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Mr Hootington posted:Batman's dick was the greatest thing DC (Dickless Cucks) had done since Rebirth. Them walking it back shows how cowardly and awful they are. Does anyone else think that "Dickless Cucks" is the sort of name a character would be given in a story set in one of those fabled "more innocent times"? Like, the male lead in the novel/play/musical/film Show Boat is an 1890s riverboat gambler called "Gaylord Ravenal", a name you'd not see today. Could you imagine a Jack London novel about a grizzled Alaskan gold rush prospector called "Dickless Cucks"?
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A strange piece of trivia I learned today: a bunch of fairly big name comics creators all had stories published in an erotic comic series called "Penthouse Comix" because apparently it had the highest ever page rate at the time ($800 per page).
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Oct 2, 2018 20:46
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I was reading about these small publisher that sprang up amidst the 90s boom and it perplexed me a bit: who was backing up this softcore porn comic that it could pay top dollar to get Keith Giffen writing stories about superheroes loving?
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Oct 2, 2018 22:25
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Rhyno posted:Penthouse Comix did pay top dollar and Dave Johnson did some killer covers for them. I have now looked some of these comics up and all I can conclude is that people must have been really, really loving desperate before they could get Internet porn. Blegh. Servoret posted:And speaking of NotSuperman erotica, Curt Swan did illustrations for a reprint of Larry Niven's essay "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" for Penthouse Comix. I once saw an example of "noteworthy artist did erotica comics" which was a Russ Heath pirate story which ended with the female pirate captain protagonist sword fighting the male pirate captain villain; since it's a porn comic, they are both fighting in the nude, and the fight ends when she chops his cock off and it falls into the sea and his reaction is approximately, "IT CANNOT BE!" then jumping overboard after it crying, "COME BACK, MY PRECIOUS!" while the crew laughs heartily. I wasn't entirely sure if it was supposed to be comedic. Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 10:19 on Oct 3, 2018 |
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Oct 3, 2018 10:07
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I know Hughes did. No idea about Maguire. From what little I have seen there is a HUGE amount of Milo Manara but that probably shouldn't come as a surprise. That's where he made his bones (excuse the pun) after all.
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Oct 3, 2018 14:10
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TwoPair posted:I imagine eventually writers would just be going... "ummm... how about another Dr. Doom... only he's from Earth 1000... his deal is that his cape is orange?" Sounds like someone who'd have a good LOYAL name, like John.
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Oct 8, 2018 21:13
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There was a little (only a little) of that in Amazing #500, where Peter gets unstuck in time when Dormammu invades New York and the only way Dr Strange can get him back as by having him relive every fight of his career.
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Oct 9, 2018 19:43
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I like most of JMS's Spider-Man up to a point. Before Sins Past, but I'm not sure exactly where I fell off.
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Oct 9, 2018 19:52
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I run hot and cold on Spider-Man being an Avenger. I think there's a natural arc to Spider-Man as a character where he would eventually earn the respect and trust of everyone and take over from Captain America as the natural leader of the Avengers but it's one he obviously can't ever reach. I think that's an overly-idealised view that I have.
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Oct 9, 2018 21:34
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You know who has one of the low-key weirdest "origins" in comics? It's Alfred Pennyworth. Because his backstory is that he was in the SAS (I've no idea where he would have been; probably the Falklands or Northern Ireland at this rate) and then he went on to follow his dream to become a stage actor, but then he was called to his dying father's bedside, who charged him with a solemn duty: "We Pennyworths have always been butlers! With my dying breath, I beg you to go to America and find some rich geezer and become his butler!" and his reaction was, "I will, father!" instead of the more reasonable, "But I don't want to be a butler!" or "But you need years of training to be a butler!" or "But I was supposed to play King Lear tomorrow!"
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Oct 11, 2018 08:33
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I'm re-reading some of Chris Sims's old X-Men Episode Guides from Comics Alliance and just realised these are all five years old. How can this be? I remember reading them when they were new!
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Oct 12, 2018 14:20
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RevKrule posted:Oh man, let me tell you about the fickle mistress known as Time and her partner in crime, Nostalgia... I still think they're funny. 
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Oct 12, 2018 15:47
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It's kind of impressive in retrospect how many deep cuts the X-Men animated series went for.
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Oct 12, 2018 19:35
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A Strange Aeon posted:Link? That sounds like fun reading, if it's about the animated series. Here's the page with all of them: http://comicsalliance.com/tags/x-men-episode-guide. I think you'd have to do a bit of "load more articles"ing to get to episode one. Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Oct 13, 2018 |
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Oct 12, 2018 21:00
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Covok posted:To be more in depth, this is Titans: In your opinion, having watched the show, should Mr Pool suck it? Guy Goodbody posted:Starfire started off as basically sexy Conan the Barbarian in Space, right? From my recollection, not really, but it has been some time since I read the start of New Teen Titans so I'd need to check. She might have!
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Oct 13, 2018 22:46
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Covok posted:What? Basically DCU did a promo last week where they played the clip from Deadpool 2 where Deadpool goes, "You're so dark! Are you sure you are't from the DC universe?" then ran footage from the Titans trailer and finished up with a title card that said, "Suck it, Mr Pool." I'm still not entirely sure what the message was.
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Oct 13, 2018 23:13
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Rhyno posted:I'm gonna do the DC sub just so I can poo poo on Titans. I wouldn't be surprised if this is part of their plan. 
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Oct 14, 2018 13:55
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Don't forget how CBR makes sure that like, 99% of users seem to have who would be on
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Oct 15, 2018 18:24
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Well, yeah. That too. My recollection of the CBR message boards from the very brief period when I posted there: 1. Most of the Marvel threads and the X-Men threads in particular were about which characters people thought were hottest; 2. Most of the DC threads were unimaginably defensive about the then-new New 52; and 3. Most of the Image threads were masturbating about how much more mature Invincible was than any Marvel or DC superhero and how Marvel had been poo poo since Robert Kirkman stopped writing for them. This might be a bit of a generalisation.
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Oct 15, 2018 19:41
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Mr Hootington posted:There are a couple posts saying that too. It really is a psychotic place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lzS8yW8INA
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Oct 15, 2018 19:49
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I really wish Marvel would announce they're reprinting Fall of the Mutants as a proper omnibus (as they are with Mutant Massacre) because it would go a long way towards helping me to decide whether I want to swap out and replace my paperbacks. As it is I am sorely tempted by that Waid/Wieringo FF omnibus.
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Oct 16, 2018 12:24
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I usually set them flat on my desk which is probably really bad for the spine, but it works for me. I guess it depends on the omnibus, though. Some of them are small enough you can just read them like any normal book. I hear about some omnibuses just falling apart by sheer force of gravity even when they're sitting on your bookshelf, but honestly the larger books I own which seem to have been most susceptible to natural wear like that have been the Usagi Yojimbo Saga phonebooks from Dark Horse.
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Oct 16, 2018 13:33
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Man, not even that opening can make Jean's Jim Lee costume look good.
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Oct 17, 2018 14:45
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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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Oct 18, 2018 15:41
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I recently re-read that great Walter Simonson issue of Fantastic Four where Reed and Doom have a time travelling fight and was very distracted by how Doom addresses Reed by his first name a lot rather than RICHAAAAAARRRRRDS.
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Oct 24, 2018 13:35
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Pratchett was heavily involved in Discworld groups on Usenet in the early 90s but had to quit when people started accusing him of stealing their ideas.
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