Michael Kaluta and Joe Orlando - Weird Worlds #4
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“Jubal the Ugly One (DC, 1973). Fan-favorite writer Denny O'Neil turned out some fantastic scripts for DC comics and was instrumental in the switch from Silver Age to Bronze Age for the company with his revitalization of Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern/Green Arrow. This series was presented by Tarzan on the cover to bring those readers to these works adapted from other Edgar Rice Burroughs stories. This O'Neil penned story is adapted from the Pellucidar story "At the Earth's Core" by ERB.”
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Added: the scripted page, as pencilled and inked by Kaluta.
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Like okay, there were a lot of pacing issues this season, and the editing wasn't great, but there was order to be found, there was an internal logic the show was following, but it all became completely undone in a half hour. Everything we were shown told us that Ed and Stede had a lot of growing to do before they were ready for each other, only for that growth to never happen and for them to end up together anyway. Everything we were shown told us that Izzy was figuring himself out and finding a new life, a new family and sense of belonging, only for it to become Ed's family, Ed's belonging and Ed's life, and we never got to see Izzy find himself.
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Traditionally, tragedies end with death and comedies end with weddings.
I know OFMD goes right up to the line where comedy ends and drama begins - but I have faith in David Jenkins and the writers that this season will ultimately end as a comedy.
If you think about Season 1, there was never any doubt that Stede was going to find Ed and they would be together again - they didn’t even leave us hanging with the marooned crew. It was still angsty, but it was hurts-so-good angst.
I’m sure that even if there’s uncertainty at the end of Season 2, it’ll be satisfying, and set up more anticipation for (hopefully) Season 3!
I know people are talking about Izzy dying in the finale, but I like the theory better that the Revenge will be destroyed. That would still be a “devastating loss.”
And they’ll get a hiatus between seasons to start Jeff’s Inn By The Sea!
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Pastor Innes wants to clear up any “confusion” about separatism in his 1994 Chapel sermon:
Problems and misunderstandings that cause confusion, weakness and division among fundamentalists.
The idea that biblical commands concerning unity and separation are mutually exclusive, that somehow, the commands concerning love and unity don't rightly apply to fundamentalists.
The failure to distinguish between various categories of truth that we teach both in emphasis and level of authority, basically treating every notion and method regardless of how founded or unfounded it may be in relation to the Scriptures as being essential to fundamentalism - and thereby a test of fellowship.
The inability to distinguish between fellowship on an individual basis and joint participation on a church basis -- to recognize that fellowship on an individual basis does not require agreement on all minor details, and regarding such fellowship as compromise.
Failure to regard obedience (to clear commands of Scripture) to be equally essential to fundamentalism with belief (of clearly revealed truth), and the resulting erroneous assumption that mere agreement on six or seven fundamental doctrines makes one a fundamentalist.
Relating fundamentalism to personalities rather than to clearly taught biblical principles along with failure to understand and identify these principles.
Confusing cultural traditions and certain methods or philosophies of ministry with timeless fundamental truth and clearly revealed biblical principles, assuming that conformity to certain outward standards and practices makes one a fundamentalist.
Failure to regard the clear commands concerning separation from apostates and willfully disobedient brethren as essential to a fundamentalist position.
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No but I was so worried the season would leave off with Ed and Stede going their separate ways to do their own thing and now that they’ve separated I’m actually thinking that they won’t do that.
For one, they’ve already fought over the retirement vs. piracy divide. Maybe they’ll do it in a more amicable and mature way at the end, but based on stede (and Ed’s!) reactions to their new ways of life, I actually don’t see that happening.
I think stede is going to realize that now that he has everything he wanted, it’s not at all the life he wants to lead from now on out. And I think Ed is going to feel the same (if not because retirement and becoming a fisherman is too dull for him, but because he can’t stand to be away from stede who may be in danger without him)
It’s the hesitation in which stede killed Ned. Remembering the trauma he’s been through for being who he truly is deep down. And he’s not a killer. Not really. And now his crew, his family, are leaving him slowly. Ed’s gone. Piracy is under attack.
And even when and if they avert this one crisis, there will always be another, and he will always be in danger, and forced to betray his true nature.
They need to be with each other- not with Ed making stede reckless, and stede making Ed soft- but the other way around. Stede gives Ed the joy and adventure he needs, plays into and goes along with his fantasies and games, and Ed allows stede to be soft, to be calm and gentle.
All this to say, I think they’ll end up happy and together. I hope they will be each other’s lighthouse.
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I'm planning on starting that MP Regency AU fanfiction! What should I include? (U, PG and 18+ suggestions are all welcome!)
OH MY GOD YOU'RE ACTUALLY DOING IT?!?!!? LESS GOOOOOOO!!!!!
