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If the Ruin the Moment thread was still active, I would have changed that to "WITNESS ME!" a while back.
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Milotic posted:Avengers #502. Background: It has been the worst day in the Avengers' history. Jack of Hearts (who?) is dead, the non-proper Ant-man is dead, Vision is dead (but he's a robot). A bunch of Avengers have gathered to mourn, and then the Kree attack. It's easy to say with hindsight that this all worked out for the best, and it was hard for me to see what people were so upset about at the time because I was a neophyte when this was published, but with a decade-plus of knowledge I totally get why this pissed old Avengers fans off so hardcore.
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ManiacClown posted:Truth. Any badass-wannabe can give a beating. It's a true badass who's willing to take one he knows is coming, especially when it's for a good cause. EDIT: I have some thoughts about why it's an especially effective chapter. Zero_Tactility fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Jul 15, 2015 |
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Jul 15, 2015 02:50
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mind the walrus posted:It's easy to say with hindsight that this all worked out for the best, and it was hard for me to see what people were so upset about at the time because I was a neophyte when this was published, but with a decade-plus of knowledge I totally get why this pissed old Avengers fans off so hardcore. I still don't care for it. And I thought Jack of Hearts was kind of interesting; wish he hadn't been wiped out like that. 
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e: whoops. Replied before I saw that Deadpool told everyone to stop talking about Man of Steel.
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Jul 15, 2015 11:24
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It's still kind of funny to me that we're all listening to a guy named Deadpool.
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Godzilla in Hell is the best comic ever made. 
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mind the walrus posted:It's easy to say with hindsight that this all worked out for the best, and it was hard for me to see what people were so upset about at the time because I was a neophyte when this was published, but with a decade-plus of knowledge I totally get why this pissed old Avengers fans off so hardcore. maybe hawkeye should have taken off his quiver of arrows instead of grabbing a random kree guy and turning himself into into a suicide bomb. I really, really did not like Bendis's avengers stuff. Although adding spidey was a good move.
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Jul 15, 2015 19:57
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GorfZaplen posted:Godzilla in Hell is the best comic ever made. Those are 7 of the 10 words in the entire issue. It loving owns and I can't wait to see what the other teams do with the deeper layers of hell.
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Jul 15, 2015 20:03
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redbackground posted:Lust? It's the first circle (not counting Limbo).
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Drifter posted:I swear to god none of you complaining about this stuff have even watched the movie. This. I keep seeing the same stupid complaints about Man of Steel.
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I'm the disco ball out of nowhere in the bottom left
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Jul 15, 2015 21:20
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GorfZaplen posted:Godzilla in Hell is the best comic ever made. That's by Stokoe, right? Re: badass panels, I want more loving Orc Stain, dammit.
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Jul 15, 2015 23:31
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Hawkeye 22 is out. How's Kate doing? (timg for mild spoilers)     She seems to have things well in hand. What about Clint?   Little worse for wear, but alright. What about everyone else?  Hawkeye 22
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I thought it was a toothpick at first until I looked at the panels again and saw it was a collar stay. That's incredible.
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That was an amazing end to a great run.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:I thought it was a toothpick at first until I looked at the panels again and saw it was a collar stay. That's incredible. That's like the longest setup in comics history. They introduced Clint's collar stays what, 2 years ago?
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I just keep comparing that to "YOU FORGOT TO REMOVE MY FINGERNAILS DUMMY" and this is so, so much better.
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Nilbop posted:That's like the longest setup in comics history. They introduced Clint's collar stays what, 2 years ago? To be fair, one of those years was just waiting between issues
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The art in that is incredible.
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Nevvy Z posted:I just keep comparing that to "YOU FORGOT TO REMOVE MY FINGERNAILS DUMMY" and this is so, so much better. For the sake of balance  Ultimates 2 #10, apparently.
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God, when I was twelve that would have been so badass.
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That never made sense to me even as a kid, as well as Bullseye somehow being able to launch a drinking straw through someone's skin. Sure it's accurate, but that doesn't mean it's suddenly forceful. "Last one goes between your eyeballs" and what? Get blood on my forehead?
