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These are from Usagi Yojimbo: Senso #5 A bit of context. The world of Usagi Yojimbo, in case you don't know, is set in feudal Japan (not sure what era exactly, but before Meiji I think) and it follows the adventures of the eponymous ronin, Usagi, who defends the weak from evil warlords, bandits, etc. Along the way he meets a big cast of characters, some who make recurring appearances and some who are just in 1 or a few stories. A lot of 'em are based on popular figures of samurai media, like Lone Wolf & Cub, Zatoichi, Toshiro Mifune, etc. Oh, and all the characters are anthropomorphic animals (the good kinds, not furry bait). This is a very, very, condensed view of the series and I think most of the people here on BSS are familiar with it, but just in case. Senso is a bit of a time-skip, I don't remember exactly how much, but I'd say between 5 or so years. It's centered around the supposedly final battle between two warlords (both important characters in the UY world and both character who have appeared/influenced various arcs in the comic) when suddenly a spaceship crashed in the middle of the battle and tripods (directly out of The War of the Worlds) come out and wreck poo poo. Still with me? Good, onto the panels. A group of disenfranchised ninja faces one of these tripods and basically get obliterated. There is no way they could beat it, so what do they do?   In the last page of the issue, which so far has been rather serious, we see the weapon a scientist has prepared to face the invaders: 
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Vincent posted:In the last page of the issue, which so far has been rather serious, we see the weapon a scientist has prepared to face the invaders: This is amazing.
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Dec 23, 2014 21:33
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Ho Lee poo poo  I've been skipping Senso until I got caught up with a That changes tonight.  Semi-related: it's always time for Martian invasions.  (Avengers #4 from 2010)
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Dec 23, 2014 22:16
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Here's some Santa. I can't remember if I posted this before.   From: http://tytempletonart.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/a-little-pre-christmas-gift-from-ty/
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Dec 25, 2014 08:03
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I love what one goon once posted about that, paraphrased: "Darkseid went through all three of his poses on one page, I believe that counts as fidgeting."
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Dec 25, 2014 17:55
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Ummmmm he's not sitting on a couch in any panel though.
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Dec 25, 2014 19:07
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Uthor posted:Here's some Santa. I can't remember if I posted this before. Little New God. Can you outrace the Naughty List? The death that is coal lumps!
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Dec 25, 2014 20:50
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TwoPair posted:Little New God. Can you outrace the Naughty List? The death that is coal lumps! I. AM. THE. NEW. CLAUS. All is one in Santa. This jolly body is my church. When I HO HO HO, I speak with three billion voices. When I make a list of all the little boys and girls. IT IS WITH THREE BILLION HANDS! When I check the list once, then check it twice. To see who's been naughty or nice. IT IS WITH SIX BILLION EYES! NOTHING LIKE SANTA HAS EVER COME AMONG YOU: NOTHING WILL AGAIN. I WILL GIVE YOU VISIONS OF SUGAR PLUMS WITHOUT EXIT OR END. AND THERE I WILL GIVE YOU YOUR PRESENTS! AND MAKE YOU SMILE AND SING! AND JINGLE! JINGLE! JINGLE! FOR KRINGLE! Vincent fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Dec 25, 2014 |
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Dec 25, 2014 21:11
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Holy poo poo 
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Dec 26, 2014 02:36
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Vincent posted:I. AM. THE. NEW. CLAUS. You are my new favorite person.
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Dec 26, 2014 16:05
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Yeah, I'm done. Nothing gonna top this. Goodnight.
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Dec 26, 2014 18:15
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Vincent posted:I. AM. THE. NEW. CLAUS. There was a war for Christmas, Mr. Turpin. And I won. Your holiday belongs to Santa now.
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Dec 26, 2014 18:32
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Evil Mastermind posted:There was a war for Christmas, Mr. Turpin. And I won. Your holiday belongs to Santa now. BSS Presents FINAL CHRISTMAS 
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Dec 27, 2014 03:08
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FilthyImp posted:Ok bastards. It's time for a JudoHobo/PizzaMatrix styled photoshop masterthread: Check the Chat Thread, I left you all a present 
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Dec 27, 2014 03:23
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I was just catching up on She-Hulk. This is from the end of an arc from #8-10 where old Cap was on trial accused of causing a death when he was a young man, pre-war. He'd hired She-Hulk to defend him and convinced Daredevil to argue for the plaintiff.   
