X-O posted:Day 9: Manslaughter Jesus Christ it's like if you put all the worst X-related designs in a blender and skimmed the scum off the top, that guy'd be the scum.
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Kalli posted:Feel real bad for whichever sidepiece is on wiping duty. When Bucky was briefly Captain America, there was a Razor Fist storyline that showed that he has a weird fetish for having people take care of him, hence why he chopped off his arms like an idiot, and he had child slaves dressing him. Yay, comics.
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Feb 21, 2017 20:50
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Drawing complicated aliens is a huge pain in the rear end, drawing a purple guy with a mohawk is easy.
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Feb 21, 2017 22:44
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Open Marriage Night posted:The Celestials are the best thing. Giant space gods make any story better. I wish people would stop killing them and other cosmic gods off.
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Feb 24, 2017 17:30
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Isn't that why spider-man was fighting Firelord that one time? Because the robot Air-Walker exploded near him and Firelord got mad? Or am I getting my Firelord fights confused.
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Feb 25, 2017 22:50
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The serpent society is such a poo poo idea for a villain group. "Oh, we have a bunch of boring snake themed villains because snake=evil is a really simple concept. They should team up and never ever go away." They don't even have shared goals or anything, they just all had the same uninspired idea for a costume/codename. It doesn't help that everyone gets them confused with the sons of the serpent, a more interesting yet equally overexposed villain group.
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Feb 26, 2017 22:21
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I won't say Gruenwald was a bad writer but it was kinda whiplash reading through the 40 years of Captain America DVD and going from JM Dematteis' high-minded psychodrama with Vermin, Baron Zemo and Red Skull with all the grandiose political statements to stuff like "I, NOMAD, AM BEING A JERK TO D-MAN BECAUSE I AM INSECURE! GRR!" and snake dudes. And yeah his 90s stuff is genuinely crummy.
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Feb 27, 2017 05:29
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I like that design tbh. It's a bit shuma-gorath, but it's so much more creepy and interesting than like a green guy with gills or pointy ears.
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Feb 27, 2017 23:34
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Bonebreaker was in the awesome Punisher beat-em-up game.
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Mar 2, 2017 07:12
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That's very clearly Hal Jordan under there.
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Mar 5, 2017 22:53
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There was this short story in the Deadly Hands of Kung Fu one-shot from a couple years back (the one with the hilarious Death Race story written by Hickman) where cosmic mute disc Midnight fought against and ultimately reconciled with Shang Chi. 
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Mar 7, 2017 02:10
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:wait, he isn't dead? the inexplicable kree space clone of a guy who died in his first appearance somehow managed to survive all this time? It was a flashback story, so who knows.
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Mar 7, 2017 08:28
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Odonata posted:Mongoose looks like the lovechild of Wolverine and Sabertooth, and not in a good way. He's what happens if they do the fusion dance wrong.
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Mar 9, 2017 03:52
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That guy loving rules.
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Mar 11, 2017 00:39
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Endless Mike posted:Zdarsky loves his Ani-men, I guess. Edge & Christian posted:Ahem, that's Frog-Man II, who they EXPLICITLY TELL YOU NOT TO CONFUSE WITH FROG-MAN I. THEY ASKED YOU POLITELY BUT FIRMLY RIGHT IN THE MASTER EDITION. Frog-man 2 is also pretty obviously biting Leap-Frog's gimmick more than anything to do with the original Frog-man. And since I brought up Leap-Frog, I can't not bring up how terrifying he used to look. 
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Mar 16, 2017 03:32
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Edge & Christian posted:Frog-Man II is literally Leap-Frog's son who took his costume and tried to make something of himself. I think you're conflating 2 stories involving frogs that were published the same year.
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Mar 16, 2017 03:57
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He looks so happy.
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Mar 16, 2017 22:39
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Knowing that in the future you're doomed to turn into an evil despot is a pretty interesting gimmick, and Abnett and Lanning used it really well in Guardians of the Galaxy. Adam Warlock stories can get a bit up their own rear end, especially Infinity Crusade and other late-era Starlin stuff, but he was always a very interesting character and central to a lot of Starlin's best work, just like Thanos (although Adam's design isn't quite as timeless as his evil bosom buddy's).
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Mar 18, 2017 00:02
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Endless Mike posted:Didn't Warlock Sort of, you're getting two storylines mixed up, but that's spoilers and I was avoiding getting into specifics because it's a really good run!!!!
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Mar 18, 2017 00:27
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Pretty sure those 90s trading cards used a similar asterisk.
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Mar 19, 2017 02:41
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I think they were also more common when there was a concerted attempt to avoid overpowered characters in the Marvel universe, to avoid the perceived problems at DC. Even heavy hitters like Hulk and Thor were saddled with weaknesses for that specific reason. Kitty Pryde used to have to hold her breath to stay intangible, giving her a time limit on the ability because otherwise it would be really, really overpowered. That sort of idea that no one can be too powerful has faded away in the last 20+ years.
