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Oh, so the regular Marvel universe got its own White Event and generated its own set of archetypes, I see.
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 05:48 |
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# ? May 13, 2024 06:37 |
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Lurdiak posted:Doesn't that mean the answer to his question is yes?
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 05:54 |
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I forgot, but did they ever deal with Starbrand accidentally killing an entire town or did Hickman just went "...but then THIS". Because the last time a superhero accidentally destroyed a town, we got a lovely Mark Millar summer event.
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 06:26 |
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Vincent posted:I forgot, but did they ever deal with Starbrand accidentally killing an entire town or did Hickman just went "...but then THIS". Because the last time a superhero accidentally destroyed a town, we got a lovely Mark Millar summer event. It was hardly his fault. The White Event targeted him, quite literally, at random.
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 07:12 |
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Vincent posted:I forgot, but did they ever deal with Starbrand accidentally killing an entire town or did Hickman just went "...but then THIS". Because the last time a superhero accidentally destroyed a town, we got a lovely Mark Millar summer event. IIRC it wasn't a town, it was just the school he was at.
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 07:59 |
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Vincent posted:I forgot, but did they ever deal with Starbrand accidentally killing an entire town or did Hickman just went "...but then THIS". Because the last time a superhero accidentally destroyed a town, we got a lovely Mark Millar summer event. The Marvel Universe at large didn't deal with it, but on a personal level, in Avengers World, Starbrand had to go on a mission to an underground city of the dead in Venice where he got a major mindfuck when all the spirits of his dead classmates rose up and swarmed him. Spoiler alert: He lived.
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 08:38 |
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Vincent posted:I forgot, but did they ever deal with Starbrand accidentally killing an entire town or did Hickman just went "...but then THIS". Because the last time a superhero accidentally destroyed a town, we got a lovely Mark Millar summer event. I don't know that I'd describe Nitro as a superhero.
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 11:19 |
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Vincent posted:I forgot, but did they ever deal with Starbrand accidentally killing an entire town or did Hickman just went "...but then THIS". Because the last time a superhero accidentally destroyed a town, we got a lovely Mark Millar summer event.
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 13:52 |
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Heresiarch posted:Oh, so the regular Marvel universe got its own White Event and generated its own set of archetypes, I see. It is so far just a Nightmask and a Starbrand. But the machine is currently broken because of other things happening in Hickman's run so this White Event happened/is happening wrong. The Nightmask is a perfect human created by an alien gardener on Mars just because that's the kind of thing he does.
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 15:16 |
redbackground posted:He was a completely unwilling participant in a faulty White Event, so it would be weird to blame him for the destruction of the college he was at at the time. Did people blame him for that time he lobotomized the planet?
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 15:47 |
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Lurdiak posted:Did people blame him for that time he lobotomized the planet? In fairness like only a handful of people know what he did there. And they aren't telling. I also get the feeling, personally, that while a Sentient Earth may have been a way of surviving the Incursions, I can't imagine the interests of a Sentient Earth and the Survival of the Human race are goals that coincide. For all we know, Starbrand may have saved all life on Earth by Lobotomizing the planet.
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 16:51 |
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Golgo 13 is so badass he assassinated a diamond (via Jog)
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 20:58 |
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Heresiarch posted:Oh, so the regular Marvel universe got its own White Event and generated its own set of archetypes, I see. Just a Starbrand and Nightmask. The big difference is that the guy who ends up as Starbrand isn't the kind of person who should have been given power. Although he eventually grows into it.
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 21:40 |
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fatherboxx posted:Golgo 13 is so badass he assassinated a diamond A while back fellow Goons Slowbeef and Diabetus did a Let's Play of the Golgo 13 game for the NES. I read up on the Golgo 13 Manga. The guy has been active for a long while, and one of his many trademarks is making impossible shots. Like not just killing guys (though he kills a lot) but also some mad shots. Apparently one of the things he was hired to do was (I heard, I have yet to see the scans) is he was hired to shoot the Florida box that resulted in Al Gore losing the election.
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 21:54 |
I would like to hear more about comic characters who assassinate inanimate objects or abstract concepts
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# ? Nov 19, 2014 09:38 |
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muscles like this? posted:Just a Starbrand and Nightmask. The big difference is that the guy who ends up as Starbrand isn't the kind of person who should have been given power. Although he eventually grows into it. It doesn't really matter who became Starbrand though. Whoever he was before, he's been consumed by what he has become, and all those foreground people who would normally have gotten the power would have subsumed into the role of planetary defense system the same way.
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# ? Nov 19, 2014 11:02 |
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The Question IRL posted:A while back fellow Goons Slowbeef and Diabetus did a Let's Play of the Golgo 13 game for the NES. I read up on the Golgo 13 Manga. The guy has been active for a long while, and one of his many trademarks is making impossible shots. Like not just killing guys (though he kills a lot) but also some mad shots. Didn't Bender shoot a box of Al Gore votes in the first Futurama movie?
