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GorfZaplen posted:
Every word of this is wrong!
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Aug 7, 2013 09:34
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It makes more sense when you realize that "ORBITING HOSPITAL" really means "DEATH CAMP FOR UNDESIRABLES".
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Aug 7, 2013 09:53
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Vengeance of Pandas posted:Hoax Hunters is pretty fun, they're essentially a secret team investigating and dealing with urban legends, monsters etc. but they hide the real results by dressing it up as a reality tv show and offering reasonable explanations, like swamp gas. This looks cute, how many issues are there?
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Aug 7, 2013 10:00
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Nine with a new arc starting up in September, you can read issue 0 and part of the first on Keenspot to get a taste. http://hoaxhunters.keenspot.com/
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Aug 7, 2013 10:55
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I've been reading Carl Barks's Donald Duck stories and they are simply phenomenal. From Donald Duck and the Golden Christmas Tree:
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Aug 7, 2013 17:48
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Carl Banks' works are worth checking out. Don Rosa did a great job with Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck as a follow up. There's a list of notable stories in the wiki article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Barks
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Aug 7, 2013 20:02
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Aug 7, 2013 20:38
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I thought this was a fun moment from All-New X-Men #15 That's Rachel Grey and young Jean Grey in case you didn't know. Probably the most elegant way to basically say "you know, we're not going to deal with all the bullshit surrounding Rachel Grey's character. Deal with it".
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Aug 7, 2013 21:51
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Hakkesshu posted:That's Rachel Grey and young Jean Grey in case you didn't know. Probably the most elegant way to basically say "you know, we're not going to deal with all the bullshit surrounding Rachel Grey's character. Deal with it". I don't read the x-men comics beyond special events here or there. Can someone summarize said bullshit?
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Aug 7, 2013 21:54
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Hakkesshu posted:I thought this was a fun moment from All-New X-Men #15 There isn't that much bullshit to her, she's just Cyclops and Jean Gray's daughter from another timeline. Pretty simple. I think this is a continuation of the joke about Jean finding out all this stuff that happened in the years she skipped, like when she asked how she died and Hank asked which time. Still really funny though. Pretty much everything involving the old X-Men playing catch up has been hilarious. Between it and the antics in Wolverine and the X-Men, it's a good time for funny X shenanigans. WickedHate fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Aug 7, 2013 |
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Aug 7, 2013 21:56
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I dunno man, her origins might be pretty simple (as far as comic books go), but the history of that character is some real convoluted nonsense that I'm not even going to try and sum up.
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Aug 7, 2013 22:08
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Kull the Conqueror posted:I've been reading Carl Barks's Donald Duck stories and they are simply phenomenal. From Donald Duck and the Golden Christmas Tree: Donald Duck is an ice-cold motherfucker:  (Don't know the exact source, but it's most likely from the same era.)
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Aug 8, 2013 00:28
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I'm expecting the Greys to open up their computer intestines with that style. Seriously that artist should be on Megaman.
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Aug 8, 2013 00:58
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xarph posted:I don't read the x-men comics beyond special events here or there. Can someone summarize said bullshit? There are two copies of her father running around, one of whom is younger than she is, and neither actually fathered her. There is only one of her mother, who is younger than she is. Rachel has, in the past, played host to a cosmic force of pure destruction and resurrection which may or may not be the embodiment of her mother, but still not the mother who actually gave birth to her. Her half-brother is older than her and also older than all of the versions of her parents. Oh, and there's Hope Summers, who is the adopted daughter of her half-brother from the present who was sent to an alternate future. Hope was born in the present and then taken to be raised in yet another alternate future that will never happen, and came back with him when she was approximately Rachel's age. X-Men, everybody! 
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Aug 8, 2013 01:02
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CapnAndy posted:
She actually has two alternate reality brothers, Cable and X-Man(singular), both named Nate Gray because their alternate universe versions of each other, Cable from the main universe(who's still alternate since Rachael is from yet another timeline)and X-Man from the Age of Apocalypse. I also don't think Hope is quite that old, or at least that isn't how it comes off to me. She seems more like a teen. She still has to have foster parents or whatever when Cable is jailed.
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Aug 8, 2013 01:08
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MVP posted:I'm expecting the Greys to open up their computer intestines with that style. Is that Immomen? He did Ultimate Spiderman for a while with a very similar style.
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Aug 8, 2013 01:08
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Just be thankful no one remembers or cares enough about Nate Summers. Also this is the Jean Grey from the past before she's even in a relationship with Scott.
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Aug 8, 2013 01:10
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SynthOrange posted:Just be thankful no one remembers or cares enough about Nate Summers. I think he's pretty cool, but he's got too little exposure. I think the last thing he was in was the last New Mutants relaunch.
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Aug 8, 2013 01:12
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Also Scott's parents are like, space-pirates or something, right?
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Aug 8, 2013 01:13
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ConfusedUs posted:Is that Immomen? He did Ultimate Spiderman for a while with a very similar style. It was and it's obvious. Ultimate Bobby and Young Bobby look identical and his Young Jean Gray bears a strong resemblance to his Ultimate MJ. Not complaining. Just some artists have a style, and Immomen is one.
