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Skwirl posted:This isn't actually a panel, but I swear I follow too much comics twitter or something because I first thought it was a stylized fight scene featuring Nightcrawler. Retro Futurist posted:A pretty butterfly Grendels Dad posted:Some nice flowers. Bongo Bill posted:why would you post that picture of my parents fighting It's a bunch of paint haphazardly strewn across a canvas for the purpose of fleecing art snobs. E: Quote chain for referance E. Revenant fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Sep 5, 2021 |
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Sep 5, 2021 15:04
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a herd of beautiful wild ponies running free across the plains.
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Are you reading Spy X Family? You should be reading Spy X Family. Yor, the world's best step-mom/assassin, is on assignment on the deck of a cruise ship. She and her boss get ambushed by the international hit squad hunting their target.       
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Sep 6, 2021 15:59
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Erik Larsen just posted a gallery of every double page spread he’s ever drawn for print going back to his very first book up to the modern era. The sheer volume of this gallery is awe inspiring. https://twitter.com/erikjlarsen/status/1436045611388719121?s=21
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Sep 9, 2021 22:02
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ruddiger posted:Erik Larsen just posted a gallery of every double page spread he’s ever drawn for print going back to his very first book up to the modern era. The sheer volume of this gallery is awe inspiring. Holy moly. I'm not complaining but is there any particular reason why?
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Sep 10, 2021 03:19
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ruddiger posted:Erik Larsen just posted a gallery of every double page spread he’s ever drawn for print going back to his very first book up to the modern era. The sheer volume of this gallery is awe inspiring.  This certainly was an era.
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Sep 10, 2021 07:53
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Suleman posted:This certainly was an era. The era of when I was twelve years old and giving everyone giant guns was the coolest poo poo ever.
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Sep 10, 2021 08:16
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That arc was a ton of fun, he really made Dr. Octopus' arms look menacing in a way nobody really had before. Say what you will about some of the narrative elements of the whole thing but I think his Doc Ock is one of the great comic book glow ups of the 90s.
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Sep 10, 2021 13:38
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...other than the Uzis.
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Sep 10, 2021 13:41
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How Wonderful! posted:That arc was a ton of fun, he really made Dr. Octopus' arms look menacing in a way nobody really had before. Say what you will about some of the narrative elements of the whole thing but I think his Doc Ock is one of the great comic book glow ups of the 90s. Sadly it became another episode in the slap fight between Larsen and Peter David, but I liked it too.
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Sep 10, 2021 16:34
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Nilbop posted:Holy moly. I'm not complaining but is there any particular reason why? He’s 40 issues away from hitting 300 consecutive issues on Savage Dragon and ran into a pretty bad case of writer’s block trying to get the new one out the door. Maybe he’s gearing up for another experimental issue (he’s done single issues with experimental layouts before, he’s already done an all double-page spread issue), or maybe he’s just taking a step back to look at the bigger picture overall to better get a feel of where he wants the book and his art to go. Either way I’m grateful for this gallery, it’s pretty awesome seeing it all in one place. 
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Sep 10, 2021 19:32
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E. Revenant posted:It's a bunch of paint haphazardly strewn across a canvas for the purpose of fleecing art snobs. Pollock didn't randomly splash paint on canvas, he used fractals. Fractal analysis can actually be used to authenticate his paintings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollock#Fractal_computer_analysis
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Suleman posted:
You’ve just given me a total blast from the past with this,when i was about 3 or 4 i had a set of spiderman comics that were really raggedy (no front cover,pages just hanging on) If i remember correctly there was one spidey story where he chases a criminal down and the criminal throws an uzi into a schoolyard where a bullied kid gets hold of it,and another spidey story where he fights roman centurions in a floating castle. But this one i swear had mysterio get his bowl head shot to pieces and i found it really disturbing.
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It's finally occurred to me to post these here. The Idiot Root is a stupid story about a dumb villain but I happened to get issue 3/4 of that arc as a child and this sequence always stuck with me as something unusual and cool in comics of the early 90s. Basically, this psychic entity called The Idiot wants to eat Batman's mind, using a hallucinogenic root vegetable to draw him into an alternate dimension called The Idiot Zone, and once there Batman is immediately outplayed:  (his trip sitter is a local native teen named Zeno, and he's having a rough time of things in the sober world, as you can see in the top right here)   This plan ultimately doesn't work out but I really love this sequence.
