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Veotax posted:Because kids might emulate it and jump through a window! Yeah, I mean Batman is well known for doing poo poo like crashing through skylights so I can kind of see it as a fair concern. I'm kind of surprised that strangulation was a problem since at that point The Simpsons had been going for 3 years. But I guess that's "comedy" strangulation and having Batman do that would be bad.
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Synthbuttrange posted:Wait, BREAKING GLASS? why. Because that's the sound of McMahon's rear end, and you can't have asses on a cartoon
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TwoPair posted:Yeah, I mean Batman is well known for doing poo poo like crashing through skylights so I can kind of see it as a fair concern. Honestly Simpsons could get away with more because they were in prime time. Even The Real Ghostbusters could do more during their Halloween special.
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TwoPair posted:Yeah, I mean Batman is well known for doing poo poo like crashing through skylights so I can kind of see it as a fair concern. Related to this, it'd be cool for Spider-Man every now and then to web a window before going through it so it just comes out as a solid, crumpled pane rather than a million pieces. Heroes have plot armour when going through windows but it's a safer way if he was carrying someone.
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TwoPair posted:Yeah, I mean Batman is well known for doing poo poo like crashing through skylights so I can kind of see it as a fair concern. Simpson's aired at 8pm (probably still does) not 9am, and while being a cartoon children aren't the target demographic, there's different standards by the censors when you're main competing shows are Law and Order or whatever versus another children's cartoon. It started as shorts on an adult centric prime time sketch show, probably gave them a lot more leeway.
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Synthbuttrange posted:Wait, BREAKING GLASS? why. Also this was the heyday of broken glass policing in the US, a policy built on aggressively policing minor vandalism in order to prevent more serious crimes in the area. In practice it was just another tool  and others used to enable racist practices in law enforcement.Controlled experiments support the hypothesis that actual improvement in crime rates comes just from cleaning up an area, and extra policing without cleanup doesn't do anything, but for some reason that policy isn't as popular in law enforcement circles.
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Tricky Ed posted:Also this was the heyday of broken glass policing in the US, a policy built on aggressively policing minor vandalism in order to prevent more serious crimes in the area. In practice it was just another tool Broken glass policing was a poo poo theory, but it has nothing to do with cartoon policy. I'd bet that one is about modeling good behavior for kids, so they don't go and punch windows when they try to act like Batman, which any cool kid will do. Or at least so the show doesn't get blamed for it.
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It's actually the one thing I'd say S&P has a sensible idea on. Batman jumps from rooftops and I'm sure kids have hurt themselves playing Batman, but people pretty naturally get that falling from high up is a way to get hurt. But TV and movies have given people a wildly inaccurate sense of how safe it is to punch through a window, even though it's literally "broken glass is sharp." I don't know if any kids have actually injured themselves playing with breaking glass, but I can get why the network might not want to play up Batman's iconic association with breaking windows by leaping through them if it could end with a kid needing dozens of stitches on the evening news. I like how The Nice Guys played with this by having Ryan Gosling's character acting like a cool detective punching through a window... and then having to go to the hospital because he slashed his wrist up and nearly bled out.
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I appreciate that the cops in the first Terminator movie acknowledge that one would need to be high as gently caress to put their fist through the windshield of a car.
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ManiacClown posted:You have no idea how much I wish there were an online repository for looking this sort of thing up. If it's any consolation, the Library is working on the Copyright Office's website including online copies of these records as well. Digitization is in progress! Like I said, there's scattered resources online right now that get the job done, but it's definitely a pain.
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Wasp #2: The Wasps are trying to solve a mystery but hit a problem when they run into Fantasma, a villain from Nadia's previous series. Or rather, Fantasmas...     
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That's cool, showing off all the old costumes and hairstyles from the past 60-ish years.
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Mephisto paid the tip right? I wouldn't respect him otherwise.
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Push El Burrito posted:Mephisto paid the tip right? I wouldn't respect him otherwise. Lawful evil, so probably overtipped but in Rai stone or some other white elephant coinage.
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Elissimpark posted:Lawful evil, so probably overtipped but in Rai stone or some other white elephant coinage. Alternatively, since Mephisto is a deceiver, a seemingly generous tip that turns out to not be what the dude was expecting. Specifically, Mephisto offers him "living forever", which the dude accepts with the conditions that it not be eternal pain or drudgery. Mephisto grinds him up into ink (after turning off his nervous system, so he doesn't feel any pain), so that Mephisto can use him to write a letter which will kick off a lot of plot, so the guy will "live forever" as part of the bigger story. The devil likes his pretzels.
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I can't believe this deal with the devil went poorly!
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I imagine he'd just pay the guy. If you get a reputation for always giving lovely deals no one's gonna want to make any with you 
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Malachite_Dragon posted:I imagine he'd just pay the guy. If you get a reputation for always giving lovely deals no one's gonna want to make any with you
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From the Comic Strips thread, Powered Descent has been posting the new Flash Gordon by Dan Schkade. That center panel is pretty badass for a newspaper comic strip: If you're not reading it, you should really check out Flash Gordon. It was revived under Schkade late last year and he's been knocking it out of the park. It's available on the Comics Kingdom website.
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Oh, so that's what Dan Schkade is up to. He had a very, very good webcomic called Lavender Jack that wrapped up a couple years ago. Here's a portion of a fight from that series. Apologies for the poor screencaps I'm on a Chromebook and it's Webtoons so I can't link directly to the images. Lavender Jack is, well, the gentleman in the lavender suit and mask.                 
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I've never heard of that, but now I'm very interested in reading it. Good stuff there.
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I can't recommend it enough, and it's free. Theresa Ferrier is a fantastic character. The only downside to it is Webtoons having a very stupid infinite scroll format, but Schkade is a good enough artist that he makes it work.
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habeasdorkus posted:, but Schkade is a good enough artist that he makes it work. Lavender Jack falls off of a lot of really tall buildings. (it was a really good read.)
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Bugle Call chap 16: Miura, a speedster, is caught behind enemy lines and pursued.     
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