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Heathen posted:Monet St. Croix has the worst codename. M. "Initial" makes a better codename. After a while nobody was using their codenames in GenX anyways. How many times did they actually call Chamber "Chamber and not Jono?
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A Tin Of Beans posted:How are we all forgetting that there's a character named Man-thing? That's the best awful name by far. He also had the best comic book title. Giant Sized Man-Thing.
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Jan 14, 2015 02:54
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KGBeast has a ridiculous codename. Wait, strike that, reverse it. I've always thought all the Fantastic Four's names kind of sucked. And it seems like pretty much everybody agree since practically none of them go by said names anymore, besides Johnny Storm occasionally.
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Jan 14, 2015 03:43
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TwoPair posted:KGBeast has a ridiculous codename. Wait, strike that, reverse it. Uh, since when is The Thing not the Thing?
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Jan 14, 2015 04:08
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TwoPair posted:KGBeast has a ridiculous codename. Wait, strike that, reverse it. Check out Norm MacDonalds "Origin of the Fantastic 4" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSMg_GWiBt0
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Jan 14, 2015 04:10
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Madkal posted:Skin might as well not have had a real name with the way that was treated. At least he never joined the Fantastic Four.
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Jan 14, 2015 04:30
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I'm slowly working my way through early Fantastic Four, and it's kinda hilarious how under utilized Sue Storm is. She's basically useless for most of it, and if I have my time line right, she's married with a child for decades and they're still calling her Invisible Girl.
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Jan 14, 2015 04:39
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TwoPair posted:KGBeast has a ridiculous codename. Wait, strike that, reverse it. Okay. In Soviet Russia, a ridiculous codename has KGBeast! I don't know why you wanted that so badly. Doesn't really seem to work that way around. Skwirl posted:I'm slowly working my way through early Fantastic Four, and it's kinda hilarious how under utilized Sue Storm is. She's basically useless for most of it, and if I have my time line right, she's married with a child for decades and they're still calling her Invisible Girl. It isn't until Byrne that she really starts getting developed. I don't know where you are in the series, but you probably have a long way to go until that.
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Jan 14, 2015 04:56
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Yeah, forever on the Good Things side of Byrne's ledger is that he went "you dumb motherfuckers, Sue Storm is the most powerful member of the Four, see look at what I'm doing right here, do this from now on P.S. stop calling her Invisible Girl, that's demeaning". I mean, he did it by brainwashing her evil and giving her a slutty costume, but still.
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Jan 14, 2015 05:01
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Alhazred posted:No one calls Luke Cage Power Man anymore. Mainly because there's another guy running around on the same team called Power Man.
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Jan 14, 2015 05:06
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Luke should get his jheri curl back and change his name to Fight The Power Man.
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Jan 14, 2015 05:18
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Random Stranger posted:Okay. In Soviet Russia, a ridiculous codename has KGBeast! Kirby's gone, but Lee is still on words. It's gonna be a long haul.
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Jan 14, 2015 05:23
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Man it is hard to read that old stuff.
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Jan 14, 2015 05:27
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muscles like this? posted:Mainly because there's another guy running around on the same team called Power Man. Luke Cage hasn't gone by Power Man since before Bendis put him on the New Avengers, more than a decade ago.
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Jan 14, 2015 05:27
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Skwirl posted:Luke Cage hasn't gone by Power Man since before Bendis put him on the New Avengers, more than a decade ago. He very briefly used the name again during the 1997 Heroes 4 Hire series but has otherwise just been CAGE since like 1990.
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Jan 14, 2015 05:41
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Pretty sure he in-universe abandoned the alias after he was framed for Iron Fist's murder when their series wrapped up in the late 80s.
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Jan 14, 2015 06:44
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Waterhaul, your new avatar reminds me, did you read the 12 Reasons to Die comic? it was actually really super good.
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Rhyno posted:Uh, since when is The Thing not the Thing? I mean, civilians call him Thing, but it just seems like every time I see him comics these days he just goes by Ben. Guess it's because he's hanging out with more superheroes than average dudes.
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Skwirl posted:Kirby's gone, but Lee is still on words. It's gonna be a long haul. You've got about 120 issues of stuff that tops out at "okay, I guess" before you get to good stuff again, sorry. Say hello to "Gaard" for me. (He's counter-earth Johnny Storm turned into a cosmic hockey goalie and is the most ridiculous thing that sticks with me from that decade of FF.) Edit: Oh my god, I googled it to make sure I was remembering how to spell that name correctly and it turns out they gave him an XTREME 90's make over in Fantastic Force. Random Stranger fucked around with this message at 08:39 on Jan 14, 2015 |
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Jan 14, 2015 08:36
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Is anyone else reading Warren Ellis' "Trees?" I've really been enjoying it but the latest issue is a total gut-punch, and it's making me wonder if the various story threads are actually going to interconnect, or if they're just a sort of slice-of-life vignettes.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Waterhaul, your new avatar reminds me, did you read the 12 Reasons to Die comic? it was actually really super good. I remember when it came out originally giving it a miss cos I wasn't expecting great things but I've been listening to the album a lot lately so should really give it a shot. I was kind of burned on Ghostface and comics when Wu-Massacre ending up having Ghost, Method and Chris Bachalo art and I still ended up being disappointed.
