🌋Chris Korvela🏜
Parkdale, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Joined Nov 2022
@MMH it was cute how Gardner Fox’s solution to the runaway popularity of the Fantastic Four was “oh hey, you’re also Superman from another dimension! Weird situation…I guess we’ll mostly pretend this didn’t happen for 25 years”
@feloneouscat it doesn’t specifically have anything to do with what the contents of the films are really. It isn’t necessary to have a strong “Universe” at all. Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Conan, Tarzan, and John Carter are some of the most popular things ever written in English, and none of those are strongly bounded book to book - the characters are the attraction, the latest is whatever new scenario as the content, and, next book, everybody mostly stays on square one again.
@MMH I think we should go back to the OG marvel comics and network soap opera model where everybody just keeps going and doing stuff and nobody should think too hard about how Superman is going to be 100. On one hand, it’s true that sort of thing feels like it undermines true character growth, but on the other hand, I suggest that this is one of the reasons we’re not seeing stronger new superhero comics.
#cosocomics Interestingly enough, as we face another DC “reboot” while Marvel Comics just keeps shooting forward, Marvel Comics is why DC has this problem. The literary model of having a “Universe” was not-quite-invented but extraordinarily popularized by Lee, Kirby, Ditko, etc. in the 60s. It’s become the most hugely popular conceit in fictional media period, but this wasn’t always the case & it took a while for DC to catch up in the original Crisis on Infinite Earths.
@MMH Money. But it’s also because all of these media properties suffer in a sense from extreme decompression which I can kind of see us all getting tired of.
@Rickbflony across the lake here we’re getting absolutely nothing. I’m planning on running 10K in shorts in about an hour.
@Rstrahs my old buddies had an excellent song called “9 AM” about trying to buy drugs at 9 AM. Patroller from Calgary, AB.
I don’t think this is what he means. It’s what he’s going to do, but it’s not what he means.
🌋Chris Korvela🏜
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Highschool Hookers - The Forgotten Rebels
#cosomusic 🎸⚡️🤘
🌋Chris Korvela🏜
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Run to the Hills - Iron Maiden
#cosomusic 🎸⚡️🤘
For the gang who have the Grinch song stuck in their head 🤯
@ceb if you have an earworm, play a “Hunter” song which can eliminate it. Two that I know are Kashmir by Led Zeppelin and Run to the Hills by Iron Maiden
There is zero chance The Flash is going to be any good. No idea what everybody was thinking. #cosomovies #cosocomics
🌋Chris Korvela🏜
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A rare moment of quiet from these two monsters. Probably planning their next move, I'm suspicious of quietness... 😂
@evamarie like its all just ads for me now
@attackofhubris I like them a lot. We all got Twin Cinema and I just sort of carried on. It’s always possible to see them live for free in Canada, and they have at least 5 really great songs an album, so those shows are great. What a bunch of talents.
🌋Chris Korvela🏜
Parkdale, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Joined Nov 2022