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Wade Wilson posted:Is that a ghost Ben Franklin? Yeah, Deadpool and the ghost of Ben Franklin are total bros. Pierson posted:Speaking as someone who stopped reading Deadpool when he was still a super-whacky fourth wall-breaking comedy jackass (I think the last thing I read even involving him was Agent X) where do I start this whole "Deadpool becomes a cool guy and cool things happen to him" storyline? Because it sounds kickin' rad. The beginning of the latest volume. The first arc is universally not very well-liked, but it introduces his supporting cast and everything that follows is fantastic. After reading #25, check out the 13-part digital series Deadpool: the Gauntlet by the same writing team (Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan), which explains how Deadpool met his wife. He also goes through some traumatic poo poo during the run, but it's one of the all-time best Deadpool storylines and shouldn't be missed. If you want to just skip to the happy times, just read the Gauntlet and go straight to #27.
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I for one loved the first arc. But I loved all the rest of this volume, too.
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I liked the first arc, but every single thing afterwards just blew that arc out of the water. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly is easily one of the finer comics of last year.
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Pierson posted:Speaking as someone who stopped reading Deadpool when he was still a super-whacky fourth wall-breaking comedy jackass (I think the last thing I read even involving him was Agent X) where do I start this whole "Deadpool becomes a cool guy and cool things happen to him" storyline? Because it sounds kickin' rad. Also check out Cable & Deadpool. Pretty good, though it becomes more or less a Deadpool single title toward the end of the run.
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Basically, bad Deadpool stories happen when a writer forgets that comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. If all you see are random panels on Tumblr, it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking the character is only good for lolmonkeycheese gag stories. But the most effective part of the character, to me, is that despite how silly and hosed-up he is, he still tries, on some level, to do the right thing. It's why moments like him swearing not to let Cable down, or letting that girl die finally during this current run, or not taking Archangel's money during X-Force and condemning them for murdering a child works. Not to mention, you can only have those moments if Wade cares about other people, which is why the addition of the white caption boxes as a 'thing' are symbolic of missing the point. They only exist to give him someone to exposit and quip to, without having to put effort into building a relationship with another character, or indeed, characterise another person who might give a crap about Deadpool. It's shorthand for "stories are hard, but wasn't it funny when Wade said chimmichanga, lol?!"
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Too much happiness in this thread so here's Starlight #01  
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Apr 12, 2014 13:19
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Wow, I just looked that up and saw that it was written by Mark Millar. I had no idea he was capable of anything resembling subtlety and emotion.
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Hakkesshu posted:Wow, I just looked that up and saw that it was written by Mark Millar. I had no idea he was capable of anything resembling subtlety and emotion. Haha, I told my friend the same thing after reading his copy. Then I read the newest issue of Kick-rear end...
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Hakkesshu posted:Wow, I just looked that up and saw that it was written by Mark Millar. I had no idea he was capable of anything resembling subtlety and emotion. I had to google that myself just because I refused to believe it. Where the gently caress was this Mark Millar all this time? Is there another page not posted where he shouts "YOU'RE LIKE THE CANCER THAT KILLED MY WIFE AND I'M GOING TO REMOVE YOU FROM THIS CITY BEFORE YOU CAN KILL MORE PEOPLE" at a criminal or something? I'm not able to handle him showing character emotion not wrapped in a big shouty fist fight.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:I had to google that myself just because I refused to believe it. "Look out Starlight! Her uterus is booby trapped!"
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To be honest I only got Starlight because Parlov was doing art and there's never enough Parlov art but Millar has been restrained with his shock value. That could easily change (and probably will) but so far it's a nice homage to old sci-fi serials with Parlov channeling Mobius in places.
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Waterhaul posted:Too much happiness in this thread so here's Starlight #01 No matter how many times I read that last page, I keep seeing it as, "We tried to get her chemo to treat it, but we were $50 short."
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Gavok posted:No matter how many times I read that last page, I keep seeing it as, "We tried to get her chemo to treat it, but we were $50 short." I am pretty sure that is the intended message.
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Waterhaul posted:To be honest I only got Starlight because Parlov was doing art and there's never enough Parlov art but Millar has been restrained with his shock value. That could easily change (and probably will) but so far it's a nice homage to old sci-fi serials with Parlov channeling Mobius in places. It's easier to read Millar if you think of him as the Quentin Tarantino of comics. Kill Bill, Death Proof, Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained are all homages to various types of schlock movie; Supercrooks, Starlight, The Secret Service and Superior are also homages. That's why Nemesis and to a lesser extent Kick-rear end are his weakest works - they start from a high concept that has no limits to its absurdity other than those imposed by the writer. Millar isn't good at that.
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Gavok posted:No matter how many times I read that last page, I keep seeing it as, "We tried to get her chemo to treat it, but we were $50 short." I more read it as impulsive spending was a regular thing for people living more in the 'now', and as such had no savings when needed.
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WAR FOOT posted:I more read it as impulsive spending was a regular thing for people living more in the 'now', and as such had no savings when needed. If they're in America savings of almost any normal amount still wouldn't be enough to pay for cancer poo poo. They either have insurance and are partially hosed, or don't and she killed herself. Besides, if you read that contextually like a normal person you see that the money wasn't the forteller, her believing that everything was perfect was. The money was just an incidental to demonstrate her kindness and compassion and connection to other people - her oneness with life. Drifter fucked around with this message at 08:35 on Apr 13, 2014 |
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DrPaper posted:And with Marvel ramping up Thanos for the movies, it's probably best to move DP on. What does this have to do with Deadpool?
