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BexGu posted:Wait, how old is Castle suppose to be now? Iraq war vet? Vietnam vet? 616 Castle has been magicked and de-aged multiple times, last time being only a few years ago so he's probably only in his 30's. I think he's still a Nam vet.
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Waterhaul posted:616 Castle has been magicked and de-aged multiple times, last time being only a few years ago so he's probably only in his 30's. I think he's still a Nam vet. Elektra also does not care about age as she also has a history with Wolverine.
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Unless I missed something big, he is indeed still a Vietnam vet. It's integral to his character due to the nature of the conflict. His most recent rejuvenation was when Daken killed him, Morbius stitched him back together into Franken-castle, and the Bloodstone regenerated him on Monster Island. Poof, Frank's young in body and has all his ribs again.
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BexGu posted:Wait, how old is Castle suppose to be now? Iraq war vet? Vietnam vet? Seal Team Six.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The perspective work is so bad on that cover. 3 cardboard cutouts of superheroes showed up to give that kid a present.
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Waterhaul posted:616 Castle has been magicked and de-aged multiple times, last time being only a few years ago so he's probably only in his 30's. I think he's still a Nam vet. I thought Greg Rucka went ahead and moved him up to Desert Storm in his most recent series. Correct me if I'm wrong... Also to contribute, it's Christmas Eve! 
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Dec 24, 2013 21:11
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Avengers 24.NOW
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You'd think Thor would be more disgusted by the mere existence of veggie burgers than a hot dog, even if hot dogs have questionable ingredients.
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TwoPair posted:I thought Greg Rucka went ahead and moved him up to Desert Storm in his most recent series. Correct me if I'm wrong... I think he moved him up even more than that and made him an Afghan war veteran. It's up in the air whether any other writer is going to pick that up. Lord knows no one's gonna touch Lady Punisher again.
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Dec 24, 2013 22:33
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Dec 24, 2013 22:36
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I love that Storm is written like cartoon Storm.
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TwoPair posted:You'd think Thor would be more disgusted by the mere existence of veggie burgers than a hot dog, even if hot dogs have questionable ingredients.
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Dec 24, 2013 23:17
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Dacap posted:Avengers 24.NOW I know Thor's disgusted face is supposed to be over the fact that Smasher and Cannonball are ordering Hot Dogs. But I prefer to think he's actually disgusted at how new a couple they are, and how it comes across that Cannonball is JUST ordering a Hot Dog because his girlfriend has ordered one, and not because he actually wants one.
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The Question IRL posted:I know Thor's disgusted face is supposed to be over the fact that Smasher and Cannonball are ordering Hot Dogs. But I prefer to think he's actually disgusted at how new a couple they are, and how it comes across that Cannonball is JUST ordering a Hot Dog because his girlfriend has ordered one, and not because he actually wants one. I thought he was mad because his head had been separated from the rest of his body and been sent to some kind of featureless dimension.
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I was reading about how Santa is portrayed in the Marvel and DC universes and came across this gem.  source
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Uthor posted:I was reading about how Santa is portrayed in the Marvel and DC universes and came across this gem. That's fantastic. I just wish I still had a copy of the Dredd short where Santa tangles with Mega City One's air defences, that is hands down the greatest christmas story ever told. 
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Waterhaul posted:X-Men Christmas Damnit I just woke up my dogs by laughing to this. I wish this was a real series. I lost it when Jean tells Scott to save the receipts.
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Pilchenstein posted:That's fantastic. I just wish I still had a copy of the Dredd short where Santa tangles with Mega City One's air defences, that is hands down the greatest christmas story ever told. This one?   Judge Dredd Megazine 2.62.
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Uthor posted:I was reading about how Santa is portrayed in the Marvel and DC universes and came across this gem. Santa as a hero to New Genesis. Wonder if Orion's constantly saluting during Christmas?
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Vengeance of Pandas posted:This one? That's the one! I don't suppose you have the rest of it?
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Vintimus Prime posted:Damnit I just woke up my dogs by laughing to this. I wish this was a real series. I don't know if you knew, but if you click the source link it has links to 5 other comics he's done with Scott & Jean.
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Lurdiak posted:I think he moved him up even more than that and made him an Afghan war veteran. It's up in the air whether any other writer is going to pick that up. Lord knows no one's gonna touch Lady Punisher again. Yeah, Rucka's run was great and then Marvel decided to flat out ignore it, which is pretty much what caused him to leave the Big Two altogether.
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Pretty much every Punisher run gets ignored. Remender had a pretty decent run but do you think we'll ever see that young, tech savvy son-of-Jigsaw kid from that series ever again? Fraction's run had some weird poo poo in it and while it went for a long time (for a non-MAX punisher series), it didn't really gel with me because it seemed too...light-hearted and humorous for a Punisher series.
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notthegoatseguy posted:Pretty much every Punisher run gets ignored. That's a large part of why he left the big two as a whole most of his work will get ignored or retconed and he just got fed up with it. Punisher was the last straw because they undid it before he was even finished.
