic church was huge during the medieval period and influenced every aspect of medieval life.  Remove the church with its deeply hierarchical and patriarchal customs, and replace it with a multiple polytheist pantheons each with powerful female deities as well as male deities and that is going have tremendous social impacts.
 
Now combine this magic that will make pregnancy and childbirth much safer than they were in medieval Europe and also the likely existence of reliable magical birth control, and it is little wonder that woman in the Forgotten Realms are able to become power warriors and magic-users as they have been shown many times in Forgotten Realms canon.
 
So why in such a world where ones sex is no barrier or power or prestige would they be as hung up on gender as the patriarchal cluster**** that was medieval Europe?  We live in a world that in which there are lots of people who if you take the right path on the dialogue tree with them, they will happily tell you about about the trans experience.  But just because the Forgotten Realms not counting there magic (which is a large thing not to count) shares a technological sophistication with the medieval period, we must necessarily assume that trans people are the subject of endless persecution wherever they go and would never share there trans status with a stranger?
 
No, I have to call complete and total, heaping BS on that.  Show me where in Forgotten Realms canon it makes it plan that the citizens of Realms from one end to the other are a bunch of violent homophobes and I will concede the point, but the whole medieval comparison carries no water.

I've read this poem

What has happened to my hobby that men feel the need to actively drive away half the human race?

What has happened to my hobby that men feel the need to actively drive away half the human race?

$52,000 in 1980 adjusted for inflation is worth $160,355.93 today.
 
So, Avengers get paid slightly less than Congressmen do.
 
But then, even when the Battle of New York is taken into account, they also do less damage than Congress.

"Hero Rumble"...now that comes off sounding like a quick-and-easy tabletop game about small-scale superhero battles.

Oh, and in case no one has seen this before ->
 

He was. Go back and re-read the entirety of the run.
 
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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Comicbook/CivilWar
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
http://mancave.cbslocal.com/2013/05/03/iron-mans-dumbest-moments/
 
 
 

Apparently, in the Civil War comics, Tony Stark was the leader we were supposed to side with! This is the man that thought it was an EXCELLENT idea to make ALL superpowered beings register, even the little guys like Spider-Man or Daredevil that don't have the resources to constantly protect their family/friends such as...Iron Man, The Richards family, and even the X-Men. Either the writers botched this entirely, or our values have rapidly shifted since 2006.
 
Then again, that was only five years after the World Trade Centers fell. We're now a decade (and counting) since then, and not quite as many Americans are as willing to give up their civil liberties for temporary safety (at least in so overt a patriotic chest-beating fashion with a minimum of intelligence). There's also the greater ability at which information/fact-checking spreads, so the chances of the collective "us" getting soft-served a healthy spooning of feces and eating with with a grin have decreased significantly.
 
Were "Captain America: Civil War" to affirm the folly of entering into what is quite possibly the worst deal (trading far too many freedoms for security), I would be content.

ARAPROSDOKIANS are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence is unexpected.

















Winston Churchill loved them.

















 

















Some examples:

















 

















1.   Where there's a will, I want to be in it. 

















 

















2.   Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak. 













 









3.   If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.









 









4.   War does not determine who is right - only who is left.









 









5    Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.  Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. 









 









6.   They begin the evening news with 'Good Evening,' then proceed to tell you why it isn't.









 









7.   To steal ideas from someone is plagiarism.  To steal from many is called research.









 









8.   In filling in an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency', notify:  I put 'DOCTOR.'









 









9.    I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.









 









10.   Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they look sexy.









 









11.   Behind every successful man is his woman.  Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.









 









12.   A clear conscience is the sign of a bad memory.









 









13.   I used to be indecisive.  Now I'm not so sure.









 









14.   Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Nor is there any future in it.









 













15.   Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

















 

















16.   Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.

















 

















17.   I'm supposed to respect my elders, but it’s getting harder and harder for me to find one now.

















 
















18.  I am not arguing with you, I am explaining why you are wrong.













 

If you are a normal human, never get into a romantic relationship with a superhuman.  The best you can hope for is being used as a hostage; at worst you'll be stuffed in a fridge.

9 out of 10 doctors recommend for children to drink water instead of soda.
The 10th doctor lives in Flint, Michigan.
 
 
 
( possibly in poor taste, pun not intended )

After many years of being a drama teacher, watching endless debates over various entertainments, I've come to realize that many people conflate "I don't like it" with "It's no good." They unconsciously take their subjective reactions to a given product's subject or style as an objective standard for its quality.
 
There have been many entertainments that many people liked or loved, to which I responded with varying degrees of dislike, but which I still appreciated for their intelligence of script, or technical skill, or quality of performances, etc. OTOH there are entertainments I like, even love, which I recognize are deficient in any or all of those areas.

Star Wars:  Dagobah Needs Women

Ostensively - it's specifically because they are iconic mythic characters that are embodiments of high ideals. Easily recognizable and instantly convey specific kinds ideas about character and attitude.
 
Representation matters. The Face Of America. The God Of Thunder. The Billionaire Crimefighter. The Man Of Steel. Once you open up the idea that anyone can wear these mantles you break down the barriers that they are just one kind of face, that 'normal' isn't so myopically represented.
 
And before we go there; create a secondary character that reflects these mantles and you get the 'they're just a knock off of...' arguments. Catch-22.
 
It doesn't change the fundamental nature of a mythological character, to be honest. It expands it, sure. But change?
If Captain America is supposed to represent an ideal of The American Way, or Fighting For Justice, or however you break down his basic nature, how does making him a Black man over a White man alter that sentence?
 
Borrowing this from a Tumblr post:
Q: Why does that character have to be gay/bi/black/Asian/Hispanic/etc?
A: As opposed to what?
I’ve found this to be a useful response, because many people will hesitate before saying “white” or “straight.” That hesitation comes from the realization, however subconscious, that they have defaulted all characters to white and straight, and are thereby declaring this normal, while everything else is other. From here, if they choose to acknowledge their internalized (unintentional but still harmful) supremacy rather than going on the defensive, they will begin to understand the real value of representation.

None. Change is bad. Unless they say otherwise. In any case, it's better to leave that for the private sector. Unless it's a lightbulb in Benghazi and then the woman must be pilloried for hours. And it only needs changing because some government agency has failed and must be disbanded.