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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 2h

The Death of Snuffy Smith

Golden Age Explosions 💥 @comicexplosions.bsky.social · 2h

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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think this fixes the problem, though--it just shifts the blame from lazy writing to an in-universe reason for the X-Men to be unlikable assholes. Ideally the good guys in a mainstream superhero comic should just...not be unlikable assholes.

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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 1d

It's really bizarre to me that every few months somebody discovers "multiple famous people die every year" and acts like it's some terrifying new phenomenon.

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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 1d

Far too often the vulnerable marginalized community the X-Men are protecting is simply the 7-8 people in the X-Men team itself (and sometimes their flatscan family members). This serves to achieve dramatic stakes but completely undercuts their ostensible role as superheroes.

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 1d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 1d

In principle, I don't object to turning Magneto babyface, or restoring Xavier's ability to walk. But they've gone back and forth on both premises so often, for *forty years*, that it's impossible to take these issues seriously anymore.

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 1d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't read the Krakoa era, but everything I've heard sounds like a goofy issue of What If...? where they magically solve all their problems and reform all their enemies and find a cure for death and it's really weird to me that people act like this could or should have continued forever.

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 1d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 1d

X-Men kinda sucks.

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 1d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 1d

OK, I'll amend the statement. Gabe will whine about "outsiders" and then fly out to work AEW shows instead of NOT defending the global title. I don't think this greatly affects my point. He's been trying to book his own "Gabe saves New Japan from itself" storyline all year and it's gone nowhere.

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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not going to watch the show, because I've put NJPW in time-out after they put EVIL in the G1 final. So you might as well explain why you think I'm wrong.

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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 1d

When Takeshita and the IWGP world title are absent from tours this winter, because Take has commitments with DDT and AEW, New Japan can use that time to build up other belts and wrestlers. Instead they'll do the same old shit with House of Torture. That's what's hurting them, not AEW or Takeshita.

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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure Gabe Kidd will do a promo about how it's a disgrace that "an AEW guy" has the #1 NJPW belt, and then fly out to do a bunch of AEW shows instead of defending #2 NJPW belt, and then challenge Takeshita and get beat. It's that sort of booking that makes NJPW look weak, not AEW or Takeshita.

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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 1d

Putting New Japan's top belt on a guy who's primary commitment is AEW makes them look relatively weak. But guess what, New Japan IS weak. They need stunts like this to turn business around. It's either this or House of Torture cheap heat. Given the choice I'll take the interpromotional title bouts.

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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 1d

I followed NJPW for past ten years and AEW from the beginning, and I would have zero problems with a NJPW guy winning the AEW men's world title. I also had zero problems with Jon Moxley winning the IWGP world title, and I never understood why people (including NJPW wrestlers) whined about that.

Zero アーチャー・スナイパー @archersniped.bsky.social · 2d

How would guys feel if a NJPW guy that’s not Takeshita won the AEW World Championship?

#WrestleSky 🤼🤼‍♀️
#NJPW 🤼
#AEW 🤼🤼‍♀️

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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 2d

The most beautiful scenery in Indiana

TAPE @tapemachines.bsky.social · 3d

now it's time to do some proper living

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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 3d

0 - Going to the movies with my parents!
2 - Minions was sold out, going to Zorro instead
4 - Zorro doing kissy stuff with a girl
6 - Spilled my Minions collector's popcorn bucket on the floor
8 - Dad can't remember where we parked
10 - Commissioner Gordon's coat is itchy

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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 3d

I think I would've preferred a solid steel puppet, but I guess this is more practical.

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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 3d

Blood & Guts is scheduled for November 12. No word yet on the women's tag title tournament, but I would expect the final to be at Full Gear (11/22) or Worlds End (12/27).

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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 3d

Most of the reports on the Ibushi injury that I saw mentioned Davis, but it was easy for that to get lost in the shuffle.

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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 3d

It's particularly bonkers given the storyline Copeland is in, so I assume these fans either don't know FTR just beat up his wife, or can't figure out that he has to return to get revenge. If he was really ditching AEW on short notice, they'd have booked FTR to destroy him, not Beth.

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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 3d

As I recall from using Triller, the left screen will never ask for money and play only the pre-show at the listed time. The right screen makes you pay to unlock, and plays the pre-show at the listed time, followed by the actual PPV.

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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 3d

In any thread my policy is to disengage/mute/block if I'm not having a good time, but the flip side is that I really don't want to be the reason someone else has to do that. All I can do is assert that I'm not trying to be a dick, I'm just trying to form a cogent thought in 300 chars or less.

Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 3d

Person I was replying to deleted their post or blocked me or something. Fair enough. But that makes this thread harder to find, and I still think it has merit, so here you go.

Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 5d

I understand your point, I just strongly disagree that the real-world Punk drama was central to the kayfabe Hangman saga. I realize some fans see the July 2025 title win as an admission that the May 2022 title loss shouldn't have happened. But I don't.

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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 3d

A superhero TV show about making a superhero movie within a superhero universe could be a good premise. But it could just as easily be based on DC's Blue Devil, or a weird reboot of Birdman. Why does anyone want to see *Marvel* do it? If the answer is just "Wonder Man" that may not be good enough.

Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 3d

What the Marvel Studios brand brings to the table isn't just token nods to their IP catalog, it's a solid track record (for the first decade, at least) of using their shared universe to get people invested in that IP. Without that, the brand and IP don't necessarily add anything.

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Jim Into Mystery @jimintomystery.bsky.social · 3d

Nowadays, Marvel expects you to care about each project as much as Avengers or Wandavision, without bothering to use their shared universe in the way that made people care about those things in the first place. Some projects can overcome that handicap, but I don't see how Wonder Man can.

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