Hello Ivy! Hello! Right, you've been on the list for a while, you've been recommended a good couple times for just generally being a lovely person in the community, so it's good to finally have you on. Yeah, thank you for having me. No, absolutely, absolutely. It's always nice to have someone who's not from England too, just to sort of expand both the audience and sort of show off different people from the community from all over, from all over. I've had the Netherlands, I've had America, it's great, I love it. Right, first question. It's about your username of the main protagonist. Is that just vanity? Where did that come from? Oh my god, I had to tell so many people about this at Galli. I came up with that when I was like a lot younger. I have like a list of usernames to use, just like if I ever come up with, oh that'd be a cool username. And I've had that list since I was like 13. And so I added that on the list when I was 13. And yeah, now I'm kind of like, I don't vibe with it as much. It feels just a bit ostentatious, but I've had it for so long that I'm like, it's there. Well, yeah, see I was the same, I mean before, it was just my name, it was the Doctor Who guy, which is both very bland and a bit like, yeah, I'm the Doctor, not just a thing. The next one you were mentioning, Gallifrey one, I have never been personally as desperate as I am, especially after seeing yourself and Katie Haynes and others having lots of fun over there.  Did you have fun? Oh gosh, to say I had fun is an understatement. I have probably one of the best experiences I've ever had in my life. High praise. Oh yeah, I mean, it was, it really was amazing.  And every single person in there loves the same thing you love. They want to talk about it, they want to celebrate it, they've got costumes on or they're handing out ribbons or they're just being so kind. And it's, I've never felt anything like it just being in that room. Like sometimes I would just stop and look around the room that I was in and think like, everybody here is a Doctor Who fan. This is amazing. Yeah, conventions are a peculiar thing. I mean, again, I was just at LFCC in London and it is bizarre because especially as Jodie Whittaker was there and people knew that. So just standing, look around and go, there are about 40 Jodie Whittakers just roaming the halls. You don't get that anywhere else. So, I mean, as a follow-up, as a fan of the show, like what is sort of the main thing you get out of a convention? Well, this is, Gallery 1 was the first really convention that I've been to. I mean, I've been to a Comic-Con before, but there's never been any guests. And it just sort of like a very general fandom event. And it's really just for shopping. Like there's really just people selling stuff and, you know, there's cosplay, but there's not really events. There's not photo shoots, autographs, that sort of thing. So, Gallery 1 was the first like real sort of convention I went to. And not to mention, it's a convention for just Doctor Who. Not really.  So it was, I mean, what I got out of it was just my first big convention experience. I met a lot of wonderful people, a lot of new friends. I got to meet Mandip Gill. I kept, I didn't manage to get a photo or an autograph, but I kept sort of half running into Sasha DeWon there. You say that, but there is one picture of you and Mandip where you're on the floor being dead, if I remember correctly. Oh, how was the greatest experience? Oh, wow. That was incredible. And yeah, I definitely got to meet Mandip a lot because I had her diamond pass. So I was able to go to the private Q&A. I got, I got a photo with her. I could have gotten two, but I missed my second one. So that was the same. Yeah. And then I got her autograph twice. And then I went to the script read where I played Nick from Eva the Daleks. That's who it was. Yeah. So I, at the script read, Mandip obviously reads from the script and they pick different people out of who was in the room to read different parts. So like they would choose a Dan or a Yaz. And the guy running it had asked, okay, so who wants to be Nick? And I was just sort of like, okay, sure.  And so I did. I just, an instinct was like, okay.   Give me my role. All right. I'm in, I'm in the character now. Yeah. I was very dedicated to my role. And it was just a very surreal experience, but in a great way. And really the whole weekend was surreal. Just getting to meet so many, or meet or at least see so many important figures in Dr. Who. And to see all the fans and the talk with the fans, meet them. And it was just, it was so great. So I got a lot out of it. A lot of memories, a lot of merch. Yeah. Oh, very nice. You got to get that much. You got to get at least like one little bento of the day. I actually on my flight home had to wear the majority of the clothes that I brought. My suitcase was half full. Like I had so many novels that I had to pack into such a tight space. Good Lord. Well, you must look like you're doing one of those charity things for us. Like, I'm going to wear a million t-shirts. Here we go. Well, I had, I had to wear my ribbons. I had to wear my fourth, fourth doctor scarf I got my big headband, like just everything because I can fashion icon Ivy Hanover. Well, on the theme of the scarf, what are some of your favorite corners of the fandom in general? You know, there's cosplays. There's shipping certain characters.  So what's some of your favorites? Oh, gosh. I like to call myself a bit of a jack of all trades because I try to do everything or just look into everything once or twice. But if I had to choose my main sections of the Doctor Who universe, I would choose probably the show, of course, mainly new who, but I am watching a lot of the classics show. And then the Gallifrey audio series from Big Finish, which I adore with all my heart. And I'm going to give that a quick shout out because every time I bring it up, I'm like, by the way, if anybody else wants to get into it, you're a big finish spokesperson.  Nothing, unfortunately, but in touch, I would not mind. There we go. Nick Briggs calling you out. In terms of the fandom, I of course do YouTube videos when I have the time as a college student and someone who's working and doing an internship. There's not a lot of time lately, but I do try to do YouTube videos. I've written fan fiction in my time. I try to cosplay, but not that much. I think I have two completed cosplays related to Doctor Who, which are Romana and the 13th Doctor, of course. And yeah, I just really love seeing what everybody else does. I'm very much an observer in the fandom. I love seeing people's different projects. I know I've submitted a few stuff for the community show before. I've been voice acting before I try, emphasis on try, but it's fun to try and it's fun to have that experience. But yeah, for the most part, I'm an observer. See, that's the funny thing. You bring this up. You are, in terms of the guests I've had in the past, you're probably the first that doesn't have a specific thing, as it were. I mean, people might know you for your flux reviews or your obsession with Thasman, or anything like that. But yeah, I mean, I've had cosplayers, voice actors, what not. You're probably the first that just sort of is known, is just known in the community for being just a generally nice person. That's how I came across you as it. I love that. Yeah. And yeah, I do. I do. I try to dip my toes in, you know, every sort of pond that I can. So I appreciate that. That's sort of what I'm known for. No, definitely. I mean, you were saying about Gallifrey one as well, that you saw a lot of people you knew a lot of new people you got to know. Is there anyone you want to shout out here? Just who was genuinely lovely? I would say I definitely want to shout out Sophie Isles. I was, they were the only person I knew I knew who was going to be there. I know I said on Twitter a couple of times like, Oh, is anybody going? Because I don't know anybody who is. And Sophie was the only one I knew who was going. We were able to meet up and they were so lovely. We got to chat and yeah, it was just great. I met Zan and Lulu who we sort of live tweeted the mandit script read and panel and we sort of, you know, that was we've been joking how we're famous because of that because everyone's like, Oh, and like, we'll be signing autographs next, you know. Oh yes, definitely. But so I met them. I just met so many people and I think quite a lot of them don't have Twitter because that was the first thing is I was like, you can find me on Twitter because I'm there all the time. And they were like, Oh, I don't have that. But I did. I met so many great people. And I could shout out a mile long, but definitely Sophie, definitely Zan, definitely Lulu. It was just, yeah, they were great. Everybody who I met was great. And I'm still like finding people on Twitter and Instagram that I ran into who I'm like, Oh, like we, we like I saw you at Gallifrey one or I met you on Gallifrey one. Yeah, so it's just a shout out to really everybody, anybody who I met anybody who was there, you know, yeah, if you, if you bumped into Ivy at Gallifrey one, just give her, give her a shout, give her a message. I get so excited when I see somebody posting in the hashtag, I'm like, I saw you in line somewhere. That's the sad thing though, because whenever you go to a convention, there is always those times where people like come up to you or say, you know, I love your cosplay or I've seen you here or just you genuinely get to chatting. And then you just lose contact immediately.  And you're like, Oh, where is it? And it's just so, and like, you have to wait a whole year to possibly see them again. Maybe. Well, there's a lot of people who I really hope I see again next year. And a lot of the people I met have been going there for like six years or one person I met was had been going for 13 years. So I was like, I'll definitely see you again next year then. Right. But the last question before we move on to something that I've cooked up in my head, very randomly, you'll see what I'm talking about. It's a question about representation, which you've, you've made no secret you're a big champion of it. It's very important. But the question is to you, with this sort of era coming to a close of the Chibnall and Whitaker era, which has been very big on representation and quite rightly so, what has that been for you personally?  Yeah, I appreciate it. But you know, you're always wishing, you know, maybe there could have been more. But outside of me being gay, you know, I am a white abled woman. So there's not too much that I have to wish for in terms of representation. So it's mainly just, you know, being happy that other people are getting the representation that they've been waiting for, for example, seeing Mandep Gill, Tawson Cole, Joe Martin, all that, and seeing, you know, people's connections with that and how people are so happy about that. And of course, there's always, you know, conversation that there could be more, there should be more, there needs to be more. But seeing people happy with what we have gotten so far has been really, really great. And I know for Mandep Gill, especially, she's been having a great time hearing about people's connections with that. So I'm a very empathetic person. So anytime I see someone happy, that makes me happy. So no, definitely.  But obviously, otherwise, you get on fine. I think I'm the same as a straight white male. I think I'm good. I've had my fair share of myself represented. I can see bloody tenant in the background there.  