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While recovering from surgery I'm rereading Ostrander's seminal run on Suicide Squad for the fifth time and I've got a few questions for those of you with a better grasp of DC's history/continuity than I.
ecavalli fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Aug 14, 2015 |
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Prison Warden posted:So this is a really specific one. You arent making this up or misremembering, and it wasnt a custom binding of comics; I had this too. White, soft cover book, basically a compilation of strips/stories to raise money for charity of some description. There was I think a Lucky Luke story in there somewhere, aside from that I only really remember the batman, hulk, judge dredd (the story involved him chasing someone into a arcade where people got into essentially a zorb (spray on plastic called Boing) and became the ball in a giant pinball machine) and spiderman stories you mentioned. I had it in probably the early 90s. I dont remember what it was called at all unfortunately, and I havent seen it in the last maybe 20 years. I dont think it was live aid, but hell if I remember what the charity was. Edit; Maybe it was for comic relief? SiKboy fucked around with this message at 11:46 on Aug 14, 2015 |
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The Spider-Man story sounds like Amazing Spider-Man 131, the issue where Doctor Octopus marries Aunt May. They have a long fight on a submarine in that one. I tried to cross reference that with Man of Steel 2 and came up with nothing, though.
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ecavalli posted:While recovering from surgery I'm rereading Ostrander's seminal run on Suicide Squad for the fifth time and I've got a few questions for those of you with a better grasp of DC's history/continuity than I. I quite enjoyed Suicide Squad: Out of the Ashes which was a SS story Ostrander did about 8 or so years ago. Pretty much a short mini continuation of his stuff. As for the language thing, I always felt SS got more leeway due to the storylines (ie more political and with evil people). There is also the theory that the editors just don't know how Aussies speak as well.
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ecavalli posted:
The first time I heard/saw the word "abo" was in an X-Men comic. It was pretty clear that it was not a nice thing to say, but I think foreign curse words and slurs don't count to editors.
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ecavalli posted:While recovering from surgery I'm rereading Ostrander's seminal run on Suicide Squad for the fifth time and I've got a few questions for those of you with a better grasp of DC's history/continuity than I.
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SiKboy posted:You arent making this up or misremembering, and it wasnt a custom binding of comics; I had this too. White, soft cover book, basically a compilation of strips/stories to raise money for charity of some description. There was I think a Lucky Luke story in there somewhere, aside from that I only really remember the batman, hulk, judge dredd (the story involved him chasing someone into a arcade where people got into essentially a zorb (spray on plastic called Boing) and became the ball in a giant pinball machine) and spiderman stories you mentioned. I had it in probably the early 90s. I dont remember what it was called at all unfortunately, and I havent seen it in the last maybe 20 years. Yeah the spray on plastic I remember vividly. I'm sure the name wasn't just boing but something like bOiingg (tm) every time.
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prefect posted:The first time I heard/saw the word "abo" was in an X-Men comic. It was pretty clear that it was not a nice thing to say, but I think foreign curse words and slurs don't count to editors. Which would explain how "kike" got into an issue of Wolverine...
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My first exposure to the DC comics was The Flash, because I loved the tv series. From what I can gather, unlike the tv show, in the comics Barry Allen is best buds with Batman and the Green Lantern instead of the other Green guy. In the comics, what sort of relationship does Barry Allen have with Oliver Queen?
toanoradian fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Aug 14, 2015 |
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Senior Woodchuck posted:Which would explain how "kike" got into an issue of Wolverine... That was ostensibly an editorial mistake. A massive, baffling editorial mistake.
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prefect posted:The first time I heard/saw the word "abo" was in an X-Men comic. It was pretty clear that it was not a nice thing to say, but I think foreign curse words and slurs don't count to editors. I just read a Grant/Breyfogle issue of Batman from the 80s where they say abo at least fifteen times. I also remember seeing it a lot in early Tank Girl.
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toanoradian posted:My first exposure to the DC comics was The Flash, because I loved the tv series. From what I can gather, unlike the tv show, in the comics Barry Allen is best buds with Batman and the Green Lantern instead of the other Green guy. In the comics, what sort of relationship does Barry Allen have with Oliver Queen? They get along alright, but you're far more likely to see Flash/Green Lantern or Green Lantern/Green Arrow. Kid Flash and GA Jr. were pretty chummy, if I recall correctly.
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# ? Aug 15, 2015 01:33 |
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Wasn't Wally West the second Green Arrow's sponsor to join the Justice League during Morrison's run?
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Mr. Maltose posted:Wasn't Wally West the second Green Arrow's sponsor to join the Justice League during Morrison's run? No, it was Kyle Rayner. Wally wanted Max Mercury on the team for some reason.
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When did Taskmaster's origin change from being born with his power to getting an injection?
