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It's time for Arkhamaniacs And they're violent to the max So just sit back and relax You'll laugh till you collapse (JOKER SINGS THIS LINE) We're Ark-ham-man-i-acs! Come join all Batman's villains Led by an evil clown Just for fun we terrorize The folks of Gotham town We get locked back in Arkham Whenever we get caught But we bust out And then, no doubt Mayhem is our one thought We're Arkhamaniacs Sanity our Harley lacks Penguin's eating fishy snacks Mr. Zsasz has got an axe! We're Arkhamaniacs! Meet pretty Poison Ivy She loves plants and she hates men Killer Croc just ate some guards While breaking out again You should be pretty scared now Because they're all deranged Watch out for Bane And Dr. Crane And also Hugo Strange They're Arkhamaniacs All committing vile acts Nygma doesn't have a clue Deadshot set his sights on you They're the Ark-ham-maney Totally insaney (LET'S KILL BRUCE WAYNEY!) Ark-ham-man-i-ACS! (Security is lax!)
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drat I was trying to whip up something on my lunch break after reading Rhyno's post but I only got like three verses in. loving bravo, dude.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:It's time for Arkhamaniacs 
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Oct 17, 2020 17:51
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:It's time for Arkhamaniacs holy poo poo
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:It's time for Arkhamaniacs Also 
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Edge & Christian posted:I feel like this post could be made at any point between like 1990 and present, but if you're basing it on October 2020: I had to check, and X-men has 12 total right now. Regular: X-men Marauders Excalibur New Mutants X-Force Wolverine Cable Hellions X-Factor Limited: X of Swords event books Juggernaut Wolverine Black, White and Blood (though this starts Nov. 4th) Plus they have SWORD and Children of the Atom on the way. Also iWolverine (yuck title) and whatever the gently caress Deadpool is up to, but I don't think either of those counts as X-titles, really.
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So the new Helstrom series on Hulu is apparently pretty tame on the whole hell thing, which made me wonder: besides Ghost Rider and Blade/Dracula, does any other part of the Marvel U really engage with the Abrahamic belief system besides a few characters being Jewish or Christian or Muslim? I guess Punisher was an angel for a bit but I feel that most extraworldly stuff gets as far away from religion as possible.
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Oct 20, 2020 04:56
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Zachack posted:So the new Helstrom series on Hulu is apparently pretty tame on the whole hell thing, which made me wonder: besides Ghost Rider and Blade/Dracula, does any other part of the Marvel U really engage with the Abrahamic belief system besides a few characters being Jewish or Christian or Muslim? I guess Punisher was an angel for a bit but I feel that most extraworldly stuff gets as far away from religion as possible. Do all the Satan-but-not-really demons like Mephisto, Belasco, Satannish, Zarathos, etc., count?
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Oct 20, 2020 07:00
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Selachian posted:Do all the Satan-but-not-really demons like Mephisto, Belasco, Satannish, Zarathos, etc., count? I would say no but I’m really unsure how they’re portrayed these days. Hulk winds up in hell and rescues puck but the whole thing comes across like hell is really crummy but not actually hell. Hell comes across more as a spawn point for things to fight rather then an eternal punishment concept (or whatever Sheol is supposed to be like). I get that sticking characters in a very bad place works for the stories because it provides impetus for rescue, which is why heaven seems far less common since you’re kinda an rear end for pulling someone away from eternal bliss.
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Oct 20, 2020 07:13
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Zachack posted:So the new Helstrom series on Hulu is apparently pretty tame on the whole hell thing, which made me wonder: besides Ghost Rider and Blade/Dracula, does any other part of the Marvel U really engage with the Abrahamic belief system besides a few characters being Jewish or Christian or Muslim? I guess Punisher was an angel for a bit but I feel that most extraworldly stuff gets as far away from religion as possible. You mentioned Ghost Rider but I had to bring up one of the more strange things about the character. So his origin (before about sixty retcons) was that he sold his soul to satan. The plan early on to resolve this was Jesus would save him. Seriously. And then Ghost Rider would be an evangelical Christian superhero.