That was a gag for a video. And I never, I probably won't release the video. And I just keep forgetting to move him. He's just chilling out.  Oh, can I? Oh, it's I got to bust it out all the time.  Every time I walked past someone dressed as Whitaker or whoever, I just go, well, just to see their heads turn drastically comedy. But yes, the question's done. But I have a fun little game that I cooked up in my head, whether it's a fun game is yet to be seen. But it's about to do with the gay representation of Fasmin, which yourself and many people on Twitter have shown their love and appreciation for. But that's not just about shipping those two. There could be potentially hundreds of matches in the universe. So I've got five randomly selected characters from the universe. And I want you to help me out and trying to find their Fasmin, their perfect match, as it were. Do you think you're up for it? Sure. Let's see. We'll see. This could either be like a train wreck of us going like, uh, or some truly horrible things are about to happen. I've been reading fan fictions and archive of our own since I joined the internet. So I'm aware of a lot of stuff. Well, in that case, I'm truly with the most educated person here. So hopefully we can be like Cupid. We can try. Let's give it a go. Firstly, let's start off easy. We've got the lovely Dan, John Bishop's own good old Dan. Who would be his perfect match? The first thing I thought of was that fan art. Oh God, could I even show that fan art in a community show? I don't think you should. No, if you know what we're talking about, you know. Well, another shout out I can give because someone at Gallifrey One had a ribbon that said, I want the guy from Liverpool to date the samurai dog man. So shout out to them. Oh, God. Also, I like how I like the description of samurai dog man. That should have been his character name in the credits. Come on, Chibnall, what you doing? Oh, gosh, I that's the only one I can think of. To be fair, it does make sense. You know, they were in the show. They were linked in that weird dog man way. Oh, no, don't don't say that. Don't say that. I don't want to go into detail, but that would be very much. Before we go to OTT there, let's move on. We've got a nice another character here. We've got the council van guy from Fear Her, the one who was telling off Rose for saying that's a council accent from council van. I'm calling the council. Who would be his love? I keep punching the desk. Oh, well we got to find a good one since he's such an icon. He's a stickler for the rules, that man. Yeah, I'm thinking about iconic returning like Russell T. Davies era, like mini characters. Yeah. I mean, it could be, I mean, in that case, it could be like, I don't know, what's the news reporter's name that kept popping up? That's what I was just thinking. No, literally, I'm thinking Trinity Wells, isn't that it? Yes, Trinity Wells. He was the first one who crossed my mind, but I couldn't think of her name. So I was like, I'll wait till I thought of it. And then you said the news report. We've got her. Boom. There we go. Match made in heaven. Who needs tinder? Who needs grinder? We've got us to rocking it out. I feel like we're, you know, those, I don't know if you know the show Catfish. I feel like we're the hosts, but instead of a catfish situation, we're trying to get them together. It's a dating show is what it is. We've made a match in heaven. They're fantastic. Next is, oh, we have a special guest that I need to go get. Do excuse me for one night. I'm scared. So how is everybody? Would you like to see my cat everybody while Jack's gone? I need a rush because I don't know how long he's going to take. Niko, come see the people. This is Niko. Oh, there's a cat. I was showing off my cat while you were gone. Now, the next one and this guy, this girl, whatever he is, is this guy and he needs some love. Who should this? Who should Drashing? It's a Drashing. He don't know Drashing. It's kind of horrible though. Not going to lie. I want love. Who did this handsome devil? Who does this handsome devil want? What's your type? I don't know. He doesn't know. It's a turn into a bizarre puppet show. It's like Camden and Brian, the Ood would get unwell, but... Oh, you like an Ood? Yeah. That was the first thought that came into mind, but he also reminds me of the creature from Creature from the Pit. I don't know if you've seen that episode. It's a bit chaotic, but the Ood I'm going with more. Wait, Creature from the Pit. Is that the one where Tom Baker kisses it really weird? Yeah. Oh, yes. I think we found it. Another match. Are you feeling good about that? He's feeling good. Now I brought Niko in front of the camera and see she's trying to get on my lap. Hi, Niko. Hi, Niko. Oh, she's gorgeous. Let's find Niko love next. Oh, when Niko...  It's a dangerous territory when it comes to animals. Oh, and I've really done myself there. The next one I've written is novice fame. Hey, Niko. Oh, no. Okay. Oh, novice. I really shouldn't have written you. I've done myself in there. No, I am thinking about this diligently, though. Okay. I am thinking about it. I am thinking. Sorry, there's something else I've noticed in the background. Who is that buff bear? Big lad. That's a unit. I'm also exposing myself here because I'm definitely not wearing fancy pants right now. To be fair, I was in pajamas for like most of today, so I'm with you there. Oh, look at that. Absolute unit. Oh, Niko's taking my seat. Okay. Niko, we need your help. Who is novice fame's bae? That word? That word people use still? Okay. I'm thinking. I'm thinking. Hmm. I mean, she was with the face of beau for a very long time. That's a good point. Perhaps she developed feelings for that big face and also considering it who face of beau ended up being. But was it requited as a thing or was it an unrequited love? That's true. That's true. But more tragic if it was unrequited. That'd be big finish. We love stories. The story of novice fame. Hang on. My MacBook's about to die. I don't know.  It's the one app that just kills it. It was like really hard. Yeah, excuse me. Good thing I'm on a PC then. I'm all good. I just need to turn off one of my lights really quick. Sorry there. Is that like that's very pervy that shirt you've got on by the way. Very fancy. That's why I bought it. I found it at a thrift store. Doctor Who really does take over every part of their life, doesn't it? Oh, my whole wardrobe is either it's something vintage or just Doctor Who inspired. Fair. Okay, so we were at novice fame. We were talking about her unrequited tragic love. What's a tricky one? My next thought was the cat guy from gridlock, but he's married with children. He's got all those very cute cat babies that make me question a lot of things about gridlock. Good thing we didn't get like tales from the lockdown about that story. That is tricky. That is tricky. We backed ourselves into a corner. Then again, oh no, the nurse. For some reason I thought she was a nun before, but no, she was a nurse. Well, I think we've got one more to go. Maybe we'll have more luck with our final one. And this one from series five, it's Angel Bob. Everyone is favorite weeping angel. Angel Bob.  I know immediately because in Revolution of the Daleks wasn't there an angel who got a name, Angela. Yeah, you're right. Oh no, maybe they fell in love and then she got sent to prison and he's going to break her out. Same species for once. Oh yeah. Wow. We're ahead of the times. We're very progressive. Yeah, that was the first one that came to mind. So you were right. We did have good luck on that one. Yes, there we go. We are truly the matchmakers for everyone who's not a cat. Yeah. We did it. Yeah, we did it. Oh, God. I knew that game would be somewhat chaotic, but I think that went pretty well. Well, that is all that I have on my sheet. So thank you so much again for coming on Ivy. It's been a blast. Yeah, it has. Thank you so much for having me, for thinking of me and for being flexible with the schedule because traveling to Gallifrey One made my week kind of rough. No, I don't doubt it. I mean, yeah, I'd love to go to Gallifrey One. Oh, God. I would love to have you there. To anybody watching or listening who has out, Nico is biting my hand. Sorry. Anyway, back to my inspiring message. To anyone thinking of going to Gallifrey One, I mean, if you have the opportunity, you absolutely should go. And I would love to see anybody there and be able to talk and chat and meet. Hell yeah. I mean, I'll try my best. We'll see how I'm doing next year financially. It'll be quite the trip. It's worth it because, I mean, comparing your interactions with Mandip to LFCC personally, it's very different with the time you get with that person. Not only is it, but the cost? I mean, I tweeted about this earlier, but I used Sasha DeWon's Diamond Pass as a comparison because I knew Mandip's prices are different than Jody's, like whoever sets them sets them differently. So I didn't feel like that was a fair comparison. But I mean, the Diamond Pass is at Gallifrey One. You got two autographs, two photos. You got to go to the private meet and greet. And it was significantly cheaper. Yeah. than LFCC, which I believe was only one autograph, one photo. Yeah, it was very expensive. I mean, all I personally got was this guy's signature. Very happy with this. Yes. Yeah, but I was shocked when I realized how much it cost and then hearing about people's difficulties with it. And I mean, I thought Gallifrey One was relatively fast paced. And I was like, I have no idea what I'm talking about because I'm hearing about people like getting yelled at, which just sounds horrible. I was like, showmasters, what are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? Oh, my horrible attempts at doing a British accent. One day I'll be back. You'd think talking with, you know, mostly British people, I would have one down by now, but I absolutely do not. Yeah, no, I heard one American person try an English accent, but it went Scottish weirdly quickly. Oh, you know what? That's so funny. You would say that because every time I try to do it, it goes Scottish for me. Really? I don't know why. It's just I try to do it and I listen to myself and I'm thinking that's going Scottish. That's not so I, that's just a big Peter Capaldi fan. You can't help it. That's two times you've mentioned something that are so coincidentally. He's so in sync, Ivy. He was so in sync. Yeah, I have tried it. I was more dedicated to it like a couple of months back. I would read out Doctor Who novels to myself in a and it kept skewing Scottish and I don't know why. See, I like doing that as well, mainly because I could sort of do the voices at this point. Like if it's a multi-doctor story, I sound like an insane person through the walls. She's like, right, Doctor, what should we do? What should we do? And it's just that for hours on end. How my girlfriend, Jeva, has not just disowned me is a mystery to us all. She's awesome. Anyway, yes. Thank you for coming on The Community Show, Ivy. It's been fun. We've found some love for random Doctor Who characters. We've shown off a cat. There's another one in the background. I was just wondering if I would get to show him off. That's Samson. Hi, Samson. Oh, you never know what a cat's thinking, do you? With a dog, you can tell if it's happy or not, but a cat's just like... Yeah.


