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While it absolutely is, it should be noted that it isn't a crossover or evolution of Afterlife with Archie. It's a separate crossover that hems a lot closer to traditional Archie by the looks of it. This is just an alternate cover in the Afterlife with Archie style. http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=26155 Now seriously when the gently caress did Archie comics become worth a drat? This is puzzling.
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TheJoker138 posted:They first showed signs of being worth a drat way back in the day, but then went dark again for over a decade... I know. I went out of my way to buy a copy of that one-shot like a decade ago. Made for a great bathroom piece. It was clearly just an aberration though. Now suddenly we have Afterlife and suddenly poo poo like Archie v. Predator is getting greenlit and my world is just upside-down. It turns out I was relying on the constant of Archie a lot more than I thought.
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Feb 19, 2015 07:56
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Lurdiak posted:First google image search result for "Reed Richards urine" Sometimes I'm really tempted to be a sarcastic dick to people who are too lazy to do even a cursory Google search and say "Gee, if only we had the world's largest and most sophisticated free search engine at our fingertips... OH WAIT WE loving DO!"
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Feb 22, 2015 00:01
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Elfface posted:Well, what with tailored search results, it might not be on everyone's front page. One guy might get the comic book page as their top result, another might get dozens of hits for their watersports fetish and an unrelated Reed Richards. With your avatar I just picture every single result being Iron Jonah regardless of search parameters.
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Feb 22, 2015 00:49
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Lurdiak posted:I wasn't being a dick. You really weren't. Squidster is an rear end in a top hat inferring your intonation of what is textually a completely honest question.
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Feb 22, 2015 05:25
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My favorite is the old dude who is clearly about to start jerking it any second
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Mar 7, 2015 04:23
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The cover is literally just a PR statement "look at this hot new outfit we came up for her that isn't skanky like the last one and meets a nice compromise between our fan-wank history of Starfire's personality as an exhibitionist of her body's beauty which dates all the way back to her Wolfman/Perez days and her far more popular modern incarnation on the Teen Titans cartoon from 10 years ago." Besides which while I hate the weird inability of the superhero industry to separate its wank material from its all-ages books, having sexuality flaunted and making fun of people's reactions to it are not inherently bad things.
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Mar 7, 2015 06:41
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TheJoker138 posted:But it's DC, and the last book they had her in she was Starfire: Intergalactic Amnesiac gently caress Hole. I'm not willing to give them even the slightest benefit of the doubt. This is true, but speaking solely as to what the cover is trying to convey that's what it's trying to convey in my eyes, and this is from someone who swore off DC books back in 2008. Note how they put Amanda-- I managed to make Power Girl and Harley Quinn look impossibly sexy yet still accessible--Connor on for the redesign and covers. Even if the real book isn't within a mile of that promise they're clearly banking that perception is going to equal reality and most of that perception is going to come from this cover.
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Mar 7, 2015 06:56
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Vincent posted:So is Beast still inverted then? I don't think he's ever been much for name-calling and being dick-ish like in those panels. Are you kidding? He used to be the wise-cracker alongside Bobby's kid clown back during the "original 5" days and would joke the gently caress around like crazy while he was on the Avengers in the 80s. Even in the opening of Whedon's run Emma acknowledges his history by reminding Scott that Beast is "terribly good with people." The whole "Erudite Professor" take is pretty much born of kids who grew up watching the 90s cartoon. There's no way he doesn't know good-natured trash talk.
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Mar 11, 2015 18:34
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System Metternich posted:Is he... sniffing his fingers? It's honestly one of the more believable and human things I've seen a superhero do in a good while.
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Mar 14, 2015 12:51
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Did Frank go WHORES WHORES WHORES WHORES right around where he went MUSLIMSTERRORISTSMUSLIMSTERRORISTS, or were those two different journeys into batshit craziness? Two parallel lines of crazy which intersected briefy around 9/11 then both shot up like a rocket, but were always present in his work.
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Mar 16, 2015 07:48
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McSpanky posted:This is absurdly disingenuous. If it looked good in the original story by the original artist, who loving cares about this other poo poo? Considering how superheroes are partially designed to be drawn over and over and over again and replicated across a variety of media/mechandise by varying artists including by lovely fill-in artists working on crunch deadlines and by real people in real world space, yeah how well their costume translates outside of their original story does matter a whole loving lot.
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Mar 17, 2015 06:32
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Grendels Dad posted:Not when we are talking about a What If like Kingdom Come. I think the point was "The design looked great in Kingdom Come, who cares how it looks as a statue or in some fanart decades later?" Considering how DC sucks Kingdom Come's dick relentlessly? I'd say both points have merit. Kramjacks posted:The idea that artists should only create designs that the shittiest artists in the industry will also be able to draw is retarded. Did I say that artists should only create designs that lovely artists can draw? No? I didn't? Did I even imply that the ability of lovely artists should be the only priority in designing a costume instead of merely an important business consideration? No? I still didn't? Okay then. mind the walrus fucked around with this message at 12:51 on Mar 17, 2015 |
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Mar 17, 2015 12:15
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Ignite Memories posted:Rockslide deserves to be the juggernaut more than anyone else who has ever existed in any form of media. It'd be one of the better upgrades they could give him.
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Mar 17, 2015 17:28
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I'm genuinely happy that you're consistently trying to get better lady-characters involved in your universe Marvel, but this already-dated "baiting the trolls" poo poo is only going to hurt you in the long run.
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Mar 18, 2015 23:18
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This is exactly why putting lovely memes about cultural landfills is a dumb idea. Look at how retarded every single one of us is reacting to it.
