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Die Laughing posted:They received death threats over Captain America, and the mayor of New York told them he has their back. I think they're both equally bad rear end stories, and they both precede major cultural shifts. Curious what Captain America storyline this was.
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It's funny that my friends who don't read comics often love Civil War. I think when you take character no-one knows the history behind and turn them into broad characters devoid of backhistory you can appeal to a big market.
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Mar 11, 2014 23:55
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Metal Loaf posted:Kind of like Identity Crisis in that respect. Well yes, if we didn't know that the world's best detective wasn't really incompetent.
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Mar 12, 2014 00:40
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Jerusalem posted:
Well Edison once electrocuted an elephant to prove to people that Tesla was going to kill their children or something. Maybe some people just enjoy killing elephants in crazy ways because they can. Also because they are crazy.
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Mar 21, 2014 16:08
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Parahexavoctal posted:Lot of nice scenes in the original Suicide Squad - for instance, Gort vs Deadshot. Deadshot is all kinds of awesome!    From the Deadshot mini written by Gage. For context Deadshot finds out that he had a daughter with some hooker he slept with years ago. Deadshot being big into family (read the Ostrander trade if you haven't) decides to provide for his kid. Turns out her and her mother live in dodgy neighbourhood so Deadshot decides to make it a safe place for his daughter the only way he knows how ie killing all the gangsters there. One of his old buddies turns up and decides to take over the neighbourhood now that there is no competition. The above shows how well that goes.
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May 8, 2014 21:18
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BioTech posted:I bought the omni a few months back and enjoyed it. Grant Morrison wrote about Marshal Law in Supergods, I think it was about how this was the first comic dealing with the perversion of the super hero ideal. It plays with a lot of the sexual background, deviancy, superheroes becoming a fetish for "normals", but none of it feels as immature like Ennis' The Boys did to me. The sex wasn't the focus, but it was an aspect of the stories. There is some Vietnam criticism in there as well, the same Judge Dredd-esque critique on the US that gets posted here every now and then. Our library got the omni. Initially I was expecting it to be a whole lot of "aren't superheroes stupid. Look how stupid they are" kind of parody, but the book has a surprising amount of heart to it. That being said it comes across as much more cynical form of Kingdom Come, or rather Kingdom Come comes up as a much more optimistic Marshal Law.
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Jul 3, 2014 20:08
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Shark week you say:  I heart King Shark All from Secret Six.
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Aug 12, 2014 17:52
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PoptartsNinja posted:Isn't the Blob's power actually gravity control, and he's just really stupid? Yea, he can control gravity so he can make himself completely unmovable, or move like a speed runner. There was an issue of X-Factor where he fights Strong Guy and SG mentions that watching the Blob run is like watching the ballerina hippos in Fantasia.
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Aug 12, 2014 22:45
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Knightfall had some really good storyarcs, and it was quite a unique story before Arkham got destroyed every second week storylines happened. It was nice to see Bruce get pushed to the ultimate limit and such with something mundane like having to face all his rogues at once. Then stuff like Hush happened and it just felt so diluted.
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Aug 18, 2014 21:24
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Lurdiak posted:My favorite interpretation of Joker has always been that he's a little bit crazy but acts way crazier for attention and to prove some nonsense point about society. Like in the Animated Series, when he'd make some grand soliloquy about chaos and then when his plan goes to poo poo he'd just cut out like any two bit villain, dropping the crazy act immediately. Batman: Under the Hood by Winnick played around with this idea quite a bit when Todd confronted the Joker and basically called him out on his bullshit. I wish I could find the panels because it is pretty badass to see Joker getting a talking down to.
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Aug 20, 2014 05:50
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Squidster posted:
I really dig the at in that one, and it's always great having someone call Joker on his poo poo.
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Aug 20, 2014 16:13
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Senor Candle posted:Man I wanted to see the racist crybaby responses Seeing as it was a letters page and not some comments section where they could anonymously post some vitriol about political correctness gone amok, I like to think that they didn't receive to much, and any that they did were probably written with so much vitriol and hatred that they couldn't print them anyway.
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Aug 20, 2014 22:19
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SirDan3k posted:The inscription hammer has also said "Whosoever holds this hammer, if they be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor." for a few years, not that anybody remembers or that the gendered pronoun matters considering Jane Foster/Thordis predates a big old chunk of stuff. Yes, but that get any press back in the day?
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Sep 8, 2014 23:15
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Trast posted:Are you guys really having a discussion about the writing on a fictional hammer and its inconsistency over the years? Fandom posted:
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Sep 9, 2014 01:11
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ManiacClown posted:Maybe fix perspective on The Spectre, but yeah, the vengeful right hand of God riding a T-rex is a pretty boss image. drat, I need a van. Not only is he riding the dinosaur, his legs are one with the dinosaur. The vengeful right hand of God is literally half dinosaur!
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Oct 1, 2014 22:19
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Rough Lobster posted:Yeah which of Batman's villains were black again? Black Mask 
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Oct 10, 2014 16:44
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I kind of read it as I....(know what, gently caress you, I am your superior in everyway) DARKSEID.
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Oct 29, 2014 21:13
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Wanderer posted:As somebody who shares that general look and ancestry, both Tim and Harry are basically the Generic White UK Teenager. It's always fun to watch a Potterhead discover Books of Magic and get all worked up about it for a day or so. They are both rip offs of Tommy Taylor.