Ok uhh here's my suggestions!! :
-All (well technically 3) the Pythons have a really specific kinda Regency royal/heir-like title/nicknames to them based on where they were born (i.e some random examples; John Cleese, Earl of Weston-super-Mare, Captain/Admiral/General Graham Chapman, Duke of Leicester, Terry "Jonesy" Jones, Baron of Colywn Bay of North Wales). Then you have Vicar Michael Palin (of Sheffield), Baron Terry Gilliam from Paris, France (he says he's a Baron but the others don't really believe him and thinks he's really a phony or something lol), and self proclaimed "Maestro" Eric Idle (from the local Cheshire pub). Then you also have Stableboy Neil (Innes)/Neil the humble Stableboy, Countess Carol Cleveland and Countess Connie Booth (in this AU, Connie is Carol's older half-sister/cousin) of London, Lieutenant David Sherlock (Gray's second-in-command in the army, and also love interest but pretends to just "be friends" so to not make people suspicious about their relationship with eachother, etc!
-Gray is both a highly respected army official by day (at work technically), and a promiscuously gay playboy by night (when he has the time off doing the army business). He smokes alot too.
-Jonesy ends up with Regency era Denise Coffey and learns that she's not as "bad" as anyone makes her out to be. She's considered"bad" because she's apparently "too common" to fit with society. In other words, society thinks she's "too unattractively normal" to be considered pretty, to which she politely says bullshit to :).
-John and Gray are childhood best friends with eachother. Michael and Jonesy are also childhood best friends with eachother. Eric and Terry tags along as well.
-John becomes instantly uhh "emo" and tragic and moody and cold because of his recent breakup with his (ex-)fiancé Connie, even though they just broke up since almost a week ago. He mopes about it all the bloody time that even his friends start to get annoyed by it all, and it makes even his own sappy poetry look like decent stuff.
-Eric and Neil meet up at the weekends to play as a musical duo at the local Cheshire pub. Eric is, ofc, sorta homeless, meaning he has to to stay over at Neil's cottage house but also stay at the local taverns until he has to pay rent.....but mostly he chills out at Neil's house.
-Eric gets a "rags to riches" kinda story where, with the help of Gray who just so happen to be at the local Cheshire pub to "meet a special friend of his" (which is ofc David) in which Gray overhears the pretty good singing, he agrees to hire Eric as his servant and give him a permanent place to stay and enough money to live by. Eric is ecstatic ofc!
-Michael is a kind and innocent vicar, a follower of god, but he's a bit horny too! He particularly has a crush on a nice and kind woman called Helena (who runs the local bookshop in the town). Mike has the hots for Helen but knows he can't actually ask her out due to him being religious and stuff and it apparently going against the rules to marry whilst preaching about god or something. However, he tries to get around this by starting out slow, via becoming companions with Helena by helping her with the bookshop part-time. It all seems going to plan. However, things start to get a bit too *spicy* when Michael accidentally sees Helena in her regency era undergarments (which is a "stay"-kinda undergarment) just as she was about to get unchanged. As if it couldn't get any worse, the stunned Michael commits the greatest sin he has ever committed.......he sees a bit of her bare back. That alone is enough to make Michael faint. Helena, being the good and understanding friend she is, helps Michael get back to life and takes care of the poor soul. Michael is grateful for Helena helping him, but feels guilty for seeing her like that. Helena tells him that it's ok and that it was an accident at the end of the day. Michael smiles, and out of the repressed passion he held back for all these years, he slowly cups her face and begins kissing Helena, and Helena, at first surprised, is then quickly eased and understands and kisses back Michael. Michael and Helena then have the most excruciatingly passionate sex that night, and both are left satisfied.
-Gray meets David in an abandoned farmhouse, and they both announce their feelings for one another, and they both kiss passionately and uhh have the most beautiful gay sex one could ever hope.
-There's alot of "characters running through the moors" whenever the character starts a new relationship, romantic or platonic.
-Gray wakes up naked every morning after each promiscuous affair.
-Terry the Parisian Artist develops a romance with the ""weird"" woman who runs the tailoring clothes shop, Ms Margret "Maggie" Weston. Terry & Maggie bond over their shared weirdness and love for absurdities in life.
-John and Connie began an (almost) lifelong romance (before they broke up) when they were young teenagers of about 16/15 at a ball one night. From there on, they hit it off with each other pretty well. The young John and Connie then sneakily exited from the ballroom, then they snuck out and playfully ran to the garden maze and then snogged each other all night long.
-The Pythons and Co go to a regency era fairground/carnival and have a lovely, fun time there. They also get to ride on the merry-go-round on the merry-go-round horses!
Uhh hope you enjoyed the ideas I gave! Let me know which of the ideas is your favourite and why? I absolutely can't wait to read it!!
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