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I don't know what kind of porn y'all enjoy, but I can do without "searing" in mine, thanks. edit: yes, this is possibly the worst snype ever.
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I remember reading that. It was speed racer with bikes I think, down to the mysterious Black Rider.
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Apr 14, 2021 04:19
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it was even better they were a team of stunt motorcycle daredevils who were also all mutants and could merge into a gestalt being that was, I guess, like... a super motorcycle daredevil one time the Thing joined them but only for like an issue before he left and became a professional wrestler instead
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Apr 14, 2021 04:35
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They also met the New Mutants once. 
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Apr 14, 2021 05:11
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What was weird was that it felt like your typical "Popular guest star shows up in a new comic to boost sales" story... except it was Team America showing up in New Mutants, and it came out, like, six months after their own comic had been canceled. New Mutants had a rough start.
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Apr 14, 2021 07:44
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Is it true the Morales state sued Marvel for the use of Isaiah’s family in YA/The Crew and that’s why Eli got shelved for a while (and remains a minor character, FATWS notwithstanding)??
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Apr 14, 2021 15:52
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That was the rumor at one time but I've never seen evidence that it's true. If it was it isn't now obviously. He's in a TV show and they've both shown up in comics after those rumors were started.
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Apr 14, 2021 16:03
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I just wish Marvel would reprint Truth.
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Apr 15, 2021 03:46
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X-O posted:That was the rumor at one time but I've never seen evidence that it's true. If it was it isn't now obviously. He's in a TV show and they've both shown up in comics after those rumors were started. Disney stopped paying royalties to Star Wars EU book authors on books they are still publishing. It's possible they just don't give a poo poo and assume they can out lawyer anyone who makes a stink about it.
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Apr 15, 2021 06:19
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radlum posted:I just wish Marvel would reprint Truth. At least it’s on Unlimited
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Apr 15, 2021 19:14
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X-O posted:He's in a TV show and they've both shown up in comics after those rumors were started. my memory is not encyclopedic but I think they've barely (if at all) appeared in comics over the past decade? I remember Gillen saying he wasn't allowed to use Eli Bradley in his Young Avengers run
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Apr 15, 2021 19:57
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Madkal posted:In the end it is revealed that the killer is Alberto Falcone, however it is hinted that the killer was also Harvey Dent, whos wife believed him to be the killer so much that it is also hinted that she is the killer as well carrying on Harvey Dent's kill list. I don't remember it being resolved at all whether there were multiple Holiday Killers or not, and if there were does that mean that Batman never fully solved the case? The author basically said "You decide". Was there one killer and the rest is delusion? More than one? One working for another? There's no established answer, just a Rorschach blot. Anyone know what issue this panel comes from? 
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Apr 16, 2021 07:30
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Jeph Loeb has written some terrible poo poo and he destroyed more than one good TV show, but the ending of Long Halloween not making a ton of sense isn't something I'm gonna hold against him. One of my favorite Bogart films (The Big Sleep) is based on a Raymond Chandler novel and the script follows the book pretty close. In the middle of it a chauffer is murdered and the people making the movie realized they had no idea who killed the chauffer so the called up Raymond Chandler to ask him and he didn't know either.
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Apr 16, 2021 07:59
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It's a dangerous line of work.
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Apr 16, 2021 12:22
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I'd lay odds Loeb changed the ending because somebody (say, Wizard Magazine) figured it out
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Apr 16, 2021 13:55
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I read Long Halloween years ago, but what stuck into my mind was when Calendar Man and the Falcone kid are together in Arkham they told eachother their names (-"Calendar Man" -"Holiday") and gave eachother bitchy side-eyes.
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Apr 16, 2021 18:36
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Cornwind Evil posted:Anyone know what issue this panel comes from? Action Comics #349.
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Apr 16, 2021 18:39
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I've been watching Invincible on Amazon but have never read the comics. Does Invincible spend most of his time in the early comics (It's only 6 eps in on Amazon) getting his rear end kicked? Because so far he's lost more or less 100% of the time and nearly died a couple of times. Atom Eve is pretty good though.