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LordSaturn posted:It's finally occurred to me to post these here. The Idiot Root is a stupid story about a dumb villain but I happened to get issue 3/4 of that arc as a child and this sequence always stuck with me as something unusual and cool in comics of the early 90s. Norm Breyfogle is one of the best Batman artists
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Sep 12, 2021 19:36
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Found one! This is the floating castle one.  And the kid gun one 
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Sep 12, 2021 21:02
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:Found one! I had this one too and it's the first thing that comes to my mind still when I think of Sal Buscema. His trademarks like the saliva screaming mouth, insane beady eyes, and mega backhand attack are featured and left an impression on me.
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Heroes Return #1: The world has been warped with a cosmic cube to a world where there were never any Avengers and the only heroes in the world are the Squadron Supreme of America, a bunch of knock-offs of the Justice League but they're kind of assholes and the jingoism is cranked to 11. But after a long mission of tracking down heroes with their origins changed or minds wiped, the Avengers are finally ready to throw down (and they've lured everyone to Wakanda to throw down)  (it turns out vibranium is Hyperion's kryptonite)
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I might have to check out Heroes Reborn!
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Has Vibranium always been Hyperion's kryptonite?
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OnimaruXLR posted:Has Vibranium always been Hyperion's kryptonite? Nope, previously it was Argonite. Which is similar, but not the same as the element Argon. Just like how Kryptonite is similar but nor the same as the element Krypton.
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The Question IRL posted:Nope, previously it was Argonite. Which is similar, but not the same as the element Argon. Look, Gru really wanted to write for DC but never got the chance, okay?
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TwoPair posted:Heroes Return #1: The world has been warped with a cosmic cube to a world where there were never any Avengers and the only heroes in the world are the Squadron Supreme of America, a bunch of knock-offs of the Justice League but they're kind of assholes and the jingoism is cranked to 11. But after a long mission of tracking down heroes with their origins changed or minds wiped, the Avengers are finally ready to throw down (and they've lured everyone to Wakanda to throw down) I was super confused by this, because I was dipping in and out of Aaron's Avengers where he was setting up this confrontation, and to my knowledge it never happened in the book. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised it was it's own mini-event.
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LordSaturn posted:an alternate dimension called The Idiot Zone *frantically fumbling for the Edit Thread button* Alhazred posted:Pollock didn't randomly splash paint on canvas, he used fractals. Fractal analysis can actually be used to authenticate his paintings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollock#Fractal_computer_analysis Thank you, I grind my teeth when people are like "it's all just blobs and globs" about any and all abstract art but it's just not a hill I'm willing to die on anymore. One of my favorite places on earth was the Cy Twombly Fifty Days at Iliam room at the Philly Museum of Art, I must have spent a few dozen hours sitting in there over the years and it never ever started feeling less profound.
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How Wonderful! posted:That arc was a ton of fun, he really made Dr. Octopus' arms look menacing in a way nobody really had before. Say what you will about some of the narrative elements of the whole thing but I think his Doc Ock is one of the great comic book glow ups of the 90s. Statements like this always make me curious. I'm familiar with Doc Ock, but I'm not familiar with the before/after on how his arms looked and were portrayed. I just love seeing and learning this kind of thing. Is there any way you could throw together a quick example?
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ConfusedUs posted:Statements like this always make me curious. I'm familiar with Doc Ock, but I'm not familiar with the before/after on how his arms looked and were portrayed. I just love seeing and learning this kind of thing. Classic Dr. Octopus had arms that were relatively short. I'm assuming they're talking about how Larsen made Ock's arms waaaaay longer. And he used the longer arms to make panels that were filled with the arms in a way that made them seem impossible to avoid. They would all swirl and snake about each other, like living tendrils with a mind of their own. This didn't seem like a Dr. Octopus you could fight with the tactic of trying to tie some of the tentacles up in knots. Classic Romita:  Erik Larsen (although this example is a lot more suffocating with the amount of arms than I was even looking for in image searches. It didn't always look this extreme but it shows you what I mean) 
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Putting Ock in normalish clothes also makes the arms stand out a lot more and seem more menacing, but I can't remember if that was normal for the time or if he was just in the suit for that issue.
