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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 282 – Barbarious, The Smasher, Frag Count, And Quickie On …

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Criminal And Crimefighter

Conversations 282 – Barbarious, The

Smasher, Frag Count, And Quickie

On Reasons To Celebrate

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YOU CAN’T MAKE AN OKAY MOVIE

ALONE: “JUSTICE LEAGUE” REVIEW

I’ll just go to the end first on this. It’s a B. A B with an asterisk. See when I went to see “Wonder Woman” the reviews were REALLY good. Suspiciously good, but I figured the movie had to be at least pretty good. It wasn’t and isn’t and it made me pretty mad. If I’m going to see a mediocre movie I don’t want to expect something good and be disappointed. For “Justice League” even with it bad reviews I wanted to make sure this didn’t happen again. So I made sure I went in expecting absolutely nothing. I watched some “Batman V Superman” to set my expectations as low as possible beforehand and then I went to see “Justice League”.

Throughout the movie I had to stop myself from thinking about how easily it could’ve been MUCH better and had not think about “The Avengers” at all. “Justice League” isn’t particularly great in any way, but at least it wasn’t boring, dull, and colorless like the other “DCEU” films. Though he looks stupid and is nothing like any version of “The Flash” he was far less annoying than I thought he was gonna be. He was actually okay. “Superman” was actually in it more than I thought he would be. I literally thought he wasn’t going to show up until the very end. The scenes that were obviously written by Joss Whedon really help to turn this group of heroes into an actual team. The side characters don’t hog up too time (although Martha Kent didn’t need to be in it and Lois could’ve been in it far less). The villain is weak, but I expected him to be weaker.

That’s the nice part…. Problem is, this is the goddamn “Justice League”. This should’ve been mind-blowingly great. I mean this should’ve been “The Avengers” on steroids. This is potentially a much more powerful team. These are the OG’s man! Well, besides the “Justice Society”, but still. This is what we have though and this is the best the “DCEU” has to offer.

For some quick comparisons

  • “GotG Vol. 2 – WAY better than “Justice League”. Still comic book movie of the year
  • “Thor: Ragnarok” – Better that “Justice League”
  • “Spider-man: Homecoming” – About even. “Justice League” has more action, but “Spider-man” has a better villain, is overall written better, and has “Iron Man”
  • “Wonder Woman” is worse. WAY more boring. WAY more “Writing 101” problems

Tomorrow, we finally meet The Underwater Monarch in these comics. He’s joined by Freedom Female and Frag Count as they discuss a possible “Rotten Tomatos” conspiracy.

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 197 – Special-Girl, Quickie, & Freedom Female On “Renegades Of Reality 2nd Mix” & That Other Movie

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 197 –

Special-Girl, Quickie, & Freedom Female On “Renegades Of Reality

2nd Mix” & That Other Movie

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I’m actually skeptical about “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2”. I read a review on cbr.com that said it was more or the same from the first movie. It wasn’t exactly a negative review, but not super positive. The original movie sets quite a high bar. I’d put as 4th best comic book movie period. To me “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” beats it by a hair. I’m talking tenths of a point. It has a better post-credit scene and I like the darker tone. Can it actually be as good as or better than the original? Guess we’ll see this week…

I’m think I’m burying the lead here though. So this comic is two pages. I saw 2 big problems with the comics the way ther were before.

  1. The font could be easier to read
  2. Trying to fit all the word balloons made it hard to know what to read next

I addressed the first problem by changing the font and increasing the size. The 2nd one was simple, but took awhile to come to. Why cram everything in one panel? “Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations” was suppose to be a one panel comic. Why does it have to be though? If I have to edit a good chunk I what I want to write and the comic is still hard to read why do it this way. Would it take more time? More than likely not more than resizing word balloons over and over to try to fit everything. So I’m going to use two panels when I need to and I hope it makes a better reading experience.

Tomorrow Special-Girl gets a lesson about living together from couple with some experience. That couple is Q-girl and Spiderous-Man so she should take it with a grain of salt. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 188– Special-Girl, Hazard Hands, Quickie & Spiderous-Man On The P@&$^ Commercial

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 188–

Special-Girl, Hazard Hands, Quickie & Spiderous-Man On The P@&$^ Commercial

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Wow. Pepsi stepped in it with that commercial, huh? Guess we all learned a couple things here. One, don’t use serious subjects to sell products. Two, which is more important, stay away from Kardashians.

Enough of that, let’s talk some “X-men”. So over the last couple weeks I read “X-men: Prime” and “X-men: Gold” 1… I can’t express how much I want to like “X-men”. “X-men” was one of my favorite things ever for the longest time. Now it’s hard even read ABOUT what’s going on in “X-men” nontheless the actual comics.

So “X-men: Prime” is an entire comic about making “Kitty Pryde” the leader and moving the school to central park. Do they fight anyone or do anything exciting? Nah. Setting up those two things is pretty much it. Alright, starting out rough already.