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Apr 17, 2021 20:09
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bessantj posted:I've been watching Invincible on Amazon but have never read the comics. Does Invincible spend most of his time in the early comics (It's only 6 eps in on Amazon) getting his rear end kicked? Because so far he's lost more or less 100% of the time and nearly died a couple of times. Atom Eve is pretty good though. Yeah, he spends a lot of time getting the poo poo kicked out of him. And Atom Eve was the way more interesting character.
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Apr 17, 2021 20:15
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The whole tonal whiplash a lot of people have regarding the book and probably the cartoon, which I haven't seen yet, is not only due to the blood and guts. It's also because we're set up with the archetypal story of a young superhero like we've seen dozens of times before and instead of rising to the challenge all the time like the norm in this story it shows that sometimes he's way out of his depth to the point where really bad things happen.
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Apr 17, 2021 20:18
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He seems always out of his depth, like he thinks he should be able to do it because he's "Invincible" but he can't even land properly. he doesn't even seem that interested in taking much instruction from his father. I am interested to see how it plays out though. Atom Eve keeps me interested as well. her idea of just going out into the world to help people who maybe experiencing famine or drought because she can alter objects at a molecular level is pretty good. It did make me think of Storm a bit. She has said in past X-Men comics that she lived in Kenya and helped stop droughts and so on, now there she is fighting for her life in Westchester and back in Kenya they probably have another drought that she could stop. I suppose that gets into the more philosophical thing about people with abilities. If you have the power to heal people should you spend most of your time in hospitals healing everyone. If you have the powers of someone like Franklin Richards should you solve all the world's problems? Would make for a pretty boring comic series though.
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Apr 17, 2021 20:42
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if franklin or any other reality warper actually did something how will i sell these 50 other titles i'm publishing
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Apr 17, 2021 20:45
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Again I haven't seen the cartoon but he's not always out of his depth in the comic. He has standard comic style adventures. Perhaps for expediency they're skipping over that part in the show and focusing just on him being young and outclassed all the time. Also in the comic Eve has some limits on her powers that maybe the show doesn't have? I believe she has a block in her brain that keeps her from doing anything too ridiculous including not being able to mess with the living things at all.
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Apr 17, 2021 20:46
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X-O posted:Again I haven't seen the cartoon but he's not always out of his depth in the comic. He has standard comic style adventures. Perhaps for expediency they're skipping over that part in the show and focusing just on him being young and outclassed all the time. It's been a long time snice I read the comic so the details are fuzzy and the show has changed somethings to give the first season a bit more going on. That said, I'd expect this week's episode of the show to be a turning point for Mark so that the end of the season will fit better. If all he does is get beaten up, then getting beaten nearly to death by his father won't carry as much weight. Mark needs to show some successful superheroics so that the audience can think that he might be able to do something.
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Apr 17, 2021 21:03
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It's very much a 'teen starting out' story with powers so instead of blowing the Winter Prom date because of Events he gets his kneecaps broken and an old woman dies because he was overconfident. Later on he's more mature and trained so the outcomes are more classic hero stuff. X-O posted:Also in the comic Eve has some limits on her powers that maybe the show doesn't have? I believe she has a block in her brain that keeps her from doing anything too ridiculous including not being able to mess with the living things at all.
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Apr 17, 2021 21:48
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site posted:if franklin or any other reality warper actually did something how will i sell these 50 other titles i'm publishing The eternal status quo prevents anyone in the Marvel or DC universe from permanently making things better, basically. Gotham will always be plagued by crime (including by the Joker, specifically, murdering people), mutants will always be hated and feared, Wakanda will never stop holding back the cure for cancer, etc.
