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The weather is hot, the sun is fine, pitchers of lemonade are gathering sweat on the counter, and we're all stuck inside reading comics beneath the sickly grey light of our monitors. New comics are back, in a limited capacity, after several months without, and like tomatoes ripening on the vine the Big Two are rolling out another beautiful summer crop of interminable crossovers. How many swords does Gambit deserve to have? Will Steve Englehart's beloved tree people continue to charm and enchant us? Will Scott Snyder ever run out of evil Batman iterations? How many Jokers will 2021 hold? Will Snowflake and Safespace ever debut or was Marvel just pulling our legs with that one? Let's all slap on on some sunscreen, put on our Wolverine swimsuits, and crack open our favorite early 90s Marvel Swimsuit Specials and enjoy some light and breezy summer posting! 
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Jul 21, 2020 04:38
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UsAgent about to give himself a hernia over there.
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Jul 21, 2020 04:49
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That is the most manifestly unfair tug-of-war I've ever seen.
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Jul 21, 2020 05:43
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I like the detail that they always had Peter Parker as the in-universe photographer for the Swimsuit Specials, just so they could have an excuse to throw in Mary Jane. (Speaking as someone who never actually read one).
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Jul 21, 2020 06:23
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The Iron Man armor swim trunks are simply magnificent. 
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Jul 21, 2020 07:57
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omg yes new chat thread in light of recent events i will personally rescue vampi from dynamite. that company doesn't deserve ha!
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Jul 21, 2020 08:09
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How Wonderful! posted:our favorite early 90s Marvel Swimsuit Specials 
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Jul 21, 2020 10:06
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Please hide this behind NWS tags!
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Jul 21, 2020 13:24
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Jul 21, 2020 14:43
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Is it a bikini if it's only the bottoms?
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Jul 21, 2020 15:11
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https://twitter.com/ArchieComics/status/1285594127258787841?s=20
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Jul 21, 2020 16:55
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did you say Marvel Swimsuit Issue
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Jul 21, 2020 17:14
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There was a Twitter thread a while ago (in the Before Times I think?) where it turned out the guy who did that Swimsuit Issue was gay and intentionally made it as homoerotic as possible and it was just full of people going "well that explains a lot" and/or congratulating him for givng them a formative experience.
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Jul 21, 2020 17:17
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Jul 21, 2020 19:17
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CapnAndy posted:There was a Twitter thread a while ago (in the Before Times I think?) where it turned out the guy who did that Swimsuit Issue was gay and intentionally made it as homoerotic as possible and it was just full of people going "well that explains a lot" and/or congratulating him for givng them a formative experience. Yeah, Chris Cooper edited the last two issues, in 1994 and 1995.
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Jul 21, 2020 19:18
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I knew Stokoe's grip was gnarly but Larsen's is messing me up. https://twitter.com/ErikJLarsen/status/1285659039087636480
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Jul 21, 2020 20:45
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This seems like a poorly thought out strategy.
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Jul 21, 2020 21:51
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https://twitter.com/OregonProgress/status/1285722614737047552?s=19
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Jul 22, 2020 03:02
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X-O posted:This seems like a poorly thought out strategy. Anyway I am admittedly not completely up to date on what The Kids are saying these days, but is a dude who always has at minimum two girls wanting to date him a simp?
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Jul 22, 2020 06:22
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CapnAndy posted:https://twitter.com/ArchieComics/status/1285599634061172738 Only because he does nice things for them and doesn't actually sleep with either one. Edit: I highly doubt people were actually writing "Archie is a Simp" on videos.
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Jul 22, 2020 08:26
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So would people actually be interested in a thread on alternate histories of comics? I'm considering how to put together an OP and I'm kinda scratching my head on how to do it.
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Jul 23, 2020 18:51
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Vincent posted:I knew Stokoe's grip was gnarly but Larsen's is messing me up. I remember seeing Stokoe draw at some local artist con and it really messes with my head on how he holds the pencil and gets such insane detail.
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Jul 23, 2020 21:08
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The weirdest thing for me is that at least Stokoe and Tradd Moore are left handed; I am also left handed (as is my brother) and all four of us were born in the same general era where at least in my experience as a young kid they had Handwriting Lessons in pre-school/early elementary that roughly amounted to "so uh here's how you hold a pencil. No, you're using the wrong hand. Are you sure? Okay, whatever, you're on your own." Consequently a lot of left handed people I know have horrible "caveman clutching a tool they barely comprehend" pen grips. Mine's closer to Moore's, and I barely comprehend how Stokoe's works, but Larsen doesn't even have the excuse of being left handed.
