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Soonmot posted:Dude, superman can totally lift mjornir Once, briefly, because Odin allowed it. He was unable to lift it after the fight was over.
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Jan 7, 2017 04:23
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Chaos Hippy posted:Once, briefly, because Odin allowed it. He was unable to lift it after the fight was over. Yeah but now Mjolnir just lets anyone lift it. Even A woman!
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Jan 7, 2017 04:51
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Welp. Gerard Jones is a pedophile. http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Comic-book-author-suspected-of-putting-child-porn-10841108.php
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Jan 7, 2017 05:43
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I really liked his old Wonder Man comic from the '90s. I see the only thing he's done in recent years seems to be anime stuff. Way to challenge that stereotype.
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/\/\/\/\Ah, thanks. What has he written? Article just says Marvel and DC, but I don't recognize the name.
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Soonmot posted:/\/\/\/\Ah, thanks. He also had a run on Prime. Which really paints that whole concept in a completely different light. Yuck. EDIT: Actually clicking on some of these books I'm not familiar with, this guy has written a lot of stuff seemingly featuring child characters. This is pretty goddamn disturbing. http://comicbookdb.com/creator_chron.php?ID=2703 X-O fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Jan 7, 2017 |
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Jan 7, 2017 05:53
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Gerard Jones wrote Justice League Europe with Keith Giffen after J.M. DeMatteis left, around 1989, and then took over the title himself after Giffen left as well, after the big "Breakdowns" storyline. I think he wrote it solo from #37 to #68, which included a title change to Justice League International in there. I believe he also wrote the 1990 Green Lantern relaunch, and at least one book on the history of superhero comics.
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I can't believe no one has mentioned his magnum opus, Batman: Fortunate Son.
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Tbh not surprised when any male author gets outed as a pedo but rip the big two's reps (what did he even write?)
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Well now they will never put up all of justice league Europe on comixology or wonder man on MU.
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is it possible we could actually get this bitch up to 64 pages before february though?
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site posted:Tbh not surprised when any male author gets outed as a pedo but rip the big two's reps (what did he even write?) The last time he wrote for either of the Big 2 seems to be for DC in 2003. Seems most of his Big 2 was for DC on Green Lantern related stuff. And this doesn't really hurt anyone's rep but his. purple death ray posted:is it possible we could actually get this bitch up to 64 pages before february though? No. But that doesn't mean we can't try.
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X-O posted:The last time he wrote for either of the Big 2 seems to be for DC in 2003. Seems most of his Big 2 was for DC on Green Lantern related stuff. And this doesn't really hurt anyone's rep but his. This is like that time when an extra on an episode of Power Rangers was arrested and the media acted like it was a beloved main cast member. Wake me when it's Bendis or someone like that. WickedHate fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Jan 7, 2017 |
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Jan 7, 2017 07:02
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Didn't he have a hand in Green Lantern Mosaic?
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Unlucky7 posted:Didn't he have a hand in Green Lantern Mosaic? Well if you consider writing a hand, yes.
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WickedHate posted:This is like that time when an extra on an episode of Power Rangers was arrested and the media acted like it was a beloved main cast member. Wake me when it's Bendis or someone like that. He wasn't exactly an 'extra.' His Wikipedia looks scrubbed. I'm sure it had full credits last time I looked him up.
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Teenage Fansub posted:He wasn't exactly an 'extra.' His Wikipedia looks scrubbed. I'm sure it had full credits last time I looked him up. I remembered the time the Wild Force Red Ranger killed his roommate(self defense, it seemed), but I was talking about this like...burgler, I think? It was awhile ago.
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Rhyno posted:Welp. Gerard Jones is a pedophile.
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Well, he is. They found the photos on his computer. The only reason they use that uncertain language is because he hasn't been convicted yet.
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WickedHate posted:I remembered the time the Wild Force Red Ranger killed his roommate(self defense, it seemed), but I was talking about this like...burgler, I think? It was awhile ago. I meant Gerard Jones isn't the equivalent of an extra. More like the dad from 7th Heaven? edit: The uploading to Youtube part is baffling.
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Teenage Fansub posted:I meant Gerard Jones isn't the equivalent of an extra. Oh, right. Well yeah, it was a bit of hyperbole, but still, I'm not gonna care that much if it's someone who's work I have to look up. Not exactly earth shaking.
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Rhyno posted:Welp. Gerard Jones is a pedophile. When I saw your post I was hoping you meant "has opinions about anime" instead of real life pedo. drat I really love Mosaic and I would still recommend it to anyone looking for excellent comics (just ignore the pedo who write it)
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Holy loving poo poo, The Unfunnies is the actual worst thing I've ever read. I'm not even being hyperbolic here, I think it might be a solid contender for worst comic book ever published.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Holy loving poo poo, The Unfunnies is the actual worst thing I've ever read. I'm not even being hyperbolic here, I think it might be a solid contender for worst comic book ever published. The summary makes it look loving ghastly.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Holy loving poo poo, The Unfunnies is the actual worst thing I've ever read. I'm not even being hyperbolic here, I think it might be a solid contender for worst comic book ever published. You'd better unsell me on this real fast because the last time I heard this I went out and bought the back issues to ill effect.
