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Rigged Death Trap posted:oh hey the plot to supes III. Also the plot to like three dozen Superman comics from the 50s-70s at least. "Superman is suddenly a gigantic rear end in a top hat" was the cover gimmick a lot and often came across that way in the story proper. Superman III borrowing it was one of its few wise moves.
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Skwirl posted:You die a lot in Lone Wolf. gently caress, you can die in that from pure random chance. You can but they did at least have multiple ways to the reach the ending compared with the official CYOA line or Fighting Fantasy books, which tended to have One True Path and if you didn't somehow make it through exactly you get horribly killed at the penultimate hurdle. Blood Sword was the best of the genre, and even when it did screw you over it was usually in entertaining ways: Did you loot the crystals (several passages previously)? Turn to 387 if Yes, or 292 if No 387 You feel a wet, oily sensation from where you stored the crystals in your pack. Your companions gape in horror as you rapidly melt into a puddle of fleshy goo which begins to spread over the bones of the titan, restoring it to life. 
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The Choose Your Own Adventure situation that sticks in my mind was you sitting in a car, and then you feel somebody holding a gun up against the back of your neck. They want you to give them something (I don't remember what it was). If you call bullshit, they blow your brains out. If you give them what they want, they split and you find out they didn't have a gun; they were just pressing a metal tube against the back of your neck. 
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Clickhole's Clickventures satisfy my craving for CYOAs. Today's is pretty great. YOU ARE THE WORLD'S GREATEST HACKER
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prefect posted:The Choose Your Own Adventure situation that sticks in my mind was you sitting in a car, and then you feel somebody holding a gun up against the back of your neck. They want you to give them something (I don't remember what it was). If you call bullshit, they blow your brains out. If you give them what they want, they split and you find out they didn't have a gun; they were just pressing a metal tube against the back of your neck. There was one CYOA in the Endless Quest series ("Dragon of Doom") that was basically figuring out a way to not get killed until help arrived. "You" never really did anything important to affect the story outcome so much as not make bad decisions until the antagonist pisses that book's version of God off enough for him to intervene.
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There actually weren't too many really bad endings in that JL one, which was a "Super Powers" tie-in. Most of them would be "whoops, you misunderstood the clue and the enemies got away!" Also there were three unique story paths as at the beginning they do the standard "heroes need to split up" and you pick one third of the multi-part scheme to handle by choosing which hero to be. I can't remember one of them, but Flash and Batman were the other two. I just remember being disturbed by the Flash thing.
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I had a Super Mario CYOA that was pretty grisly especially for Mario. One of the endings involved getting pounded into bread dough or something like that.
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Stop talking about Choose Your Own Adventures; today is Jack Kirby's birthday so post the Kirby-est panels. New Gods #6  OMAC #2 
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From the Jack Kirby version of 2001:   
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New Gods   Ultimate Cosmic Experience   Fantastic Four 2  Fantastic Four 51  Fantastic Four 25   Fantastic Four 57  
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Choco1980 posted:I read a Justice League one when I was a kid. On the Flash path there's a point where the bad guys shoot at you with a weird gun. One option is to vibrate your molecules to go through the projectile, a very Flash thing to do. SURPRISE! the gun's effect is to make you permanently in that stasis, so that you'll never be able to touch another thing again, and are helpless to stop the baddies! In all fairness, that does sound like a plot ripped straight from a silver age comic. Keeshhound fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Aug 28, 2015 |
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Aug 28, 2015 16:50
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Jack Kirby draws God.   http://comicsalliance.com/cosmic-theology-jack-kirby-representations-of-god-illustrations/
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Uthor posted:Jack Kirby draws God. Jack Kirby is God  
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Uthor posted:Jack Kirby draws God. I love this. The guy could convey some loving scale and power.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/65185095@N00/sets/72157623444242645/
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It kind of blows my mind that Hollywood still hasn't caught up to Jack Kirby.
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For all his use of bright colours, Kirby was really good at hard black shadows.
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One day technology will be able to do Kirby dots in full IMAX 3D and it's going to be great.
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Evil Mastermind posted:today is Jack Kirby's birthday so post the Kirby-est panels.    
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Choco1980 posted:That was a timey wimey bull that was immediately undone. However, there was a different JLU episode that was basically the finale to BB that they never got to make that not only tied into JLU's plot heavily, but BB's as well, and revealed...things about the show. BB was really good IMO; kinda had a tendency to kill villains in horrible ways but also kinda nice not to have the same dude terrorizing Gotham for the 800th time in a row leading to that "Why don't they just execute the Joker?" kinda thinking. ...There are an awful lot of shots of Terry looking shocked as a bad guy dies hideously though, even when half the time he's the one who caused it.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:One day technology will be able to do Kirby dots in full IMAX 3D and it's going to be great. Honestly, I feel like we could have done it already if anyone went and tried. It is a worthwhile pursuit!
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Madkal posted:It kind of blows my mind that Hollywood still hasn't caught up to Jack Kirby. He did help to get those Americans out of Iran.
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Jack Kirby: crazy, colorful poo poo breaking loose everywhere
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 No one draws better "monster punching someone" panels better than Kirby did.
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Starsnostars posted:
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Madkal posted:It kind of blows my mind that Hollywood still hasn't caught up to Jack Kirby. Speaking of live-action Kirby we'd all love to see:     Happy Birthday you magnificent son of a bitch.
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I almost forgot about the greatest forgotten Kirby thing ever: Transilvane: a small planet some scientist grew in his basement under Metropolis. The scientists guided evolution by using those projectors to show classic horror movies, so of course the inhabitants evolved into Draculas, Frankensteins, and Werewolves. These little beings then traveled off-planet in size-changing coffin rockets to stop their world from being destroyed via robots with super-bug-spray. Superman saves the day, and begins to turn the Transilvane-ians good by replacing the monster movies with the movie Oklahoma. Top that.
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mind the walrus posted:Speaking of live-action Kirby we'd all love to see: "Twas I! DIO!"
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Evil Mastermind posted:I almost forgot about the greatest forgotten Kirby thing ever: Really, Oklahoma? There's gotta be a better movie.
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In keeping with the Fantastic Four reveal, he also lives in "idea space" and goes around traveling to other worlds: 
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mind the walrus posted:Speaking of live-action Kirby we'd all love to see: Well, yeah, I guess Professor X is easy pickings when he gets pushed out of his hover/wheelchair.
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tribbledirigible posted:Well, yeah, I guess Professor X is easy pickings when he gets pushed out of his hover/wheelchair.  Even when he's in it.
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With everybody posting Kirby stuff I'm surprised no one's posted the back-up in this week's S.H.I.E.L.D featuring Kirby's original 2 page pitch for Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD. Featuring inking from other beloved BSS artist, Jim Steranko!  (from SHIELD #9)
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That last panel is my new favorite thing.
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Professor Wayne posted:That last panel is my new favorite thing. 
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Naw, closer to this: 
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TwoPair posted:With everybody posting Kirby stuff I'm surprised no one's posted the back-up in this week's S.H.I.E.L.D featuring Kirby's original 2 page pitch for Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD. Featuring inking from other beloved BSS artist, Jim Steranko! Huh. New Fury L Jackson was never new. It's his old deisgn. That explains a bit.
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