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Professor: "The test is tomorrow, so be sure to study the material covered in Chapters 6 and 7."
 
Student: "But what if I have a hot date tonight?"
 
Professor: "Then write with your other hand."

I always remember him for that cover. I'd forgotten that he also did this one.
 

I used to be an adventurer like you...

Taika Waititi deliberately tried to recapture the vivid colors from comic books in Thor: Ragnarok, and it looks like he's continuing that aesthetic here.
 
I see hints of Kirby, Simonson, as well as the style of the early Thor movies.
 
And yes, Portman looks impressive. I just hope she wears that winged helmet for more than one scene. That's just the type of helmet Hemsworth could and should have worn for this role from the start.
 

I always remember him for that cover. I'd forgotten that he also did this one.
 

I always remember him for that cover. I'd forgotten that he also did this one.
 

George Perez passed away yesterday. It is time to mourn.
 

I lost my father last month.  He was 87.  
 
My deepest sympathies, Enforcer.  
 
By the way, if George Perez had only drawn this one cover, he'd still be an all time great:

You're one of us. That's what matters.
CES

My third favorite Coen movie!
(behind Hudsucker Proxy and Raising Arizona)

Ouch.

Frozen Chocolate Strawberry Pie Recipe

What's the Elven word for friends with benefits?

Moon Knight, 2.5 episodes in. Hahahaha. This show is funny. It’s unexpected commentary on “meta psychology” & “meta history” is fascinating. 

Mildly NSFW...
 
 

[Cop on his first day]: "Suspect is dancing naked through the downtown."
 
[Dispatch]: "Copy that."
 
[Cop]: "Well, I can try, but I'm not a very good dancer..."

Cry of the Banshee
This is another Vincent Price film but he does not do a lot in it as his family are cursed by a witch and the family takes the brunt of it. There are several recognisable faces (to a British audience) in it and Patrick Mower plays the Banshee. You do not work this out until late on. Worth it for Price alone.
 
Twice Told Tales
An anthology with Vincent Price in three sperate tales by Nathanial Hawthorne. The first tale has two old friends discovering the secret of restoring their youth and then maybe the life of a girlfriend of one of them and its tragic consequences; the second tale is of a woman whose touch is death and how her father tries to get a mate for her; and lastly the search for a hidden treasure in a house whose family live under a curse. Not as good as Poe but it has Vincent Price so eminently watchable.
 
Empire of the Ants
Joan Collins in a sub-Them! film. I had seen partway through but not the entire thing. You are not missing much. A scam by Collins to con investors out of money for a resort scheme is wrecked by giant ants who have been grown to giant size due to nuclear waste. The ants attack the investors who are picked off as they try to find a way to escape .They eventually getv to a town with a sugar refinery and the ants are already there. The survivors cause a fire to kill the majority of the ants and escape. Unless you want to watch a bug movie or are a Joan Ciollins fan, avoid.
 
Killing Eve (season 4)
Eve is working for a private security firm while Villanelle is turning to religion. Eve wounds Konstantin while looking for info on the 12 who are Villanelle's employers. ,Villanelle eventually turns violent again and contacts Helene who is trying to find out who is in charge of the 12 and is killing people associated with the group. Carolyn Marttens defects to Russia in order to track the 12 as she wants to finds out who ordered her son's death. It ends with Villanelle confronting and killing the 12 and then being killed herself by British intelligence. The series is not as good as the previous three but has been a good outlet for Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer, Fiona Shaw and Kim Bodnia.
 
Frankenstein Created Woman
Peter Cushing as the Baron is working on experiments on whether the soul is immediately released on the death of the body. His assistant is accused of murder and has his head cut off. The assistant's girlfriend commits suicide and Frankenstein traps the soul of the assistant in the girl's body. But the boy wants revenge and uses the girl's body to find and kill the men responsible for his death.
 
Spiderman Into the Spiderverse.
There is a nice running gag about the origin of Spiderman. This animated feature has different incarnations of Spiderman team up to take down the Kingpin's scheme. not bad at sll.