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Aphrodite posted:If Rogue touches Nightcrawler, does she turn blue and demon-ey?
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Nov 25, 2015 16:44
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Aphrodite posted:If Rogue touches Nightcrawler, does she turn blue and demon-ey? Medullah posted:No, because she only absorbs mutant powers, not demon DNA. Say what again? 
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Nov 25, 2015 16:51
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Haha that's funny. I was more just making fun of the Nightcrawler is a demon story. Comics sometimes have continuity gaps
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Nov 25, 2015 16:54
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Ah the strapless number that Kurt was so fond of at that point.
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Nov 25, 2015 16:54
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Senor Candle posted:The Leech thing is only a problem because he will never age. If he was an adult he could make a killing providing that service. This proves that aging exists because of some ancient mutant stealing life energy from everything on Earth to remain immortal. im a scientist now
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Nov 25, 2015 17:33
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And the name of that supremely-powerful, Juggernaut-stomping pink Sentinel was Nimrod. 
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Nov 25, 2015 17:36
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Hey now, "nimrod" only came to be an insult because of Bugs Bunny's sarcasm. As for the other pink Sentinels, Motherfucker and Poops, thereby hangs a tale:
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Nov 25, 2015 17:43
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Nimrod was named after the Biblical character who was a mighty hunter. Using it derogatorily is a 20th-century invention (pre-X-Men, granted).
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Nov 25, 2015 17:44
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Squizzle posted:Hey now, "nimrod" only came to be an insult because of Bugs Bunny's sarcasm. Endless Mike posted:Nimrod was named after the Biblical character who was a mighty hunter. Using it derogatorily is a 20th-century invention (pre-X-Men, granted). Yeah specifically the origin of the insult is that Bugs Bunny sarcastically called Elmer Fudd Nimrod because yeah that dude is a great hunter  but people who weren't familiar with the reference just assumed it was an insult.
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Nov 25, 2015 17:46
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Endless Mike posted:Nimrod was named after the Biblical character who was a mighty hunter. I am fully aware of this, as I read every word in those comics, and you know Claremont wouldn't let something like that go unexplained. 
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Nov 25, 2015 17:48
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Squizzle posted:This proves that aging exists because of some ancient mutant stealing life energy from everything on Earth to remain immortal.
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Nov 25, 2015 18:24
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Lightning Lord posted:Yeah specifically the origin of the insult is that Bugs Bunny sarcastically called Elmer Fudd Nimrod because yeah that dude is a great hunter Yeah but also that was already the case when Nimrod was created. Edit: Oh the other guy said that too.
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Nov 25, 2015 18:44
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Uh-oh. Somebody on a different message board might disagree: http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=87529 The OED lists the first cite by Ben Hecht in 1933. Bugs Bunny did not exist at that time. Quote: Originally Posted by OED 1933 B. Hecht & G. Fowler Great Magoo iii. i. 183 He's in love with her. That makes about the tenth. The same old Nimrod. Won't let her alone for a second. However, the next cite is not until 1963, after Bugs (and the cartoon when he used it). It's possible that Hecht's use was a nonce usage; certainly it's unclear from the quote that meaning is "idiot." And many more people would have been familiar with Bugs using it than Ben Hecht. prefect fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Nov 25, 2015 |
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Nov 25, 2015 18:47
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Seems like that example is referring to him as a hunter of women. It's like if people only knew Sherlock Holmes from people saying "No poo poo, Sherlock."
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Nov 25, 2015 19:05
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Wikipedia claims Bugs popularized it, which is probably not terribly inaccurate.
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Nov 25, 2015 19:20
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Die Laughing posted:Seems like that example is referring to him as a hunter of women. It's like if people only knew Sherlock Holmes from people saying "No poo poo, Sherlock."
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Nov 25, 2015 19:28
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CapnAndy posted:Yeah, the context there is pretty clearly that the guy being referred to is hunting the woman relentlessly, as he "won't let her alone for a second". He's being mildly insulted, but the insult is very much "there he goes haring off after another woman", not "what an idiot". "Pepe le Pew" would probably be more appropriate than "Nimrod". 
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Nov 26, 2015 00:11
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Not in 1933, though.
