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DACK FAYDEN posted:I didn't realize Humongoloid was actually retarded when he was giant. I feel like there was a line about that that I missed. Although Dr. Entmann was based mostly on Marvel superhero Ant-Man (who also went through phases as Giant-Man, Goliath, and then small again as Yellowjacket), there was actually another size-changing superhero who got stupider as he grew larger. Maul, a member of the Wildcats (a '90s X-Men ripoff team book that actually got really drat good later on) was super-strong but dumb as a giant, a brilliant scientist as a normal, skinny, nerdy guy, and a super-genius if he could decrease his mass further -- not by shrinking like Ant-Man or the Atom, but by turning into a wrinkly, wizened old man.
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I figured Tosh Tompkins = Flash Thompson (Peter Parker's bully who was a big Spider-Man fan and later becomes Venom), but I wondered if Tosh was also a reference to comedian Daniel Tosh, for a douchey bro type.
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And he dresses like Steve Jobs.
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Edge & Christian posted:I mean, Stan Lee leaned on that fairly heavily (Bruce Banner, Peter Parker, Reed Richards, Stephen Strange, J. Jonah Jameson) but still repeatedly referred to Hulk as "Bob Banner" (and Spider-Man as Superman) in early comics. I believe he's thrown the "can't remember names, alliteration makes them easier" thing out there in interviews, but the bulk of Lee's superhero work started in the 1960s, a couple of decades after the establishment of Lois Lane (1938), Billy Batson (1939), Blue Beetle (1939), Lex Luthor (1940), Archie Andrews (1941), etc etc etc I love alliterative names due to their comic booky sound. DC also has Wally West, Guy Gardner, Freddy Freeman, Lana Lang, Lori Lemaris, Zatanna Zatara, and Hector Hall, but Marvel has them beaten, to the point where I associate alliterative names with Stan Lee and the Silver Age in general.
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Angular Landbury posted:I'll admit I had a lot of sleep deprived introspection regarding the fact that he pissed after absorbing the clones. Was the pee just from the main Copycat or do they clone with their own pee? Does the pee consolidate after they reabsorb? Copycat seems to be based loosely on the Marvel character Jamie Madrox, aka Multiple Man. He can create physically identical "dupes" through any physical impact -- getting punched, stamping his feet, even clapping his hands hard. The dupes all retain facets of his personality but function independently, and they typically work together, as commanded by "Jamie Prime." Madrox can reabsorb his dupes when he is in close enough proximity to them, and then he gains any memories, skills, or sensations the dupes experienced. Any new dupes will share the combined experiences of Madrox and any of his previous dupes. To this end, he sent dozens of dupes out into the world to earn law and medical degrees, study martial arts, escape artistry, and forensic science, learn multiple languages and hacking skills, train as an Olympic gymnast and a SHIELD agent, and more, and then he reabsorbed them all and got all their skills to share with future dupes. I think that would be an awesome super power to have, and he is one of my favorite Marvel characters. I'm not saying Copycat's powers work the same way, but the stomping his feet to create dupes made me think of him immediately.
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Such a spot-on perfect Goodfellas homage, and a perfect episode in general.
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Bust Rodd posted:However, I feel like Hank & Dean have gotten the least amount of screen time. This was pretty much all about the Monarch and a little bit about Rusty and his entourage, Hank & Dean each get one side-plot in one episode each. Title is still accurate when it focuses on Monarch and Rusty. Just sayin'.
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I saw Christopher McCulloch's name in the credits for Amazon's new Tick pilot, as some kind of producer.
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Aug 21, 2016 18:14
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I have seasons 1 and 2 on DVD and would sell them together, if anyone here would be interested. I don't have PM, but e-mail me at saxman2 AT hotmail.com .
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Jan 16, 2017 22:51
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I just watched the low-budget indie comedy/"horror" movie Dave Made a Maze, which happens to star a Mr. James Urbaniak. It was a lot of fun, and it's on Hulu, for anyone who has it.
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Would anyone still be interested in buying any of the Venture Bros. Shirt Club shirts? I ended up with two that are brand-new and have never been worn, and they're too small for me. (I wear an XL.) I have: DEAN! shirt (faded light brown shirt with dark brown ring around the neck and '70s-style DEAN! font) - American Apparel L. HENCH shirt (light gray shirt with a stylized '60s Batman-style HENCH graphic with 21's face) - Tee Fury M.
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Warbird posted:I might be, can you post some photos? Also how is the quality of the shirt? The World Inferno posted:If no one's claimed these, I'd totally pick up the DEAN! shirt. Sorry about the delay. These both look on the small side to me, but I'm built a bit more like 21 than Dean, and don't feel comfortable in T-shirts that aren't a roomy XL. They definitely look new.  
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Ugly In The Morning posted:It’s always weird seeing him do live action stuff. I had Law and Order SVU on the other day and he played a perv with a bunch of toilet cams and it was disconcerting. Urbaniak played a truly depraved pornographer in the truly awful Amazon Prime series Too Old to Die Young, co-created by Nicholas Winding Refn and comic book writer Ed Brubaker. I know what he looks like and always look forward to him popping up in things as a character actor, but this was something else. He was introduced in a chilling and excruciating ten-minute sequence of him interviewing a young dude on camera, and then commanding a bunch of menacing-looking guys looming in the background to rape him... in Dr. Venture's voice.
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QuarkJets posted:So I guess it's the chuddy people who haven't seen the show at all, then? Cause yeah he is basically a Village Person Shore Leave is based directly on Shipwreck from G.I. Joe, who was inspired by Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail. But a handful of G.I. Joe characters looked a hell of a lot like the Village People if you put them together: Shipwreck (sailor with beard) Wild Bill (cowboy with mustache) Spirit (stereotypical Native American) Tollbooth (construction worker) Gung Ho ("leatherman" with handlebar mustache, cap, and vest with no shirt, except he wore turquoise camo instead of black) And that's where Jackson and Doc got their O.S.I. = G.I. Joe + Village People idea.
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The aforementioned Cobra comics published by IDW are a separate continuity from Larry Hama's long-running G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero series that ran through Marvel, IDW, and is now at Skybound/Image, over 40 years and 300 issues later. And as much love as I have for Hama's work, that Cobra series, written by Mike Costa with Christos Gage, is my favorite G.I. Joe/Cobra material of all time. The Cobra: The Last Laugh arc (collected in an out of print hardcover volume that I highly recommend to all) is up there with the best comics of the last 20 years.
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