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BioTech posted:I bought the omni a few months back and enjoyed it. Grant Morrison wrote about Marshal Law in Supergods, I think it was about how this was the first comic dealing with the perversion of the super hero ideal. It plays with a lot of the sexual background, deviancy, superheroes becoming a fetish for "normals", but none of it feels as immature like Ennis' The Boys did to me. The sex wasn't the focus, but it was an aspect of the stories. There is some Vietnam criticism in there as well, the same Judge Dredd-esque critique on the US that gets posted here every now and then. Our library got the omni. Initially I was expecting it to be a whole lot of "aren't superheroes stupid. Look how stupid they are" kind of parody, but the book has a surprising amount of heart to it. That being said it comes across as much more cynical form of Kingdom Come, or rather Kingdom Come comes up as a much more optimistic Marshal Law.
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willus posted:i really really want to see this As requested: Superman has gone evil and is pretty much in the process of taking over the world, Lex Luthor (who is Supes' friend in the Injustice universe) has created a pill that turns regular people into super humans and Superman is going to give this pill to his army to enforce his rule. Green Arrow and Batman break into the Fortress of Solitude to steal the pill, Arrow accidentally shoots Pa Kent (Superman kidnapped his parents for their own protection after the US tried threatening them to get to Supes) and Superman kills Arrow. Batman escapes with the pill, but Superman follows and beats the poo poo out of him.       
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I love the detail of Alfred's shoe just shattering from kicking Superman's head in, all Arthurian brast blade style.
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Yeah, Alfred's shoe just loving exploding was a great touch. The final line was also a really great  moment.
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Captain Bravo posted:That's Batgirl handing him the pill, right? Also it's Batwoman.
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As said, the last line and the clothing not standing up to the forces at play are both great. It feels weird coming to terms with this being the same comic that used to feel like a rough attempt at setting up the game.
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The best touch is Alfred pausing to clean his hands before picking up Bruce.
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I love a good headbutt, and that panel delivers. Goddamn.
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Found on Imgur. Sensational Spider-Man #31 
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I love how painfully 90s that art is even though it came out in like 2005.
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Say Nothing posted:Found on Imgur. Aunt May is my favorite Lich in comics.
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Say Nothing posted:Found on Imgur.  Holy loving poo poo when did Aunt May turn into the old lady witch from Fables? That was awesome.
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She actually dosed him with sleeping pills and almond flavouring, because she learned that Cyanide tasted of almonds from Murder She Wrote. Aunt May is the maximum old lady and it rules.
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Mr. Maltose posted:She actually dosed him with sleeping pills and almond flavouring, because she learned that Cyanide tasted of almonds from Murder She Wrote. Aunt May is the maximum old lady and it rules. I love that she messed with him by saying it was basically rat poison instead of Ambien.
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Wait... Does being royalty give them different colored blood?
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IndenturedHobo posted:Wait... Does being royalty give them different colored blood? Just a play on the old blue bloods term I imagine.
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K Prime posted:The best touch is Alfred pausing to clean his hands before picking up Bruce. Did they ever say what ended up happening to Alfred? I don't think the game ever addressed it, but I thought he was mentioned as having been killed.
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IndenturedHobo posted:Wait... Does being royalty give them different colored blood? Plus, he's revealed to have killed non-TV-heads also.
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Wade Wilson posted:Did they ever say what ended up happening to Alfred? I don't think the game ever addressed it, but I thought he was mentioned as having been killed. The comic is still on-going. There are a bunch of active heroes to need to disappear by the time the comic catches up to game so I imagine it'll get addressed eventually.
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I wonder if Martian Manhunter will undie by the time the series ends. He's in the game, but only as DLC, and you could argue he's the one from the "good" universe...
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Lurdiak posted:I wonder if Martian Manhunter will undie by the time the series ends. He's in the game, but only as DLC, and you could argue he's the one from the "good" universe...
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redbackground posted:Green Arrow is currently dead in the comic, right? Sooooo he has to come back too? No, he's super-dead in the game, you only play as the good universe version (in story mode).
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Lurdiak posted:I wonder if Martian Manhunter will undie by the time the series ends. He's in the game, but only as DLC, and you could argue he's the one from the "good" universe... He was hanging out in the background of one of the stages before he became DLC.
