#Richard Pollard

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The New Teen Titans #36 (1983) by Keith Pollard & Marv Wolfman

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Fantastic Four #201 (Wolfman/Pollard, Dec 1978). The fam moves back into the Baxter Building.

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GH: GREEN LANTERN #162

Green Lantern had been my second-favorite super hero going back to my youth, when I found him occupying the back pages of THE FLASH. Once he got his own series again, I followed it regularly right from the jump. And I was particularly enamored of Marv Wolfman’s run on the character which had wrapped up not long before this. But still, all of this was not enough to prevent me from adding GREEN…

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Los cuatro juntos

Fantastic Four (1961) #199 Marv Wolfman (Escritor), Keith Pollard (Dibujante)

— Reed Richards: Tienes razón, Ben… ¡Los 4 Fantásticos vuelven a vivir! — Ben Grimm: Y no es solo una forma de hablar. — Johnny Storm: ¡Tú lo has dicho! ¡Llamas a mí! — Susan Storm: Con los cuatro juntos otra vez… ¡Nada podrá detenernos!

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Scrooged (1988) Richard Donner

December 20th 2023

[wonder-worker]

"The feast of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist being appointed as the day upon which the coronation of the king [Edward V] would take place without fail, all both hoped for and expected a season of prosperity for the kingdom."

-Excerpt from the Croyland Continuator / David Horspool, Richard III: A Ruler and Reputation

Even though Edward IV’s death was unexpected, after twelve years of peace there need not have been too much of a sense of foreboding about the succession. The great dynastic wound from which the Wars of the Roses had grown had not so much been healed as cauterized by the extinction of the House of Lancaster. There was no rush for London, as had happened in earlier, disputed successions. The royal party didn’t set out from Ludlow for ten days after hearing the news of Edward IV’s death, while Richard took his time, too. And the new king had [his mother the dowager queen and] two uncles to support him: his mother’s brother, the sophisticated, cultured, highly experienced Earl Rivers; and his father’s, the loyal and reliable Duke of Gloucester, to whom Edward IV had entrusted unprecedented power and vital military command.

... [Richard of Gloucester] had achieved his goal by a mixture of luck and ruthlessness, and if he made it appear, or even believed himself, that destiny played a part, this only made him a man in step with his times. Modern historians have no time for destiny, but sometimes the more ‘structuralist’ interpretations of the events surrounding the usurpation can come close to it. When we read that ‘the chances of preserving an unchallenged succession were . . . weakened by the estrangement of many of the rank-and-file nobility from . . . high politics, which was partly a consequence of the Wars of the Roses and partly of Edward IV’s own policies’, it is hard not to conclude that an unforeseeable turn of events is being recast as a predictable one. But without one overriding factor – the actions of Richard, Duke of Gloucester after he took the decision to make himself King Richard III – none of this could have happened. That is, when the same author concedes ‘Nor can we discount Richard’s own forceful character’, he is pitching it rather low*.

Edward IV had not left behind a factional fault line waiting to be shaken apart. Richard of Gloucester’s decision to usurp was a political earthquake that could not have been forecast on 9 April, when Edward died. After all, Simon Stallworth did not even anticipate it on 21 June, the day before Richard went public. We should be wary of allowing hindsight to give us more clairvoyance than the well-informed contemporary who had no idea ‘what schall happyne’. This is not to argue that Richard’s will alone allowed him to take the Crown. Clearly, the circumstances of a minority, the existence of powerful magnates with access to private forces, and the reasonably recent examples of resorts to violence and deposition of kings, made Richard’s path a more conceivable one. But Richard’s own tactics, his arrest of Rivers, Vaughan and Grey, the rounding up of Hastings and the bishops, relied on surprise. If men as close as these to the workings of high politics at a delicate juncture had no inkling of what might happen, the least historians can do is to reflect that uncertainty [...].

(*The author who Horspool is referencing and disagreeing with is Charles Ross)

[mildmayfoxe]

anybody watching house of villains. richard hatch AND teresa giudice ????