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# ? Nov 19, 2014 12:51 |
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prefect posted:Didn't Bender shoot a box of Al Gore votes in the first Futurama movie? BUSH "WINS" ELECTION yes
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# ? Nov 19, 2014 16:17 |
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redbackground posted:He was a completely unwilling participant in a faulty White Event, so it would be weird to blame him for the destruction of the college he was at at the time. TwoPair posted:The Marvel Universe at large didn't deal with it, but on a personal level, in Avengers World, Starbrand had to go on a mission to an underground city of the dead in Venice where he got a major mindfuck when all the spirits of his dead classmates rose up and swarmed him.
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# ? Nov 19, 2014 16:45 |
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It's from a manga called Black Jack, don't know which volume it is since I got it from Tumblr (which is also why the panels are all cropped up). Remember to read right to left.
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# ? Nov 23, 2014 04:08 |
Huh, bad rear end plastic surgery. That's a new one on me.
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# ? Nov 23, 2014 04:15 |
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Every single chapter of Black Jack is loving badass and everyone should seek it out.
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# ? Nov 23, 2014 16:19 |
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House may have been rooted in Sherlock Holmes, but he's got more than a little Black Jack in him and absolutely everyone should read it. Not just that but his requisite moe sidekick is literally a loving cyborg he built from a teratoma (one of those tumors people find with poo poo like teeth and hair in it).
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# ? Nov 23, 2014 16:40 |
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mind the walrus posted:Not just that but his requisite moe sidekick is literally a loving cyborg he built from a teratoma (one of those tumors people find with poo poo like teeth and hair in it). Big deal, like Blackjack's the only person whoever got drunk and made a person Something to remember is that Tezuka was a trained surgeon himself, which somehow makes all of the blatantly impossible poo poo Blackjack pulls off feel even more awesome.
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# ? Nov 25, 2014 06:53 |
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Alacron posted:Big deal, like Blackjack's the only person whoever got drunk and made a person Is there a place where i can read all the blackjack ever online? Asking for a friend.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 00:36 |
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He's asking for me, I need to know
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 00:37 |
I tried to watch the anime and it was pretty generically bad, should I give the manga a try?
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 10:55 |
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The manga's pretty good, but I don't know if all of it was ever collected and translated into english. There's been a couple of publication runs on it the last one started in 08 and ended in 11 and... drat that might have been everything.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 13:05 |
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Lurdiak posted:I tried to watch the anime and it was pretty generically bad, should I give the manga a try? Yeah the manga is waaaaaaaaaay better than the anime. I couldn't sit through a single episode of it. If you guys want to read it I would recommend checking out your local libraries. If they don't have it then you can usually do an inter-library loan and get it from somewhere else. If you don't do that then just buy some volumes off of Amazon. The stories are really self contained and they only call back to other issues once in a while. You could probably pick up any book and pick up what's going on just fine.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 15:47 |
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I can't believe I have to say this but the answer to "should I read this Tezuka book?" is always yes.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 15:53 |
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Waterhaul posted:I can't believe I have to say this but the answer to "should I read this Tezuka book?" is always yes. Yeah I haven't read too much of his stuff but literally everything of his I've ever touched has been no-fooling great.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 16:29 |
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New Avengers #27: A while back: AIM accidentally unleashes a group of Avengers from another universe. These Avengers are evil (Thor's hammer is for the unworthy, Hulk is a sociopath that got lobotomized and is controlled by others) and generally are a bunch of dicks. Our Avengers fight then, AIM retrieves them and sends them back to another universe. All's well. Not so while back: Fury whispers sweet things to Thor. He can no longer wield Mjolnir. The current situation: Everything is ending. The multi-verse is hosed. The Avengers sends their heavy hitters to the far ends of it to punch the bad guys real loving hard. Now: The heavy hitters arrive at the home of the black priests, one of the factions that destroy Earths during incursions.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 17:18 |
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Unworthy Thor-with-an-extra-R Mjolnir is some Silver Age-tier cheese, I love it.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 18:21 |
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drat Thor lay off the donuts
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 18:24 |
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Movie Thor is actually Thorr.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 18:32 |
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Hickman is really great at this. Wow. I wonder if he set that up in anticipation of not getting to use full power thor.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 20:54 |
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Nevvy Z posted:Hickman is really great at this. Wow. I wonder if he set that up in anticipation of not getting to use full power thor. I don't know about this particular instance, but he's also really great at rolling with whatever he needs to. Peter Parker Spider-Man is specifically recruited in Avengers #1, but quickly it becomes Spock and he writes a great Spock for a couple issues and then quietly shuffles him off to the sidelines.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 21:01 |
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Endless Mike posted:Movie Thor is actually Thorr. Yeah that is straight up his armor from The Dark World
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 22:32 |
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Are you reading Kill Six Billion Demons? You should be.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 23:11 |
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Tom Parkinson-Morgan has a page in Prophet: Strikefile #2 which came out today. You should be reading it as well!
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 23:13 |