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Vinland Saga Backstory: Askeladd is the leader of a band of Vikings who have rescued/captured the prince and are trying to take him back to the king for a reward, but they're being chased by a another group of Vikings who are bigger, meaner, and tougher than they are. Askeladd's men decide to betray him and beg mercy from the other group. It's manga so read right-to-left    
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Gnome de plume posted:America's rear end deserves better treatment than this
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Reading Blue Lock, cause I'm enjoying the anime. It's basically Squid Game But Football. Japan sets out to make the worlds best egotistical Striker, and puts 300 high school kids in a facility to go about creating it. If you get eliminated you forfeit your right to ever compete in Football ever again. Artwork loving rules. (2nd panel should read 'Your light')     Chapter 137
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Holy gently caress Do A Powerbomb might be my favourite comic ever. Spoilers for the FINAL ISSUE below. For those who haven't been following along, that's a father/daughter tag team hitting their finisher on literal god.
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Alacron posted:Vinland Saga By way of explanation, Askeladd is Welsh. Obvious, really.
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Do you like The Boys? Do you like Super Sentai? What if we combined those and the Rangers are just straight up loving arseholes? Behold Go! Go! Loser Ranger! / Sentai Daishikkaku  Which I just discovered via this trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNQycYTWllI
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Dec 31, 2022 13:28
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The appeal of The Boys is completely lost on me, but I'll give this a once-over.
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Dec 31, 2022 17:02
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Antony Starr’s performance is one to behold
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Dec 31, 2022 17:40
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The issue with Sentai Daishikkaku is that the Sentai crew is sometimes slightly monstrous to people directly around them, but some of them are straight heroic, and the monsters are....still invading monsters. gently caress'em.
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Dec 31, 2022 18:37
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Yeah from what I've read, which granted isn't much, it's kind of a C-list Sentai parody. The jokes aren't quite jokey enough and the grim is a little too grim. it ain't no sunred that's for drat sure
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Dec 31, 2022 21:15
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Joe Fisto posted:Antony Starr’s performance is one to behold Jensen Ackles as Not Captain America is so goddamn good 
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Dec 31, 2022 21:43
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Malachite_Dragon posted:The appeal of The Boys is completely lost on me, but I'll give this a once-over. The comic was considered pretty weak here, even on release back in the day, and the show isn't some unsung classic, but through a willingness to focus on the entertainment industry sleaze aspect and some strong casting choices they make it work quite well. It helps a lot that overt real-life fascists in the last decade have made the otherwise very very tired idea of a dark, corrupted Superman feel topical and relevant. I swear actually having read comics from the 80s-00s, watching manchildren and mental welterweights bug me about how "fresh" it is to see poo poo like Invincible, Brightburn, The Boys, BvS, gently caress even Eternals after a fashion, do the "oh so the traditional flying brick with laser eyes would actually be scary." I swear it's like living in a loving time warp. mind the walrus fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Dec 31, 2022 |
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The Boys' TV adaptation has also been taking the smart angle of explicitly tying it to the current political and cultural moment. The supes are wetwork political operatives as well as being entertainment product, and the show goes out of its way to implicate public demand -- the audience itself, really -- in the way things go wrong, instead of just depicting them as victims.
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Dec 31, 2022 23:41
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Yeah being a super hero isn’t terribly important to what the boys is about. They could just be super powered CIA agents and it would be the same
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The Boys (the show) is good, because its main thesis is basically "Lex Luthor Is Right". Even with a squeaky clean image, the existence of a Superman is the sociological equivalent of the Exxon-Valdez.
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Flesh Forge posted:Jensen Ackles as Not Captain America is so goddamn good His delivery of "Buddy, you're wearing a cape" is so good.
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Infinitum posted:Do you like The Boys? I really, really hope Steven Kostanski gets to make a sequel to Psycho Goreman with an rear end in a top hat Ranger squad
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  Both from Action Comics #1050
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Is Superman Goku now?
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No, he can just beat Goku. 
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One More Fat Nerd posted:The Boys (the show) is good, because its main thesis is basically "Lex Luthor Is Right". 
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mind the walrus posted:The comic was considered pretty weak here, even on release back in the day, and the show isn't some unsung classic, but through a willingness to focus on the entertainment industry sleaze aspect and some strong casting choices they make it work quite well. I liked The Boys better in 1989 when it was called Marshal Law.
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Dawgstar posted:No, he can just beat Goku. So we're back to the cosmically-powered pre-Crisis Superman, huh..