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Aug 8, 2013 01:14
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Jerusalem posted:Also Scott's parents are like, space-pirates or something, right? Space corsairs.
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Aug 8, 2013 01:15
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notthegoatseguy posted:It was and it's obvious. Ultimate Bobby and Young Bobby look identical and his Young Jean Gray bears a strong resemblance to his Ultimate MJ. It wasn't though. That page is by David Lafuente, who has also worked on USM. I don't know if he's taking over for Immonen on All-New, or if this month was a fill-in.
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Aug 8, 2013 01:19
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Well you see, the X-Men are a metaphor for persecuted minorities. In keeping with that theme, most of their history involves time travel and alien empires.
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Aug 8, 2013 01:20
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WickedHate posted:She actually has two alternate reality brothers, Cable and X-Man(singular), both named Nate Gray because their alternate universe versions of each other, Cable from the main universe(who's still alternate since Rachael is from yet another timeline)and X-Man from the Age of Apocalypse. You need to read the new Cable & X-Force for yet another piece of the puzzle.
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Aug 8, 2013 01:32
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Rhyno posted:You need to read the new Cable & X-Force for yet another piece of the puzzle. I did. 
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Aug 8, 2013 01:33
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Oh yeah and there's Stryfe too! Cable's evil clone brother who is also from the future.
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Aug 8, 2013 01:47
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That's good though. Just a few weeks ago she learned that everyone else in her family had been brutally murdered!
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Aug 8, 2013 01:52
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Rachel also happens to have the worst costume in comics today.
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Aug 8, 2013 03:52
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Professor Wayne posted:Rachel also happens to have the worst costume in comics today. In that style, though, it looks intentionally stupid. Look at that teen. Nobody can tell HER what to do.
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Aug 8, 2013 03:57
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WickedHate posted:Space corsairs. Actually both are currently dead. His mother was killed a long time ago by an evil space emperor, his dad became a space pirate resistance fighter who was later killed by a completely different evil space emperor, albeit from the same empire, who also happened to be his son who was recovered from his mother's corpse by the first evil space emperor and artificially aged to adulthood, is enslaved, escapes, joins the X-men, stuff happens, he goes into space, gets thrown in space prison, finds and heals the first evil space emperor who killed his mother and later got deposed in said space prison, marries evil space princess, kills evil space emperor and usurps his throne, launches a massive space war, and eventually gets killed in a throwdown with Black Bolt that tears open the fabric of reality, thus kicking off the Thanos Imperative event.
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Protocol 5 posted:Actually both are currently dead. His mother was killed a long time ago by an evil space emperor, his dad became a space pirate resistance fighter who was later killed by a completely different evil space emperor, albeit from the same space empire, who also happened to be his son who was recovered from his mother's corpse by the first evil space emperor and artificially aged to adulthood, is enslaved, escapes, joins the X-men, stuff happens, he goes into space, gets thrown in space prison, finds and heals the first evil space emperor who killed his mother and later got deposed in said space prison, marries evil space princess, kills evil space emperor and usurps his space throne, launches a massive space war, and eventually gets killed in a throwdown with Black Bolt that tears open the fabric of reality, thus kicking off the Thanos Imperative event. Bolded bits are my additions. I mean Jesus Christ, try and get your continuity right, man 
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Aug 8, 2013 04:09
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Im sorry can you repeat that? I kind of spaced out there for a minute.
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Aug 8, 2013 04:22
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Vulcan, we get it! You're from space!
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Aug 8, 2013 04:23
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I think the best part is that we're all grossly oversimplifying everything. Because, y'know. Wouldn't want this to be hard to follow.
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Aug 8, 2013 04:32
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Exit Strategy posted:In that style, though, it looks intentionally stupid. Look at that teen. Nobody can tell HER what to do. Honestly, it looks like her old costume reformed so that at least she doesn't look like a hooker. I wonder if that thought transfer contained an explanation for why the rules of the evil-alternate-future-that-doesn't-exist-now sent someone who looks kinda like a dominatrix and kinda like a Japanese lady wrestler to kill her fellow mutants.
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Aug 8, 2013 04:44
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Nate Grey was also romantically involved with a psychic copy of an alternate universe clone of his mother at one point.
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Aug 8, 2013 11:39
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There's a lot of it about. Avengers #111.  And then there's the whole Polaris-Magneto weirdness. New X-Men #132 
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Aug 8, 2013 12:09
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Say Nothing posted:There's a lot of it about. Yikes. I think that was the first time Magneto was able to control the minds of his enemies by influencing the iron in their blood, wasn't it? He had this brilliantly hammy declaration that went like, "The X-Men thought they could defeat me, but now... MAGNETO RULES MINDS!"
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Aug 8, 2013 12:40
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Magneto's powers in the 70s were so loosely defined to the point where he was battling Xavier on the astral plane and hypnotising people using his "magnetic attraction".
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Basically the X-Men are and forever will be hosed Up™
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