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My parents would get me trades, especially before a long flight, just whatever was at the airport bookstore. I remember getting The Return of Superman (the books after his funeral up through him coming back with a mullet) and a collection of Spider-Man's early fights with Hobgoblin before his identity was revealed and then retconned a bunch. First floppy was probably Captain America fights the Asthma Monster that I got for free at Asthma camp (just like regular camp, except in addition to a counselor every cabin had an RN and our name tags had a list of allergies on the back). First floppy I chose for myself was two issues of Spider-Man off an airport rack, it was a two parter with cool covers. He fights Scorpion in a sewer, first cover is Scorpion standing triumphant over Spidey, second is the opposite. Also features a "mystery figure" in the b story that turns out to be none other than Ben Reilly. I read most of the clone saga from the very beginning, and because it was the comic boom and I was a kid who couldn't be trusted to not damage the comics my dad bought 2 of most every issue, 1 for me to read and one to sell at a later date to finance college. If he'd put that money in an IRA he could probably have retired by now.
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A Strange Aeon posted:It's interesting so many of you remember your first specific issue. Comics were just around so much growing up, it's hard to pinpoint the very first. I think most of us are talking about first comics that we remember pointing to in a store and either buying with our allowance, or our parents buying for us, stuff where we know we said "I want that," instead of reading whatever happened to be around the house and appealing to a pre-pubescent child. First comics I ever read I have no idea because I was reading comic strips in the newspaper since before I could actually read them, I would make my parents tell me what the word bubbles said.
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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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Endless Mike posted:It fails miserably at that, then. They are both terrible for different reasons.
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https://twitter.com/theshrillest/status/971979121101193216 https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/8/17097726/netflix-rob-liefeld-extreme-universe-comics-akiva-goldsman-movies-adapations quote:The deal gives Netflix movie rights to six of Liefeld’s titles: Brigade, Bloodstrike, Cybrid, Re-Gex, Bloodwulf, and Kaboom. There's some actually famous books from there, what about...? quote:Netflix will draw on that franchise for its movies, although some of the other more popular Extreme books, including Youngblood, Supreme, Glory, and Prophet aren’t mentioned as being part of Netflix’s buy, making it unclear if the streaming service will be able to adapt those characters as well. oh.
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Mar 9, 2018 11:56
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A Strange Aeon posted:I browsed a little to see these cheap digital comics on Amazon but wasn't having much luck--does someone have a link to just the ones that are on sale? Aside from Marvel MAX, pretty much anything that's been digitized to sell online will almost certainly be on Marvel Unlimited, there are some missing back issues but they add old stuff every week
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Mar 14, 2018 00:56
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TIL Bill Sienkiewicz has a pronunciation guide to his name as his twitter handle, it's @sinKEVitch in case you were wondering.
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Mar 15, 2018 18:49
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Also, there's prose Squirrel Girl books for a pre-teen audience, which would be awesome, except the retcon Monkey Joe out of existence.
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Mar 15, 2018 22:07
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hup posted:Someone post about Man of Steel and find out It's actually a really good movie and furthermore...
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Mar 16, 2018 07:29
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I'm re reading all of Ewing's Avengers, and I love how they think Superior Spider-Man became such a huge dick because he started reading Ayn Rand instead of being mind controlled by a super villain who once tried to kill most of the world.
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Mar 19, 2018 08:34
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Jedi posted:Hope's mother is also named Hope. Not the same person, just the same name. It's sorta weird we don't have a naming convention for a daughter named after her mother like we have with boys named after their father. The Will and Jada Pinkett Smith makes more sense, where you give the girl a name similar to the father's and the boy a similar name to the mother's.
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Mar 20, 2018 00:24
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Lurdiak posted:Where's my pro wrestling superhero universe. Isn't that Jojo? Although between the prominence of Luchador pop culture and talented artists in Mexico and South America, I'm surprised there isn't a bunch of Luchador comics. Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD88HIKoFzk
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Mar 24, 2018 22:49
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Covok posted:Total tangent, but I'm making a Marvel Heroic Roleplaying event for my players. The premise is Galactus makes a bunch of Earth villains his heralds randomly by shooting down the Power Cosmic from the sky, they are let to roam around at first starting fires while the heroes wonder where Galactus is and try to put out the fires, then he pops out through Reed's portal to the Negative Zone because he was traveling through there, surprise attacks New York with his main heralds and his new ones and attacks key places in the world, then Doom betrays Galactus as a herald and merges with him into Doomlactus, and then the heroes have to stop Doomlactus -- who promised not to eat Earth -- from eating the rest of the universe. Doctor Doom literally had the power cosmic at one point it's in the Lee/Kirby run.
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Mar 26, 2018 02:12
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Samuringa posted:That's literally Death on the right, but gloomy. Death had better eye makeup game.
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Mar 26, 2018 18:19
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:No and yes in that order, what else I liked Snyder's Dickbats.
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Mar 27, 2018 00:13
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:That's Black Mirror baka I know that, but Dickbats is funnier to say and doesn't risk people confusing it with the british sci-fi anthology tv series.
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Mar 27, 2018 00:40
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The rollback on Dickbats is by far my least favorite thing about New 52. I'd say it was getting rid of Superman's trunks but they've finally realized how terrible that was and are moving back to the one true faith.
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Mar 27, 2018 00:57
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Patsy Walker Hell Cat is great, it had unfortunate/fortunate timing because it came out right around when Jessica Jones season 1 came out and the Patsy Walker character in the comic (and actually all comics she's ever been in) has almost nothing to do with the Patsy Walker in the tv show.
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Mar 27, 2018 06:30
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Like a decade ago I really liked using half.com especially since I would flip trades for like 80% of what I paid to buy more trades. No idea what it's like now, but you'd run into the same issues with not being able to combine shipping when buying multiple books from the same vendor.
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https://twitter.com/rickeypurdin/status/978801337130520576 Aside from Triumph and Torment did Mignola do any other Marvel work?
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Random Stranger posted:So I got kind of curious and decided to see how many pages Jack Kirby actually penciled a month. And because it's a good of month as any, I went with November 1961 (which is really around August 1961 given production schedules and newsstand distribution). Now take a guess to how many pages, including covers, the King did that month? There's a reason his nickname is King
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