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Since Scorpion made a cameo in Injustice, I can only hope than means there's a chance that Alfred could be a DLC character in the new Mortal Kombat.
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The MM DLC that added his arcade ending mentions him faking his death or going into hiding as the Atlantean archivist so it doesn't really contradict what we saw in his Year One appearance.
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Vakal posted:Since Scorpion made a cameo in Injustice, I can only hope than means there's a chance that Alfred could be a DLC character in the new Mortal Kombat. I love that Scorpion in Injustice essentially has the same role Kratos had in MK9: angry violent jerk who has no idea how he got here and will use spiked chains to get some answers.
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McSpanky posted:The MM DLC that added his arcade ending mentions him faking his death or going into hiding as the Atlantean archivist so it doesn't really contradict what we saw in his Year One appearance. Exactly. In the comic, he's melted by heat vision and his remains fall into the ocean. His in-game storyline is that he's been living in secret in the form of Aquaman's advisor in Atlantis. It fits pretty well.
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Gavok posted:Exactly. In the comic, he's melted by heat vision and his remains fall into the ocean. His in-game storyline is that he's been living in secret in the form of Aquaman's advisor in Atlantis. It fits pretty well. Yeah, considering the lengths some things had to go to kill J'onn in other stories, a simple heat vision burn isn't going to cut it. Didn't Darkseid have him rendered down on the atomic level as fuel for a reactor or something in one time line because literally nothing else would kill him (and the process took several months or something)?
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Whatever killed all the rest of the Martians must have been pretty awesome then.
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It was, a psychic disease that turned their powers against themselves resulting in immolation. From Martian Manhunter v2 #0 written by John Ostrander with art by Tim Mnadrake.  
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Wade Wilson posted:Yeah, considering the lengths some things had to go to kill J'onn in other stories, a simple heat vision burn isn't going to cut it. In Morrison's Rock of Ages storyline Desaad smashed J'onn atom by atom in a particle accelerator because how else do you torture a shapeshifter? Why the answer isn't More Fire is an exercise for the reader.
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Mr. Maltose posted:In Morrison's Rock of Ages storyline Desaad smashed J'onn atom by atom in a particle accelerator because how else do you torture a shapeshifter? Was that before or after that time J'onn got over his fear of fire and basically rampaged around as a Martian Torch, setting things on fire and beating the poo poo out of the Justice League until they guilt trip him into re-instituting the fear of fire?
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Beforehand. That was the capstone of Joe Kelly's Justice League book, which was after Mark Waid who was after Grant Morrison with a writer or two in between. It was also loving great, but I'm a pretty big Kelly fan.
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Wade Wilson posted:Was that before or after that time J'onn got over his fear of fire and basically rampaged around as a Martian Torch, setting things on fire and beating the poo poo out of the Justice League until they guilt trip him into re-instituting the fear of fire? Wasn't that where it was revealed that Manhunter going nuts was specifically the reason Batman had brought the fireproof Plastic Man into the League?
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Polaron posted:Wasn't that where it was revealed that Manhunter going nuts was specifically the reason Batman had brought the fireproof Plastic Man into the League? It wasn't that he was fireproof. It was that being an inorganic being, he was immune to mind control, plus he was just plain better and mentally quicker when it came to morphing.
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Vengeance of Pandas posted:It was, a psychic disease that turned their powers against themselves resulting in immolation. How do you even burn things on Mars, doesn't the atmosphere have like no oxygen? Heck, I always thought that was why MM was vulnerable to fire, they'd never evolved a defense against it.
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Bakanogami posted:How do you even burn things on Mars, doesn't the atmosphere have like no oxygen? Not anymore!
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I just remembered a scene from... I think it was the Pulse, where Ben Urich has a private conversation with Peter Parker about secret identities. "Peter, I'm an award-winning investigative journalist. You and I have worked together for almost ten years. Frankly, it's a little insulting that you'd think I wouldn't know."
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Bakanogami posted:How do you even burn things on Mars, doesn't the atmosphere have like no oxygen? Earth has always had fire and humans haven't exactly evolved a defense against it.
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