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I petitioned for last year's august thread title to reference The Great Ten, and now it's finally happened. Thank you 
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Aug 3, 2018 12:39
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Teenage Fansub posted:I petitioned for last year's august thread title to reference The Great Ten, and now it's finally happened. Thank you The Great Ten suck but the reference was right there, I couldn't resist Guy Goodbody fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Aug 3, 2018 |
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Aug 3, 2018 15:25
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After finishing my Black Panther trades, now I move on to the Flintstones and it's really living up to the panels everyone used to post Like, this is some straight up pictures for sad children dialogue 
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Aug 3, 2018 16:09
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I seriously hate The Great Ten so much. DC is making a new all-Chinese superhero team! Great! But they can't just be regular superheroes, oh no. After all, China is bad and foreign, those are it's two defining characteristics, so Chinese superheroes have to be hosed up and weird. China is one of the bad guy countries, so their main villain is going to be the Chinese government itself! But China is also like a totalitarian state, so there wouldn't be superheroes without the Chinese government's say-so, so they'll also be like slaves of the government. But we want the superheroes to be good guys, so some of them don't like their position as slaves to an evil organization. There you go, that wraps it up nicely Our new super hero team is a bunch of hosed up foreign weirdos who hate being alive and are primarily defined by their subservient position to a real life government that we're gonna treat like one of the evil organizations from Bond movies. Get your wills ready boys, because we're gonna be buried alive in money and Eisners. Like those clay soldiers, that's a China thing! Put that in the comic!
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Aug 3, 2018 16:49
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Guy Goodbody posted:I seriously hate The Great Ten so much. DC is making a new all-Chinese superhero team! Great! But they can't just be regular superheroes, oh no. After all, China is bad and foreign, those are it's two defining characteristics, so Chinese superheroes have to be hosed up and weird. China is one of the bad guy countries, so their main villain is going to be the Chinese government itself! But China is also like a totalitarian state, so there wouldn't be superheroes without the Chinese government's say-so, so they'll also be like slaves of the government. But we want the superheroes to be good guys, so some of them don't like their position as slaves to an evil organization. There you go, that wraps it up nicely Also, one of their heroes is a woman who's super powers is literally that she gives birth to children.
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Aug 3, 2018 17:15
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https://twitter.com/JHickman/status/1025420752345026561
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Aug 3, 2018 17:50
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Something that's really annoying reading trades is when they don't include crossover issues. Nothing more annoying than getting to the end of an issue, seeing "continued in ____" and then turning the page to just the next regular issue of the book. Especially bad when it is a continuing crossover so you get 1 of 4 and then 3 of 4.
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Aug 3, 2018 21:32
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muscles like this! posted:Something that's really annoying reading trades is when they don't include crossover issues. Nothing more annoying than getting to the end of an issue, seeing "continued in ____" and then turning the page to just the next regular issue of the book. Especially bad when it is a continuing crossover so you get 1 of 4 and then 3 of 4. This is especially annoying in something like Marvel Unlimited where they straight up can have the next issue you open be that next part of the crossover but noppeeeeeeee. You gotta hunt it down in the catalogue.
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Aug 3, 2018 23:53
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I believe the recent Morrison Batman omnibus did something interesting with the one crossover in that run. The crossover storyline was kinda crap and Grant only wrote one or two parts of it, so instead of including it all or dropping his issues, they got a few new summary pages of the missing stuff written by him (I think?) and drawn by one of his usual artists. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Aug 3, 2018 |
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Aug 3, 2018 23:54
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RevKrule posted:This is especially annoying in something like Marvel Unlimited where they straight up can have the next issue you open be that next part of the crossover but noppeeeeeeee. You gotta hunt it down in the catalogue. Sometimes at the end of an issue you get the option to continue to the next issue in the crossover, or the next issue in the series. Not everything is setup for that though.
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Aug 4, 2018 00:25
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Teenage Fansub posted:I believe the recent Morrison Batman omnibus did something interesting with the one crossover in that run. The Judge Dredd Complete Case Files with the Cursed Earth story arc puts in a couple of recap pages in due to not being able to reprint the stories with the fast food mascots.
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Aug 4, 2018 00:34
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Teenage Fansub posted:I believe the recent Morrison Batman omnibus did something interesting with the one crossover in that run. Text and some relevant panels. Dialogue is changed, I think. They could have easily cut out those issues, but they were good, so I'm glad they were included.
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Aug 4, 2018 19:46
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Is bronze age Swamp Thing worth checking out? The omnibus is in stock at my local store and I've never read any Swamp Thing before, so I'm wondering if it's somewhere good to start.
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Aug 4, 2018 21:48
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BillBear posted:Is bronze age Swamp Thing worth checking out? The omnibus is in stock at my local store and I've never read any Swamp Thing before, so I'm wondering if it's somewhere good to start. Alan Moore's run is one of the most revelatory; I'd always recommend that but I'm curious on the bronze age stuff too. It never seemed particularly interesting.
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Aug 4, 2018 22:16
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The early issues are fun as pulpy monster adventures but when Martin Pasko takes over it's really loving boring and forgettable. Swamp Thing fights a golem once and that's about it. Honestly I recommend skipping it entirely because Alan Moore brings back the supporting cast as really hosed up parodies of themselves in his run, so if you actually end up liking them you'll just feel bummed out at how they turn out. I mean there is this panel:  But context doesn't really make it any better. I recommend anyone who wants to get into Swamp Thing to just read the 24 issue Lein Wein series and then skip to Moore's run. Lurdiak fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Aug 4, 2018 |
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Aug 4, 2018 22:44
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I know I'm ages late to this, but Black Panther is a really good movie. It seems like Marvel is making an effort to have interesting, memorable villains lately, and that really shows in Black Panther. Hell, at points he's even more sympathetic than the hero. But it's still really weird that the villain wins in the end.
