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She's got a pretty unusual face, all right. The makeup might be the real source of the problem, however.
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Jun 20, 2014 10:00
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If I want to start reading up on 'The Defenders'/Daredevil/Luke Cage/Iron Fist/Jessica Jones, where would be a good place to start? Do they have any iconic TPBs? ALIAS gets thrown around here a lot, so that seems a good place to start for Jessica Jones, but I don't really know anything for the others.
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Jun 20, 2014 12:34
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No! They should have cast Diora Baird!
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Jun 20, 2014 12:54
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Klungar posted:If I want to start reading up on 'The Defenders'/Daredevil/Luke Cage/Iron Fist/Jessica Jones, where would be a good place to start? Do they have any iconic TPBs? ALIAS gets thrown around here a lot, so that seems a good place to start for Jessica Jones, but I don't really know anything for the others. The Defenders won't have anything to do with the TV series; Daredevil, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones have never been on the team. If you're interested in following presumably what the tv shows will try to adapt or get inspiration from. Daredevil #26-81 by Bendis and Maleev and Alias #1-#28 by Bendis and Gaydos follows Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage and all interconnects at various points. After that the follow up series of The Pulse #1-#14 continues the Adventures of Luke and Jessica in the Marvel Universe. Outside of Frank Miller's turn on Daredevil Bendis run is the best and an iconic run from start to finish. Immortal Iron Fist by Brubaker, Fraction and Aja is the modern definitive version of the character.
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Jun 20, 2014 13:17
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Luke Cage was not only on the Defenders, he was a Defender during the best run of Defenders!
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Jun 20, 2014 14:29
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I don't remember him in the Hellcat/Gargoyle/Valkyrie period?
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Jun 20, 2014 15:57
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Waterhaul posted:The Defenders won't have anything to do with the TV series; Daredevil, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones have never been on the team. Huh, weird they'd use that name for the team-up when, as you say, most of the characters have never been a part of the team, and even the team's history of battling "mystical and supernatural" threats seems far away from the street level feel these shows will likely have. Thanks for the suggestions, though, they look great! Anyone have any similar suggestions for the Flash? Or Green Arrow runs besides 'Longbow Hunters'?
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Jun 20, 2014 16:12
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The Defenders have been the team that's kind of formed and is not really a team because they are all bros and friends and work together. But they're a team of necessity and then they go their separate ways until otherwise needed. But hey, its MCU so it doesn't have to line up with the comics. Not that the Avengers also haven't done that. Hell, I think Bendis even had other characters refer to New Avengers as "The Defenders" at some point in his run.
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Jun 20, 2014 17:57
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Klungar posted:Huh, weird they'd use that name for the team-up when, as you say, most of the characters have never been a part of the team, and even the team's history of battling "mystical and supernatural" threats seems far away from the street level feel these shows will likely have. Green Arrow Year One is pretty good.
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Jun 20, 2014 18:03
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I don't remember him in the Hellcat/Gargoyle/Valkyrie period? Stever Gerber's run, dude. Although Luke Cage was first put in by Len Wein.
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Jun 20, 2014 18:44
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Klungar posted:Huh, weird they'd use that name for the team-up when, as you say, most of the characters have never been a part of the team, and even the team's history of battling "mystical and supernatural" threats seems far away from the street level feel these shows will likely have. That was their traditional role, sure, but recently they re-spin the Defenders as street-level team called the "Fearless Defenders". That team did have some Heroes for Hire (i.e. Cage & Fist) connections with Misty Knight running the team. There is probably also some New Avengers you could read that someone could recommend. (Volume 2 I think?) That seems to pretty much be the team they're using for the shows, just changing the name which is honestly a good move. What basically happened in the comics was that as a result of the Marvel civil war, the Avengers split with a team on each side, one of which was basically the MCU classic team, but then Luke Cage formed a team as well that included Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Daredevil. (well also Spidey/Wolverine/Thing/several female superheroes but obviously none of those character can be used in the MCU)
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Jun 20, 2014 19:20
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XboxPants posted:That was their traditional role, sure, but recently they re-spin the Defenders as street-level team called the "Fearless Defenders". That team did have some Heroes for Hire (i.e. Cage & Fist) connections with Misty Knight running the team. Nope. New Avengers was spun out of disassembled, as Scarlet Witch caused the deaths of Antman, Vision, and Hawkeye. Due to a breakout a new Avengers was formed with Cap, iron Man, Spider-woman, Spider-man, Luke Cage, Sentry, Ronin and Wolverine. Jessica Jones was on the sidelines and only joined the team at the end of the series, Iron Fist joined soon after, and Thing joining in Volume 2 which was when Bendis got tired of the Avengers so its not that great.
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Jun 20, 2014 19:27
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Mr. Maltose posted:Stever Gerber's run, dude. Although Luke Cage was first put in by Len Wein. 
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Jun 20, 2014 19:28
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Rosario Dawson has been cast as a now unnamed character destined to hook up with Matt Murdock and no doubt slowly die soon afterwardsquote:Marvel and Netflix are proud to announce that acclaimed actress Rosario Dawson has joined "Marvel’s Daredevil," an all-new 13-episode series premiering on Netflix in 2015.
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Jun 20, 2014 19:43
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Waterhaul posted:Rosario Dawson has been cast as a now unnamed character destined to hook up with Matt Murdock and no doubt slowly die soon afterwards It could possibly be his mother, but its more likely she will be just another corpse for the pile.
