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Alouicious posted:People always talk up Amanda Conner's art but it looks exactly the same as every other DC House Look art to me Sorry about your eyes dude.
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# ? May 5, 2014 02:05 |
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# ? May 10, 2024 01:59 |
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You're blind or crazy. Take a look at Ed Bene's Power Girl, DC's other premier cheesecake guy. Stiff, forced figures with identical bobbleheads. Now compare it to Amanda Conner - her figures have more natural posing, the facial expressions are exaggerated and animated, and every sketch has a looseness and confidence. Even when she's drawing unrepentant pinup work, her characters have so much personality and life I can't get angry about it. Sexuality in comics isn't the enemy here - it's the juvenile one-sided approach to it that's the problem. When you look at the majority of Big Two comics, the women feel like a product sold to the audience. Oversexualised teenagers, forced boobs n' butt poses, monotonous body types, and throughout it all, a pervasive porn-ey atmosphere jammed into stories that are not appropriate for it. Amanda Conner's work tends to feature sexy cheesecake, yes, but she doesn't mangle the storytelling by forcing it in. Her Power Girl run is about a confident, sexy lady having comedic sexy lady adventures, and the writing and art perfectly match that.
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# ? May 5, 2014 03:45 |
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Re-reading all the House of M stuff and loved this page from Excalibur #14
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# ? May 5, 2014 04:41 |
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# ? May 5, 2014 04:42 |
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Alouicious posted:People always talk up Amanda Conner's art but it looks exactly the same as every other DC House Look art to me I have the same problem with J.H. Williams' stuff.
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# ? May 5, 2014 07:40 |
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I mean honestly the only comic I've read in the past... my entire life, honestly, is Ms. Marvel #1 and I really liked the way the characters are drawn in that so seeing Amanda Conner Pinup Sexytime Power Girl just doesn't do anything for me e: well and Hip-Hop Family Tree but that doesn't count
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# ? May 5, 2014 07:44 |
Yeah, Ms. Marvel is not only gorgeous but is as far away from the boring "house" style as you can really get.
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# ? May 5, 2014 08:02 |
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Yeah I'm not really seeing the cheesecake here for Ms. Marvel I really hope Kamala ends up in this thread a lot.
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# ? May 5, 2014 09:40 |
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This was the panel that got me to buy my first comic since the 1980s. I just love that she was able to convey that the little jelly triangles were afraid of being eaten. Her stuff is consistently well drawn and expressive in a way that appeals to me.
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# ? May 5, 2014 14:28 |
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Captain Capacitor posted:Yeah I'm not really seeing the cheesecake here for Ms. Marvel is that from a FCBD issue? I don't remember that panel.
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# ? May 5, 2014 18:03 |
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coconono posted:is that from a FCBD issue? I don't remember that panel. No, that's from the Point One issue.
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# ? May 5, 2014 18:14 |
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Syrinxx posted:Re-reading all the House of M stuff and loved this page from Excalibur #14 Omega Sentinel/Karima Shapandar is one of the few good things to come out of the Zero Tolerance arc. Too bad she's been pretty much relegated to sexy cyborg lady/rear end-poses* for the last couple of years, when she's not out cold by the latest cyborg specific virus. *Okay there was always that, bat at least she got to do stuff too
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# ? May 5, 2014 18:16 |
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Ultimate X-Men #31. Colossus is displeased.
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# ? May 5, 2014 18:21 |
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Couldn't he just turn back to flesh and knee Magneto in the balls?
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# ? May 5, 2014 18:42 |
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Couldn't Magneto just fire metal-form Colossus into the next hemisphere? He can't force gravity to hold him down, no matter how hard he tries. And you'd have expected Ultimate Magneto to debone Ultimate Wolverine by now, wouldn't you?
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# ? May 5, 2014 18:53 |
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Or he could just make him hover in mid air. Not much he could do there, either.
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# ? May 5, 2014 19:09 |
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Yeah but all of that would stop Colossus from defeating Magneto with the power of love.
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# ? May 5, 2014 19:16 |
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Was that before or after he ate the gently caress out of a sandwich? Because as much as he loves Wolverine, he loving LOVES sandwiches.
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# ? May 5, 2014 19:24 |
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Magneto should also be dead from having a giant metal man punch him with his building-lifting-muscles so it evens out.
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# ? May 5, 2014 20:12 |
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The joke's on Magneto, turns out Colossus is made of a non-ferrous metal.
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# ? May 5, 2014 21:14 |
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That Ignorant Sap posted:Ultimate X-Men #31. Colossus is displeased. That is a fantastic page which is everything I love about comics and heroes being heroes by doing the impossible and breaking rules. The worst part about those scans is that a latter writer literally said that the only reason why Ultimate Colossus could do all that is he shot up on power enhancing drugs (called Banshee because 616 references are all en vogue). But forget all that and focus on those badass panels instead.
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# ? May 5, 2014 22:33 |
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"Badass Panels: Pretty much just excessive violence"? Okay! (This started off headed for the funny panels, but...) Shaolin Cowboy is running from zombies. Shaolin Cowboy #1 Then, you get 22 double page spreads in issues #2-3 of this (timg for size, violence, and naked zombies): Then, seven more pages of double page spreads of this: Issue #4 tones it down to approximately 20 single pages of this: Culminating in: Shaolin Cowbow #2-4 Note: I have included 95% of the dialog in the four issue arc.
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# ? May 5, 2014 23:36 |
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Uthor posted:Note: I have included 95% of the dialog in the four issue arc. You didn't post the "previously on" from the first issue. I'd say you actually posted about 1% of the text.
