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Qwo posted:I was googling Stan Sakai to see how his wife was doing, there was that auction late last year to help him out, and I saw this. This Sakai poo poo breaks my heart. I meant to take part in the auction but there wasn't enough info when I heard about it and then it just slipped off my radar. I went straight from Flex Mentallo to reading about Sakai, and I got a lot of thoughts. A lot of thoughts.
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Lurdiak posted:So does anyone in the know want to explain these panels to me? It's from volume 3 of a series called "Generations" by John Byrne, which is basically a "What if Superman and Batman and everybody else aged and had kids?" thing starting in the early 20th century (1920s or so). Every issue in a given volume takes place a decade/11 years/a century after the previous one, with all three volumes sharing continuity. That's a 14 year old Lana Lang, who just took a trip to the 29th century with a similarly young Lois Lane via an accidental use of a Time Sphere. That's an older Superman, who went grey in 1984 or so and then went to New Genesis for a bit and then came back and ran into Lang and Lane in the 29th century ('cause, you know, Superman ages but not that fast I guess). While on their jaunt to the 29th century Lang and Lane stumbled across the Superman Museum and found out Supes' secret identity and Lois' future marriage to him (Lois also gets to meet her great-granddaughter at this time, how fun!). Now they've been brought back to their home time of 1925 and Lana, knowing she's got no future with Superman, wants a drat kiss. So Supes, after noting Lana is indeed 14 and man it's kinda weird to be wanting a kiss from a grown man especially since his dad and mom and future wife and great-granddaughter and freakin' Batman are all hanging out in the Kent farm parlor as well, plants one on Lana as she requested. In short: John Byrne has some dumb ideas. That being said, Generations 1 is a pretty good series with a nice running storyline through the decades with some good twists and shaking out of the Superman and Batman family trees. Generations 2 is alright, a lot of contained stories focusing on other characters from the JLA and JSA with varying levels of payoff. Generations 3 sucks (as if the Superpedophila wasn't a clue) and is confusing and stupidly cavalier about big life-altering events due to its century-hopping in each issue. Gummy Joe fucked around with this message at 09:52 on Feb 8, 2014 |
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Feb 8, 2014 09:49
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Since it has been done recently, I will also post a picture of my bookshelves. It's probably not big enough to see much detail, though. All the books are on their sides because I still haven't decided how I want to arrange them. I always get a kick out of looking at the "post your collection raffle" pictures from a while back in the hardcovers and collected editions thread; everybody seems to do a great job of organising their stuff.
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Rhyno posted:John Byrne. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBJZwYpHUBo But also:  I was really hoping it was some kind of art problem.
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Feb 8, 2014 19:25
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Metal Loaf posted:I always get a kick out of looking at the "post your collection raffle" pictures from a while back in the hardcovers and collected editions thread;
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Feb 9, 2014 05:06
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Apparently, Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning have dissolved their writing partnership.
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Feb 10, 2014 00:50
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Balls. Those two are responsible for my favorite comics of the last decade.
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Feb 10, 2014 01:11
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A lecture on Jack Kirby: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0JNsseFoXk
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Feb 10, 2014 01:20
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We posting shelves in this thread? Waiting to get some Guy Gardner: Warrior binds back from the book binder.
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Feb 10, 2014 02:41
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Shawn posted:Waiting to get some Guy Gardner: Warrior binds back from the book binder. I can't wait to see this. What outside material did you include?
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Rhyno posted:I can't wait to see this. What outside material did you include? Just started with Guy Gardner Reborn and included crossover issues, The JLI the trouble with Guys issues, The GL issues from Emerald Fallout and the Major Force storyline and all the issues from Way of the Warrior. I have the superman appearances with eradicator, but didn't feel like hassling with every single guy appearance. I may do a zero trade with the Crisis issues of GLC and the early issues of the early 90s series, like a Guy and his Gnort and the issue where Hal breaks Guy's ring.
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Rhyno posted:Balls. Those two are responsible for my favorite comics of the last decade. Their Nova is one of the first comics I read when I got into monthlies, and there was something great about following what they did and realizing these dudes loved the same poo poo I did, just as much as I did. This really sucks.
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Castor Poe posted:A lecture on Jack Kirby: Thanks for this. The quality wasn't perfect but it was a really great watch.
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Shawn posted:We posting shelves in this thread?
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redbackground posted:What are your custom binds on the top shelf? Quasar and Young Justice. My favorite books as a kid. I'll post pictures of them in the hardcover thread in a little bit.
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Feb 10, 2014 16:21
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I would love to do custom binds of Micronauts and ROM but I just can't bring myself to tear apart the comics my uncle gave me when I was a kid, and there's no way in hell I'm buying a second set of either of those books. It took me ten years to finish the first set.
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Feb 10, 2014 19:57
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On Saturday I sat in a pizzeria listening to the guys next to me have a real-life Goku vs Superman argument, but inclusive of other people in comics as well. I never thought anybody would ever actually have that argument, let alone decide that although Goku would beat Superman easily, he couldn't beat Flash "because Flash can run through time".
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Ghostlight posted:On Saturday I sat in a pizzeria listening to the guys next to me have a real-life Goku vs Superman argument, but inclusive of other people in comics as well. I never thought anybody would ever actually have that argument, let alone decide that although Goku would beat Superman easily, he couldn't beat Flash "because Flash can run through time". That's sound logic and I endorse it.
