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Tigtone and Ballmastrz 9009 have been renewed; new season of Squidbillies kicks off August 11. Also, I found a listing for a Robot Chicken panel at Comic-Con, so I'm guessing we won't have to wait long for a new season.

Somebody made dolls based on Phil, Colin & Christie, Tyler & Korey, and Becca & Floyd. Good luck sleeping tonight!!! ETA: Didn't Josh & Brent do something similar with cookies? ETA2: Found it. Thank you, Google Images!

First of all, I will be perfectly okay with this topic title getting replaced. I saw there wasn't one, and I figured that it would be needed. I'm not going to watch on account that I don't have subscription cable . . . but that didn't stop me from posting a similar thread when the Doom Patrol forum (now collapsed) came out. I haven't read the books in years, but I know it's basically Garth Ennis doing what Garth Ennis does best . . . taking the absolute piss out of the superhero genre. He was able to do that back when he wrote Hitman for DC Comics, but he goes full-tilt with The Boys. Art is from co-creator Darick Robertson, who got his degree in comic satire from two notable books: Transmetropolitan (with Warren Ellis) and Happy! (a four-issue miniseries with Grant Morrison that wound up getting two seasons on SyFy). I'm willing to bet there will be divergences from the source material, but I'm still recommending new viewers to read the books. Also, while I doubt the "Herogasm" arc will be filmed (basically, it's a week-long super-powered fuckfest), I will concede the series probably won't be bound by traditional standards and practices, which means The Boys might be more Garth than Happy! And considering what Happy! got away with, that might be something to see.

RIP Universes 2 and 6. Apparently, love cannot conquer all . . . or at least not two Androids and friggin' Son Goku. And it looks like Vegeta won't be visiting Cabbe's home after all. Yeah, I'm thinking there will be an undoing of entire universes getting wiped out, but it's still a bit sad. Well, except for Champa getting erased. Screw that guy. I was spoiled on Goku beating Kefla, but the maneuver he pulled off was still awesome . . . surfing a power blast with a Kamehameha ki ball.

I didn’t see Perez preserve the win, which was probably for the best. Honestly, Arietta hits three Mets (two in one inning), and he doesn’t get tossed. Epic bullshit right there. ETA: Diaz, yes. Thanks, @theatremouse

Looks like Jake Arietta has made Mets fans’ all-time shit list. He hit two Mets, didn’t get toseed, and one of them got run out for yelling about that. Good thing he just left . . . Mickey might have tried to strangle him for the fans. ETA: . . . and, apparently, THIS happen last night. 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Colossal Titan throws out first pitch at Dodgers game. Now I gotta find a clip, because I want to know if Bertholdt got a strike. Thinking about it, wouldn't dressing a guy up as Beast Titan have been more fitting? Does Eren's Titan have a name/epithet? So far, there's Colossal, Armored, Female, Dancing (Ymir) and Beast.

Annoying thing about the Mets: last week, they dedicated a street to Tom Seaver, with the promise of a statue. One of the speakers was Cardinal Dolan. Apparently, it didn't occur to anyone in the organization to have him bless Citi Field, or at least do something to negate the bad luck that plagues this team. This wouldn't be about playing favorites over the Yankees. If their sluggers keep rotating places on the injured list? Screw it . . . send a team to Yankee Stadium. If Edwin Perez was on any other team, he would not be in as dire need of adult diapers as he seems to be with the Mets.

How many more episodes are left to go? I'm not bored, but the series isn't a priority for me. Even if AoS is divorced from any continuity headaches in the MCU, it still feels messy. You got Sarge on one side, Izel is on the other, and our heroes are along for the ride to Crazy Crystal Town. That could be a better name for the series: And Really, Deke? I'm guessing she was what Snowflake needed, but not what she wanted. Because he's Deke, and Deke is the worst.

In case you didn't hear, Toonami is shuffling their lineup with the additions of Food Wars! and Mobile Suit Gundam the Origin: Advent of the Red Comet (I'm copying and pasting from the schedule). For whatever reason, MHA has been moved . . . to 3:30 a.m. I honestly can't fathom why. Would the rating be that low to warrant a shonen anime with teen protagonists be shoved that far back into the pack? This is a shame, since the License Exam arc has been moving along without much trouble. Every member of Class 1A manages to pass the dodgeball melee portion of the exam, making up for a fifth of the remaining field. Kaminari actually uses intelligence to defeat the guy with the "Meatball" Quirk (ability to turn opponents into fugly fleshy balls), and he saves Bakugo and Kirishima in the process. The last part has the straggling 1A kids rallying towards Aoyama's Naval Laser blast . . . unaware that he's trying to sacrifice himself to get Iida to advance by drawing attention to himself. Happily (I guess), our really frou-frou French boy gets his shit together to advance with the rest of his classmates. Oh, and Tooru's Invisibility Quirk now allows her to blind her opponents. Of course it does. The gang at Team Four Star recently gave their recaps of the Cell Saga from Dragon Ball Z the "Kai" treatment, and part of it had an unconscious Goku having a MHA-based dream . . . with Vegeta as Bakugo and Nappa as All Might. Take a look:

“Checking on the Mets game . . . they’re down 6-2 in the ninth? I thought they were tied.” [rewind] ”Oh, they gave up runs in the ninth. Was the game tied going into the ninth?” [rewind] ”Yep. And Diaz was brought in to keep in close. I’d think the fans would have stormed the field, but they’re waaaaaaaaay too tired of that bullshit to move. Or at least pour Pepto down his throat. Because he keeps shitting the bed.” ETA: Phillies up, 7-2, and Familia is on the mound. Thank you, SNY, for the shots of fans with forlorn looks!

