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Sanguinary Novel posted:And, uh, I knew of Krypto, but why in the hell is there a Super Horse and a Super Cat? Okay, buckle up: Besides Krypto, who was a dog from Krypton that was sent in a test rocket before Jor-El launched baby Kal-El into space that ended up on earth, there is also Streaky, a cat who received super powers (but not the full Superman set like Krypto) when exposed to X-Kryptonite, a variant of Kryptonite that Supergirl accidentally created trying to neutralize green K. Comet the Super-Horse is...complicated, but the short version is that he was originally a centaur who got turned into a magical horse by a wizard and sometimes he turns into a full human when a certain comet comes by and has a secret identity as a rodeo cowboy. Not pictured is Beppo the Super-Monkey, who has the same origin as Krypto. These animals were known to travel to the 30th century to aid the Legion of Super-Heroes with the help of a telepathic shape-shifting blob named Proty II. Together they were known as the Legion of Super-Pets.
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Benito Cereno posted:but the short version is that he was originally a centaur who got turned into a magical horse by a wizard and sometimes he turns into a full human when a certain comet comes by and has a secret identity as a rodeo cowboy. This is the short version? 
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:This is the short version? Look, the Silver Age didn't have time for your super-decompressed storytelling. If you weren't introducing ten new ideas and plot points a page, you didn't get to write comic books!
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What is this I don't even Benito Cereno posted:These animals were known to travel to the 30th century to aid the Legion of Super-Heroes with the help of a telepathic shape-shifting blob named Proty II. Together they were known as the Legion of Super-Pets.  Where do these kind of decisions come from? I can't tell if it comes from a place of apathy, jokes or drugs.
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Sep 10, 2014 04:48
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It was a genuinely different time.
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Kids like animals, so that helped sell books. Krypto was popular, so they did a cat. Streaky was popular, etc. That's all, really.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:This is the short version? He left out the part where Comet was in love with Supergirl. Which makes the scenes of her riding bareback in a skirt SUPER creepy! Edit: Also I bet Jor-El eventually wished that he didn't shoot so many animals into space and used those parts to build a bigger people rocket.
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muscles like this? posted:Edit: Also I bet Jor-El eventually wished that he didn't shoot so many animals into space Everyone needs a hobby
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There's even a panel of baby Kal-El crying because Daddy is shooting his puppy into orbit.
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Sanguinary Novel posted:
Silver Age Superman is a special kind of surreal. I love its absurdity so much that I've grown to really hate it when I read a dark, serious, Supes story. "What's the plan today?" "How about Superman becomes a lion?" "Print it!"
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Benito Cereno posted:Comet the Super-Horse is...complicated, but the short version is that he was originally a centaur who got turned into a magical horse by a wizard and sometimes he turns into a full human when a certain comet comes by and has a secret identity as a rodeo cowboy. Everything about this sentence is awesome and the fact that you close it out with the rodeo cowboy fact is loving amazing.
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"Has a secret identity as a rodeo cowboy" more than doubles the number of questions I have about this character.
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Isn't Streaky owned by Power Girl now? Or is that another cat?
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MH Knights posted:Isn't Streaky owned by Power Girl now? Or is that another cat?
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:Everything about this sentence is awesome and the fact that you close it out with the rodeo cowboy fact is loving amazing. The link on the previous page has Comet's origin in more detail and the best part of the "Centaur turned into a horse" thing is how it was accidentally done by Circe, who was trying to reward Comet by turning him into a human. For some reason when she was whipping up the "turn into a human" potion she also made a "turn into a horse" one at the same time and then messed up which was which.
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muscles like this? posted:For some reason when she was whipping up the "turn into a human" potion she also made a "turn into a horse" one at the same time and then messed up which was which. Also, you forgot the requisite "A(n evil) Wizard Did It" when explaining how she hosed up when labeling her potions.
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Are there any other good summaries of silver age comics madness, other than Seanbaby? The actual comics aren't as amusing to read in full, but when you distill them down they're hilarious. The Comet one made me laugh like a drain.
