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GorfZaplen posted:
So Wolverine and his enhanced senses couldn't smell him because a tree was in the way?
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# ? Jan 3, 2014 23:10 |
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# ? Jun 6, 2024 07:06 |
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Jerusalem posted:So Wolverine and his enhanced senses couldn't smell him because a tree was in the way? I'd imagine you can't smell things that you're approaching at 90mph with a helmet on very well.
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# ? Jan 3, 2014 23:12 |
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The one true origin for animated Cobra Commander should be that he was the bad guy from Big Foot and the Muscle Machines, and that he created COBRA to defeat Yank Justice. That keeps intact the all important Used Car Salesman angle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot_and_the_Muscle_Machines
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# ? Jan 3, 2014 23:18 |
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Suleman posted:Yes. Cobra started out as essentially a pyramid scheme. COBRA is Amway with guns. Seriously. And, yes, Cobra Commander was - in the comics, anyways - originally a used car salesman; his older brother served repeated tours in Vietnam in order to keep him from being drafted (one draftee per family at a time, that was the policy). His brother, Dan, came home with what we would today call PTSD and took to driving recklessly and ended up killing the family of the man who would later become Snake Eyes because G.I. Joe Continuity is loving convoluted.
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# ? Jan 3, 2014 23:19 |
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wdarkk posted:I'd imagine you can't smell things that you're approaching at 90mph with a helmet on very well. Logan wasn't wearing a helmet. Cause it's Logan, why does he need to wear a helmet while on a motorcycle?
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# ? Jan 3, 2014 23:21 |
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John Dyne posted:Logan wasn't wearing a helmet. Cause it's Logan, why does he need to wear a helmet while on a motorcycle? To set a proper example for his students?
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# ? Jan 3, 2014 23:24 |
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Jerusalem posted:So Wolverine and his enhanced senses couldn't smell him because a tree was in the way? Sabertooth knows how to stay downwind of prey.
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# ? Jan 3, 2014 23:29 |
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:COBRA is Amway with guns. And that's before we even get into the ninjas and things get very complicated. It also bears noting early on in the comics that Cobra had a heavy message on how the US Government had betrayed its ideals, how it took from the common man with taxes, idealized small-town America, allied with seccessionists, and spoke in favor of unfettered capitalism... this may sound familiar. Which makes a lot of sense once you realized Cobra Commander's creator based his comic book rhetoric on William F. Buckley's punditeering.
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# ? Jan 3, 2014 23:33 |
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John Dyne posted:Logan wasn't wearing a helmet. Cause it's Logan, why does he need to wear a helmet while on a motorcycle? I've noticed that most characters seen riding motorcycles in Marvel go helmetless - I guess as mutants/superheroes/whatever, they are invulnerable/have a healing factor/are too awesome to have accidents/etc., are ignored by the cops/gonna ditch the cops anyway, and god forbid you can't easily identify them unless plot device. So, Logan, Cap/Bucky, even loving Dazzler (New Excalibur or whatever - right around the same time she died two or three times) are all tooling around bareheaded. (I seem to recall the Punisher wore a helmet, but that was more "Hey I can wear another skull" than "brains better on the inside".) <insert Nick Fury surfing that bike into S.H.I.E.L.D. HQ bareheaded and shirtless here> The only DC rider I can recall offhand, other than truly ancient 1970s/80s Batman cartoons, is Lobo, so... (Those with fiery skulls and EPA-nightmare Hellbikes probably have special dispensation and protection.)
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# ? Jan 3, 2014 23:40 |
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:So, Logan, Cap/Bucky, even loving Dazzler (New Excalibur or whatever - right around the same time she died two or three times) are all tooling around bareheaded. (I seem to recall the Punisher wore a helmet, but that was more "Hey I can wear another skull" than "brains better on the inside".) Cap is a responsible motorcycle rider. (Captain America #318) prefect fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Jan 3, 2014 |
# ? Jan 3, 2014 23:45 |
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prefect posted:Cap is a responsible motorcycle rider. Cap also fakes being sick so he can steal your car
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# ? Jan 3, 2014 23:46 |
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In the visual medium of comics, putting a non-distinctive helmet on a character is potentially puzzling for readers. It also keeps characters from being able to show expressions or reactions.
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# ? Jan 3, 2014 23:49 |
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The best part about that Sabretooth strip is that he jetpacks away. Why does he have a jetpack? I wish the canon reason for Cobra Commander's facemask is to protect his 'stache.
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# ? Jan 3, 2014 23:52 |
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Alien Rope Burn posted:The G.I.Joe comic continuity and cartoon continuity are completely separate. Cobra Commander in the comics is notably different from the cartoon version, mainly in not being a reptoid, but also in generally being more competent and ruthless. He's still a cowardly weasel, but he isn't necessarily voiced by Christopher Collins. According to the writer Larry Hama, the comics Cobra Commander should sound like Orson Welles.
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 00:49 |
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Suleman posted:According to the writer Larry Hama, the comics Cobra Commander should sound like Orson Welles.
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 00:58 |
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John Dyne posted:Logan wasn't wearing a helmet. Cause it's Logan, why does he need to wear a helmet while on a motorcycle? Bugs in the eye are still annoying, and motorcycles don't regenerate. But even with a helmet, smells are a lot more vibrant on a bike than in a car.
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 01:09 |
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Suleman posted:According to the writer Larry Hama, the comics Cobra Commander should sound like Orson Welles. "So, what we gonna do tomorrow night, CC?" "The same thing we do every night, Destro. TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!"