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Waterhaul posted:I remember when it came out originally giving it a miss cos I wasn't expecting great things but I've been listening to the album a lot lately so should really give it a shot. yeah plus past attempts at Wu Tang comics have not been great. i checked out 12 Reasons to Die because it was written by the same dudes who write Menu, which is also really good.
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Random Stranger posted:You've got about 120 issues of stuff that tops out at "okay, I guess" before you get to good stuff again, sorry. Say hello to "Gaard" for me. (He's counter-earth Johnny Storm turned into a cosmic hockey goalie and is the most ridiculous thing that sticks with me from that decade of FF.) Oh, man, Fantastic Four in the 1970s. The decade that brought about one of the worst supervillain teams there's ever been (courtesy of Len Wein) in the form of Salem's Seven.
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Jan 14, 2015 14:42
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NotAnArtist posted:Is anyone else reading Warren Ellis' "Trees?" I've really been enjoying it but the latest issue is a total gut-punch, and it's making me wonder if the various story threads are actually going to interconnect, or if they're just a sort of slice-of-life vignettes. I stopped reading 2 issues ago. Too slow, had planned to pick it up in trades a few years down the line. What happened?
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Jan 14, 2015 15:48
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Anyone read/reading Wrenchies? I'm about half-done and enjoying it!
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zoux posted:I've honestly never understood Scott's insistence on "CODENAMES IN THE FIELD". He's a dork.
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Was Taters posted:Anyone read/reading Wrenchies? I'm about half-done and enjoying it! It is an amazing work, should be read by everyone even vaguely interested in comics, the level of craft and imagination put into it is very inspiring.
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Jan 14, 2015 20:19
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Marvel's variant qualifying system is so loving irritating. "Exceed 150% of initial order on a totally unconnected book and you may order ONE copy of this variant cover" Ugh.
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Jan 14, 2015 21:21
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Anybody read Starwars #1?
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It wasn't as good as #4.
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Jan 15, 2015 01:49
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Skwirl posted:Anybody read Starwars #1? It was not amazing, I feel the uninspired artwork is the weak link. Much more looking forward to the Leia book.
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Was Taters posted:Anyone read/reading Wrenchies? I'm about half-done and enjoying it! Its good, real good. I've read Omega - The Unknown, which was also drawn by Farel Dalrymple. Has anybody read that? It was also pretty good, but I'm not too sure what to make of the ending. The final issue is a wordless montage showing without resolution the continued struggle between the kid Omega and the robot guys. There is also the rather melancholic final shot ending with the original Omega homeless and broken on this cargo cult TV set being run by the crazy, also homeless ex-henchmen down in the sewers. The obvious imagery at the end there is of homeless war veterans, I assume the ending is a commentary on the continuous nature that wars and conflicts can take and that one day the kid himself will be an empty spent wreck ? Its been a little while since I read it so my memory may not be super great.
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Rhyno posted:It was not amazing, I feel the uninspired artwork is the weak link. Much more looking forward to the Leia book. That's the one Waid's on, right?
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Gaz-L posted:That's the one Waid's on, right? Yes, with Terry Dodson on art.
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Was Taters posted:Anyone read/reading Wrenchies? I'm about half-done and enjoying it! Bends narrative to the breaking point, but with fun stories and hangout diagrams!
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Soonmot posted:I stopped reading 2 issues ago. Too slow, had planned to pick it up in trades a few years down the line. What happened? I'll give you that it's slow, but I'm still interested. The Arctic story thread has me keeping on. Just about everyone involved is in a state of hosed. I won't spoil more if you plan on reading more, but issue eight ends on a pretty big cliffhanger for each of the vignettes. Edited because strikeout is not spoiler  Just finished watching The Dark Knight Returns parts one and two. My LCS owner stands by the "9/11 broke Frank Miller" but he was pretty nutso beforehand. It's hard not to read into his opinions on politics when the Reagan figure is so, uh, Reagan-y. DJ Fuckboy Supreme fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Jan 15, 2015 |
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Jan 15, 2015 05:18
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9/11 revealed Frank Miller, what we once saw as biting satire is actually his ideal.
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All of the elements were there before 9/11 (eg 300) but it tipped him over the edge.
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Prior to 9/11 he was mostly a tuffguy libertarian, what with authority figures (politicians, businessmen, gangsters on the intersection of the first two) being villains, from Reagan in DKR to Lex Luthor using digital smoke-and-mirrors to fool the world in DK2. 300 is fash in its mild clash of cultures narrative, but it is an exception from the whole body of work. Now, in Holy Terror it is full-on hard right poo poo with trusty Mossad bros, sexy muslim exchange students blowing up cities and underground lairs of turban villainy.
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9/11 also revealed Dr. Doom to be a big crybaby.
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