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Space Fish posted:drat you, now I bought the SHIELD/Kamala issue. I'm susceptible to certain cameos now! At least it was good. It seems Kamala's powers are just a better version of Reed Richards. She can stretch herself all over the place and into different shapes, AND change her appearance.
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Lurdiak posted:That poo poo is a plague on kids in dead-end midwestern towns who see the army as a way out. It's pretty disgusting. I remember getting cornered by recruiters every day of my Jr and Snr years and it drove me nuts. "Hey dumb kids! Join the army! It'll totally be awesome!"
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twistedmentat posted:At least it was good. It seems Kamala's powers are just a better version of Reed Richards. She can stretch herself all over the place and into different shapes, AND change her appearance. The only downside is that it apparently gets less and less effective as time goes on and it eats into her healing factor until she stops having it altogether.
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Jan 17, 2015 20:03
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Reed Richards has used his powers to look like other people it's just really exhausting to do.
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Jan 17, 2015 20:18
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The Modern Leper posted:Slight derail, but as a former 16 year old in America - what the hell is the ASVAB? Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. They way it was presented at my school was it was optional, but you had to opt out of it (possibly requiring a note from your parents) but other schools may have handled it differently, or its become less prevalent. I think I'm older than a good chunk of this forum, they've completely changed the scoring on the SATs since I took them.
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Jan 17, 2015 20:18
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SirDan3k posted:Reed Richards has used his powers to look like other people it's just really exhausting to do. In Earth X he stretched his brain to match a scan of Xavier's brain so he could use Cerebro, which I thought was clever.
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Jan 18, 2015 00:07
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Skwirl posted:Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. They way it was presented at my school was it was optional, but you had to opt out of it (possibly requiring a note from your parents) but other schools may have handled it differently, or its become less prevalent. I think I'm older than a good chunk of this forum, they've completely changed the scoring on the SATs since I took them.
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Jan 18, 2015 02:09
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Defiance Industries posted:In Earth X he stretched his brain to match a scan of Xavier's brain so he could use Cerebro, which I thought was clever. In Hickman's Ultimate stories Reed stretched his brain to keep up with the City, where he lived for a thousand years of accelerated time.
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Jan 18, 2015 02:16
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muscles like this? posted:In Hickman's Ultimate stories Reed stretched his brain to keep up with the City, where he lived for a thousand years of accelerated time. In the hilarious/terrible MANGAVERSE F4 Reed only ever stretched his brain to become regular Reed smart by enhancing his dendrites in some technobabble way. That may have been the first time the idea came up, but I doubt it.
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Jan 18, 2015 02:33
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Mr. Maltose posted:In the hilarious/terrible MANGAVERSE F4 Reed only ever stretched his brain to become regular Reed smart by enhancing his dendrites in some technobabble way. That may have been the first time the idea came up, but I doubt it. Nah, it's been bandied about that Reed's intellect - which was already high even if he forgot to add radiation shielding to his experimental spacecraft - increased dramatically once he got his stretchy powers because he subconsciously uses them to shift his brain around when he needs to do some serious thinking. I (seem to) remember it being mentioned in the Fantastic Four supplement for the Marvel Super Heroes RPG, and that was published in 1987, so it had to have been at least suggested in the comics probably at least two years prior.
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Jan 18, 2015 16:10
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Skwirl posted:Every single 16 year old male in America takes the ASVAB in high-school. Students who do well on certain sections get recruiting pamphlets from relevant armed service branches. They have an extra section in the 616 ASVAB. They recruit you for the magic division if you correctly answer the question about shrubs.
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Jan 20, 2015 04:59
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muscles like this? posted:In Hickman's Ultimate stories Reed stretched his brain to keep up with the City, where he lived for a thousand years of accelerated time. I kept expecting him to reproduce through asexual budding.
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Jan 20, 2015 20:22
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30 minutes (approximately) until the big Secret Wars thingie. Probably just going to be solicitations, but who knows?
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Jan 20, 2015 20:31
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Well that was more than solicitations
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Jan 20, 2015 21:19
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So long anybody not in the MCU plans.
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Jan 20, 2015 21:21
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Wow. Damnit. Seems like they're trashing the thing that has made them so good and so much better than DC over the last five years. Personally, I enjoy not needing to give a crap about the wider marvel universe to enjoy so many of their titles. There's been so much good, interesting, original stuff from marvel lately. And now they're just resorting to smashing all their toys together. Well, it was nice while it lasted.
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Jan 20, 2015 21:22
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krakagar posted:Wow. Damnit. Seems like they're trashing the thing that has made them so good and so much better than DC over the last five years.
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Jan 20, 2015 21:24
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The announcement to end all announcements! TIME RUNS OUT!!! EVERYTHING ENDS!!!!!! ...sigh.
