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Rhyno posted:They accepted our offer! Rhyno gonna own a house! That's awesome. My partner and I were knee-deep in the process of house-hunting when her parked car got entirely totalled by a drunk guy careening the wrong way up our street, which put the house thing on the backburner, so I know what an ordeal even the early parts of the process are.
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CANNON Wallace Wood Programmed to be the perfect assassin and working as a covert operative, John Cannon, endures nude torture by beautiful women, explosive gunplay, naked catfights, Hitler, nihilistic love-making, nuclear bombs, weasel the spy, and more naked women in these comic adventures. Includes Overseas Weekly, Heroes Inc., and others. In B&W. Is Wallace Wood Wally Wood? And could this be any good?
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It’s Wally wood and the art is good. I haven’t read it past flipping through the art though so no comment as to quality.
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Oct 17, 2018 00:48
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It is indeed that Wallace Wood. Whether or not it's good I can't say. It definitely was not my cup of tea and I didn't finish, and it isn't really Wood at his most inventive, but it's definitely very very beautifully drawn and if you're more into the macho-camp bit you might like it-- it reminded me quite a bit of a slightly more poker-faced Archer.
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Yeah, I ended up getting the second trade of Little Annie Fanny thinking "Kurtzman and Elder, how could it not be awesome!?" But it was lackluster and did nothing for me. Maybe in its original context it was more interesting or something. I fear the Cannon thing would probably be similar.
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A Strange Aeon posted:Yeah, I ended up getting the second trade of Little Annie Fanny thinking "Kurtzman and Elder, how could it not be awesome!?" But it was lackluster and did nothing for me. Maybe in its original context it was more interesting or something. I fear the Cannon thing would probably be similar. IIRC it was made for a weekly paper, Overseas Weekly, that was mainly distributed to American military personnel stationed overseas from the 50s through the 70s. Although OW was subversive in a number of ways-- I remember reading about how it ran editorials pushing back against the distribution of far-right John Birch poo poo by officers-- it was still a kind of sleazy tabloid definitely geared for rowdy sharing, so a lot of its features were definitely titillating in a kind of "boys will be boys" nudging, leering way that I found fairly unsavory, with Cannon being no exception. Little Annie Fanny is actually a pretty good reference point.
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Rhyno posted:We put an actual for real offer on a beautiful house today but it was just past business hours so they have til 6pm today to respond and I am going bonkers. Oh man. Just wait. You thought this part was bonkers....
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Archyduke posted:IIRC it was made for a weekly paper, Overseas Weekly, that was mainly distributed to American military personnel stationed overseas from the 50s through the 70s. Although OW was subversive in a number of ways-- I remember reading about how it ran editorials pushing back against the distribution of far-right John Birch poo poo by officers-- it was still a kind of sleazy tabloid definitely geared for rowdy sharing, so a lot of its features were definitely titillating in a kind of "boys will be boys" nudging, leering way that I found fairly unsavory, with Cannon being no exception. Little Annie Fanny is actually a pretty good reference point. Ehhh, I disagree with the Little Annie Fanny and "slightly more serious Archer" reference points - it's playing it straight (for a spy thriller), similar to an EC war comic but with big honking bosoms at a moderate-high frequency. The titillation... I guess I wouldn't call it mandated, but it also doesn't feel exactly genuine, possibly because how frequent and how big/honking the boobs are. Like, if I was assigned in the 60s-70s to write a standard spy-war pulp thriller and told to make it appeal to guys overseas, and then realized I really liked big honking breasts and also some rear end AND was very capable of drawing them as various femme fatale types, Cannon is more or less what I would come up with. It does drift back and forth into full exploitative sleaze in the nudity (particularly sex slavery), which is not good, but so did a lot of pulp from It's... not bad, or at least manages competence, but aside from the Wood art isn't particularly interesting or necessary, and much like the Marvel John Carter comic omnibus, is best read as a big collection in small bursts in the bathroom after getting it on clearance.
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Years before the Mangaverse, there was an actual X-Men manga https://twitter.com/atsuji_yamamoto/status/1052506498687856640
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I remember that getting reprinted in America in the late 1990s, from what I recall it was a distressingly straight adaptation of the FOX TV show. Though maybe that's just the chapters they translated/republished?
