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Have either of Superman's solo comics done anything with his relationship with Wonder Woman?
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 02:52 |
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# ? May 13, 2024 10:08 |
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Isn't one of Hulk/Red Hulk's big differences that Red Hulk actually has an upper limit to his strength while Hulk basically has no limit at all or did I make that up in my head?Gavok posted:Have either of Superman's solo comics done anything with his relationship with Wonder Woman? Lobdell has had her show up in Superman, but mostly all they've done is make googly eyes at each other while Lobdell writes godawful narration/inner dialogue for Supes. I stopped reading the series a while back, but I know from random Tumblr panels he's had Clark give her her "Diana Prince" disguise (which Diana thinks is retarded) so that they could go on dates. She probably showed up while he was writing Action also, but I know no other solo writer yet has used her.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 03:31 |
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TwoPair posted:Isn't one of Hulk/Red Hulk's big differences that Red Hulk actually has an upper limit to his strength while Hulk basically has no limit at all or did I make that up in my head? That sounds about right. I don't recall ever seeing Red Hulk power up like that. His trump card was the energy absorption thing, but that got nerfed when he became a hero. He can do it, but only very sparingly or there will be horrible consequences. Otherwise, his only advantage against Hulk is his intellect and fighting skill.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 04:11 |
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I was reading the Avengers run where Osborne and HAMMER come back and they took Red Hulk down fairly easily, which is what made me wonder.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 04:19 |
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Whatever happened to the Enforcers from Spider-Man? They showed up in the Spectacular cartoon, and there was an Ultimate version, but do they ever show up in the 616? I didn't even know they existed until I started buying the black and white Essential compendiums, but in the old comics they pop up pretty frequently.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 18:41 |
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Last time I remember seeing them was in the Civil War issues of Thunderbolts.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 18:43 |
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This might sound kind of silly, but has anyone ever used judo or aikido on the hulk to like, redirect his punches/use his own force against him or anything?
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 18:45 |
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Skwirl posted:Whatever happened to the Enforcers from Spider-Man? They showed up in the Spectacular cartoon, and there was an Ultimate version, but do they ever show up in the 616? I didn't even know they existed until I started buying the black and white Essential compendiums, but in the old comics they pop up pretty frequently. I think they showed up in Brubaker/Lark's Daredevil, which is great if you haven't read it. I love the Lee/Ditko issue where they're introduced.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 18:47 |
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We need more Circus of Crime appearances.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 18:48 |
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SoR Blaze posted:This might sound kind of silly, but has anyone ever used judo or aikido on the hulk to like, redirect his punches/use his own force against him or anything? I think Hulk outclasses aikido. It would be like trying to redirect a speeding train.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 19:20 |
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Phylodox posted:I think Hulk outclasses aikido. It would be like trying to redirect a speeding train. FF #26, apparently
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 19:30 |
Phylodox posted:I think Hulk outclasses aikido. It would be like trying to redirect a speeding train. The Hulk redirected Juggernaut during the X-men World War Hulk tie-in, sending him about a state over.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 19:42 |
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I love the idea cap said all of that during the course of one judo move.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 21:40 |
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Didn't Batman beat the Hulk once by boxing his ears? I've only ever heard about that and haven't seen it because it sounds ridiculous.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 23:24 |
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Unmature posted:Didn't Batman beat the Hulk once by boxing his ears? I've only ever heard about that and haven't seen it because it sounds ridiculous. No. In Batman's words: "Which didn't really hurt the brute -- just startled him long enough to break free --" How he does beat him is - first, he throws a gas bomb. Hulk holds his breath, but then Batman kicks him in the solar plexus and gets him to take a breath by "startling" him once again and Hulk falls from the knockout gas. Maybe editorial fudged a bit in there by adding "startling"? Hard to say.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 23:40 |
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Alien Rope Burn posted:No. In Batman's words: "Which didn't really hurt the brute -- just startled him long enough to break free --" That's still dumb!
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# ? Apr 18, 2014 00:58 |
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I'm just gonna take this discussion to its natural retarded end point, Black Panther arm locking Silver Surfer
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# ? Apr 18, 2014 21:14 |
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Chinaman7000 posted:I'm just gonna take this discussion to its natural retarded end point, Black Panther arm locking Silver Surfer Why haven't we seen someone Aikido flip Galactus? Get on it Marvel!
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# ? Apr 19, 2014 22:31 |
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I think Squirrel Girl did that to Thanos. The real, definitely not a fake Thanos.
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# ? Apr 20, 2014 01:43 |
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Unmature posted:That's still dumb! It was! Though bear in mind this is also from a time that Hulk's invulnerability was presented in a different way back then, too. Still, the pages in question are pretty rad anyway, IMO.
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# ? Apr 20, 2014 07:20 |
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HitTheTargets posted:I think Squirrel Girl did that to Thanos. The real, definitely not a fake Thanos. Are you sure it wasn't a clone or robot or something? So can Thor fly these days or is he still doing that hammer throw thing?
