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July contains both US Independence Day and Canada Day, so here's comic characters Captain America and Captain Canuck.  Have happy and safe holidays and discuss comics.
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No Wolverine representing Canada? What the he'll is this?
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Jul 1, 2017 16:52
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I want to give a shout out to the guy who stopped talking loudly about Transformers comics when I went into the comic shop because he "didn't want to spoil it for anyone". Odds are I won't read it and it wouldn't have mattered but I appreciated the thought.
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Jul 1, 2017 17:53
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Madkal posted:No Wolverine representing Canada? What the he'll is this? Movie rights situation. Sorry.
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Jul 1, 2017 17:53
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Madkal posted:No Wolverine representing Canada? What the he'll is this? Nobody remembers the X-men anymore
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Jul 1, 2017 18:29
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Madkal posted:No Wolverine representing Canada? What the he'll is this? He's a lousy X-pat.
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Jul 1, 2017 19:00
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Endless Mike posted:He's a lousy X-pat. He's representing our interests abroad, bub.
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Jul 1, 2017 20:16
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Speaking, as we were last thread, of Image covers... https://twitter.com/ErikJLarsen/status/881225208689967105
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Jul 1, 2017 21:57
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Teenage Fansub posted:Speaking, as we were last thread, of Image covers... What's being censored in the corner of the bed? A cluster of disembodied boobs?
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Jul 1, 2017 22:14
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Nuns with Guns posted:What's being censored in the corner of the bed? A cluster of disembodied boobs? sex toys, maybe? I'm wondering why they felt the need to censor Savage Dragon's nipple
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Jul 1, 2017 22:18
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I just took part in a lovely conversation in Champions Online where several people informed me Marvel was "circling the drain" and that the only way for them to be redeemed is if they fired everyone currently in charge because they were "pushing their cultural marxist agenda instead of telling stories" and people were tired of their "SJW horseshit".
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Jul 1, 2017 23:16
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I sure love people who use "SJW" unironically.
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Jul 1, 2017 23:38
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Your first mistake was expecting any sort of intelligent conversation in an MMO.
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Jul 1, 2017 23:40
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Honestly even "Batman culd bet up spiderman bcuz hes BADA$$" would've been worlds better.
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Jul 1, 2017 23:42
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Endless Mike posted:I sure love people who use "SJW" unironically. Or even imagine that it's somehow an insult, honestly.
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Jul 1, 2017 23:50
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Lurdiak posted:Honestly even "Batman culd bet up spiderman bcuz hes BADA$$" would've been worlds better.
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Jul 2, 2017 00:14
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A new super in Gotham would be regarded with suspicion bordering on hostility until he hears a pledge against crime. See also: https://youtu.be/kYNmhGmR9go
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Jul 2, 2017 00:28
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One of my pet ideas for writing a Batman comic would be a Gotham-born superhero who doesn't think Batman's system works because it's too rigid on crime, and Batman having to deal with someone who isn't interested in his lectures and sees him as just as inefficient as he sees the GCPD. Please don't steal my bad Batman idea.
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Jul 2, 2017 00:31
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In the course of my ongoing quest to tidy my messy bookshelves, I have encountered the non-comics equivalent of TPB spines not lining up because the company changed their logo etc. Here is one of my bookshelves:  Let's zoom in:  For goodness' sake, Zorro publisher. 
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Jul 2, 2017 00:32
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Lurdiak posted:One of my pet ideas for writing a Batman comic would be a Gotham-born superhero who doesn't think Batman's system works because it's too rigid on crime, and Batman having to deal with someone who isn't interested in his lectures and sees him as just as inefficient as he sees the GCPD. Congrats you just invented Red Hood.
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Jul 2, 2017 00:40
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Aphrodite posted:Congrats you just invented Red Hood. I said too rigid on crime, not too lenient.
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Jul 2, 2017 00:42
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That's also basically the Anarky miniseries.
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Jul 2, 2017 01:18
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Ghostlight posted:That's also basically the Anarky miniseries. That's closer to what I had in mind yeah. Minus the first year philosophy student narration lol.
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Jul 2, 2017 01:20
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I started reading the Simonson Thor trades I bought during the amazon sale and they are just as amazing as I've been told
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Jul 2, 2017 05:35
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Soonmot posted:I started reading the Simonson Thor trades I bought during the amazon sale and they are just as amazing as I've been told What's so cool about them? Legitimately don't know much about Thor runs--is Simonson in the 80s?