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Jul 23, 2020 21:23
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Edge & Christian posted:The weirdest thing for me is that at least Stokoe and Tradd Moore are left handed; I am also left handed (as is my brother) and all four of us were born in the same general era where at least in my experience as a young kid they had Handwriting Lessons in pre-school/early elementary that roughly amounted to "so uh here's how you hold a pencil. No, you're using the wrong hand. Are you sure? Okay, whatever, you're on your own." I'm just guessing, but I suspect people who make their living as artists spent a lot of time drawing before they had any sort of formal schooling at even a kindergarten level so it might just be that's how they've been holding pens/pencils/crayons since they had the manual dexterity to hold anything at all.
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Jul 23, 2020 21:28
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Those grips kinda remind me of the stories you hear about guitarists who taught themselves to play songs they'd heard on the radio, not knowing it was actually two guitar tracks being played at once or whatever.
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Jul 23, 2020 21:39
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Yvonmukluk posted:So would people actually be interested in a thread on alternate histories of comics? I'm considering how to put together an OP and I'm kinda scratching my head on how to do it. I.e. paper shortages and rations in the 1940s prevented a lot of mass-market publications from going to print. While some newspapers dedicated additional space for the influx of serial comic strips, a number of publishing houses folded, resulting in huge shakeup.
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Jul 23, 2020 21:41
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Reminds me of my ex's mom. She was left handed and was pretty much forced to learn to write and draw right handed (because left handedness was evil).
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Jul 23, 2020 21:45
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I'm left-handed and really liked doing art up through college, and the way I was taught to write and draw was really awful because I'd end up almost smearing the heel of my hand across the page and making a big smudgy mess. I wound up having to figure out this cockamamie way to hold pencils and pens that kind of hurt my wrist. It's part of why I really liked painting because if I could stand up and the canvas was vertical it just wasn't an issue.
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Jul 23, 2020 21:47
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FilthyImp posted:Start with a divergence point and go from there? I think this would be incredible. Maybe structure it as every post is a year or two? World events are roughly the same it’s just comics that takes a different path. I’d start it earlier, maybe at the turn of the century when comics was primarily newspaper strips and the medium in the west was still working out the kinks. What if the first collection of strips that broke out wasn’t animal funnies, but instead Hogan’s Alley or something.
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Jul 23, 2020 21:52
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FilthyImp posted:Start with a divergence point and go from there? Jordan7hm posted:I think this would be incredible. Maybe structure it as every post is a year or two? World events are roughly the same it's just comics that takes a different path. These are both good ideas, but I don't know enough about early comics to do them justice. I was thinking of a more general discussion of various PODs. I was thinking more around the 90s and potentially averting the crash. I'll do some thinking and try and post it tomorrow.
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Jul 23, 2020 22:16
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A GenAlt History thread might be fun as well. Hell, maybe the 90s crash happens but Dean Cain is caught with cocaine and hooked, causing the Death of Superman to stick longer. Maybe this causes DC to go through with the plan to "lease" Superman to Marvel!
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Jul 23, 2020 22:20
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Iron Man flopping and Marvel having to sell a lot of their IPs could be a fun recent divergence.
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Jul 23, 2020 23:03
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Edge & Christian posted:The weirdest thing for me is that at least Stokoe and Tradd Moore are left handed; I am also left handed (as is my brother) and all four of us were born in the same general era where at least in my experience as a young kid they had Handwriting Lessons in pre-school/early elementary that roughly amounted to "so uh here's how you hold a pencil. No, you're using the wrong hand. Are you sure? Okay, whatever, you're on your own." Stokoe's grip feels like it was borne from dragging the side of his hand across ink too many times as he writes/draws. It's setup to keep his hand below anything he does. I too know the pain of having a blue/black side of hand from writing too many essays in school and being left handed. I definitely also got the "you're on your own" growing up too. They had those stupid "guides" for pencils that were only made for righties. I have a lot of bad memories of being put in the "dumb group" because i had bad penmanship because I was left handed.
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Jul 24, 2020 00:44
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BSS is a lot more sinister than I expected.
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Jul 24, 2020 00:46
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Endless Mike posted:BSS is a lot more sinister than I expected. It's Batman's Shameful Secret's shameful secret.
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Jul 24, 2020 00:53
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Endless Mike posted:BSS is a lot more sinister than I expected. 
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Jul 24, 2020 01:15
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BSS Bar SiniSter 
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Jul 24, 2020 01:19
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Does this mean we all get capes?!?
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Jul 24, 2020 01:20
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Alaois posted:BSS CapnAndy posted:Does this mean we all get capes?!? 
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Jul 24, 2020 01:22
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BSS: BSS's Sinister Secret
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