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Milotic posted:I'm not seeing many badass panels on this page. So here's a bunch from Civil War #1. I can remove the first few if needed, but I think they're important for context. I can't take that scene seriously at all, because I've read Chris "MightyGodKing" Bird's version. http://mightygodking.com/i-dont-need-your-civil-war/
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Milotic posted:I'm not seeing many badass panels on this page. So here's a bunch from Civil War #1. I can remove the first few if needed, but I think they're important for context. Ah, the neophyte. You still think the Civil War comic is worth half a poo poo. 
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SynthOrange posted:Also badass: That's pretty god damned true. Him and Reed are the people I'm most curious about what happens to them by the end of Secret Wars, since almost everyone else I give a drat about already has an announced solo title or is part of a team book. (I'm also curious about Loki).
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mind the walrus posted:Ah, the neophyte. You still think the Civil War comic is worth half a poo poo. While I respect the imagery, what the hell benefit would Superman get from holding Captain America's Shield? Batman I'd get, Flash maybe because his powers are basically weird physics and so are the shield's, but the only reason for Superman to use the shield is if it can do something he can't, so what does the shield bring to his table?
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Jul 17, 2015 06:44
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Captain America's Shield, like all true patriots, gives no fucks about magic.
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Jul 17, 2015 06:47
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Supes M.Bison charges into things with the shield, causing a Vibranium-shockwave that blahblahblah Plus it matches his color scheme.
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Jul 17, 2015 06:57
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It'd match WW's even better. 
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Mr. Maltose posted:Captain America's Shield, like all true patriots, gives no fucks about magic. That actually makes sense, thank you.
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Jul 17, 2015 06:59
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T'Challa and Namor's relationship is the best thing to happen to them both in decades. Just throwing that out there. I absolutely love where it's gone since AVX.
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Skwirl posted:While I respect the imagery, what the hell benefit would Superman get from holding Captain America's Shield? Batman I'd get, Flash maybe because his powers are basically weird physics and so are the shield's, but the only reason for Superman to use the shield is if it can do something he can't, so what does the shield bring to his table? The magic, as said before, and the general shock absorption/dissipation. Superman might be able to withstand or even stop blows from Mjolnir but add the shield and suddenly he's a lot faster on the counter. Given that the JLA/Avengers are storming literally every villain they've ever fought on a ship made out of Galactus' corpse then any edge is necessary. Plus iconography and a symbol of teamwork given that Supes and Cap were uncharacteristically dickish to each other blah blah blah. Nilbop posted:T'Challa and Namor's relationship is the best thing to happen to them both in decades. Just throwing that out there. I absolutely love where it's gone since AVX. Same. Hickman finally figured out a way to make Black Panther marketable in a way that wasn't "uncomfortable race-swap Batman." The whole "King of the Dead" angle really gives him his own niche that fits between Dr. Strange and Stark. mind the walrus fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Jul 17, 2015 |
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I know it sounds amoral, but what struck me is Namor was also "right" when it came to his nihilism in regards to the incursions initially. That is right, given his values and background, and they communicated that very successfully.
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B.Panther and Namor being anti-buddies sounds fun. What comic should I read that has both of them?
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Shakenbaker posted:The best part of Civil War was Taskmaster and Ant-Man getting to interact. The second best is where Namor straight up attempts to murder Tony Stark: I think the next page has Namor going into the water after him and pulling off his face mask. If Strange hadn't stepped in to separate them, Stark would probably have wound up dead.
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Drifter posted:B.Panther and Namor being anti-buddies sounds fun. What comic should I read that has both of them? Hickman's New Avengers
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prefect posted:I think the next page has Namor going into the water after him and pulling off his face mask. If Strange hadn't stepped in to separate them, Stark would probably have wound up dead. And then alive again next issue. redbackground posted:Hickman's New Avengers
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Gavok posted:If the Ruin the Moment thread was still active, I would have changed that to "WITNESS ME!" a while back. If you want to start a new one, or resurrect the old one I don't think anyone would argue. I only contributed 2 or 3 last time around but if you do, I'll try for one a week, quality not guaranteed.
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mind the walrus posted:storming literally every villain they've ever fought on a ship made out of Galactus' corpse Wait, what? 
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Kurt Busiek and George Perez don't do poo poo by halves.
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From Jake Wyatt's tumblr. This is a good design. 
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You probably meant to post that in the costume thread.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Wait, what? JLA/Avengers is the poo poo just for that premise alone. Also Cap beating the poo poo out of Prometheus was kick rear end.
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Lurdiak posted:You probably meant to post that in the costume thread. She's got a bad rear end. She doesn't only have to hover over chimneys or whatever that is.
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Jiro posted:JLA/Avengers is the poo poo just for that premise alone. Also Cap beating the poo poo out of Prometheus was kick rear end. Is Prometheus ... somebody? I've never heard of him before or since JLA/Avengers, but I don't read DC a lot. But yeah, JLA/Avengers was what got me into comics in the first-place. It's really old school, and has got a ton of better-off-dead characters that Busiek has a soft-spot for like Jack of Hearts and Triathlon, but only as cameos. Most of it is really, really good fun.