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It's always worth pointing out that monarchs didn't reform laws in a vacuum, or else we risk assigning anachronistically progressive roles to them. As A. J. Pollard said in his bio of Richard III, 'The normal course of legislation was for it to be introduced in bills presented individually by members or collectively by the house. A meeting of parliament, whoever the king, whatever the political circumstance, was always an opportunity for routine amendment of the law. The king assented (and could veto), but he rarely initiated such legislation'. In the same way that it's incredibly crass to call Richard III a 'social justice king' (as Matt Lewis so often does) because he passed some laws regulating the administration of justice — when 'there was nothing necessarily exceptional about the public acts of 1484' — it would be equally wrong to assign to Henry VII's legislation on rape/abduction any 'feminist' leanings by ignoring the crown's medieval model of patriarchal responsibility to women.

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Birdland Stars of '57 - Masonic Temple - Detroit : Billy Eckstine, Count Basie and his Orchestra featuring Joe Williams, Sarah Vaughan, Bud Powell Trio, Phineas Newborn jr. Quartet, Chet Baker, Lester Young, Zoot Sims, Jimmy Jones, Roy Haynes, Richard Davis, Terry Gibbs Quartet featuring Terry Pollard, Seldon Powell, Rolf Kühn

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A battle between two titans, Reed Richards vs Doctor Doom. From Fantastic Four #200 (1978)

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Bad movie I have Along for the Ride 2000 aka Forever Lulu

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Vigilante #3 (1984) by Keith Pollard & Marv Wolfman

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Fantastic Four #204 (Wolfman/Pollard, Mar 1979). An intergalactic distress call leads most of the fam off-world, seemingly into the origins of Nova. Meanwhile Johnny is manipulated into re-enrolling in college. In a particularly sweet moment of dismay, he sky-writes a message summoning Pete to their “usual” spot atop the Statue of Liberty’s torch. Unfortunately Pete’s busy tangoing with Man-Wolf…

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I feel like The Doomwood Curse could have been novelised and published as the 6th Doctor story in the current range of fairytales/mythology books

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Reflejos

Fantastic Four #200 Marv Wolfman (Escritor), Keith Pollard (Dibujante)

— Doctor Doom: ¿Qué has hecho? ¿QUÉ HAS HECHO? ¡Has destruido mi capacidad de lucha! Pero aún no me has detenido. ¡Mi plan supremo triunfará igualmente! Solo tengo que alcanzar los controles… — Reed Richards: Jamás Doom… ¡No lo permitiré! Estás loco… ¡Solo un loco llegaría tan lejos para conseguir lo imposible! ¿No te das cuenta de que jamás podrás lograrlo? Toda tu vida has estado buscando vengarte de un mundo que creías que te había despreciado… Aún hay tiempo, Doom… ¡Únete a nosotros! ¡Tu genio puede beneficiar a la misma gente que crees que te odia! — Doctor Doom: ¡Necio insufrible! ¿Crees que Doom es tan mezquino que solo busca venganza? ¡Patán ignorante! ¡Quiero el poder porque es mío por derecho! Es un derecho de nacimiento que heredé de mi madre… ¡Una mujer asesinada por un puñado de paletos asustadizos e ignorantes que eran demasiado idiotas como para ver la verdad! Yo siempre he buscado obtener lo que es mío por derecho. — Reed Richards: ¿Qué estás haciendo? — Doctor Doom: Has inutilizado mi armadura… ¡Pero aún dispongo de suficiente energía de emergencia almacenada como para activar los controles de refrigeración! Cuando nos conocimos, Richards, te consideré un estudiante inteligente que prometía bastante. ¡Quizás tu intelecto científico crecería, pero tu conocimiento de las motivaciones humanas es increíblemente limitado! ¿Venganza? ¡Bah! Doom está por encima de algo tan vulgar. ¡Pero basta! Debo ocuparme de mi estatua. ¡Hay que activar sus controles!

— Johnny Storm: No hemos tardado mucho en liquidar a los secuaces de Doom. — Susan Storm: Los delegados parecen seguir en estado de shock. — Ben Grimm: Esto aún no ha terminado. ¡Mirad! ¡La estatua está empezando a brillar como un crío con acné en su primera cita! — Susan Storm: ¡Johnny! ¡Ben! Está emitiendo una especie de rayo… ¿Significa eso que Reed no ha podido detener a Doom? — Johnny Storm: ¡Mirad, vienen hacia nosotros! ¿Qué hacemos? — Ben Grimm: ¡Leches! ¡No podemos machacarles! ¡La vida te da sorpresas! — Susan Storm: ¡Decidamos lo que decidamos, hagámoslo ya! No hay tiempo que perder.

