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McSpanky posted:What I'm gathering from all of this is evidence for this issue, if not this period, of Power Girl to be discussed in the Worst Runs thread. It's actually heavily well-regarded and is seen as the best run for the character.
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Gavok posted:It's actually heavily well-regarded and is seen as the best run for the character. Low standards'll do that.
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Gavok posted:It's actually heavily well-regarded and is seen as the best run for the character. So far all I've seen is loads of T&A, a hero blasting someone's arm off to show they mean SERIOUS BUSINESS and the hideously overused glowing heat vision rage-eyes on a Super-person trope. The high point of a nadir ain't that impressive.
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McSpanky posted:So far all I've seen is loads of T&A, a hero blasting someone's arm off to show they mean SERIOUS BUSINESS and the hideously overused glowing heat vision rage-eyes on a Super-person trope. The high point of a nadir ain't that impressive. So, basing a run on 1.5 pages... It's the one time she has gotten angry and blasted someone in 12 issues (the only other use of her heat vision was to entertain her cat). Most of the time, she's trying to get people to stop fighting and this whole final arc is set off because she wants to get the Ultra Humanite psychiatric help instead of just beating him up and eventually finds a cure for the illness that made him put his brain in a monkey's body. But, it's Power Girl, so she tends to go for punching first and even Conner can't help drawing T&A.
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You've seen three pages out of a multi-issue run. Seems legit to say it's the worst run ever.
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Metal Loaf posted:I posted these near the end of the previous thread, but I could only find them in black and white then, and the quality of the scans wasn't great. I'm sure glad this isn't in print! I'd hate to read it.
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Yeah, thank goodness Amazon doesn't have trades with those issues, that would be terrible! http://www.amazon.com/Captain-Brita...tain+alan+moore http://www.amazon.co.uk/Captain-Britain-Vol-4-Siege-Camelot/dp/184653433X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y quote:Captain Britain returns fighting alongside the Black Knight and Merlyn to save fabled Camelot and Otherworld from the hideous hordes of Necromon! Plus, Captain Britain is reborn as the acclaimed Alan Moore and Alan Davis begin their momentous run and Britain's hero faces the terrifying Fury! Collects Hulk Comic Weekly #42-55, 56-63, Marvel Super Heroes #387-388, Daredevils #1-11 and The Mighty World of Marvel #7-13.
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McSpanky posted:What I'm gathering from all of this is evidence for this issue, if not this period, of Power Girl to be discussed in the Worst Runs thread. It was, from the start, pretty explicitly a cheesecake book. It should have been totally awful, but Connor managed to make it funny and fun, mainly because PG was almost always the smartest person in the room and never helpless. Yes, the sexual politics of comic books makes it problematic, but in a vacuum it was a harmless funnybook. There should have been a companion series of sexy shirtless Nightwing or something. Although this might have run while Bruce was mostly dead.
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Senor Candle posted:I'm sure glad this isn't in print! I'd hate to read it. I have the omnibus. 
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McSpanky posted:What I'm gathering from all of this is evidence for this issue, if not this period, of Power Girl to be discussed in the Worst Runs thread.
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Metal Loaf posted:I have the omnibus. Do you want to send it to me? Vengeance of Pandas posted:Yeah, thank goodness Amazon doesn't have trades with those issues, that would be terrible!
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VanSandman posted:It was, from the start, pretty explicitly a cheesecake book. It should have been totally awful, but Connor managed to make it funny and fun, mainly because PG was almost always the smartest person in the room and never helpless. Yes, the sexual politics of comic books makes it problematic, but in a vacuum it was a harmless funnybook. Used to follow Palmiotti on twitter, and the dude loves him some naked women. If his wife is down with that, and enjoys drawing Power Girl, then more power to them both. I wish those two would get a run on Supergirl. Their story in Wednesday Comics was cute as hell. Remember Wednesday Comics?