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SirDan3k posted:That's a large part of why he left the big two as a whole most of his work will get ignored or retconed and he just got fed up with it. Punisher was the last straw because they undid it before he was even finished. That's pretty frustrating as his finale left Frank in a Stark designed mega prison and then BOOM he's over in Thunderbolts like nothing happened.
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Rhyno posted:That's pretty frustrating as his finale left Frank in a Stark designed mega prison and then BOOM he's over in Thunderbolts like nothing happened. In prison? With normals or with other supervillains? For some reason I now have this image of everyone being fairly concerned that he doesn't start knocking off supervillains given the opportunity.
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Bloodly posted:In prison? With normals or with other supervillains? No it was a private prison Tony built just to hold Frank.
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Fishylungs posted:I don't know if you knew, but if you click the source link it has links to 5 other comics he's done with Scott & Jean. drat, those were all great, too. Thanks for mentioning it. Jean Grey is the worst.
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Appros of nothing, it's time for JLA / WildC.A.T.S by Grant Morrison. The teams are having a misunderstanding sort of battle, and Batman and Grifter face off...  ... and then there's the villain's comeuppance. 
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Rhyno posted:That's pretty frustrating as his finale left Frank in a Stark designed mega prison and then BOOM he's over in Thunderbolts like nothing happened. The only reason that finale happened was because they told him Frank needed to be in the T-bolts, which meant he had to get arrested.
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Lurdiak posted:The only reason that finale happened was because they told him Frank needed to be in the T-bolts, which meant he had to get arrested. Except that it doesn't line up with the first issue if Tbolts at all.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Appros of nothing, it's time for JLA / WildC.A.T.S by Grant Morrison. The teams are having a misunderstanding sort of battle, and Batman and Grifter face off... I finally got my final Morrison JLA collection with this story in it, it's great. But it is funny just how many stories in his run are solved by "Not The Justice League" being around when the villain attacks.
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Rhyno posted:Except that it doesn't line up with the first issue if Tbolts at all. They don't show Ross getting Frank out of jail, but it's an easy enough assumption to make. Deadpool also doesn't have a lady stuck in his head and isn't super depressed. Or maybe he does, I don't know, I dropped Tbolts after the first two issues.
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Mr. Maltose posted:I finally got my final Morrison JLA collection with this story in it, it's great. But it is funny just how many stories in his run are solved by "Not The Justice League" being around when the villain attacks. Yeah, Morrison has a thing of villains that have planned everything until once the unplanned olive falls off the loaf. "That olive! My calculations ever included that olive!" And then there was the time Liefeld did a Christmas story, from the Awesome Holiday Special #1. (There was never a #2.)     Her name is Spice because... uh... it's a Holiday Special shut up I guess.
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Is Girl Bucky supposed to be a cyborg? Like Inspector Gadget?
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How did he get away with characters that are such thinly veiled ripoffs? When a book like The Boys does it I imagine they're allowed because its satire, but this looks like it's played straight.
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Dacap posted:How did he get away with characters that are such thinly veiled ripoffs? When a book like The Boys does it I imagine they're allowed because its satire, but this looks like it's played straight. He got sued. Wikipedia posted:A two-issue miniseries (August–October 1997) from Awesome Entertainment, written by Rob Liefeld (story) and Jeph Loeb (script), and penciled by Liefeld and Stephen Platt, had originally been produced for the "Heroes Reborn" version of Captain America for Marvel Comics.[12] Here, Fighting American was a retired superhero coping with the death of his partner. The miniseries came about, Liefeld said in 2007, while he was packaging a Captain America series for Marvel. In early 1997, the company, which had filed for bankruptcy, asked Liefeld to accept lower payment for his studio's work. He refused and was removed from the series. Liefeld called Fighting American co-creator Joe Simon and Roz Kirby, widow of co-creator Jack Kirby, who agreed to license the character to him, but at a price Liefeld would not accept. Liefeld created the similar character Agent America, drawing "maybe three pinups and one poster image", but withdrew the character, he said, when Simon threatened to sue. Liefeld negotiated a new deal for Fighting American, but was then sued by Marvel. During the course of the trial, he said, his version of Fighting American acquired a shield. As one of the terms of the settlement, however, Fighting American was forbidden from throwing his shield like a weapon, to distinguish him from Captain America.[13]
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Action Tortoise posted:Is Girl Bucky supposed to be a cyborg? Like Inspector Gadget? Yeah, even though she looks a lot like Liefeld's version of Bucky. Dacap posted:How did he get away with characters that are such thinly veiled ripoffs? "Homages" are pretty much endemic to comic books, and the Big Two have just been really lenient, which is good when it gives us stuff like Jack Staff, but not so good when we get Fighting American. It's how Marvel can do Squadron Supreme and the like. That being said, Liefeld stepped over even that thin line. It's important to note that Youngblood was repurposed from a Titans proposal he had done, so originality had never really been a concern of Rob's when it came to his creator-owned work.
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