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If anyone wants to read the comics for free, check out your local public library for the collected editions. Worked for me.
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Yeah many libraries have the trade paperbacks or the larger collections in hardbound editions. They aren't terribly expensive either if you want to get em on Amazon.
basically you can get "comics"-- obviously just one issue at a time. Not a cost effective way to go, and not terribly collectible "books" -- 12issues-- BEAUTIFUL and collectible. They are remastered and in sturdy hardback "compendiums"-- 48 issues/4 books. They are crappy quality but they are a cheap way to get the entire series. Good if you just wanna buy/read/sell em. You can probably get digital copies around in both legal/illegal ways too. I'd probably read the first 12 issues and decide if its something youd like to skim or something you'd want on your shelf. |
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03-25-2012, 10:21 PM
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Very quickly catching up on Mad Men, and I'm amazed that it's taken until March of 2012 for me to discover the absolute wonder that is Alison Brie. I don't watch Community, either, so I was totally unaware that such an utter goddess of beauty graced this earth. Seriously, the most mesmerizingly pretty woman I've ever seen in my life. And her Twitter feed makes it worse. I want to have her.
... I think I'm in love.
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03-26-2012, 07:03 AM
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http://thechive.com/2011/08/10/aliso...agnet-12-gifs/
You're welcome. (And there's plenty more out there. "Alison Brie GIF" turns up a lot of hits)
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The Best Buy on LBJ and Midway has seasons 1 and 2 of Community. I suppose I should finally take the plunge?
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03-26-2012, 09:28 AM
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Community is one of my favorite shows on TV right now, and possibly in my top 10 ever. It's very quirky, some people don't like that. Just a warning if you're one of those people.
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03-26-2012, 09:33 AM
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03-26-2012, 09:36 PM
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Eight episodes in now. Oh, how I love ironic dialogue-driven humor. This is magic.
“Your song? We wrote it together. Are you trying to Garfunkel me?” “Maybe? Assuming to Garfunkel someone is to keep putting up with them, even though they’re a fat lazy cat who hogs the spotlight and eats all the lasagna.” Also, I was totally unaware that the whole Internet was in love with Alison Brie. I feel really late to the party, but at the same time my love is totally legitimate because I wasn't doing it just to be cool. My feelings are true. Hopefully she'll understand this when I ask her to marry me.
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03-27-2012, 09:04 AM
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Doesn't matter how late you are as long as you make it. Abed is probably the best character ever, and he showed a serious personality flaw last episode. I like the direction this second half of the season is going so far.
Omgz, found an ultimate Community thread. http://forums.somethingawful.com/sho...readid=3473818
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Lillyhammer the Netflix original is funny I thought. I watched the whole season in like three days. Community is a no brainier. If only they would have used Theo to make a Gordan Gartrelle joke.
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03-28-2012, 09:25 PM
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Community is insanely good. So smart and so witty.
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03-28-2012, 11:28 PM
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Okay, I just finished season one. I'm not ashamed that it only took two days.
The characters... they're all so wonderful. Except Shirley. And Britta. Take 'em or leave 'em. But yeah, the other five are great. Paintball episode. So wonderful. Troy and Abed. So wonderful. Annie. So... whatever is beyond wonderful, because she's so laughably, ridiculously hot in a way I can't even put into words. Season two will have to wait until Saturday. I have a gig at the Frisco Arts in the Square Festival Saturday morning and need to do some songwriting tomorrow and Friday.
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03-29-2012, 08:53 AM
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Community GIF time!
       
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03-29-2012, 04:36 PM
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Britta gets a lot better in season 2. She basically goes from being the hot chick that Jeff wants to sleep with (and she's really not all that hot - attractive, yes, but not super hot) to a huge butt of a ton of jokes.
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03-29-2012, 07:55 PM
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Two things I've noticed so far:
1) This show constantly brings up older episodes and recurring themes, not very common in sitcoms ("Baggel!"). 2) It selectively uses slapstick, virtually exclusively with one character (Pierce). The humor isn't based on slapstick (does anyone actually want to see The Three Stooges?), but stuff like Pierce randomly knocking all of the champagne off the table or the desk collapsing underneath the poor student complements the wit very well. And I couldn't resist, so I'm watching season 2. Annie got hotter. And more boob-focused. Not fair. EDIT: Stop motion Annie? Not hot. I had hopes.
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03-31-2012, 11:10 PM
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Okay, after six days, I'm caught up with Community completely. Can't wait for the conclusion to Blanket Fort v. Pillow Fort.
I love how this show responds to itself. The writers, for example, realized that Jeff + Britta wasn't working out as a primary arc and so changed to give Annie that role and turned Britta into, yeah, the butt of everyone's jokes and the sex partner of a corporate humanoid. Also, there's a rumor today that Chevy Chase doesn't want to come back for season four, assuming it happens. The only thing I would miss from this would be when Bill Murray or Dan Ackroyd makes a cameo as Jeff's dad and that interplay. His character has otherwise completed its arc. Cool. Cool cool cool. Oh, also, I have a confession. My college apartment experience featured four bedrooms and three people living in them. The fourth room was an empty bedroom. We used it as a Dreamatorium.
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04-01-2012, 01:14 PM
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losing Chevy Chase would not be good. Replacing him with anyone less than Bill Murray would feel inadequate (to me).
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04-01-2012, 01:58 PM
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Tonight.
GOT. Yes.
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04-01-2012, 08:58 PM
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I had this entire season of Archer sitting on my TiVo. Not sure why I hadn't been watching - burned through them over the weekend. Amazing show/season. Pretty much every episode was excellent.
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04-01-2012, 10:25 PM
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I've been watching The Wire lately. Just finished season 1 the other day. I'll get around to season 2 when Spring Break starts.
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04-06-2012, 12:51 PM
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Community is utter genius.
SPOILER (well kinda) Mocking a Ken Burn's documentary is really in a new level of comedy. Ken Burns Civil War is by far away my favorite documentary of all time, and just wow. Wow.
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If it helps to keep the show on the air, I don't care. Remember that Chuck had a deal with Subway that brought in enough revenue to save it from cancellation.
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Product placement isn't bad so long as it's obvious that it's product placement. When Subway offered them the cash, I'm sure the writers were given free reign on what to do with it.
You have to admit, making a KFC-brand space simulator ("We are 40 light years outside of the Buttermilk Nebula, although it's possible that … yeah, this is a sticker.") or an episode turning Subway into a literal human being are pretty ingenious ways to do product placement.
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Latest GOT episode "Blackwater" is about as good as tv gets.
Newest Mad Men was also excellent.
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The Killing is delivering this season. I'm glad I stuck with it.
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So the pilot to "Newsroom" was pretty freaking awesome.
And the show as a whole appears to be getting panned by most critics, so this looks like it's going to be deja vu all over again.
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I recognize why others don't, and I'd be lying if I denied an eye roll here and there, but I'm such a sucker for Sorkin and his dialogue and his ability to write the big moment.
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So I'm catching up on the new episodes of Breaking Bad...and am I understanding it correctly that the little boy that Walt poisoned did NOT die?
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The American President wasn't bad.. never saw any of West Wing.
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No...not going to happen.
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