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  1. Control Freak I think his name was.
  2. About time Young Justice comes back.
  3. Yay! Missed Starfire and also Raven's snarkiness!
  4. Fillion might make a decent Jacen Solo or possibly a Cade Skywalker...
  5. It's not overthinking, it's a basic combat tactic. They were obviously looking for their camp for a reason. Add in that one mook's comment about women and it becomes even more apparent. Those two struck me as lowlifes to begin with and this didn't seem like their first time at the dance, but they got greedy and overreached.
  6. Find it funny they are pushing the "new" costume, but the Kotobukiya Bishoujo Power Girl has the old costume, at least apparently.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by VoodooCompany View Post
    What's this? A free Super Pack is now included with a VIP subscription to say "WE MESSED UP!" on top of fixing the timely allotment of included-as-part-of-your-subscription perks?

    ...wait

    no? same ole same ole run around? If not just a complete disregard and ignoring of this thread?

    :/ <- shocked face
    A whole dollar's value for 6+ months of utter notworkitude? *SHOCK*
  8. That's why you send in a smaller scout force to eliminate the major threats within the target group. And while that camp might have dozens of people, there's the good possibility that a large number of them are exactly like Herschel prior to his epiphany. The scouts kill off the guys like Shane and Rick early on, sneak out, and sneak in the rest of their group.

    The scouts are also there to find out how many people are in the community. Too many and they wave off their friends. And even if there is dozens in there, all it would take is a few people with decent medium to long range rifle skills to drastically thin the herd.
  9. It doesn't have to be a "large" group. It could only be like 4-5 guys outside. If they sent in the entirety of the group, that could definitely be seen as a threat and would put Rick's group immediately on the defensive.

    One person would be seen as a bit suspicious IMO as likelyhood of survival for most people would be small. Sending in two is a good compromise for security of the scouts and can be seen as a reasonable chance for survival in the wild.

    The scouts would not, in all probability, be there to "lure" Rick & Co. outside to a larger group. Their job is to find out where the camp is and possibly get taken there. The remainder of their group follows at a distance, staying out of sight, and attacks at night or after the scouts have disabled the security of the group. Play on the "humanity" of the target group to offer sanctuary and help to the scouts, and then turn on them.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lothic View Post
    Well the only way that would work is if what we saw in the preview is literally the first few seconds of what we see of Rick and company in the next episode. I'm willing to give it the chance to make sense at that point.
    I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. It has to be getting late in the day and given that the electricity is probably out, there's not going to be much in the way of lighting going on (streetlights maybe? Solar-powered?). Given what we can see of Rick at the window, it's gotta be like early dusk. It's not as big of a leap, timewise, as say X-Men 3 where it goes from night to mid-morning in the space of 5 minutes.

    Or, what we could've seen is after Rick and crew takes some effort to hide the bodies. Not that far-fetched of an idea, especially if they think there's others around and they get caught in the act.
  11. I don't think it would be too contrived to have the rest of the scouts' group waiting at least within running/gunshot distance. Reason being, the scouts get the info and either find out where the camp is (and kill off the guys in the bar) or get led to it. The remainder of their group follows them to the camp if the scouts are led to it. The scouts act from the inside to take out the known trouble. The remainder then come in when a signal is given and mop up the survivors.
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    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    Don't forget the scene in Serenity where Mal shoots and kills the unarmed (and surrendering if appearences are correct) Alliance crewman climbing out of the crashed ship after Shepard Book died in his arms.
    Totally justified. That guy just helped slaughter an entire village of Mal's friends. What does he expect is going to happen? Mal to drop him off at the nearest Alliance base?
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lothic View Post
    Yeah the preview doesn't really make that much sense if we are to assume the two guys Rick blew away were scouts for a larger group. It almost seems like Rick, Glen and Hershel just decided to wait a few hours for the rest of their group to show up. Hopefully there will be a good reason for why they waited so long in the bar.

    Despite that I do agree that what we may be seeing is the TV show's introduction to the Governor's group in some form or fashion.
    I'm thinking they weren't waiting that long, maybe an hour at most. This is the still the same day, I think, that the zombies got out of the barn, so it has to be getting close to dark. It didn't look like full on night, to me, in the previews. At least at the start of the encounter with the remainder of the scouts' group.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lycanus View Post
    In all honesty, I like Han Solo just as much as Mal.

    But curiously, I heard this position from a friend recently and I know he doesn't play City of Heroes.

