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Jan 17, 2005


It'd probably be prohibitively expensive but they really should have put one of those greeting card sound chips in each issue keyed so that whenever you turned to or from a page where Black Dynamite does something awesome you hear the DYNAMITE DYNAMITE.

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Jan 17, 2005


prefect posted:

As opposed to the American version, where a squad of heavily-armed soldiers assaulted the house Luke Cage was in at midnight the day the registration act went into action.

(We are the dumbest country.)

Or how the government called the guys who were supposed to enforce registration "Cape-killer Squads."

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Jan 17, 2005


Teenage Fansub posted:

Superman/Wonder Woman #4 had a crazy ending, so spoilers...
They've been having a big multi-issue fight with Zod and Faora, demonstrated the power of super-holding-hands


but got beat the gently caress up and thrown into a nuclear reactor, shielded from the sun.





So, uh, they're dead?

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Jan 17, 2005


FredMSloniker posted:

So, uh, did they write Lois out or something? Because the whole 'Superman and Wonder Woman are an item' thing never worked for me.

When they restarted everything with New 52 Clark and Lois weren't together or even interested in each other.

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Jan 17, 2005


Hyperactive posted:

I know this is Superhero Comic Books and everything, but nothing about that is how reactors work. :colbert:

Pretty sure that's not how atomic explosions work either.

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Jan 17, 2005


Was reading the manga series The Vinland Saga and came across something I thought was pretty badass. The series is mainly set during the Viking conquest of England and follows several characters, one of them is Thorfinn son of Thors who used to be a real killer. He spends a good chunk of the series on a quest for revenge only to have it taken away from him as the object of his revenge is killed. In his anger he attacks King Canute of England, who in revenge sells Thorfinn into slavery (lots of revenge going on.) This scene takes place years later as King Canute (who is now king of Denmark too) attacks the farming village Thorfinn has been living in as a slave. In the intervening years Thorfinn has renounced violence and is now trying to broker a peace between Canute and the landowner.
(remember, read right to left I also skipped some pages for brevity's sake)











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Jan 17, 2005


KittenofDoom posted:

I gave it up originally because of the ultra-violence and gore. But yes, we were mistaken.

The ultra violence makes sense in retrospect as the author is telling a story about how violence changes a man. Thorfinn took his experiences from a lifetime of violence and decided to reject the idea, while Canute went in the opposite direction.

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Jan 17, 2005


From the latest volume of Punisher issue 5.

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Jan 17, 2005


For some reason when he moved to LA Frank started wearing a mask.

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Jan 17, 2005


That Qui-Gon stuff is definitely a retcon because Lucas' whole thing with the Force is that there is no "grey" version. Its either Light or Dark, with Light being the natural state and Dark being wrong.

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Jan 17, 2005


BetterToRuleInHell posted:

Hasn't Bucky's WWII escapades been retconned at this point to have been a teenage killing machine? Like, he was doing straight up wetworks for the government because Captain America was the clean image US hero?

Pretty sure that the whole Winter Solider arc retconned Bucky to 16 at the start of the war so by the time Cap got frozen he was 21.

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Jan 17, 2005


Ariong posted:

Did Tony turn evil at some point?

He's not evil, he's just being pragmatic.

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Jan 17, 2005


OldTennisCourt posted:

Isn't Franklin Richards the most powerful being in the Marvel universe? Essentially his mutant power is the ability to completely remake reality IIRC.

Technically yes, but his powers are kind of limited right now in that he has to gather his strength before he can do anything big.

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Jan 17, 2005


The JMS one is fine but like a lot of his recent stuff it just kind of peters out as he loses interest.

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Jan 17, 2005


Lurdiak posted:

I wonder if Martian Manhunter will undie by the time the series ends. He's in the game, but only as DLC, and you could argue he's the one from the "good" universe...

He was hanging out in the background of one of the stages before he became DLC.

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Jan 17, 2005


Ashcans posted:

Did Cyke just blow Magneto's head off? That's pretty hardcore.

No, he just blew the helmet up.

Wolverine ends up cutting Magneto's head off shortly after this.

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Jan 17, 2005


CharlestheHammer posted:

Wasn't Mags presumed dead before Morrison's run as well?

