Post Funny Panels: Maximum Bogosity

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Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

I have been thinking for a while that it'd be interesting to have a Batman that hewed closer to Zorro. He's an aristocrat who has returned to Gotham, but his country is under the control of a dictator/occupying army/whatever, so in the Bruce Wayne role he's playing as being a cowardly collaborator with the occupying government, and as Batman he's a resistance fighter sort of thing. I think a dynamic where he's explicitly pitted against a corrupt or oppressive regime is an interesting one, because it means that as Bruce Wayne he needs to make sure he's maintaining his position in that regime to maintain the wealth he needs to resist the regime as Batman.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2019 23:11

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 19:57

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Mistook the horrible rape manga for the much better manga about a handyman in a dungeons and dragons world for a second there.

(Handyman Saitou In Another World)

# ¿ Apr 28, 2019 21:15

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Knull is the Swedish word for 'gently caress'.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2019 08:36

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Skwirl posted:

Tag yourself, I'm the woman to the right of Black Hood who doesn't get her name on the cover.

Hand on heart I saw those two gold people at the back and thought they were some sort of electronic music + superhero duo called "the Vieb".

# ¿ Mar 5, 2020 14:23

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

I was reading some articles about Claremont's X-Men so I decided to give it a read.

I'm not really a superhero comics guy, so it's all a bit absurd to me. I forgot to screenshot the issue with the leprechauns.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2020 08:03

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

How many bi Marvel/DC characters even are there? Is bi-beast the best representation that we've got?

# ¿ May 6, 2020 20:58

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Evil Mastermind posted:

I think he did this thing where he's taking super-drugs to increase his intellect but it also keeps him from sleeping for days on end.

He needed all that brain meth to come up with a very mediocre crossword puzzle.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2020 18:45

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

There was one artist called Shigeru Mizuki from the same 1950s/60s generation of artists as Osamu Tekuza (Astro Boy) - essentially the generation that established the comics scene in postwar Japan. I can't find the interview where I read it now, but iirc he outlived most of his contemporaries by a good few decades by being the only one to avoid the insane work schedule that they were all doing. He died aged 93 in 2015, despite serving in WWII and losing an arm.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2020 08:31

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

The more I look at it the worse it gets. Like the 6am-7am tuesday meeting with the editor that is scheduled after working the entire night without sleep, after sleeping for two hours on monday.

E: to contribute to the thread, some funny panels from very good ongoing webcomic Barbarous by Yuko Ota and Anath Hirsh.

(context: Persephone (the lady) and Leeds (the big monster) work for the owner of an apartment building. Percy has a crush on Leeds.)

Red Bones fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Jul 15, 2020

# ¿ Jul 15, 2020 22:03

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Oglaf's preamble of "This comic started out as an attempt to make pornography. It degenerated into sex comedy pretty much immediately." is still hands-down one of my favourite introductions to any piece of media.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2020 21:07

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Samovar posted:

I'm sorry, I believe you meant to post this.

You know, it only now occurs to me that the banana bomb in Worms is probably a reference to the one in Gorillas.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2020 14:09

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

How Wonderful! posted:

Was your lecturer Blade?

That's Professor Eric Brooks to you :colbert:

(I did not know Blade's real name was Eric until today)

# ¿ Aug 24, 2020 21:30

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Selachian posted:

The recipe looks weirder the more I study it. So it's ground beef and chow mein noodles and vegetables mushed together? And then you bake it for 25 minutes ... wouldn't that turn out dry as hell? Admittedly, I have no experience working with canned chow mein, which is probably the only form the average American would have been familiar with in 1977.

Meanwhile, the Hulkburger just looks like a knockoff Big Mac.

I took a look and I am still not sure how it would work. It was apparently pretty popular in the postwar decades (Chun King was, of course, started by an Italian). To my pampered 21st century sensibilities, the idea of cooking 3 pounds of "family-economy" 1960s American canned chinese food makes me want to vomit, but what do I know.

I'm also not an expert on mixing minced beef with what is essentially canned pasta, but wouldn't all the liquid in the sauce just make the whole thing a soggy mess?

Bonus terrible slogan:

# ¿ Sep 6, 2020 13:57

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

SimonChris posted:

Worst X-Man Ever #5

I'll never get tired of people ragging on Cyclops. Always the straight man, never the fave.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2020 19:33

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Darthemed posted:

Strange Tales #81 (1961)

I love the very helpful title he's given his diagram.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2020 17:35

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

oriongates posted:

Are those things embedded in her skull? How the hell do they work?

I think they're attached to a hairband that's just hidden behind the hair most of the time?

# ¿ Nov 22, 2020 10:46

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Alacron posted:

So is there a punchline to those panels?

I like it, it's like the absurdity of an 11 year old boy telling a story.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2020 13:27

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Darthemed posted:

Men Against Crime #7 (1951)

The panel is great but Men Against Crime is the real gem here. Great name for a magazine, great name for a band.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2021 23:11

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Cable is absolutely an Everyday Carry guy with a reddit account littered with wide-angle photographs of tables covered in dumb sci fi guns. And the knife kept up by his neck! And the little fringe of hand grenades on his giant pauldron! I don�t even hate it, you can tell the artist was having a great time piling on all this stuff.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2021 22:50

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Proteus Jones posted:

I'm a big fan of the neck wakizashi, myself.