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Aug 4, 2018 23:24
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There is that one darkly funny scene where the CIA agent guys is remotely operating the king's plane, and he sees that he's getting fired at by another spaceship, and he's like "Put me back in" It's like, wow, that guy is so brave. He's literally risking his life to save white supremacy. Not the kinda black humor you expect in a Marvel movie.
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Aug 4, 2018 23:28
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edit--I figured it out somehow.
A Strange Aeon fucked around with this message at 04:52 on Aug 5, 2018 |
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Aug 5, 2018 04:26
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Guy Goodbody posted:There is that one darkly funny scene where the CIA agent guys is remotely operating the king's plane, and he sees that he's getting fired at by another spaceship, and he's like "Put me back in" Getting put back in is risky because his remote location is under attack.
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Aug 5, 2018 08:00
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Open Marriage Night posted:Getting put back in is risky because his remote location is under attack. yeah, the spaceship is shooting at the window, and if the window breaks he'll die, but he would rather risk death than just stand by and let the oppressed people of the world be armed.
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Aug 5, 2018 12:30
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Oh, lord.
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Aug 5, 2018 13:10
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Guy Goodbody posted:yeah, the spaceship is shooting at the window, and if the window breaks he'll die, but he would rather risk death than just stand by and let the oppressed people of the world be armed. You do realize that he was fighting on the same side as Black Panther, right.
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Aug 5, 2018 16:34
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Killmonger did nothing wrong?
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Aug 5, 2018 16:47
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Madkal posted:You do realize that he was fighting on the same side as Black Panther, right. Yeah, the CIA guy and Black Panther are working together to stop Killmonger from arming the oppressed peoples of the world and ending white supremacy.
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Aug 5, 2018 18:07
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Goodbody is mangling the take that the CIA are the bad guys, as they have been interfering with 3rd World countries politics for decades Unsurprisingly, his attempts at jokes are as successful as all the other ones.
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Aug 5, 2018 18:09
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Samuringa posted:Goodbody is mangling the take that the CIA are the bad guys, as they have been interfering with 3rd World countries politics for decades I'm not joking, I'm 100% serious. There's a movie called The Spook Who Sat By The Door from the 1970s about a black man trained by the CIA to destabilize governments who uses his training to set up black resistance cells across the US. Black Panther takes that story but casts the hero as a villain and has a superhero murder him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLKSyy5AwtQ
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Aug 5, 2018 18:23
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Hence, the word mangling, as your trail of posts are like a Ken M sketch but instead of a satisfying twist, there is only the realization that we wasted our time following an inane opinion. You are correct in one point, though, the post is not a joke, just the poster.
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Aug 5, 2018 18:44
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I have not seen the movie, but in the book Freeman is not a hero. (Dan Freeman, the Spook who sat by the Door’s protagonist. Not Martin Freeman.)
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Aug 5, 2018 18:46
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Guy Goodbody posted:Yeah, the CIA guy and Black Panther are working together to stop Killmonger from arming the oppressed peoples of the world and ending white supremacy. Doesn't Killmonger boast about how many oppressed people he killed and how many governments he toppled while working for the CIA? I'm not sure he really cares about anyone but himself.
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Aug 5, 2018 19:58
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BillBear posted:Doesn't Killmonger boast about how many oppressed people he killed and how many governments he toppled while working for the CIA? I'm not sure he really cares about anyone but himself. It was a "this is what I had to do to get here" kinda monologue. While Killmonger was definitely motivated in large part by a combination of personal animus towards T'Chaka and a desire to see the homeland he had been told about, that doesn't make his overall goal any less noble. He enjoyed killing T'Challa, but once he had the throne he tried to use it for good.
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Aug 5, 2018 20:23
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Guy Goodbody posted:It was a "this is what I had to do to get here" kinda monologue. While Killmonger was definitely motivated in large part by a combination of personal animus towards T'Chaka and a desire to see the homeland he had been told about, that doesn't make his overall goal any less noble. He enjoyed killing T'Challa, but once he had the throne he tried to use it for good. Yes it does, because he's doing it for himself, and nobody else.
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Aug 5, 2018 20:33
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I wanted to hear Klaw’s mixtape
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Aug 5, 2018 21:17
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Killmonger was correct to want to arm oppressed people, but was incorrect in that his ultimate goal was to replace one form of oppression with another ("the sun will never set on the Wakandan Empire") instead of allowing for the self-determination of oppressed people to lead to revolutionary internationalism.  hup posted:I wanted to hear Klaw’s mixtape Also, this.
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Aug 5, 2018 21:56
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Yes it does, because he's doing it for himself, and nobody else. If doing good things requires doing it selflessly then boy do I have bad news for you.
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Aug 5, 2018 22:44
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Maybe I am misremembering the movie but wasn't Killmonger's plan to have the opposed become the oppressors which might sound great and all until you think about it.
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Aug 5, 2018 23:08
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Madkal posted:Maybe I am misremembering the movie but wasn't Killmonger's plan to have the opposed become the oppressors which might sound great and all until you think about it. Yes, as soon as he actually took over his language switched.
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Aug 5, 2018 23:20
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everyone online who says "killmonger was right" has never seen or heard of a hotep
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Aug 5, 2018 23:25
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CharlestheHammer posted:If doing good things requires doing it selflessly then boy do I have bad news for you. Luckily it is the entire base of superheroes so we're still fine
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Am I crazy or has the price of DC's digital stuff recently gone up on Amazon?
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