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# ? Apr 22, 2014 00:26 |
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zoux posted:So can Thor fly these days or is he still doing that hammer throw thing? Pretty sure he just flies nowadays, with the catch that he has to be holding Mjolnir in order to fly. I'm not basing this on anything official, I've just seen way too many comics where Thor makes a storm happen for dramatic effect while he just floats in the sky. TwoPair fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Apr 22, 2014 |
# ? Apr 22, 2014 04:17 |
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TwoPair posted:Pretty sure he just flies nowadays, with the catch that he has to be holding Mjolnir in order to fly. I'm not basing this on anything official, I've just seen way too many comics where Thor makes a storm happen for dramatic effect while he just floats in the sky. In "Everything Burns" Thor has to jump from stone to stone to get across lava.
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# ? Apr 22, 2014 08:42 |
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Does the Silver Age end when Jack Kirby left Marvel in 1970, or when he left DC in 1975?
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# ? Apr 22, 2014 15:52 |
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Metal Loaf posted:Does the Silver Age end when Jack Kirby left Marvel in 1970, or when he left DC in 1975? Some say when Gwen gets tossed off the bridge.
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# ? Apr 22, 2014 15:54 |
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Wasn't it Benito Cereno who said that a good mark was when Jack Kirby took over Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen?
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# ? Apr 22, 2014 16:02 |
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Metal Loaf posted:Does the Silver Age end when Jack Kirby left Marvel in 1970, or when he left DC in 1975? bobkatt013 posted:Some say when Gwen gets tossed off the bridge.
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# ? Apr 22, 2014 16:07 |
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I tend to associate the proper start of the Bronze Age with Claremont taking over on X-Men, but I guess I'd forgotten about O'Neil and Adams on GL/GA. Is there a clear dividing line between the Bronze Age and Dark Age? It seems pretty nebulous to me; I know it's usually listed as Watchmen and TDKR but I'm not sure if I'm entirely convinced.
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# ? Apr 22, 2014 16:17 |
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There are no real clear dividing lines for any age except Golden/Silver, because it's a gradual process as the era-changing books get published, and slowly the ideas percolate out. The best anyone can do is point to some convenient milestones that, in retrospect, defined the new age, and say "there". I personally use The Death of Gwen Stacy for starting Bronze, Watchmen for starting Dark, and Ultimate Spider-Man for starting Modern.
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# ? Apr 22, 2014 16:23 |
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Genuinely curious to know what age we're in now and what elements/creators/events people think characterize it as such?
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# ? Apr 22, 2014 16:29 |
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True, it's never clearly defined, and each "age" often means pretty different things for each of the Big Two (a Silver Age DC comic and a Silver Age Marvel comic are often going to be pretty different things).
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# ? Apr 22, 2014 16:30 |
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Shitshow posted:Genuinely curious to know what age we're in now and what elements/creators/events people think characterize it as such?
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# ? Apr 22, 2014 16:37 |
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Yeah but what will they call it when it gets replaced by a new modern age?
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# ? Apr 22, 2014 16:41 |
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Aphrodite posted:Yeah but what will they call it when it gets replaced by a new modern age? They will give it a name like the trade age.
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# ? Apr 22, 2014 16:41 |
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We're kinda due for a paradigm shift, by the way. The New 52 might end up being a shift point, for the day-and-date digital if nothing else.
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# ? Apr 22, 2014 16:43 |
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CapnAndy posted:We're kinda due for a paradigm shift, by the way. The New 52 might end up being a shift point, for the day-and-date digital if nothing else. The fact that amazon bought comixology might be a shifting point.
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# ? Apr 22, 2014 16:46 |
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CapnAndy posted:Modern Age, defined by widescreen action, writing for the trade, and more mature subject matter (which still frequently goes stupid, but there's been progress at least). Defining writers are Morrison, Johns, Bendis, Hickman, and Millar. I can't really think of any defining artists except Hitch. Would this age be defined by its own self-awareness? I feel like comics nowadays recognize the silliness in their own premise and, rather than fighting so hard against it like back in the "Dark Ages" of the 90s, they embrace it. I'm also seeing a lot of slice-of-life, naturalistic kind of comics, like Hawkeye and Superior Foes of Spider-Man where there's as much just hangin' out and examining the personal lives of these larger-than-life characters as there is action.
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# ? Apr 22, 2014 16:48 |
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CapnAndy posted:We're kinda due for a paradigm shift, by the way. The New 52 might end up being a shift point, for the day-and-date digital if nothing else. I figured we are hitting the digital age. Modern age will be called something like the diamond age are some such BS, defined by trade waiting and I think can probably be defined at its end point by the re-emergence of Image comics. New 52 is the start of the new current age (for me at least).
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# ? Apr 22, 2014 16:52 |
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A couple of years ago, the guys who do the War Rocket Ajax podcast on Comics Alliance (and the site's editor) reviewed the ten comics Dan DiDio ranked as the most important of his first decade in charge of DC, and one term they used to describe the 2000s as the "Prismatic Age". I believe the reasoning was that a lot of writers are looking back to the Silver Age for inspiration, but they're doing so through the lens of the Dark Age. Identity Crisis was their big example. It's an interesting idea but I'm not sure how well it holds up.
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# ? Apr 22, 2014 16:54 |
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# ? May 13, 2024 10:08 |
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Aphrodite posted:Yeah but what will they call it when it gets replaced by a new modern age? The NuModern Age. Alternately, The Modern.NOW Age.
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# ? Apr 22, 2014 17:00 |