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Speaking of the Power kids... 
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Oct 11, 2013 08:04
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TwoPair posted:I wouldn't have minded it as much if their entire reason for making Julie a lesbian didn't boil down to "Well, she makes rainbows when she flies. Rainbows are like, totally gay, right?" Seriously, I think somebody literally says that in the comic. I think she already was gay in the first run. So you gotta ask her creator which came first-- rainbow powers or lesbian.
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Oct 11, 2013 13:53
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It could be one of those "personality equals powers" thing.
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Oct 11, 2013 14:06
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Say Nothing posted:Is Julie Power still dating Karolina from the Runaways? That guy has a flaming dick. They even drew firey veins on it. Comics are hosed up, man.
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Oct 11, 2013 14:43
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General Bort posted:I think she already was gay in the first run. So you gotta ask her creator which came first-- rainbow powers or lesbian. There wasn't really any sign one way or the other in the first run; Julie was just a little too young for that to come up even without the hesitation that an 80's comic publisher would have toward presenting a homosexual relationship. I doubt there was an intentional connection, the kids swapped their powers around even before Simonson stopped writing the book. I am completely unashamed of my Power Pack knowledge. It's the best all-ages book that Marvel published in the 1980's and there have been some terrific revivals in recent years. I genuinely don't have complaints about how they're being used right now (even with the ages problem).  Cover to Spider-Man/Power Pack #3.
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Oct 11, 2013 17:03
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Okay, since you're a self-confessed Power Pack fanatic, I've always wanted to ask one: What's your opinion on the "lost" TV pilot? I thought it was terrible but innocuous. Typical mid-90's Fox Kids TV fare.
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Oct 11, 2013 18:29
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Choco1980 posted:Okay, since you're a self-confessed Power Pack fanatic, I've always wanted to ask one: What's your opinion on the "lost" TV pilot? I thought it was terrible but innocuous. Typical mid-90's Fox Kids TV fare. I've never seen it and I would have been way outside the target audience when it was made anyway. Power Pack is one of those concepts that I don't know why Marvel hasn't mined. A kid friendly, targeted at the under 12 superhero movie or television show should be able to clean up if it was competently made.
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Oct 11, 2013 20:22
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Avenger Academy #29. Those are teenagers, Hercules. You Greek pervert.  Avengers Academy #38. Whole lotta pranking going on. 
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Oct 12, 2013 01:08
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I never really followed Marvel or DC comics, but for some reason I got into Avengers Academy for the first dozen issues or so (I think up until they moved into the bigger school). Glad to see it's still going and still fun, as someone who's quite unfamiliar with the wild world of comics and its endless deeps of continuity it felt like a good perch to survey it all from, particularly since the protagonists were new and didn't have the same confusing, meandering stories.
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Oct 12, 2013 01:28
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Dolash posted:I never really followed Marvel or DC comics, but for some reason I got into Avengers Academy for the first dozen issues or so (I think up until they moved into the bigger school). Glad to see it's still going and still fun, as someone who's quite unfamiliar with the wild world of comics and its endless deeps of continuity it felt like a good perch to survey it all from, particularly since the protagonists were new and didn't have the same confusing, meandering stories. Sorry 
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Oct 12, 2013 01:30
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CapnAndy posted:It's not, they cancelled the title and put nearly the entire cast into a kill-'em-all abomination. ...What? Wait, they put them into a what-now? Comics! 
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Oct 12, 2013 01:35
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CapnAndy posted:It's not, they cancelled the title and put nearly the entire cast into a kill-'em-all abomination. Did X-23 survive? She's the only one I cared about 
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Oct 12, 2013 01:54
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Dolash posted:...What? A ripoff of Battle Royale where all the characters were forced by a C-Grade villain to kill each other. For whatever reason. I do the same thing, getting into new series with brand new characters because they're usually more creative and unrestricted, but usually soon cancelled. Marvel has created and forgotten a ton of fun characters in the past decade. Poor Miserable Gurgi fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Oct 12, 2013 |
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Oct 12, 2013 01:55
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If you think anyone from Avengers Arena is going to stay dead you need to read more comics. It's as temporary as it is dumb.
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Oct 12, 2013 01:56
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Coughing Hobo posted:Did X-23 survive? She's the only one I cared about Even if the characters weren't just guaranteed to come back whenever another writer wanted them, X-23 would be the safest of the lot as the closest to an A-lister the book's title has. Also, she's been announced as being in other titles after Arena ends.
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Oct 12, 2013 02:05
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Mr. Maltose posted:If you think anyone from Avengers Arena is going to stay dead you need to read more comics. No but a bunch of the ones that survive are going to have it worse judging from the NYCC previews, they get to be evil. Being dead is an easy fix but if you aren't Magneto once you go villain you hardly ever make it back to hero for more then a single arc.
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Oct 12, 2013 02:43
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Angry Walrus posted:Even if the characters weren't just guaranteed to come back whenever another writer wanted them, X-23 would be the safest of the lot as the closest to an A-lister the book's title has. Also, she's been announced as being in other titles after Arena ends. Considering she's shown up on a cover for one of the next X-Men issues, I think she managed to survive.
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Oct 12, 2013 04:06
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Tensokuu posted:Considering she's shown up on a cover for one of the next X-Men issues, I think she managed to survive. She is going to be making Wolverine so so uncomfortable
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Oct 12, 2013 04:08
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Avenger Academy #27.