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today we are going to talk about the appointment of Yogi Adityanath as the CM of Uttar Pradesh. And to discuss the topic we have with us are editor in chief Prabir Purkayastha. So my first question to you Prabir is appointment of Adityanath as CM of UP. What does it signify? I think this has shocked a lot of people including those who supported Modi in the UP elections. I think they have been shocked because Yogi Adityanath really represents the hard face in Hindutva in the sense that he has been stopped by the election commission for making hate speeches. He has made what by all accounts would be called necrophobic speeches of dead women, various other things that have been said by him are really far beyond what constitutionally even would be considered as reasonable or acceptable speech. It is another matter that we really have never prosecuted people for hate speech the way it should have been. By asking him to be the chief minister, the BJP's make it very clear that they do not consider Muslims as a part of who they think are people of Uttar Pradesh. Of course we saw that but the fact that they didn't put up any Muslim candidate not even a token candidate was put up by BJP. So now they are basically trying to bring in an understanding that we only consider 80% of Indians as Indians, 20% who are Indian citizens or Muslims are outside the pale of our thinking. So I think that's what Adityanath represents and in some sense it is the Gujarat politics now being institutionalized in Uttar Pradesh because this is what happened after the Gujarat riots. Muslims really not only got disenfranchised, they also lost out in various other walks of life. They were squeezed out of their traditional occupations. They were the meat as business, non-vegetarian food as business. These were squeezed in different ways. So there's been a whole economic attack which took place on the Muslims in Gujarat. I think we are likely to see a reputation of that now starting in UP.  Well let's put it this way. Adityanath's views have been absolutely clear. There is no development agenda in his lexical. That's not what he has ever said. It's only now has been being sworn in. He talked about development, sapkavikas and so on but that's never been his plank. Wherever and whenever he has spoken his speech has been divisive. So what we are likely to see is for instance retrogressive bills being passed. The attempt to bring cow slaughter as an offence of different kinds. You could consider it life imprisonment is being talked about. So making cow slaughter an important plank of the state and then using it to attack the Muslims in different ways. See once you say there is this book, law, the statuette, you can actually charge anybody with consuming beef or killing cows. So you can actually try and make all food being eaten by Muslims and say they're really eating beef and then bring them under this. Then transport of cattle or leather which is another business Muslims have been involved with leather tanning. The tanneries in Kanpur for instance run by largely Muslims. All of this now can become criminalized and that's one of the possibilities that that can take place. And this also true for instance Dalits. Dalits are again in the business of either removing fallen animals, harvesting the skins thereof and also converting the skins into leather and again creating footwear out of it or other leather goods out of it. So all of that can be criminalized. Then we have seen also that there is a discomfort in the RSS and the BJP which gets expressed quite often that reservation should be done a little bit. So we are likely to see the start of reservations coming under attack or everybody being given reservations which would also lead almost to the same thing. So these are some of the issues we would start to see and let's also face it that along with it you are also likely to see what Adityanathan company would like the women to be which is they should be in their homes, they should not really come out, they should work, they should be out of the workplace, they should not assert their rights etc etc. So you are also going to see a retrogressive picture of India coming out. It's interesting you know that we differentiated India in 1947 that we are not like Pakistan, we are a secular country. What's today Mr. Modi as a Prime Minister and Earth's twice Chief Minister of Gujarat and Adityanathan to present is how to make India more like Pakistan. So really what one of the poets of Pakistan had said, Bhayminar Riyaz had said, Aptu Hamaraj I say Nikle. So they seem to be more or less on the lines of converting India to a much more retrogressive and much more shall be say oppressive place for all people, not just for minorities, not for Dalits and not for women but for everybody because at the end of it very few people in the country would really agree with Adityanath but he's going to now hold the country to ransom. The whole election campaign was built on the agenda of development like Modi did in 2014 but now that Adityanath is the CM, do you think that agenda will be followed or do you think RSS and their Hindutva agenda will take forward run? You know the way Modi placed the development agenda was that Akhilesh's development agenda was only for the Muslims otherwise everybody agreed that Akhilesh had delivered development to new people, there were roads, there were pensions which went to villages, electricity was available in the villages much more than before so all the developmental normal targets of the state Akhilesh was apparently able to fulfill relatively better than what had been done earlier but the net result was that Modi and the BJP made this as if the development was only of the Muslims so therefore even the development agenda was really commonized, the Khabaristan versus Shrishmashan Ghat those kinds of rhetoric which is really that was really the agenda that he was placing that development has been only for the Muslims we are going to develop everybody it's clear that that target was not really development target was Muslims that they will be effectively disenfranchised that in Indian elections Muslims as a community will have no role in the elections this is what was being sought to be normalized and I think that's the biggest danger similarly the Dalits voted for a majority in large numbers so Modi can now say or Adityanath now can say these two communities don't matter we've got 60% majority of the 60% with us they got 39% votes really but they can say we have got a majority of the 60% with us if we have the majority of the 60% we can run we don't really need anybody else now what kind of development we will see in UP we have to wait and see but it's clear whatever development takes place it is going to be a development which will leave outside its spale these two communities BJP didn't announce their CM candidate before the elections do you think that was part of the strategy it is very difficult to see what the strategy is or you know think into the minds of Mr Modi and the others so I would say from all accounts that this is not a surprising decision they purposely did not want to disclose this before the elections because they thought the liberal reaction the reaction of a number of people who are sort of middle-roaders who might vote for Modi because of the development plank in spite of his communal rhetoric that they would then think no this is real and therefore Modi represents a certain kind of threat to the secular fabric of the country a lot of the people who voted for Modi think that he's a doer he's a go-getter that he might have demonetized the currency note strongly but doesn't matter at least could execute something so there is this aura of a doer that Modi has which people believe then should be supported in the hope that India will have a better future I think they a lot of them would have felt that no if Aditya Nath is going to be the chief minister that that is not what would happen so I think that was the reason they did not really declare his name beforehand but in essence it does not seem to me that this was something which was not calculated beforehand and also they were talking about different OBC sections being given a part of the pie and therefore not to declare a Thakur Apakash chief minister could also be a way of keeping certain OBC section with them so we still have two years almost two years of Modi government and now five years of Aditya Nath government do you think communal is resistance to communalism will build up in our country I think the three kinds of resistance we need one is the secular democratic resistance which has to be built because this is not simply another political party it's really an attack on what this country stood for in 1947 when we had independence a secular democratic republic how secular how democratic we can still discuss but there's no question the intent of the people and the intent of the leadership at that point of time was to build a secular democratic nation so that's one which needs to be protected at the whole bunch of people who may not agree with this or that political party but they will agree with the secular democratic content of a politics who need to be brought together second is a very important part is a cultural resistance that what we are seeing is not just simply attack on politics it's not an attack on the constitution but it's an attack on the way we live the way we want to express ourselves what we eat what we wear what we can do what women can do what Dalits positions in society should be that they are full citizens of this country and cannot be oppressed anymore so all those assertions are going to be under attack so we need a cultural resistance to be built up which unites people and of course overall we need the political resistance to be built up irrespective of the agenda we may have to protect these values and bring everybody together I I do not think India can be turned into a kind of shall we say Hindutva fortress as Mr. Adityanath or other communal figures would like it to be I don't think hate can win for long and therefore I do believe the resistance is going to spring up whether it leads to a different results in 2019 we have to see but I do not think this can go on forever this is an unstable short-term victory which cannot be sustained this is all the time we have today at newsleth thank you so much for joining us