“X-men: Gold” 1 is… Ya know what I can’t get past one thing in this. There’s a character named “Prestige”. Now I assumed this was a new character. No. This is “Rachael Summers”.

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There’s a dumb explanation why she shouldn’t go by “Phoenix” or “Marvel Girl”, but “Prestige”?! Why not go by “Rachel Summers” then? Also her costume is terrible. Other than that it was… Meh! Not great, not terrible.

Tomorrow, Special-Girl and Hazard Hands return. They talk with The Minstrel and Slowku about… Well it somehow becomes about asexual reproduction. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 185 – Special-Girl, Hazard Hands, Quickie & Spiderous-Man On TV Shows & Movies

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 185 – Special-Girl,

Hazard Hands, Quickie & Spiderous-Man On TV Shows & Movies

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I’ve said everything I have to say about “The Flash” and “Supergirl” so let’s move on to the other “DCComics” “CW” shows. Say what you want about “Arrow” but that show is ballsy. It straight out tell you “no this guy is actually a serial killer and his quest is hypocritical”. They walk it back a little to keep the show going, but they still. Ballsy. It reminds of “Angel” in way. The same sort of “we may never be able to atone, but we try anyway” attitude. That’s a good thing. The best of these shows take from “Buffy” and “Angel”.

“Legends Of Tomorrow” is a show that has fun with its concept. Does it make sense most of the time? No. I’m sure it doesn’t even follow the established time travel rules of other show. What it does is give you cool moments and situations so you don’t care. This season is a dramatic improvement over the first. This show went from what could might have been the weakest show to what might be the best. In one season. Give them a round of applause!

Tomorrow Special-Girl, and Hazard Hands return to talk with The Minstrel and Slowku. They get into some of the issues brought up last week about kissing. Also the topic of marriage comes up. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 184 – Special-Girl, Hazard Hands, & Freedom Female On More Choking And It Gets Worse

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 184 –

Special-Girl, Hazard Hands, & Freedom Female On More Choking And It Gets Worse

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I usually write these comics for the week on Sunday night. At some point earlier in the week I have a general idea what I want to do. This week I knew I wanted to have something about the “Justice League” trailer. I also wanted to make fun of that “Supergirl”/ “Flash” musical thing. The main theme of the week was the kissing and choking stuff. As I mentioned yesterday I got this idea from tweets from @thegoofyartist . What I’m getting at is I didn’t go in thinking “I’m going to have squirting joke” in Thursday’s comic?

What ends up in the comics is what happens when I develop a “rhythm” for the characters talking to each other. “This character says this”. “This leads to that”. “Oh man that would crazy”. Voila! You get “yada yada squirting”.

That’s it for “Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations” this week. Tomorrow there will be another update for “The History Of Comics With Q-boy” 65. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 183 – Special-Girl, Hazard Hands, Freedom Female, & Slowku On Kissing, Choking, & Other Stuff

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 183 – Special-Girl,

Hazard Hands, Freedom Female, & Slowku On Kissing, Choking, & Other Stuff

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Before I get into the comic I gotta say something. It’s a sad day when a “Spider-Man” trailer gets me more hyped than “Justice League’s”. “Justice League’s” trailer got past the “this is going to be terrible” phase into the “this might be good” phase. “Spider-Man’s” trailer got me to the “I want to see this” phase.

Enough of that, on to today’s comic. The idea for this one came from some tweets from Zee Bee AKA @thegoofyartist . It started with a couple tweets about “how people came up with kissing is weird”. Then a tweet that was a “Sailor Moon” meme about choking. It was such a weird trasition it sparked this.

Can’t lie she’s kind of a gold mine for my warped little brain. This is the 3rd idea she’s inspired. The first was last year’s hoiday special where I had her be a character in it. You can see that here http://bit.ly/qbxmas3 . The second is a BIG story I haven’t started yet that I’m still mapping out in my head. IF I do it, it will be a story that sorta sums up the storylines going on in this comic including:

  • Special-Girl (“Supergirl”) as Trump’s Czar of Superpowered Bitches
  • The rumor that The Minstrel (“Harley Quinn”) is actually Kellyanne Conway
  • & Where clones such as “Weirdera ( female “Bizarro”) and Fiddy Fo’ (“X-23”) come from

And all that came from her mean mugging while dancing with a “unicorn” filter. What can I say? My brain does weird stuff. Tomorrow all these guys are back except Slowku to talk more about choking… It gets worse… Hope you enjoy and see ya then

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 182 – Special-Girl, Hazard Hands, Apex, & Quickie On The New “American World Protectors” Movie Trailer & A Musical Crossover

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 182 – Special-Girl, Hazard Hands,

Apex, & Quickie On The New “American World Protectors” Movie Trailer & A Musical Crossover

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On Saturday the new trailer for “Justice League” came out. There’s actual hope now this movie won’t be terrible. The action actually looks good it doesn’t seem as bleak as the other “DCEU” movies. There are still problems though which include:

  • As implied in this comic the attempts at humor are still weak
  • There was no way this was going to change, but everything about “The Flash” is wrong and his costume looks stupid
  • “Mera”, “Commisioner Gordon”, and random Atlanteans and Amazons made it into the trailer. This looks like a lot of wasted time on non-relevant characters.
  • Still no sign of “Superman”. If they’re still saving him as a surprise then why? Everyone knows he’s gonna be in it. If he’s going to be in it a little bit that’s gonna be dissapointing.