    I think it went:

    "Personally, I like Captain Reynolds who shot several unarmed people throughout the course of the show."

    "And pushed them into spacecraft exhaust fans."
    Didn't Mal say something to Simon to the effect that he would only kill/shoot him if Simon was armed and facing him?

    I can recall a mercy kill or two from Mal, notably that villager in the movie when they escape from the Reavers, but the rest were people that were fittin' to do harm to him or his.
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    Originally Posted by Ultraamann View Post
    please let lori be dead please let lori be dead please let lori be dead please let lori be dead please let lori be dead...

    i know.. i know.. but i can hope...
    She won't die yet. There's too much story to milk with her being pregnant.
  16. Dark One

    Comic Book Men

    I thought it was funny. I'll watch more of it. I'd like to visit that store sometime.

    As to the sketch...well...a one-off sketch done and signed by the person who created some of the biggest names in comic-dom? Ten grand? Ya, I could kinda see it. But in the end, the value is only what someone will pay for it.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Surgepoint View Post
    I think I've seen sharper Play-Doh than her. Regarding those guys, yeah they were almost certainly thieves or raiders. I haven't read the comics and stay away from spoilers, so I don't know who ends up how, but I was almost yelling at the TV about Hershel's daughter. "Check her for bite marks!" Also, I wish they'd go ahead and shoot Shane. I can't stand arrogant 'alpha males' like him. I really enjoyed this episode.
    Well, I'll be honest. I have no idea where the show is going. We've pretty much said goodbye to the comics a while ago. If it maintains a semi-closeness to the comics, I'll be surprised.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sevenpenny View Post
    Tonights episode....wow....and OMG Lori!!!!! What the hell was she thinking about going off on her own like that? The lady that is supposedly in "shock"....ugh.....no she ain't!
    At least it fits her character for the show. She sure isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer.
  19. Comic Book Men is actually fairly funny. If I'm ever out that way, I need to stop by that store just to see it. And maybe get a Silent Bob autograph.
  20. Wow...I would be immediately suspicious of those two guys. Especially with all the questions about where Glenn, Rick, and Herschel are staying. No way those two have anything good in mind.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Goliath Bird Eater View Post
    Oh, I get it now. Cartoon Starfire was your introduction to the character, wasn't it?

    Well, the cartoon began in 2003, but Starfire first appeared in comics in October of 1980. And she was created by Marv Wolfman and George Perez as a sort of "Red Sonja in outer space". The cutesy, naive, sweet Starfire of the Teen titans cartoon was the aberration, and the new 52 version isn't that far off from how the character was for the 30 years prior to the reboot.

    But this a Power Girl thread, and I really do NOT feel like going back and forth with people who are still upset because DC comics didn't turn Starfire into their perfect orange cartoon waifu. So good day, sir.
    Wow, you just don't get it do you? Star has always been a sexual creature, but at the same time loving and a fighter. Not this caricature of what they turned her into. And no, Teen Titans was not my intro to her, but the reboot was a good opportunity to hook those people who were intro'd to her through that.

    Instead they turned her into...that.

    Oh, and go take a flying leap for the waifu comment.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Goliath Bird Eater View Post
    Ignoring, of course, that the cartoon version of Starfire was much different than the comic version which existed prior to and during the cartoon's existence, in terms of both appearance and personality.

    And if you really still think that Starfire in the new DC universe is nothing but a "barely disguised sex puppet", then you either stopped reading Red Hood & the Outlaws after issue 1 or haven't read the series at all.


    Why would I continue to read something that mangled a character into what they did to her?
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    Imperials don't bother writing next of kin. They just send a bill for the cost of training that the Empire spent to train the soldier that the family is now required to pay off or go to prison.
    Along with the bill for the blaster charges that the soldier used that didn't kill the enemy. There's also the bill for the billing.

    Gotta pay for them Death Stars somehow...
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Blood Red Arachnid View Post
    There's actually a good reason to do this. I, myself, didn't buy a comic until I was 22 years old and had my own job and income and moved out of my parents place. The reason why was because my parents wouldn't tolerate the comic books.

    If there was a much "softer" image to it than a bikini-with-bewb-window woman all over them, them just maybe I would've been buying comics with my parents money a long time ago.
    And yet, one of the characters that could've gotten more people interested in reading comics, i.e. Starfire from the Teen Titans cartoon, is mangled beyond recognition into barely disguised sex puppet.