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laz0rbeak posted:I just finished reading through Claremont's first Uncanny X-Men and wow does the quality swan-dive the minute he's gone. At this point Whilce Portacio is trying his best to be Jim Lee and it just ain't happening. Haha, I remember reading this exact page as a kid and being so confused.
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Looking at that page as an adult I have no idea what the gently caress is going on with it. I like that first panel but I'm not gonna lie, it's mainly because of Emma's boobies being composed and placed so as to literally point you into the frame. The rest of the page is an incomprehensible mess.
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I can't stop trying to figure out what the hell is that armor the guy in the last panel is wearing. Glass? Ice? It's one giant piece! Goddamn, the 90s!
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Nov 30, 2012 11:15
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Superstring posted:I can't stop trying to figure out what the hell is that armor the guy in the last panel is wearing. Glass? Ice? It's one giant piece! Goddamn, the 90s! Crystal of course!
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Nov 30, 2012 11:40
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Superstring posted:I can't stop trying to figure out what the hell is that armor the guy in the last panel is wearing. Glass? Ice? It's one giant piece! Goddamn, the 90s! 
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Nov 30, 2012 14:46
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It's super future armor, so it's some material we've never even heard of!
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Endless Mike posted:It's super future armor, so it's some material we've never even heard of! It is clearly cellophane. Dude looks like a god damned gift basket. The worst gift basket ever, loaded with incoherence and Liefeld Pecs instead of delicious fruit. Maybe also loaded with fruit, but dear god not delicious. 
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I also thought it was some kind of giant plastic bag thing like some kind of Easter basket. That's not what it is? Help.
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Nov 30, 2012 16:51
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It's omnium mesh. See? He says so.
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Nov 30, 2012 21:44
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Forge is cool, I wonder why he rarely gets to do anything cool.
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Wendell posted:Forge is cool, I wonder why he rarely gets to do anything cool. EDIT: WTF is a "vibranium polymer"? Vibranium is a metal, not a polymer. EDIT 2: That onomatopoeia looks like it says "FUNSHAT!"
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Nov 30, 2012 23:13
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Forge's real mutant power is slamming together sciency sounding words while shooting things.
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Mr. Maltose posted:Forge's real mutant power is slamming together sciency sounding words while shooting things. You're clearly mistaking Dr. Nemesis' immensely superior self for Forge... and god drat I hope Hopeless doesn't waste how potentially awesome Cable and X-Force could be. I'm not really familiar with what he's done but given that he's also writing grimdark Avengers Arena I guess the outlook is bleak?
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Because you demanded it, here's more awful, incomprehensible 90's Uncanny X-Men art! This is from the wrap-up of the same arc, Uncanny X-Men 283:  This isn't quite as bad art-wise(although I like how Jean Grey and White Queen are just body doubles wearing different wigs), but sums up how crappy Whilce's plotting was. The whole bit is Jean is presumed dead, but it turns out she switched psyche's with Emma Frost at the last minute through her... powers? Professor X is confused too. What's even crazier is this is just a worse version of an old Claremont plot where White Queen gets a machine that causes her to mind-swap with Storm.
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Mister Chompers posted:how potentially awesome Cable and X-Force could be "Could be"? Didn't that, you know...already happen?
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Wasn't Byrne doing the writing on Uncanny at that point?
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Senior Woodchuck posted:Wasn't Byrne doing the writing on Uncanny at that point? Byrne was brought in to do the dialogue, but Portacio is the credited plotter, with Lee occasionally contributing as co-plotter (though he's not credited this issue). It was Marvel's attempt to bring back the old "Stan Lee" writing method with guys like Jim Lee and McFarlane.
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DarkCrawler posted:"Could be"? Didn't that, you know...already happen? Hahaha, well I would hope he means that a reunion between Cable and the team he created would be awesome, but you never know.
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Charles Xavier is copping a feel on a comatose woman and nobody seems to have a problem with this.