Oh and if it wasn’t clear that “Flash”/”Supergirl” musical crossover thing was awful! Tomorrow…. Things get weird as Slowku and Freedom Female replace Apex and Quickie. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 176 – Special-Girl, Weirdera, Apex & Quickie On Clones

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 176 –

Special-Girl, Weirdera, Apex & Quickie On Clones

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With “Logan” being the big comic book movie I thought about how “X23” is a clone. This made me think of other clones such a “Bizraro”. Hence we now had “Weirdera” a sort of “Bizarro” version of Special-Girl.

Let’s not switch subjects without warning to “Inhumans VS X-men”. So this series finally ended last we and I must say “bravo “Marvel”. You did the impossible. You took a situation where there were only the following options:

  • All mutants die as the planet is uninhabitable for them. This is because the “Terrigen” mist the creates “Inhumans” kills mutants for some reason. This mist was also going to affect the whole planet for some reason. This, of course, was never going to happen
  • All mutants where going to have to leave Earth for the same reasons. This more than likely was never going to happen, but they could’ve been dumb enough to do this.
  • Everything goes back to status quo making all this completely pointless

“Marvel” did option 3, but in a way that is took creativity to make it worse. The “Inhumans” finally discover that the mist will make Earth unlivable for mutants. So they “kindly” let the X-men use their convienient “deus ex machina” machine to fix everything. It even has a big red button. Well problem solved and all this was pointless… But wait there’s more!

“Emma Frost” isn’t satisfied and wants revenge for the death of “Cyclops”. So she has these “Sentinels” programed to kill “Inhumans” kill a bunch of them. All you see is some ships blow up.

Also they are none of the “Inhumans” anyone cares about. So even if you wanted to care the comic doesn’t let you. We then end with “Emma Frost” in her normal black lingerie costume but also with a “Magneto” style helmet. The helmet also has “X visor” thing that the last version of “Cyclop’s” costume had. So that’s about 20 years of character development for “Emma Frost” down the drain. She’s a straight up villain again. Making a comic pointless is easy making one that’s pointless and destroys characters… That takes work.

Tomorrow, all these guys return to talk more about clones. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 173 – Special-Girl, Quickie & Apex On Apex’s Movie & Other Stuff

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 173 –

Special-Girl, Quickie & Apex On Apex’s Movie & Other Stuff

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So I saw “Logan”. Wow, that was a grim movie. Great though, but very grim. Like I said with “Star Wars: Rogue One” it’s a true “Trump era” movie. The heroes are pretty much dead. The few that remain have become crippled and broken. Our hero once known as “The Wolverine” now does a menial job to be able to afford drugs to care for “Professor X”.

As crappy as that setup is it gets worse. This is movie where suicide is more than a viable option. It’s actually more humane than the alternative, and this applies to several characters. In this movie nice gestures get rewarded with gruesome deaths. In this movie the smart thing to do is keep your head and let the corporations do what they want. They’ve already won, fighting back only makes it worse.

Also like “Rogue One” the “victory” in the end is pyrrhic at best. The big hope is escaping to Canada. As with real life though, that’s not a solution. The problem affects the whole world and can reach beyond borders… Now I’ve depressed myself so let’s move on.

Tomorrow we’re introduced to Female Apex Clone #54 AKA Fiddy Fo’ (X-23). She talks out some issues she has with J-Pop (Jubilee). Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 171 – Special-Girl, Red Witch & General Magnetic On Red Witch’s Issues Being Resolved

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 171 – Special-Girl,

Red Witch & General Magnetic On Red Witch’s Issues Being Resolved

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So this whole Remy Ma/ Nicki Minaj beef seems to be about a bunch of generic “I’m the best” rhymes. Any “evidence” I’ve seen about where this beef started comes down to lines that could be about anyone. *Trump voice* “I like beefs that are actually about something”. “ShEther” is a great diss song though.

It won’t change anything though. Whether Nicki responds or not at some point she’ll make a new hit and everything will be back to normal. Diss songs don’t end careers. Bad decisions do.

Tomorrow Special-Girl along with White Swallow and Apex talk up Apex’s new movie. There’s also a lesson about abusing power or something. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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