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redbackground posted:And I had such high hopes for you. If the book is generally much better than this outlier, I'd love to see some of that. It's hard not to feel a little jaded after seeing some of the hallmarks of one of DC's worst (i.e. current) eras appear in a supposedly great run on a character that already has a history of being mishandled. Also I realize judging a whole book by a few pages is really dumb and I'm a dumb dumbo. McSpanky fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Apr 29, 2014 |
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Well, here's a funny series of pages I put up a couple days ago. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3505073&pagenumber=244#post428914411
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VanSandman posted:It was, from the start, pretty explicitly a cheesecake book.  Power Girl #9, by the way.
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loving hell that's just terrible.
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Even in Justice League Europe(wayyy back in the day), Powergirl was always written as a set of boobs with an attitude.
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Bown posted:loving hell that's just terrible.
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Endless Mike posted:No, he mostly plays guitar. There's also his champagne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyPqzIPAe3Y
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redbackground posted:Some of you truly baffle me sometimes. I suspect sometimes people just get tired of constant cheesecake. Even the fun stuff.
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Yeah, i'd be interested in this fun Power Girl run you mention, but it being composed mostly of cheesecake or some dude that wants to bone her gives it a pretty bad look to an outsider. Even if those pages are kinda funny.
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:Yeah, i'd be interested in this fun Power Girl run you mention, but it being composed mostly of cheesecake or some dude that wants to bone her gives it a pretty bad look to an outsider. Even if those pages are kinda funny. This is the badass thread so let's bring some badass Power Girl     Power Girl #17, I believe.
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Yeah, she may seem like a cheesecake character, but she's about as powerful as Superman. Beware of underrated superheroes. Aquaman #1 
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They're underrated because they're not interesting to read about, not because they're weak.
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Bown posted:loving hell that's just terrible. But you don't get it my cheesecake character is -different than the others- because......
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Say Nothing posted:Yeah, she may seem like a cheesecake character, but she's about as powerful as Superman. Wait, Aquaman bleeds from getting shot with an assault rifle?
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Pretty rapidly, despite it being a very minor nick by all appearances. Must be all that high-pressure underwater blood!
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redbackground posted:Some of you truly baffle me sometimes. You're baffled that someone would be creeped out that they did an entire double-page spread out of "LOL cartoon woman naked" in a mainstream comic book where they consistently do poo poo like this? Believe me that says worlds more about you.
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I guess I just don't see the added value of cheap comic book titillation when at any moment, pictures of women in various states of undress are only seconds away for anyone with an internet connection. It just feels superfluous in a story-telling medium
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Cabbit posted:Pretty rapidly, despite it being a very minor nick by all appearances. Must be all that high-pressure underwater blood! Eyebrows bleed really quickly. And are really easy to open up
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Psykmoe posted:I guess I just don't see the added value of cheap comic book titillation when at any moment, pictures of women in various states of undress are only seconds away for anyone with an internet connection. It just feels superfluous in a story-telling medium Maybe it's not pornography and we don't have to be ashamed of the booby funny book. e: Anyway, comics came out. I bought way too many of them. There must be something Badass to move on with. One sec.. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 13:38 on May 1, 2014 |
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I don't know whether to believe that this is a highly underrated story or a great collection of booby funny pictures we shouldn't be ashamed of anymore. The last two pages were inconclusive 
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Psykmoe posted:I don't know whether to believe that this is a highly underrated story or a great collection of booby funny pictures we shouldn't be ashamed of anymore. The last two pages were inconclusive Then pick up an issue for yourself and decide! It's not too expensive or long to read and I think by issue one you'll have realised if you like it or not.
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Say Nothing posted:Yeah, she may seem like a cheesecake character, but she's about as powerful as Superman. Rod Reis is an incredible colorist. Aquaman looks outstanding. He keeps getting better. Even when spread among multiple comics. Go read Aquaman and look at the pretty colors...do it now! Edit:Quoted wrong post. Favorabilis Solitud fucked around with this message at 15:02 on May 1, 2014 |
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The Powergirl series pre-new 52 was fun and a good read. Amanda Connor's art was great and the writing could be serious or more often light hearted which was really nice given how much doom and gloom DC usually spews out.
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She may have disguised it a bit by binding it up, but that's clearly a category 5 mullet.
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drat, that can easily be a Wonder Woman panel.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:drat, that can easily be a Wonder Woman panel.
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People always talk up Amanda Conner's art but it looks exactly the same as every other DC House Look art to me
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