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As you said up top I can’t really pick a favorite MCU movie. It’s easier to list the few I don’t like: Iron Man 3, Quantumania, Eternals. People really seem to hate Thor 2 and The Marvels but I think they’re both solid films. The fact they managed to achieve such a high level of quality over so many movies is beyond impressive. My wife was out of town last weekend so I did an MCU binge. 11.5 hours of Marvel (skipped the credits). Captain America: The Winter Soldier 2:16 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Captain America: Civil War 2:27 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thor: Ragnarok 2:10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Avengers: Infinity War 2:29 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Avengers: Endgame 3:01 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ If forced to make a top 10, I’m going to go with the movies I’ve rewatched the most times. But it’s kind of like Jenga - they’re so interconnected it’s hard to choose just one. 1. Thor: Ragnarok 2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3. Avengers: Endgame 4. Iron Man 5. Doctor Strange 6. Captain America: Civil War 7. The Avengers 8. Spider-Man: Homecoming 9. Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 10. Shang-Chi The fact there are multiple terrific trilogies within the MCU is pretty amazing given all the moving parts. Captain America, Spider-Man, GotG, Avengers… quality across the board.

Have you seen House Shark? Don’t, but watch the trailer. It’s simultaneously the apotheosis and nadir of shark movies: Shark attack in your toilet. I’m not kidding.

I thought the first two episodes were a solid continuation of the previous series. That shocking twist at the start of the series is either a terrible mistake or a definitive “throw down the gauntlet” moment. Time will tell. The way they handled White Tiger seems to imply he was previously introduced elsewhere, probably in the Echo series, which I haven’t seen. (Is this how normies feel when watching MCU stuff? 😆)

Hollywood has never understood that, honestly. Look at Jaws, for instance. A superb film with excellent acting, an iconic score, amazing direction and cinematography, with a script that is scary, funny, and exciting, and the movie is tightly edited down to its core. It became a huge hit; it was *the* hit until Star Wars came along. The message Hollywood took away from that was, “Fish eating people = money.” That’s why we were inundated with those movies for the next decade, and no one remembers any of them. Orca, Piranha, Tentacles, Mako, Barracuda, Killer Shark, Last Shark, Devil Fish… on and on. Movie makers have been doing the same thing since forever, riding a trend for decades. A recent example is the whole subgenre of “couple stranded in the ocean surrounded by sharks”. Ever since Open Water was a hit they’ve made a dozen versions of the same flick. These are made alongside movies where the shark is somehow inside the building: Bait, Swim, Under Paris, and Malibu Shark Attack. Shark Night at least had the predator in a lake next to the house, and Dam Sharks has them in a river (where the sharks use human bodies to build dams). Sharknado came out in the middle of all this. All because Jaws was a hit.

Going to the movies is now cheaper than buying eggs.

I have been summoned! Unfortunately my video card imploded last November so I don’t have access to my PC, but here are a couple Star Trek posts. For Uhura of the Mirror Universe (or in my version, O’Hiya from the Reflected Universe) I used dual knives because she was all about cutlery. For Spock (Dr. Logic) I went with Mind Control/Time Manipulation. For everyone else I used Beam Rifle.

Very cool. I’ve not tried to do a character like that. What description did you use?

Anyone remember the Paragon City commemorative stamp from the 1960s? Check it out, the USPS has reissued it!

Kings Row Cyber Knight vs. Circle of Thorns

OMG. Perfect. chef’s kiss

Man, I really need to replace my cooked video card. Haven’t played for nearly 4 months. Videos like this remind me what I’ve been missing.

Mary Robinette Kowal advises writers to ask the question “Did they achieve their goal?” To maintain momentum, throw roadblocks in the way by answering either “Yes, but…” or “No, and…” and go from there.

Monkey Fight Club in Pocket D! Furious George v. Banana Bandito Thing Kong v. Nigel

Trying to figure out what the sign behind her says. Polar ice? Poultice? Pollllice?

Were these done in Bing?

Crimson Crossbow Jade Gentleman versus The Shadow Sorcerer (1951) Silvershot Sable Samurai

Catamount (US) Wolfsong (Canada) Jungle Jaguar (Brazil) Panja (India) Panthera (Argentina)

Blackfella (Australia) Green Teen (Nigeria) Eyebeam (US) Hardtek (UK)

Bird-themed hero over the city. (I don’t have a good name yet.) I was trying to get it to make my toon Universelle. Prompt: rough oil painting, small in the distance a black and white costume female cosmic superhero flies over a city silhouetted by the moon

The axe buried in the floor is pretty badass.

As a former proofreader and editor, I would offer the critique that you should maintain a consistent tense. You’ve mixed past and present tense frequently, sometimes within the same sentence. For me, and this is more a personal preference, I think more naturalistic dialogue would suit the characters better rather than the stilted melodramatic dialogue you’ve employed. But that’s a choice I’d make. The past/present tense thing, though, that impedes ease of reading.

He pees over who now?

That face is next level. Bravo!

Took me three tries to read “Nearsighted Man.” 😂 Which program did you use for these?

My video card melted a little over a month ago so I haven’t been able to use my PC to play or make a chart, but I do have my old Alt Alphabet on DeviantArt: https://www.deviantart.com/dashmccool/art/Alt-Alphabet-114482941 And Team Facepunch. This accurately reflects their in-game sizes. L-R: Throwdown (6’), Dangerman (5’7”), Big Galoot (7’7”), Nuckle Sammich (5’7-1/2”), Cliff Hanger (6’2”)