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Nov 26, 2015 00:52
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Aphrodite posted:If Rogue touches Nightcrawler, does she turn blue and demon-ey? She has before. E: Beaten like Xavier by his stepdad.
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Nov 26, 2015 16:37
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Rhyno posted:Say what again? So...er....does she absorb Nightcrawler's clothes too?
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Nov 26, 2015 23:10
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I remember reading an X-Men origin story when I was a kid – it was about Jean arriving at the X-mansion and meeting Cyclops, Angel, Beast, and Ice-Man – but it's not X-Men #1. I'm aware of the more recent origin callbacks (Season One, First Class, etc.), but this thing is older, and I think it was drawn in more of an 80's or maybe 90's style. Does anyone have any idea what book that is? I think I recall the first issue ending with a Sentinel encounter.
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Nov 27, 2015 00:13
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Children of the Atom?
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Nov 27, 2015 00:21
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Cyphoderus posted:I remember reading an X-Men origin story when I was a kid – it was about Jean arriving at the X-mansion and meeting Cyclops, Angel, Beast, and Ice-Man – but it's not X-Men #1. I'm aware of the more recent origin callbacks (Season One, First Class, etc.), but this thing is older, and I think it was drawn in more of an 80's or maybe 90's style. Does anyone have any idea what book that is? I think I recall the first issue ending with a Sentinel encounter. Was it from that 99-cent comic line? I think all of those were set in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Xavier_and_the_X-Men
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Nov 27, 2015 17:06
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Jack Gladney posted:Was it from that 99-cent comic line? I think all of those were set in the past: This looks like exactly what it was. Thanks a lot!
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Nov 27, 2015 17:22
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What's the most recent word on when Brubaker and Phillips are going to get around to the third (and I'm going to guess final) arc of Incognito?
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Nov 27, 2015 17:44
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I used to read a few comics when I was young but trailed off and stopped reading around 20 years ago but with all the new superhero movies and TV series and the nerds at work I've been reading a few past comics. So a couple of questions the death of Mattie Franklin seemed a bit strange to me she didn't really go down fighting or no one tried to rescue her but were moments too late, have there been any other heroes who have died in really strange way like just being knocked over while crossing the road etc..? Also she doesn't seem to have come back so is death more permanent these days? Also I've most read Marvel, anything DC I should catch up on?
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Nov 28, 2015 16:41
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Ultragonk posted:I used to read a few comics when I was young but trailed off and stopped reading around 20 years ago but with all the new superhero movies and TV series and the nerds at work I've been reading a few past comics. So a couple of questions the death of Mattie Franklin seemed a bit strange to me she didn't really go down fighting or no one tried to rescue her but were moments too late, have there been any other heroes who have died in really strange way like just being knocked over while crossing the road etc..? Also she doesn't seem to have come back so is death more permanent these days? There's an infamous Green Lantern that was a squirrel who was hit by a truck. In Injustice, Nightwing falls down and hits his head on a rock and dies.
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Nov 28, 2015 17:02
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^^^ edit: yea, somehow I didn't see you post thatUltragonk posted:I used to read a few comics when I was young but trailed off and stopped reading around 20 years ago but with all the new superhero movies and TV series and the nerds at work I've been reading a few past comics. So a couple of questions the death of Mattie Franklin seemed a bit strange to me she didn't really go down fighting or no one tried to rescue her but were moments too late, have there been any other heroes who have died in really strange way like just being knocked over while crossing the road etc..? Also she doesn't seem to have come back so is death more permanent these days?  it's from the Injustice comic though
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Nov 28, 2015 17:18
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Ha ha that's crazy so is he dead, dead or is he back, or too soon to tell? Also how do they do comics these days I'm used to a very lineal issues 1, 2, 3 all the was to issue 100 or whatever, probably because of the comics I read, but apart from ones like Spider-man, X-men or avengers they seem to be much short runs and then that character doesn't come back for a while. Is that usual these days?
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Nov 28, 2015 17:52
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Ultragonk posted:Ha ha that's crazy so is he dead, dead or is he back, or too soon to tell? He died in a comic tie-in to a fighting game where the world goes to poo poo because Superman becomes dictator of the world. He's staying dead because it is its own little thing that isn't connected to the general DC Universe.
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Nov 28, 2015 17:55
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Yeah. The game mentions that Robin killed Nightwing at some point without going into details. The comic filled in the blanks. Nightwing did come back as the new Deadman though, if that counts.
