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Doc Hawkins posted:You might be the kind of person who would really enjoy a book called The Last Ringbearer. It's presented as a semi-accurate historical adventure fiction from a world where the Lord of the Rings was an almost-totally-inaccurate Gondorian epic poem in the vein of the Song of Roland: bloodthirsty, regressive, lionizing their ancestor's superhuman accomplishments while dehumanizing cultural enemies who were in various ways more sophisticated than them, etc. So the beginning of the book is all "Of course nowadays we all know that the Orcuen people have their own vibrant culture and intellectual traditions and were not really twisted mutants made by Satan in the dawn times of the earth."
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Doc Hawkins posted:You might be the kind of person who would really enjoy a book called The Last Ringbearer. It's presented as a semi-accurate historical adventure fiction from a world where the Lord of the Rings was an almost-totally-inaccurate Gondorian epic poem in the vein of the Song of Roland: bloodthirsty, regressive, lionizing their ancestor's superhuman accomplishments while dehumanizing cultural enemies who were in various ways more sophisticated than them, etc. So the beginning of the book is all "Of course nowadays we all know that the Orcuen people have their own vibrant culture and intellectual traditions and were not really twisted mutants made by Satan in the dawn times of the earth." While I laughed at the "Famous philosophers act like LOTR is the real world" comic, I can't help but think a full-blown book of that would be loving dreadful. Never the less, here it is: http://ymarkov.livejournal.com/280578.html
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Mar 24, 2017 01:40
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 Transformers vs GI Joe: The Comic Book Adaptation of the Movie Adaptation of the Comic Book.
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Doc Hawkins posted:You might be the kind of person who would really enjoy a book called The Last Ringbearer. 
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https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles...on-dvd-part-one
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Mar 24, 2017 14:03
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This is pretty good, with multiple genuine laughs. Very un-McSweeney's-esque. 
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Mar 24, 2017 14:07
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That's one of the all-time greats.
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Okay, that's really great. Invincible was awesome.
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Mar 24, 2017 15:23
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It's not done yet?
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zoux posted:It's not done yet? I haven't been reading actual comics for the last couple of years (just the trades of Doctor Strange and Squirrel Girl). I feel so disconnected from everything. I guess I used the past tense as in "back when I used to read Invincible".
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Mar 24, 2017 15:35
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It's supposed to wrap up with #144, it's on #132. I read the whole thing all the way up to what was available at Christmas time, I liked it a lot. Some of the stuff he does doesn't work but he takes a lot of risks and isn't afraid to completely gently caress up the world he's built. I'll probably read it again whenever the whole thing is done (you know in five years or so)
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Mar 24, 2017 15:45
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zoux posted:Some of the stuff he does doesn't work but he takes a lot of risks and isn't afraid to completely gently caress up the world he's built. This reminded me of something, so I checked, and yeah, sure enough, Savage Dragon is still going.
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Synthbuttrange posted:
"People were shocked by the announcement that this would be the first movie where Optimus Prime would be played by an actor in an Optimus Prime costume[...] It doesn't hurt that the man in the "rubber suit" is Shakespearean actor O. Ryan Paxton..." Which is funny, as Orion Pax is who Optimus Prime was before he became a Prime.
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Mar 24, 2017 18:21
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oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...
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Roth posted:Leia no Well, clearly Loki's Mask gives him some absolutely magnetic charisma.
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Mar 25, 2017 05:43
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Didn't Xizor basically have the same date rape powers as Starfox? (Thanos' brother who is inexplicably considered a hero, not Fox McCloud)
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Mar 25, 2017 05:47
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Actually ...he has natural roofie body odor. ....I am not loving joking
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bunnyofdoom posted:Actually He has super-pheromones, and I do recall a chapter from Shadows of the Empire where he attempts to date-rape Leia, yes. He also reminisces on his many such conquests and the terrible things he does to women once he's used them up. That book also has Darth Vader and Xizor having a scholarly debate about Imperial politics in front of the Emperor.
