One of the very few things I hate about living where I do. I get lots of stations out of FL.
Which means a crap ton of political ads. Understand you have no clue about political ads until you've had Florida ads We get lovely Presidential ads between two shit candidates and state ads of people i can't vote for.
Man, most of my family are Cubs fans (coincidentally the ones who aren't are St. Louis Cardinals fans) but I think even they would have to feel for Cleveland. To tie the game up like that and still lose.
The Cubs appear to be on their way to their first World Series win since 1908. Also, next Tuesday there's a strong possibility this country is going to elect it's first female President. So has anyone checked on the temperature in hell lately
It's now 5-3 as I type this...not over yet.
That's baseball.
It's never over until it's over.
It took me a long time to understand how perfectly Yogi Berra's seemingly silly line perfectly captures what makes baseball special.
I know the Manara cover was a variant and limited in number. Were the Cho covers variants as well or were they they main cover for the title? To me that's another sticking point. If these covers weren't going to be readily available on the stands or perhaps so limited in number as to be nigh-unobtainable, I'm really surprised neither company stood by them.
Variant, schmariant. They were official products and they were off-message for the characters.
How ya figger? At least in Spider-Woman's case we have a character who exudes a pheromone that elicits pleasure and attraction in men, and in her original costume those yellow markings were pretty blatantly designed to showcase her...ahem...attributes. Uncomfortable as it may make people...she was sexy and had a few sexual-based powers. If anything, Manara's version was closer to the true nature of Spider Woman than most artists have come. At least as far as the classic costume and character is concerned.
I know the Manara cover was a variant and limited in number. Were the Cho covers variants as well or were they they main cover for the title? To me that's another sticking point. If these covers weren't going to be readily available on the stands or perhaps so limited in number as to be nigh-unobtainable, I'm really surprised neither company stood by them.
Variant, schmariant. They were official products and they were off-message for the characters.
How ya figger? At least in Spider-Woman's case we have a character who exudes a pheromone that elicits pleasure and attraction in men, and in her original costume those yellow markings were pretty blatantly designed to showcase her...ahem...attributes. Uncomfortable as it may make people...she was sexy and had a few sexual-based powers. If anything, Manara's version was closer to the true nature of Spider Woman than most artists have come. At least as far as the classic costume and character is concerned.
Manara's pose, so beloved by Cho, was overtly sexually submissive. If there was any doubt, his gift to his disciple made this completely, graphically clear.
For a company attempting to strengthen and expand its product to a female audience to commission these porny portrayals of their characters was counter-productive, off-message, tasteless, and dumb. This has nothing to do with artistic merit, character history or censorship, it was bad business. Bad publicity, bad marketing, bad portrayal of an industry that has a long-standing reputation of being "by boys, for boys."
This was pretty much the Platonic ideal of a baseball game.
A baseball enthusiast's Platonic ideal of a baseball game.
A novelist's baseball game, not a screenwriter's.
I’m won’t disagree with you there, but Chapman wasn’t coming back either way. Meanwhile Shaw only faced one batter before the delay, and they needed him to come back. And if that delay had gone on another ten minutes or so, Francona probably wouldn’t have sent him back out for the 10th. And without the delay, Shaw might have been his usual dominant self. So as a neutral observer of the game, I agree with you, but if I was a Cleveland fan, I’d be pissed that my team wasn’t given its best opportunity to win the game.
Manara's pose, so beloved by Cho, was overtly sexually submissive. If there was any doubt, his gift to his disciple made this completely, graphically clear.
For a company attempting to strengthen and expand its product to a female audience to commission these porny portrayals of their characters was counter-productive, off-message, tasteless, and dumb. This has nothing to do with artistic merit, character history or censorship, it was bad business. Bad publicity, bad marketing, bad portrayal of an industry that has a long-standing reputation of being "by boys, for boys."
Porn is in the eye of the beholder. I saw her climbing over the side of a building, not presenting like a Mandrill. And you *KNOW* I have a filthy mind. :)
I think Manara's gift to his "disciple" was more of a "Can you believe how uptight people are getting over this shit?" than anything else. Where was the outrage over his recent X-men cover that showed a buttcrack? An actual buttcrack!
As to the business aspect of the whole deal...it got people to actually give a shit about Spider-Woman for the first time in god knows how long. ;) Advantage: Marvel.
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6-6 - what a game!
What a game 6-6 in ninth. What a play! What a game!
Extra baseball in game 7!
Which means a crap ton of political ads. Understand you have no clue about political ads until you've had Florida ads We get lovely Presidential ads between two shit candidates and state ads of people i can't vote for.
7-6!8-6!Oaf. I still like J Hayward, he can't help Freddie tried to ruin him
@Cubs the 8-6 lead in the 10th.
#WorldSeries #Game7 #GoCubsGo
Im sorry for swearing, but I get this crap starting to ruin my sports watching experience every other year
All post season I've been pulling for a Theo/Terry match up. This has been a great series.
Edit: Terry is already HOF!
Then again...CUBS!!!
It's never over until it's over.
It took me a long time to understand how perfectly Yogi Berra's seemingly silly line perfectly captures what makes baseball special.
This was pretty much the Platonic ideal of a baseball game.
A baseball enthusiast's Platonic ideal of a baseball game.
A novelist's baseball game, not a screenwriter's.
Manara's pose, so beloved by Cho, was overtly sexually submissive. If there was any doubt, his gift to his disciple made this completely, graphically clear.
For a company attempting to strengthen and expand its product to a female audience to commission these porny portrayals of their characters was counter-productive, off-message, tasteless, and dumb. This has nothing to do with artistic merit, character history or censorship, it was bad business. Bad publicity, bad marketing, bad portrayal of an industry that has a long-standing reputation of being "by boys, for boys."
I think Manara's gift to his "disciple" was more of a "Can you believe how uptight people are getting over this shit?" than anything else. Where was the outrage over his recent X-men cover that showed a buttcrack? An actual buttcrack!
As to the business aspect of the whole deal...it got people to actually give a shit about Spider-Woman for the first time in god knows how long. ;) Advantage: Marvel.
Who's chopping onions in here?