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Teenage Fansub posted:I was just catching up on She-Hulk. Matt: Cap, I'm glad that we've cleared your name and all, but you do realize that you willingly let false evidence go before a court of law? Steve: Yup, it was the only way that I could draw Faustus out. Jennifer No Steve you don't get it. This is a pretty big deal, lawyers aren't supposed to do this sort of stuff. There will have to be an investigation. You, Matt and I could both be done for Perjury or Contempt of court. Steve: Umm, wait look over there! All of Reality is Collapsing. I had best go deal with that!
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Dec 27, 2014 15:37
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I haven't kept up with today's comics all that well but they need to keep old Cap forever.
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Dec 27, 2014 16:07
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The Question IRL posted:Matt: Cap, I'm glad that we've cleared your name and all, but you do realize that you willingly let false evidence go before a court of law? Steve isnt a lawyer, and he didnt tell Matt it was false evidence until after the case was over, so I dont think that applies (as he didnt know it was false when he presented it). Plus even if it was still applicable its not even in the top 50 shady things matt has done as a lawyer.
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Dec 27, 2014 17:55
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Comic book writers don't understand the first thing about lawyers and generally write them as the courtroom version of 80s movie cops. They broke all the rules, but they got the bad guy and saved the good guy! That makes it ok!
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Dec 27, 2014 20:25
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Lurdiak posted:Comic book writers don't understand the first thing about lawyers Charles Soule is a lawyer! His She-Hulk is all about stuff like seeking asylum for Doom's son. It's amazing. and cancelled 
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Dec 27, 2014 20:37
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It's a trial involving Captain America, in a universe where psychics exist, time-traveling nazis have been a regular feature, alien doppelgängers invaded in recent memory, and Reed Richards and his family are largely allowed to do as they please. Trying to determine any facts in the life of a prominent superhero is going to be an impossible task.
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Dec 27, 2014 20:45
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Yeah, that's a tricky situation. It's not perjury if you think you're actually telling the truth, so if Cap never said anything either in court or to them about the evidence before the trial was over and if Jenn/Matt both had no reason to suspect the evidence was falsified, I don't think that any actual crime was commited. Though they should be a lot more ticked with him over even walking that line. But yeah, Soule is an actual lawyer and has called back to a number of detailed and subtle aspects of the legal process in his She-Hulk run; Law and the Multiverse has had a ton of articles on his issues almost universally lauding the legal accuracy but for a few minor errors. So I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that legally this situation would pass muster.
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Dec 27, 2014 20:50
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goatface posted:Reed Richards and his family are largely allowed to do as they please. In the current F4,rhe Richards have been kicking out of New York and their children taken away because of, oh, dangerous physics experiments like portals to the Negative Zone.
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Dec 27, 2014 20:57
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Uthor posted:In the current F4,rhe Richards have been kicking out of New York and their children taken away because of, oh, dangerous physics experiments like portals to the Negative Zone. A series of events so common and derivative for the FF it produced a collective sigh and sales to drop low enough that Marvel can justify canceling the book. Reed Richards does little more then get punished by the government/sued by people when Hickman isn't writing the FF.
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Dec 27, 2014 21:10
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Well, I didn't say I was enjoying reading it! And I don't know much of the F4 outside of Millar, Hickman, and Fraction's runs.
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Dec 27, 2014 21:13
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Dude should just embrace his inner super villain and build a big orbiting-base. He could even invite colonists, and then him and Doom can have "how to lead a country" coffee mornings.
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Uthor posted:Well, I didn't say I was enjoying reading it! And I don't know much of the F4 outside of Millar, Hickman, and Fraction's runs. You should read Mark Waid's F4.
