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Sorry but that story seems bogus to me. Nobody stood up and clapped at the end.
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Sorry but that story seems bogus to me. Nobody stood up and clapped at the end. I did.
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May 18, 2018 11:44
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But it started as a solitary slow clap.
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May 18, 2018 12:18
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Sorry but that story seems bogus to me. Nobody stood up and clapped at the end. Also no one pointed out that the kid… was inhuman!
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May 18, 2018 15:12
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Sorry but that story seems bogus to me. Nobody stood up and clapped at the end. That's the studio audience.
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May 18, 2018 16:11
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Torquemada posted:Also no one pointed out that the kid… was inhuman! I'm sure it was <teleports behind him> nothing personal, kid.
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May 18, 2018 16:46
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And I married them!
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May 18, 2018 17:30
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Spoilers for Infinity Wars if that's still a thing. When I went to the "midnight"* showing of Infinity Wars, there weren't many people there. (People going with groups of friends to movies almost always have my city be the one that's out of the way for everybody, so opening nights are really dead.). At the end, the entire theater was silent for obvious reasons, when the Avengers Logo comes on and then turns to dust. My fiance says "Hey, shouldn't only half the letters have disappeared?" I think everyone (all like, 15 tops?) in the theater laughed. Probably more because it was a tension reliever after that ending than anything though. Also, when Spidey is going one dude behind us started going "No no oh god no don't do this to me no" really loudly. Which honestly made me feel better about how I'd been openly crying for like 20 minutes straight at that point. That's my story of something that happened to me that made me think of this thread. *It was like 7:30 at night. How do these not just count as opening day at this point? Edit: GDI this was the wrong thread. Araenna has a new favorite as of 20:31 on May 19, 2018 |
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May 18, 2018 19:40
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Sounds like the movie didn't make you feel so good.
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May 19, 2018 08:30
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It was hard to understand from the Wikipedia page for it since it’s like 90% names being thrown around and I’m not a comics book or movies fan but it looks like they killed off like half their franchise characters lol which I’m sure will be reversed in the next film or two since it’s a comic book movie
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May 19, 2018 16:44
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Aesop Poprock posted:It was hard to understand from the Wikipedia page for it since it’s like 90% names being thrown around and I’m not a comics book or movies fan but it looks like they killed off like half their franchise characters lol which I’m sure will be reversed in the next film or two since it’s a comic book movie Was anyone really surprised that Superman didn't stay dead?
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May 19, 2018 17:12
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Araenna posted:Spoilers for Infinity Wars if that's still a thing. Extremely subtle but the last two letters to go were I I
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Aesop Poprock posted:It was hard to understand from the Wikipedia page for it since it’s like 90% names being thrown around and I’m not a comics book or movies fan but it looks like they killed off like half their franchise characters lol which I’m sure will be reversed in the next film or two since it’s a comic book movie It's based on a 90s comic that did exactly that by the end of issue 6.
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May 19, 2018 17:25
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Nobody went into Titanic wondering if the plucky boat was going to make it or not.
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May 19, 2018 17:33
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Davros1 posted:Was anyone really surprised that Superman didn't stay dead? sort of, yes a beloved pop icon dying in a dumb comicbook storyline became a story that actually hit mainstream news outlets back in the early 90s causing like ~7 million people, mostly normals swayed by the sudden coverage and unaware of how modern comics work, to buy the death of superman issue in huge store-filling mobs to pour out a last one for supes while inadvertently creating a widespread belief that superman would actually stay dead... tho most hardcore nerds got the feeling the death was a publicity stunt seeing as they always are in comics the extra interest massively raised sales for the next story arc, a world without superman, but then it was a weirdly disappointing/frustrating public event when superman came back in the return of superman arc and from the backlash of people who felt deceived by fake comicbook death and vowed to drop comics forever DC felt like they managed things poorly enough on their end that later on they just broke batman's back instead of killing him; as far as i know DC, however, still mostly blames the media for not being well informed about the comics industry and ignorantly running a story that misled the public since most nerds actually familiar with the industry pretty much knew this wasn't going to stick
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May 19, 2018 18:13
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Man, comic books are stupid and I'm glad I was never into them. It's just as, if not more so, embarrassing as being a huge anime fan that has real opinions on whether dubbed or subbed is better.
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May 19, 2018 18:17
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And the whole reason for it was because Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman needed another season to set up /their/ Wedding Arc, and they wanted the comic book Clark/Lois wedding happen at the same time the tv show's Clark/Lois wedding did.
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May 19, 2018 18:20
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Also, the Superman death in the comics had 4 different Superman taking their place where for a time any single of one of them could have either taken up the mantle or been the real deal, somehow. The early 90s was a time of reinvention in the comics universe and I could have seen a lot of people thinking that killing/replacing Superman with someone new at the time could have been the best way to reinvent the character and keep the original version of him safe and untouched by changing times and the edgy new decade to come by letting some other version take the role. It wouldn't be the first time or last time, either. They'd already changed up Supergirl by that point and she was a I think they constantly made to changes her character/origins multiple times between the 70s-90s. Original, some sort of alternate world shapeshifter, reborn angel. I think even Power Girl sometimes ties into it, too. Around the same time Barry Allen is/was replaced by Kid Flash, the Arrow/Lantern characters were eventually replaced by wholly new ones. Batman was, too.
