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One thing that I've been thinking about lately is why don't Marvel and DC have a bit more fun with the political landscapes of their universes? I mean DC has a C-list hero that is basically Uncle Sam, why not make him president or in Marvel the original Human Torch. I'm literally killed Hitler is a pretty great boast when it comes to the campaign trail.
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Cause DC Decisions still haunts anyone who lived through it.
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Mar 5, 2018 03:06
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marvel why wont you keep the liberal sjw politics like having a guy who killed a nazi be president out of my comics
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Mar 5, 2018 03:13
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I decided it was high time I finally read The Monster Society of Evil since it's the first comic book epic. There's good stuff in there, Captain Marvel really was heads above most golden age books, but drat there's a triple helping of golden age racism in it: Also, I bet kids loved the reveal of who Mr. Mind was even if I don't get that bit.
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Mar 5, 2018 04:19
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True Story: Secret Empire was originally going to be called "Second 9/11".
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Mar 5, 2018 04:31
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Random Stranger posted:I decided it was high time I finally read The Monster Society of Evil since it's the first comic book epic. There's good stuff in there, Captain Marvel really was heads above most golden age books, but drat there's a triple helping of golden age racism in it:
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Mar 5, 2018 06:14
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Is there a thread about IDW books I want to talk about pre Revoltuon GI Joe
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Mar 5, 2018 07:12
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There's no Licensed Comics thread any more, so it'd be the Indie thread or maybe Transformers cause of the crossover.
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Mar 5, 2018 09:41
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Teenage Fansub posted:There's no Licensed Comics thread any more, so it'd be the Indie thread or maybe Transformers cause of the crossover. Yeah but the crossover is stupid and not worth talking about In general Revolution is one of the dumbest ideas I've seen
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Mar 5, 2018 10:33
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You can always make a new licensed comics thread.
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Mar 5, 2018 14:52
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Endless Mike posted:Question of the month: What was your first comic book? Unfortunately it was a crossover which continued in an issue of Cable's ongoing series, and not really knowing anything about comic book publishing schedules at the time, I never found it to continue the story. The book itself, while not entirely impenetrable to someone who was familiar with the characters from the animated series/film, wasn't terribly good.
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Mar 5, 2018 16:24
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irlZaphod posted:Unfortunately it was a crossover which continued in an issue of Cable's ongoing series, and not really knowing anything about comic book publishing schedules at the time, I never found it to continue the story. See, that's one thing I liked about the Panini Collector's Editions: when there was a crossover (granted, pre-Civil War crossovers where they weren't about 80 issues altogether), they'd reprint every tie-in issue of it.
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Mar 5, 2018 16:44
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I don't think I discovered those Panini reprints until a good while later.
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Mar 5, 2018 16:58
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Endless Mike posted:Question of the month: What was your first comic book? One where Superman fight a scientist who transforms into a hulk-like version of herself, but with a mohawk. Also: https://twitter.com/MerriamWebster/status/970671487601594368
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Mar 5, 2018 19:03
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Endless Mike posted:You can always make a new licensed comics thread. Way too much effort just to talk about ninjas
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Mar 5, 2018 23:55
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There's also, you know, the chat thread. This one. Tell us about ninjas.
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Mar 5, 2018 23:57
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Ninjas, are cool But for real the Costa parts of GI Joe are super solid espionage slash political thrillers, I can't recommend them enough, particularly the first two Cobra series. The main book under Dixon is okay, a good enough action story, but Costa and Gage do a fantastic job with the shifting loyalties and power struggles inside Cobra
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Mar 6, 2018 00:12
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Endless Mike posted:Question of the month: What was your first comic book? It was some 90s X-Men book out of a magazine stand. I think it was in the bone claws Wolverine era along with Dark Beast and Bishop in the team. I thought it was okay. What really got me into comics was the Ben Reilly Sensational Spider-Man period that was split between four ongoings with a reading order that was a headache for a kid. But eventually the newsstands stopped carrying comics so I never got to read the end of it. Then my classmate spoiled me on how Ben was the clone all along and died. I have the entire run (if it could be called that) on digital omnibus but I haven't peeked into it yet. Lily Catts fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Mar 6, 2018 |
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Mar 6, 2018 03:40
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I know obligatory pound-of-salt due to Bleeding Cool, but some of this poo poo regarding Stan Lee is kind of disturbing. https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/03/05/j-scott-campbell-stan-lee/ https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/03/02/comics-industry-concern-stan-lee-situation/ It sounds like Lee's long-time aide has been pushed out and no one really knows who is tending to Lee, who is 95 and apparently has pneumonia. Considering that a few weeks ago it was announced that he lost nearly $2 million in some scam, it sounds like elder-financial abuse and it sucks that it seems to be happening to Lee.
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Mar 6, 2018 05:14
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Endless Mike posted:
Some old issue of the Hulk that I found in my parent's cabin where Grey skinned Hulk fights the Absorbing man. There were other comics there but I didn't know how to read at the time. This comic was great for that since 90 percent of it was just the two of them beating the poo poo out of each other.
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notthegoatseguy posted:I know obligatory pound-of-salt due to Bleeding Cool, but some of this poo poo regarding Stan Lee is kind of disturbing. That's hosed up. He and Max seemed to have a really good rapport, so I can't imagine people cutting them off would be good for anyone.