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Rhyno posted:No, it was Kyle Rayner. Wally wanted Max Mercury on the team for some reason. To be fair, Max Mercury loving rocks so I completely understand.
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Rhyno posted:No, it was Kyle Rayner. Wally wanted Max Mercury on the team for some reason. Wally trust Max to take care of impulse and is one of his teachers
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bobkatt013 posted:Wally trust Max to take care of impulse and is one of his teachers Why would the JLA need two speedsters at that point?
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Rhyno posted:Why would the JLA need two speedsters at that point? They were looking to stop huge threats. Rather two speedsters than one speedster and huntress
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bobkatt013 posted:They were looking to stop huge threats. Rather two speedsters than one speedster and huntress In the story even Max thought it was pointless and only came to get pictures of the moon.
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Rhyno posted:Why would the JLA need two speedsters at that point? Two speedsters alone should logically curb stomp any threat, much less two speedsters plus the rest of the League, but at that point it's so overpowered nothing would be fair. Hell, there needs to be a Justice League of nothing but speedsters. All other heroes could retire forever.
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WickedHate posted:Hell, there needs to be a Justice League of nothing but speedsters. All other heroes could retire forever. They sure do have enough of them Note that this is like 1/10th of the characters with super speed in the DCU.
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Rhyno posted:They sure do have enough of them Man, just one Flash working a 40 hour shift a week should be able to pretty much eradicate crime.
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HitTheTargets posted:When did Taskmaster's origin change from being born with his power to getting an injection? 2010 in the Taskmaster mini by Fred Van Lente and Jefte Paolo. I'm pretty sure this is also where the detail that he loses personal memories every time he 'memorizes' something.
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RandallODim posted:2010 in the Taskmaster mini by Fred Van Lente and Jefte Paolo. I'm pretty sure this is also where the detail that he loses personal memories every time he 'memorizes' something. It's come up all of once since then though with a minor character I've forgotten the name of in Avengers Academy who might have been his daughter.
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SirDan3k posted:It's come up all of once since then though with a minor character I've forgotten the name of in Avengers Academy who might have been his daughter. Which is once more than his wife/handler and his status as 'double top secret SHIELD agent'.
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# ? Aug 15, 2015 04:10 |
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I know Marvel Unlimited has it's gaps and mis-dated items, but is Ultimate Spider-Man #1 really the first bit of work Bendis did for Marvel? because that's a hell of a debut.
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Skwirl posted:I know Marvel Unlimited has it's gaps and mis-dated items, but is Ultimate Spider-Man #1 really the first bit of work Bendis did for Marvel? because that's a hell of a debut. Wasn't Alias before that?
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Skwirl posted:I know Marvel Unlimited has it's gaps and mis-dated items, but is Ultimate Spider-Man #1 really the first bit of work Bendis did for Marvel? because that's a hell of a debut. It was either that or Daredevil Ninja I think. Both were around the same time so I'm not sure which came first. Unmature posted:Wasn't Alias before that? Nope. Ultimate Spider-Man was well underway when Alias came out.
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So he got USM on what, the strength of Goldfish?
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He had a well regarded run on Sam and Twitch before that, so probably that got him noticed.
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People seem to forget that Bendis wrote a shitload of comics before USM #1. http://www.comicbookdb.com/creator_chron.php?ID=5
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# ? Aug 15, 2015 04:34 |
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Rhyno posted:People seem to forget that Bendis wrote a shitload of comics before USM #1. He was asking if USM was his first work for Marvel. That link says USM came out one month before Daredevil Ninja, so yes USM was his first work at Marvel.
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# ? Aug 15, 2015 04:36 |
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WickedHate posted:Two speedsters alone should logically curb stomp any threat, much less two speedsters plus the rest of the League, but at that point it's so overpowered nothing would be fair. No they need at least one guy who can fly. Justice League of Speedsters and Superman.
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X-O posted:He was asking if USM was his first work for Marvel. I meant to quote zoux in my reply. He got his work at Marvel based on the strength and buzz of a lot of comics.
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# ? Aug 15, 2015 04:39 |
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Rhyno posted:Why would the JLA need two speedsters at that point? Power redundancy has never stopped the JLA from keeping multiple characters around whose powerset boils down to "flies, super strength"
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bobkatt013 posted:Rather two speedsters than one speedster and huntress
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Endless Mike posted:No they need at least one guy who can fly. Justice League of Speedsters and Superman. Eh, I'm sure they could get away with saying Flash runs so fast he [technobabble] because [technobabble] and thus can fly.
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WickedHate posted:Eh, I'm sure they could get away with saying Flash runs so fast he [technobabble] because [technobabble] and thus can fly. They've been pretty consistent about him needing either a ramp or the side of a building to run up as much as I can remember.
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If they have a whole team of speedsters Deathstroke will just act super cool and take them all out, though
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