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May 19, 2018 18:33
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JediTalentAgent posted:Also, the Superman death in the comics had 4 different Superman taking their place where for a time any single of one of them could have either taken up the mantle or been the real deal, somehow. The early 90s was a time of reinvention in the comics universe and I could have seen a lot of people thinking that killing/replacing Superman with someone new at the time could have been the best way to reinvent the character and keep the original version of him safe and untouched by changing times and the edgy new decade to come by letting some other version take the role. Is that the one where Superman turns blue and gets lightning powers?
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May 19, 2018 18:43
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Solice Kirsk posted:Man, comic books are stupid and I'm glad I was never into them. It's just as, if not more so, embarrassing as being a huge anime fan that has real opinions on whether dubbed or subbed is better. They're literally just as bad as anime.
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fruit on the bottom posted:Is that the one where Superman turns blue and gets lightning powers? I think that happens a few years later. I believe part of the rumor behind that was due to the ongoing lawsuits between the estates of the original Superman creators. Legend at the time was that DC did that in part to give Superman a whole new powerset/look so that if the lawsuit went against them in terms of some aspects of the Superman character (I think the traditional design and powers) they could still use A Superman. I think it went as far as one issue where they expressly used it to explain how almost every one of his new powers did similar things but worked completely differently than his old ones. As a strange aside to this, part of the Superman lawsuits I think had some people believing that the creators estates MIGHT HAVE not only been able to claim some partial rights over Superman, but potentially a huge part of the DC universe given how many characters first appeared with or had their origins directly tied to Superman. edit: From a Superman lawsuits wiki... quote:The copyright to Action Comics #1 was in its renewal term on October 27, 1998, the date the Copyright Term Extension Act became effective, which means it will expire 95 years after it was first secured,[52] which is expected to be in 2033, barring further legislation.[8] Thus, in 2033, Superman as he is depicted in Action Comics #1 will likely become public domain, along with other story elements such as Lois Lane and the city of Metropolis. Some later developments of the character, such as his power of "heat vision" (introduced in a 1949 story), may not be available to unlicensed authors as they were introduced in works that will persist longer under copyright. Supporting characters such as Lana Lang, or locales such as the Fortress of Solitude, will also persist for longer in copyright.[53] 2033 is going to get pretty strange . JediTalentAgent has a new favorite as of 19:35 on May 19, 2018 |
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May 19, 2018 19:30
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JediTalentAgent posted:Also, the Superman death in the comics had 4 different Superman taking their place where for a time any single of one of them could have either taken up the mantle or been the real deal, somehow. The early 90s was a time of reinvention in the comics universe and I could have seen a lot of people thinking that killing/replacing Superman with someone new at the time could have been the best way to reinvent the character and keep the original version of him safe and untouched by changing times and the edgy new decade to come by letting some other version take the role.
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maltesh posted:And the whole reason for it was because Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman needed another season to set up /their/ Wedding Arc, and they wanted the comic book Clark/Lois wedding happen at the same time the tv show's Clark/Lois wedding did. yeah as far as i know internally dc was just treating it as a very run-of-the-mill vehicle for exploring how things might play out if superman died and how the news might be received by metropolis, the other heroes and the wider world with the implicit understanding that no one who actually buys comics would take it so seriously but welp to add fuel to the fire re: the backlash dc felt the general public in the 90s simultaneously understood that dumb 3 dollar comics can sometimes become valuable collector's items worth millions later on but at the same the public also poorly understood the concept of supply and demand so some people were legitimately upset that superman returned to life and ruined the future value of the death of superman comic thus killing their retirement nest eggs 
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hard counter posted:yeah as far as i know internally dc was just treating it as a very run-of-the-mill vehicle for exploring how things might play out if superman died and how the news might be received by metropolis, the other heroes and the wider world with the implicit understanding that no one who actually buys comics would take it so seriously but welp The 90's were a weird time for that in general. Everybody thought that their baseball cards would be Honus Wagners someday while failing to realize that that's insanely valuable because only a couple hundred ever got made like 100 years ago. Now like eight are known to exist. Eight. People were collecting Beanie Babies like mad because of how much they were limited in their runs. These will totally be worth millions some day!!! ...then they weren't. In the case of comics "FAMOUS CHARACTERS ARE DYING!!!!!  " storylines became popular to do because so many comic series were failing. People just weren't as interested in superhero comics anymore as they'd been done to death. People figured out that very popular characters would never go away. Aside from that comic book superheroes just kept getting continually more powerful which led to the infinity gauntlet showing up. Which...well makes you God, basically. "I just felt like eliminating half of the life in the universe so I did. Lol gently caress you." Yes, and whoever having that gauntlet being God-like in power means that all that life is going to come back by the end of the series when somebody else gets their hand in it.