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Nov 28, 2015 18:02
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Ultragonk posted:Ha ha that's crazy so is he dead, dead or is he back, or too soon to tell? Lots of comics frequently reset to new #1's. This will usually happen if a new creative team takes over or if there is a good meta-reason to renumber (all the new #1's after the universe ending Secret Wars, Thor getting new #1's after major changes to the story's status quo, etc). New readers have an easier time starting with #1's and it's easier to sell collections (even if it can get confusing over time).
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Nov 28, 2015 18:09
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Travis343 posted:There's an infamous Green Lantern that was a squirrel who was hit by a truck. Green Lantern: Mosaic, where C'hp dies, is like reading a fever dream, but not really in a good way. It's interesting that C'hp's death is a continuity point that's held even into the New 52, but the actual conceit of the series (John Stewart becomes a Guardian of the Universe and oversees an interplanetary refugee community) has been thoroughly buried.
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Nov 28, 2015 18:10
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Gavok posted:Yeah. The game mentions that Robin killed Nightwing at some point without going into details. The comic filled in the blanks. Dr. Hurt posted:He died in a comic tie-in to a fighting game where the world goes to poo poo because Superman becomes dictator of the world. He's staying dead because it is its own little thing that isn't connected to the general DC Universe. Cheers. I always wonder how they decide who to kill off and if they'll ever bring them back, like if a character kills someone and they can't write their way out of a hole or because they just can't think of anything to do with the character. Uthor posted:Lots of comics frequently reset to new #1's. This will usually happen if a new creative team takes over or if there is a good meta-reason to renumber (all the new #1's after the universe ending Secret Wars, Thor getting new #1's after major changes to the story's status quo, etc). New readers have an easier time starting with #1's and it's easier to sell collections (even if it can get confusing over time). That seems alright. Secret Wars that's the new big thing in Marvel, is it over now been as they are releasing new #1s?
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Nov 28, 2015 18:17
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Ultragonk posted:That seems alright. Secret Wars that's the new big thing in Marvel, is it over now been as they are releasing new #1s? It's been scheduled to be over, but ran into delays (I think?), so new #1's are coming out, but there's a few issues left before Secret Wars wraps up. So, it's confusing at the moment.
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Nov 28, 2015 18:22
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DC did a big slate of new #1s back in 2010 or 2011 when The New 52 rebooted the universe. They're better about that than Marvel though, even when for example Batgirl drastically changed its direction and creative team it didn't restart at #1, whereas there's been something like ten X-Men and Avengers #1s in the last five years. Marvel restarts books at #1 so often creators have even started making fun of it with Marvel's own comics. 
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Nov 28, 2015 18:23
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Uthor posted:It's been scheduled to be over, but ran into delays (I think?), so new #1's are coming out, but there's a few issues left before Secret Wars wraps up. So, it's confusing at the moment. Is it a straight Secret Wars 1-10 issues (or however many there are) or are there ties in you'd have to read to get the story to make sense?
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Nov 28, 2015 18:28
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Ultragonk posted:Is it a straight Secret Wars 1-10 issues (or however many there are) or are there ties in you'd have to read to get the story to make sense? There are tie-ins but those are mostly off in their own little parts of Battleworld. Essentially Dr. Doom is ruling over a patchwork world of all sorts of different realities so the tie-in issues all focus on weird little worlds like Cowboy Avengers or Law and Thorder. They aren't "necessary" to the plot, but some of them do require you reading Secret Wars to understand what is going on, from what I've seen.
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Nov 28, 2015 18:45
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Dr. Hurt posted:There are tie-ins but those are mostly off in their own little parts of Battleworld. Essentially Dr. Doom is ruling over a patchwork world of all sorts of different realities so the tie-in issues all focus on weird little worlds like Cowboy Avengers or Law and Thorder. They aren't "necessary" to the plot, but some of them do require you reading Secret Wars to understand what is going on, from what I've seen. Thanks, I'd forgotten how confusing comics can be. Also Law & Thorer, nice.
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Ultragonk posted:Mattie Franklin Are you asking about Mattie Franklin because you're reading Alias because of Jessica Jones?
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Nov 28, 2015 19:56
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