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[impy]

I braved the Walmart near the house to see if they had the MH minis. I saw an empty rack that I think might hold the boxes if I'm remembering the display from Tumblr right, but it was completely empty so I don't know for sure. I even tried up front with the other little mini things. Sigh. Failure.

I did pick up two of the Megablok ghouls: Toralei and Twyla. All the Cleos were aggressively wonky. I also snagged a Civil War keychain. I wound up with Cap and Mom claimed him. (Also: bad, Marvel. Bad. I hope everyone who okayed the current shitstorm chokes on a LEGO.)

Not sure if I'm going to try and brave the one near work on Monday. On the one hand, I like to avoid stores on holidays because it's one less person buying stuff and if more people didn't go out on holidays to stores/places that need not be open, well, then they wouldn't be open. On the other hand, I want those minis.

^--- Yesterday.

Today the tropical whatever is busy rolling on through so it's rain city. Mom overslept so I didn't leave work til 40 minutes after I clocked out (of course) and then we swung by the kittens. I got pictures with the camera so look forward to that tomorrow or Tuesday. I'd do it today, but because I was still there half an hour after my shift ended, they had time to ask if I'd work earlier tonight and I agreed because a) I like getting off at 6am b) I'm trying to say yes to any scheduling changes I can say yes to so they'll remember how often I said "sure" when it comes to my needing time off in July c) I had no real reason to say no beyond "man, that last hour of sleep is amazing. No." :P

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[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

That's about all we know at this point but this gives a better run down than I could. Throw in some author behaving badly when people point out that this was a very bad idea for numerous reasons and, well... it's not making me actually want to read this mess.

[irishgypsie.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that definitely helped. I've never been a big comic book fan but I have enjoyed most of the recent Marvel movies. I guess this is the publishing world's version of clickbait...seriously distasteful. Whoever greenlighted this idea needs to receive sensitivity training at the very least. :(

[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

Comics are notorious for fake-outs. Like when Captain America died a few years back. You knew it was going to be undone, somehow, given enough time because it always is but at the same time, you have to be interested in the story they want to tell in the meantime. This particular story is not worth the damage they've done.

A much less important version of this is why I mostly stopped reading comics for the most part. I used to be a pretty big X-men dork and y'know, every year or so they'd cycle through writers and I'll be damned if every time they did, my favorites would either be brought back to life/the team (huzzah!) or killed at the first chance, even if it didn't serve the story in any way. It was exhausting and annoying when the writers would handwave away the previous storyline(s) and just do whatever they wanted, fans be damned.

Sure, sometimes it works, but sometimes all you're doing is telling me why bother getting invested in anything.

All that said, this round of fuckery is just not a good look, and the writer is being a dick so that's not helping.