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Schneider Heim posted:Has Reed Richards ever been a herald of Galactus? What Ifs count. Then yes. There was a What If where the Surfer didn't rebel against Galactus. At the end, the Earth was destroyed, Surfer was dead somehow, and the FF (and the Wasp) became Galactus's new heralds. E: I'm just going to stop answering questions.
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Angry Walrus posted:Any good comics podcasts to look out for? I'm looking for more in the conversational vein, rather than interview-types like Kieron Gillen's where he just interviews creators about their latest product. I enjoy Rachel & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, though that's obviously very focused on a particular corner of the universe; it's probably the only one I would make a point of listening to every week. I sometimes listen to War Rocket Ajax (featuring Chris Sims and Matt Wilson of Comics Alliance fame) but it doesn't always concentrate entirely on comics. Aside from that, I'm quite curious to hear any other recommendations myself.
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Oct 24, 2014 13:42
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Cape Crisis is the best comics podcast. Comic Geek Speak can be wonderfully informative and is hosted by incredibly nice, great guys (whom I've met at their own con), but MAN is it boring like 90% of the time. Their Spotlight On episodes are great. Major Spoilers suffers from the same problems as CGS. Most comic podcasts do, in fact. Except Cape Crisis.
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Oct 24, 2014 13:56
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Any podcast, books, our interviews that go into the editorial process behind comics? Mainly interested in big two and shared world stuff, how they figure it what to focus on and managing the writers and artists
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Oct 24, 2014 14:04
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Metal Loaf posted:I enjoy Rachel & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, though that's obviously very focused on a particular corner of the universe; it's probably the only one I would make a point of listening to every week. I sometimes listen to War Rocket Ajax (featuring Chris Sims and Matt Wilson of Comics Alliance fame) but it doesn't always concentrate entirely on comics. Those are the only two that I only listen to, also, and WRA only because of Every Story Ever. I feel like I should pimp the podcast my friend appears on frequently, though I've only listened to one or two episodes and they didn't really grab my attention. I know they have Skottie Young on there pretty frequently. http://comicnerdsunite.com/wp/ I think I have a problem with podcasts talking about such a visual medium, though I don't have much of an issue listening to podcasts about movies.
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Oct 24, 2014 14:56
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House to Astonish is my hands-down favorite, but unfortunately they've been on hiatus since June. Paul O'Brien's acerbic commentary combined with Al Kennedy's enthusiasm gives an appropriately skeptical tone when it comes to comics news, but also with a genuine love of the medium to balance it out.
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Oct 24, 2014 15:01
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At the beginning of Hickman's Avengers, that's Ock-Spidey being a dick, yeah?
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Oct 24, 2014 15:36
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Beerdeer posted:At the beginning of Hickman's Avengers, that's Ock-Spidey being a dick, yeah?
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Oct 24, 2014 15:37
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"I spit in that."
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Oct 24, 2014 16:39
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http://wordballoon.com is the true jam if you like creator interviews.
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Oct 24, 2014 21:16
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Have Alfred and Commissioner Gorden ever had a team-up issue?
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Why do so many of the early Spider-Man comics characters have cornrows? Off the top of my head, Green Goblin, Harry Osborne, and Sandman have the same weirdo haircut. Did 60s white guys really ever wear their hair that way, or was it just easy to draw? And in the case of Norman and Harry, did Ditko think that haircuts were heritable?
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Oct 25, 2014 23:53
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Jack Gladney posted:Why do so many of the early Spider-Man comics characters have cornrows? Off the top of my head, Green Goblin, Harry Osborne, and Sandman have the same weirdo haircut. Did 60s white guys really ever wear their hair that way, or was it just easy to draw? And in the case of Norman and Harry, did Ditko think that haircuts were heritable? In Chapter One John Byrne said that Sandman and the Osbornes were related due to the haircut
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Oct 25, 2014 23:59
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bobkatt013 posted:In Chapter One John Byrne said that Sandman and the Osbornes were related due to the haircut Did he also want to make Magneto related to Uncle Ben and the guy who molested Spider-Man as a kid?
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Oct 26, 2014 00:25
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Jack Gladney posted:Why do so many of the early Spider-Man comics characters have cornrows? Off the top of my head, Green Goblin, Harry Osborne, and Sandman have the same weirdo haircut. Did 60s white guys really ever wear their hair that way, or was it just easy to draw? And in the case of Norman and Harry, did Ditko think that haircuts were heritable? That was certainly a hairstyle used by guys with tightly-curled hair. And haircuts aren't heritable, but the nature of the hair can be.
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Oct 26, 2014 01:07
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Jack Gladney posted:Why do so many of the early Spider-Man comics characters have cornrows? Off the top of my head, Green Goblin, Harry Osborne, and Sandman have the same weirdo haircut. Did 60s white guys really ever wear their hair that way, or was it just easy to draw? And in the case of Norman and Harry, did Ditko think that haircuts were heritable? It's combed back wavey hair, not cornrows.
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Oct 26, 2014 10:32
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There's a picture of a dude who has Osborne hair in real life that I've seen posted here a couple times, I think he's a state legislator or city council member somewhere. If someone has it, it helped me realize what that hair must look like in real life.
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Oct 26, 2014 11:18
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 The "weird" hair thing doesn't help that Osborn was effectively Tommy Lee Jones with corn rows for a while.