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 01:10 |
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Metal Loaf posted:"So, what we gonna do tomorrow night, CC?" They're Destro and the Snake! They're Destro and the Snake! One is a Scotsman, The other is a fake! To foil all the Joes, Their plot they'll not expose, 'Til tomorrow, They're Destro and the Snake-Snake-Snake.
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 03:51 |
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ManiacClown posted:They're Destro and the Snake! Super team extraordinaire - G.I. Joe! G.I. Joe! All the dudes with jaws so square - G.I. Joe! G.I. Joe! Rescues Washington D.C. - G.I. Joe! G.I. Joe! Always saving the land of the free - G.I. Joe! G.I. Joe! They're pretty easygoing! Half the battle is knowing! So raise your fist and give a YO! G.I. Joe! G.I. Joe! (I should have gone with Animaniacs, I might have finished that one. Three verses is all you're getting.)
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 04:14 |
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Jerusalem posted:So Wolverine and his enhanced senses couldn't smell him because a tree was in the way? Man, have you smelled jetpack fuel lately? That poo poo overpowers everything.
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 04:21 |
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I'm more amused by that Wolverine/Sabertooth page because out out context it appears that Sabertooth just decided to gently caress with Logan in the most horrifying way possible, and then jetpack off giggling about it.
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 05:07 |
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Require More Fire posted:I'm more amused by that Wolverine/Sabertooth page because out out context it appears that Sabertooth just decided to gently caress with Logan in the most horrifying way possible, and then jetpack off giggling about it. I refuse to accept that it happened any other way. smashpro1 fucked around with this message at 05:28 on Jan 4, 2014 |
# ? Jan 4, 2014 05:23 |
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GorfZaplen posted:
It's Wolverine #300.
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 07:23 |
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Ugh, yeah that scene is hilarious and awful at the same time. Ugh, those wires are in so deep, how the gently caress is he going to get them out? Oh wait, I think I figured it out. slice all of them from one side then move sideways.
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 07:27 |
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SynthOrange posted:Ugh, yeah that scene is hilarious and awful at the same time. Ugh, those wires are in so deep, how the gently caress is he going to get them out? Oh wait, I think I figured it out. Gah, why would you say this? I can feel them argh noooooo.
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 07:43 |
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Sabertooth is alive again? He was beheaded by a magic sword, sent to hell and beheaded again in hell by another magic sword. What was the excuse for his resurrection this time?
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 07:58 |
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Magic glue.
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 08:03 |
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"Yo Satan lemme back out, I gotta deliver a sicknasty burn to this dude I hate."
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 08:03 |
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Require More Fire posted:I'm more amused by that Wolverine/Sabertooth page because out out context it appears that Sabertooth just decided to gently caress with Logan in the most horrifying way possible, and then jetpack off giggling about it. Angry Walrus posted:"Yo Satan lemme back out, I gotta deliver a sicknasty burn to this dude I hate." I will absolutely never, ever know what's really going on in that page. I'm going to know that these are the entire context around that page, and my life will forever be just that slightly richer for it.
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 08:10 |
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Say Nothing posted:Sabertooth is alive again? He was beheaded by a magic sword, sent to hell and beheaded again in hell by another magic sword. Cloning, apparently. What really makes this jarring is that said second magic sword was supposedly to destroy souls, so Victor Creed should Clearly Most Sincerely Dead. I guess if you clone someone, you not only create a new soul, but keep all the clonee's memories? Comic books! If you're a main nemesis, it doesn't matter how hard one set of writers try to get rid of you, the next person who wants to use you will bring you back, by hook or by crook.
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 08:57 |
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If getting your head cut off on earth gets you sent to hell, maybe getting your head cut off in hell gets you sent to earth?
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 09:41 |
Jerusalem posted:If getting your head cut off on earth gets you sent to hell, maybe getting your head cut off in hell gets you sent to earth? That is how it works in Achewood.
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 09:44 |
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Require More Fire posted:I'm more amused by that Wolverine/Sabertooth page because out out context it appears that Sabertooth just decided to gently caress with Logan in the most horrifying way possible, and then jetpack off giggling about it. Might have been Wolverine's birthday, because that's basically what Sabretooth gives him as a birthday present.
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 11:47 |
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Jerusalem posted:If getting your head cut off on earth gets you sent to hell, maybe getting your head cut off in hell gets you sent to earth? Well where was he going to go, Detroit?
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 13:57 |
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Captain Oblivious posted:So...Sabretooth is Wile E. Coyote now? Not applicable, as he actually caught his "Roadrunner" in this panel. If anything, the last panel's missing Creed putting on "deal with it" glasses. Jerusalem posted:So Wolverine and his enhanced senses couldn't smell him because a tree was in the way? 1. Bikes put out their own smell. 2. Sabretooth would know to stay upwind of Logan. DivineCoffeeBinge posted:COBRA is Amway with guns. So in other words, if they'd kept with this, in the movies Cobra would be the 99 Percent mixed with anti-war groups and G.I.Joe would be pawns of the Military-Industrial Complex loving and bombing their way around the world like Team America: World Police. "We are the ninety-nine perssssssssssssent!" BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Jan 4, 2014 |
# ? Jan 4, 2014 14:59 |
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My only problem with that scene is that there should probably be some sort of visible tears in his clothing.
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 16:52 |
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From G.I.Joe #32. Not a whole lot less creepy with context.
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 17:12 |
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It's hard to imagine a context where that would not be creepy.
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 18:22 |
Ignite Memories posted:My only problem with that scene is that there should probably be some sort of visible tears in his clothing. Unstable Molecules Jeans
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 18:29 |
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DarkCrawler posted:It's hard to imagine a context where that would not be creepy. Identical twin gets a paternity test back? No, that's still a creepy way to tell the kids...
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 20:07 |