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Hello true believers, have a question about how people close to Superman can be fooled by a pair of glasses and mussed up hair? Want to know how all the Robins died? Why is Aunt May still alive? How many kids do Cyclops and Jean Grey have, anyway? Well here's the place to ask your questions a comic characters, history, and the industry itself. There are a few things that should not be brought up here however: *Questions about the sex lives of superheroes/villains Those answers can be found on DeviantArt or Rule34. No one cares what you beat it to. *Who's better Marvel or DC? Artist A or Writer X? Those aren't usually paths that lead to good answers or discussions. Though you could ask why a certain someone's art always looks like porn poses... *Who would win in a fight, Pre-crisis Superman or Wolverine with the Power Cosmic? A fun thought experiment, but nothing more. Again, no one cares what you beat it to. *Discussion about topics that already have threads. That's what the other threads are there for. Ask about comic movie stuff in the Comic Movie thread. A lost of series have their own threads: Transformers, Green Lantern, X-men *What comic should I read next? There's nothing wrong with this question, but you're probably better off asking in the Recommendation Thread Also, go ahead and feel free to ask "What is my collection of comics worth?" but there are really only two answers: 1) Only what someone is willing to pay for it. 2) Not much. Probably less than 50 cents each.
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Sorry this is a price check on the first page, but I'm having trouble finding info online. I have a white cover street fighter ultimate edition. I can find the black evil ryu cover and the akuma cover but not the white ryu cover. Any ideas on the price of it? Edit http://www.comiccollectorlive.com/L...3e-6e3ecc609676
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Feb 26, 2014 23:42
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Which writer is responsible for inventing the Speed Force as a concept?
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Feb 26, 2014 23:45
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Metal Loaf posted:Which writer is responsible for inventing the Speed Force as a concept? Mark Waid.
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Feb 26, 2014 23:56
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That's actually quite surprising. It doesn't seem that recent.
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Feb 27, 2014 00:16
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gently caress me, I really hate the comixology reader! Is there a program that converts comixology files in .cbr? I read on my laptop and flip it bookways when I get digital comics. Even using my settings to rotate the screen sideways, Comixology, on full screen is a pile of poo poo that makes me scroll. How the gently caress are pirated comics able to be read more conveniently than ones that actually see the creators getting paid? Soonmot fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Feb 27, 2014 |
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Feb 27, 2014 02:42
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I used to be able to grab the page jpgs from Firefox's cache after loading the comic. That hasn't worked in a while. I don't think it's a bad except for going pretty low res on double page spreads. You should check out the Marvel Unlimited reader. Woof.
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Feb 27, 2014 03:42
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Soonmot posted:How the gently caress are pirated comics able to be read more conveniently than ones that actually see the creators getting paid? They scan them from the actual books.
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Feb 27, 2014 03:53
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Has there ever been a Batman story titled "Dark Knight of the Soul"?
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Feb 27, 2014 04:10
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Metal Loaf posted:That's actually quite surprising. It doesn't seem that recent. It's not especially recent. Mark Waid's run started with this issue, in mid-1992. That's as far from this issue as it is from this one.
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Feb 27, 2014 04:22
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Teenage Fansub posted:I used to be able to grab the page jpgs from Firefox's cache after loading the comic. That hasn't worked in a while. That doesn't get me Rat Queens when my LCS forgets to order it. I'd love to go totally digital and just get trades from Amazon, but reading on comixology is poo poo. I mean, I guess I could just buy it from comixology and then hit up the pbay, but at some point I'm just going to decide it's easier to pirate a readable format instead of pay and pirate. \/\/\/ But a tablet is even smaller than my laptop screen? .cbrs flipped 90 degrees read perfectly. Soonmot fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Feb 27, 2014 |
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Feb 27, 2014 04:25
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Time for a tablet.
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Feb 27, 2014 05:11
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Soonmot posted:\/\/\/ But a tablet is even smaller than my laptop screen? .cbrs flipped 90 degrees read perfectly. What resolution is your laptop screen? My 9" Nook HD+ has a 1080p screen, cost $150 on sale, and is much nicer to read comics on than my 1366x768 15" laptop turned sideways, not to mention the size and bulk of a laptop and being able to hold a tablet closer to your face and the tablet having much better viewing angles. My friend has the older Nexus 7 with a 1280×800 7" screen and has almost no problems (has to zoom in a bit on double page spreads).
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Feb 27, 2014 05:30
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Continuing a discussion about the Golden Age from the old thread:Random Stranger posted:Roy Thomas is the last of the golden age fan boys. And I mean that literally; he was a fanboy in the late 40's/early 50's. Made a fanzine, had a letter printed in an early issue of Fantastic Four even (I want to say #5, but I don't want to get up to check). Once he got into comics he spent a lot of time messing about with golden age continuity and reinvigorating a lot of those old characters. I just wanted to C/P this to see if anyone else could contribute because I'm a history nerd and Golden Age fan too. DivineCoffeBinge posted:IIRC, wasn't the JSA explicitly designed to contain characters who didn't have series of their own? Yes, and that's why the membership rotated on a relatively frequent basis -- when a member "graduated" to their own book they left and another character from an anthology/backup took their place. It was a pretty good way to keep up exposure on lesser-known characters and gain crossover readership from fans of different characters.
