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10/27/09
10/28/09
Even the artist's _name_ is weird. Lkjhgfdsa? Seriously?
Here's a description from the Concept Art website:
"After the bombs dropped and the radiation began its twisted cycle across the globe, the earth became far more habitable for the Iamos.
Here they can be seen collecting living human hosts for the offspring of the Phagist; the secretions of which are harvested for use in biochemical concoctions pleasing to the Iamos.
The invasive growths of the Phagists oviate slowly hollow out the still living human body before using it as a host-shell.
One would expect this to be a torturous experience indeed."
10/27/09
that's crazy bad-ass and weird...
oh and I wish that site were easier to navigate...
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10/06/09
#4: Okay, knock it off with the Whitney Houston already.
#5: This is nice! What is this, velvet?
#8: Whoa...have you ever, like, just laid back and felt the Earth turning...?
#9: Fop fop foppity fop!
#10: OMG, you would not believe how much I had to bribe the janitor to paint that bannister to match my outfit.
#12: That was a BRAND NEW CARPET!
10/05/09
[www.cincity2000.com]
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09/23/09
#2 Han Solo
#3 BumbleBee
#4 Voltron
#5 terminator
#6 Iron Man
#7 ThunderCats
#8 Iron Giant
#9 boba fett
#10 James T. Kirk
#11 optimus prime
#12 Wolverine
#13 Terminator 2
#14 ALien
THERE YA GO!
09/02/09
09/02/09
How can nature possibly cope with an animal that has the ability to change its surroundings on a whim? This isn't like regular humans, who need resources and labor to do so, but Scarlet Witch just has to THINK things and they happen. House of M pretty much illustrates my point.
Nature is about balance. Characters like her wouldn't be born in nature because anyone like her would dominate their environment and there would be no stopping it except mutants like her.
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07/04/09
I will skip cutie-pie #10 if ol' Beaver Teef is there to whinge.
Make it a standalone, or preferably something kick-arse with Donna.
04/27/09
If I was putting this together I would have used pretty much anything by Hawkwind but I personally love the Warrior on the Edge of Time cover:
[www.amazon.com]
04/27/09
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04/27/09
#14 is Frazetta's "The Brain" another Warren magazine cover, also used as an album cover for Nazareth.
Can we get a ruling on this?
03/16/09
You just know that sort of behavior is bound to catch up with him sooner or later.
03/16/09
03/16/09
Actually, if I remember correctly, Peri stepped in a big pile of Spectrox, and the Doctor got it on his hands attempting to brush it off her.
I used to think that the 6th Doctor's death was the most embarrasing way to go, but I suppose you could chock up the 5th Doctor's demise to "lack of sensible shoes"
Still, neither of those incidents can hold a candle to that bizarre scene in 'Dragonfire' where the 7th Doctor inexplicably decides to climb over the railing of a bottomless chasm and dangle precariously from the tip of his umbrella, for no particularly logical reason other than setting up a (quite literal) cliffhanger for the next episode.
12/03/08
On the plus side I find the chance of this actually happening somewhere around 1%. Doctor Who has been around for 45 years. David Tennant is Doctor #10. I think it has been cemented he is male and to completely change the story and make #11 a female all of a sudden is highly unlikely.
12/03/08
Most human beings aren't especially interested in switching genders, but we're generally a lot more attached to our bodies--what with them not being completely rebuilt every couple of centuries or so.
Isn't there something actually interesting about this? Does it tell us something interesting about the way that Time Lords deal with gender (like, maybe why the Doctor is always hanging out with women, but rarely sleeps with any of them)? Something interesting about what it means to be a father and a grandfather in a society where gender-switching is possible?
I'm just not sure what's against the rules about this.
Also, for the record: while I'm sure that you're not a sexist, just saying that you aren't one isn't really proof of much of anything, considering that even really hardcore sexists also claim that they aren't sexist.
12/03/08
Says who?
12/03/08
His grand-daughter Susan was the first Companion, his "daughter" Jenny in just this last season. He himself has talked about his family and explicitly stated "I was a father once"
Did you not know any of these things? 'cause they're pretty big and explicit part of the Who-mythos.
12/03/08
Says who? "
Correct.
12/03/08
And just because he was a father once doesn't mean anything about Time Lord biology.
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