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Avulsion posted:There was an issue of Amazing X-men where she's in a fight and suddenly turns into a giant mecha, and it turns out she got a power boost because her dad or someone just died in a car crash at that very instant. This leads to an issue of X-TREME X-MEN! (better than it sounds) where an evil alternate dimensional xavier was using a lobotomized Armor to try and kill the protagonists, and to give her a quick power boost he had his henchmen round up her entire family and murder them. I guess being powered by dead parents is what makes Batman such an unstoppable force, so... For content, have some Earth 2 issue 20:  
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Practical Demon posted:American writers (edit: Joss Whedon and everyone after him) get that ancestor veneration is really more of a Confucianism thing, right? As in China, not Japan. This is probably a good place for that Avengers in China cover with a bunch of anime cliches. It's way oversold, but not taking care of the family shrine will still make people think you're an ungrateful rear end in a top hat. It's pretty much just a thing people do for major holidays (Obon in August mostly, which is actually a Buddhist ancestor veneration festival rather than Confucian) and not an every day preoccupation like it's made out to be.
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May 28, 2014 14:37
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Ghostlight posted:To be fair, he's no Night Thrasher. He's not even Cardiac.
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May 28, 2014 14:50
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Avulsion posted:There was an issue of Amazing X-men where she's in a fight and suddenly turns into a giant mecha, and it turns out she got a power boost because her dad or someone just died in a car crash at that very instant. This leads to an issue of X-TREME X-MEN! (better than it sounds) where an evil alternate dimensional xavier was using a lobotomized Armor to try and kill the protagonists, and to give her a quick power boost he had his henchmen round up her entire family and murder them. Wouldn't the logical move actually be to just keep cloning and killing her dad over and over
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May 28, 2014 15:18
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What happens if she kills one of her ancestors?
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May 28, 2014 15:36
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Lobok posted:What happens if she kills one of her ancestors? What happens if she goes back in time and becomes her own ancestor and then commits suicide?
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May 28, 2014 15:38
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Comics are terrible about generalizing non American characters. Everything about Black Panther is racist as hell.
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May 28, 2014 15:40
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:What happens if she goes back in time and becomes her own ancestor and then commits suicide? I feel like we're stumbling towards a big Marvel summer event villain here.
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May 28, 2014 15:40
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zoux posted:Comics are terrible about generalizing non American characters. Everything about Black Panther is racist as hell. You should read the Christopher Priest run.
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May 28, 2014 15:44
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zoux posted:Comics are terrible about generalizing non American characters. Everything about Black Panther is racist as hell. I'd like to hear your logic on this one, because Black Panther always struck me as amazingly progressive outside of his name.
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May 28, 2014 15:44
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Lobok posted:I feel like we're stumbling towards a big Marvel summer event villain here. What if Armor is actually Scott Summer's sister. She can now use the Sunmers family line to power up.
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May 28, 2014 15:46
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Lurdiak posted:I'd like to hear your logic on this one, because Black Panther always struck me as amazingly progressive outside of his name. It seems that way because Wakanda isn't portrayed as a post colonial shithole but why is everything in this advanced society tinged with elements of what white people think African tribes are like. It'd be like if Forge or Warpath were constantly going on spirit quests and fighting with spirits from their cultural pantheon!
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May 28, 2014 15:47
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Metal Loaf posted:The team's stopping over in Japan on their way back to America and when Wolverine knows the language they're all like, "I didn't know you could speak Japanese!" and he's all, "There's a lot of things you don't know about me." because I'm fairly sure this was back before Wolverine even had a first name. IIRC, that storyline was before the X-Men realized the claws weren't part of his costume. Remember when Wolverine was mysterious and no one knew much about him or where he came from? 
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May 28, 2014 15:47
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Remember when he was supposed to be a literal evolved wolverine.
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zoux posted:It seems that way because Wakanda isn't portrayed as a post colonial shithole but why is everything in this advanced society tinged with elements of what white people think African tribes are like. It'd be like if Forge or Warpath were constantly going on spirit quests and fighting with spirits from their cultural pantheon! I don't know why you think an advanced society is by necessity secular or divorced of its cultural origins, especially if they've never been colonized and have an isolationist policy. You could argue that the fact that their specific religion is made up is kind of racist, but that's about it.
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May 28, 2014 15:51
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Random Stranger posted:IIRC, that storyline was before the X-Men realized the claws weren't part of his costume. It is revealed that they are not part of his costume in Uncanny 98 and the Japan poo poo happened in 118ish.
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Lurdiak posted:I don't know why you think an advanced society is by necessity secular or divorced of its cultural origins, especially if they've never been colonized and have an isolationist policy. You could argue that the fact that their specific religion is made up is kind of racist, but that's about it. Uhm their army is dudes carrying around skin shields and spears man.