His abs are too thick for him to gut himself so he needs it to commit neck seppaku, if he ever violates the laws of 90's bushido.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2021 17:46

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

thetoughestbean posted:

I feel that way about a lot of manga and anime. The paneling and pacing is so intentional and good that I’m not sure how animating it would improve it. There’s works that benefit from being animated, obviously, but there’s stuff that’s basically perfect as they are in manga form.

IIRC one of the reasons anime adaptions get made is to advertise and drive up sales of the corresponding manga. You reach a wider, different audience with a one season adaption of part of the manga and then some of those viewers turn into regular manga buyers.

Its sort of the opposite of modern Western superhero comics where a big factor in making the comics is the potential use of the new stories in the much more profitable TV and film market.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2021 08:20

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Darthemed posted:

Our Flag Comics #5 (1942)

I love this so much because it makes me imagine the artist in the 1940s having like, one week to draw this comic in and only a vague secondhand idea of what a panther looks like.

# ¿ Apr 6, 2021 21:41

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Android Blues posted:

Lol, actually, on looking it up, Asbestos Lady was not invented for that flashback but is in fact an original WW2 era Human Torch villain, because of asbestos' flame-retardant properties. That's actually really funny.

I think they brought her back in a comic a few decades later and had her die from asbestos-related cancer, but I only remember that from an article I read about weird 1940s comics characters so I might be misremembering.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2021 11:33

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

flatluigi posted:

there are much more flattering looking skeletons in wrestling than that

Roddy Piper, Randy Savage, Ultimate Warrior, Andre the Giant... the list goes on.

# ¿ May 1, 2021 18:11

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Have Marvel made Beast queer since then? 'Cause I haven't read the arc where that stuff happens but as somebody who is queer, those panels out of context read an awful lot like somebody who hasn't realised they're queer and is taking advantage of a situation where they can explore that identity, while also having a safe way to walk it back ("It was all just a ruse to fool my ex-girlfriend"). It's very much a safe coming out fantasy in that respect, although I'm not sure if that's intentional. Like, all the scene between Hank and Scott is missing is a "would it be so bad if I were gay?" from Hank.

# ¿ Jun 23, 2021 19:25

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Alhazred posted:

She's called Flygirl because a freak accident left her with the wings and thorax of a fly.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2021 18:56

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Kalli posted:

Art school full scholarship, but looks like Eve's gonna have to earn it the hard way.

Just think, if that entrance exam had gone differently we might be looking at Hitlers in European art galleries, oohing and aahing over the artful use of light and space, and then looking him up on wikipedia and getting very disappointed when we reached the 'personal life' section. Like Degas. And instead, the third reich would have been lead by, oh, I don't know, an architecture school dropout Le Corbusier.

# ¿ Sep 21, 2021 19:49

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Darthemed posted:

Doctor Doom #6 (2020)

Is this meant to be romantic? Because it's kind of romantic. It's like The African Queen, but with megalomaniacs.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2021 19:39

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Vulpes Vulpes posted:

drat Diablo wtf

FF #524 I think

I don't want to imagine the sweat situation that goes on when you wear a skintight rubber person mask (or an entire suit?) over another skintight spandex headpiece.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2021 10:26

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Elissimpark posted:

The scary future punk empress having a collar that says 'scamp' on it is killing me in this one. It's so innocuous.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2021 21:49

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Darthemed posted:

Superboy sees this as reason enough to give the teacher a makeover, despite her repeatedly voiced protests.

(He'd already done something to force her to let her hair down.)

But it doesn't end there.

Superboy #83 (1960)

I am genuinely curious, how does this story end? Does she stay married to the robot? Does Superboy use the robot to dump the teacher?

# ¿ Nov 13, 2021 07:17

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Phy posted:

"Hold up let me doomgle it"

No usable results until the second page, first page is all "Richards!" "RICHAAAAAARDS" "Richards."

Still marginally less evil than actual google

In 1993 there were apparently 623 websites on the entire internet, so it's a bit less impressive than it sounds.

Wait, never mind, I just noticed it's the 2099 version of Dr Doom.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2022 20:45

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Zil posted:

Its important to make sure the reader knows where the nipples are underneath that armor.

You need to have proper nipple housing, otherwise you're going to get chafing :rolleyes:

# ¿ Jan 31, 2023 22:10

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Is dinosaur island a canonical DC location, or is the writer just making up a place with a very self-explanatory name that he thinks would be cool?

# ¿ Mar 17, 2023 18:17

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

StumblyWumbly posted:

Ultimates Peter and Kitty was surprisingly fun. Ultimates was pretty much the only time Peter Parkers relationship drama was in any way entertaining or even vaguely interesting

I found the really old relationship drama in the og 60s and 70s spiderman comics kind of fun, but maybe that's because of all the cool and groovy slang they're all using.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2023 11:43

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 19:57

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Captain Oblivious posted:

The X-Men/Mutants not working well as a metaphor for minority struggles due to the incredible deific privilege they are showered with the moment they become anywhere close to a viewpoint character is kind of a running theme.

I don't really read a lot of X Men comics so it's always funny to me when I remember that the other big recurring concepts in X Men outside of The Minority Struggle are like: magyickal interdimensional / hell travel; and adventures in space. Sometimes it's not about being a minority in a world that hates and fears them; its about dicking around in space.

Red Bones fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Apr 29, 2023

# ¿ Apr 29, 2023 05:30

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