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One more trivial note: the tapping sound that Reed mentions there at the end? That was Thor, trying to John Henry his way through the mountain to save them.
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prefect posted:One more trivial note: the tapping sound that Reed mentions there at the end? That was Thor, trying to John Henry his way through the mountain to save them. So did Tony just loving waste Thor?
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Jul 22, 2015 20:22
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Milotic posted:It bugs me that Prometheus clearly mentions magical shenanigans before shooting Supergirl (who knows she is vulnerable to that stuff) and she's meant to be faster than a speeding bullet. And also when it was retconned that a In retrospect, it's odd to see an issue where everyone's had the poo poo kicked out of them except Hawkeye.
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TwoPair posted:So did Tony just loving waste Thor? Thor is a badass; you don't kill him that easily.  (I can't find the panel, but right after they've blown the top off the mountain, Thor comes by to tell them what he was doing. He might have had his hat knocked off. But he had also just been in a fight with a whole bunch of the bad guys, so they might have knocked the hat off.) prefect fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Jul 22, 2015 |
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Skates. And I guess because that's Iron Rhodey it's more blaxploitation than sexist with the 'woman' lone, but it still reminds me of Monica's flashbacks in Nextwave.
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Milotic posted:The most interesting thing is how utterly terrifyingly powerful the Molecule Man is - he does the following almost in an off-hand way. I've not come across him too often in my travels, I guess partly because he's so drat strong. He's almost a proto-Sentry but from the villain side of things. Cosmic-level power wielded by a broken mind.
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goatface posted:He's almost a proto-Sentry but from the villain side of things. Cosmic-level power wielded by a broken mind. 
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goatface posted:He's almost a proto-Sentry but from the villain side of things. Cosmic-level power wielded by a broken mind. They have a showdown in Dark Avengers. He's living in a town in the desert and has made statues everywhere iirc.
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Domalom posted:They have a showdown in Dark Avengers. He's living in a town in the desert and has made statues everywhere iirc. Once, they turned him into half of a Cosmic Cube.
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I really liked what they did to Molecule Man in Secret Wars, mostly because it made sense to kid me. "Yeah? Control molecules, that is pretty insane!" But then everything after that is kind of lame in regards to how they used him. I get that it's hard to write for a basically godlike character (see the trash that is Secret Wars II) but I always thought they could have done more with MM than they did.
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I remember the Beyonder taking a poo poo was like, a multi page thing.
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Flesh Forge posted:I remember the Beyonder taking a poo poo was like, a multi page thing. Not even a full page, actually, but still magnificent and certainly appropriate for the Bad (at having an) rear end panels thread.  There's also a sequence of him just putting random things in a cuisinart to blend and eat, I think.
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RandallODim posted:Not even a full page, actually, but still magnificent and certainly appropriate for the Bad (at having an) rear end panels thread. On both counts, all I can see is The Beyonder was in disguise as my college roommate.
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RandallODim posted:There's also a sequence of him just putting random things in a cuisinart to blend and eat, I think. In the back of a limo. 
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Jul 23, 2015 01:48
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The experience is consummated! I bet he didn't know to flush.
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Haha, Radio Shack. Ah, the past.
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Hey they spent millions on that endorsement deal. It worked out great for Apple! Sony's return was more mixed.
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Flesh Forge posted:The experience is consummated! I don't see any flush sound in those panels. Do you?
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Flesh Forge posted:The experience is consummated! Here's some fanart. 
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Badass Panels: Pretty much just excessive 
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Milotic posted:Anyway, let's have some Secret Wars #4. This is a very stereotypical representation of the characters - Iron Man's a bit of a lounge lizard and Reed Richards is an rear end in a top hat. The most interesting thing is how utterly terrifyingly powerful the Molecule Man is - he does the following almost in an off-hand way. I've not come across him too often in my travels, I guess partly because he's so drat strong. Mike Zeck at his prime was just so, so good. I think every other comic poster I had as a kid was a Zeck painting.
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head58 posted:
Vile Ape-lantis...
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More Beyonder, more SW2 He's a sly one!
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Ferrule posted:More Beyonder, more SW2 Is that Dazzler? Because they totally dated or whatever for awhile around that time.