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DarkCrawler posted:"Could be"? Didn't that, you know...already happen? Blame Marvel and their naming conventions! Actually meant this roster of X-Force has a lot of potential if written well, have some nice art of them (even though I'm not a fan of Nemesis' design): 
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Mister Chompers posted:Blame Marvel and their naming conventions! Actually meant this roster of X-Force has a lot of potential if written well, have some nice art of them (even though I'm not a fan of Nemesis' design): Ugh Cable's robot arm looks pretty stupid there. Also, wasn't he dead? (Stupid question, I know.)
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Dec 2, 2012 02:59
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muscles like this? posted:Ugh Cable's robot arm looks pretty stupid there. Also, wasn't he dead? (Stupid question, I know.) He's cured of the technovirus so it's not his old arm and he's an X-Man so he got better, both courtesy Loeb's X-Sanction which you're better off not having read.
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Except in his last solo series he became like 90% technovirus! He survives having his throat cut specifically because under the skin he was almost all metal!
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muscles like this? posted:Ugh Cable's robot arm looks pretty stupid there. Also, wasn't he dead? (Stupid question, I know.) If you look, under the robot arm is a normal one. He's got a withered little baby arm now where his old robot arm used to be and this looks like it's some kind of prosthetic over the top.
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I dislike pretty much every uniform on that cover, but the worst offender by far is Dr. Nemesis. Way to take a classy design and turn it into something as bad as the worst of the 90s character redesigns. Then, add some really horrible emo hair on top of that. Can you imagine how badly classic design Nemesis would rip on this guy? Edit: Is "random glowing circle" the new pouch, as far as extraneous design elements go?
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You can thank the popularity of Tony Stark's arc reactor for that, at least partially. I don't really hate Dr. Nemesis' design, but only because I kept confusing him with Fantomex whenever I saw his old design. The whole "gas mask" plus trenchcoat just screams "trying too hard to be a badass."
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That is obviously a different character. The Nemesis I know would wear the correct size of pants and belt. I actually like the designs and colors for everyone, but I just can't see Dr. Nemesis's dialogue coming out of that scuba ninja.
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As far as I'm concerned, if he doesn't have a psychic starfish latched onto his head, he's hardly Nemesis.
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Why do you even need Forge and Dr. Nemesis (who I still have no idea where he came from, he was just suddenly...there) in the same team?
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DarkCrawler posted:Why do you even need Forge and Dr. Nemesis (who I still have no idea where he came from, he was just suddenly...there) in the same team? Because they have completely different specialties.
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Why is Colossus there? Did he angst up and need to go through the 'dark and edgy' wringer or is he just there to be the token good guy dope?
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I guess you missed the parts where he was the Juggernaught and then went around mutilating animal life because he thought he could make them better. VVVGod, when you put it that way I hate thebook even more. Macdeo Lurjtux fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Dec 2, 2012 |
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mind the walrus posted:Why is Colossus there? Did he angst up and need to go through the 'dark and edgy' wringer or is he just there to be the token good guy dope?
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That Psylocke drawing is the gift that keeps giving: 
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You know that position is probably entirely possible to pull off and I'd even be willing to bet there's even a moment in some specific kind of flying spinning kick where we do look like that but why would you draw it? You are supposed to pick out the cool looking moments in movement and put those on the page not the spazzy ones.
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SirDan3k posted:You know that position is probably entirely possible to pull off and I'd even be willing to bet there's even a moment in some specific kind of flying spinning kick where we do look like that but why would you draw it? You are supposed to pick out the cool looking moments in movement and put those on the page not the spazzy ones. It's so they can show the manchildren that make up most of their audience her rear end and tits. It's that simple. Misogynists drawing for misogynists.
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You know Cable makes everybody adhere to a 90's dresscode. It's the only thing that makes sense.
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Flython posted:It's so they can show the manchildren that make up most of their audience her rear end and tits. It's that simple. Misogynists drawing for misogynists.
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Finding the female form attractive and drawing attractive women are both misogynistic. Got it.
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