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Mar 6, 2018 14:37
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Endless Mike posted:That's hosed up. He and Max seemed to have a really good rapport, so I can't imagine people cutting them off would be good for anyone. Is it possible Max was the one scamming him?
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Mar 6, 2018 14:53
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Lurdiak posted:Is it possible Max was the one scamming him?
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Mar 6, 2018 15:08
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:In the early '80s, when I was first learning to read, my dad used to bring me home boxes full of comics from used bookstores he would frequent, constantly trading in Mack Bolan and Phoenix Force novels and gun magazines for them. Most of them were Richie Rich at first, along with pocket-sized collections of Peanuts comic strips checked out from the public library. Yeah, that Transformers with the best cover ever and an Iron Man with (I think) Rhodes acting as Iron Man that I got the same day are the first I really remember being "mine." But I had a sister who was way into comics and those came out was when I was like 9, so I surely had more before then. I definitely had the comics you got at school with toothbrushes when they taught you about dental hygiene, and the Radio Shack ones where kids saved the world by programming stuff on their trash-80s. And of course I also had the one where Spider-Man recounts being molested by his babysitter. I'm not sure I'd count such freebies.
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Mar 6, 2018 15:36
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Endless Mike posted:It's entirely possible and the Daily Mail story BC links to mentions he's a convicted felon, but it's also clear it was due to violence, not white collar crimes. Whatever's going on, I really hope Stan comes out of it ok. I know he's old and probably hasn't got much time left, but the least one can hope for is that our last moments are good ones.
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Mar 6, 2018 15:54
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I finally watched the Black Panther movie, now I can catch up with the BSS Movie Thr- oh
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Mar 7, 2018 00:15
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Samuringa posted:I finally watched the Black Panther movie, now I can catch up with the BSS Movie Thr- The BSS comic movie thread exists to make the CineD look good by comparison.
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Mar 7, 2018 00:25
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Skwirl posted:The BSS comic movie thread exists to make the CineD look good by comparison. It fails miserably at that, then.
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Mar 7, 2018 00:34
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Endless Mike posted:It fails miserably at that, then. They are both terrible for different reasons.
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Mar 7, 2018 00:40
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I like the movie thread when people aren't just arguing with people from Cine D about Zack Snyder
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Mar 7, 2018 00:53
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My first comic book at like 10 years old was either this, Or this.  Both of them were loving metal and full of explosions and murder and I believe I read them far, far too young...
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Mar 7, 2018 01:08
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Why isn't this stickied yet.
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Mar 7, 2018 01:44
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The boss doesn't seem to be around much. ANARCHY IN BSS!!!
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Mar 7, 2018 02:14
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The first comic I remember getting with my own money was some Carnage mini where they flashed back to him killing his grandmother, and I loved my grandmother, so I started hating Carnage.
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Mar 7, 2018 02:21
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Endless Mike posted:The boss doesn't seem to be around much. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6eymAQ_02Q
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Mar 7, 2018 02:27
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Reading this Alan Moore biography and they mention DC'S Piranha Press imprint "which from 1987 to 1994 produced eclectic, creator-led graphic novels with titles like Epicurus the Sage, Gregory and The Elvis Mandible". I've never heard of any of those or this imprint, are the three above any good or did anything else of note come out of it?
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Mar 7, 2018 09:14
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A Strange Aeon posted:Reading this Alan Moore biography and they mention DC'S Piranha Press imprint "which from 1987 to 1994 produced eclectic, creator-led graphic novels with titles like Epicurus the Sage, Gregory and The Elvis Mandible". Epicurus the Sage is a William Messner-Loeb/Sam Keith thing so at the very least it looks very fetching. I read it like a decade ago so I can't vouch for it too specifically but I recall liking well enough. Ditto The Elvis Mandible, which I would love to read again just to see if it's as interesting as I remember it being. Probably the Piranha Press books with the most persistent visibility would be Why I Hate Saturn and I believe the first bit of Stuck Rubber Baby.
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Mar 7, 2018 12:11
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I love all of Kyle Baker's earlier works: Why I Hate Saturn, The Cowboy Wally Show, You Are Here, I Die at Midnight. Those four are fantastic. They were all kept in print by Vertigo for many years after Piranha Press shut down. I think he got the rights back and may self-publish newer editions now.
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Mar 7, 2018 12:58
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A Strange Aeon posted:Reading this Alan Moore biography and they mention DC'S Piranha Press imprint "which from 1987 to 1994 produced eclectic, creator-led graphic novels with titles like Epicurus the Sage, Gregory and The Elvis Mandible". I've read Epicurus and Gregory. Epicurus is pretty fun. Not really deep, but fun. Gregory is definitely an indie book from the late 80's.
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Someone asked about what comics did we first purchase or read. I don't really know what was the comic I first bought, but I read the hell out of my brother's random Archie and Batman books (with no covers of course), my dad's old Mad Magazines, and some old Beanie comic. Some comics though particularly stand out for me, like the X-Men comic where Jean Grey gets tenticals for arms (that scared the hell out of me), or Superman hearing a flute and growing horns so he dressed up like Batman for a time, or Batman vs Bruce Wayne who was having a weird dream.
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