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Feb 10, 2014 20:41
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Flash's ultimate trump card is going back in time and beating a little baby to death.
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Feb 10, 2014 20:43
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Ghostlight posted:On Saturday I sat in a pizzeria listening to the guys next to me have a real-life Goku vs Superman argument, but inclusive of other people in comics as well. I never thought anybody would ever actually have that argument, let alone decide that although Goku would beat Superman easily, he couldn't beat Flash "because Flash can run through time". Superman also couldn't beat the Enterprise.
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Literally The Worst posted:Superman also couldn't beat the Enterprise. It's a fun game.
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CapnAndy posted:In Heroclix, Kirk has a better than even chance of punching out the Enterprise. Superman lost to Ali. 
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CapnAndy posted:In Heroclix, Kirk has a better than even chance of punching out the Enterprise. One night at work we started talkng about this kind of poo poo, and that was how we got on "who would win, X or Y" and we decided that all the Enterprise has to do is warp to a system with a red sun and then shoot Superman with a phaser.
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Feb 10, 2014 23:55
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How would that help? Unless superman was on the ship or they harpooned him and dragged him there..
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Cassa posted:How would that help? Unless superman was on the ship or they harpooned him and dragged him there.. They're in space, man. Red sun, no powers, shoot him with the phasers. Boom. Krypton's extinct.
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Literally The Worst posted:They're in space, man. Red sun, no powers, shoot him with the phasers. Boom. Krypton's extinct. Who says Superman has to follow them to the red sun? Also, didn't he fly straight through a red sun while beating up Superboy Prime? It's not like he immediately loses his juice.
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Feb 11, 2014 00:59
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Yeah, I think more modern stories have suggested that he doesn't immediately lose power, but whatever he expends isn't recharged and it may sap some.
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Question. Can Superman breathe in space?
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He could pre-Crisis, couldn't post-Crisis. I'm not sure about the New 52.
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prefect posted:Who says Superman has to follow them to the red sun? quote:Question. Can Superman breathe in space?
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Literally The Worst posted:Superman also couldn't beat the Enterprise. That's reasonable, Kirk's entire reputation is on out-thinking Gods and godlike beings.
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Madkal posted:Question. Can Superman breathe in space?
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bobkatt013 posted:Superman lost to Ali. To be fair, it was Ali.
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So Antonio Inoki is two notches above Superman. Well, that's how he'd book it, anyway.
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Literally The Worst posted:I would love to do custom binds of Micronauts and ROM but I just can't bring myself to tear apart the comics my uncle gave me when I was a kid, and there's no way in hell I'm buying a second set of either of those books. It took me ten years to finish the first set. poo poo. I just sold my ROM binds. Think it cost me about $150 and a year of tracking issues down to do it. Got $200 for them. After the Ebay/Paypal fees I probably broke even but they were fun to have and cool looking.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:To be fair, it was Ali. If you subtract all Superman's powers you get a farm boy with a good heart. Ali was the heavyweight champion of the world. The really surprising thing is that Superman isn't, like, dead after two punches.
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It was requested that this discussion be taken out of the movie thread, as I agree it had nothing to do with movies. This is about Y: The Last Man. Oracle posted:I am a she, and that should probably sum it up. I found it insulting and laughable in turns the ways he thought society would go to complete pot without men, that women would go crazy without them, Mad Max Amazon feminazis, the various stupid/unbelievable ways women would react to such a situation, etc etc. Like, maybe the daughters of the Amazon went too far, but in general I thought it was pretty accurate as to what would happen immediately. edit: I'm also very curious as to why you think "the world going to pot" after all the men died was unrealistic at all. As he discusses, our society is male-dominated (I am not saying that men are better/smarter, just that this is the reality of how our society is built) and we would lose almost every human being from a large number of infrastructure-critical jobs. Hell, things would get very, very bad if we lost 50% of the population from random sampling, but with the way masculinity is socially integrated with a large number of important jobs, losing all males would be a particularly awful. theflyingorc fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Feb 11, 2014 |
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theflyingorc posted:It was requested that this discussion be taken out of the movie thread, as I agree it had nothing to do with movies. In Zombie movies things do go to poo poo as quickly. It was also not that society went to complete poo poo it was more the fact there was a huge shift in everything, and they had to figure out why. Also I did not find the Amazons that bad since doomsday cults are always around.
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Y the Last Man's biggest sin is that the I Am Woman comic that shows up in the story near the end sounds way cooler and more interesting than Y the Last Man.
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bobkatt013 posted:In Zombie movies things do go to poo poo as quickly. It was also not that society went to complete poo poo it was more the fact there was a huge shift in everything, and they had to figure out why. Also I did not find the Amazons that bad since doomsday cults are always around. It's MORE realistic than zombie movies, which is why I find the objection so strange. Society half-crumbles, but the series shows it rebuilding, and various women react in a hell of lot of different ways. If the events of the book happened, a large number of women WOULD become worthlessly despondent or crazy - this is not because women are crazy, but because you're drawing from a sample of 50% of the population. Same thing would happen in reverse. My one realism problem with the series is that I don't think that Yorick would have missed his opportunity to become Lord of Boning All He Sees. I know there is a storyline that addresses his sexual hang-ups, but I didn't find it's explanation satisfactory.
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