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Ensign_Ricky posted:Hey, Blackest Night was easily one of the better events of the last few years. The saddest statement, if true. But probably not, considering other events in the preceding year included the "New Krypton" run on Superman (which was great until they inevitably hosed it up), Secret Invasion, and Dark Reign - all of which were leagues better than "rainbow emotion police fight ridiculous space zombies". The following year did have the "Grounded" Superman storyline, though, so maybe 2009 was just the beginning of the long downward spiral. Oh, and here's the fridge magnet panel. 
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Nov 3, 2014 07:55
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Knormal posted:So does that mean the fridge was dead too? They killed his girlfriend and his fridge? That's just going too far. Still hilarious.
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Nov 3, 2014 11:49
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:Before it was a meme it was an example of the Comic's Code authority interference What? We're they forbidden from showing corpses so they showed fridges or something? Genuinely interested. I've yet to see the CCA stick it's oar in anything and not have the result be entertaining.
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Oh man, the saddest face.
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Lets recap. A supervillian killed a lantern's(kyle) girlfriend and left her in the fridge for kyle to find when he got home (i forgot who did it) the black ring found dead people close to the lanterns for almost all of their rings. that woman in the fridge being the former love of kyle's life it had an immediate effect in taking him away from the battle.
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If this is an edit, then Private Eye in the 1970s was amazing at photoshop.
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SynthOrange posted:
Wolverine should refrain from making Charlie Brown faces while he's wearing a yellow-and-black-zig-zag shirt.
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Nov 3, 2014 13:25
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KayTee posted:What? We're they forbidden from showing corpses so they showed fridges or something? The original panel had the door open all the way, and showed his girlfriend's whole body. The Code objected, saying it would be too disturbing, so the artist redrew it to only show a few body parts. The result was, it made a lot of readers think she had been chopped up before being stuffed in the fridge, making the panel even more disturbing.
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And yet Kirby could get away with this in 1974.  edit: tables
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Nov 3, 2014 15:26
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Fleshlights are really advanced in the world to come.
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Keromaru5 posted:The result was, it made a lot of readers think she had been chopped up before being stuffed in the fridge, making the panel even more disturbing. I genuinely thought this was canon. CCA track record : unbroken.
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Nov 3, 2014 16:27
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Lobok posted:Wolverine should refrain from making Charlie Brown faces while he's wearing a yellow-and-black-zig-zag shirt.  "I got a lump of adamantium..."
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Nov 3, 2014 16:36
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Uthor posted:And yet Kirby could get away with this in 1974. Ok, so... she is supposed to be a robot, right? And this isn't some Stepford-Wife thing? Fake edit: Looked it up. Not only is she a robot, she's also a bomb! Programmed to 'befriend' people then detonate them. Buddy tries to rescue the one he had begun to befriend, poo poo goes wrong, Shazam! OMAC time. He blows everything up, including the fembots. Is the point of OMAC supposed to be that he's a massive tool, and if they just empowered Buddy without switching off his personality there'd be a much better hero?
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The point of OMAC is that he has the power to fight entire armies. Technology has advanced to the point that if two armies met on the battlefield, they would have enough power to destroy the world. OMAC is sent in to prevent that. Chris Sims says it's Kirby having a new look at the Captain America character for a nuclear age. Also, you have almost enough exclamation points to explain the plot!
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Elfface posted:Ok, so... she is supposed to be a robot, right? And this isn't some Stepford-Wife thing? The idea was that the company that was making the fembots was turning some of them into bombs for assassination purposes. And yes, Buddy's personality gets "turned off" when he becomes Omac, but Buddy is the one who's a massive tool; he can't figure out that Lila is a robot despite the fact that she acts like a total robot and the fact that Buddy works at the factory where they make the Lila fembots. Omac's the one who's actually capable of getting anything done. Omac isn't changed back into Buddy until the next-to-last issue where it's revealed that he doesn't remember being Omac at all, and even then the change was involuntary. Omac is living his own life with no knowledge of Buddy at all, and if Omac never changed back then I guess Buddy would cease to exist. Back then, though, nobody seemed to realize how creepy/horrific that was.
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Almost certainly posted before: Deadpool Team-Up #890 (Machine Man)
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BizarroAzrael posted:Almost certainly posted before: Why didn't they use the Nextwave censoring?