— Doctor Doom: ¡Éxito al fin! ¡Aun con todos los presentes problemas, mi plan ha triunfado! Mi estatua tuvo que ser entrada por la fuerza en la asamblea de la ONU… Pero ya está allí… ¡Y funciona tal y como la diseñé! ¡Ahora ya nada me impedirá alcanzar el objetivo que he perseguido todos estos años! ¡El mundo será de Doom! ¡DE DOOM! — Reed Richards: De eso nada, Doom… Aún no has conseguido nada… ¡No mientras yo viva! — Doctor Doom: ¡NO! ¡NO! ¡TÚ OTRA VEZ NO! ¡¿Es que no hay modo de matarte?! — Reed Richards: La próxima vez haz tus trampas de hielo completamente sólidas… antes de que me congelara del todo a mi alrededor, pude formar unos respiraderos… que también sirvieron para debilitar el bloque.

— Doctor Doom: Richards… Normalmente aborrezco los encuentros físicos… Pero tú no me dejas opción. ¡Te has burlado demasiadas veces de mis planes! Pero se acabó… ¡Se acabó! ¡Debo destruirte de una vez por todas! No soy el simple patán que siempre me has considerado, Richards. ¡Aun sin mi energía, mi armadura compensa de sobras ese ridículo poder elástico tuyo! ¡Y eso me convierte en tu superior, Richards! ¿Me has oído? ¡En tu superior! ¡Dilo, Richards! ¡Dilo de una vez! ¡Doctor Doom es tu superior! — Reed Richards: J-Jamás… — Doctor Doom: Oh, muy pronto suplicarás que te deje pronunciar esas palabras… porque quizás me conmuevan como para ofrecerte un pequeño rayo de esperanza. ¡Una esperanza representada por una muerte rápida en vez de un final lento y doloroso! Pero exijo hacerte pagar por todos estos años de frustración… De saber en todo momento que había alguien igual de fuerte… Igual de poderoso… Alguien que podría incluso ser super… ¿Qué? ¿He estado a punto de decir superior a Doom? ¡JA! Siempre he sido mejor que tú. Admítelo, Richards… ¡Siempre! ¡Admite que manipulaste la máquina que destrozó mi rostro! Fuiste tú… ¡Tuviste que ser tú! Dime que envidiabas mi talento… Dime la verdad… Dímela, maldito seas… ¡Dímela y puede que acabe con tu sufrimiento en este mismo instante! ¡Has de decírmela!

— Reed Richards: No hice nada… Traté de ayudarte con los cálculos… equivocados… — Doctor Doom: ¿Aun a punto de morir sigues mintiendo? ¡Sé que tú fuiste el responsable! ¡Yo soy incapaz de cometer errores! Yo… ¿Qué? ¿Pretendes desenmascararme? ¿Así que ese es tu ridículo plan? ¿Tratar de enfurecerme mientras me arrancas la máscara? ¡Pero eres un idiota! Solo mi anillo oculto puede… ¿Qué? ¡Se abrió! ¿Pero cómo…? — Reed Richards: Cuando tu fuente de energía entró en cortocircuito, el mecanismo de cierre se debilitó… — Doctor Doom: ¡Estúpido imbécil! ¡¿Es que no sabes lo que has hecho?! ¡Sin las lentes protectoras de mi máscara, los reflejos intensificados del Solartrón pueden volverme loco! ¡MI ROSTRO! ¡MI ROSTRO! ¡MILLONES DE GROTESCOS REFLEJOS DE MI ROSTRO! ¡NOOO!

[wonder-worker]

A.J Pollard’s biography on Edward IV was so cringe lol (generic; minor but frustrating inaccuracies; intensely judgmental at times and oddly dismissive at others while never considering the broader context; entirely diminished and trivialized Elizabeth Woodville as both queen and wife of his main subject in the name of "defending" her; created a false dichotomy between Edward and Henry VII’s styles of ruling and lauded the latter at the former’s expense even though Henry literally followed Edward’s example for the very things Pollard was criticizing Edward for; had a downright nonsensical and thoroughly misleading conclusion about Edward’s legacy & Richard’s usurpation that was based entirely on hindsight, Pollard's own assumptions, and the complete downplaying Richard’s agency and actions to emphasize what Pollard wrongly and misleadingly claimed were Edward's so-called 'failings', etc, etc)

I wanted to buy his book on Henry V but after reading this shitshow and the synopsis of that book, im guessing it's going to be 10x worse, so...no thanks