Welcome to my channel and welcome to another comic book video. And just to let you know, we're live streaming this at the same time as well. And what I plan to do for this live stream is to do a live stream of us just listing stuff on eBay. I was going to go through my collection, put some stuff on eBay to sell to get a revenue stream coming in so I can buy some equipment and do an upgraded system so we can create more content and whatnot, right? As well as putting on some of my mermaid comics on eBay because people were asking me where they can get some of those comics and they're hard to find, right? Putting them on eBay and whatnot. I wasn't organized enough to do that. So what I was able to do for this stream is I have some stacks of stuff here I want to show you. I want to show you what I've been reading for the last few months. And if you recall, we put out videos before where basically right now I'm just going through reader copies, dollar or less comics I've been buying either in the dollar bins on eBay or like sale $1 stuff reprints that some publishers have been putting out, right? So we put out a couple of videos at least of what I've been reading, what kind of mode I've been in regards to reading comic books. And I'm still in that mode. So I'm just reading random comics. And what we're going to do is I'm going to here's the stack. Here's the stack. Okay, I'm going to show you speedy goes Alice wise what I've been reading. Okay, I also brought out the comics that I picked up this week. So I'm going to show you what I've been pulling this week. And I have last weeks as well. And I have a box with some other weeks just in the last month or a couple of months, just filling up a short box, right? So I have some of the more recent comics that I'm pulling. I have a stack of comics that are the stack of comics that are my to read list, right? Which are basically $1 stuff, same as what I've shown you here. I have one toy here that I want to show you. I don't usually buy toys, toys, but I have one toy here that I like to show you. And people have been asking me how I make decisions of what to buy and what not. And usually it's just scanning the racks. And that's what I do every week. I go there, I get my pull list and I scan the racks to see what catches my eye. And depending on my budget, sometimes I don't buy anything. Sometimes if I'm on really tight budget, I just pick up my pull list and I don't even go to the racks. So I'm not even tempted to buy anything, really, right? If I'm on a very tight budget. But if I have a little bit of budget, I go and scan the racks. And I also go through the catalogs that is sent out to comic book stores on a monthly basis by DC Marvel, as well as the distributor, the monopoly control distributor, where other independent, not the big two publishers are listing their products, okay? And I go through the catalogs, just browsing. And if I see anything, I rip out the pages and I go, you know, if I think I have the money, I have the budget at the end of the month, you have to give your orders every month.  That's what we've got planned for today. That's my grand intro to this video, okay? Aside from that, we have chat going. So I might, you know, go on tangents and start answering some questions and whatnot if there's chat questions coming up. But what I'd like to do is just show you what I've been reading so far, okay? And it's, again, it's a stack this big. I don't know, this is like probably two or three months of just random readings, right? Never do a list, okay? Take a look at this. And this is sort of in order. They're basically in order of what I've read, right? So I have the stack sitting in a corner in my space, right? And I have another stack, which is like, it's already maxed out to the top. It's like huge, right? So I have the stack sitting there. As soon as I finish one comic and I just add to the stack and it slowly grows, right? So the order that we're going to go through it is what I've read most recently, okay? And what's been going on is Marvel has been putting out stuff that are basically sort of reprints of things that they have printed in the past, right? And they reintroduced Conan the Barbarian, right? And as you know, I love Conan. Conan, Savage Sword of Conan is one of my favorite series of all time. Amazing comic books, right? And because they were doing a push because they got the rights back from Dark Horse for Conan the Barbarian or Conan, right? What they were doing is reprinting $1 issues for some of the key titles. And this one was fantastic. This one, let me show you this one. This one blew me away. You know, I'm reading it and the artist's very and the writer's very for each one. This one is, who did this one? This one is by James C. Osley and John Bushima that the artwork for, right? But for example, at the end of this, I hadn't read this original, right? At the end of this, we get the first appearance, I believe it's the first appearance, okay, of the devourer of souls. And this character is phenomenal. Really, I wasn't expecting it. I don't know if this is the first appearance or not. I haven't looked it up online because I believe there's a time where he dies as well, where I might have read a dying issue of him as well. But I remember reading this character in Savage Sword of Conan and I've read the story with him, like at least three times, three or four times, where he partners up with Conan as well. Initially, he tries to kill out when he partners up with Conan. They go after wizards and stuff like that. So these are the type of issues, comics that Marvel has been reprinting. And DC Comics did it for a while and Valiant is just about to start. It's been appearing in some of the previous order forms, right? Hey, Chichou, I was wondering, so I'm just going to flip through, let you see what I've been reading like that. And I'm going to read some of the comics that are being posted during the live. Hey, Chichou, I was wondering if you are interested in buying my pre and post... No, brother. The conversations. That is brother. But if you have pre and post Silver Age comics, now those would be. There's some fantastic comics there. This was hilarious. This one. We're Savage Sword of Conan. Where Conan gets transported, teleported into the future. Nice issue. It was a fun issue. I want whatever diet Conan was on. Conan, Robert E. Howard, I guess, that's the diet he was on. He created an amazing character. But Conan is mainly meat. And some of it raw, right? This one slipped in there. This one was hanging around and just flipped through it, right? Eggs and oatmeal, my friend. And my quinoa gains, our man. And this is, so those were the conas. And I have a whole bunch of other conas that I got to read, right? And they were doing a huge push for Luke Cage for season two on Netflix that was coming out. Like a power man. Thanks, Index. Taking care of business. Personally, I'd tie them out for life. Eggs and oatmeal is fantastic gains at home. And oatmeal, preferably with fresh fruit, right? And one thing that was going on, there's a lot of Avengers of Fantastic Four because we're doing a push for Fantastic Four series being released as well, right? So I've been reading a lot of the Fantastic Four as well. A lot of Kirby stuff. As well as they were doing a push for What If. So a lot of What If dollar ones. Spider-Man. This was fun. And I always, every first weekend in May, first Saturday in May, is free comic book day. So during free comic book day, I pick up random stuff. And just read through them. This was good. Aaron, Jason Aaron's Thor, right? I haven't read the original series. I have some of the issues, I believe. I might have bought a money bay pretty cheap. I don't know, I can't remember. Batman is always there. Man is always there. This was weird. Let me show you this. This was crazy weird. Exclusive subscribers edition. Real-life superhero comics, right? To learn more. And it was people dressed up in cosplay. Fantastic Four is a Marvel comic. And it was just people dressed up in cosplay and with word bubbles. It was just weird. I wish the story that was being told was better. But they weren't. It was just interesting. OK. Just interesting. So a lot of Fantastic Four. And Ant-Man and Wasp movie was coming out, so Marvel was pushing these guys. This was a fun niche wedding. This was good. This was the first appearance of Iron Fress reprint, of course, right? It was a good read. I liked it. First time main thing and the thing. Meet each other. The thing is, I swear, the thing is old school. Are there valiant? One of the questions index is asking, are there valiant reprints like this? Valiant is just in the previews. They're starting to release $1 issues. OK. I've seen it in this previews in the most recent one for March. And I believe it was present in the previous two months as well. So valiant is going to start releasing them as well, which is cool, which is what's needed. Image does as well, but they haven't released one for a while now, the $1 issues. And I was reading all the image ones as well. So it's a great deal for a dollar, right? This was a fun read. Good read. I didn't pick this up when it was first coming out. Nice. Thank you, top fiver. Nice. And I wasn't picking this up. I didn't pick this up. I remember picking up on the racks, flippering it, going, oh, the artwork's cool. But I was in budget. So I was limited on what I was buying and I put it back. I should have bought it. It's going for a fair bit of price now. Halblazer, and those were the Halloween special comics that they came out. This one, Halblazer, always worth reading. Always worth reading. Punisher Max. This is a great Punisher series. Garth Genesis, Punisher Max. I've read some of it. Fantastic. True Bleers, Fantastic Four. I think I've read all the Fantastic Four stuff. Fun reads. Lady Mechanica, I love the artwork. The world, the universe they've built? Not bad. Pretty good. I don't follow the series, but I've read some of these random alphanons. It hasn't grabbed me, but I can appreciate it. Steampunk, basically. Okay. Very cool Steampunk. Hello, Fast Car. How are you doing? Like, the artwork's really good. Take a look at this. Let me put this stack down. All right, take a look at that. The artwork's fantastic for it. Makes me think of a day of that aesthetic, yeah. Hi, can you, hi, can you shout? No, I'm sorry. I don't do any shout outs anymore. People were coming in and giving names that were meant something else, so I stopped doing it. Punisher Ward Journal. Nice series. I read this series pretty deep. Somewhat, anyway. I don't remember much of it, but it was fun. Artwork looks amazing for Lady Mechanica, really. And who's the artist for it? It's the people that, it's their own creation. Oh, there we go. Da, da, da, da. Created by Joe Benetz. Penciled by Joe Benetz and Martin Montel. Story by Joe Benetz and M.M. Chin. Okay? I mean, look at this. Beautiful artwork. Beautiful coloring, right? Fantastic, really. It's very nice, very nice. This was, I like this one. Here, let me show you why. This is a Superior Spinal Man Doc Ock taken over Peter Parker's body, right? And this is the last panel? No, it wasn't the last panel. Oh, yeah. It must be here. I think it was this one. Oh, maybe it wasn't this one. It's where Peter Parker punches Black Hat. Was it this one or a different one? It might be a different one. Okay? It was fun. But this was good. Artwork was good. Okay? And it was a fun story. I got a few more search-taking vinyl pieces recently. Empty walls, multi-colored, seven-inch. Nice. For $11. And it's elected that symphony album for $60. Wow, that thing's going expensive, hey? Also, I love the two romance comic readings. You put those, yeah, those romance comic readings. Man, I was gonna spend more time adding more information in the edits. It was just becoming too much, right? The romance comics were fantastic. I'm glad you liked. I'm glad you like Fast Car. There's some of my favorite videos to make those readings. I'm gonna release the Gene Kelly interview solo tomorrow, just the 16 minutes of it. This was fun. What if Craven had killed Spider-Man, right? Fun read, fun read. Who did the story for it? Roy Thomas, no. Story and Pencils by Richard Howell. Inks by Mary Severn. It was a fun read. Craven dancing over Spider-Man. It's grave, right, basically. $60 was a fair price for it to be honest. Wow, cool. They usually go for 80. It's pretty rare, wow. I gotta get into album collecting, right? Yeah, that interview was definitely cool. I was watching it last night, nice, nice. Gene Kelly and I watched the Shadow Dance from that movie. The Gene Kelly was in the 1944 movie. That Shadow Dance. Once you hear that, his story behind it, it was amazing. It was amazing watching it. Legion, Legion. I can't wait for the last season of Legion to start. Legion series has been phenomenal. One of the best comic book adaptations into film, TV, or movies ever. Phenomenal. The Infinity Gauntlets.  