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I remember reading that comic. It is one of my earliest memories of reading any comic ever. I think it was Pan's flute that made him sprout horns and then he decided to dress up as Batman and fight crime because he could fit the horns under Batman's cowl.
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Goatman would have been a much different comic
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Jul 16, 2018 16:18
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Phy posted:Goatman would have been a much different comic Has a nice ring to it though.
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Push El Burrito posted:Has a nice ring to it though. 
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Jul 16, 2018 16:50
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Endless Mike posted:He went back to this well in X-Factor with Siryn unable to process Banshee's death since X-Men never stay dead so why bother mourning? As far as I'm aware Banshee is still dead. He briefly returned in Necrosha but didn't stick around like Cypher did. And maybe again in Uncanny Avengers?
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Jul 16, 2018 17:00
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Choco1980 posted:The flowers being a direct inverse to the red poppies at Flanders representing soldiers dying in combat is some pretty great writing as well. Aw man, now that hit way harder
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Jul 16, 2018 18:54
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Samuringa posted:Aw man, now that hit way harder a few issues later, some members of the cast are hit with what can only be described as a "subliminal nightmare cannon" which blasts their worst fears into their minds. A few of the crew have nightmares about people they care about telling them they're failures and they will amount to nothing, while Megatron is subjected to the death screams of the millions of organic races he murdered just to prove that he was right
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Lurdiak posted:Noted racist Nick Spencer wrote an astoundingly terrible issue of Secret Avengers where Black Widow confronts a tabloid that claimed to know for sure Bucky hadn't died. She proceeded to argue that superheroes constantly coming back to life was somehow worse than if they'd actually died because you just never know. Worse for the reader, maybe. The characters? Eeeh... Knowing that any day now my grandmother is going to end up at my doorstep saying "Gotcha!" after letting me know she never died of cancer but it was all a clever ruse, I would just end up pissed rather than sad or confused.
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evilmiera posted:Worse for the reader, maybe. The characters? Eeeh... The worst part of that "Actually, immortal supergods have it worse than the common folk" story was that Black Widow absolutely knew at the time that Bucky had faked his death, so she was just bullshitting.
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Phy posted:Goatman would have been a much different comic 
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Jul 17, 2018 12:24
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"Hnn, can't be Goat Man. No ring."
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Endless Mike posted:He went back to this well in X-Factor with Siryn unable to process Banshee's death since X-Men never stay dead so why bother mourning? As far as I'm aware Banshee is still dead. He was, like, an Apocalypse zombie in Uncanny Avengers, and now in the new Astonishing he seems to be fully back. That was a good bit in X-Factor, though, where Siryn keeps holding onto it until the birth of her and Madrox's son, where she finally admits it to herself and names the baby in her dad's honor. And then the baby turns out to be a dupe that Madrox accidentally created inside her while they were loving, and it gets absorbed back into Madrox the first time he holds it. Senior Woodchuck fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Jul 18, 2018 |
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Jul 18, 2018 23:33
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Senior Woodchuck posted:He was, like, an Apocalypse zombie in Uncanny Avengers, and now in the new Astonishing he seems to be fully back. AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
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Senior Woodchuck posted:And then the baby turns out to be a dupe that Madrox accidentally created inside her while they were loving, and it gets absorbed back into Madrox the first time he holds it. Yay comics
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Jul 19, 2018 00:14
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That is some pretty high grade body horror. Fair play to them.
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Jul 19, 2018 00:15
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Senior Woodchuck posted:He was, like, an Apocalypse zombie in Uncanny Avengers, and now in the new Astonishing he seems to be fully back. That’s a bit worse than having the devil take your baby and marriage away I guess
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Jul 19, 2018 00:25
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Oi I done ate me baby.
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Jul 19, 2018 00:46
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Senior Woodchuck posted:He was, like, an Apocalypse zombie in Uncanny Avengers, and now in the new Astonishing he seems to be fully back. loving hell
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goatface posted:That is some pretty high grade body horror. Fair play to them. They spent a long time building up the story too with alot of them being very excited for the birth so when it happened it hurt so much more. I remember being disturbed by it when it happened. Now I have two kids and I legit have nightmares about it every so often.
