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Topic	A Geektivus For The Rest Of Us
Zeus 04/12/18 11:50:42 PM #401:	At any rate, what's new with Zeus, you ask? 1) I finally watched One Punch Man. Was intrigued by a clip showcasing Deep Sea King (who is absolutely awesome) and loved the dubbing, so (after a few more clips) I wound up watching it on NFI... subbed. (Damn it! Why couldn't they have the dub as well?) OPM kinda has a lot of the same tropes as Tiger & Bunny, particularly in having a centralized hero's guild which awards ranks to heroes based on things like popularity while demonizing non-unionized heroes. In general, though, Japan's superhero fad is somewhat interesting on its own merits The show is terrifically funny (unexpectedly so for something based around a pretty one-note joke), but far too damn short. Had I realized how short it was -- and only one season at that -- I might have been tempted to check it out sooner.... although I was a little inclined to snub it given the popularity and subject material. (And, to be honest, the actual fights featuring Saitama can be lackluster outside of the gimmick.) 2) Saw "Scoobynatural," an episode of Supernatural featuring a Scooby Doo cross-over. As with everything Supernatural, it sounds better than it is. However, it was still really cool and neat on the grounds that Scooby Doo has a long history of weird cross-overs with things it logically shouldn't have a cross-over with (and this is less awful than the WWE cross-over which was hard to watch) 3) Didn't watch WM34, probably won't bother, but read the results and... I was a little surprised. Asuka's winning streak ended before having a main roster championship belt, which seems a weird choice. Roman once again lost in a WM match against Brock Lesnar despite the fact it seemed like they were building to a win for over a year now. Oh, and did they really bring back Taker to squash Cena? >_> Matt Hardy winning the Andre the Giant Battle Royal is a pretty bad omen. 4) Stopped in my local Hot Topic today and saw some weird Pop! Captain America or Iron Man or something (turns out to be Civil Warrior). It caught my interest so I turned around the box and saw some of the other offerings... which include a Howard the Duck in some kind of a mech suit (awesome) and, more excitingly, a Pop! Punisher 2099! Apparently he's a Walgreen's exclusive, which might explain why I've had an urge to stop in my local Walgreen's lately. And the Howard the Duck is a Wal-Mart exclusive. Not sure why the box art depicts other store exclusives https://www.funko.com/blog/article/coming-soon-marvel-contest-of-champions-pop Oh, and the series seems to come from some mobile game. At any rate, I also learned that they did a Pop! Hobgoblin (some subscriber exclusive) which I also kinda wanted... well, up until I checked ebay and saw that they're listed for over $100. Just as well, I guess, since I probably have enough Pop!s and will likely grab the Punisher one if I see it (although, if I don't, I'll probably forget about it altogether in a week or two. I got over missing the Pop! Spidey 2099 fine enough, after all.) --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:899565807] in A Geektivu... [t:76102111]...</cite> <quote>At any rate, what's new with Zeus, you ask? 1) I finally watched One Punch Man. Was intrigued by a clip showcasing Deep Sea King (who is absolutely awesome) and loved the dubbing, so (after a few more clips) I wound up watching it on NFI... subbed. (Damn it! Why couldn't they have the dub as well?) OPM kinda has a lot of the same tropes as Tiger & Bunny, particularly in having a centralized hero's guild which awards ranks to heroes based on things like popularity while demonizing non-unionized heroes. In general, though, Japan's superhero fad is somewhat interesting on its own merits The show is terrifically funny (unexpectedly so for something based around a pretty one-note joke), but far too damn short. Had I realized how short it was -- and only one season at that -- I might have been tempted to check it out sooner.... although I was a little inclined to snub it given the popularity and subject material. (And, to be honest, the actual fights featuring Saitama can be lackluster outside of the gimmick.) 2) Saw "Scoobynatural," an episode of Supernatural featuring a Scooby Doo cross-over. As with everything Supernatural, it sounds better than it is. However, it was still really cool and neat on the grounds that Scooby Doo has a long history of weird cross-overs with things it logically shouldn't have a cross-over with (and this is less awful than the WWE cross-over which was hard to watch) 3) Didn't watch WM34, probably won't bother, but read the results and... I was a little surprised. Asuka's winning streak ended before having a main roster championship belt, which seems a weird choice. Roman once again lost in a WM match against Brock Lesnar despite the fact it seemed like they were building to a win for over a year now. Oh, and did they really bring back Taker to squash Cena? >_> Matt Hardy winning the Andre the Giant Battle Royal is a pretty bad omen. 4) Stopped in my local Hot Topic today and saw some weird Pop! Captain America or Iron Man or something (turns out to be Civil Warrior). It caught my interest so I turned around the box and saw some of the other offerings... which include a Howard the Duck in some kind of a mech suit (awesome) and, more excitingly, a Pop! Punisher 2099! Apparently he's a Walgreen's exclusive, which might explain why I've had an urge to stop in my local Walgreen's lately. And the Howard the Duck is a Wal-Mart exclusive. Not sure why the box art depicts other store exclusives https://www.funko.com/blog/article/coming-soon-marvel-contest-of-champions-pop Oh, and the series seems to come from some mobile game. At any rate, I also learned that they did a Pop! Hobgoblin (some subscriber exclusive) which I also kinda wanted... well, up until I checked ebay and saw that they're listed for over $100. Just as well, I guess, since I probably have enough Pop!s and will likely grab the Punisher one if I see it (although, if I don't, I'll probably forget about it altogether in a week or two. I got over missing the Pop! Spidey 2099 fine enough, after all.) --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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