Good read. The vinyl grading system is a lot more simple than comic book, comic grading. I bet it is. The comic grading is insane. It's ridiculous. Really, it's ridiculous. Like, I just grade on what I think it is. I don't think I grade it according to what the grading companies grade them at. First appearance of Punisher. Reprint, of course, from Amazing Spider-Man 121. 129. This was good. The artwork for it, I believe, was pretty cool. It was fun artwork. Bubbly, bubbly artwork. The story dark, heavy. But vinyl grading usually goes poor, fair, good. Good plus, very good, very good plus. Near mint and mint. Oh, it's almost like the comic book rating. That's a couple of variations, but that's the standard, cool. Punisher. The first Punisher series, the mini series. This was fun. The covers were fantastic for these. The artwork, not bad. Like the dead, great album, great album. Here's the rest of what I've been reading. So I don't know how many comics that is. That's just my, what I've been reading for two, three months, maybe longer, since the last comic book reading thing that we put out. This was not bad. Another Daredevil reprint. Branagh is a block. How are you doing? Welcome to another live stream. Alias, First Appearance of Jessica. Oh no, not the First Appearance of Jessica Jones. First Appearance of Jessica Jones. One of my favorite. I was glad to get the Symphony live album of it. Luke Cage, we did the reading of this one, right? First Appearance of Luke Cage. Good read. I picked up the $1 as well because I wanted it in my reading pile. Just in case, you know, people come if they want to read comics, I just look through that, I ask them, you know, what do you, what do you want to read? What type of comic do you like? And they tell me something and I pull a stack out of the stacks that I've already read and I go, tuk, tuk, tuk, tuk, tuk, here, try this, try this, try this, try this. So we've already done a reading on this. It was a great read, great read. Awesome, glad to have you, Branagh. This was fun. I have this original series, mini series. Kitty Pratt and Wolverine. I feel like a system that I was mentioned on every stream. Probably. I grabbed their level number one reprint as well and we've done a reading of this as well and it was a fantastic reading, right? When I had it in the frame, right? We have a video of this framing their level number one and we also have a video of reading their number one and we read it after taking it out of the frame, right? Fantastic read, important book. One of my favorite videos of yours, the their number one, is it their number one reading? Yeah, it was a great read, really. It was a fantastic read, right? Their level should be valued higher than what it is. It should be valued at the same level as Spider-Man and Fantastic Four, okay? Maybe not Spider-Man, Fantastic Four. Second, I don't know, I love their level. Fantastic Four. This was not bad. Marvel Knights, their level and defenders. It was okay from what I remember. This was a while ago. This was the last one in the pile, right? So I read this like three months ago maybe, three, four months ago, I don't know. The movie didn't do any favors. No, it didn't. The movie would have been like, I'm done watching that guy's movies, nasty. No one liked it. Though it's soundtrack shot the band into fame, did it? Ever essence, did it? I liked, in the their level movie, Bullseye was amazing.  So initially when I watched the first their level movie, I liked it because of Bullseye. He did a, when he did the boop in the airplane with the old lady talking, phenomenal, right? Ben Aff, oh my God. Do you have any and own a most prized comic book, one that you value more than any other in your collection? Tough fiver. Is there a comic book that I value more than any other in my collection? My EC Comics. I've, if you've looked at my videos, there's some videos where you see EC Comics frame. They're all from 1952 and they're horror and science fiction comics. My EC Comics, even though they're not the most expensive, those are the ones that I value a lot. My early valiance as well, I love those, right? But my EC Comics, I value a lot and I promise myself one day, when I have enough funds, I'm gonna try to get a complete EC collection. Let me show you what I have lined up to read. You're gonna watch, oh for sure I'm gonna watch the New Avengers movie. Immortal Hulk on the bandwagon with Immortal Hulk and this is the best defense, the Immortal Hulk, right? I didn't pick this up when it first came out but my comic book store got it on sale for a dollar. They just put it up on the racks for a dollar and I pick up a lot of books like that, right? So I picked this up, it's on my pile to read, okay? So I'll be reading this. In another comic book haul or comic book discussion we had, I showed you guys and I read you guys one page from Magnus Rohr. Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo. Let me catch these, these are slippery, some of these are in bags, right? Good thing they're the dollar stuff. Let me put this guy here, one of the bags, we don't need this one. Bring out these guys, let me put these guys here. Oh, this, this, this. When you put them in bags, they're way more slippery, right? So let me put these guys here, okay, let's do this. Let me read this. Woof. Do the EC go for a premium generally? The flash is the best EC here. The ECs, if they're in mid-condition, there isn't too many in mid-condition, if they're in really good condition, they go, they go for pring, pring price. The lower in mid-grades are pretty cheap as far as I'm concerned. And as far as I'm concerned, if I had the funds, I'd be going out there and buying as many as I could. That's, that's my personal take. Batman nerd, Batman is awesome. I've had a heart attack if my records fell, I know. These are the beauty of all this, these are all the dollar ones. So these are all my reading coffees, right? Mostly because of the other characters and his stories. Yeah, the Batman, the reason Batman is so cherished and so loved, it's not because of Batman. Batman's very one-dimensional. It's because of the Batman's foes, right? The evil characters in the Batman books are what make the Batman comic book, right? Batman is very, he's a detective, right? Very regimental, he's not very dynamic. He does, you know, well, he is dynamic, I guess, but he has a personal demon and that's who Batman is. All the other villains in the Batman books, they're all ADD, they're crazy, right? They're some of the best evil characters, okay? Actual favorite superhero. Actual favorite superhero, Spider-Man is amazing. Daredevil is amazing. Bloodshot is amazing. Eternal Warrior is amazing. Exo is amazing. Archer and Armstrong are amazing. Rai is absolutely amazing. Magnus Robot Fighter is amazing. So in a previous video, we did a reading of, one-page reading of Magnus Robot Fighter number 13. This is a series that came out in the early 1990s, right? And I said, oh, you know, I found that one in the dollar bin. It was a great, great Magnus read and I have this one already, but it's buried somewhere in my boxes. So I wanted to continue the story and I found this in the dollar bin so I picked this up again or picked another copy from my reader copy, right? Let me show you these guys. Let me put these guys over here so they don't go flipping down. I love Alfred too. Add a couple of the robins.  The robins are fun. Oh, let me put this in order, this guy. Now, these ones I picked up, I've only read a couple of issues of this series crossed, but I found them in dollar bin and this is crossed 100 and it's by Alan Moore and it's crossed number 100, crossed 100, number two and number two and number four. So I picked these out for a dollar to give them a read, okay? This is for mature readers. Do not get this if you don't like blood, gore, just nastiness, okay? It's not a series that I read, but I figured why not? Okay, in the dollar bin. The normals, I didn't pick this up when I first came out and this is from Aftershock. I don't believe I picked that up, I might have, but I didn't read it. So I'm gonna give it a read. This is the first full appearance of Joker's daughter and it was in dollar bin. So I picked it up, give it a read. I think I've read this. I'm pretty sure I've read this, but I thought I'd have it in a reading pile just in case someone's interested. Okay, backwards, again, Aftershock, dollar, Magnus is really old. I have some in my collecting from the 60s, awesome. Love, Magnus, Robot Fighter, Solar, Torok. They're from Gold Key, right? I believe. Wacky, Raceland. I saw this and I didn't pick it up, but it was on sale for a dollar in the dollar bins, right? Why not? This is number two and here's number one. Some people say Batman can beat Black Panther. I would say, yeah, yeah, Batman has beaten Superman. So given time, if he has time to prepare, Batman can beat anyone. He's like the eternal warrior for Valium. Given time to prepare, the eternal warrior will be able to beat anyone because he's very strategic and does the plannings, right? This is the one. Superior Spider-Man, number 20. I think this is the one where he punches, I'm gonna crack this open. Black Cat in the face, I think. If he does, I'm gonna show it to you. Let's do a quick flip. That cross 100 looks pretty cool. The cross 100 is serious business. If you're okay with really unnecessary tool gore, then you might be into it. Here's, and cross 100 is supposed to be really good. I've read some crossed before. I haven't read the Alan Moore stuff, so I picked this up just to get a feel for it, but I've heard cross is supposed to be, why Alan Moore's supposed to be good. Here's the page. Spider-Man punches, let me bring this up closer. I like that, that was good. I have the first appearance of Black Cat, first and second appearance of Black Cat. Tink, how are you doing? If you base an entire thing on who has beaten who, there's a fan theory that Squirrel Girl is the most powerful character in the Marvel Universe. Think I remember seeing that somewhere. Yeah, someone told me about that. I didn't know about that. And it was actually one of my students told me about that. And they said, oh, Squirrel Girl has beaten Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet. I said, what? And he goes, well, Squirrel Girl, what they do? Now, I didn't notice, I don't read Squirrel Girl. I don't know too much of Squirrel Girl, but my student really liked it. And he said, basically the way it works is they don't show how Squirrel Girl beats them. They just show Squirrel Girl going into the fight and in the next page, they show Squirrel Girl, tri-enfant, right? Which I think is cool, it's fun. Conan the Barbarian. I think