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Uthor posted:Well, I didn't say I was enjoying reading it! And I don't know much of the F4 outside of Millar, Hickman, and Fraction's runs. I didn't either but Hickman's run got me to try and catch up and the modern FF are stuck in a Hank Pymian hell of being "fixed" by almost every writer. The family is fractured and Reed is finally being punished for his hubris! Again.
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goatface posted:Dude should just embrace his inner super villain and build a big orbiting-base. He could even invite colonists, and then him and Doom can have "how to lead a country" coffee mornings. They could invite Magneto and his Asteroid M. What ever happened to the orbiting base he built in Hickman's run? It was parked next to the space ship Johnny stole from Annihilus.
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Dec 27, 2014 21:28
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Uthor posted:They could invite Magneto and his Asteroid M. It's been awhile since I read it, but I thought everything they had in space got blowed up real good when they were trying to stop the celestials from destroying earth.
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Idran posted:Yeah, that's a tricky situation. It's not perjury if you think you're actually telling the truth, so if Cap never said anything either in court or to them about the evidence before the trial was over and if Jenn/Matt both had no reason to suspect the evidence was falsified, I don't think that any actual crime was commited. Though they should be a lot more ticked with him over even walking that line. I don't know New York law, but under model ethics guidelines if as far as a lawyer knows the evidence he's presenting is true and correct, he can't be blamed if he later finds out he's been had. Had he known, then he'd have committed a fraud upon the court and as an officer of the court he'd definitely be called on the carpet for that. In a situation, though, where Matt had been misled, he'd be fine when it comes to any ethics inquiries. So would Jen, assuming she likewise had been duped. Edit: This of course assumes he didn't have some reason to suspect that the evidence might be false. If he did, then he'd have a duty to investigate it to make sure he's not participating in a fraud before the court. ManiacClown fucked around with this message at 06:37 on Dec 28, 2014 |
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Dec 28, 2014 06:34
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This is an awful lot of legal analysis for a story where a criminal defense attorney argues a civil case.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:This is an awful lot of legal analysis for a story where a criminal defense attorney argues a civil case. Matt's participated in many civil cases too. He was the FF's lawyer in the early years every time their landlord tried to kick them out of the building.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:This is an awful lot of legal analysis for a story where a criminal defense attorney argues a civil case. Hey, the Marvel Universe has 2 superhero lawyers and by god they will be used in whatever case they need to be used in, sense be damned. Also Daredevil and She-Hulk both have the same problem regarding writing that super-scientists do, which is that fields of study simply don't matter (see geneticist Hank McCoy's jet that he built for the X-Men or Ultron, created by biophysicist Hank Pym). Scientists just do science and in the case of She-Hulk, she just does lawyering, who cares about what area of the law she's supposed to practice in.
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Dec 28, 2014 09:08
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Same with their inability of to distinguish between engineers and scientists.
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TwoPair posted:Hey, the Marvel Universe has 2 superhero lawyers and by god they will be used in whatever case they need to be used in, sense be damned. Since, like was said, the writer of this particular comic is also a practicing lawyer and still didn't seem to think that mattered enough to get in the way of the story, I don't see much reason why we should. 
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As a result of Secret Wars II all science, medicine and law disciplines were consolidated by The Beyonder as he was confused by their separation. This act echoed backwards through time changing the very fabric of jobs your mom wants you to have.
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Dec 28, 2014 12:44
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TwoPair posted:Hey, the Marvel Universe has 2 superhero lawyers and by god they will be used in whatever case they need to be used in, sense be damned. Not as egregious as the examples you posted, but every X-Man can become a teacher by having lived in a school for a bit.
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Grendels Dad posted:Not as egregious as the examples you posted, but every X-Man can become a teacher by having lived in a school for a bit. I dont know about the US, but in the UK private (paid for) school teachers dont actually need a teaching qualification. If you want to work in a public school you need a qualification, but private schools can hire anyone they like as long as they can pass a criminal record check.
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Grendels Dad posted:Not as egregious as the examples you posted, but every X-Man can become a teacher by having lived in a school for a bit. At least in that case you can assume they're being accredited offscreen and we aren't seeing it because it's boring minutiae compared to their adventures, it's not like you need multiple PhDs to teach kids. And do private schools even need formal qualification for their instructors?
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