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Jul 2, 2017 06:13
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The art is way cleaner than I expect for the time, and while I love modern coloring (for the most part) there is something about that flat, limited palette that really makes the pictures pop. I'm only one issue in, but the story is already dense af, something I commented on when I started the Moench/Sienkevich Moon Knight a bit ago. But why listen to my poorly cobbled together thoughts when you can listen to Miles and Elizabeth really get into the story. Their podcast was the main reason I picked this up, just like Jay and Miles pushed me towards grabbing Excalibur, too. https://www.thelightningandthestorm.com/
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Jul 2, 2017 06:20
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Read it just for the onomatopoeia.
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Jul 2, 2017 06:24
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Aphrodite posted:Congrats you just invented Red Hood. Also Anarky before his writer turned him into a weird techno-fascist
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Jul 2, 2017 06:56
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AlmightyBob posted:Also Anarky before his writer turned him into a weird techno-fascist Shouldn't he be like the opposite of that
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Jul 2, 2017 07:01
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CharlestheHammer posted:Shouldn't he be like the opposite of that I apparently misremembered. Anarky was original a fairly leftist character until Alan Grant became an objectivist for some reason and used the Anarky mini-series to espouse Neo-Tech, which is a nerdy offshoot of objectivism He basically went from leftist antistatism to rightwing corporate antistatism which is very funny to me. AlmightyBob fucked around with this message at 07:08 on Jul 2, 2017 |
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Jul 2, 2017 07:05
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A Strange Aeon posted:What's so cool about them? Legitimately don't know much about Thor runs--is Simonson in the 80s? Its issues Thor #337-355, #357-369, #371-382; Balder the Brave #1-4     
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Jul 2, 2017 07:17
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Wheat Loaf posted:In the course of my ongoing quest to tidy my messy bookshelves, I have encountered the non-comics equivalent of TPB spines not lining up because the company changed their logo etc. I have an Ultimate Spider-Man trade where the title is published upside down on the spine for some reason. Like you know how literally every single english language book in existence has the tops of the letters on the right side, not this one.
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Jul 2, 2017 08:02
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Lurdiak posted:One of my pet ideas for writing a Batman comic would be a Gotham-born superhero who doesn't think Batman's system works because it's too rigid on crime, and Batman having to deal with someone who isn't interested in his lectures and sees him as just as inefficient as he sees the GCPD. That is pretty much Spoiler in the current Detective Comics. Also I just have to lol at anyone that uses Marxist/communist as a negative in this day and age
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Jul 2, 2017 08:31
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Does anyone have an opinion on the early GI Joe comics? The commentary in the back of GI Joe vs Transformers refers to them a lot and I was curious if they were any good, and if they were collected in trades somewhere. I'm not very familiar with the lore beyond having watching the cartoon show as a kid.
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Jul 2, 2017 14:30
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Wikipedia posted:G.I. Joe was Marvel's top-selling subscription title in 1985, and was receiving 1200 fan letters per week by 1987. The series has been credited with bringing in a new generation of comic book readers, since many children were introduced to the comic book medium through G.I. Joe, and later went on to read other comics.[3] The comic book has been re-printed several times, and also translated in multiple languages. In addition to direct spin-offs of the comic book, several revivals and reboots have been published throughout the 2000s. They are approximately 500 times better than they have any right to be. Larry Hama on the GI Joe comics was like the 80s version of Tom Taylor on Injustice: He took a comic that only existed to tie into a product and put genuine love into it and wrote some memorable, badass, gripping, and even terrifying stories. The concept of GI Joe has never and will never be explored better.
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Jul 2, 2017 14:36
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There are several Classic GI Joe TPBs reprinting the '80s series. It started slow, but ended up far better than it had any right to be. The Cobra villains and the ninjas were always much more interesting than the Joes themselves, which shouldn't be too surprising. I collected them all as a kid (as well as the figures) and wish I still had them.
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Jul 2, 2017 16:03
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Timeless Appeal posted:That's ridiculous. Batman wouldn't fight Spider-Man but see a new Robin in training. And then Spider-Man would die.
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Jul 2, 2017 18:46
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Eh, he'd get better.
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Jul 2, 2017 19:04
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David D. Davidson posted:Eh, he'd get better.
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Jul 2, 2017 21:27
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Timeless Appeal posted:That's ridiculous. Batman wouldn't fight Spider-Man but see a new Robin in training. I always wanted to see that, but with Spidey in the black costume. I'd also like to see a universe where Peter Parker replaces Jimmy Olsen as the Daily Planet photographer.
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