this is the first appearance. I think so anyway. We're gonna do a reading of Conan the Barbarian number one, but they put out a $1 issue for it. True believers, print, reprint, right? I have to pick it up, I have to pick it up, right? But we're gonna read the original that I have. We're not gonna read the reprint. We're gonna read the original. We have to, we have to. Because they put out a new series, Savage Sword of Conan and Conan the Barbarian because Marvel got it right. Spider-Man and Miss Marvel doing a push for the Miss Marvel movie, right? So they're releasing a lot of $1 issues. So if you wanna read some, historic, some, oh yeah, this was, this one we already looked at. This was the Hulk, fell down on the piles. We're gonna put it together. But here's one. This is Avengers reprint of Avengers number 10. I have it, it's the first appearance of Rogue. Okay, it's a good read. I read it way, way back in the day, but I don't remember it at all. So I'm gonna read it again. It's my, to read list, Avengers. And if you're into wanting to get some comics, you don't know what to read or what not, and you don't wanna spend the money, then go to your comic book retailer just before a movie comes out or a few weeks before a movie comes out. Right now for Marvel anyway, what they're doing is they're releasing $1 issues promoting a character either because they're releasing a movie or they're releasing comic book series, right? So that's one way to read some of the key historic issues. Captain Marvel. I haven't read, maybe I've read like one or two of the Captain Marvel comics before. I haven't read the rest. So I'm looking forward to reading these. And I don't have these in my collection. I know I don't. I wasn't, I don't think I have anyway. If I did, it's just random buys. I wasn't collecting Marvel. What do you call it? Miss Marvel or Captain Marvel. This I picked up, but I didn't read. Port of Earth and the artwork looks phenomenal for it. Okay. I picked it up because it's sci-fi and whatnot. I wanna crack it open. I wanna show you the artwork for it if I remember correctly anyway. But I picked it up from the dollar bin. I paid full price when it came out, but I picked that up in the dollar bin because I wanna read it and I didn't get a chance to read it. And it's like a mint copy, right? Here's the cover. Looks beautiful. It's from Image Comics. Like the artwork looks fantastic for it. Just alien sci-fi, dark feel to it. I like this kind of, this kind of artwork. So I'm gonna give it a read. I've heard good things about this series. I think it's, I don't know if it's finished or not. I followed it for a few issues. I had it as my poll list and then I took it off. Captain Marvel again. Decree, Skrull War. Fantastic universe, right? So those are what I've been reading and the pile that I have as my two-read list, right? So let me show you what I picked up this week. What I picked up last week, some of it anyway. This week I've really reduced. There's weeks where I'm only getting one comic book or two comic books. This week I ended up getting a fair bit. I went in, scanned the racks, right? And I added a couple of things to my poll list. There's a lot that came out this week. There's a lot that came out. Okay, here, let me show you these. Now what I've, what's happened is I've ran out of boards, just regular size, silvery sized boards. So I haven't been able to bag and board all of them properly for this week's rack anyway. Okay, so I have them in golden each bags and boards and they're open because I wanna switch them up as soon as I get my boards. But I picked up dark red from Aftershock. Okay, let me put these guys here that way. Organize things, put them down properly. Okay, so dark red from Aftershock. Okay, this is a zombie thing. I haven't read it yet. And I picked up two copies, right? My budget this week was a little higher. So I picked up a couple copies. And that's what I do, do with comic books. Sometimes if I have to budget, if I see something that I think is interesting is worth, it might increase in value a little bit. I buy an extra copy or a couple extra copies or something like this, right? And I've done this before collecting for whatever, 25 years or so. And then you sometimes flip them, make a little extra money, support your hobby, right? Invisible Kingdom, Willow Wilson Christian Ward. It's not on my pull list. I just picked it up off the racks. Again, there's a lot of amazing sci-fi being put out. So I'm trying to keep track of it, okay? Rise number one from Skelth Comics. I do try to pick up Skelth Comics books. I think they're doing some amazing work. And they're really good as independent publishers. Okay, more mature. I've added Immortal Hulk to my pull list, okay? These ones that you just saw from this week, I just pulled off the racks, right? Immortal Hulk is on my pull list, okay? I didn't jump on it right away. So I got a chase or I'm buying second prints or whatever it is, right? But for the last couple of months through three months, I've been picking it up. And I went back and I picked up some of the first prints of the earlier ones. But this is Immortal Hulk number 15, Alex Ross cover. I believe this is Alex Ross as well. It must be the same art style. I read a little bit of it, it's fantastic. And here's the variant cover for number 15. This cover is amazing. Fantastic cover, really. What an amazing cover. This is one of the best Hulk covers I've ever seen. Fantastic, like, look at that, right? I like that a lot. I picked up three. To do. That's one of the reasons I don't scan the racks if my budget is very, very low, okay? But what a beautiful cover. Let me take it out of the bag. I show it to you without the glare, okay? Alex Ross's art is some of my favorite, yeah. That Joker in Heart of the artwork is so good, the one that they're dancing.  I wish I had the original with that. I don't have that one. I don't like everything Alex Ross puts out. But some of the covers are just phenomenal. And what I find with Alex Ross is some of his covers are missing the life. Yeah, with Joker in the black tux, yeah. Amazing cover, spot of the amazing cover. I don't have, I don't have. Take a look. But this one has serious motion to it. It's a beautiful cover. Really, Hulk, pure. It's not about his face, it's about his, the way he moves, right? And by all accounts, a lot of people, I loved Dave Kewin, Cowan, Hulk, where he made them beautiful and put them out. Back in the 90s, it was a great run. It was different. But by many people's account, this Immortal Hulk is the best Hulk series that's ever been put out, right? Hey, come on, get in there. Okay, let's put the board in first and then we put the comic. That's the way we usually go. So much easier to do than with the board and the comic together. Here's some more there on my pull list. Okay, and again, the rest of these are all on my pull list. Monstrous, picking it up, picking it up. And I'm picking up the singles, but I'm not reading the singles. I'm waiting for the trades to come out and I'm reading the trades, right? So I'm trade waiting the series to read, but I'm picking up the singles. It has to be done. It's one of the greatest series ever put out. Fantastic, very unique. Amazing artwork, hardcore storytelling, universe building. I'm also picking up Venom. It's on my pull list, okay. I've read some of the issues. I'm not staying up with it, but I've read some of the issues. Great series, great series. Do you own the legendary Schmigel comic with the four smugglers? I don't know that one, Matt. I'm picking up all the valiance. This week was good. Ex-O-Mad of War, really underrated company. Toyoharada, number one, the life of death of Toyoharada. And these are all the pre-order editions. I've asked my colleague, what is the pre-order edition of Toyoharada? Pre-order editions. I've asked my comic bookshop to put the pre-order editions in my box to pick up. Incursion number two. And supposedly the Bloodshot movie is due to be released in 2020. Can't wait, can't wait. Wow, wow, wow. I wonder. I wonder, right? I wonder. That was this week. This was a heavy week for me. I've really cut back in the last four months or so. Here's some stuff. It's either from last week or in the last couple of weeks anyway. Beautiful cover. Amazing Spider-Man. I believe it's amazing Spider-Man anyway. This came out for the February. I think for Valentine's or a few weeks later. So this is in the last month or so. Okay. Venom number 11. The previous to the other one. And this is the Watchman variant. Cool cover. Punchline I've been picking up. I haven't read it yet. I don't know how far I'm gonna continue with it. Yeah, the Spider-Man, Mary Jane, one is cute. I'm assuming you mean that one. Game on home, mom. Deadly class. I've only read a couple of issues way back when it first came out. I haven't read the rest, but I will at some point. And I've watched like three episodes of the series. The TV series has come out. Fantastic TV series. I'm gonna do a binge on it. Livewire number four. Immortal Hulk number 15. Oh, sorry, number 14. The previous one was number 15. So this is last month. Little bird. This one I think I picked up a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful artwork. Skimmed through it. Supergirl 28. Picked it up because of the cover. Beautiful cover. Really. Beautiful cover. Blotch shot. Spirit rising. Also, the Forgotten Queen number one. All that food talk before it got me hungry. Finally having some blueberry yogurt and granola. Nice. That's a good food. Blueberry yogurt and granola. Delicious. I might have some after we finish recording and streaming. Wasted space. I love the artwork for this. I skimmed through the first issue. First couple of issues when it first came out. I didn't read the whole thing. Supergirl's very. But this was a great series. I think this is the last issue. I think I took it off my pull list. I might not have. I think I've kept it on there. I just want to keep it going as far as long as I can. But if I'm not going to read it, if I don't start reading it soon, then I might take it off my pull list. I'm not sure how long it is. I think it's continuing series. You should do a cooking stream sometime again. Those are fun. I plan on that to write. We'll see if I can get it done sooner rather than later. So those are the comics I put out to show you so far, right? What I've been pulling. Now, I have some stuff in boxes, but let's jump over those. What I want to do is I want to show you how I go about adding things to my pull list or giving orders to my comic book store, right? And I'm going to show you what caught my attention. Let me show you this too. What caught my attention. For this month's order that you place in with the comic stores put in and then they get the order like, I guess books come in two months later. But during the last, I'm going to show you a toy that I bought that I especially ordered. And I ordered it through the catalog and I'll show you what the catalog is, right? And what I do is I skim through the catalog and I go through the split up between comic books and then toys and dolls and accessories, right? So sort of a flip catalog, right? And I flip through the comics first and I go through and I rip out pages and decide what I want, right? Or what I might get, okay? And I go through the toys as well, but I never order any toys. I don't buy any toys, okay? I have some toys in my boxes and stuff that I've collected over the years that we use, but I never, I haven't bought a toy for a long time, right? Except for this. I picked this up about a year and a half ago. It's the Green Little Conan movie already. Yeah, Hollywood needs the Green Little Conan movie already agreed. They just put one out, I think a couple of years ago, but it wasn't very good. I watched like 15 minutes. I had to stop. Only for our nonsense. So this is the point and just on that note, top five are Hollywood needs the Green Little Conan movie already, right? This toy I ordered because the TV series came out which I loved. It was half animation, half live action. So you had animation characters interacting with live action and I loved it. It was fantastic, okay? I think they put out eight episodes or 13 episodes, 13 episodes, I believe. And I binged it and I watched it twice, right? But I knew it was gonna be canceled and this was coming, this came out when the show was airing. So I ordered it, right? Because I wanted to have it, okay? And it's Son of Zorn. This is the only toy I've bought in the last two decades. Okay? And it's basically the TV premise was he's like a cartoon character from a world called, I forget where the world is.  