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   Source: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : The Armageddon Game - The Alliance
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Luthor is just as much a turd in the sociological punch bowl as Supes. More so, I would argue. "I do not understand you and you do not use your powers the way I would if I had them, therefore you are hiding something and dangerous."
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Luthor is just as much a turd in the sociological punch bowl as Supes. More so, I would argue. "I do not understand you and you do not use your powers the way I would if I had them, therefore you are hiding something and dangerous."
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Luthor is just as much a turd in the sociological punch bowl as Supes. More so, I would argue. "I do not understand you and you do not use your powers the way I would if I had them, therefore you are hiding something and dangerous." 10,000% this. Luthor is just a jealous little poo poo.
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Nessus posted:I think the real tragedy of Luthor is that if he cooperated, they would have been the real World's Finest Team, and Luthor's vast talents could have gone into doing all that poo poo people wish Reed Richards would do. Superman would even doubtless be fine with Luthor taking point and having the glory. To quote Superman, "if it had mattered to you Luthor, you could have saved the world years ago"
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Luthor really does embody the projection ("obviously he's just virtue signalling because he harbors darker motives just like the rest of us"), zero-sum thinking ("his very existence diminishes me"), and grievance culture ("he's getting in the way of my greatness") of the modern right wing.
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usenet celeb 1992 posted:Luthor really does embody the projection ("obviously he's just virtue signalling because he harbors darker motives just like the rest of us"), zero-sum thinking ("his very existence diminishes me"), and grievance culture ("he's getting in the way of my greatness") of the modern right wing. Agreed, I think writers sometimes look too for the WELL ACTUALLY THE GOOD IS ACTUALLY BAD BECAUSE thing because the powerful people around us, even if they do something good, feels like there is an ulterior motive behind it. Didn't Spider-Man also callout Green Goblin for the same thing when Norman said Peter wasted his talents and is lazy? Peter points out that GG/Norman could of solved cancer by now.
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Mooseontheloose posted:Peter points out that GG/Norman could of solved cancer by now. 
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usenet celeb 1992 posted:Luthor really does embody the projection ("obviously he's just virtue signalling because he harbors darker motives just like the rest of us"), zero-sum thinking ("his very existence diminishes me"), and grievance culture ("he's getting in the way of my greatness") of the modern right wing. Reposted from the funny pictures thread: SimonChris posted:
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This is as good a place to bring it up as any, but I always found that Millar going "Norman was always super evil and becoming the Goblin just made him crazy" resulted in him being a lot more generic than he had been previously. It's been kind of salvaged since then by making it so that Norman has all these ambitions of greatness with the Goblin persona acting like an impulse-driven roadblock to his greater aspirations, but at the time I thought it was pretty lame
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OnimaruXLR posted:Norman has all these ambitions of greatness with the Goblin persona acting like an impulse-driven roadblock to his greater aspirations Yep, as with Luthor's obsession with Superman, they blame Spider-Man/Superman for getting in the way of their ambitions, it's actually the obsession with them that's getting in their own way (or allowing them to divert attention away from their own shortcomings). Again, like the MAGA movement.
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Osborn may not have been super evil but he was never good. He was a wealthy industrialist who by his own admission screwed over Mendell Stromm and sent him to prison. Dude was ruining lives for his own ambition before the Goblin accident happened.
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No Norman (GG) vs Parker (SM) is a classic retelling of inter generational conflict with a wealthy old guy feeling threatened by an up and coming youth. While his forward facing persona is cordial to the youth his inner envy and greed (green goblin a bit on the nose) strives to destroy this perceived threat and in doing so becomes defined by his deficiencies.
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This is why Doc Ock is the better villain because he's the dark reflection of Peter. A science nerd weakling who was given power through accident and went on a different path where he instead just did octopus themed crimes like robbing an ink store or stealing 8 cars.
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Push El Burrito posted:This is why Doc Ock is the better villain because he's the dark reflection of Peter. A science nerd weakling who was given power through accident and went on a different path where he instead just did octopus themed crimes like robbing an ink store or stealing 8 cars. And he did the Drax thing originally, being like "You can't even see me, for just like the octopus I have expertly camouflaged myself" (actually he's impossible to miss because sun is reflecting so bad off his chrome tentacles everyone is walking by flipping him the bird like a driver with their high beams on)
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Suleman posted:
Gah, I am so behind on my TMNT reading and this makes me want to catch up.
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