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Ok, I had to go back and grab the aforementioned daschund scene from Harley Quinn #1. A little backstory: One of Harley's former patients passed away and in their will they left her a building in Coney Island. So just after surviving a little present from Mr. J, she packs ALL her stuff on a motorbike and splits Gotham for New York. And then she sees a daschund being dragged by it's owner.   Lookit dat fukkin dog!  But what happened to the owner? He's a pelvis wearing a belt now. Oh yeah, and as intimated by the previous panel from #2, she has a stuffed beaver that talks to her.
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Jan 24, 2014 07:50
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The last of my Astonishing X-Men panels. The Big Bad Casandra Nova has devolved Beast into an animal and turned Wolverine into a scared child.    After Beast eats a deer and Wolverine goes around screaming at everything, things turn around.    Astonishing X-Men 13-18 (That last panel came out harder to read than I expected. Sorry.) Uthor fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Jan 24, 2014 |
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Jan 24, 2014 07:52
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When Joss Whedon is on, he writes really clever and witty stuff. I know he gets a lot of flak, but still, good stuff.
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Jan 24, 2014 08:00
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Uthor posted:After Beast eats a deer and Wolverine goes around screaming at everything, things turn around. If you did not hear the Popeye music start playing in your head when this happened, there is something seriously wrong with you.
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Jan 24, 2014 08:16
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404GoonNotFound posted:If you did not hear the Popeye music start playing in your head when this happened, there is something seriously wrong with you. He's best at what he does When he's got a nice buzz He's Logan the X-man.
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Jan 24, 2014 08:51
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Whedon can do one thing and that is write Buffy characters, which is exactly what Astonishing was. A season of Buffy.
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Jan 24, 2014 09:31
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Harley Quinn #2 is presented sans context. Is it just me or did the artist trace Sandra Bullock for that panel?
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Jan 24, 2014 10:23
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Who's the girl? Blindfold?
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Jan 24, 2014 10:33
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There are actually two other pages from Harley #2 worth posting: (context: corpse of a hitman trying to collect on a contract on Harley...or it's the guy who owned the Dachshund, I can't remember) And the one that finally puts to rest the Ivy ~hearts~ Harley debate:  Action Tortoise posted:I'm not getting Ivy's outfit. Is she wearing a black unitard and covering it with leaves? Is there a reason why only one boob is leafy or is that a trick of the lighting? If you check out the above panel, you'll see it's a unitard. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 11:10 on Jan 24, 2014 |
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Jan 24, 2014 10:50
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Is, uh, Ivy responding to the dead beaver?
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Jan 24, 2014 11:15
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Superstring posted:Is, uh, Ivy responding to the dead beaver? I *assume* so, but in this panel...  (context: *this* guy was a hired killer) You know what? Comic book. I'm just willing to assume the drat thing is like Stewie Griffin, and whether or not people other than the dog can understand him is up to everyone's interpretation. Source: Harley Quinn #2 again.
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Jan 24, 2014 11:40
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Either that, or sometimes Harley is a ventriloquist. Just... talkin' to herself, through a beaver. Either seems equally plausible.
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Jan 24, 2014 13:14
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Superstring posted:Is, uh, Ivy responding to the dead beaver? Nice beaver.
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Jan 24, 2014 14:06
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bobkatt013 posted:Nice beaver. She just had it stuffed.
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Jan 24, 2014 17:09
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That writer is just pleased as loving punch with his Beaver innuendo.
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Jan 24, 2014 17:27
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BIG HEADLINE posted:If you check out the above panel, you'll see it's a unitard.
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Jan 24, 2014 17:31
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redbackground posted:I do not care for Ivy looking simply like she's just got a few random tattoos slapped on. Ivy should be...all planty and poo poo! :< She should be a female Swamp Thing, IMO
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Jan 24, 2014 17:38
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Improbable Lobster posted:She should be a female Swamp Thing, IMO (I don't mean she should actually *be* Swamp Thing, but still a far cry from this weak-rear end character design. She is literally just a pretty lady.  )
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Jan 24, 2014 17:40
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that would be dope but nerds don't shell out for swamp thing cheesecake. besides, swamp thing ended up just being genderless anyway right?
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Jan 24, 2014 17:40
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You know how some plants grow flowers that imitate bees/wasps/etc to help with pollination? Ivy should basically be that. As in, the actual Ivy is some crazy mutant plant creature like swamp thing (or even less human). But it needs to interact with people to get poo poo done, and it knows that people don't like giant squashy plant things. So it 'flowers' to produce decoy bodies when it needs them to handle people, then get discarded to whither and rot. All those times Ivy was at the center of a cluster of vines/branches and you thought she as controlling them? That was actually the real Ivy dangling her puppet. Of course for this to be meaningful you would need to have a certain amount of body-horror revolving around the puppets, which how shallow their facade is or the weirdness involved with their discard/decay.
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Jan 24, 2014 18:04
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Ashcans posted:All those times Ivy was at the center of a cluster of vines/branches and you thought she as controlling them? That was actually the real Ivy dangling her puppet. Ashcans posted:Of course for this to be meaningful you would need to have a certain amount of body-horror revolving around the puppets redbackground fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Jan 24, 2014 |
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Jan 24, 2014 18:06
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:That writer is just pleased as loving punch with his Beaver innuendo. It's Amanda Connor.
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Jan 24, 2014 19:29
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Look at all these guys talking about a female swamp thing like they don't know about Black Orchid...
