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Elfface posted: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 20:14 |
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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. Speaking as somebody who has read the issue, let me make your day by telling you that that is pretty much how it goes down. It's basically just there near the end of the issue to say "Oh hey, Sabertooth's back!" with no additional reason.
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 20:20 |
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Cornwind Evil posted: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. Maybe the clone's the one that got double beheaded?
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 20:53 |
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Elfface posted:Identical twin gets a paternity test back? No, that's still a creepy way to tell the kids... Members of Cobra's elite Crimson Guard, who typically live ordinary lives making money and resources for them to funnel into Cobra, often get placed into a "series," where they get plastic surgery to make themselves look identical. On occasion, when one of them is killed, they are replaced by someone in the same series. That page shows what happens when Fred Brooks - who is one of the Fred series - is replaced by a different (yet identical) Fred. Yep. The kids have almost certainly been raised with Cobra ideology as a central part of their lives, so they're not going to argue. DivineCoffeeBinge fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Jan 4, 2014 |
# ? Jan 4, 2014 21:10 |
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I was expecting some Zartan shenanigans, Jesus Christ.
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 21:16 |
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Members of Cobra's elite Crimson Guard, who typically live ordinary lives making money and resources for them to funnel into Cobra, often get placed into a "series," where they get plastic surgery to make themselves look identical. On occasion, when one of them is killed, they are replaced by someone in the same series. It also lead to one of the best quotes in GI Joe. During the Cobra Civil War Serpentor is inspecting the troops still loyal to him. He's told he still has Dr. Mindbender and his robots the BATS, and Tomax and Xomat's Elite Crimson Guard. To this he says "In other words, I command a legion of the nameless and the soulless!"
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 21:42 |
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Members of Cobra's elite Crimson Guard, who typically live ordinary lives making money and resources for them to funnel into Cobra, often get placed into a "series," where they get plastic surgery to make themselves look identical. On occasion, when one of them is killed, they are replaced by someone in the same series. That can be a legit horror movie. Jesus gently caress.
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# ? Jan 4, 2014 21:51 |
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Maybe the kids are suffering from Capgras Delusion?
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 00:36 |
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Telling you, Hama's first few years on GI Joe were fantastic. And, er, greatly unsettling, in a good way. The Cobra Island story ends with a delicious comment from a gleeful Cobra Commander while the good guys are walking away with their tail between their legs: "What a great system! If you have enough money and you can hire the best lawyers, you can do anything you want!"
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 00:37 |
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Even in the original TV show there was a lot of stuff that looking back now is surprising. Like how long Tomax and Xamot kept their hands clean in the public, working as legitimate business men on behalf of Cobra, mostly as accountants. (And I recall an episode where they literally gave Cobra Commander a bill for services rendered!)
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 02:10 |
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Everyone is acting as if Wolverine wouldn't charge in the general direction he knew Sabretooth is in.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 02:43 |
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Choco1980 posted:Maybe the clone's the one that got double beheaded? Make the clones shoved in to get beheaded like 5 minutes beforehand and give him thought bubbles similar to the whale in Hitchhiker's Guide and you'd have a story.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 03:37 |
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Or is it Sputnik posted:Everyone is acting as if Wolverine wouldn't charge in the general direction he knew Sabretooth is in. I think that's why Sabertooth cunningly chose "up." He knows Wolvie can track him based on scent over land pretty easy. But from 50 feet up?
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 03:41 |
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Angry Walrus posted:"Yo Satan lemme back out, I gotta deliver a sicknasty burn to this dude I hate." FROOOOOOOOOSH
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 04:08 |
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Fuego Fish posted:Super team extraordinaire - G.I. Joe! G.I. Joe! Check out Larry Hama! Comic writing ace! He told Marvel his pitch for S.H.I.E.L.D. and they said, "Get out my face!" He reworked it to G.I. Joe! Changed Nick Fury to Flint! Hydra became Cobra! And so he made a mint! Laser battles on a bridge! G.I. Joe! G.I. Joe! With Sergeant Slaughter and the Fridge! G.I. Joe! G.I. Joe! Explosions and espionage! G.I. Joe! G.I. Joe! Who here wants a body massage? G.I. Joe! G.I. Joe! They'll save the nation fo' ya! Without Rocky Balboa! Now go and terminate Destro! G.I. Joe! G.I. Joe! G.I. Joe!