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Feb 27, 2014 05:49
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Soonmot posted:\/\/\/ But a tablet is even smaller than my laptop screen? .cbrs flipped 90 degrees read perfectly.
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Feb 27, 2014 09:23
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Uthor posted:What resolution is your laptop screen? My 9" Nook HD+ has a 1080p screen, cost $150 on sale, and is much nicer to read comics on than my 1366x768 15" laptop turned sideways, not to mention the size and bulk of a laptop and being able to hold a tablet closer to your face and the tablet having much better viewing angles. My friend has the older Nexus 7 with a 1280×800 7" screen and has almost no problems (has to zoom in a bit on double page spreads). Yeah, I really think this is either a resolution problem, or else you need to commit to guided view. I've used Comixology on a laptop, HTC One and 7-inch tablet and never had any problems reading any of it: full-screen isn't the easiest to read, but the guided view is really organic, draws your eyes to the relevant portions of the page and there's never been any issues with resizing or the like.
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Feb 27, 2014 09:25
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I don't have any issues reading on my iPad Air without using guided mode. Even double page spreads are usually easy to read in landscape.
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Feb 27, 2014 12:50
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McSpanky posted:I just wanted to C/P this to see if anyone else could contribute because I'm a history nerd and Golden Age fan too. Just to pick it up a little for you, I'm very disappointed that so little of golden age Captain Marvel is collected. There are five archive volumes, a couple of "best of" books, and a decades out of print and horribly expensive edition of The Monster Society of Evil. Even if you get all of that, you've only got about 1/10th of golden age output for Captain Marvel. DC's always had a problem with what to do with their golden age stuff. There's an audience for it, but it's tiny. Of course, Marvel has done even less with their golden age material...
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Feb 27, 2014 15:30
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Random Stranger posted:Just to pick it up a little for you, I'm very disappointed that so little of golden age Captain Marvel is collected. There are five archive volumes, a couple of "best of" books, and a decades out of print and horribly expensive edition of The Monster Society of Evil. Even if you get all of that, you've only got about 1/10th of golden age output for Captain Marvel. Really? They have released a good amount in Marvel Masterworks format. I am still pissed that they said they were releasing a trade of The Monster Society of Evil, but cancelled it.
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Feb 27, 2014 15:36
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Is AXM #38 the first time Lockheed has a conversation the issue where he has a reunion with Kitty after she comes back?
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Feb 27, 2014 16:09
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bobkatt013 posted:Really? They have released a good amount in Marvel Masterworks format. I am still pissed that they said they were releasing a trade of The Monster Society of Evil, but cancelled it. DC has published 110 golden age archives, though very few of them are complete runs (the Spirit, obviously makes a up a huge chunk of that). Their biggest failing is with Captain Marvel who, like I said, they're missing about 90% of his golden age stories but even Batman's archives stopped with about eight years to go until they hit the silver age reprints. Marvel has printed 30 Masterworks volumes of golden age material. Now in total fairness to Marvel, their golden age library is a lot smaller than DC who absorbed a dozen publishers over the years. So percentage-wise they come out better than DC, but not by much. Also, only the slightest of their golden age masterwork collections are complete. DC managed to at least complete a few of their big projects before they stopped publishing their archives. zoux posted:Is AXM #38 the first time Lockheed has a conversation the issue where he has a reunion with Kitty after she comes back? Lockheed talked to a giant dragon in a Claremont era issue, but we didn't get to understand the dialog. Since then he's been shown to be intelligent and capable of conversation from time to time, though I don't recall him ever talking to humans (I haven't read that story so I'm not sure that's what you were referring to).
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Feb 27, 2014 17:01
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Wait, DC is no longer doing the archive editions? That's a bit disappointing. I have the Golden Age Hawkman one and it's great, I've been meaning to snag the Dr. Fate and Charlton Action Heroes ones.
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Feb 27, 2014 17:07
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Random Stranger posted:DC has published 110 golden age archives, though very few of them are complete runs (the Spirit, obviously makes a up a huge chunk of that). Their biggest failing is with Captain Marvel who, like I said, they're missing about 90% of his golden age stories but even Batman's archives stopped with about eight years to go until they hit the silver age reprints. He talk to Brand all the time, but off screen or she was the only one who could understand.
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Feb 27, 2014 17:10
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bobkatt013 posted:He talk to Brand all the time, but off screen or she was the only one who could understand. Yeah the issue I'm referring to has his dialogue translated, I just didn't know if that was the first time.
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Feb 27, 2014 17:13
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Random Stranger posted:Lockheed talked to a giant dragon in a Claremont era issue, but we didn't get to understand the dialog. Since then he's been shown to be intelligent and capable of conversation from time to time, though I don't recall him ever talking to humans (I haven't read that story so I'm not sure that's what you were referring to). X-Men #181, as the team returned from Secret Wars. (If anyone was interested.)