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Oct 12, 2013 05:09
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SirDan3k posted:No but a bunch of the ones that survive are going to have it worse judging from the NYCC previews, they get to be evil. Being dead is an easy fix but if you aren't Magneto once you go villain you hardly ever make it back to hero for more then a single arc. If you are talking about the cover with Baron Zemo, I don't think so. I guess, since this is speculation based on the solicit. They are supposed to be in a book called "Avengers: Underground" which is about teen heroes, so Deathlockett, Bloodstone and Anachranisim go undercover to get into a Masters of Evil group and bring it down from the inside. Like there could be some "temptation to switch side" thing, but it looks like they are making it out alive.
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Oct 12, 2013 11:53
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Say Nothing posted:Avenger Academy #27. The *GASP!* look is priceless.
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Oct 12, 2013 17:32
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Say Nothing posted:Avenger Academy #29. quote:Avengers Academy #38. Oh god Warbird and Quicksilver making out under the bleachers. Why did Hopeless have to ruin it? WHYYY!?
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Oct 13, 2013 00:03
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 Via Tumblr Probably one of the best goofy covers ever 
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Oct 13, 2013 00:07
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Yvonmukluk posted:Finesse is intrigued, X-23 is unimpressed. To me it looks like X-23 is trying to act unimpressed. But she does seem to be looking down towards his knee. "Yeah it's pretty big. I guess." quote:Oh god Warbird and Quicksilver making out under the bleachers. Wow, I never saw that before. I guess I was too busy marveling at Hank Pym using his particles to enlarge Wolverine's sandwich.
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Oct 13, 2013 00:28
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The Question IRL posted:Wow, I never saw that before. I guess I was too busy marveling at Hank Pym using his particles to enlarge Wolverine's sandwich. That has to be an homage to the Colossus sandwich panel, right?
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Oct 13, 2013 01:15
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Yvonmukluk posted:Finesse is intrigued, X-23 is unimpressed. Wolverine and the X-Men #17. Doop!    
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Oct 13, 2013 01:24
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What is Doop? Is he a thing like MXZPLYZTX or whatever or is he a mutant ghost machine or what?
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Oct 13, 2013 02:58
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Drifter posted:What is Doop? Is he a thing like MXZPLYZTX or whatever or is he a mutant ghost machine or what? Doop is awesome. You should go read X-Statix
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Oct 13, 2013 03:02
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Doop is Doop.
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Oct 13, 2013 03:03
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Drifter posted:What is Doop? Is he a thing like MXZPLYZTX or whatever or is he a mutant ghost machine or what? Doop is Doop. Anyone have that page where he's being attacking by someone trying to brainwash him with TV and retaliates with his home movies? Or did I make that up? Edit: Beaten like anyone who's fought Squirrel Girl.
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Oct 13, 2013 03:07
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Drifter posted:What is Doop? Is he a thing like MXZPLYZTX or whatever or is he a mutant ghost machine or what? He looks like if Slimer was into comics and made up his self-insert Mary Sue that was really popular with all the mutants. Really popular.  Anyone remember Bloodstrike? Here's two characters from that universe, Troll and Seahawk.   They look so familiar to me, somehow.
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Oct 13, 2013 03:10
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Wolverine and the X-men 34
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Oct 13, 2013 03:20
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I only just noticed he put an NC-17 rating tag on his personal home movies 
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Oct 13, 2013 04:20
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Drifter posted:What is Doop? Is he a thing like MXZPLYZTX or whatever or is he a mutant ghost machine or what? I just found that issue, and in this context he's the black bag man, defending the school against external threats nobody wants anybody to know about. Such as the League of Nazi Bowlers.   Or possibly even Satan himself.  ETA: JFC table breaking.
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Oct 13, 2013 06:30
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NoneMoreNegative posted:
I'll be goddamned. I was just trying to remember this comic the other day. I had one of the Creature Commando comics when I was a kid and it was loving marvelous. A werewolf, a medusa, a Frankenstein's monster and a vampire team up to fight nazis 
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Oct 13, 2013 11:01
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Gorilla Salad posted:I'll be goddamned. I was just trying to remember this comic the other day. I had one of the Creature Commando comics when I was a kid and it was loving marvelous. A werewolf, a medusa, a Frankenstein's monster and a vampire team up to fight nazis I'll see your Creature Commando's and raise you "Nick Fury's Howling Commandos*". It was a Marvel SHIELD team made up of monsters like a mummy, a zombie and a Warwolf. That's a wearwolf who gets his powers from Mars, not the Moon. *= Not to be confused with Sgt. Fury's Howling Commandos who are a bunch of soldiers from WW2.
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Oct 13, 2013 12:05
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bobkatt013 posted:Wolverine and the X-men 34 Thank you, that's awesome. Might want to make it a timg to stop breaking tables, though. darthbob88 posted:I just found that issue, and in this context he's the black bag man, defending the school against external threats nobody wants anybody to know about. Such as the League of Nazi Bowlers. Clearly there needs to be a Doop & Squirrel Girl team-up book. Maybe throw in Deadpool, too.
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Oct 13, 2013 13:53
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I just read the Wikipedia article on Doop.
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Oct 13, 2013 14:38
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Metal Loaf posted:I'm pretty sure you can trace all modern furry fandom back to Princess Sally from the Sonic cartoon (and that comic) and possibly Gadget from Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers. Contribution: Bravest Warriors #1.  Bravest Warriors #6. The best way to deal with evil alternate versions of yourself.   
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Oct 14, 2013 00:58
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drat, this thread doesn't get many posts. Contribution... I don't know the source. I really don't want to know. 
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Oct 16, 2013 01:00
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