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Oct 20, 2020 15:25
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Ah yes, "A Friend".
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Oct 20, 2020 16:00
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:Ah yes, "A Friend". Somebody, I hope, this picture will be a crucial archaeological piece of the puzzle for future scholars trying to decode what Christianity was all about.
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Oct 20, 2020 16:06
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Any history of civilization that prominently features Paste Pot Pete is one I want to study.
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There was so much weird, ropey poo poo in old Ghost Rider. Not much of it landed, but there was a certain desert-madness intensity that I could see it being decrypted as some John the Baptist type ranting and raving. If I was running Ghost Rider, I'd go with the classics and just put everyone on bikes, no matter what. 
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:There was so much weird, ropey poo poo in old Ghost Rider. Not much of it landed, but there was a certain desert-madness intensity that I could see it being decrypted as some John the Baptist type ranting and raving. My favorite of the old GR stuff are when the writers would go full Tales From the Crypt, like one story opens with Johnny confessing to a priest and essentially giving his backstory and talking about sin... like the sin of murder and just how he happened to know there was a murderer on the loose and he had already found the actual church's priest's body. The phony priest runs and steals Johnny's bike, but Johnny turns into Ghost Rider to chase him and just makes his own hellfire bike, and said chase scene includes riding literal circles around the guy who's driving top speed all the while GR is laughing maniacally. Apparently Mephisto became Actually Satan again in Daniel Way's series? Wild. (Or as the Marvel wiki says, 'the devil figure from the Catholic religion.')
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Oct 20, 2020 16:29
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Where does Adam Warlock dying and coming back to life to save everybody on an alternate Earth on the other side of the sun fit into Christian theology? It wasn't covered in my Catholic schooling.
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Uthor posted:Where does Adam Warlock dying and coming back to life to save everybody on an alternate Earth on the other side of the sun fit into Christian theology? It wasn't covered in my Catholic schooling. "Hey, what's this garbage I hear you've been teaching my kid? Sunday school is for learning about the Bible, not this warlock comic book nonsense!" *half an hour later* "Oh man, but if Thanos is gone you think they'll still use him? Maybe the next Guardians movie?"
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Uthor posted:Where does Adam Warlock dying and coming back to life to save everybody on an alternate Earth on the other side of the sun fit into Christian theology? It wasn't covered in my Catholic schooling. I'm sure there's an apocryphal book on it somewhere. You can always dig up one for your needs.
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I can think of more explicitly Abrahamic-religion-based characters over in DC, including the Spectre and the Seraph (whose gimmick is that he wields Biblical artifacts like Elijah's cloak, Solomon's ring, Moses's staff, etc.).
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Selachian posted:I can think of more explicitly Abrahamic-religion-based characters over in DC, including the Spectre and the Seraph (whose gimmick is that he wields Biblical artifacts like Elijah's cloak, Solomon's ring, Moses's staff, etc.). Swamp Thing was originally going to have served as the Cross for Jesus until that got nixed by a panicked editorial.
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As part of the Lucifer solo series the Abrahamic god in the DC universe quit and was replaced by a half angel/half human named Elaine Belloc.
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In Army of Darkness vs Marvel Zombies, Zombie Sentry attacked Heaven and got sent back to earth.
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You don't gently caress with Jack Kirbymuscles like this! posted:As part of the Lucifer solo series the Abrahamic god in the DC universe quit and was replaced by a half angel/half human named Elaine Belloc. is this ever acknowledged outside of Lucifer
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The ending kind of writes an out for never mentioning it because when she takes on the godhead she says that she's going to spend an indeterminate amount of time in a diffused state where she'll exist but not directly influence events.
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As I recall in DC the Abrahamic God is usually folded into "The Presence" which has angels like Zauriel (formerly) as servants. In Marvel you get the much more rarely talked about One Above All which I think is where the Living Tribunal got its powers from.