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Headband. Strawberry blonde hair in pixie cut. Terrible, and rapidly-dated fashion sense. Yup, looks like Dazzler.
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Yeah, it's Dazzler. Poot Longshot.
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I think that issue with pete teaching yondi how to poop was featured in every single grocery store random 3-pack of comics in the 80s. I had like five copies of it. It also has Luke Cage teach him what money is by using the gold standard, which was already a decade out of date at the time (and Danny totally calls him on it) and in return, beyonder turns the HFH building into gold. An element not known for possessing the tensile strength to make for good structural materials. The building immediately collapses on itself. Wacky.
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To me the best part of that gold building situation was the followup. Spidey works the rescue operation, which is pretty brutal, and thinks about how he could just take something small and sell it to solve all of his money problems but then decides it wouldn't be right. Not too long after he finds out that Kingpin is working with federal government agents (who believe that this much gold hitting the markets at once would destroy gold prices) and has a cordon of gangsters and thugs keeping people away from the building, in exchange for being able to loot some of the gold. Spidey gets super-pissed and steals a notepad, which of course causes him a shitload of trouble further down the line, because you can't exactly pay rent with a gold notepad. I don't know how much gold you'd have to suddenly flood onto the market in order to ruin the price of gold. I'd guess that the sudden discovery of a solid gold office building on Park Avenue with everything inside but the people turned into gold would tank the price, but then again so would the discovery of a literal god-man with almost no limits on his powers who can turn anything and everything into gold.
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PantsOptional posted:I don't know how much gold you'd have to suddenly flood onto the market in order to ruin the price of gold. I'd guess that the sudden discovery of a solid gold office building on Park Avenue with everything inside but the people turned into gold would tank the price, but then again so would the discovery of a literal god-man with almost no limits on his powers who can turn anything and everything into gold. Imagine if you were a super-villain who had taken control of all the world's gold, and had decided to melt it down to make a cube. How long would the sides be? Hundreds of metres, thousands even? Actually, it's unlikely to be anything like that size. Warren Buffett, one of the world's richest investors, says the total amount of gold in the world - the gold above ground, that is - could fit into a cube with sides of just 20m (67ft). http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21969100
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prefect posted:Imagine if you were a super-villain who had taken control of all the world's gold, and had decided to melt it down to make a cube. How long would the sides be? Hundreds of metres, thousands even? Why would you accept information on this topic from a member of a demographic known to spend most of their free time diving into gold coin swimming pools?
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spacejung posted:Why would you accept information on this topic from a member of a demographic known to spend most of their free time diving into gold coin swimming pools? This is totally off-topic, but someone built Scrooge's money bin out of Lego. Follow the links to the Facebook page because this thing is amazing. http://comicsalliance.com/lego-scrooge-mcduck-money-bin/ And Don Rosa made architectural plans for the money bin. http://imgur.com/a/rVo9W
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spacejung posted:Why would you accept information on this topic from a member of a demographic known to spend most of their free time diving into gold coin swimming pools? He had to measure the plot for the pool, didn't he?
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prefect posted:Imagine if you were a super-villain who had taken control of all the world's gold, and had decided to melt it down to make a cube. How long would the sides be? Hundreds of metres, thousands even? And there's more gold than that in a cubic mile of sea water. The cube law is pretty cool.
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qntm posted:And there's more gold than that in a cubic mile of sea water. The cube law is pretty cool. How could there be more gold in a cubed mile of sea water than in all of the world? Oh, above ground, I didn't read the entire thing. I'm not sure I believe you, but okay.
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Drifter posted:How could there be more gold in a cubed mile of sea water than in all of the world? I'm not sure I believe it either. NOAA has about 13 parts per trillion gold in seawater, which in a 9 trillion pound cubic mile should translate to about 117 pounds of gold in each cubic mile. Call me crazy, but I think we've dug up more gold than that.
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There's about 300 million cubic miles of ocean. I don't think there's enough gold in the planet for 8000 m^3 per cubic mile.
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Well, my number was obviously off, then. Sorry about that.
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I think it's probably one of those things that entered the common consciousness through someone's lazy unit conversion, but the reality was less interesting to talk about so people remember the more exciting one.
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