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# ? May 5, 2014 23:47 |
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Senor Candle posted:You didn't post the "previously on" from the first issue. I'd say you actually posted about 1% of the text. poo poo, I forgot. I already grabbed a screenshot of those pages for my friend, so here you go: Shaolin Cowboy #1
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# ? May 5, 2014 23:53 |
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Uthor posted:Note: I have included 95% of the dialog in the four issue arc. Senor Candle posted:You didn't post the "previously on" from the first issue. I'd say you actually posted about 1% of the text.
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# ? May 6, 2014 00:04 |
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Green Arrow #31. Too bad about Katana's actual series :/
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# ? May 8, 2014 17:33 |
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That ship in the last panel says "Mary Sew" on it. Coincidence?
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# ? May 8, 2014 18:16 |
Lot of nice scenes in the original Suicide Squad - for instance, Gort vs Deadshot. Ivan Illyich Gort was an 80-year-old Soviet metahuman who'd fought in WW2, where he was nicknamed "Stalnoivolk" - a name that means both "Steel Wolf" and "Stalin's Wolf", which should give you an idea of his personality. He had the powers of Superman from Action Comics #1 - he could leap 1/8 of a mile, hurdle 20-story buildings, raise tremendous weights, outrun a train, and nothing less than a bursting shell could penetrate his skin. Not modern-day Kryptonian by any means -- not even Superman from 1945 -- but pretty drat impressive when up against normal humans. So when Amanda Waller recruits him for the Squad, he tells her that he's so grateful to her for getting him out of prison that he won't kill her. Then he gets set to leave... and discovers that maybe only a bursting shell could have penetrated his skin back in the 40s, but nowadays we have lasers. Anyway. Gort gets sent on a Squad mission, with Deadshot-and-a-laser-pistol as a chaperone. As usual for Squad missions, things go terribly wrong, and their plane gets shot out of the sky, stranding the survivors in a jungle in Cambodia. Gort wants to just walk away from the mission and leave everyone else to die, but Deadshot points the laser pistol at him... and later, because Gort was being so uncooperative, Deadshot is riding him piggyback, and holding him at laser-pistolpoint. They even meet some Russian metas, and Gort asks them (in Russian) if they could "get rid of this flea on my back", and Deadshot says (also in Russian) "one wrong move, comrade, and a beam of light goes in one ear and out the other", and the Russians back down. Anyway. Eventually the mission concludes, more people die, (as someone on Usenet once said, "it wouldn't be a Squad mission without the bitter taste of ashes"), the survivors get out, and Gort gets left behind. And someone asks Deadshot "why didn't you use the laser pistol to <set off the explosives or something, I don't remember precisely what it was>?" and Deadshot says "oh, the laser pistol broke when we fell out of the plane. drat thing's completely useless."
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# ? May 8, 2014 20:41 |
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Parahexavoctal posted:Lot of nice scenes in the original Suicide Squad - for instance, Gort vs Deadshot. Deadshot is all kinds of awesome! From the Deadshot mini written by Gage. For context Deadshot finds out that he had a daughter with some hooker he slept with years ago. Deadshot being big into family (read the Ostrander trade if you haven't) decides to provide for his kid. Turns out her and her mother live in dodgy neighbourhood so Deadshot decides to make it a safe place for his daughter the only way he knows how ie killing all the gangsters there. One of his old buddies turns up and decides to take over the neighbourhood now that there is no competition. The above shows how well that goes.
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# ? May 8, 2014 21:18 |
Madkal posted:Deadshot is all kinds of awesome! from the Ostrander 8-issue Squad mini a few years back - a scene where Deadshot's on a mission, and things have (as always) gone wrong. He's been injured in one eye, which could screw up his aim. So he takes off his mask and wraps a strip of cloth over his eyes... and finishes the mission blindfolded.
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# ? May 8, 2014 22:09 |
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Parahexavoctal posted:Lot of nice scenes in the original Suicide Squad - for instance, Gort vs Deadshot. They didn't fall out of the plane. Edit: Ostrander really made Deadshot who he was, the new 52 origin is just weak compared to the old one.
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# ? May 8, 2014 22:21 |
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As much as I love that scene - and pretty much every issue of Ostrander's Suicide Squad - I have to admit, what caps it for me is Count Vertigo being all "wait a second if all the peasants jump out of the plane I'll have to carry my own bags this is unacceptable."
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# ? May 9, 2014 00:50 |
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:As much as I love that scene - and pretty much every issue of Ostrander's Suicide Squad - I have to admit, what caps it for me is Count Vertigo being all "wait a second if all the peasants jump out of the plane I'll have to carry my own bags this is unacceptable."
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# ? May 9, 2014 02:59 |
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You all should read Warren Ellis' Moon Knight. Issue 3 by Marvel's own description is "Moon Knight punches ghosts." I love Moon Knight so much.
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# ? May 9, 2014 06:27 |
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Trundel posted:You all should read Warren Ellis' Moon Knight. Issue 3 by Marvel's own description is "Moon Knight punches ghosts." The highest praise I can give this run of Moon Knight is that it feels like at any moment it could segue into a crossover with Planetary, and I would be totally okay with it.
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# ? May 9, 2014 09:48 |
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:The highest praise I can give this run of Moon Knight is that it feels like at any moment it could segue into a crossover with Planetary, and I would be totally okay with it. Maybe he'll go fight the Fantastic Four at some point.
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# ? May 9, 2014 10:16 |
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From Godzilla: Rulers of Earth #6 Godzilla is fighting Mecha-Gigan and Orga. Military is trying to also help. Things are looking grim but then... NEXT ISSUE: PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH
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# ? May 10, 2014 00:51 |
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That is just loving amazing.
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# ? May 10, 2014 01:53 |
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Jet Jaguar is my favorite. He rules.
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# ? May 10, 2014 01:54 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cxV8Bf8ND4
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# ? May 10, 2014 01:58 |