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Dawgstar posted:My favorite of the old GR stuff are when the writers would go full Tales From the Crypt, like one story opens with Johnny confessing to a priest and essentially giving his backstory and talking about sin... like the sin of murder and just how he happened to know there was a murderer on the loose and he had already found the actual church's priest's body. The phony priest runs and steals Johnny's bike, but Johnny turns into Ghost Rider to chase him and just makes his own hellfire bike, and said chase scene includes riding literal circles around the guy who's driving top speed all the while GR is laughing maniacally. The actual full on yes him The Devil is the main badguy in Way's run. He some released himself on earth in 666 pieces and each time Ghost Rider defeats one of those the remaining pieces get stronger, kinda like Highlander. One of the pieces is helping GR track the others down, so he can get stronger.
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muscles like this! posted:The ending kind of writes an out for never mentioning it because when she takes on the godhead she says that she's going to spend an indeterminate amount of time in a diffused state where she'll exist but not directly influence events. Suddenly having to account for a massively interventionist god in you comic would probably throw a lot of comics out of whack.
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Selachian posted:I can think of more explicitly Abrahamic-religion-based characters over in DC, including the Spectre and the Seraph (whose gimmick is that he wields Biblical artifacts like Elijah's cloak, Solomon's ring, Moses's staff, etc.). The Phantom Stranger has been literally Judas Iscariot since the New 52 and I hate it.
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TwoPair posted:The Phantom Stranger has been literally Judas Iscariot since the New 52 and I hate it. Ugh. If they were going to stick to an explicitly religious origin then they should have stuck with the 'Tarry Till I Come Again' story.
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How Wonderful! posted:Somebody, I hope, this picture will be a crucial archaeological piece of the puzzle for future scholars trying to decode what Christianity was all about. Ghostlight posted:I was doing some reading on early political cartoons and ran across a reference to a Roman graffiti I hadn't heard about before.
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TwoPair posted:The Phantom Stranger has been literally Judas Iscariot since the New 52 and I hate it. This sucks so much. Thanks for reminding me
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What's the new forum title from? Anything?
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food court bailiff posted:What's the new forum title from? Anything? Big Bad Voodoo Lou is a genius
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Oct 21, 2020 16:56
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I believe they mean "THE SCREAMING ROOM" as the whole forum name
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Oct 21, 2020 17:14
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It was one of the workshopped names for the imprint that eventually became Vertigo, and was promised as a seasonal subforum title for this October.
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Maybe the poster is unaware of Halloween
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They'd better get aware fast before all the goblins and ghouls come out to play.
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Where in Uncanny X-Men would I find Rachel Summers’ backstory besides Days of Future Past in 141-142?
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So I randomly flipped by a rerun of Black Panther tonight and was wondering, has there ever been a story revolving around other people getting their hands on the heart-shaped herb that gives BP powers? I'm just sayin', no matter how protected Wakanda is, when there's superpowers literally growing on trees there, you'd figure people would be trying to get them. It's typically depicted as a utopia but there's gotta be some political dissidents around. Side note: do they ever give the heart-shaped herb an actual name besides "heart-shaped herb"? I guess it's not that much lazier than blueberries or blackberries but heart-shaped herb just sounds so unwieldy.
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TwoPair posted:So I randomly flipped by a rerun of Black Panther tonight and was wondering, has there ever been a story revolving around other people getting their hands on the heart-shaped herb that gives BP powers? I'm just sayin', no matter how protected Wakanda is, when there's superpowers literally growing on trees there, you'd figure people would be trying to get them. It's typically depicted as a utopia but there's gotta be some political dissidents around. I'm not a Black Panther expert, but I thought the heart shaped herb was a contrivance for the movie. I thought his abilities that couldn't be attributed to his Wakandan super suit or the normal "peak human athleticism" a lot of comic book heroes have, was because both through hereditary title and own personal trial he was king of the (Wakandan) dead and had a personal connection to the supernatural.
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