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Jan 7, 2017 12:20
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END ME SCOOB posted:You'd better unsell me on this real fast because the last time I heard this I went out and bought the back issues to ill effect. Buy Bomb Queen instead. Just as bad but more readable.
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Jan 7, 2017 12:24
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Nah. Watch Meet The Feebles instead.
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Please do not ironically disparage the work of art that is Meet the Feebles.
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Nevermind, I saw "Mark Millar", that's not a good kind of bad like Marville
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Ghostlight posted:Please do not ironically disparage the work of art that is Meet the Feebles. You misunderstand me. It breaks my heart that PJ'll never let his first three (and best) films get re-released.
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END ME SCOOB posted:Nevermind, I saw "Mark Millar", that's not a good kind of bad like Marville The Unfunnies is Marville if it had been written by loving Jeff Dahmer.
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Wheat Loaf posted:What's the earliest story where magic is explicitly identified as something Superman can't defend against? Further to that, when did magic become an explicit "weakness" for him (i.e. "the only things that can stop Superman are kryptonite, red sun radiation and magic") rather than just something he was no more invulnerable to than any normal person? Sorry to bring this back up, but I'm catching up on this thread and it looks like no one actually answered this question. As far as I can tell, the first time that it is explicitly said on the page that Superman is vulnerable to magic is 1960's Justice League of America #2, "The Secret of the Sinister Sorcerers," in which a trio of evil magicians led by Simon Magus cause all technology on Earth to cease to work.
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Wikipedia cites a 1959 Mxyzptlk appearance bringing it up and implies it's not the first time in that one either.
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Gerard Jones wrote quite a bit of stuff for Marvel and DC in the early/mid 1990s, most significantly Green Lantern/GL Mosiac/Guy Gardner, several years of Justice League Europe (first with Giffen, then solo), the whole of Wonder Man's solo series and a big chunk of Marvel 2099, then he was a co-founder of the Ultraverse line where the majority of his "young hero" stuff came out in the form of Prime and Freex. He spent the back half of the 1990s/early 2000s mostly doing localization for manga, and put out a couple of books in the 2000s: Men of Tomorrow, which is one of the better pop non-fiction histories of the comics industry, and Killing Monsters, which is probably the thing (aside from Prime maybe but I remember Prime handling the whole "teenager in a man's body" thing more tastefully than say Johns's JSA) that will be the grossest to read in hindsight after all of this stuff, as it's a non-fiction treatise on how fantasy violence and monsters are an invaluable part of childhood, allowing youngsters to process and cope with fear and trauma. It's been awhile since I read it, but in addition to citing third party research and conducting interviews with psychologists and educators, I remember a fair bit of "Jones runs workshops and interviews with little kids on how they consume media" in the text too. I always felt Jones was a bit of an unsung talent of 1990s comics, though I haven't revisited much of his work in the present. I read and enjoyed both of his non-fiction books though. It's terrible that this is how many modern readers are first hearing about him, and this obviously taints (or destroys) any appreciation of his work people may have. (Still less of a creep than that Alan Moore though, am I right?)
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Aphrodite posted:Wikipedia cites a 1959 Mxyzptlk appearance bringing it up and implies it's not the first time in that one either. I have the issue Wikipedia cites, so I'll look into it as soon as I feel like waking up my cat out of my lap so I can get the issues in question. Edit: All right, I checked out both the issue Wikipedia cites (Superman vol 1 #131) and Justice League #2 to compare results. I also talked it over with my pal Calamity Jon Morris, the author of the Chronological Superman blog who was my original source on that idea anyway. Basically, here's what's up: the story Wikipedia is citing is "The Menace of Mr Mxyzptlk," which is Mxy's reintroduction for the Silver Age. It has Superman saying he can't stop Mr Mxyzptlk's magic, but at no point is he directly affected by it, nor does he say that magic would hurt him. This is typical of Mxy stories from this era and before. However, the Justice League story, from less than a year after the Mxyzptlk story, has Superman explicitly saying in panel one of page seven, "Come to think of it, one of the things that robs me of my super-powers is...a magic spell!" So "unable to stop magic" vs "magic robs me of my powers" may seem like splitting hairs, so accept whatever you want. Either way, this pegs it to relatively early in Superman's Silver Age era. BUT--I will say that as late as August 1958's Action Comics #243, "The Lady and the Lion," the infamous lion-headed Superman story (well, the FIRST one), Circe is only able to transform Superman into a beast by lacing a magic potion with kryptonite (which leads Superman to assume she was from Krypton). By the time they repeat the concept again a few years later, Circe doesn't need the kryptonite to affect Superman. Benito Cereno fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Jan 7, 2017 |
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Can someone please tell me how to pronounce Mxyzptlk that word confuses me so bad
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site posted:Can someone please tell me how to pronounce Mxyzptlk that word confuses me so bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHJuEbNB0u8
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According to the Superman: The Animated Series, it breaks down into "Mix. Yes. Spit. Lick", which you kinda smear together into "Mixyesspittlick" But, uh, there's been a bit of variation over the years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuRqVg6tHcE
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Just put an I in each pair and it's close enough. Mix yiz pit lik Benito Cereno posted:I have the issue Wikipedia cites, so I'll look into it as soon as I feel like waking up my cat out of my lap so I can get the issues in question. Well that's a very thorough answer, wow. I bet Wheat Loaf didn't expect that.
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