The Baron

"We went ahead and watched the rest of it Saturday, just because we'd started it and it's Scorsese. But I agree with you 100%. It's a pretty good movie, but we've seen most of this before, and better (Goodfellas, Casino, etc.). It needed to be better…"

"Wait Until Dark (1967)
I’ve seen this several times. I guess it’s one of my favorites. The IMDB trivia page says:
In his non-fiction book Danse Macabre, Stephen King declared this to be the scariest movie of all time and that Alan Arkin's…"

"The de-aging effects are a bit uncanny valley to me, since the faces are middle-aged, but the bodies look and move like those of 70-year-old men.
Holy crap, this is what I told my friends when I saw the movie.
Is there any reason we should continue?…"

Hi Mr Baron sir,
I was wondering - I have just about 'caught-up' with my 'INVADERS' thread - going issue by issue through their history - and I'm scrambling looking for another series with which to critique in the same vein.
I am very aware of your 're-reads' and the recent 'Avengers' issues you've covered.
Unless you have any great desire to do so yourself or any objection at all -- I would like to take up the Avengers as a series from about #150 onwards...?

I reckon by then the earliest stuff - Kaps Kooky Quartet - Vision - Squadron supreme - KreeSkrull war - Avengers-Defenders war - even the Celestial madonna stuff is all over and the team and the title kind of entered a new phase that I'd love to pick up from.
If you DID intend on covering those issues etc I would of course quite happily go find some other series to wax lyrical about.
I do think the 'early Avengers' and this later phase could even run alongside quite easily as threads?

Anyway, how would you feel?
Please be candid.

Thanks
Richard

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Richard Mantle November 10, 2014 at 12:10pm

HI, I think I have unboxed you but...I am coming to the end of my `INVADERS` thread and would like to do a similar issue-by-issue critique of the Avengers - but not wanting to step on your "Baron 're-reads" early Avengers thread - I was thinking of beginning from #150 -? Would that be okay with you?

Richard
Richard Mantle November 10, 2014 at 4:53am

Hi Mr Baron sir,
I was wondering - I have just about 'caught-up' with my 'INVADERS' thread - going issue by issue through their history - and I'm scrambling looking for another series with which to critique in the same vein.
I am very aware of your 're-reads' and the recent 'Avengers' issues you've covered.
Unless you have any great desire to do so yourself or any objection at all -- I would like to take up the Avengers as a series from about #150 onwards...?

I reckon by then the earliest stuff - Kaps Kooky Quartet - Vision - Squadron supreme - KreeSkrull war - Avengers-Defenders war - even the Celestial madonna stuff is all over and the team and the title kind of entered a new phase that I'd love to pick up from.
If you DID intend on covering those issues etc I would of course quite happily go find some other series to wax lyrical about.
I do think the 'early Avengers' and this later phase could even run alongside quite easily as threads?

Anyway, how would you feel?
Please be candid.

Thanks
Richard
Figserello September 27, 2011 at 12:46am

Pokemon Nintendo games in live action form!

(Warning - slightly disturbing content)

:-)
Figserello August 3, 2011 at 10:53pm

Gah! So much Tartan!

Anyway, this time-wasting web page mentions two of your favourite things, so I thought I'd share.

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Cavaliere (moderator emeritus) July 3, 2010 at 11:39am

Happy birthday, Baron.
Ana Canino-Fluit (Anacoqui- mod) January 4, 2010 at 4:42pm

Hey, we got your card today...Zee loved the Duck...she thought it was so pretty...she is keeping it on her bulletin board in her room.
Mark Sullivan (Vertiginous Mod) November 24, 2009 at 4:30pm

Cider's good. Can I pretend it's hard cider? That's even better.
Mark Sullivan (Vertiginous Mod) November 24, 2009 at 2:40pm

Since you asked about gifts, here's one. Hope you like pumpkin!
Dagwan September 17, 2009 at 4:10pm

Hurrah for the Baron!
Jason Marconnet (Pint sized mod) August 29, 2009 at 7:39am

I don't mind. I usually tell people it's proncounced marconnay. When explaining it to people I tell them it's mark an A, like when you tell your teacher to "Mark an A on your test"

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