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Oct 26, 2014 12:17
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Waterhaul posted:It's combed back wavey hair, not cornrows. Mind blown. It's just brill-creamed curly hair, like dudes from the 40's:  This is crazier than when I learned what Jughead's hat was, or the dots on Dagwood's chest.
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Oct 26, 2014 12:27
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Jack Gladney posted:Mind blown. It's just brill-creamed curly hair, like dudes from the 40's: Do tell.
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Oct 26, 2014 16:14
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Jack Gladney posted:This is crazier than when I learned what Jughead's hat was, or the dots on Dagwood's chest.
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Oct 26, 2014 16:27
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Soonmot posted:Do tell. Jughead's hat is a thing kids used to do, they would take an old fedora that their dads couldn't use anymore, cut up the brim in a jagged line and then use pins to stick it up in a crown shape.
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muscles like this? posted:Jughead's hat is a thing kids used to do, they would take an old fedora that their dads couldn't use anymore, cut up the brim in a jagged line and then use pins to stick it up in a crown shape. Huh, I thought someone actually made those hats back in the 40's, but that might have come after the character.
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Oct 26, 2014 19:48
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Soonmot posted:Do tell. Sorry. They're big buttons left over from when he wore a tuxedo in the Depression. He got changed to an office drone in the 40s, but his cummerbund and buttons stayed because nobody knew what they were supposed to be.
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Oct 26, 2014 20:33
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redbackground posted:There's a really good Ostrander/Mandrake run. Sorry this is old, but I'm catching up on the thread. My wife loves Martian Manhunter, but the Essentials (or equivalent) I got her she found pretty boring. Is the Ostrander run above collected in trades?
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A Strange Aeon posted:Sorry this is old, but I'm catching up on the thread.
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A Strange Aeon posted:Sorry this is old, but I'm catching up on the thread. They recently started issuing new collections of his run. One came out a few months ago, the second is hitting in Dec.
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What was the name of the issues where The Flash's Rogues Gallery comes back to find they've been replaced and it doesn't work out to well for the new guys or "pretenders" , I remeber Captain Cold particularly being badass.
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Hollismason posted:What was the name of the issues where The Flash's Rogues Gallery comes back to find they've been replaced and it doesn't work out to well for the new guys or "pretenders" , I remeber Captain Cold particularly being badass. Rogue's Revenge, part of Final Crisis
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There's also an issue of the Flash where Cold confronts the current user of his tech going by the name Chillblaine. Len deals with him in a pretty disturbing way.
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Rhyno posted:There's also an issue of the Flash where Cold confronts the current user of his tech going by the name Chillblaine. Len deals with him in a pretty disturbing way. Its issue Flash 182. He was going after him since he killed his sister
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StumblyWumbly posted:Any podcast, books, our interviews that go into the editorial process behind comics? Mainly interested in big two and shared world stuff, how they figure it what to focus on and managing the writers and artists Definitely some episodes of Inkstuds you should check out, especially the recent Bob Schreck interview. Did nobody say Wait, What? I really like Wait, What?
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I really wanted to like Wait, What? but between the genuinely cool comic discussions they'll go off on like a twenty-minute discussion of their favorite waffle house and I just ran out of patience because A) it was pretty boring and B) it kept making me hungry for waffles.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:I really wanted to like Wait, What? but between the genuinely cool comic discussions they'll go off on like a twenty-minute discussion of their favorite waffle house and I just ran out of patience because A) it was pretty boring and B) it kept making me hungry for waffles. The Portland Problem. Too many Waffle Windows.
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What do people get out of podcasts? I'm not being obtuse, there's a few non-comics ones I listen to, but my wife wants to start one. Most of the comics ones I've seen are multi hour affairs. They all tend to get rambly and off topic. The podcasts I like are generally shorter, less than an hour at least. They usually end up off topic too, but get back on track quicker.
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Unbelievably Fat Man posted:What do people get out of podcasts? I'm not being obtuse, there's a few non-comics ones I listen to, but my wife wants to start one. I initially took your question as being broader than I think you mean. The podcasts I like tend to be tightly focused. I don't like the "three to four nerds go on forever about their topic" casts at all; those kinds of shows are bad enough when they're run by actually entertaining people. I want a show to be about something more than catching up on the hosts lives over the past week. Whether that's by having a format that keeps things moving and on track or by using narrow topics to reign things in. Thirty minutes to an hour seems to me to be the best length of a podcast since it'll generally fit nicely into your life. And I know this is just me, but I hate the "what happened this week in our nerd niche" kind of podcast.
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30-60 minutes, tight focus. I don't give a poo poo about whatever local BS you're going on about and will stop listening. Have a topic, stick to that topic. Then again, the only podcasts I listen to are Star Talk, Nightvale, Thrilling Adventure Hour and, sometimes, How Did This Get Made.
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Oct 31, 2014 09:51
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That jibes pretty exactly with what I was thinking.
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I'm trying to work my way through Hickman's Avengers/New Avengers and have made it to the Prelude to Infinity trade. While I like the New Avengers quite a bit, I find Avengers to be a total slog. Does it get better and should I continue? If I'm not feelin' it at this point, should I just walk away?
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I walked away from it, though I peeked at Avengers during Original Sin, and felt absolutely validated in walking away. It just strikes me as a terrible example of the nerd tendency to mistake worldbuilding for storytelling.
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