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Nilbop posted:Is Prometheus ... somebody? I've never heard of him before or since JLA/Avengers, but I don't read DC a lot. He's evil Batman, only instead of spending years learning kung-fu he just loads his opponent's combat abilities onto a CD and jams it into his helmet. In their first encounter, he beat up Batman. In their second encounter Batman sabotaged his helmet to give him the combat skills of Stephen Hawking. After that it was kind of hard to take him seriously as a threat.
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He also has a stupid costume.
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Morrison made Prometheus for his run on JLA. Prometheus is one character in a long succession of writers going "I've got a great idea: Batman, but evil!"
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He was distinguished by having a personality though ("rear end in a top hat nerd at his core"). You can also read him in a metafictional sense: he's the badass new character who totally owns everyone, but the next time he shows up he's utterly defanged, because you actually have to work at being badass.
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Wasn't he briefly mentioned all of once in one of the Arkham games? Like he didn't even get to show up, he was just a character bio you got for solving a Riddler thing
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Prometheus is probably in my top 3 favourite terrible characters.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:He was distinguished by having a personality though ("rear end in a top hat nerd at his core"). This is Grant Morrison we're talking about here so this was probably completely the intent.
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Jiro posted:JLA/Avengers is the poo poo just for that premise alone. Also Cap beating the poo poo out of Prometheus was kick rear end. "Try fighting the Wehrmacht, pal. It teaches you focus!" Prometheus is actually beaten in his first appearance when Catwoman hits him in the nuts with her whip. Also: 
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Wasn't he briefly mentioned all of once in one of the Arkham games? Like he didn't even get to show up, he was just a character bio you got for solving a Riddler thing Yeah he was a bio in Asylum. Asylum namedropped a shitload of characters in the bio section because they figured "hey why not" and I guess they didn't think they'd get a sequel.
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Prometheus is "Batman can beat anyone with prep time" told as a joke. He's brought onto the JLA base as part of a press event. The punchline is him not being able to predict that Catwoman would use the event for her own reasons, and gets whipped in the dick. I'm sure there's people out there who took him at face value, and saw him as a super bad rear end that shouldn't have been emasculated by Catwoman. EDIT: His second appearence he's made a joke again. And in JLA/Avengers he's used to show how good Cap is. Similarly Cap/Prometheus and the first Batman/Prometheus fight were both off panel. Open Marriage Night fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Jul 19, 2015 |
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PantsOptional posted:Morrison made Prometheus for his run on JLA. Prometheus is one character in a long succession of writers going "I've got a great idea: Batman, but evil!" In that case, it was particularly a mirror of the JLA Batgod, the Batman who always has a plan to defeat everyone, given enough time *cue Lurdiak whining about powerlevels, i guess*
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'Given enough time' is always interpreted by writers as 'he's already invented some kind of techno-doodad that he keeps on him at all times that magically beats everyone." I do think Batman is the kind of guy who would make plans to take out the Justice League, though. "Prep time" is a tired joke at this point but he's a paranoid weirdo. I feel like the members of the Justice League who really know him wouldn't be surprised or even offended that Batman had worked out how to disable them if they ever got mind-controlled or whatever. Like I bet Batman has three or four contingency plans to take himself out, should the need arise. Probably broadcasting on a continuous loop on an ultrasonic frequency that only Superman can hear. Just in case.
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Die Laughing posted:Prometheus is "Batman can beat anyone with prep time" told as a joke. He's brought onto the JLA base as part of a press event. The punchline is him not being able to predict that Catwoman would use the event for her own reasons, and gets whipped in the dick. I'm sure there's people out there who took him at face value, and saw him as a super bad rear end that shouldn't have been emasculated by Catwoman. The of course in Cry For Justice he's played straight, and is able to stymie the entire League (including J'onn and Zatana) from reading his mind or stopping him from blowing up Star City. Then we're supposed to think that Green Arrow killing him was somehow bad.
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Travis343 posted:'Given enough time' is always interpreted by writers as 'he's already invented some kind of techno-doodad that he keeps on him at all times that magically beats everyone." I do think Batman is the kind of guy who would make plans to take out the Justice League, though. "Prep time" is a tired joke at this point but he's a paranoid weirdo. I feel like the members of the Justice League who really know him wouldn't be surprised or even offended that Batman had worked out how to disable them if they ever got mind-controlled or whatever. In the Tower of Babel storyline the justice league gets taken out by normal goons because they compromised the batcave and stole batman's backup plans on how to take out mind controlled/rogue justice league members. He gets kicked out of the clubhouse for a while because of that.
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Goffer posted:In the Tower of Babel storyline the justice league gets taken out by normal goons because they compromised the batcave and stole batman's backup plans on how to take out mind controlled/rogue justice league members. He gets kicked out of the clubhouse for a while because of that. Which I always found a little funny because he's the one who paid to build said 'clubhouse' in the firstplace 
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Goffer posted:In the Tower of Babel storyline the justice league gets taken out by normal goons because they compromised the batcave and stole batman's backup plans on how to take out mind controlled/rogue justice league members. He gets kicked out of the clubhouse for a while because of that. It's their own fault for not coming up with their own counter-plans.
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