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Disney is going to add superman and metropolis to the marvel universe in 2033. Garth Ennis will also write a story about superman being a rapist or something and get praised for it. Gaunab has a new favorite as of 20:36 on May 19, 2018 |
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May 19, 2018 20:34
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Garth Ennis actually likes Superman and has written some very good stories with him edit: as far as comics go, of course
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May 19, 2018 20:56
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The 90's were a weird time for that in general. Everybody thought that their baseball cards would be Honus Wagners someday while failing to realize that that's insanely valuable because only a couple hundred ever got made like 100 years ago. Now like eight are known to exist. Eight. People were collecting Beanie Babies like mad because of how much they were limited in their runs. These will totally be worth millions some day!!! Iron Crowned's Razor states that it's a boomer thing.
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checks out: when i was a wee lad i traded some nhl cards for a damaged & creased copy of an LA kings wayne gretzky and the original owners' dad was the one to sit me down and tell me how badly i 'screwed his son' because wayne gretzky cards are all gonna be worth millions some day!!! he tried to pressure my parents into making me renege on the deal Gaunab posted:Disney is going to add superman and metropolis to the marvel universe in 2033. barring further legislative extension is something of a big ask tho
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May 19, 2018 21:43
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The copyright laws will always be - and have always been - extended because of Disney and their properties, so I doubt they'll acquire any DC characters that way.
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May 19, 2018 22:12
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The 90's were a weird time for that in general. Everybody thought that their baseball cards would be Honus Wagners someday while failing to realize that that's insanely valuable because only a couple hundred ever got made like 100 years ago. Now like eight are known to exist. Eight. People were collecting Beanie Babies like mad because of how much they were limited in their runs. These will totally be worth millions some day!!! And history repeats itself with Funko Pops replacing Beanie Babies.
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May 19, 2018 22:25
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Rirse posted:And history repeats itself with Funko Pops replacing Beanie Babies. Funny thing there is I have yet to meet somebody with 800 carefully sorted, stored, and preserved Funko Pops in the attic but I've met people that decorate their cubes with a dozen of them. I think in the case of Funko most people are buying them because they like the characters not because they'll be worth millions some day, totally. The vast majority of people I met that had Beanie Babies were collecting them to resell them down the line for thoroughly absurd amounts of markup. I met multiple people who had an entire room dedicated just to storing Beanie Babies and carefully tracking which ones were expected to become rare.
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May 19, 2018 22:51
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Funny thing there is I have yet to meet somebody with 800 carefully sorted, stored, and preserved Funko Pops in the attic but I've met people that decorate their cubes with a dozen of them. I think in the case of Funko most people are buying them because they like the characters not because they'll be worth millions some day, totally. For the most part that is true, then you get this. Rhyno posted:Remember how Pops are garbage? Local collector just got turned into CPS for neglecting his kids in favor of his Pop obsession. Turned in by his own kid no less. Waiting to hear specifics but this dude was notorious for his poor financial choices.
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May 19, 2018 22:59
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Rirse posted:For the most part that is true, then you get this. That's not the fault of Funko Pops. I've met people multiple like that and they'd have found something else to obsess over.
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May 19, 2018 23:06
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The vast majority of people I met that had Beanie Babies were collecting them to resell them down the line for thoroughly absurd amounts of markup. I met multiple people who had an entire room dedicated just to storing Beanie Babies and carefully tracking which ones were expected to become rare. 
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May 19, 2018 23:07
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Rirse posted:For the most part that is true, then you get this. That thread is a giant glasshouse and every post in it is a stone thrown.
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May 19, 2018 23:26
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ToxicSlurpee posted:That's not the fault of Funko Pops. I've met people multiple like that and they'd have found something else to obsess over. See: the guy I dated during my college years. I humored his Star Wars obsession when they rereleased the original trilogy in the 90s, until we spent every night hitting up stores to find action figures. When my kitchen cabinets started getting clogged with SW themed cups from Taco Bell, it actually killed a six year relationship. I loved him dearly, but I just couldn't take fighting over that anymore, and he refused to stop. (When we parted ways and I moved, I found a rare Boba Fett variant in one of my boxes, and did sell it for a tidy sum. It was a good consolation prize for putting up with that so long.)
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May 19, 2018 23:28
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Rirse posted:For the most part that is true, then you get this. Zaurg no!
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May 19, 2018 23:38
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Rirse posted:For the most part that is true, then you get this. And this. 
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The thing about the Beanie Baby craze was that even a young teenager like myself at the time could tell that it was a bubble fad, and that if you wanted to make money on your BBs, you'd sell them like, two months after you got them when they wouldn't be in stores anymore for like, 500% price increase to some other rabid collector, and just play the small game like that.
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wyoming posted:And this. This is really sad
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