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icon_uk ([personal profile] icon_uk) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-12-16 08:33 am

Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday

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.

A Happy Hannukah to those who celebrate it. Given recent events in Australia it may not seem like a time to celebrate anything, but that is perhaps the time we most need to.

Dick Van Dyke celebrated his 100th birthday, so a happy Centenary to him!

However, we lost Rob Reiner, creative genius behind too many memorable films to start to mention (Oh, the hell with it: The Princess Bride, Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, The Sure Thing, A Few Good Men and Stand by Me, amongst others) and his wife Michele.

(I did not think my opinion of the current US President could sink any lower, but his social media post on the Reiner killer was so lacking in sympathy, good taste or even basic human decency that I initially assumed it had to be a fake because no one could be THAT toxically graceless, alas, it was real)

In contrast, today is the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth today so let us acknowledge one of literature's most brilliant and witty wordsmiths.

In slightly lowerbrow news, I found out that season 2 of "LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy" had already come out, and caught up on that because I know I needed something to make me smile, which it achieved.
tcampbell1000 ([personal profile] tcampbell1000) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-12-14 10:43 pm

French Hiss: JUSTICE LEAGUE EUROPE #1-2 (JLI 37)



From here to issue #27, series art is by Bart Sears over Keith Giffen layouts until otherwise noted. All plots and layouts by Giffen, though DeMatteis will only script through #8.

The idea of a “Justice League Europe” was a natural extension of the “Justice League International” concept, but it has an intrinsic problem: almost any high-profile or mid-profile characters it could use were always going to be Americans. Giffen and DeMatteis leaned into that as an inherent source of conflict from the get-go.

If this were a TV pilot, it would probably play ‘‘American Idiot’’ over the opening credits. )
tcampbell1000 ([personal profile] tcampbell1000) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-12-12 07:40 pm

Would Sauron’s Ring Be More Tempting As a Death-Ray Bazooka?: JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA #30 (JLI 36)



The cover and title--“Teenage Biker Mega-Death!”--both have a cheeky charm, but don’t be fooled. I’d call this the darkest story of Giffen and DeMatteis’ run, more so than the funeral episode, Blue Beetle’s mind imploding, or even the Despero stuff. Warning for death, violence, body horror, and a sense of crushing hopelessness I normally associate with election night 2016.

Even the first time I read this, I was like…‘‘JESUS.’’ )
tcampbell1000 ([personal profile] tcampbell1000) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-12-10 09:18 pm

The Healing Power of Spank Banks: JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA #29 (JLI 35)



(From two issues back.)

When we last left the Blue Beetle, his prognosis was grim: the Queen Bee has programmed his mind to attack not only Max Lord but also itself. He's comatose and circling the drain. Without the Bee, he’s just a “-tle”! Only two things can save him: an old man he’s sort of met before and his own horniness.

But not for the old man. )
petra: Paul Gross in drag looking blank (Ms Fraser - Secretly Canadian)
petra ([personal profile] petra) wrote2025-12-10 09:53 pm

Make my wish come true - due South drabble, Food Bank Thank-You

[personal profile] ride_4ever just let me know about a donation, so I wrote:

Make my wish come true (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: due South
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Characters: Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski
Additional Tags: Drabble, Christmas Fluff
Summary:

Ray observes a holiday tradition.


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If you donate 25 USD in cash or in kind to a food bank or food pantry, tell me about it and I'll write for you!
petra: A woman grinning broadly (Shirley - Good day)
petra ([personal profile] petra) wrote2025-12-10 09:23 pm
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Cards will not arrive in time for the holidays

Happy "It's December Tenth" to all who observe it.

I have not written my Dark Outside pieces yet, far less addressed and sent the mail, so I will send cards When I Get To It.

I am still going to write for people; it'll just be in your email inbox come Solstice, not your physical mailbox come whenever. People who just wanted cards will get cards at some date TBD.