Andrew Otis Weiss

Matthew Smith @teamsmithy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:28 UTC

40 years ago today!

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:23 UTC

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:20 UTC

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:05 UTC

It's only a radical rewriting of the status quo if you believed that presidents would ever be held accountable for their crimes, and that fear somehow kept them from committing crimes in office, and that's on you.

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:01 UTC

Remember that there were many centrist pundits arguing that Biden should've issued a general pardon to Trump as soon as he was sworn in because of "institutional decorum." And now they are peddling panic because that's where the clicks are.

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:57 UTC

The sting is because they aren't pretending anymore, not because this is some radical change to how things have been done thus far.

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:24 UTC

ah, yes, the notoriously frantic pace of life in Albuquerque

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:54 UTC

When I hear talk about how that asshole will use the military against “Democratic cities” I think of when my dad was an NCO in the MA NG when Gov. King was gonna use them to put down race riots in the Essex Co. mill towns before realizing that a lot of recruits were PR kids from said towns.

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:42 UTC

Having it pull that shit in a blizzard and being stuck outside the vehicle in the middle of nowhere?

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:40 UTC

I’m 52 and I can’t wait to step aside. Give me a big enough pile of cash and I’d do it right now.

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:30 UTC

This is the fossil they replaced Bowman with, ffs.

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:24 UTC

At least she's standing by him, but yeah.

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:23 UTC

the background music in The Man from UNCLE really didn't help with the whole descent into silliness thing the theme music was cool and the fight scenes had an appropriately wild hot jazz backing track, but there are so many tense moments that get derailed by circus music nonsense

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:12 UTC

Feinstein was a fucking dementia zombie and RBG was more tumor than human at the end of their careers, and these same folks were declaring it bad form for suggest they call it a day.

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:11 UTC

I’ll buy the sincerity of these “high level” Dems’ arguments about Biden’s age when every single one over the age of 65 decides to retire themselves.

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:07 UTC

Again, it’s weird seeing silents and boomers who should’ve retired from public life themselves long ago rushing in to say “this guy’s too old.” Yeah, X’ers and younger have been waiting for all of you fossils to move on and make space for a quarter century now.

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:02 UTC

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:15 UTC

Since everyone else is celebrating Robert Towne for writing the script for CHINATOWN, I'm going to celebrate him for starring in (and writing) Roger Corman's THE LAST WOMAN ON EARTH (1960).

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:02 UTC

I loved the New Teen Titans, but, wow, did that book benefit from context and timing on top of its other strengths.

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:45 UTC

There's a related phenomenon that happened with Starman, JSA and the post-ZH Legion where the ur-story just kinda stops for a stretch before resuming at speed. It's understandable but really throws me off when I go to look up a particular installment and find it's Volume 5 not 2.

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:37 UTC

Some of it has to do with creative changes, but there's also the "what now" situation where the initial story hook wraps up and there's not enough momentum left to transition to a new one.

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:32 UTC

It really became apparent when I started gathering material for binding. Firestorm, Alpha Flight, Captain Atom, Blue Beetle, Wonder Woman... JLI and Suicide Squad to a lesser extent, but there was a definite vibe shift. New Mutants dodged it because of a radical reset with Bill Sienkiewicz.

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:29 UTC

Now I'm thinking about how so many post-1980 comic series had decent runs of 12 to 18 issues before things started to go off the rails. Back when series were given that amount of time to find their marks before getting axed.

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:13 UTC

But then they kept on rebooting because "it's a fan favorite and there are fond memories of the 70s and 80s runs to maybe this time...."

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:08 UTC

Yeah, it seems like one of those things that could bounce back once enough of the old fandom & its expectations fades a bit more.

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:06 UTC

With X-Men, it was less "slack" than "Mervel realized what a huge hit they had on their hands and forbade Claremont from jiggling it too much in case it got broken and also 'hey, give us more of this.'"

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:02 UTC

The problem, which is shared across both franchises *and* the Teen Titans is the publisher knowing there's a strong fandom for it but getting a little too handsy yet risk adverse chasing it during times when things are looking a little slack.

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 23:57 UTC

It didn't help that Johns & Levitz were inconsistent about what did and didn't carry over from 5YL, which they should've avoided entirely unless it seemed like a natural progression from the Baxter series -- i.e. Vi and Ayla's relationship.

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 23:40 UTC

The Multiverse seemed really cool when I was young, but by the time I hit puberty it was mostly took up page space explaining how, say, Infinity, Inc met the Outsiders.

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