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Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

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It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

Several significant elections are taking place in the US foday. As with all opportuniies to influence local and national events, we strongly encourage you to exercise your democratic rights. Such things are vital, perhaps moreso than ever.

Miraculous Ladybug introduced two new elements. The first was, someone who is celarly destined to become the wealthiest person in Paris; the therapist who various Miraculous Holders visit in their civilian ID's: Max for his (now confirmed) autism, Mylene for her anxiety, Juleka and Alya for their separate family issues, and so on and, in a move guaranteed to pay for at least three kids going through college, Adrien about his daddy issues.

The second was the first planned spin off series, Stellar Force, a combination of Kyuranger, Saint Seiya and Miraculous.

(Incidentally, it may be that the Super Sentai series of annually rebranded, colour-coded, spandex-clad (distantly hears "IT IS NOT SPANDEX!" in Dr K's voice... sorry, deep cut) heroes is coming to an end in early 2026 with the finale of it's 50th team, though it may also be that it is instead rebranding. Details are still unclear on that)

A couple of stories from London's West End;

Paddington: The Musical premiered at the weekend, and the producers finally revealed what their on stage Paddington looks like and he's quite an extraordinary creation. A little person actor wear performs the character on stage, and a second performer offstage provides the voice and puppets the animatronic facial expressions.

And for those attending the Halloween evening performance of Disney's Hercules musical, they got something of a surprise... their two act performance had THREE acts. After the show proper ended, there was a surprise appearance on stage by Susan Egan, the original Meg from the 1997 film, who duetted on "I Won't Say I'm in Love" with the current stage Meg Mae Ann Jorolan, followed by various members of the cast all singing classic villain songs from other Alan Menken scored films