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TwoPair posted:Thor Annual: After the last arc of Thor God of Thunder, Thor restored life to Earth after it had been long dead. Yet Earth's restoration seems to be not going so well and Thor's unhappy, so his granddaughters are getting together to cheer him up. I am especially happy with this as I actually live on the banks of the River Don.
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We've been posting stuff from Alan Moore's Top 10 in the Funny Panel and the Badass threads, figured we should put some here too. If anyone isn't familiar, Top 10 is about the superpowered police in a city where everyone has superpowers. But instead of being like a superhero team, it's a police procedural. So, basically it's like the first half of a Law & Order episode, if Lenny Brisco could shoot energy beams from his chest. In the first issue of Book 2, there's been a teleporter accident and a guy and his wife have been fused with one of the Great Gamers (basically, a gigantic knight from an intergalactic chess game of cosmic import). The guy's wife died instantly and he and he gamer are starting to get close.  
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Apr 26, 2015 15:35
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Perry Normal posted:We've been posting stuff from Alan Moore's Top 10 in the Funny Panel and the Badass threads, figured we should put some here too. That one's good, but you should also post the panels from the start of the issue where they started to bond if you have them. I've been searching to no avail, "Top 10" not being the easiest web search.
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Try "top 10 comic" or "top 10 alan moore", that narrows the field a bit.
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Perry Normal posted:In the first issue of Book 2, there's been a teleporter accident and a guy and his wife have been fused with one of the Great Gamers (basically, a gigantic knight from an intergalactic chess game of cosmic import). I'm still annoyed True Detective plagiarized that dialogue.
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GrandpaPants posted:I'm still annoyed True Detective plagiarized that dialogue. That's gonna be happening to Moore for the next 100 years, I feel.
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Apr 27, 2015 09:20
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Lurdiak posted:That's gonna be happening to Moore for the next 100 years, I feel. Kind of a compliment in a sense, I guess. Although I doubt he'll see it that way.
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Apr 28, 2015 01:36
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here's one that I felt was pretty nice;       
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Apr 28, 2015 02:27
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Nemo! Fantomah! Spy Smasher!
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Apr 28, 2015 02:59
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What's the deal with the toothbrush? All the rest are actual comic book characters so I have to assume it is too.
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Apr 28, 2015 03:39
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Stardust being the source of true life and imagination is something I'm not entirely comfortable with, to be honest.
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Apr 28, 2015 03:42
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Mr. Maltose posted:Stardust being the source of true life and imagination is something I'm not entirely comfortable with, to be honest. You dare speak against Stardust!? *turns you into one of your posts*
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Apr 28, 2015 03:47
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SynthOrange posted:You dare speak against Stardust!? Have mercy!
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Apr 28, 2015 03:48
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Yeah, I think Allred did a better job making the same point himself in that one Batman story he did for Solo.
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SynthOrange posted:You dare speak against Stardust!? 
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Apr 28, 2015 03:50
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I never thought I'd see a story where Stardust was anything other than a weird madman with freakishly inhuman proportions, but here we are.
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Apr 28, 2015 04:56
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TwoPair posted:I never thought I'd see a story where Stardust was anything other than a weird madman with freakishly inhuman proportions, but here we are.
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Mr. Maltose posted:Stardust being the source of true life and imagination is something I'm not entirely comfortable with, to be honest. feels pretty nice considering most other modern uses of him have him as some horrible monster, which is getting kinda tired(especially while his methods are especially brutal by modern standards, his villains are pretty much all the sort that in a modern comic would each be the focus of a company-wide crossover, and are all horrid enough in their deeds to deserve the fates they receive by Stardust)
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drrockso20 posted:feels pretty nice considering most other modern uses of him have him as some horrible monster, which is getting kinda tired(especially while his methods are especially brutal by modern standards, his villains are pretty much all the sort that in a modern comic would each be the focus of a company-wide crossover, and are all horrid enough in their deeds to deserve the fates they receive by Stardust) Those modern depictions are also transparent criticisms of his creator, who was by all accounts a drunken piece of crap. I get it, though, because I can't think of anything more golden age than Stardust the Super Wizard, and that's what he represents in that comic; the age of innocence and hope that early comics had. They were weird and colorful and simplified and naive.
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Apr 28, 2015 12:38
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Lurdiak posted:Those modern depictions are also transparent criticisms of his creator, who was by all accounts a drunken piece of crap. Very true(especially the LOEG version, which also came as yet another tired slam against both Superheroes and American Pop Culture from Alan Moore, and that's coming from someone who likes most of what he's made that I've read)
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Stardust is basically the thesis for why superhero comics are great and terrible. It's all nonsense but goddamn look how crazy that nonsense is. Is just better hidden these days.
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He's no Herbie.
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Mr. Maltose posted:Stardust being the source of true life and imagination is something I'm not entirely comfortable with, to be honest. I dunno, to be honest. I've got the two comic collections. The world of Stardust and friends is one where Earth is in the(civilized) stars and certainly capable of dealing with threats itself, given warning. Huge, crazy evil plans, Earth is almost always the target. But things work out. It's no crazier than Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers, for instance.
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goatface posted:He's no Herbie. That they never teamed up proves we live in an unjust world.
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Chaos Hippy posted:That they never teamed up proves we live in an unjust world. I tried; it didn't take.
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Herbie is just a very different tone than Stardust. A bit more sardonic and resigned, rather than the enthusiastic fury. No less good, but very different.   But sadly, if Hanks' son is to be believed (and there's no reason he isn't), he really was quite the monster.    
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Toph Bei Fong posted:But sadly, if Hanks' son is to be believed (and there's no reason he isn't), he really was quite the monster. I don't get it.
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blarzgh posted:I don't get it.
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redbackground posted:Fletcher Hanks was a terrible person. Here I thought these people flying off the earth because of no gravity was a modern day parody of those golden age. Poes law.
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Alan Moore's portrayal of Stardust in League of Extraordinary Gentleman might be my favourite, hilarious and dark takedown of a real person I've ever read. It's downright polemic in it's simplicity.
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Dan Didio posted:Alan Moore's portrayal of Stardust in League of Extraordinary Gentleman might be my favourite, hilarious and dark takedown of a real person I've ever read. It's downright polemic in it's simplicity.
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Evil Mastermind posted:What was it? I stopped reading LoEG ages ago. Quite simply. As a constantly drunken bastard that froze to death.
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May 5, 2015 15:04
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gently caress you 52 Convergence Superman 
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Dan Didio posted:Alan Moore's portrayal of Stardust in League of Extraordinary Gentleman might be my favourite, hilarious and dark takedown of a real person I've ever read. It's downright polemic in it's simplicity. What issue was that, again?
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Breetai posted:What issue was that, again? Century, someplace.
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I'm pretty sure it's in the text ephemera in Black Dossier. The part that also has Barbie (Yes, the doll) in it. But Century has references within the hideout under the club to that period of the League.
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It's the text backups in Century. Mina and Gollywog visit the moon (and the Amazon women thereon), and on the way, Mina reminisces about that time she was a '50s-era superhero and fought Stardust. It's weird.
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Senior Woodchuck posted:It's the text backups in Century. Mina and Gollywog visit the moon (and the Amazon women thereon), and on the way, Mina reminisces about that time she was a '50s-era superhero and fought Stardust. It's weird. 
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redbackground posted:Here's a pic for those who haven't read Century: He's also frozen in Ice-Nine, just to add to Moore's literary references in his fan-fiction.
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LashLightning posted:He's also frozen in Ice-Nine, just to add to Moore's literary references in his fan-fiction. To be fair, there's not a lot else that could contain that son of a bitch.
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