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Here's the image I was thinking of, from Spider-Man #18. Classic Doc Ock looks like a schlubby guy with metal arms. Erik Larsen's redesign makes him look a guy standing unruffled at the center of this weird squirmy maelstrom. It's like the ropey McFarlane webs-- and actually maybe kind of a counterpoint to them-- in that they emphasize the kinetic energy of the visual more than making strict spatial sense, and I think are more interesting for it.  For reference here's how he looked in his last appearance before that arc, Sensational Spider-Man #175 from about half a year prior.  As you can see Larsen's take already had some stickiness-- the longer, more serpentine tentacles as well as the kind of business casual look. And here's to my knowledge the earliest appearance of the Larsen-style Doc Ock, from 1990's Amazing Spider-Man #334:  Here's his last appearance prior to that (sort of-- I'm skipping over a one-panel cameo in Marvel Comics Presents #50), from 1989's Solo Avengers #17 where he's drawn by Al Milgrom.  Throughout most of the 80s he bounced between his classic green and orange bodysuit and a really dumb looking dentist smock thing, seen in green above but which also came in a fetching white.
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How Wonderful! posted:As you can see Larsen's take already had some stickiness-- the longer, more serpentine tentacles as well as the kind of business casual look. Bagley continued with it immediately after Larsen as well.  And again years later when he was on Ultimate Spider-Man (minus the business casual). 
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The coat is pretty obviously attempting to evoke Alfred Molina's Doc Ock from Spider-Man 2, but unfortunately it makes it look like they're all coming out of his stomach, which... ew. I like how the tentacles themselves look though.
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TwoPair posted:The coat is pretty obviously attempting to evoke Alfred Molina's Doc Ock from Spider-Man 2, but unfortunately it makes it look like they're all coming out of his stomach, which... ew. I like how the tentacles themselves look though. Ultimate Doc Ock has the tentacles front-mounted on a big girdle thing. So they kinda are coming from his stomach. It's probably the worst part of the character, who I otherwise find to be one of the best incarnations of the character.
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There's always the long-haired pumped-up Ock, which IIRC was when he'd been captured and mind-controlled, or at least brainwashed. 616, not Ultimate, and Matrix-style trenchcoat. Instead of being a dumpy little nerd, he looked more like he'd be disemboweling people with the arms... Dammit, now I'm going to be thrashing through ten years of assorted Spider-Overload to find this version. Hmmm. Post-original-Clone era, not 2099, pretty sure it was Parker. Pre-Civil War, not sure which side of Disassembled it was, but I want to say Spider-Menace was still solo.
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I posted that one because it's just a cool spread but yeah, before the Molina movie Ultimate Dr. Octopus was in a form-fitting green suit similar to his classic one, although he was in far better shape. And since this topic originally started from How Wonderful! talking about Larsen's Ock looking more menacing, Ultimate Dr. Octopus actually was more menacing than 616. Over the course of the series he had liquid metal shape-changing tentacles, electric shocks, and Magneto-esque telekinesis to create new tentacles out whatever metal's around.
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Ygolonac posted:There's always the long-haired pumped-up Ock, which IIRC was when he'd been captured and mind-controlled, or at least brainwashed. 616, not Ultimate, and Matrix-style trenchcoat. Instead of being a dumpy little nerd, he looked more like he'd be disemboweling people with the arms... I thought the tentacles looked awesome, though I remember thinking the suction-looking holes should have been on both sides even if that isn't accurate to a real octopus. 
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How Wonderful! posted:Here's the image I was thinking of, from Spider-Man #18. Classic Doc Ock looks like a schlubby guy with metal arms. Erik Larsen's redesign makes him look a guy standing unruffled at the center of this weird squirmy maelstrom. It's like the ropey McFarlane webs-- and actually maybe kind of a counterpoint to them-- in that they emphasize the kinetic energy of the visual more than making strict spatial sense, and I think are more interesting for it. Nice description, and I agree it's a good look for him.
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I always liked out neatly the tentacles emerged from the side of his white suit. Like he got it tailored specifically for his evil science.
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Lobok posted:I thought the tentacles looked awesome, though I remember thinking the suction-looking holes should have been on both sides even if that isn't accurate to a real octopus. BINGO! That's what I remember. (I also seem to remember that even on his own two feet, he's looming over Webbsy like he'd gotten taller.) Suction hole should obviously sprout fine-manipulation/specialised smaller tentacles. Swiss-Army Ock.
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TwoPair posted:Injustice Year Two #10: The Green Lantern Corps vs. Team Superman Pretty much the only DC I read is what shows up here + Funny Panels, but it's always bothered me that with the GL rings, capable of creating anything you can imagine (as long as it's green), 99% of the use they get just seems to be creating a big hammer or big shield. It's refreshing to see somewhat more creative use.
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