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Jun 20, 2014 19:55
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No one thinks she might actually just be Elektra?
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Jun 20, 2014 21:19
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BrianWilly posted:No one thinks she might actually just be Elektra?
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Jun 20, 2014 21:24
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Sounds like Milla Donovan to me, but who knows.
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BrianWilly posted:No one thinks she might actually just be Elektra? She does have that Schrödinger's ethnicity thing going on. Was hoping Typhoid Mary/Echo jscolon2.0 fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Jun 20, 2014 |
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Jun 20, 2014 22:30
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Flash Pilot leaked. Highly recommended.
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Jun 26, 2014 04:42
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Holy crap, I spent the last week binge-watching Season 1 of Arrow, and it was actually really drat good. I was skeptical, thinking it would be another cheesy Smallville with plenty of beefcake for the CW-watching ladies and too much wealthy family melodrama, but it turned out to be a far more enjoyable show than Agents of SHIELD, which I struggled to watch all season. Now to find Season 2, and I have heard my all-time favorite superhero may become a cast member in Season 3.
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Colour me a lot more skeptical on Flash, there might be enough there to build into a good show but the characters need A LOT of work, Barry in particular is a big fat zero right now with seemingly little room for character growth, really not looking forward to a whole season of his goony crush on his adoptive sister. Also the minute long Arrow cameo is by far the worst part of the pilot.
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Jun 26, 2014 06:05
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I saw this image from the Flash pilot going around during the downtime SPOILERS and this is all I want from the show.
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DynamicSloth posted:Barry in particular is a big fat zero right now with seemingly little room for character growth Yeah, they nailed it.
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Barry's character from Arrow so far is "I'm a big dork that thinks superheroes are cool and want to be a hero". Given that the show is taking a lot from Rebirth it's presumably leading to him dealing with the fact that him "being The Flash/Zoom being Zoom" resulted in his mother's death and how being a hero isn't all that great. Especially since PILOT SPOILERS unlike with Ollie's team already half of his team at STAR labs are going to be crazy villains.
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DynamicSloth posted:Colour me a lot more skeptical on Flash, there might be enough there to build into a good show but the characters need A LOT of work, Barry in particular is a big fat zero right now with seemingly little room for character growth, really not looking forward to a whole season of his goony crush on his adoptive sister. Also the minute long Arrow cameo is by far the worst part of the pilot. To be fair to his goony crush, he was friends with her before he was adopted, and he was already like 11 or 12 when he was adopted.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Patty Spivot shows down the line to keep Iris away for a while. PILOT SPOILERS Am I the only thinking that the big shot at Star Labs is actually the Reverse Flash and the Detective is only a red herring just like Tommy on Arrow?
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Jun 26, 2014 15:37
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:I wouldn't be surprised if Patty Spivot shows down the line to keep Iris away for a while. Yeah they aren't really subtle about it. Pretty sure he's going to turn out to be Zoom
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:PILOT SPOILERS Am I the only thinking that the big shot at Star Labs is actually the Reverse Flash and the Detective is only a red herring just like Tommy on Arrow? I haven't even seen the pilot, but I just assumed this was the case from the trailers and such.
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Jun 26, 2014 16:22
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Or they're the same person.
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:PILOT SPOILERS Am I the only thinking that the big shot at Star Labs is actually the Reverse Flash and the Detective is only a red herring just like Tommy on Arrow? I think that's almost certainly the case.
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Aphrodite posted:Or they're the same person. This was pretty much what I was thinking too.
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Am I alone in thinking that it's a double red herring, and that instead of an outright villain instead he's a Rip Hunter type who only wants to preserve the timeline at all costs?
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From BC's piece on the pilot: http://imgur.com/NFdwpEz  So THAT's where Ollie's company went!
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404GoonNotFound posted:Am I alone in thinking that it's a double red herring, and that instead of an outright villain instead he's a Rip Hunter type who only wants to preserve the timeline at all costs? Wells is pretty much gonna be the show's wild mass guessing machine for at least the first season, so frankly I can sell all the above possibilities as, well, possibilities. It doesn't help that the Flash mythos since the silver age has been pretty well tied to the concept of time travel, and since Rebirth its been a major story element at least four times now (with one currently ongoing). So yeah, lots of ideas you can toss around. I really hope Grodd turns out to be more than just a quick reference though. At this point its the one thing DC could really do with what they have, to deliver a counter to the idea of Rocket Raccoon. Talking raccoon with a machine gun? We'll raise you a talking, hyper intelligent, psychic gorilla. And meanwhile, all the world is still waiting on Wonder Woman.
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So Flash-seers, the super speed looks good? I know it looked good in the trailer but I figured they'd only show their super duper A-1 good rear end effects in that.
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Jun 26, 2014 20:21
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zoux posted:So Flash-seers, the super speed looks good? I know it looked good in the trailer but I figured they'd only show their super duper A-1 good rear end effects in that. I thought it was pretty good. Some of the tornado stuff was meh, but otherwise, they did a pretty good job of showing what super speed looks like. I don't think anything will top the poo poo from the new Xmen movie though....that whole sequence ruined speedsters in modern media for me.
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Jun 26, 2014 20:25
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The old "Strap a camera rig to the chest" close-ups look bad, but those always look bad in any context.
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LorneReams posted:I thought it was pretty good. Some of the tornado stuff was meh, but otherwise, they did a pretty good job of showing what super speed looks like. There's no way that the Flash show doesn't at some point have a similar scene.
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