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CharlestheHammer posted:That isn't what unrealistic means. Since your reasoning seems to be "because they don't want too.", which is fine but its kind of dooming itself to failure. It's unrealistic to think Hemsworth, RDJ, Evans etc. were going to do TV.
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Is it unrealistic to expect the show to engaging and entertaining?
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Mar 15, 2014 19:56
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Anyone attending the Indianapolis Comic-Con? I'm hearing from lots of people that it's an incredible clusterfuck.
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Mar 15, 2014 20:07
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sleepingbuddha posted:Is it unrealistic to expect the show to engaging and entertaining? No. I'm just saying let's call a spade a spade and say that this is why the show fails, not because RDJ or whomever doesn't show up in an episode.
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Mar 15, 2014 20:09
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Aphrodite posted:It's unrealistic to think Hemsworth, RDJ, Evans etc. were going to do TV. You probably could for like an arc or maybe a one and done. Depending on the budget which I don't know
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Mar 15, 2014 21:25
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Rhyno posted:Anyone attending the Indianapolis Comic-Con? I'm hearing from lots of people that it's an incredible clusterfuck. What's going on? I've been around for some con cluserfucks so I'm curious if it's as bad as Origins not getting the badge holders in until two days into the con.
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Len posted:What's going on? I've been around for some con cluserfucks so I'm curious if it's as bad as Origins not getting the badge holders in until two days into the con. lovely dealer room, guests showing up and having no space in artist's alley, insanely long lines that aren't being capped. A buddy of mine waited 4 hours for a George Perez signature. They were turning people away from entry because the hall was so crowded at one point, even if you had tickets. Edit: Just heard they Fire Marshall shut them down for an hour or so due to them being like 200 people beyond legal capacity. Rhyno fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Mar 16, 2014 |
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Hakkesshu posted:No. I'm just saying let's call a spade a spade and say that this is why the show fails, not because RDJ or whomever doesn't show up in an episode. Who cares, they could at least FEEL like they're part of the superhero universe.
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Mar 16, 2014 06:14
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Lurdiak posted:Which one of you guys did this to me? Yeah, that misplaced apostrophe is a tragedy.
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Do you think Batman is a competent figure skater? I don't mean that he could be if he wanted to, and I know he can iceskate. But do you think in his training he learned to do like triple axles and poo poo just in case it came up?
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Have you seen Batman and Robin?
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That's the best question and answer I've ever seen on here.
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Rhyno posted:lovely dealer room, guests showing up and having no space in artist's alley, insanely long lines that aren't being capped. A buddy of mine waited 4 hours for a George Perez signature. They were turning people away from entry because the hall was so crowded at one point, even if you had tickets. Don't know about the Fire Marshall and the space problems in artist's alley, but I wouldn't be surprised. It was downright miserable in the dealer room. Couldn't look at anything without fighting through a wall of people. Could barely talk to creators in artist's alley either not due to lines but due to...throngs of people milling about because they had no place else to go. What a poo poo use of space.
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Some people just aren't that good at running cons. There's a crew in Australia who keep trying to run mini-cons based on scifi shows and their drawcard is getting actors from the shows to fly to Australia, and from what I can gather they've had to cancel roughly 50% of their cons and refund everyone's ticket purchase when key actors have dropped out. I strongly suspect these guys are fans who organise these events so they get to hang out with their favourite actors. See that promotion on their homepage for the Whoniverse con featuring Matt Smith? Yeah that got cancelled back in February when Matt and Karen Gillan pulled out.
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Timeless Appeal posted:Do you think Batman is a competent figure skater? I don't mean that he could be if he wanted to, and I know he can iceskate. But do you think in his training he learned to do like triple axles and poo poo just in case it came up?
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Mimir posted:Have you seen Batman and Robin? I do like that Batman & Robin suggests to me that Batman potentially journeyed to Canada and trained with Wayne Gretzky on his quest to eradicate crime.
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Timeless Appeal posted:He was playing ice hockey, yo. That's different. I want to know if Batman can ice skate, jump, twirl in the air while tossing batarangs, and then catch Batgirl and hold her above his head while she throws smoke bombs at people. I'm gonna go ahead and bet that you telling us why you want to know about Batman's figure skating ability is more interesting than any answer you're going to get on the topic. Also, for what it's worth (and because I appreciate that you've put this image in my head), I vote no. No, Batman can't figure skate. Nightwing, possibly.
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Sarchasm posted:I'm gonna go ahead and bet that you telling us why you want to know about Batman's figure skating ability is more interesting than any answer you're going to get on the topic. I would bet that this would be a Robin job if it came up, and Bats would be his mean manager.
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Sarchasm posted:I'm gonna go ahead and bet that you telling us why you want to know about Batman's figure skating ability is more interesting than any answer you're going to get on the topic. And then the idea of Batman, for whatever reason, ice skating and then doing like a jump where he's throwing batarangs in all directions seemed both really cool and funny to me. And then it made me wonder if that was really in his wheelhouse.
