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A good turnout tonight. Started the night out with the ceremonial Smashing of Something Bigger Than You by dropping 3 Paladins. Then we had a freakspec team, a Manticore team, and a tip team running. Good tanking fun, and Witty only died 6 times! (sorry about the KoA/Longbow/Malta combo there.. )

To whoever it was who arranged it so that Charisma Carpenter spent about half this episode in a bikini, I can only say.... well played sir!

Someone needs to speed punch DC in the taint for this whole thing...

Officer McGrath, my 50 Shield/Stone. He's awesome. Combo turned out to be even more fun than I figured. I highly recommend it.

I've lived in Los Angeles pretty much the whole of my life. Earthquakes are just one of those things you have to live with, no big deal for me. If a huge earthquake occurs, you're pretty much toast and there's not a whole hell of a lot you can do about it. So, I don't concern myself with it.

Living someplace where I knew that every year I was going to be getting my *** kicked by hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, etc. Thanks, but I'll pass on that. I'll take the sheer random potential doom of an earthquake any day over the surety of watching some bizarre weather event swooping down on me and not being able to do anything to stop it.

Re-reading Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler stuff, because they're just awesome.

Saw it. Loved it. Was everything I was hoping it would be. Mamoa did a very good job of channeling Conan. By no means a cinematic masterpiece, but a rip-roaring good Hyborian Age tale. They hit all three of the important points in making a kick-*** action movie:

1- Blowing **** up, and pointless mass destruction
2- Frequent violent bloody death and maiming
3- Hot naked chicks

Go see it!

This will be the 4th major continuity reboot of the DCU in my comics reading lifetime. (Crisis, Zero Hour, Infinite Crisis DCnU) That's more than enough for me. I'm going to pretty much be checking out of the DCU for a while. Maybe after 6-8 issues, I'll browse through some of the titles to see if there's anything there that interests me. But for now, I'm pretty much done.

The ending of the current ongoing series has been pretty hit or miss.

The Green Lantern books all kind of limped to the end, since their whole situation is getting a kick in the butt with the restoration of Sinestro.

The Bat-books all just kind of ground to a halt, with the exception of Batgirl and Detective Comics, which had very strong, well-thought out final arcs.

Teen Titans have been trying to force in some resolution to the whole Superboy-Prime thing, and its been pretty bad.

Justice League of America died a merciful death. The whole JLA since Infinite Crisis has just been painful to read.

The Legion has been quite entertaining under Paul Levitz. I really like the things he had set up, and its unfortunate that they're getting rebooted yet again for the umpteenth time.

The Justice Society of America had a fairly interesting new status quo that they were developing with the Monument Point arc, but that's ALL gone now, since they're apparently either wiping the JSA out completely, or changing their history beyond all recognition. Which frankly sucks, since the JSA is and always has been my favorite group of heroes.

Power Girl was an amazingly fun series under Palmiotti/Gray/Connor. I enjoyed a lot of what Judd Winick did when he took it over. Once they announced the DCnU and there was no sign of PG anywhere, Winick was gone, so it ended with just some slapdash crappy fill-in material. A shame. It deserved better.

Anyway, that's my little synopsis of things I read from DCU. Not happy with them. They're going to have to hit some serious home runs with the new stuff to get me back.

That list should simply be:

1- Excalibur
2- Stormbringer


A distant 3- Everything else

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTQzCH47dIU

That is all.

Excellent episode. They've really set themselves up nicely for a hell of a summer finale. Bringing in Keller does give them a nice out for Neil, but that would seem to be almost TOO predictable at this point.

I did enjoy getting to see a bit of Mozzie's darker side. Quite ruthless in the immediate hit order that he put out on Keller. And we get to see if his relationship with Neil will survive the lie that Neil told about the manifest. I think Mozzie is finally starting to see that Neil now isn't the same Neil he's always known and that Neil himself isn't quite aware of it yet.

And I concur, Eliza Dushku was smokin' hot.

If you're going to update it, do it right and keep it simple.

TANKERS- Tankers are the lords of all creation.

That is all. Move along.

Fun time as always last night. Good turnout too. Got things rolling with the ceremonial Stomping of Something Bigger Than You, then got onto a very fun mission team. Dinged 50 on my 9th and final tank. Looking forward to next month as we're closing in on 7 years!

I hate that ****. When I put out a call to do a TF or a trial, I take the first 7 people who show up. I really don't care what AT they are. Someone tells me I have to change my toon to join their team, then I tell them to go **** themselves with a rusty chainsaw and I move on to do something better.

I'll try to make it there tonight, but if not, then tomorrow. Almost all the design credit for the B.O.S.S. base goes to Zubenelgenubi. He did a kick-*** job. If he's around, he's welcome to come brag about it.

I find Barbara Gordon far more compelling as Oracle than as Batgirl. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the Batgirl series starring Stephanie Brown. The writing has been excellent.

But ultimately, I think Cassandra Cain is the best Batgirl. I like that she was such an outsider to the Bat-family, but still managed to carve her own niche. I also like that she could take any of the Bat-guys if she wanted to (except maybe Bruce, though that would be one hell of a fight).

Don't really care. Champion is the only place I play. Champion will go on being the only place I play. People can come and go as they will. I don't see this being any kind of significant change.

From all I've read, it now appears that modern-age Superman is going to be the world's first superhero, and that the Justice League is going to be the world's first super-team. Which means they are pretty much wiping the Justice Society and all the golden-age heroes out of existence. If this is the case, then I will be giving DC two giant middle-fingered salutes, a hearty "**** you" and I will be done with them.

We also should start trying to figure out what next summer's big crossover event will be. You know the one I'm talking about, when 2/3 of the new 52 titles are utterly failing sales-wise, and DC decides to retro-boot back to the current "old" DCU.

I'm thinking Alan Scott, the Golden Age Green Lantern, steps up and uses the massive power of the Starheart to completely restore the universe to the way it should be. Then they can bring everyone back to life, and start over yet again from scratch.

While I'm all for all-tank runs of anything, this would require overcoming my utter contempt and loathing of the trials. I'll work on it.

The more I see of the news on the DCnU, the more I realize that my monthly pull list is about to get a LOT lighter.

A great time as always. Nothing beats a gathering of Tankers.