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Apr 17, 2021 21:50
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X-O posted:The whole tonal whiplash a lot of people have regarding the book and probably the cartoon, which I haven't seen yet, is not only due to the blood and guts. It's also because we're set up with the archetypal story of a young superhero like we've seen dozens of times before and instead of rising to the challenge all the time like the norm in this story it shows that sometimes he's way out of his depth to the point where really bad things happen. I'd argue that people were fine with the latter and felt that was a good enough hook that the gore was an unnecessary attempt to be edgy. On a related, but slightly different note: Is there a story as to why Invincible's costume is literally just the Image logo? Like, I feel like there's gotta be some kind of rights thing there? I know Skybound does a lot of business with Image, so there's probably no ill-will, but it's very weird that a creator owned title would appropriate a publisher's logo that way.
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Apr 17, 2021 21:53
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Gaz-L posted:I'd argue that people were fine with the latter and felt that was a good enough hook that the gore was an unnecessary attempt to be edgy. This was my feelings. It started as a refreshing upbeat story and then it all came crashing down and I immediately lost interest. I was reading so many blood and guts things at the time that it didn't feel worth keeping up with.
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Apr 17, 2021 21:58
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FilthyImp posted:It's very much a 'teen starting out' story with powers so instead of blowing the Winter Prom date because of Events he gets his kneecaps broken and an old woman dies because he was overconfident. Yeah that's a point in the comics. She had no idea when she was near death the control removed and she could heal herself, it just happened when she almost died. And then it hosed up her powers for a while. That was not too long before I just lost track of the book.
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Apr 17, 2021 22:01
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X-O posted:Yeah that's a point in the comics. She had no idea when she was near death the control removed and she could heal herself, it just happened when she almost died. And then it hosed up her powers for a while. That was not too long before I just lost track of the book. her powers got hosed up because she was pregnant, not because of near death
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Apr 17, 2021 23:01
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X-O posted:Again I haven't seen the cartoon but he's not always out of his depth in the comic. He has standard comic style adventures. Perhaps for expediency they're skipping over that part in the show and focusing just on him being young and outclassed all the time. There's also something that I believe her powers are essentially metabolic related. She's got a limit on what she can do before her body wears out and I'm not sure it's globe-shaping in scope.
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Apr 18, 2021 01:35
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Whatever happened to Valiant Comics? I followed them a bit after the relaunch, then I heard there was a corporate takeover around 2016 and the story quality went down the drain?
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Apr 21, 2021 09:50
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Lily Catts posted:Whatever happened to Valiant Comics? I followed them a bit after the relaunch, then I heard there was a corporate takeover around 2016 and the story quality went down the drain? The man who spear headed their return was forced out. Most of the relaunch talent has long since left. I became friends with one of their marketing guys some years ago and last I heard from him (he's at a different publisher now) everything at Valiant is on the brink of collapse.
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Apr 21, 2021 11:08
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wow what the gently caress, too bad about that then
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Apr 21, 2021 11:34
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Rhyno posted:The man who spear headed their return was forced out. Most of the relaunch talent has long since left. I became friends with one of their marketing guys some years ago and last I heard from him (he's at a different publisher now) everything at Valiant is on the brink of collapse. So pretty similar to what happened the first time?
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Apr 21, 2021 11:35
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Rhyno posted:The man who spear headed their return was forced out. Most of the relaunch talent has long since left. I became friends with one of their marketing guys some years ago and last I heard from him (he's at a different publisher now) everything at Valiant is on the brink of collapse. Amazing that this happened twice.
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Apr 21, 2021 14:33
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Pretty nuts. Dinesh started a new company but I don't know if anything is out yet.
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Apr 21, 2021 15:15
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Rhyno posted:The man who spear headed their return was forced out. Most of the relaunch talent has long since left. I became friends with one of their marketing guys some years ago and last I heard from him (he's at a different publisher now) everything at Valiant is on the brink of collapse. Wow. That's a far cry from 'MTV totally wants the Valiant universe to prop up their programming.'
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Apr 21, 2021 15:24
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I don't have any insider info, just what my friend has passed along but some of it is public.
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To be fair Dinesh started to fall into the same trap as the previous owners of Valiant did by doing a bunch of really dumb gimmicks. After the poo poo they pulled with the Legend of the Geomancer mini I was hopeful it was a one time thing. That one still bugs me to this day though.
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