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Timeless Appeal posted:While I don't dedicate any time to fan fiction, I sometimes do fantasize about stories I'd like to write for my favorite superheroes. I had this idea for this small sequence that shows a flashback to a young Bruce getting ballet lessons, and then flashes to Batman fighting this huge group of thugs, and keeps going back and forth between young Bruce learning ballet and Batman using those skills to handle this huge group without seriously hurting anyone. It just seemed like it would be a neat sequence. Well Batman does prepare for anything.
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Was Taters posted:I would bet that this would be a Robin job if it came up, and Bats would be his mean manager. The mean manager who gets his comeuppance!  Also the iceskating battle from the movie totally happened in the comics:   Batman 268 (October 1975) Timeless Appeal posted:While I don't dedicate any time to fan fiction, I sometimes do fantasize about stories I'd like to write for my favorite superheroes. You don't have to dream it, you can totally recreate that scene in real life with these official iceskating Batman and Robin action figures:  They even have Bruce for the flashback ice skating training montage! Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Mar 16, 2014 |
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I'm sort of having the itch to buy some marvel or dc cards again. Is there a place aside for, eBay I can get my fix for good price?
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Don't do it, man. We're here for you if you need to talk.
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Soonmot posted:Don't do it, man. We're here for you if you need to talk. This, but it's not like those cards have any value whatsoever in 2014.
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But the smell of a freshly opened pack man. Those hastily written character bios. The sound of the foil wrapper....
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Jet Ready Go posted:But the smell of a freshly opened pack man. Those hastily written character bios. The sound of the foil wrapper.... You can't buy sealed packs of Topps Series 2/3 Marvel cards anymore. Your argument is invalid.
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CzarChasm posted:You can't buy sealed packs of Topps Series 2/3 Marvel cards anymore. Your argument is invalid. Don't give up the dream! Scour the dollar stores. You never know what cast away cards end up there.
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Len posted:Don't give up the dream! Scour the dollar stores. You never know what cast away cards end up there. Thanks, but I really don't need assistance pissing away more of my cash. (Seriously, I just checked ebay and was disappointed with how few cards I saw there.)
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CzarChasm posted:Thanks, but I really don't need assistance pissing away more of my cash. (Seriously, I just checked ebay and was disappointed with how few cards I saw there.) You want about 100 of the 90s Marvel cards? Opened and all but. Free?
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I used to make awesome collages out of my old comicbook cards so they aren't completely useless. Follow your dreams man.
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About 5-6 years ago I went loving nuts on ebay and bought about 20 sealed boxes of various cards. The only cards I felt like were worth holding onto were the Fleer Spider-man series by Mark Bagley and the Kingdom Come series. I think I dumped everything else into the store's cheap bins.
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Can anyone tell me anything interesting about or have any thoughts on a series called "Cholly & Flytrap"? It appears to be from Epic comics (I can't see to confirm if it's the same one as the Marvel imprint or not). I bought Book 1 on a whim last week and started reading it and I quite like the setting, the wrtier/artist Arthur Suydam seems to have a distinctly British sensibility, like I feel like I'm reading a 2000 AD story of an American character as written by a Brit, despite Suydam being American. I know that's a weird thing to take away from the book but I enjoy it all the more for it just because I have be on a big 2000 AD binge lately. Regardless, I can't seem to find anything too elaborate online other than it appears someone pulled a lovely trick on the Image (reprint?) version of the story by completely warping a previously effiminate and gay character into a seemingly heterosexual girl. Really weird but I'm not reading that version, I just saw an article on Bleeding Cool. I love the setting and wild character designs in the art and I'm curious if there's anything else in the series worth reading.
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Sundowner posted:It appears to be from Epic comics (I can't see to confirm if it's the same one as the Marvel imprint or not). Yeah it started out in Epic Illustrated which was Marvel's experiment to do their own version of Heavy Metal in the early-to-mid 80s. They had people like Barry Windsor-Smith, Bernie Wrightson, P. Craig Russell, Dave Sim and Wendy Pini contributing stories and Richard Corben, Frank Frazetta, The Brothers Hildebrandt and Boris Vallejo doing some of the covers.
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Epic Comics was also a way for Marvel to experiment with publishing creator-owned content, though it also published some Marvel material (mainly for material they wanted to publish outside of the Comics Code Authority). I admit I don't know much about the stories themselves in Epic Illustrated, though.
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From the Spider-Man thread:Edge & Christian posted:It looks due for a cancelation/relaunch, given the fate of all of the other Marvel books that sold under 30,000 in December (January sales figures are out but Superior Foes didn't have an issue that shipped in January) It's loving criminal that X-Men Legacy's sales dipped below 20k before it finished. It was one of the best books on the shelves for the entire run.
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irlZaphod posted:It's loving criminal that X-Men Legacy's sales dipped below 20k before it finished. It was one of the best books on the shelves for the entire run. Though well-written, it is fair to mention it was a book about Legion with frankly embarrassing art at times. The fact that a Legion series kept on for longer than four issues was a goddamn triumph in today's comic market.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Though well-written, it is fair to mention it was a book about Legion with frankly embarrassing art at times. Awww, I like the art. It's skewed and distorted, but so is Legion's perception of things. I thought it was an intentional stylistic choice and one that I really liked.
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