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Feb 27, 2014 17:21
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Wait, DC is no longer doing the archive editions? That's a bit disappointing. I have the Golden Age Hawkman one and it's great, I've been meaning to snag the Dr. Fate and Charlton Action Heroes ones. I could have sworn that they were shutting down the line but it looks like they've just cut way back on the production. Since July of last year only one has been released and the only archive on the schedule is in May. That may be winding things down, or two to three books a year could be the new plan going forward.
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Feb 27, 2014 17:25
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Wait, DC is no longer doing the archive editions? That's a bit disappointing. I have the Golden Age Hawkman one and it's great, I've been meaning to snag the Dr. Fate and Charlton Action Heroes ones. If you're interested, I have Action Heroes Archives Volume 2, which includes all the Ditko Blue Beetle and Question stories as well as the rest of his Captain Atom.
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Feb 27, 2014 23:34
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bobkatt013 posted:Really? They have released a good amount in Marvel Masterworks format. I am still pissed that they said they were releasing a trade of The Monster Society of Evil, but cancelled it. Wasn't that because some of the depictions of non-white races in the book is... problematic to say the least. I know, "different times" and all that, and it is a comic book classic, but you can understand them not wanting to reprint.
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Feb 28, 2014 10:02
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Shameless posted:Wasn't that because some of the depictions of non-white races in the book is... problematic to say the least. I know, "different times" and all that, and it is a comic book classic, but you can understand them not wanting to reprint. It sucks, but they are historical documents. If they refuse to reprint anything that is "probematic" then nothing in history would be released. Release it as is with a warning, and see what happens.
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Feb 28, 2014 15:03
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When they kill off a character, does that decision come from editorial or a writer typically?
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Feb 28, 2014 17:09
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zoux posted:When they kill off a character, does that decision come from editorial or a writer typically? Hard to give a definite answer on that but with established characters it probably starts with the writer 90% of the time and editorial just has to okay it.
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Feb 28, 2014 17:18
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What exactly is Wonder Woman's powerset at this point? Here's what I remember from childhood: Super-strength, speed, reflexes and endurance; some kind of magical sense(s); ability to see through the eyes of animals; super-healing powers (sometimes through a thing called the Purple Ray); some sort of telekinetic control over that invisible glop that her invisible jet is made from; some kind of direct line to the Greek gods where she'd get a power boost from them sometimes, if she needed it (and proved herself worthy - she had to do that constantly because the Greek gods are assholes, apparently). How much of that do I have right, and how much has changed in the new reboot?
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Feb 28, 2014 19:17
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I think it's pretty rare for editors to mandate a character death. I guess the biggest example is Jean Grey.
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Feb 28, 2014 19:19
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Metal Loaf posted:I think it's pretty rare for editors to mandate a character death. I guess the biggest example is Jean Grey. They also attempted with Nightwing
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Feb 28, 2014 19:20
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Metal Loaf posted:I think it's pretty rare for editors to mandate a character death. I guess the biggest example is Jean Grey. Which time? So like for say Nightcrawler it was just Mike Carey going, hey I wanna kill this guy off for story/character reasons, that cool? And then the writers on all the other X-books get a memo saying, "Oh BTW, this dude is about to be killed in this crossover event, so I hope you didn't have any big plans that involved him. How much communication/collaborations goes on between authors of different but connected books?
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Feb 28, 2014 19:44
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Originally Jean was supposed to survive the Dark Phoenix and have a normal life with Scott but editorial thought her charter was gone beyond saving for blowing up a planet as Phoenix so the story was changed to her dying. For all characters deaths it all depends really. Nightcrawler's death was because they wanted to kill off someone to make the event like a big deal and Kurt could easily be written off without effecting any books while still being popular enough for it to "matter". Since it was an event it was also an editoral things. For recent things Ultimate Spider-Man was because Bendis got fed up with Peter and wanted to change things, there's an upcoming event where The Watcher is being killed and that's all editorial. In the recent X-Men Legacy Legion "dies" because that's was Spurrier's plan for the character.
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Feb 28, 2014 19:59
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Waterhaul posted:In the recent X-Men Legacy Legion "dies" because that's was Spurrier's plan for the character. Who?
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Feb 28, 2014 20:00
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Speaking of what are the spoiler rules around here, there's nothing in the rules thread.
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Feb 28, 2014 20:02
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zoux posted:Speaking of what are the spoiler rules around here, there's nothing in the rules thread. There was stuff in the rules thread but it was got rid of because I think BSS has got to the point where everyone is alright for spoilers. Rule of thumb is that if the book is out you don't need to spoil it but commons sense and being considerate of other posters is always the main thing. For example with the Nightcrawler bit I didn't spoil it because the character has already returned from the dead so them dying isn't really a big deal.
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Waterhaul posted:Originally Jean was supposed to survive the Dark Phoenix and have a normal life with Scott but editorial thought her charter was gone beyond saving for blowing up a planet as Phoenix so the story was changed to her dying. Yes, I believe Claremont wrote the scene with the intention that the planet would be uninhabited and Lilandra was going after her because she could have destroyed a populated planet, but when Byrne drew it he added in some aliens who ended up getting wiped out. It didn't sit well with Shooter.
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