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Jan 24, 2014 19:44
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Ashcans posted:You know how some plants grow flowers that imitate bees/wasps/etc to help with pollination? Ivy should basically be that. As in, the actual Ivy is some crazy mutant plant creature like swamp thing (or even less human). But it needs to interact with people to get poo poo done, and it knows that people don't like giant squashy plant things. So it 'flowers' to produce decoy bodies when it needs them to handle people, then get discarded to whither and rot. You're actually not far off from something that they already did. I remember reading a story where "Ivy" seeks out Swamp Thing because she's "dying," and she does, only to have another "Ivy" appear and tell Swamp Thing that she'd been looking for that 'copy' everywhere. You're also not tremendously far off the story for "Harvest," which was a giant conglomeration of souls Ivy had killed via her plants. It was an *extremely* dark Paul Dini story where Ivy confesses to putting people (men and women) into these giant pitcher plants that digested them in a fashion that they didn't even know it was happening until it was too late. There was no rationale for her doing this, other than calling it a "guilty pleasure." She even went so far as to say that she'd even killed people who merely "returned her smile." I've been trying to get my hands on Dini's "Batman: Detective" softcover TPB for a while (at a realistic price) because there's also an exceptionally dark Joker story in it where he kidnaps Robin in a minivan that still has the dead family inside and more or less gives him the Gordon Fun House treatment. As for Harvest, seriously, gaze upon this and be hosed up:  Source: Detective Comics #823 BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Jan 24, 2014 |
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Jan 24, 2014 20:23
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Mister Roboto posted:When Joss Whedon is on, he writes really clever and witty stuff. I went and read these after those panels were posted, and it's pretty funny. I like the fact that he referenced that Logan was in fact a spoiled little sick kid growing up and wrote him like that. "I met an oriental!" was a great line.
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Jan 24, 2014 20:34
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I've been trying to get my hands on Dini's "Batman: Detective" softcover TPB for a while (at a realistic price) because there's also an exceptionally dark Joker story in it where he kidnaps Robin in a minivan that still has the dead family inside and more or less gives him the Gordon Fun House treatment. Is that set during Christmas? I might have the issue in my closet somewhere. I'll have to check its condition when I get home.
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Jan 24, 2014 21:50
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I *assume* so, but in this panel... I only just realized that the artist just used the copy/paste function on Ivy and the daschund from the first panel on the page.
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Jan 24, 2014 21:50
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Action Tortoise posted:Is that set during Christmas? I might have the issue in my closet somewhere. I'll have to check its condition when I get home. Yeah you're thinking of the right story. It's called Slayride from Detective #826. In which a Marx Brothers quote stops vehicular manslaughter.  (from obviously Detective Comics #826)
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Jan 24, 2014 21:59
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Holy poo poo at that Joker grimace. That's horrifying and fantastic.
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Jan 24, 2014 22:10
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Strontosaurus posted:Holy poo poo at that Joker grimace. That's horrifying and fantastic. Yeah, that's one of the first one's I've seen that really captures the whole Conrad Veidt-"The Man Who Laughs" vibe. 
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Jan 24, 2014 23:19
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BIG HEADLINE posted:
I'm getting the sneaking feeling they're trying to lure Frank Cho over for this book.
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Jan 25, 2014 00:00
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Action Tortoise posted:Is that set during Christmas? I might have the issue in my closet somewhere. I'll have to check its condition when I get home. I think it is - but don't bother. I just ordered a copy of the TPB used from Amazon - evidently a few libraries were selling B-stock for funds and I picked it up for ~22 bucks shipped. Zamboni Apocalypse posted:I'm getting the sneaking feeling they're trying to lure Frank Cho over for this book. I love Cho's drawing, but I don't think I'd like a Cho'ed Harley and Ivy. He'd give them both the "Brandy" treatment and you'd barely be able to see their heads. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Jan 25, 2014 |
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Jan 25, 2014 00:40
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I like the idea of mismatched eye shadow but is Harley's skin naturally white or did she undergo the same Joker chemical accident? I just can't see someone coating 80% of their body in white powder.
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Jan 25, 2014 01:00
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Action Tortoise posted:I like the idea of mismatched eye shadow but is Harley's skin naturally white or did she undergo the same Joker chemical accident? I just can't see someone coating 80% of their body in white powder. "Accident" insofar as New 52 Joker pushed her in, but yes, it's been chemically bleached like the Joker's.
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Jan 25, 2014 01:02
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Cismans Burden posted:I went and read these after those panels were posted, and it's pretty funny. I like the fact that he referenced that Logan was in fact a spoiled little sick kid growing up and wrote him like that. "I met an oriental!" was a great line. " I'm the best at what i do. And what I do... is so very pretty!" Seriously, try and watch the animated comic. The voice actor gets it spot on!
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Jan 25, 2014 01:38
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Fuego Fish posted:"Accident" insofar as New 52 Joker pushed her in, but yes, it's been chemically bleached like the Joker's. Also chemically removes underarm hair. Joker should just patent the stuff and market it.
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Jan 25, 2014 01:43
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Fuego Fish posted:"Accident" insofar as New 52 Joker pushed her in, but yes, it's been chemically bleached like the Joker's. And instead of green, it made her hair do the two-tone thing...somehow. To be honest, I really don't mind Harley's revised origin for the most part, but the hair thing does kinda bug me.
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Jan 25, 2014 01:46
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SynthOrange posted:Also chemically removes underarm hair. Joker should just patent the stuff and market it.  (Smilex is a much pornier GIS than I thought it'd be, incidentally. What the gently caress, Internet. What the gently caress.)
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Jan 25, 2014 02:01
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CapnAndy posted:
Yyyeeah, I wasn't expecting that.
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