badducks

In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

Happy Bastille Day to those who celebrate!

In the US, a Senator died unexpectedly, and one turned out to maybe be alive, equally, if not more, unexpectedly.

In the UK an elderly politician whose pretty much every opinion I utterly disagree with was murdered for reasons as yet unknown, not that any could justify what happened.

Other loses in the week include Bonnie Tyler and San Neill. Though neither were young, and both leave an extraordinary artistic legacy behind them, one always hoped for more.

The anime "Banana Fish" is getting a proper English dub released on Netflix next year, following last years Prime Video AI dubbing fiasco.

Finally got around to watching "Thunderbolts". Comedy relief Red Guardian got old quickly and Valentina's plan was based on so many bad decisions it was like watching the first Suicide Squad film again, something I planned on never doing. Otherwise... "mostly harmless".