u/Tanthiel

Okay so we've had some staffing issues this weekend and we're currently one entire truck behind (still shrink wrapped in the backroom) and no one can address the situation because the staffing issues are ongoing and the other managers won't stop scanning holes, and we get ridiculous fill reports and POG EXs, and by the time that's resolved the morning stock person is going home, and again, staffing issues so either the evening stock person is in the checkstand or is the one who called in. Half the scan problems would be nonexistent if they let us get to the truck, but that's not getting through when I suggest it politely.

Look, Siri or Cortana or whatever the fuck your name is, you said there was an omni order expiring in ten minutes 20 seconds ago. No one is even close to the file jackets, you gotta give us time to get over there.

Not sure if you've seen it, but was in store emails today, seems to be abrupt with the "I was informed today is my last day" wording.

It doesn't really make sense character wise for her to go back and forth between Jean Grey and Dark Phoenix, and it would make more sense for it to be something that happens in the course of game flow, whether it's a bad roll on her board or something that could be inflicted.

I've had this discussion with a couple of people across different sites, so I'm going to collect some thoughts here.

To start with, let's keep this in context of the time period. When Pollack took over Doom Patrol, it was a pre-internet era. Your predominant sources for comics news were Wizard, which barely focused on Vertigo, and fanzines whose distribution was spotty.

Doom Patrol was Rachael Pollack's first comic, and there wasn't a lot of overlap between the metaphysical outlets she typically wrote for and comics - and again, pre-internet so you couldn't just get on Google and find out who she was.

On top of that, Tom Peyer thought that an elaborate prank that depended on inside knowledge was the way to introduce her to the readership. Instead of just telling the readers "hey, this is Rachael Pollack, she's a respected writer in metaphysical nonfiction", she was presented as an unhinged fan writing letters to the letters page before Morrison's departure was announced, badgering about when she would get the job writing Doom Patrol. People legitimately thought she was an absolute lunatic who pestered her way onto the book because Peyer didn't want to upset her mother.

She had already alienated large parts of the audience, and when Richard Case left and the art declined, people started checking out. There were a ton of readers who didn't even give her run a shot.

Of course, without the context of the letters page on collections you get absolutely none of that. Pollack never really got a fair chance with the readers, which is both none and all of her fault.

For me, it's a biker named Darius who likes to clench his jaw and be super possessive of women who he has no business being possessive of. He keeps popping back up after I've chided the AI to get him out of the story. He was initially a minor character at a stoplight, but then the AI started writing him like it's self insert mc.

I've just started killing him off in increasingly gruesome manner when he pops back up.