the unauthorized biography of jean-luc picard
Sighs matter.
“So how’s your memoir coming along?”
I wasted literally this entire day trying to make two poorly-documented pieces of software work together. I have not been this frustrated or felt this useless in years.
Years!? Lucky.
Dick Harwood
The Incredible Hulk (1978), “Wax Museum”
Hi I’m twelve.
That’s funny in a hardy-har-wood kind of way.
Boba Fett is the most over-rated, uninteresting character in the Star Wars universe.
If the toy wasn’t so cool in the 80s, and that promotion hadn’t happened, he would have been just another bounty hunter in Empire, and they wouldn’t have tried to make him this character who somehow may end up with his own movie.
Mandos are cool, Boba Fett is boring. don’t @ me.
Agreed. He’s just a Stormtrooper with a variant cover.
They don’t make them like they used to.
Undercover Carey Mahoney - Police Academy (Kenner)
There’s a lot to unpack here.
“Are you sure we should make toys for kids based on a movie that’s rated R?”
“You ever heard of a little film called Star Wars!? Toys are where the money is! Make the frikkin toys! And give Mahoney a stupid grin, kids live that shit.”
“That’s right, Deadpool is a shameless duplicate of another sword-wielding assassin: Deathstroke. They didn’t even bother to make his name sound all that different. We’ve talked before about how Marvel likes to steal shit from DC, but the similarities between Deathstroke and Deadpool border on absurdist. Try to guess which side of the comic book border we’re talking about: an assassin who dresses in two-tone, loves swords and murder, and was subjected to medical experiments that left him with super strength, super reflexes, and the super ability to heal super-boo-boos. The answer is C. All of the above. In 1984, following some scant appearances, Deathstroke featured as the main antagonist for the Teen Titans (a superhero team itself inspired by the X-Men, because plagiarism always comes full circle in this business). Fans fell completely in love with Deathstroke … including one up and coming artist named Robert Liefeld. So when the time came for Liefeld to introduce a character to New Mutants, he chose to emulate his favoritest hero in every way. Which is a nice way of saying that he slightly redrew Deathstroke and then had a five-hour lunch break.”
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Deadpool is a straight up rip-off of Deathstroke.
I had no idea. Holy shit.
His abilities and appearance may be a rip off of Deathstroke, but his personality is 100% original. No wait… it’s probably Lobo. …or Ambush Bug. Myxyzplk? Hmm…