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That's not even going into the sexbot or the ab master chair
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Mar 25, 2017 05:53
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He acts like such a fuckboy trying to get Leia to take off her clothes in issue 5 of the comic.
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bunnyofdoom posted:That's not even going into the sexbot or the ab master chair I don't remember the chair part but that may have flown over my head as a teenager.
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dont even fink about it posted:I don't remember the chair part but that may have flown over my head as a teenager. Xizor has this chair that gives him sculpted abs just by sitting in it so he doesn't waste time exercising. Yeah.....
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bunnyofdoom posted:Xizor has this chair that gives him sculpted abs just by sitting in it so he doesn't waste time exercising. Well at least he's the one-off villain. Today he would be the protagonist.
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dont even fink about it posted:Well at least he's the one-off villain. Today he would be the protagonist. Today he'd be a mod.
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dont even fink about it posted:He has super-pheromones, and I do recall a chapter from Shadows of the Empire where he attempts to date-rape Leia, yes. He also reminisces on his many such conquests and the terrible things he does to women once he's used them up. Every stupid thing about that book gets that much funnier when you remember the goal of the project was to simulate a movie release without an accompanying movie. Consequently, they thought everything in it was worthy of being deemed on-par with the quality of the original trilogy. Even as someone without a lot of love for Return of the Jedi that's... something.
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Please tell me Clark Kent was ALSO a lion man, only wearing glasses and Lois still didn't put 2 and 2 together.
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Mar 25, 2017 20:57
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Remarkably, that's only the other story with Superman being given a monster head by Circe's magic. In the other Circe was an ancient astronaut whose descendant wants to marry Superman, in the other she was Saturn Woman in disguise who merely pretends to want to marry Superman. How this fits in with Circe also being a real ancient witch who turned a centaur into Comet the Super-Horse is unclear.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Remarkably, that's only the other story with Superman being given a monster head by Circe's magic. In the other Circe was an ancient astronaut whose descendant wants to marry Superman, in the other she was Saturn Woman in disguise who merely pretends to want to marry Superman. How this fits in with Circe also being a real ancient witch who turned a centaur into Comet the Super-Horse is unclear.
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dont even fink about it posted:He has super-pheromones, and I do recall a chapter from Shadows of the Empire where he attempts to date-rape Leia, yes. He also reminisces on his many such conquests and the terrible things he does to women once he's used them up. On the plus side he does get kicked in the nuts for his trouble.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:In the other Circe was an ancient astronaut whose descendant wants to marry Superman, in the other she was Saturn Woman in disguise who merely pretends to want to marry Superman. 
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Mar 25, 2017 22:14
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Whoa there pal, you're jumping the gun there. You're not married yet. Save all the hate talk for the honeymoon.
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I love that Supergirl felt it necessary to still wear her costume, and just throw a bridal veil on to make it wedding-y.
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Selachian posted:She's a catgirl superhero who walks around in a bikini all the time. It's like the Fetish Singularity. Close but THIS is the true Fetish Singularity.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Remarkably, that's only the other story with Superman being given a monster head by Circe's magic. In the other Circe was an ancient astronaut whose descendant wants to marry Superman, in the other she was Saturn Woman in disguise who merely pretends to want to marry Superman. How this fits in with Circe also being a real ancient witch who turned a centaur into Comet the Super-Horse is unclear. That's the horse Supergirl dates, right?
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NoneMoreNegative posted:
Superman also decided that the general public shouldn't see that he's now a lion, so he travels by burrowing underground.  Jerusalem posted:Please tell me Clark Kent was ALSO a lion man, only wearing glasses and Lois still didn't put 2 and 2 together. Lois can't even tell that there's anything wrong when she looks at the back of his head 
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Super Dan posted:Superman also decided that the general public shouldn't see that he's now a lion, so he travels by burrowing underground. Underlion, underlion, speed of lightning roar of thunder.
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Super Dan posted:Lois can't even tell that there's anything wrong when she looks at the back of his head I know we give Lois a lot of poo poo for being as observant as a goldfish, but good christ how do you miss a loving mane.
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