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lol. u shoulda been in PEI for new years day... couldnt see our own car because it was compleatly burried.

I went through most of high school without seeing any significant snow fall in Atlanta.

willis wrote:i love the progress of this thread

What you talkin about willis?

strike wolf wrote:I went through most of high school without seeing any significant snow fall in Atlanta.

Well a coupla days ago I thought spring was here, but we have a predicted 4-10 inches snow tonight.
The curlson is praying for a snow day 'cos he hasn't finished his project, due tomorrow...

My 2 cents I guess...

ALSO...

I have a new tournament with a 3 months premium membership for the winner! Go to the thread if you want to register. White Gold members only (Freemium!) http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewto ... 69&start=0

Hope to see you there, and bring a friend or two!

Just in case you guys read this before MARCH 4TH 2009

nice idea. sounds like fun.

jonesthecurl wrote:

strike wolf wrote:I went through most of high school without seeing any significant snow fall in Atlanta.

Well a coupla days ago I thought spring was here, but we have a predicted 4-10 inches snow tonight.
The curlson is praying for a snow day 'cos he hasn't finished his project, due tomorrow...

I hear they're predicting 15 in Boston.

# 33633, cause its a palindrome.

It's time for strike's graphic novel of the week.

This week's graphic novel is V For Vendetta. Picking up from where he left off with the Watchmen, Alan Moore (with the help of David Lloyd) has given us another excellent story. Mixing a top rate plot, highly developped, fairly realistic characters, and a brilliant plot devices, Alan Moore and David Lloyd turns his story into a brilliant piece of fiction. Cast in a futuristic UK where war has led to the rise of a new government where most people, radicals, homosexuals, and anyone who isn't white or christian (and probably a few groups I'm forgetting) have been cast out and/or killed this story is a must read for anyone and everyone, no exceptions, just don't expect it to be anything like the movie.

But don't take my word for it, listen to these highly respected critics.

The Wolfen press raves "V For Vendetta is a masterpeice that will keep you engaged to the very end."

The Lupo Times gives V For Vendetta 2 paws up.

The Curl express states "Alan Moore and David Lloyd use brilliant foreshadowing and parallelism to make V For Vendetta one of, if not the best graphic novels of our time"

V predates Watchmen. possibly not in graphic novel format, but the original V for Vendetta appeared as black-and-white installments in Warrior, a UK comic which also included MarvelMan, a collaboration by Moore and Alan Davies which ran at the same time as their reinventing of Captain Britain.

It was the legal challenge to the name MarvelMan by Marvel Comics which ruined the company that printed Warrior, even though the character of MarvelMan predated Marvel Comics (and even though the original character was little more than a British version of Captain Marvel (the "Shazam" one - MarvelMan's magic word was "Kimota"), whose copyright has never been owned by Marvel Comics. . They just couldn't afford the lawyers to enter the legal arena.

It was I believe at this point that Moore swore never to work for Marvel again.

V for Vendetta, and MarvelMan (now MiracleMan) later appeared as colour monthly comics.
It was many years before the classic "Two Alans" run on Captain Britain was available again.[/i]

If you want to read more Moore, MiracleMan or his run on Captain Britain would be good choices. But to see even earlier stuff, I would highly recommend Halo Jones and D.R. & Quinch.

jonesthecurl wrote:V predates Watchmen. possibly not in graphic novel format, but the original V for Vendetta appeared as black-and-white installments in Warrior, a UK comic which also included MarvelMan, a collaboration by Moore and Alan Davies which ran at the same time as their reinventing of Captain Britain.

It was the legal challenge to the name MarvelMan by Marvel Comics which ruined the company that printed Warrior, even though the character of MarvelMan predated Marvel Comics (and even though the original character was little more than a British version of Captain Marvel (the "Shazam" one - MarvelMan's magic word was "Kimota"), whose copyright has never been owned by Marvel Comics. . They just couldn't afford the lawyers to enter the legal arena.

It was I believe at this point that Moore swore never to work for Marvel again.

V for Vendetta, and MarvelMan (now MiracleMan) later appeared as colour monthly comics.
It was many years before the classic "Two Alans" run on Captain Britain was available again.[/i]

If you want to read more Moore, MiracleMan or his run on Captain Britain would be good choices. But to see even earlier stuff, I would highly recommend Halo Jones and D.R. & Quinch.

But is the graphic novel as a whole fully formed after the Watchmen?

Either way, Ive been told I should take a look at Promethea next.

um, I guess so - the story (as with all Warrior ongoing stories) was left unfinished at the time.
In the case of MarvelMan this was a crime of the first order. If you get to read it, it's the bit where MarvelDog appears. That was our cliffhanger...

Promethea is good, but what I've seen of it (the first 10 issues of the comic) didn't seem to me to be Moore at his best.

I just fudged my pants and it's kind of sticky...

jonesthecurl wrote:um, I guess so - the story (as with all Warrior ongoing stories) was left unfinished at the time.
In the case of MarvelMan this was a crime of the first order. If you get to read it, it's the bit where MarvelDog appears. That was our cliffhanger...

Promethea is good, but what I've seen of it (the first 10 issues of the comic) didn't seem to me to be Moore at his best.

Ah ok

well i am going for a walk see you all later ganna bring the ladie friend

I feel like I just ran into a brick wall, the reason? I just realized that I have been on here since I was 17, and I'll be 20 in July. I suddenly feel, well, odd.

muy_thaiguy wrote:I feel like I just ran into a brick wall, the reason? I just realized that I have been on here since I was 17, and I'll be 20 in July. I suddenly feel, well, odd.

I've been here since i was 16 and will be 20 in August.

Shit Happens... haha



Ever got that in your postings...

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ppgangster wrote:Shit Happens... haha



Ever got that in your postings...

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Well, before they instituted the new forums, there was actually a thread on the forum games section (there was no separate Mafia one) there were posts that had probably hundreds of smilies. That would lag any computer.

Mmmh. I remember such old times...such old times... **Eats a banana**


--Andy

AndyDufresne wrote:Mmmh. I remember such old times...such old times... **Eats a banana**


--Andy

You refering to when you didn't always have bananas on the mind?

was there ever a time that andy didnt want a banana on his mind
i feel like i did when i found out there was no santa thanks woofie

Well, the curlson got his wish - it was a snow day.

He still didn't quite finish the project.

apey wrote:was there ever a time that andy didnt want a banana on his mind
i feel like i did when i found out there was no santa thanks woofie

Apey, I suspect that you always have a banana on your mind. Possibly a metaphor.

AndyDufresne wrote:Someone go look up the longest thread so we know what to shoot for at least.

--Andy

Though that post was from April 7th, 2006...I thought I'd celebrate my 3rd Conquer Club Year from my Joined Date today...with a little blast from the 1st page past.

Here's to more years, and more bananas. **Eats a banana**


--Andy