Well, Morrison "killed" Magneto at the very start of his run with the destruction of Genosha.

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Jan 17, 2005


He's already pretty much back to being a villain in his own book. Or at least a super dark anti-hero.

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Jan 17, 2005


Wasn't there something about Joker Gas and Fear Toxin being similar?

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Jan 17, 2005


This was posted in another subforum but I think it belongs here too.

Nckdictator posted:

Man, old EC Comics were great














Mostly because it was published in 1953

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Jan 17, 2005


IUG posted:

That reminds me of that sci-fi short with the astronaut checking in on a robot society. It was also incredibly ahead of its time for when it was published.

Shockingly enough that was also in an EC publication.

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Jan 17, 2005


I was being sarcastic.

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Jan 17, 2005


A problem with Kingdom Come is that some of it can be kind of baffling to someone who isn't up on a lot of DC characters.

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Jan 17, 2005


Pretty much all of the new issue of Mighty Avengers could go in this thread, especially the first splash page. LUKE CAGE: THE UNBREAKABLE MAN

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Jan 17, 2005


Someone should post the panels from the recent annual that shows how Hyperion deals with a kidnapper.

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Jan 17, 2005


When the new Thor picked up the hammer the wording changed to "She" from he.

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Jan 17, 2005


Heresiarch posted:

Oh, so the regular Marvel universe got its own White Event and generated its own set of archetypes, I see.

Just a Starbrand and Nightmask. The big difference is that the guy who ends up as Starbrand isn't the kind of person who should have been given power. Although he eventually grows into it.

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Jan 17, 2005


delfin posted:

Silver Age Barry had no time for that poo poo. (Flash v1 #196, 200)





Of course the new problem is that he's snapped the president's neck.

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Jan 17, 2005


Speed in the recent Young Avengers worked for a company that paid him to construct things super quick. He mentions that while it was a split second to outside observers he just spent multiple subjective weeks working on the project.

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Jan 17, 2005


Lurdiak posted:

At least as far as shonen series go, I believe they publish weekly installments for Shonen Jump and it would be very unfortunate for them to miss a week.

Big name mangaka also famously have teams of uncredited art assistants that help them stay timely.

While the assistants don't get credit on the book it is a useful career path to get a foot in the door.

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Jan 17, 2005


KittenofDoom posted:

I understand if it's war or whatever, but did Black Bolt just kill a bunch of dudes?

Black Bolt is a king, he kills who he wants.

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Jan 17, 2005


JediTalentAgent posted:

One theory is that close-fitting fabric gets a protected by an energy field generated by his supercells. Cape, on the other hand, is too far out for the energy field to extend and protect.

In the Silver Age both the cape and costume were just indestructible as was anything else that came from Krypton.

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Jan 17, 2005


Ignite Memories posted:

Man, they probably shouldn't have been mining all that indestructibilium out of the planet, huh? Might have come in handy staying where it was.

No, see, just like Kryptonians are normal on their homeworld and indestructible on Earth so is anything they make. Because mhmhmhmh

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Jan 17, 2005


SynthOrange posted:

That metal bikini still looks pinchy as hell.

It kind of looks like it has leather backing and it isn't just chainmail.

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Jan 17, 2005


The Infinity event also has a really badass Thor moment when he convinces the Kree to fight back against the Builders.

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Jan 17, 2005


Of course in the end the Builders were right. Everything dies. Although even blowing up the Earth wouldn't have stopped what was coming.

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Jan 17, 2005


Drifter posted:

Who taint-reaped him?

Mad Celestials

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Jan 17, 2005


Lurdiak posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfmqSOr2-NY&t=396s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL3_VWmFEcU

Storm rules, 90s X-men cartoon rules, X-men Evolution is a forgotten aberration.

I like how Scott has to press so many buttons to do that.

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Jan 17, 2005


He also has a stupid costume.

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Jan 17, 2005


bobkatt013 posted:

Secret Wars involve the Beyonder and battle planets. Secret War involves Nick Fury sending in a team of heroes illegally to overthrown Latveria's non- Doom government.

Because it turned out they were secretly funding a bunch of low level tech villains, paying for their equipment and sending them off to cause mayhem by robbing banks and other crimes.

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