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Oct 30, 2014 02:34
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:His enemy's face, no. Wolverine's lower back and glutes, well why not? "Hi, question for Ms. Bellamy. In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes that same rib twice in succession yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we, to believe that this is some sort of a, a magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder."
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Nov 30, 2014 22:47
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Kelp Plankton posted:
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Dec 2, 2014 20:14
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Cornwind Evil posted:That's actually in his power set slash name: he's compelled to take risks. And to be fair, in losing his first arm we never see him actually run up to Prime; he showed up with like 40 other superheroes and then when Prime snapped and started murdering and maiming it was 'panel DEAD C-LISTER, panel-DEAD C-LISTER, panel-ARM REMOVED', meaning Prime might very well have blurred over to him at super speed and done it. So his power set is that he is a perpetual darwin awards nominee.
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Last night Detective Flass appeared on Gotham. It reminded me of this: From Batman: Year One. Note the baseball bat. Gordon gave that to Flass to make the fight more even.
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Jan 27, 2015 18:31
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Dan Didio posted:The best examination of Jor-El's ravings will always be during Frankie Boyle's Chain Reaction interview of Grant Morrison, where they note that it's pretty ironic that Jor-El sent his kid to another dying planet. He just wanted his baby to feel at home.
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I never got whether WW was an ambassador of peace or a powerful warrior who will fight til her dying breath. I blame the writers.
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Apr 9, 2015 04:39
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Dan Didio posted:She's both. Don't blame the writers. I was being facetious. No real problems from me for WW.
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The Question IRL posted:It may be a human reaction, but it's not a good reaction for police officers. Fair enough but I think the point is that the police officers are also human beings with human feelings (yes even the robot). When Irma's partner dies and she goes on the rampage it is because she is feeling human grief. When they really want the pedophile creep dude to pay for his crimes it is because they are feeling human anger. Maybe sometime in the future in the real world we can have a police force that is void of human emotions but what the comic book is trying to show is that these characters have human emotions that dictate their decisions.
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Apr 28, 2015 18:46
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Kellsterik posted:Actually that was good, and not bad. It was destruction without consequences. At least BvS is going to deal with the aftermath of the destruction of Metropolis. In Avengers 2 Tony and the Hulk destroy some random African city and no-one seems to care.
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This is the badass thread so we should be showing badass things. Here are the most badass things involving Prometheus. Catwoman whipping him in the dick.   ....and him gaining the physical fighting powers of Stephen Hawking (yes I know this was all mentioned before). Moral of the story: Prometheus was a chump.
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Jul 20, 2015 16:56
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Sandman dealt with murderers a lot better than Punisher could ever hope to deal with them. And also in a more badass way:  (Sandman: Dolls House). Basically by removing their twisted fantasies where they are the ubermensch, the heroes of a stupid society, the kings who can take what they want, Morpheus exposed them for what they really are....pathetic little people who hurt others to make themselves feel better. And by exposing that, they can no longer lie to themselves and they can live with the knowledge from now on that they are just terrible people. It is never stated but I always thought that the next stage from this would have the killers feel empathy for the first time in their life.
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flosofl posted:It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure Dream doesn't give a poo poo about rehabilitation or really relate to humanity very well (see what he did with a woman he loved out of wounded pride). He really only cares about the Dreamlands and he was there to reign in the Corinthian. I always got the sense he punished the "Collectors" because he found them offensive. It usually seems his punishments are meted out to those that offended or attempted (or have) harmed him directly or those under his care. Yea Dream doesnt really care for the killers one way or another and only deals with them because of their connection with Corinthian but he still deals out punishment that fits the crime. There isnt something spiteful about it. He dislikes the people because he sees Corinthian in them, and he sees Corinthian as his failed experiment.
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Aug 3, 2015 03:30
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Did Ali ever comment about the Superman vs Ali book? Was he a fan?
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Aug 27, 2015 17:52
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It kind of blows my mind that Hollywood still hasn't caught up to Jack Kirby.
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Aug 28, 2015 19:25
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Alhazred posted:Latveria seems to have a really low credit rating: Forget Fantastic Four. Fox should make this into a movie instead, while keeping the original dialog. Where's my money, Honey? indeed.
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Sep 21, 2015 22:24
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Toshimo posted:Galactus reproduces asexually. Does he even have a dick to punch? Well how does he get rid of waste?
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Oct 16, 2015 22:34
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Is it too late to talk about favourite Punisher moments because mine is the issue when he gets his skin colour turned black and teams up with Luke Cage 
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Nov 9, 2015 18:54
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Minarchist posted:It's goddamned awesome is what it is What makes it better for me is that I keep reading Frank's lines with a Alvin and Chipmunks voice in my head.
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Nov 9, 2015 19:44
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Was getting some serious "I Kill Giants" vibe from that.
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Dec 3, 2015 05:03
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Gaz-L posted:Prez is basically a Vertigo book that for some reason has mainline branding on it. As much as I love Prez, this part kind of confuses me. How is Prez not a Vertigo title?
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Dec 3, 2015 22:59
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WickedHate posted:I was talking about the storyline of the new Cap run, which I'm not reading but caused Fox News to throw a tantrum because the white supremacist bad guys are anti immigration. Have a consolation classic from a world where Steve was revived later than usual and replaced by a racist fascist: It's amazing how something written 40 odd years ago can be the best rebuttal to Trump's "Make America great again" campaign.
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Lurdiak posted:I was really annoyed that Rogue's powers worked on him in that episode. I always thought she absorbed his rage but not his powers. It's been years since I have seen that episode but I thought it was more his memories and anger and maybe a little bit of energy.
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