And he gets into a relationship with a human being, this woman.   It's basically like seriously, it's like a Conan character but ridiculously over the top. And just humor galore. So I bought this because I wanted it, okay? And he gets a job in an office. Here's the back of it. That's one out of a lot of toy purchase. It is, it is. In like two decades. This is the only toy purchase I've made, right? It's too bad they canceled the series. It was a great series, great series. Unfortunate, I'm unfortunate, so unfortunate, so unfortunate they canceled it. Okay. As far as ordering comic books, let me show you how I go about ordering comic books. Or looking through and checking out what's coming, right? There is basically sort of catalogs. One that DC Comics puts out, right? And they send out to retailers. The distributor sends out to retailers and they place orders of what they want according to what's listed here, right? So I go through those and Marvel does the same thing. Okay. They put out a catalog with the books that they're putting out and retailers have to go through that and order it. And for me, if I have, you know, if you get a box, a pull list with this comic shop that I have a pull list with, they allow you to pick these up for free. Okay. Otherwise they're either free or they charge you like $2 or whatnot. Okay. And the main one is something called Previews, which is this thing. Previews that Diamond Distributed puts out every month. Give it to their retailers and it's a catalog of comic books listed based on the different companies. There are, you know, what the companies are putting out and DC Comics used to be in here and Marvel Comics many moons ago used to be in here, but they separated, right? So DC puts out their own catalog, Marvel puts on their own catalog and everybody else is in here. Valiant, Image, Dark Horse, Aftershock, whoever it might be, right? And they have like, you know, they list like stuff like this, right?  That you fill out, you say how many stuff you need. Now, my comic book store allows me to grab, you know, these things one a month and just go through it and tell them, you know, what I want. And here's Boom, you know, Boom does the same thing.  They don't get as much space, right? So we're dead Sonya. Like, you know, they have smaller space in here, right? Where they list stuff. You have to pay extra to have big pages and whatnot. And, you know, here's some other indies, right? So I go through this catalog. It's fun to do, really. It's fun to do. I go through it and I look at the covers and, you know, if something catches my eye, I read the description, I read to see who the artists are. And I go to certain companies that are listed here because I read everything that they're putting out and if I like something, you know, I note it and what I do is I usually tear out the pages and I use them as bookmarks.  And if I can afford it, I have to budget.  So for this previews, which is, here, let me mark, put this out. And on the other side, it's sort of a flip thing. So, you know, one side, let me show you. One side is comic books. And then on the other side, you read it this way. It's toys and, you know, let me show you. You know, they have the toys listed and, you know, figurines and just different things listed. That's where I found the Zorn stuff, right? But let me show you as far as the comic book goes. This is for the March, 2019.  Just order it, right? This is from Vault Comics. Nathan Gooden and Tim Daniel. And it's, she said, destroy, okay? So this looked interesting. You know, the order I think I have to put it in this week if I decide to take it, you know, order this, put it on my pull list. I might do it, maybe, okay? Here's another one that caught my attention. John Carprinter's Tale of Science Fiction, Surviving Nuclear Attack, right? This thing looked interesting. It's got a little write up down here, what it is. I don't, you know, I don't think my budget allows ordering that one. But we see. And some of these things, like, take a look, they have multiple things listed, right? So sometimes I tear it out and I try to figure out what it is that I wanted to order from that. For this one, what I want to tell my comic book retailer is Alterna Comics basically releases comic books that are $1.50 or $0.99. And I've picked up a fair bit of Alterna in the past. I've added to my pull list. I took it off my pull list because diamond distributors, the comic shop wouldn't be ordering too many, but diamond distributors would send them two copies and both copies of whatever they sent would be damaged. So diamond comics is not handling these smaller publishers, their comic books well. So one time I even had to send the comic back. I said, listen, I can't buy this. The cover was torn, right? And the retailer was like, yeah, of course, this is horrendous. So they sent it back, they ordered another copy and the other copy came in and that was even torn. So I was like, man, very unfortunate that we live in a society where comic books are in the hands of a small, well, relatively small corporation that controls the flow of all the comic books. So if they don't, if the comic book company is not in the good light of this monopoly distributor, if comics aren't handled properly, they don't care, right? Very unfortunate, but I'm going to go back to the retailer and tell them to add all of the alternate comics and alternate comics, there's going to be one, two, three, four, five more, five books they're putting out. It's enlisted in the March, 2019 catalog which it comes out two months later, okay? We see, we see. I tore these out of the DC catalog and the reason I tore these out is because I like the Wonder Woman covers. This is Wonder Woman number 70, okay? Number 70 and Wonder Woman number 71 and I don't have this on my pull list but I want to order these covers. This one looks amazing and this one. We'll see. They're going to have enough issues of that so there shouldn't be a problem grabbing it later. This one, I'm thinking about grabbing as well. Star Blazers, Space Battleship Yamota, 2199, Volume 1 trade paperback. Take a look. I used to watch this religiously when I was a kid, Star Blazers. I used to get up at 6 a.m. in the morning before school and watch it. What an amazing series and one day I'm going to sit down and do a full blown marathon on Star Blazers, maybe this year, okay? One of the greatest animated series ever to come out and I've only read a couple of issues of randoms of Star Blazers' manga. Which one was this one I wanted to get? Oh yeah, Terry Moore, okay? He's putting out a new series called Five Years and it's basically all his characters are going to appear in there. Motor Girl from Stranger In Paradise and Rachel Rising and Echo and stuff, right? So I might be ordering this. I might be picking this up, putting it on my playlist. Looks cool. And Terry Moore is amazing, okay? And I'm thinking about ordering this. Rick and Morty number 50 and there's a five. So this is Rick and Morty number 50 and I don't have Rick and Morty on my pull list but I want to order these five issues. All the covers make one splash page. They connect together, okay? So I might order this. Rick and Morty, one, two, three, four, five, right? And they're all the reprints of the first five issues and Rick and Morty number one, the early issues go for crazy amounts. Rick and Morty number one goes, sells for like $200, okay? And the one and 25 sells for like $1,000 because there weren't that many ordered. I'm pretty sure the orders are pretty high right now but I'm definitely going to be placing the order for this, I'm pretty sure. I think so. The reprint of Rick and Morty number one, two, three, four, five with connecting covers and have those up on a wall somewhere, Frank, possibly. Maybe I'll look at my budget, see if I can do it, okay? And I have, you know, I brought previews from the other. I have the previews from, you know, some of the other months as well, the previous months and, you know, the pages that I tore out that I was thinking of getting. Some I placed, very few. I'm not placing very many of them. So out of the, how many do we have here? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Out of these seven, I'm probably only going to be placing two of them with the retailer, two or three of them with the retailer, right? So I go through another filter of this thing, okay? That's what I wanted to show you guys. People have been asking me what I've been reading, what I've been collecting, what I'm pulling, if I have any recommendations. That's sort of the gist of what I've been doing with the comic books. Aside from some of the trades I've been flipping through and there's a couple of trades I've read, I should have worn that. I should have brought those out as well, but I didn't just to show you what I've been reading. But there's I think like three or four trades I've read, like either OmniBus or Collections that I've read while going through the books that I've showed you that I've read so far, right? So it's not just the floppy, it's the reading copies that I'm reading. I've also been reading some trades and stuff and I have some trades lined up to read as well. And I'll show you those as well as soon as I get into the next trade that we're gonna do. Okay, that's about it. I'm gonna go join chat in the live stream and answering the questions, talk about any of these books or whatever they wanna talk about. And we'll be back with another video, either comic book, ASMR map, cooking live stream or whatever it might be fairly soon. Okay, there's a few videos I've got lined up to do that we are getting done. And we've done some comic book readings right now. We did two love comic book readings that I've posted on and we're gonna take a segment of one of the readings with the Gene Kelly interview. I'm gonna load that on by itself. And there's one more comic book reading we've got lined up to do which is a war comic book on the golden age of comics by request, right? Aside from that, thanks for being here and I'll see you guys in the next video. Okay, bye for now.