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Yvonmukluk posted:Why didn't they use the Nextwave censoring? Nextwave remains too good for this world.
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VanSandman posted:Because DC has been a vile force of Evil since for like a decade now. I'm a broken record on this but they were soooooooo close to everything being "fixed" at the end of Final Crisis. Morrison left them the perfect set-up for a universe of larger than life heroes who inspired and projected an air of unapologetic optimism in the face of everything dark and horrible.... and then DC started tearing arms off. For me, the last great DC moment was "Darkseid always hated music...", but the one that truly stood out to me was (I think) from that Superman: Beyond 2-parter where one of the characters from the future says that Mandrakk is a living story of the ultimate end, of inevitable death and destruction and entropy, and then,"....but I found a better story" as Superman arrives to save the day 
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Jerusalem posted:I'm a broken record on this but they were soooooooo close to everything being "fixed" at the end of Final Crisis. Morrison left them the perfect set-up for a universe of larger than life heroes who inspired and projected an air of unapologetic optimism in the face of everything dark and horrible.... and then DC started tearing arms off. While i agree with you about the Final Crisis beign the perfect setup for a more fun DCU, DC had been going into the tearing arms off direction since Identity Crisis (with Inifnite Crisis actually being the beginning of that particular bag of fun). The fact that we got Final Crisis as it was was really more of a miracle.
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Hell, a huge part of Infinite Crisis was how Golden Age Superman hated how the DCU had gotten all grimdark and how the heroes were almost as bad as the villains. It was a brief moment of self-awareness that they didn't follow through on.
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DC died the moment they (retcon) raped and killed Sue Dibny as far as I'm concerned. That was probably the single worst idea any writer has ever had.
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Strontosaurus posted:
Seriously? Back in the *real* Stormwatch/Authority stories, Midnighter and Apollo were homosexual lovers, and even got married, IIRC, but holy gently caress, the entire publishing run, across every single separate series, INCLUDING the Kev series', did not have as much 'teh ghey'  as those two pages. And that includes Midnighter shedding MANLY TEARS over Apollo's broken body after the Commander was through with him. 
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Fuego Fish posted:The saddest statement, if true. Catch up? Is this a bad joke about ketchup?
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ImpAtom posted:DC died the moment they (retcon) raped and killed Sue Dibny as far as I'm concerned. That was probably the single worst idea any writer has ever had. Hey someone who agrees. It took until about the time of Countdown before it really sunk in to me that DC was dead though. I clung on to that corpse for a while and poo poo like 52 or the Reyes Blue Beetle kept me optimistic. TheCenturion posted:Seriously? The New 52 takes established characters, removes what little subtlety they ever had, and remakes them into poo poo golems in a vain (and probably successful) attempt to pander to the lowest possible common denominator in existence? You don't say... mind the walrus fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Nov 4, 2014 |
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IamnotJoe posted:Catch up? Is this a bad joke about ketchup?
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Lobok posted:Wolverine should refrain from making Charlie Brown faces while he's wearing a yellow-and-black-zig-zag shirt. He'll never get to kiss the red-haired girl, will he? 
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davidspackage posted:He'll never get to kiss the red-haired girl, will he? Man, you'd think it'd be easier to give some bad news to Wolverine.
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davidspackage posted:He'll never get to kiss the red-haired girl, will he? 
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Remember when Wolverine was like 5'5"? Good times.
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He got a quarter inch taller every time he died and defeated death to come back.
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Jackman has been better than I expected, but the height thing has always bugged me. Up until recently, being a runt has always been such a central part of the character. Even though he would have been a little too tall at 5'8", I'm a firm believer that in Cape Fear-shape & age Robert DeNiro would have been the perfect casting for Wolverine. 
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Dillbag posted:Jackman has been better than I expected, but the height thing has always bugged me. Up until recently, being a runt has always been such a central part of the character. The early movies used a lot of camera tricks to make him look shorter and it worked fine. Did they stop doing that?
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  Injustice Year Three #6 Out of his depth Batman is one of my favourite characters.
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Cassa posted:
Yet still polite enough to actually hang up the sign for her. Or would that be rude enough just to spite Constantine? Both are fine.
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Cassa posted:Out of his depth Batman is one of my favourite characters. Very rare to see too, since his Holiness the Uber-Bat is always going to be en vogue.
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Section Z posted:Yet still polite enough to actually hang up the sign for her. Well, she did say please.
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