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I've always hated that scene too. Is there some sort of consensus as to what exactly he's doing with his fingernails? I see all those guys grabbing their throats and choking and part of me reads it as "Hawkeye fires his fingernails into their necks like tiny chitinous knives" which is dumb but vaguely understandable in a comic book physics sort of way, but there's another part of me that reads it as "Hawkeye fires his fingernails down their throats and they start choking on them" which is even dumber. Just how dumb is this scene? ecavalli fucked around with this message at 08:01 on Jul 16, 2015 |
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Jul 16, 2015 07:59
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Uthor posted:Hawkeye 22 That fell flat for me because I never bought track suit bros or mime man as an actual threat. Every victory they chalked up felt like blatant authorial fiat to me instead of feeling earned by the story.
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Re: the fingernail thing, it's basically a comics version of CRITICAL HIT!! In a way I respect it because it's an attempt to make Hawkeye badass aside from just being a gimmick dude with a gimmick bow, but yes, the modern version does it infinitely better (tbh like almost everything in the Ultimate line that I've ever seen).
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Flesh Forge posted:Re: the fingernail thing, it's basically a comics version of CRITICAL HIT!! In a way I respect it because it's an attempt to make Hawkeye badass aside from just being a gimmick dude with a gimmick bow, but yes, the modern version does it infinitely better (tbh like almost everything in the Ultimate line that I've ever seen). The Ultimate line had a purpose...to be the "shocking", "anything goes" line when the main line was pretty conservative. But the main line's pretty out there now, and the Ultimate line has run out of good ideas, so it was time to put 'em down. And hey, at least the Ultimate line gets a decent send off, as opposed the New Universe, which just kinda petered out.
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How the gently caress are they detaching like that? How is he flicking his fingers so hard that the fingernail flies out hard enough to incapacitate someone? He might as well shoot them with eye-lasers at that point. Unless it's some kind of crazy gadget they installed under his nails for some insane reason?
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Dolash posted:How the gently caress are they detaching like that? How is he flicking his fingers so hard that the fingernail flies out hard enough to incapacitate someone? He might as well shoot them with eye-lasers at that point. I don't think that any thought beyond "THIS IS HARDCORE BRO" was put into this.
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Dolash posted:How the gently caress are they detaching like that? How is he flicking his fingers so hard that the fingernail flies out hard enough to incapacitate someone? He might as well shoot them with eye-lasers at that point. He picks them off first untl they're only slightly attached, or he picks them off entirely. It's not that big a deal. And he's dying of scurvy or whatever so he can peel them off. It's honestly not worth thinking about. It's just a vehicle for violence. I mean, how does Hulk hulk? There's no thought, it just happens - which is all you're supposed to care about here. It just happens.
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The Ultimate Line's real purpose was to act as the test bed for movie - shaped versions of Marvel staples, and it served that purpose well for the first few years. After that it got bad and it got bad in a hurry, save for USM for the most part.
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The Ultimates was the first time we had Sam Jackson in the Fury role, right? Like, years before the movies? I don't even know the timelines for these things.
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Drifter posted:The Ultimates was the first time we had Sam Jackson in the Fury role, right? Like, years before the movies? I don't even know the timelines for these things. Yeah, and Jackson licensed out his likeness explicitly so he could have first dibs if a movie ever happened.
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Drifter posted:The Ultimates was the first time we had Sam Jackson in the Fury role, right? Like, years before the movies? I don't even know the timelines for these things. Sam Jackson gave Marvel permission to use his likeness for Ultimate Fury on the condition that, should they ever use Fury in a movie, the role would go to Jackson. E: So that's how it feels.
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What I'm getting from this is Sam Jackson, in addition to being a great actor, is loving brilliant.
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Alacron posted:I don't think that any thought beyond "THIS IS HARDCORE BRO" was put into this. Mark Millar in a nutshell.
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Cabbit posted:What I'm getting from this is Sam Jackson, in addition to being a great actor, is loving brilliant. Seriously, I wonder how much money his Nick Fury role has netted him.
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