Good morning and welcome to CMC markets on Friday the 14th of June and this quick look at the week ahead beginning 17th of June It's been a fairly In different week for equity markets. We still look as if we might finish The week in positive territory, but upside has been tempered somewhat by concerns about China trade It's also been tempered by concerns about rising geopolitical risk in the Arabian Gulf and the attack on The oil tankers in the Straits of Hormuz but despite this and a brief rebound in the oil price in the wake of those attacks oil prices still look as if they're going to finish the week sharply lower and you would have thought that a rising of the temperature in In the Gulf would push oil prices up, but there is concern that Global demand is likely to be much lower than expected and as such I think that appears to be Dominating the price action more than any raising or political risk despite the geopolitical risk despite the fact that the US appears determined to be blaming Iran for the attack on those tankers and Given the fact that tension between the two is unlikely to be dialed down any time soon That is still likely to remain a key concern But if we look at this oil price chart, we can see that unless we get back above This key resistance area here or these highs here around about 65 dollars a barrel The direction of travel notwithstanding any spikes higher Is likely to be towards the downside and if we break below 60 dollars a barrel We could well see further losses. So the key levels on on on Brent crude $65 on the upside $60 on the downside and see how we react around that It's also been a bit strange With respect to further upside in stock markets is the rise in the gold price Because in a risk-on environment gold generally doesn't tend to go up And that's basically what we've seen in the past few days gold prices have gone very well bid on the back of a slightly weaker dollar, but also I think rising perceptions that investors are starting to Price a little bit for a much more turbulent Next few weeks and months the key level I think on gold prices is a series of highs back in 2018 between 1370 or 1380 but I certainly think investors are now starting in or starting out to price in a much more Risk-off scenario when it comes to their asset mix That's also borne out in treasury prices in US Treasury yields US Treasury yields are back down towards the lows as investors start to price in the prospect of two to three bed rate cuts this year and It's on that note that I think we can start to look forward to the next few days because one of the key Items that I'll be paying particular attention to this upcoming week beginning the 17th of June is the Fed rate decision on the 19th of June and while the dollar has been strengthening Pretty much a get across the board against the euro against the pound and against the yen US Treasury yields do appear or bond markets in particular do appear to be pricing in the increasing Prospect that we could see a rate cut not only in September and December, but also one in July if we look at interest rate expectations for the July meeting they are pricing in pretty much a US rate cut as a done deal and 88% probability Well that for me. I think still remains way too overpriced That being said that does appear to be where bond prices Are taking us in terms of what to expect so this week's Fed meeting is going to be very very important In the overall picture and the direction of travel do Fed policy makers Start to dial back market expectations of a Fed rate cut in July because let's face it Just over six months ago Fed officials were talking about the prospect of at least two rate Fed rate rises this year Even after the rise in rates we saw at the December meeting So in the space of six months market expectations have gone from plus two to minus three and I think given the direction of travel for US data That is a really distinct Move from one side of the pendulum to the other and I think the reality is probably somewhere in the middle Even allowing for the week may payrolls report. This is an incredible turnaround unemployment is still at multi-year lows Well wages are growing at three point one percent a year And jobless claims Or be at our five month, you know five week high. They are still at their lowest levels in 40 years So I think the big risk as we head towards the Fed rate decision this week is we could see Fed officials Tempor market expectations a rate cut in July or September will be tantamount to admitting They erred in December and while no one should be afraid to admit a mistake It could do more harm than good if the Fed were to rush into cutting rates So soon after raising them So we could see a significant repricing in the days ahead with respect to the Federal Reserve We've also got a Bank of England rate decision as well so in terms of the key levels on the pound against the dollar as I'm the pantomime of the conservative party leadership contest Gets underway. That's going to be a key. That's going to that could be a key Determinant of where the pound moves with Boris Johnson Taking making the early running in the Conservative Party leadership contest There will be some TV debates on the 18th of June Where basically he could blow up any chance that he hasn't become a Conservative Party leader if he performs particularly badly in them But we also have a Bank of England rate decision Coming up as well And we've heard increasingly loud noises from the Monetary Policy Committee Michael Saunders is warning about the prospect for higher rates As well as the chief economist warning about the prospect for higher rates quite simply Markets don't believe that the Bank of England is serious about the prospect of another rate rise and to be quite honest neither do I I think it's wishful thinking on those two's part when you consider And the GDP contraction that we saw in April. Yes wage growth is 3.4% and that is very good But inflation is starting to edge higher. So I think that could be part and parcel of why Policy makers are guiding towards the prospect of higher rates It's unlikely to happen before the Brexit deadline It's unlikely to happen also if the Federal Reserve Decides that it wants to cut rates or starts to guide towards cutting rates and with the ECB also in dovish mode The Bank of England is not going to be hiking rates if the Fed is cutting and the ECB is cutting and for anyone to suggest Otherwise, I think it's I think it's unlikely to happen We've also got UK inflation data coming out on the 19th as well same day as the Fed Bank of England's on the 20th And we did see a modest uptick in April for CPI That saw an uptick to 2.1% It's a six month high core prices. However still remain below the 2% level And the weaker pound and higher energy prices while not affecting core prices could push headline CP up towards 2.2 But that's still well within the confines of error when it comes to the Bank of England's inflation target also keeping an eye on Germany and France flash PMIs but look just before I get on to them the key level on the cable is 12750 on the upside if we break through there then we can go to 12830 and on the downside. Obviously those support levels at 125 50 so moving on to the PMI numbers Eurodollar still finding the very air very thin above 113 It's unlikely that is we're going to get a significant move above the 200-day moving average that's far on the PMIs Manufacturing activity has been abysmal Particularly in Germany where readings are a multi-year lows Services been slightly better, but not much so but even here It's looking softer than in recent months and with trade war concerns likely to continue to be a worry With the auto-sectoring acting as a significant drag. I think it's unlikely. We're going to see a significant pickup going forward So one 13 and a half on the upside Around 11220 on the downside and obviously the lows that we saw in April and May of 111 But I think the buyer still remains for a lower Euro-dollar also got the Bank of Japan rate decision again here likely to be dovish despite improving Japanese economy 0.6 expansion in Q1 still a lack of inflation which governor Koroda has suggested that We'll keep the bank on a very accommodated mode and he was it was a pains to point out in recent comments that The Bank of Japan has still has significant options when it comes to easing policy further the main corporate story of the week away from all of the macro is Whitbread and Whitbread share price has done fairly well over the course of the last few months The key question I think going forward is now shorn of its cost of coffee chain. It now has to stand or fall By the performance of its premier in hotel brand and here it's struggling a little bit It still has the luxury of a good proportion of the proceeds of 3.9 billion pounds that it got from Coca-Cola It's returning some of that to its shareholders, but it was rather puzzling I think the here and Whitbread CEO Alice and Britain give such a downbeat assessment of the outlook at the end of last year At the end of the last fiscal year the end of Q4 We saw sentiment of business confidence slip back revenue per room decline 4.4% now that could just be nearly a question of lowering the bar when it comes to Q1 I think with an awful lot more people Choosing to stay at home. I think it's incumbent on premier in to really start knocking it out of the park The company still remains on course to boost room capacity by another three to four thousand rooms I think the biggest concern is obviously its German unit which continues to be a little bit of a drag But revenues last year did show a rise of 2.1 percent with underlying profit before tax rising to 438 million pounds So I think what we're looking for here is a continued rise in revenues and a continued rise in profits as more people choose To stay at home other things to keep an eye out for this week It's the slack IPO or direct listing that is due out on the 20th And that should be interesting from an IPO point of view given the fact that Sentiment is now starting to look a little bit weaker And I might write a little something on the slack direct listing later in the week So keep an eye out for that. So that's it for this week. Thank you very much for listening It's Michael Houston talking to you from CMC markets


Clinical terminologies are fundamental to the successful recording of clinical data within electronic health record systems and are important in enabling the sharing of data between systems. An overview of the structure and benefits of the international terminology snowmed CT and the NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices, DM plus D, are described. Also discussed is a history of clinical terminologies used within the NHS. This article was authored by Ian Spires, Joe Goulding and Ian Ariesmith.