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Captain Bravo posted:More than Meets the Eye has some of the best Starscream character development of any Transformers books. He lies and cheats his way to the top of the decepticons, then he lies and cheats his way almost to the top of the autobots, then he lies and cheats his way into basically being king of the loving transformers. Like, I literally think he has a loving crown at one point. Then he realizes that he's accomplished everything he could ever want, and that his lying and cheating is a massive ten-ton tiger that's about to bite him in the rear end, and he has a mild psychotic break before deciding that "gently caress it, I am goddamned Starscream and I can do this poo poo." and he actually manages to end up being not-a-complete-piece-of-poo poo. It's kind of awesome, and as great as Megatron's development has been I think I still like Starscream's better. He goes from sniveling toady to king of the world, and has to man the gently caress up in order to remain there. This is actually in Transformers
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I finally made it through the entire thread and I must say it was well worth the time spent. It's nice to be reminded that comics can make you feel. So many panels here were absolutely beautiful and of course not all of them hit, but when they did? You would've sworn I cut several onions. I truly want to thank everyone involved in making this thread. I needed it. To contribute: And I'll include the link to some more pages since the whole thing is pretty cute. http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/990722.html#cutid1
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SonicRulez posted:I finally made it through the entire thread and I must say it was well worth the time spent. It's nice to be reminded that comics can make you feel. So many panels here were absolutely beautiful and of course not all of them hit, but when they did? You would've sworn I cut several onions. I truly want to thank everyone involved in making this thread. I needed it. To contribute: I like how there's a bundle of cash in one of the nets on the side of that holder.
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I've always found this bit from Dr. McNinja to be equal parts funny, badass and touching, so it could go into whichever thread. The story is about Marty the Monster, a Hulk analogue who runs a supermarket and uses his transformation ability as a gimmick for his commercials. McNinja outright hates Marty because they were in a superhero team back in college and Marty went behind their backs to score an action figure deal that involved selling out their identities and addresses. Because of that, their teammates were killed. A shamed and desperate Marty goes to McNinja and Gordito because he's stuck in mid-transformation, unable to move between the halfway point of his human form and monster form. McNinja figures out that it's stress and tells him to work that out and he should be fine. He feels kind of bad for Marty (mostly from seeing the way his estranged father treats him), so he goes from saying it'll be really expensive to just doing it for free. Still, he thinks there's something odd about Marty's behavior and the way he dodges questions that have easy enough answers. Soon he finds out that Marty is also involved in the mob due to a huge debt and is forced to be their enforcer. This is the cause of his crippling stress.  The three form a plan to defeat a local mobster (a lobster named Robster), which involves Marty wearing a disguise. It all goes wrong and Robster takes Gordito as a hostage.  
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The other day in the derailed thread, Lurdiak asked me how I'd personally write Venom off if Marvel wanted to get rid of the character for good. I wrote some stuff off the top of my head and after the fact read Secret Wars: Spider-Island. Turns out Christos Gage had the gist of it covered. The miniseries is about the heroes failing to stop the Spider Queen, mainly due to Venom backing down when faced against her sonic scream. Sometime later, Venom is the leader of the resistance. They're able to bring certain people out of the Spider Queen's control by mutating them with various monster-related serums, like turning Cap back into a werewolf, injecting Iron Man with Goblin serum, turning Hulk into a lizard person, Captain Marvel into a living vampire, etc. They also rescue Spider-Man from stasis, giving us the awkward moment where Flash and Peter realize each other's dual identities. In the final issue, they go after the Spider Queen, but it appears they're in over their heads and Spider-Man says to fall back. Venom refuses and rushes her.      The Queen is then trampled to death by Stegron and his army of dinosaurs. Unfortunately, Flash's injuries are too much, but he's okay with it.  
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The emotion of that moment is a little undermined by how ridiculous-but-amazing Werewolf Captain America looks just standing there.
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Jan 3, 2016 20:10
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How long has Betty Brandt been a fish-person?
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Travis343 posted:How long has Betty Brandt been a fish-person? Two issues, but it's a Secret Wars tie-in so it isn't canon. Also, she's not so much a fish person as she's the Lizard.
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Jan 3, 2016 20:47
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Man, I am out of touch. I just assumed Betty Ross had become the new Black Widow, from the outfit.
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Everyone got mutated into a weird science monster person do that they couldn't be mind controlled by the villain. Like a lot of the tie-ins, it was better than it sounds.
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wiegieman posted:Everyone got mutated into a weird science monster person do that they couldn't be mind controlled by the villain. Like a lot of the tie-ins, it was better than it sounds. It must have been amazing then because that sounds pretty drat awesome
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You ever think Captain America sits down and goes "Man, I sure do seem to get turned into a werewolf a lot.", then goes "Man....my life is totally screwed up.".
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Boogaleeboo posted:You ever think Captain America sits down and goes "Man, I sure do seem to get turned into a werewolf a lot.", then goes "Man....my life is totally screwed up.". Dude watched the president commit suicide, the werewolf thing probably doesn't even register.
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Jan 4, 2016 03:17
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Lizard-Hulk looks pretty awesome. Why wasn't he in the army of dinosaurs?
