JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
"Sometimes it's one Thing after another:

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4 hours ago
JD DeLuzio replied to The Baron's discussion Movies I Have Seen Lately
"Sinners (2025): brilliant filmed, scored, and acted, I really like 75% of this strange cross-genre film by Ryan Coogler (Black Panther, Fruitvale Station). It became a little too conventional ACTION HORROR MOVIE at the end, but remained good, and…"
16 hours ago
JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
"And SuperExpositionman doesn't help by being not the least bit suspicious about the presence of lead-lined curtains."
16 hours ago
JD DeLuzio replied to Jeff of Earth-J's discussion DC Finest - Superman Family
" Dick Grayson is identified as "nineteen" in Crisis on Infinite Earths. This struck me at the time as too young, even given the problematic passing of time in comics. It felt like he should be in his twenties as Nightwing."
yesterday
JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
"A feverish Daredevil also horned in on a Captain America charity event, leading to an actual fight:"
yesterday
JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
"Only in Arthur Miller's The Crucible and the DCU, apparently.  The history in these two issues is terrible on all counts.

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yesterday
JD DeLuzio replied to Travis Herrick (Modular Mod)'s discussion Thoughts While Filling Out Previews
"I was thinking about this trope a while back. You could run the economy of a while other planet and redecorate Versailles or the White House with the amount of gold that fictional pirates have buried over the year and then just left for future…"
Wednesday
JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
"This follow-up to my post from yesterday concludes the story, with a truly ridiculous and convoluted explanation for events:

"It's not really magic! It's the heat from his X-ray vision!"
The other day, Cap noted at another thread that "it's funny…"
Wednesday
JD DeLuzio replied to Captain Comics's discussion Comics Guide for week of May 5, 2025
"Who was it called Heavy Metal "Naked Chicks With Wings Monthly"?
I recall a National Lampoon in the 80s referring to it as Naked Girls With Wings Monthly (or, possibly, Chicks). Whether they originated the term I do not know."
Tuesday
JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
"Why, indeed?

It's a very strange past to which they've travelled, with Puritans, witch-burnings, Mad Anthony Wayne, and Benjamin Franklin, all in one Colonial American town. The future heroes pass themselves off as actors arriving in advance of a…"
Tuesday
JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
"That's a dam smashing cover."
Monday
JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
"Another hero turn for a hero / villain / hero....

In this issue:

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Monday
JD DeLuzio replied to Jeff of Earth-J's discussion DC Finest - Superman Family
"What you thought you'd get
vs
What you actually got.
I bought that for a friend a couple of years ago."
Monday
JD DeLuzio replied to Captain Comics's discussion 2025 Free Comic Book Day
"It really wasn't bad-- I just miss the far more crowded and crazy days, pre-pandemic, and when the superhero movies were riding high. The rain in the morning also dampened some people's enthusiasm, and the lack of a specific costume competition…"
Monday
JD DeLuzio replied to Captain Comics's discussion 2025 Free Comic Book Day
"The local weather wasn't the best, attendance and cosplaying remain below what they once were, but it was still a fun event. Some college media students were making a doc. They interviewed me. I don't know how much of that will end up in the final…"
Sunday
JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
"In keeping up with the question that I posed yesterday: if a villain turns hero but then equivocates as various writers get ahold of her, does it qualify? Catwoman always had some moral ambiguity, but she makes her first hero turn in Batman #62:

I…"
Sunday
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