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Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Wade Wilson posted:

I kept thinking of some other sci-fi story I read about a guy that was plugged into some kind of war machine, sent out to a remote battlefield to save the world from an incoming alien threat. He succeeded, but the machinery was too badly damaged to return home for his hero's welcome, so the training system built into the ship and the AI that helped him constructed a similar happy ending life for him in the last few minutes he had before his brain died.

Basically what I'm saying is that it isn't a unique thing in any fiction at all and has been done to death, which is probably why there is a god drat Family Guy episode making fun of it.

I believe that was a Neil Gaiman written Matrix short story.

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Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
They attack the Earth. Try to drop the moon on it. Just go with it.

EDIT: Here it is:
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cyberpunk/goliath.shtml

Uthor fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Dec 19, 2011

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
It's explained in Fantastic Four 600 if you're looking for an exact issue.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
His Secret Avengers run is pretty good on average, but there's two amazing issues in there. The Black Widow time travel one was one of my favorite single issues from last year.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

Doktor Sleepless, his flagship with the company, is DOA without any further resolution of the plot.

He said he's hoping to finish it sometime this year:
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=13594

Not holding my breath. He seems uninterested in comics at the moment.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
Nick Dragotta

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
That's really sweet but ... grunge is retro now? Time to throw out my Nirvana t-shirt, I guess. Or at least start wearing it "ironically".

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

Except for whomever she hulk is, Power Ranger villain is not a good look.

Are you dissing Wonder Woman's wedding dress???

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
Are we still doing dog posts? Back story: guy finds a (robot) dog in the bushes and takes him home to fix him.
(read right to left)








Go pet you (robot) dog!

Pluto, volume 4.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

achillesforever6 posted:

Speaking of another Sandman moment I love, the scenes where Lucifer is sitting on an Australian Beach watching the Sunset. Can anyone find those to put up?



Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Daktar posted:

Lucifer, naturally, not sure what issue.

Sandman #23. Mine was Sandman #28. Both collected in Season of Mists.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
I always found this guy kinda sad.





Sandman 23

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.



(thumbnailed because they're a little bit bigger than I normally upload 'cause of the cursive handwriting)

Sandman #28

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.



FF #7

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
Yeah, the first is him thinking about his dead daughter. The second is him imagining the FF kids dying. Once it's all over and the kids are home safe, he has a third "vision" of the tree with nobody standing next to it. I didn't get a scan of that page.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Vicissitude posted:

Well, if it was Thomas, I'm sure he would have just said "son/Bruce". It'd be kind of weird for a father to call his son "Master Bruce". Plus, Alfred has always been calling him Master Bruce.

Pa Kent does call him "Alfred"...

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Len posted:

What would be the best way to get the page where Abel tells Goldie the story of two loving brothers out of an Absolute Sandman and into this thread?

This one?




Sandman #40

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Len posted:

I was thinking the last page of issue 2 but that one works really well for this thread too. It's my fault for not saying which issue I was reading.

That's the scene I was thinking of, but couldn't remember where it was. :/

Setup


And the end of the issue:

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
Cain cares for Abel in his own special way. :3:

(thumbs for spoilers if you haven't read Sandman)





Sandman #70

Oh course, the next issue (hours later in the story).

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Choco1980 posted:

Since we're doing a Cain and Abel dump, would it be appropriate if someone were to post Abel's encounter with The Kindly Ones that eventually lead to that scene from The Wake? Abel's final bit I think is the ultimate descriptor of the first brothers' relationship. I'd say it even would be appropriate in the This Character in Panels thread.



Sandman #66

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
The FF are at Uatu's getting ready to assault Doom's castle.





All FF 14.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

achillesforever6 posted:

You know seeing the amount of Sandman in this thread, no one has posted Fiddler Green's death in the Kindly Ones and his refusal to come back in The Wake


You asked...
(Thumbs for those that haven't read Sandman)



I also liked Marvin's no nonsense.



Both Sandman #70.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
Thor just got done drinking a giant under the table in an elf bar in the middle of a "Fellowship" type hunt for a rogue dark elf that isn't going well (it's Thor, an elf, a dark elf, a giant, a dwarf, and a troll).



Thor: God of Thunder 015

(sorry for the cell phone image quality)

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
I like to think of the blue area of the moon as the place the FF goes to hide out and learn about how baby Watchers are made.
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3505073&userid=99308&perpage=40&pagenumber=2#post421975009

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Avulsion posted:

It's probably cheaper to build a tiny spaceship instead of building a full sized one and shrinking it.

Oh, c'mon, do you really think Reed wouldn't go for the needlessly complicated solution? Hell, he probably built an even tinier ship and made it slightly larger, just to show off.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

DoctorDelaware posted:

I love me some Mitchell Royce, Two-Fisted Editor.

I love how after most of the series of looking like a fool, he has a job to do and just goes out and proves exactly why he's Spider's editor.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Hakkesshu posted:

Wow, I just looked that up and saw that it was written by Mark Millar. I had no idea he was capable of anything resembling subtlety and emotion.

Haha, I told my friend the same thing after reading his copy.

Then I read the newest issue of Kick-rear end...

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Mr Wind Up Bird posted:

Things can be touching without being inspiring. It doesn't hurt to branch out a little from pictures of superman crying.

Hey, guys, I just saw this really moving image. It makes the feels.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
Casey's father likes to get drunk and beat him. Raph is sick of it. Splinter is wise, yet hardcore.












TMNT #13 and 14

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Breetai posted:

How are this book's sales? I'm interested to know what the general audience reaction to it has been.

This page shows 33,000 units for issue #5:
http://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2014/2014-06.html

That's pretty solidly mid-tier, beating out a couple solo X-books and Fantastic Four (?!), losing out to Thor and Moon Knight and Silver Surfer. But rumors are that it's actually outselling the print run in digital sales.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Die Laughing posted:

Lockjaw is a dog according to Tom Brevoort, citing that it'd be creepy as gently caress if he were once sapien. I'll take the editor's word over the website.

Well, it's creepy as gently caress that the Inhumans keep those that don't transform usefully from the mists as slaves in their basement.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
Shmorky









http://butthug.com/post/104982428995/kramps

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Jiro posted:

I haven't caught up on Saga in a while, someone with spoilers?

No spoilers. That page it quite literal.

It's heartbreaking.

It's absolutely nothing what you'd expect.

drat you BKV and Fiona Staples.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

W.T. Fits posted:

Apparently from a series called Common Grounds.

I wouldn't call that volume amazing, but there are definitely great moments.

(It's a series of stories that take place in and around a coffee shop called Common Grounds that is designated neutral ground by heroes and villains.)

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Catfishenfuego posted:

aside from a feeling of odd relief that I'd read literally the worst piece of media on the planet and it was only uphill from here

And then he went on to booby trap a young woman's vagina.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

FilthyImp posted:


But oddly enough the Beyonder does.



http://www.rachelandmiles.com/xmen/?p=2696

EDIT: fine, fine

Uthor fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Feb 15, 2015

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
Saga spoilers.

http://imgur.com/ZKUlGjo
http://imgur.com/i639Yct

Saga 28

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
(I'm sorry for not giving context to the Saga pages. I didn't think. I should have included the page before.)

Hal kept showing off his Martian friend and everyone called him on his bullshit.




JL8 #200
http://jl8comic.tumblr.com/post/119524720491/soundtrack-jl8-200-p-1-10-by-yale-stewart-based

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
drat it, you guys are ruining JL8 for me. I hope no one ruins Cerebus for me!

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Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
Kate Beaton could write a book about a farting pony and I would still read it.

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