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Kill This Thread LIII

The following rules were established by Kent Shakespeare at the start of the first 24-hour version, adapted from the original rules by EDE:

The rules:

1. The Basic Idea: Post to this thread, if no one posts after you for 24 hours, you win!

2. Posts that are not direct responses to one of the five preceding posts are ineligible to win. The topic can drift, but no complete non-sequitors. Posts that are responses to non-sequitors are also ineligible to win. Posts that are responses to responses to non-sequitors, and response nses to those posts, etc., become eligible, however.

3. In the event that this thread is locked, there shall be no winner unless a new thread is started for the contest. Furthermore, any post that results in the banning of the poster shall also be ineligible to win.

4. So, more precisely, one wins if one makes a post, and then no one makes another post that's eligible to win for 24 hours.


Here's a history of our various felons, along with a few missed opportunities.....

I - walkwithcrowds (7-day version)
II - none
III - none
IV - Quislet, Esq
V - Rockhopper Lad (the first 24-hour version)
VI - Rockhopper Lad
VII - cleome
VIII - Rockhopper Lad
IX - Rockhopper Lad
X - none
XI - none
XII - none
XIII - Invisible Brainiac
XIV - Invisible Brainiac
XV - Invisible Brainiac
XVI - Invisible Brainiac
XVII - Invisible Brainiac
XVIII - cleome
XIX - cleome
XX - cleome
XXI - Jfposey
XXII - Invisible Brainiac
XXIII - jfposey
XIV - Invisible Brainiac
XV - PALADIN (eff YEAH!!!)
XVI- Quislet, Esq.
XVII - Invisible Brainiac
XVIII - none
XIX - none
XX - Quislet, Esq.
XXI - thoth lad
XXII - Ann Hebistand
XXIII - Quislet, Esq.
XXIV - Invisible Brainiac
XXV - Invisible Brainiac
XXVI - Quislet, Esq.
XXVII - thoth lad
XXVIII - Quislet, Esq.
XXIX - Eryk Davis Ester
XXX - Invisible Brainiac
XXXI - Invisible Brainiac
XXXII - Ann Hebistand
XXXIII - Invisible Brainiac
XXXIV - Invisible Brainiac
XXXV - none
XXXVI - thoth lad
XXXVII - Ann Hebistand
XXXVIII - Invisible Brainiac
XXXIX - thoth Lad
XL - Invisible Brainiac
XLI - thoth lad
XLII - Ann Hebistand
XLIII - thoth lad
XLIV - thoth lad
XLV - Ann Hebistand
XLVI - Invisible Brainiac
XLVII - Invisible Brainiac
XLVIII - Invisible Brainiac
XLIX - Ann Hebistand
L - Ann Hebistand
LI - Ann Hebistand
LII - thoth lad

This weekend, I'm going to watch the famous French movie "Amelie" for the first time.

Let us know your thoughts on it Annfie.

I saw a play version a couple of years back.

Will do, Thoth.

Keep your eyes on the Anywhere Machine forum over the next few days.

I remember watching it...

I also have fond memories of my year and a half in Paris

I really enjoyed it when it came out, but I do kind of wonder if it would hold up if I re-watched it now.

There's a lot of movies I've seen and liked that I've never watched more than once, because I'm afraid they won't hold up.

Sometimes it's better just to bask in the glow of positive memories.

Like an ex, who is an ex for a reason!

I'd rather think of Excalibur than think of any of my exes.

Helen Mirren and her ex were apparently unaware they'd both been cast in Excalibur. It apparently pleased the film's makers to see them trying to out compete each other and the tension their scenes brought.

I was actually talking about Excalibur the Marvel comic, but I love the unrelated movie just as much.

Gleaming armour!

Gleaming everything, really! The cinematography in that movie is outstanding!

I figured you were, but too good a chance to combine it with exes in a snippet.

Still love the Alan Davis art. Claremont prose takes a bit of getting used to again.

There's very little Claremont prose from the 80s that I can still tolerate.

Some writers are great a plots, awful at dialogue

Claremont started out great at both plots and dialogue, but by the time he (involuntarily) stopped writing the X-Men after 17 years, he was awful at BOTH!

17 years sure is a loooooong time

I have the perception that Wolfman/Perez also fizzled out a bit towards the end of their great run. I am only basing this on my half-remembered impressions from reading though.

That's a good comparison. Arguably, it was the repercussions of Crisis on Infinite Earths that ultimately killed Titans. Wolfman got writer's block, Perez had a nervous breakdown, and both were burned out.

Another reason for me to dislike CoIE.

Another obvious comparison is with Levitz's Legion, although as critical as I am of much of the second half or so of the Baxter run, I'm not sure it quite reach the lows of the other two.

Well said, EDE. I think Levitz should have quit right after The Greatest Hero of Them All/The Death of Superboy.

On the opposite side, I'm trying to think of something that ended with a bang, and on a high!

Steve Epting's Avengers run.

Except for the fact that they canceled the title in favor of 5YL

GL, did part of your reply not post?