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Jul 19, 2018 01:38
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Its more his body considered his child a dupe and absorbed him because he was conceived by adupe 
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Jul 19, 2018 07:18
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Synthbuttrange posted:Its more his body considered his child a dupe and absorbed him because he was conceived by adupe I don't know if that's better or worse.
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Jul 19, 2018 07:22
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It's kind of amazing the levels that some writers will go to in order to basically hand-wave baby murder by making it technically not baby murder.
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Jul 19, 2018 07:25
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It's baby manslaughter at worse.
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Jul 19, 2018 13:11
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Then Madrox went on to marry his pre-teen child bride, so it's cool.
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Vincent posted:Then Madrox went on to marry his pre-teen child bride, so it's cool. HEY! She got time travel aged up.
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Vincent posted:Then Madrox went on to marry his pre-teen child bride, so it's cool. Wrong kind of touching for the thread imo
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good day for a bris posted:HEY! She got time travel aged up. One Hal Jordan special comin’ right up e:f;b, and with panels no less
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Jul 19, 2018 18:08
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Imagine writing a comic book for kids where you feel you need to "justify" your main character isn't a child molester because in your infinite wisdom you decided you wanted to pair him up with a child
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Nonvalueadded User posted:One Hal Jordan special comin’ right up To be fair I believe it was of the sort where she was in the future for several years and came back older, not the "magically aged up" kind you're referring to
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Jul 20, 2018 01:59
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Given the amount of hoops the Marvel writers jump through in order to avoid letting their characters have children, I'm surprised they haven't found an excuse to retcon Franklin Richards out of existence yet.
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Nah, it's just Spiderman who isn't allowed to get older and have kids. Totally unrelateable! But being bodysnatched and waking up to being a billionaire is kosher because:
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Nah, it's just Spiderman who isn't allowed to get older and have kids. Totally unrelateable! But being bodysnatched and waking up to being a billionaire is kosher because: Nah, between the example that was posted above with Siryn and Multiple Man, and the fact that various spawn of Scott Summers keep getting abducted and taken to be raised in the future to become the saviors of all mutantkind, it's kinda clear they don't want the X-Men and their various spin-off teams having kids either.
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I mostly just have a chip on my shoulder regarding OMD and how colossally dumb it was.
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W.T. Fits posted:Given the amount of hoops the Marvel writers jump through in order to avoid letting their characters have children, I'm surprised they haven't found an excuse to retcon Franklin Richards out of existence yet. They've tried a couple times.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:I mostly just have a chip on my shoulder regarding OMD and how colossally dumb it was. What makes it worse is the series where they did have a kid was amazing. Spider-Dad is so good.
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Superman #39: All you need for context is that Superman has temporarily lost his powers but the Daily Planet just got word of a hostage situation so Superman takes off anyway. (Also Jimmy Olsen knows Clark's secret identity but you don't really need to know that)    (I thought about putting this in the badass thread for Superman successfully talking down a shooter via a giant bluff but decided it worked better here.)
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TwoPair posted:Superman #39: All you need for context is that Superman has temporarily lost his powers but the Daily Planet just got word of a hostage situation so Superman takes off anyway. (Also Jimmy Olsen knows Clark's secret identity but you don't really need to know that) What are the odds he ran into the one gunman on Earth who didn’t empty the clip on him and then impotently throw the gun at him
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Jul 20, 2018 04:27
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That's old school Superman right there, that's a bluff out of George Reeves' playbook.
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TwoPair posted:Superman #39: All you need for context is that Superman has temporarily lost his powers but the Daily Planet just got word of a hostage situation so Superman takes off anyway. (Also Jimmy Olsen knows Clark's secret identity but you don't really need to know that) Didn’t they decide that Superman’s costume was invulnerable? I mean, clearly Superman put his life at risk, if the gunman decided to shoot him in his face.
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