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 04:28 |
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Say Nothing posted:Maybe the kids are suffering from Capgras Delusion? Yeah, he travels around with Stan Winston's team.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 04:52 |
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From Archie comics, number unknown. They did a lot of this sort of thing.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 09:26 |
Say Nothing posted:From Archie comics, number unknown. They did a lot of this sort of thing. Drawing over-sexualized teenage girls in the foreground and background of scenes was like the number one thing Archie artists did to keep from going insane with boredom.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 10:17 |
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Sentinel Red posted:The Cobra Island story ends with a delicious comment from a gleeful Cobra Commander while the good guys are walking away with their tail between their legs: Ha ha, I pulled that page when I was grabbing the other one. So, from G.I. Joe #41, Cobra has seized an island newly-formed by an earthquake, and G.I. Joe fights a fierce battle and has Cobra cornered when...
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 11:12 |
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From Superior Foes of Spider-Man #7. Janice wants to be a super-villain, but daddy Tombstone doesn't approve... My favorite part is the eyeroll Janice makes on the second page.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 11:54 |
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That's super cute . Tombstone is right to send her out on her rear end if she's serious, and she's right that he's a being a bit sexist by scoffing reflexively.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 11:58 |
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That's really great. Isn't Tombstone suffering from a rather mild case of being dead at the moment, though?
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 11:59 |
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It's comics. Death is basically just a minor inconvenience at best.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 12:03 |
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Well, to be fair, It really hasn't worked out well for women Bosses. Only one I can think of that got out good, was Modesty Blaise.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 12:04 |
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Johnny Aztec posted:Well, to be fair, It really hasn't worked out well for women Bosses. Only one I can think of that got out good, was Modesty Blaise. Willie Garvin doesn't count as a mob. He's just one guy!
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 12:17 |
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Is Madam Masque a boss?
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 12:23 |
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Say Nothing posted:From Archie comics, number unknown. They did a lot of this sort of thing. minus.com images never load on the awful app. Could someone rehost this so I can see what the joke is.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 12:39 |
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VanSandman posted:minus.com images never load on the awful app. Could someone rehost this so I can see what the joke is. I assume imgur works
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 12:45 |
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mind the walrus posted:Is Madam Masque a boss?
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 13:12 |
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mind the walrus posted:Is Madam Masque a boss? Elektra also, except that was a Skrull. I just feel bad for Elektra in general.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 13:30 |
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Skwirl posted:I assume imgur works Oh those wacky Archie artists.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 13:46 |
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Schneider Heim posted:From Superior Foes of Spider-Man #7. Janice wants to be a super-villain, but daddy Tombstone doesn't approve... It's always nice when someone does their research. Except for the hue being off (but that's stylistic), that's exactly the Columbia Law School regalia and that's recognizably Sylvia's exterior, interior and how they set the table and plate the food. I love it when MarvelNYC leverages being NYC. I love that old map from the '80's (and apparently a slightly updated one from slightly later?) Not really "funny" unless you're me and think the angle on the arrow to Inwood being off is funny.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 14:11 |
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Perigryn posted:And Silver Sable. I thought she would be less of a boss and just more mercenary leader.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 16:45 |
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:I thought she would be less of a boss and just more mercenary leader. She's a mercenary leader who like singlehandedly funds the economy of some lovely Latveria-lite through mercernary leading. Supposedly she meets with Dr. Doom once a year but I wouldn't be surprised if Silver Sable herself added that to her Wikipedia page that I just read
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 16:46 |
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Schneider Heim posted:From Superior Foes of Spider-Man #7. Janice wants to be a super-villain, but daddy Tombstone doesn't approve... Oh my God this is the best. I'm rooting for Tombstone's daughter to revolutionize the super criminal industry and kick rear end.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 17:06 |
If her mother was Dominican, and Tombstone was black before he got the Red Hood Special that gave him his powers, why is Janice white?
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 17:37 |
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Tombstone had albinism. Not saying that explains it, just something I remembered.
Shirkelton fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Jan 5, 2014 |
# ? Jan 5, 2014 17:39 |
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Yeah, but his daughter doesn't and albinism last I checked doesn't work like that.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 17:41 |
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I bolded it to help you.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 17:47 |
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Senior Woodchuck posted:If her mother was Dominican, and Tombstone was black before he got the Red Hood Special that gave him his powers, why is Janice white? Yeah, that was my first thought too. And yeah, Tombstone was always an albino, except in the old 90s Spiderman cartoon, where his super-powers and albinism were caused by the same thing. But cartoon Tombstone also didn't breathe, so he was more like a zombie dude.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 17:47 |