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Gavok posted:The other day in the derailed thread, Lurdiak asked me how I'd personally write Venom off if Marvel wanted to get rid of the character for good. I wrote some stuff off the top of my head and after the fact read Secret Wars: Spider-Island. Turns out Christos Gage had the gist of it covered. That is awesome, and a weird-rear end coincidence. Also I totally didn't expect vampire Captain Marvel to be a Morbius type vampire. She's lucky she didn't get the weird Kiss eyes.
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Lurdiak posted:That is awesome, and a weird-rear end coincidence. 
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Yeah that's still pretty normal compared to this poo poo. Like, is that mascara? It's also lucky she didn't get the bat nose, either. Mighta made her hard to draw sexy.
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whoever wrote this, I can't help but imagine they were yelling "GET IT? GET IT?" as they were showing the script to editors, artists and letterers.
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I don't follow the comics, but I'm picturing some giant robot trying to tolerate this indignant tiny robot who gets super pissed over some trivial thing because it'd look bad to beat up a tiny robot... but gently caress it, this tiny robot needs to get stomped.
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MisterBibs posted:I don't follow the comics, but I'm picturing some giant robot trying to tolerate this indignant tiny robot who gets super pissed over some trivial thing because it'd look bad to beat up a tiny robot... but gently caress it, this tiny robot needs to get stomped. Nope. Whirl is basically a psychopath, so it's more like a 10 foot Klingon redshirt just killed tiny Captain Kirk.
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Gaz-L posted:Nope. Whirl is basically a psychopath, so it's more like a 10 foot Klingon redshirt just killed tiny Captain Kirk. Yeah, I looked it up and the Terradores are the good guys in their conflict. 
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Poison Mushroom posted:The emotion of that moment is a little undermined by how ridiculous-but-amazing Werewolf Captain America looks just standing there. Yeah I really need more Werewolf Cap.
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Rough Lobster posted:Yeah I really need more Werewolf Cap. I'm pretty sure he was turned into a werewolf in his own book sometime in the 70s or 80s.
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The new Captain America currently has him as werewolf cap
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bobkatt013 posted:The new Captain America currently has him as werewolf cap Sam or Steve?
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Apparently Sam, I'm also pretty sure that's racist because "better a dog then a black, at least a dog is loyal" was/is a thing.
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SirDan3k posted:Apparently Sam, I'm also pretty sure that's racist because "better a dog then a black, at least a dog is loyal" was/is a thing. It was done by a bunch of white supremacists and they did it because steve was one at one point.
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bobkatt013 posted:It was done by a bunch of white supremacists and they did it because steve was one at one point. Wasn't it just their really weird mad scientist consultant?
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bobkatt013 posted:It was done by a bunch of white supremacists and they did it because steve was one at one point. Are you being serious? Because that is probably the best way to do it. It's enough of an edge case where the racial element could be problematic unless you attack it head-on because CapWolf has been a weirdly memorable thing that happened and it's fun to see how Sam reacts to similar circumstances:  
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mind the walrus posted:Are you being serious? Because that is probably the best way to do it. It's enough of an edge case where the racial element could be problematic unless you attack it head-on because CapWolf has been a weirdly memorable thing that happened and it's fun to see how Sam reacts to similar circumstances: That is what I was saying. I was responding to the person saying that turning him into a wolf is racist.
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mind the walrus posted:CapWolf has been a weirdly memorable thing I really appreciate the fact that even as a werewolf, he's still got blonde hair/fur.
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Well, of course. His hair spontaneously changes color when he's transformed into a werewolf? That would just be silly.
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It makes him look more like a weregolden retriever.
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WickedHate posted:It makes him look more like a weregolden retriever.
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Poison Mushroom posted:Who's a good captain? Who's a good captain? You are! Oh, yes you are! Oh, yes you are! The shield comes back because we're playing fetch.
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WickedHate posted:It makes him look more like a weregolden retriever. 
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Gotta love the Beaton
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Cable/Deadpool #41 and #42. The two had a huge falling out over a handful of things, mostly an instance where Cable hosed with Deadpool's head in an attempt to make him face his past sins and hopefully want to become a better human being. Instead, Deadpool went back to trying to be the best mercenary in the world while Cable went back to ruling his island utopia Providence while being a member of the X-Men. As part of a big X-Men story, Providence was under attack. Deadpool felt compelled to have his friends fly him to the island, where he arrived just in time to save Irene Merryweather from Sabretooth. Shortly after, the ladies find Cable.  Cable interjects himself into the Deadpool vs. Sabretooth fight by telekinetically tossing Sabretooth into the ocean.  Complicated Nicieza plot stuff is talked about, but the gist of it is that the island needs to be destroyed. There's a lot of future tech and data that can't fall into the wrong hands. Deadpool is sent to go find and destroy the backup data.   Deadpool succeeds in grabbing the backup. As Cable sacrifices himself and blows up the island, his last action is to make sure Deadpool is safely teleported away.  The comic would go on for eight more issues as just Deadpool teaming up with people, but this is honestly the real finale.
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