@Nashville . . . thanks. I'm still without much of a clue. I mean, she's one of only four players to go at least 30 days on three separate seasons (all women, BTW). My concern is that I allow the editing to nudge me towards male players in terms of being memorable, for good or for not.

That was fun . . . and with the future of the MCU not set in stone, the "cliffhanger" was juicy. It also shows Quentin Beck being the ultimate asshole in death. Or maybe he was just that good at playing dead. Either way, not only is Spidey a wanted man, he's been revealed as Peter Parker. It feels like overkill, but nothing says "Spider-Man" like the universe burying its foot up Peter's ass on a regular basis. And we got another superb MCU Spidey villain in Mysterio. He had the icon bubble-head look, his powerset looked updated to channel Doctor Strange . . . and he had a staff of disgruntled extras supporting his charade as the Next Big Hero. Those who knew the comics probably kept waiting for the other shoe to dropped . . . but when it hit the floor, it was still oddly awesome. (BTW: Maybe the third movie is Peter on the lam, helped out by Adrian Toomes, who didn't get faded and wants to help the kid out?) "Blip": I can't. Make sense if you exist in that world, but "Snapture" works better for us. I'm guessing most of the class was ghosted, so that we'd get the same kids from the first movie, as well as Brad. And maybe Betty. Good idea hooking her up with Ned's portly butt for the trip, nodding at comic canon. it didn't occur to me until afterward that Ned going to Europe should not have been a good idea. #GeekKnowledge I should wrap this up. Good portrayal of MJ from Zendaya (sp?). Nightmare effects were trippy. Didn't think that Fury wasn't Fury, and that he was just being a dick in general to Peter. And I'm still not comfortable with the idea of him as The Next Tony Stark. Peter should be Peter . . . no one's heir apparent. But since we have him going to school with kids as gifted as him (even Flash, presumably), and his aunt is a certified AILF as opposed to being a brittle old lady prone to health problems . . . I should roll with it. EDITH = Even Dead, I'm The Hero. Clever. Acronyms can be fun!

Looks like the Great Ninja War is upon us. On one side: a shit-ton of ninjas from all major villages ready to kick Akatuski ass. On the other: the bad guys and the resurrected dead, a lot of whom have familiar faces. But first! Two weeks of filler. I think we’re clear of that afterward, but I might be misreading the online search.

I never heard of it. I thought it was Goblin Slayer, but apparently not. Has anyone on this thread watched it?

. . . and this is a sketch of Kira-as-Kosaku & Killer Queen by Brian Lee, done at Garden State Comic Fest.

Who is Andrea? Out of boredom, I was measuring the success of past contestants by the percentage of time they were in the game. For instance, Parvarti is the leader among three and four-timers with a .974 percentage (114 divided by 117 days over three seasons). Andrea comes in third at .880 . . . but I don't have a "hook" that tells me what she was about. For shits and giggles, here's the list. Green cells indicate a title. Yellow cells indicate days played in Edge of Extinction; I only counted days spent in the game, not in EoE. Time on Redemption Island would count, since they had to participate in challenges to stay in the game. And yes, I added three days while calculating those who played in The Australian Outback.

I think the only one in that category would be Turbo. "U.S. vs. U.K. vs. Turbo" might actually work. The bit about people jumping in after the start isn't good. For all the shit we gave Smashley, I don't think many people bring up that she are Hunter were brought in as "mercenaries."

Death Battle between Johnny Cage and Captain Falcon. I'm posting because of the battle teased at the very end.

I have Spectrum, and the listings were just posted.

Reality Blurred reveals cast and title of the next season.

From Reality Blurred: cast and format spoilers for The Challenge: Bloody Hell. Jordan and Tori are back! So is the Killbot!!! And, sadly, a lot of people we gave up hoping would evolve an additional dimension.

Did I share this before? Eh, fuck it.

Huh. Mets rally again in the eighth, and Diaz doesn't shit the bed. . . only this time, he gets the save. Yeah, there was an infield hit and a stolen base that held up under review, but Mets fans can be happy their team at least forces a Subway Series tie. In other news, here are the headlines I found when I got the Daily News yesterday.

Team Four Star gives the first half of the Androids/Cell Saga the "Kai" treatment. A lot of the jokes are based off the abridgements, but I think they hold up for casual fans.