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May 28, 2014 15:55
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:What happens if she goes back in time and becomes her own ancestor and then commits suicide? Somehow she needs to get Madrox into her family tree, so that she can create and kill as many ancestors as needed.
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May 28, 2014 15:57
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zoux posted:Uhm their army is dudes carrying around skin shields and spears man. Is that from the Reginald Hudlin run?
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May 28, 2014 15:57
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Lurdiak posted:Is that from the Reginald Hudlin run? It's not any particular run, but we probably shouldn't do this here since this is the funny panels thread and not the comic book nerds try to define racism thread.
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May 28, 2014 16:03
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zoux posted:Uhm their army is dudes carrying around skin shields and spears man. Yeah but they tend to be ludicrous Kirby powered Shields that stop all incoming projectiles, and crazy spears that can pierce through all armour. Also giant walking Panther mechs.
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May 28, 2014 17:50
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Wakanda always struck me as a slightly less offensive version of that old thing about the "highly advanced black race" of Krypton.
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May 28, 2014 17:56
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The Question IRL posted:Yeah but they tend to be ludicrous Kirby powered Shields that stop all incoming projectiles, and crazy spears that can pierce through all armour. Wakanda is a nation in Civilization, then?
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:What if Armor is actually Scott Summer's sister. She can now use the Sunmers family line to power up. What if Armor then got adopted by Jean Grey?
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May 28, 2014 18:07
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AnonSpore posted:Wakanda always struck me as a slightly less offensive version of that old thing about the "highly advanced black race" of Krypton. If anything, Panther isn't so much offensive as it is just lazy. His writers just randomly turn to pages of Chinua Achebe books for ideas.
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May 28, 2014 18:39
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zoux posted:Remember when he was supposed to be a literal evolved wolverine. Remember when he was supposed to be the first human being.
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May 28, 2014 18:42
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John Dyne posted:Wakanda is a nation in Civilization, then? Exactly. Maybe with a little Age of Empires thrown in for good measure. A single Wakandan soldier could probably destroy a castle on his own by repeatedly hitting it one corner with his spear. In other news, I was looking through Comixology to see what new issues were out. And I got looking at Radioactive Man #679 (note, this was a six issue mini produced by Bongo in the early 90s. This was really like issue 3 or 4.) This is the issue that acts as a parody of 80's style event comics, particularly Watchman. Re-reading the preview pages, the manner in which it apes 80's comics style of having the characters dialogue unknowingly mirror what's happening in the artwork of a different event is hilarious to see. I recommend people at least look at the free preview to see what it's like.
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Remember when we posted funny panels? D&D #3 I believe. The unexpected way to defeat an orc in battle. Kinda half  and half  
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May 29, 2014 10:00
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I do not. FF #166
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May 29, 2014 10:08
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Rockslide is clearly the best character ever. X-Men Legacy #264. 
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Ghostlight posted:I do not. Haha, is the Human Torch the only male member of the FF not to be a raging rear end in a top hat to women? Hmm, actually seeing how he is even in the modern comics Silver Age Torch was probably one step removed from being a sex offender.
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DarkCrawler posted:Haha, is the Human Torch the only male member of the FF not to be a raging rear end in a top hat to women? I really don't blame Sue for wanting to leave every chance she gets.
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MikeJF posted:I really don't blame Sue for wanting to leave every chance she gets. And run straight into the arms of a (mer)man that believes 50 no's and 1 yes still mean yes.
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Well, she did kind of get a poo poo deal. She's married to a guy who can literally enhance any part of his body, but he's the quintessential 'NOT NOW, WOMAN! THERE'S *SCIENCE* TO BE DONE' type.
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Has there ever been a 'Marvel: Superheroes get some loving therapy' miniseries? Although given pop-culture's version of therapy and psychology it'd probably do more harm than good.
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May 29, 2014 12:16
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Let's not have a page with both a sexism and racism derail. Dr. Nemesis had some pretty hilarious lines in the X-Club miniseries, mainly due to having an empathic starfish stuck on his head.      
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MikeJF posted:Has there ever been a 'Marvel: Superheroes get some loving therapy' miniseries? Psycho-Man tried to give Deadpool some 'therapy.' It didn't go well: http://marvel.wikia.com/Wade_Wilson_%28Earth-12101%29
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Psycho-Man tried to give Deadpool some 'therapy.' It didn't go well: http://marvel.wikia.com/Wade_Wilson_%28Earth-12101%29 I know I had a comic once where Dr. Bong was Deadpool's therepist. He diagnosed "Making long speeches while leaping" as a superpower. (I think this was around the time that Deadpool was related to Thor or something. Or it might have been that time when he had Tom Cruise's face...)
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Remember when we posted funny panels? Reminds me of this.  (yes, I found it on Tumblr...)
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