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Rhyno posted:What does this have to do with Deadpool? Deadpool died briefly and saw Death. He fell in love with Death. For whatever reason, Death either liked him back or gave that impression because she never cared for Thanos and he was obsessed with her. Thanos was pissed off and has tried to fix this problem on a few occasions, including making Wilson immortal. So yeah, Thanos sees Deadpool as a romantic rival, and it's probably why Deadpool fell for a queen vampire/ruler of the undead. Cornwind Evil fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Apr 14, 2014 |
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Don't you mean Wilson?
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Don't you mean Wilson? J.H. Williams III is immortal. You didn't know?
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This is from Ted McKeever's Perpetual Mourning from Batman: Black and White Vol. #1. It's one of my favorite Batman comic stories because it dials the character back to being a fallible human being dealing with simple street crime. Batman so often loses any shred of humanity in comics either by being a grim and maladjusted brooder or by having defacto superpowers in the "I've thought 10 steps ahead of everyone" Morrison BatGod sense. In McKeever's hands, a lot of the depictions of Batman in comics seem so shallow by comparison. Anyway, if you haven't read the story, the gist is that Batman is performing an autopsy on a woman who was killed in a mugging. Here's my favorite page from it: 
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  Lose #2, I think.
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 What part of that is touching and inspiring?
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Things can be touching without being inspiring. It doesn't hurt to branch out a little from pictures of superman crying.
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May 2, 2014 12:26
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Still, I would have posted that in the horror thread, personally.
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Mr Wind Up Bird posted:Things can be touching without being inspiring. It doesn't hurt to branch out a little from pictures of superman crying. Hey, guys, I just saw this really moving image. It makes the feels. 
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Mr Wind Up Bird posted:Things can be touching without being inspiring. It doesn't hurt to branch out a little from pictures of superman crying. Kind of dilutes the topic though?
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Like the funny/badass/whatever other panel threads we have people could spend more time contributing rather than picking at whether something is really relevant to the thread. Everyone is going to have different tastes and opinions on what exactly is covered under the topic.
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Uthor posted:Hey, guys, I just saw this really moving image. It makes the feels. Oh come on, have you not seen all the dead dog comics? This has been the "Touching/anything that doesn't fit into the other threads Panels" thread for a while now. Anyway, here's something I've been meaning to post but I'm afraid it'll be too confusing out of context of the rest of the issue so I'm gonna have to do a lot of explaining and it still might not make any sense. Batman/Superman #4: A very young, pre-Justice-League #1 Batman and Superman have been sucked over to Earth 2. Earth 2's a lot like pre-reboot DC because Clark and Lois are married and the Kents are alive and everybody seems happier (also Batman and Catwoman are married). They promptly meet up with their counterparts and get pulled into a showdown involving some mysterious crystal that's being held by the military that amplifies power and may be the key to defeating Darkseid (who they haven't fought yet, remember, it's in the past). Anyway, while fighting said military, Catwoman and Lois are flying around in the Bat-jet but lose a wing and start going down. Annnd Superman-2 gets blasted into space.   
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From Transformers MTMTE issue 16, answering the question: Can robots love? Something truly horrible just happened that killed "rewind", the tiny robot at the end. This is a truly needless death, the Transformers are not at war and these particular robots are just off in space not involving themselves with anyone. And it turns out Rewind was married to Chromedome, the robot watching this message. This was Rewind's last message to Chromedome. What "injecting" means: Chromedome can use the needles in his fingers to pull an Inception and alter your memories. And he's about to delete his own memories of Rewind instead of living with the loss of his loved one - and this isn't the first time he's done that, either. Middle page: Drift took the blame for the horrible thing that happened. It wasn't his fault at all but he felt that it was something he needed to take the blame for.    Came across these pages again and I felt like they needed to be shared somewhere. I suppose they might mean a little more if you've read the comic and can relate to robots who don't have mouths, but I personally think this is still a sad and sweet gut-punch regardless...
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James Roberts really is the writer the Transformers fandom does not deserve. Here's some of the preceding pages to establish a bit more context.  
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   The rest here.
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Context: Scrroge McDuck has been living in Duckburg for 50 years. The city holds a contest in which the person who fulfills his greatest wish get a million dollars. It turns out that the contest secretly is a plot by a coalition of his greatest foes, though - after defeating them, an angry and disgruntled Scrooge retreats to the Money Bin.  5 hours late edit: Oops, forgot the source! Don Rosa - A Little Something Special (1997) System Metternich fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Jun 14, 2014 |
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From Injustice: Year Two #13. Black Canary visited the abandoned Arrow Cave (abandoned due to Superman having killed Ollie), to find Harley squatting there. The two fought until Canary called for time out and started puking into a bucket. Harley realized that Canary was pregnant and started laughing at the absurdity of a superhero having morning sickness.     I thought this was a really on-point take on the Harley/Joker relationship without having to resort to physical violence.
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There's more feeling and emotion there than 99 percent of the New 52.
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Aww, jeez. Harl. 
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Some pages from Thor: God of Thunder #24. The Asgardians have decided to leave Earth after Broxton was wrecked in the last arc.   
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And then that tower eventually turned into the main location in the Dredd film.
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