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FilthyImp posted:Well OBVIOUSLY if you're turning a Centaur into a human you're going to have to distill Pure Essence of Horse and Pure Essence of Man to make it happen. Otherwise you risk turning him into a Mantaur (head of a horse, body of a man). And that just isn't good for anything. If you reversed a Centaur wouldn't it just be like a pair of legs with a Horse head about where the waist would be?
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Anora posted:If you reversed a Centaur wouldn't it just be like a pair of legs with a Horse head about where the waist would be?
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For all the crap Noto gets about only being able to draw one face, Black Widow is now one of the few women in superhero comics to have distinct facial features. Loving it, and congratulations to the creative team for the longest running solo title for Widow with #13.
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I feel like very few comic book faces are distinct on their own if they don't have some obvious feature (eyepatch, beard, etc). If you just showed the faces by themselves without hair or makeup I'm not sure I could pick out most characters from most artists. Bachalo, for example, draws every woman with the same exact face. That being said, I could pick out Noto's X-23 or BW from just a facial drawing. The only other artist who I think has a distinct face style, to the point that I can pick out a character just from the face, is Cassaday. (reminder: I am an utter noob at comics and I'm sure you guys are going to post a million examples of how I'm dumb).
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Somebody said many pages ago, Phil Noto can only draw one face, but it's a good face. There's something to it but when he wants to he can also do some really great unique faces, like the Hulk/Franklin Richards face to face pic.
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He certainly isn't as bad as, say, Jamie McKelvie when it comes to the one face/expression tic. He's definitely a good artist, I wish he was on a better book, though. Black Widow isn't bad by any means, but the art is really the only thing that elevates it for me.
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Vincent posted:Thor, The Vision, Captain Marvel and Iron Man can fly, what the hell are they doing in a bus? The better question is, why are they taking the bus when they can afford taxis?
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So yeah, Tula Lotay on "Supreme: Blue Rose". Linked to fullsize. First four pages of issue #2.   
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BC posted some stages in the creation of a page of Francis Manapul Detective Comics art. http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/09/20/the-artistic-process-francis-manapul-on-detective-comics-34/      I wanna see an issue just in that blue sketch stage. I almost like that the most.
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Heresiarch posted:So yeah, Tula Lotay on "Supreme: Blue Rose". Linked to fullsize. First four pages of issue #2. This is bleeding incredible.
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Flesh Forge posted:Somebody said many pages ago, Phil Noto can only draw one face, but it's a good face. There's something to it but when he wants to he can also do some really great unique faces, like the Hulk/Franklin Richards face to face pic. I've seen a few of these, like the Captain America one. Are they part of a series?
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Rough Lobster posted:I've seen a few of these, like the Captain America one. Are they part of a series? They're from a set called Hank Pym's Photo Archives. Here's an album of them all http://imgur.com/gallery/i2D63
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Superman: Futures End got beautiful art for some reason.   Lee Weeks with Ken Lashley on colouring.
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Lee Weeks is great and also a super nice dude.
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The pages don't run together. Black Adam attacked Captain Shazam between those two.
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That's Barry Windsor-Smith and he's actually quite good. To quote his wikipedia page:quote:Windsor-Smith also provided the art for a number of other Marvel Comics titles, including the Ka-Zar stories in Astonishing Tales #3–6 (December 1970 – June 1971) and No. 10 (February 1972),[12] three further issues of The Avengers (#98–100, April–June 1972)[13] – about which he would later remember the nightmare of drawing "all those bloody characters that I didn't give tuppence about",[3]
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Care or not about the characters, you're a professional, put some effort into your trade I say.
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Hulk Smash! posted:Care or not about the characters, you're a professional, put some effort into your trade I say. To be fair, his art in that in that era was HEAVILY impacted by which inker was assigned to him. Avengers 66, inks by Syd Shores:    Still from 66, but inks by Smith himself: 
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