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Jan 20, 2015 21:27
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Everything Ends...including the stream, prematurely. Good job Marvel!
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Jan 20, 2015 21:32
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I have more faith in Marvel since they only seem to continuously gently caress up Spider-Man. If Marvel doesn't want to use continuity they usually just ignore it until it's brought up, and I have faith they won't do something stupid and ridiculous like claim the X-Men had over 300 different team iterations in 4 years. Most of their outstanding books in recent memory have been mostly self-contained and they'll still probably be like that
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Jan 20, 2015 21:34
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Here's some trimmed down written description of it.quote:Alonso prepared to drop the "big bomb": "The Ultimate Universe, the Marvel Universe, they're going to slap together. Imagine two pizzas: They're going to combine toppings, some toppings are going to drop off. And that is the Marvel Universe moving forward. It's more than the Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe, it's all the universes you can imagine. That is the Marvel Universe going forward." source
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Jan 20, 2015 21:49
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Hey, did anybody think that DC had the monopoly on moronic crossover concepts and big universe plans? Here you go. And all that noise only to bring Miles into 616 and get rid of Fury Jr. in favor of proper Samuel L. Fury.
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Jan 20, 2015 21:56
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This all sounds loving dumb as all hell. The big loving multi-year building up incursion storyline ends with "couldn't fix it, it's all loving scrambled now. Well see ya".
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Jan 20, 2015 21:57
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I hope the cartoon X-Men team are the only mutant survivors.
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Jan 20, 2015 21:58
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Actually it's big enough news that it deserves it's own thread.
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Jan 20, 2015 22:04
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There's a lot of things that I can see them taking from those alternate books to turn back the clock on things. Peter being married to MJ from the Spider-Man book. X-Men 92 could end up with no more vampire Jubilee, bringing back Wolverine from the dead and undoing Cyclops' heel turn.
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Jan 20, 2015 22:06
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Goddamn it I just got started on Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel and now they're gonna gently caress it all up 
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Jan 20, 2015 22:10
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AlmightyBob posted:Goddamn it I just got started on Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel and now they're gonna gently caress it all up Unless you think they are going to bring in alternate universe versions of those characters to replace them I doubt they will change much.
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Jan 20, 2015 22:15
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AlmightyBob posted:Goddamn it I just got started on Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel and now they're gonna gently caress it all up Considering one is gonna be a movie and the other is frequently cited as one of Marvel's more important books for having a positively portrayed female minority character you have very little to fear. If the 616 version of a character either is the more iconic one or more closely resembles the MCU version it'll be safe.
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Jan 20, 2015 22:26
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I'll be pretty shocked if it also doesn't result in an alive Gwen Stacy in the post-Secret Wars MU.
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Jan 20, 2015 23:43
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Gaz-L posted:I'll be pretty shocked if it also doesn't result in an alive Gwen Stacy in the post-Secret Wars MU. I wonder if it'll be Spider-Gwen? Although one of the most interesting parts of that character was the world they set up around her.
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Dacap posted:I wonder if it'll be Spider-Gwen? Although one of the most interesting parts of that character was the world they set up around her.
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So looks like that full reboot is more and more likely now isn't it? HA I loving knew it! Marvel were changing up too many of their characters too quickly. In the end they just wanted a chance to throw everything at the wall to see what would stick before flushing it all down the toilet.
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Jan 21, 2015 01:22
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It sounds more like a one off event more than anything if you turn on your bullshit filters. Like how Marvel and DC totally combined into Amalgam.
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Jan 21, 2015 02:24
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Yeah, it sounds more like they're going to end up keeping the majority of 616 proper and take the worthwhile stuff from the Ultimate U and give it a home there. Well, whatever it ends up being, I'm still excited given it's Hickman's swan song to Marvel for a while. Even if it ends up being less than great, it doesn't diminish the journey through his Avengers run getting there.
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Yeah, it's less a reboot and more like "Marvel's Crisis," from the sound of things.
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Wanderer posted:"Marvel's Crisis," I remember when we had that. It was called... SECRET WARS?! 
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SynthOrange posted:It sounds more like a one off event more than anything if you turn on your bullshit filters. Like how Marvel and DC totally combined into Amalgam. Sadly little chance of anything quite as fun as Amalgam coming out of this one.
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Actually, the more I think about it, the more this reminds me of how they used the old Heroes Reborn thing to conveniently erase a bunch of silly poo poo they didn't want to deal with, like Janet van Dyne being a giant bug lady or the whole "teenage Tony Stark" thing.
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"Didn't the X-Men used to be older? And weren't Wolverine and Professor X dead?" "Shut up, Deadpool"
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