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Mar 19, 2015 06:04
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Even by the abysmal standards of much of the Golden and Silver Age whenever I read pages from Super Stories I suddenly understand exactly why most Baby Boomers saw comics as utter garbage.
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Mar 22, 2015 03:29
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TheJoker138 posted:Waiting is an underrated classic. I wouldn't say classic but it's definitely aged and endured far far better than the reception it got on release suggested. Sometimes well-executed formula works. And yes the sequel is impressively bad even by the levels you'd expect from a bro-level comedy flick. mind the walrus fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Apr 4, 2015 |
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Apr 4, 2015 05:26
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Sigma-X posted:Crossed is such a guilty pleasure of mine. At least half of them are just absolutely loving terribly written, but even when it's dumb as hell I enjoy it and when it's good I really enjoy it. I binge-read almost all of it over the last week and I've got to agree. The cynical nihlism and the fact that no good character ever gets away without some absolutely major wounds and any character that is mostly good but more willing to be a bastard is usually the cause of those wounds really speaks to me on an adolescent level. The Badlands story about the hippie, the biker, and the pregnant mother was a highlight that really shouldn't have worked as well as it did. Unfortunately binge-reading the whole series made a lot of the formula plain as day, and Ennis' very ill-advised "origin story" wasn't awful but managed to make his prior "Fatal Englishmen" story worse by association. Still great guilty pleasure.
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Apr 8, 2015 21:43
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Endless Mike posted:Why did the balloon need to be lead-coated? Radiation. Duh.
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Apr 8, 2015 21:44
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It's almost like Star Wars is a lovely franchise that has been coasting on novelty and concept art longer than most of us have been alive
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Apr 10, 2015 13:38
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Wheat Loaf posted:I understand why KOTOR couldn't do that, but it's a shame nonetheless 
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Apr 11, 2015 01:00
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Glob Herman's continued existence will never stop being amusing to me.
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Apr 15, 2015 22:54
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Cangelosi posted:Good thing Mark Waid helped recon that piece of history in one page. (Justice League Year One) We need to like, pickle Mark Waid's brain before he starts to lose it and figure out how to program it to generate comic scripts in a perpetual nightmare.
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Apr 17, 2015 14:27
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Top 10 being so goddamn niche is a crime, even if it does suffer from that problem Moore sometimes gets where he thinks he can write down song lyrics and the average reader will do anything other than skip them.
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Apr 25, 2015 06:23
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Dan Didio posted:I sing along to them. You're that guy who sings along to all the songs in Tolkien too aren't you?
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Apr 26, 2015 08:43
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Perry Normal posted:More Top 10. Someone should cross-post to the Badass Panels Thread the stand-off where Joe Pi talks not-Superman of the not-JLA pedophile ring into killing himself and uses his robot nature as a legal cover saying that he is a "poor hostage negotiator."
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Apr 28, 2015 00:59
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Pureauthor posted:Does the Punisher have an easy way to deal with the dude made of sand? Depends on whether or not he had access to one of the heavy hitters' armories, which it doesn't look like he does.
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May 7, 2015 04:39
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khy posted:Why would falling be somehow detrimental to spiderman? Can't he just web a building and turn a fall into a swing? Or make himself a web net? Did he somehow lose his web powers in that issue? And today we've discovered one reason why people on the "mechanical shooters" side of the debate love them-- he can run out of web-fluid and create tension.
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May 7, 2015 18:33
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Knock Knock Who's There? That was the set-up, this is the punchline.
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May 7, 2015 22:06
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khy posted:I remember her only as 'the boring girl who used to calm the Hulk down before the much more badass Black Widow took over that role'. Yes Liv Tyler is the clear "loser's prize."
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May 7, 2015 22:28
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Phylodox posted:That depends, does the winner get Jennifer Connelly? That's like saying is 2 billion really that much better than 1 billion. Like yeah it is obviously but it's not like 1 billion is going to leave you pining for that 2 unless you're a straight-up glutton.
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May 8, 2015 00:09
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Ensign_Ricky posted:I can actually see Clark Gregg saying that, so kudos to the writer. It's also a bit of a reference to this classic Simpsons moment when 3D Homer asks people if they've ever seen the movie Tron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jqfwvIACj8
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May 8, 2015 04:24
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Sockser posted:Any candidate that is anti-Jersey has my vote. That's every single candidate who isn't campaigning in Jersey though...
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May 10, 2015 10:59
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fadam posted:I love comics. And yet people think we take them so seriously
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May 11, 2015 03:43
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If they got rid of the X on his head it'd work, or at the very least made it clear where the gently caress he sees and how he shoots his eye-beams.
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May 13, 2015 01:10
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I kind-of get what they were going for (the big Red X on his face is like a big Red A signifying his pariah status) but it really does make no practical sense even by the already loose-as-gently caress standards of superhero comics.
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May 13, 2015 01:15
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God it's not like Lady Thor there doesn't have an impractical breastplate that shows off her tits too y'know. It's totally not sexual.
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May 14, 2015 13:27
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SynthOrange posted:I have never seen the X-Men cartoon. Is it as gloriously idiotic as these clips make it look? P. much. It actually does a p. admirable job of featuring the byzantine clusterfuck of factions, extra characters, and atrocious designs from the 90s comics in small chunks from episode to episode.
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theironjef posted:I love how Rogue screams basically every line. Being a kid who was never into big hair and hearing her voice I wondered why Rogue was a sex symbol until I was like nine and realized what tight outfits do to the eye.
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