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#172884
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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Originally posted by: greencapt
Though Alec Baldwin is easily hate-able, have no fear my UK friends... as far as *I* know it remained 'Thomas the Tank Engine' here in the states as well.

On the other hand the 'Philosopher's Stone' change pisses me the hell off too! Unknown author having nothing to do with it, it was just a damned stupid change. Then again, knowing a fair share of younger folk here, I fear A) that they wouldn't know what the hell the 'philosopher's stone' was historically and B) They would probably never buy or read a book that had anything to do with philosophy. Hell most people here in the States probably can't even *pronounce* philosopher!


Philosopher's Stone is a term that dates back to the middle ages. It's not like it's something Rowling pulled out of her proverbial butt. Heck, it's the entire point of Full Metal Alchemist.

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#172547
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Comics Fans
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Originally posted by: TheSessler
The Dialogue isn't so hot either:

Vicki Vale: "Somebody murdered his parents. Right before his eyes. Brutally. Brutally. It was brutal. I saw it all...

Caption: Bearing witness.

Vicki Vale: I saw every damn last moment of it. It doesn't make any sense, but I saw it. I saw it. It was brutal. Brutal. It was brutal."


Batman: "What are you, dense? Are you retarded or something? Who the hell do you think I am? I'm the goddamn Batman."


I'm going to check it out anyway, just to see how damn psychotic Batman is in this series.



BTW, I got accepted to UNC at Chapel Hill today, so thats one thing less to worry about.


Congradulations. Still no word to me from Duke yet.
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#172496
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Comics Fans
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Batman and Robin is horrible. It's as if Frank Miller has lost touch with the character he defined, or is doing a Dark Knight Returns version of Adam West: instead of campiness, it goes overboard on everything else.

Telling: three issues out so far... Batman and Dick are still in the Batmobile arguing over whether that is a queer name. FOR THREE FRICKIN' ISSUES. And a total of like an hour has passed since issue one.
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#172274
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Comics Fans
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That nearly destroyed the industry financially; the XXTREME!? kick nearly destroyed it creatively.

If the stories had been consistently good instead of being based on gimmicks, then the speculation would have given away to much lower but still steady sales, not wholesale abandonment by many customers who realzied that not only were these books not, in fact, worth any money, but that they also tended to suck.
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#172258
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Comics Fans
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Well, Dark Knight and Year One helped do a lot of things...

Like submerge the industry into nearly ten years of "XTREME!!!!!!11eleventy" crap. I know Moore and Miller and the like didn't mean to do it, but unfortunately their contributions were 'copied' by lesser writers and it nearly destroyed the industry.