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Mar 19, 2017 11:53
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Ghostlight posted:All three are based on The Heap who debuted in 1942. That guy is scary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOtn9ofWWaI
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Mar 19, 2017 23:13
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Hate-Monger is one of the great Marvel villains because yeah, he's basically just Hitler, but the point of him is that Nazi Germany can happen anywhere if we let hate blind us. There's been a bunch of Hate-Mongers, some without the Hitler consciousness, but they're all the same basic metaphor. A couple years ago, the Black Panther comic had a version of the Hate-Monger who had a bodyguard who remains my favorite on-the-nose political commentary in recent years. 
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Mar 20, 2017 23:13
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:former partner of blastaar. as in the throwaway ff villain who lives in the negative zone? that's weird as heck even for the mind of hitler in a cloned body. I might be getting my stories confused, but I'm pretty sure the Hate-Monger who teamed up with Blastaar was secretly the Man-Beast, who's basically the Satan of Counter-Earth. He pretended to be Hate-Monger because he thought it was funny(the actual reason was probably just for the story to have a pointless twist).
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Mar 21, 2017 08:15
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Ghostlight posted:Man-Beast seems to have spent more time being Hate Monger than Hitler did, but none of it with Blastaar. I was thinking maybe they got their wires crossed with Psycho Man who had a robot Hate Monger built, but even he doesn't get any hits. Blastaar's only friend seems to be Annihilus who hates him. Yeah I checked and I was confused. I read too many issues of old Spider-man in a row and melded the stories in my mind. Hate-Monger/Man-Beast did have allies who blasted things, though.
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Mar 21, 2017 10:38
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Most of the weirdos in this thread are more bad designs than bad characters.
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Mar 22, 2017 06:30
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Everything about that guy is the most 90s thing ever. Hitler's too old fashioned, we need Evil David Bowie to be the new Hate-Monger!
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Mar 22, 2017 13:45
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Spot was pretty fun in Modok's 11.
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Mar 22, 2017 15:53
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Even though some parts of that design are really goofy, I prefer it to the modern interpretations where he just looks like a lord of the rings Balrog.
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Mar 26, 2017 05:43
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X-O posted:I honestly think Punisher 2099 was just too good to last for its time. I have a feeling some people took it on faith that the story was 100% serious. Considering other comics of the era, it would've been very difficult to identify it as tongue-in-cheek.
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Mar 29, 2017 23:25
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Ghostlight posted:It's such a clusterfuck. The whole comic starts as a dystopian world ruled by the Planeteers in which Looten Plunder is a good guy who swiftly progresses from concerned citizen to garbage avenger to garbage wolverine before being, as mentioned, put on the adamantium space bus. I briefly forgot what thread this was and thought you were describing an actual Captain Planet comic being written by the Flintstones guy.
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Mar 31, 2017 08:09
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Lightning Lord posted:It's a comic written by Stan Lee and neither Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko were involved. Of course it's awful. Somewhere Don Heck is going "Wow, rude"
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Mar 31, 2017 16:49
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X-O posted:I think we need some more orb-headed characters in this thread. That dude looks like a late 80s/early 90s indie comic character drawn in an overly realistic style.
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Apr 1, 2017 18:50
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I love that someone who did something as major as crippling Prof X is such an obscure forgettable nobody.
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Apr 3, 2017 22:55
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Endless Mike posted:*He was able to walk briefly as a result of being infected by Stryfe with a TO virus which Apocalypse cured. He used his time to rollerblade with Jubilee Wouldn't we all.
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Apr 4, 2017 02:44
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Wheat Loaf posted:Remember how in early X-Men, Professor X was (like everyone else in the cast possibly including Bobby) secretly in love with Jean Grey and had all this internal angst over, "How could she ever love... a cripple?!" Strange times. That was like, one thought bubble in one issue.
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Apr 4, 2017 18:34
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Machete has a special place in my heart as a D-lister because he's died and come back with zero explanation a bunch of times, and there have been at least 2 or 3 of them, but most writers never bother saying which Machete they're using when he shows up as part of the Batroc Brigade. His history is a confusing loving mess and he's just forgettable enough that no one cares.
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Apr 6, 2017 01:26
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Lobok posted:Does Machete actually have extensive knowledge of guerilla tactics or is that just a padded resume way of saying he likes surprise attacks. If guerilla tactics means throwing knives at people from off-panel and missing, he's the master of that.
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Apr 6, 2017 08:15
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That really does look like those parodies of 90s superheroes that showed up in Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. All he's missing is a glowing eye and a Gambit headsock.
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It's hard to tell from the bio if this is the same guy, but there was a Power Broker who was involved with the underground super-wrestling league, and he would give his wrestlers, and later random crooks, super-powers, usually generic super strength and toughness. He's the guy who gave D-Man his powers, and a couple of nobody villains owe their origin to him. The bio certainly does seem to imply it's the same guy, and I guess he used the D-man treatment on himself to the nth degree to turn into that slab of meat.
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