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Edge & Christian posted:I remember that getting reprinted in America in the late 1990s, from what I recall it was a distressingly straight adaptation of the FOX TV show. Though maybe that's just the chapters they translated/republished? Does it use the Japanese theme song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rSw4Xl5qfs
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Man, not even that opening can make Jean's Jim Lee costume look good.
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I'd be shaken to my very core if I were a little Japanese kid in the 80s turning on the TV, seeing this badass intro, and then seeing the animation in the episode proper.
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Okay so every October this one thing bothers me. The Hulkbuster suit of Ironman armour has been around for 25+ years. But in all that time not once* has Tony Stark ever said, before donning the heavy duty exo-armour, "Hey. I ain't afraid of no Hulks." *= I remember Toyfare making this joke once. But no official Marvel comic has ever gone for it.
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The Question IRL posted:Okay so every October this one thing bothers me. The Hulkbuster suit of Ironman armour has been around for 25+ years. 
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I, for one, enjoyed the female reimagining.
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I have just seen that Marvel is going to start publishing collected editions of the Scott Lobdell/Alan Davis/Chris Claremont/Salvador Larocca Fantastic Four. I will further discredit myself by declaring that I am possibly happier to learn this than I was when DC announced that they were doing the same for the Mark Waid run on Flash.
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The Lobdell/Davis issues aren't bad, really. But he either quit or got booted off really quick, and then Claremont took it in a Claremont-y direction. '90s Claremont-y.
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I've been re-reading some of my Marvel Adventures books, and while Chat is an adorable character with a fun power set, I couldn't help but think in the back of my mind that if the main way you fight is by sending random animals to attack the villains, you're gonna feel like a real rear end in a top hat the first time Electro electrocutes a dog and a couple pigeons.
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Lurdiak posted:I've been re-reading some of my Marvel Adventures books, and while Chat is an adorable character with a fun power set, I couldn't help but think in the back of my mind that if the main way you fight is by sending random animals to attack the villains, you're gonna feel like a real rear end in a top hat the first time Electro electrocutes a dog and a couple pigeons. I imagine things like this have kept Squirrel Girl up at night.
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X-O posted:I imagine things like this have kept Squirrel Girl up at night. At least squirrel girl can back up her homies.
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Sorry to double post, but my dad has officially been diagnosed with Alzheimer's so that's... great.
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Sorry to hear that dude.
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A Strange Aeon posted:CANNON Sounds like a bunch of 80/90s Manga, like Wounded Man (Please don't look up Wounded Man, it's awful).
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Lurdiak posted:Sorry to double post, but my dad has officially been diagnosed with Alzheimer's so that's... great. Ah, poo poo, that's terrible. My grandmother had Alzheimer's. I'm sorry, man.
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Just read My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies by Brubaker and Philips. It's a recently released graphic novella in the Criminal line. It's really loving good, as is everything they make. Reminds me a lot of Stray Bullets, but more introspective. Highly recommended.
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You're beautiful skwirl
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I would like to point out that, while I love this, it's also really, really old. Like, this was posted back when DC actually published the Ame-Comi line of figurines and (horrible) tie-in comics. Which, according to what I can find, was 2012.
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This year I am reworking my Spider-Nam costume into a breakdancing Spiderman costume for halloween. I will post pics if anyone cares. What you mofos dressing up as?
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I did Halloween a week early as I brought my daughter over for her mid term break. I dressed up as the Joker (half hoped my brothers would also dress up as the Joker so we could do a Three Jokers thing.) So I used white face make up and extended lipstick scars. But I didn't want to shave off my beard so I coloured it green, along with my hair and eyebrows. It was really cheap and very effective.
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The Question IRL posted:I did Halloween a week early as I brought my daughter over for her mid term break. Should've gone the Cesar Romero route instead.
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Madkal posted:This year I am reworking my Spider-Nam costume into a breakdancing Spiderman costume for halloween. I will post pics if anyone cares. Shaving my head, borrowing a wheelchair, and puttering around all day in a sweater and tie while pretending to be able to read minds.
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Alvarez IV posted:Shaving my head, borrowing a wheelchair, and puttering around all day in a sweater and tie while pretending to be able to read minds. That works really well because people will either say you're right or deny it in such a way that people will think you're right. Or they'll just tell you to gently caress off
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Skwirl posted:Or they'll just tell you to gently caress off Um, we don't smoke.
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RevKrule posted:Should've gone the Cesar Romero route instead. I tried to do a Cesar Remero thing last year but with a full (trimmed) beard. I was surfing Joker.
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