Gavok posted:The comic would go on for eight more issues as just Deadpool teaming up with people, but this is honestly the real finale. While you're not wrong, the final pages of the last issue is a really good conclusion to Deadpool's arc. This series is probably what took him from merc to hero the most effectively, even if Daniel Way felt the need to turn him back into a merc almost immediately.
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# ? Feb 8, 2016 06:26 |
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Yeah, even as a longtime Deadpool fan going in Cable and Deadpool is the book that finally convinced me that Deadpool could actually fit into the Marvel Universe in a meaningful way and not just be a weird fringe character. Daniel Way pretty much ignored all that, but thankfully we've course corrected now. I think Duggan and Posehn's run has supplanted it as my favorite for the character but Nicieza really did something special with that book. Plus it's the book that completely turned me around on Cable as a character.
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# ? Feb 8, 2016 06:32 |
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Oddly enough the very brief run of Cable by David Tischman is what made me a fan. I really liked the idea that he'd finally defeated the TO virus and would have full access to his abilities for the first time in his life.
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# ? Feb 8, 2016 06:37 |
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The Duggan/Posehn run is so incredibly, impossibly good. It's the Daredevil: Born Again of Deadpool.
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# ? Feb 8, 2016 07:43 |
No, that's the Kelly run.
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# ? Feb 8, 2016 10:02 |
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Lurdiak posted:No, that's the Kelly run. I disagree, the Kelly run is good but the finale is a huge clusterfuck.
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# ? Feb 8, 2016 20:40 |
I disagree about the finale, but I wasn't saying the Kelly run is better than the Posehn/Duggan run, just that it's the more obvious parallel to Born Again in terms of being classic and defining. Born Again isn't even my favorite Daredevil story, but it's obviously more important than Brubaker's run.
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# ? Feb 8, 2016 20:43 |
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Lurdiak posted:I disagree about the finale, but I wasn't saying the Kelly run is better than the Posehn/Duggan run, just that it's the more obvious parallel to Born Again in terms of being classic and defining. Born Again isn't even my favorite Daredevil story, but it's obviously more important than Brubaker's run. I think that's fair.
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# ? Feb 8, 2016 21:04 |
ImpAtom posted:It is always bewildering to me that someone took the ideal of Cable and Deadpool and made it work. I've always said it was "The Odd Couple" in the Marvel Universe, and thankfully, Fabian Nicieza realized that included the part about how, even though they piss each other off, Felix and Oscar really do respect, care for, and need one another.
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# ? Feb 9, 2016 01:14 |
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From today's Red Hood/Arsenal #9 Is very touching the way Roy and Jason both have decided to support Duela. Jason specially since is one of those rare occassions where he has shown concern for someone outside the Batfamily or Roy.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 20:38 |
Why didn't they rescue the other person taking a lava bath?
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 20:45 |
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How is she okay after being that close to lava
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 20:53 |
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AnonSpore posted:How is she okay after being that close to lava I think there is literally only one comic that actually had somebody catch on fire from convection.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 21:01 |
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"the easy way out" == boiled alive in hot bubbly magma
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 21:02 |
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It'd take all of three seconds.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 21:15 |
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:From today's Red Hood/Arsenal #9 Why do artists insist on giving Red Hood's mask lips? Has it ever looked not terrible?
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 21:16 |
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Actually thinking about my comment re: convection , the moment right before that probably counts for this thread. For context, this was during the Kyle/Yost X-Force run, where the team are trying to destroy a sample of the Legacy virus that a bunch of anti-mutant terrorists have gotten their hands on in a T2-esque steel mill, only for X-23 to get injected with the full sample. The rest of the team aren't able to get to her as she moves off, except for Elixir, who basically got drafted to be team medic & isn't down with killing people at all. She's OK, she manages to avoid the metal but gets set on fire when she bounces off the side of the tank. Luckily she's got her healing factor back by that point & heals. It's just too bad she never saved him back.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 21:23 |
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Discendo Vox posted:Why didn't they rescue the other person taking a lava bath? He was the bad guy Alacron posted:Why do artists insist on giving Red Hood's mask lips? Has it ever looked not terrible? Nope! Is really a shame that they scrapped Medri's costume for Jason since it had a very superior helmet.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 21:27 |
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from today's MtMtE #49 and we get another example of why James Roberts' signature character might well be Megatron
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 23:58 |
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If you told me a couple years ago I'd give a poo poo about Megatron Having this weird robo-soul searching journey ending with him straight up renouncing violence and actually feel like it was a satisfying arc I'd have called you a liar but welp.
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# ? Feb 11, 2016 00:11 |
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"I've renounced violence", says the transforming robot with a giant gun barrel over his shoulder That being said, I'm loving the new Megatron, too.
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# ? Feb 11, 2016 00:42 |
Malachite_Dragon posted:"I've renounced violence", says the transforming robot with a giant gun barrel over his shoulder T-shirt cannon.
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# ? Feb 11, 2016 01:41 |
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Discendo Vox posted:T-shirt cannon. It fires T-shirts that say "Here comes a special bot!"
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# ? Feb 11, 2016 02:00 |
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Discendo Vox posted:T-shirt cannon. On the front it says "Here Comes Grimlock!" And on the back it says "There Goes Grimlock!"
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# ? Feb 11, 2016 02:31 |
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Malachite_Dragon posted:"I've renounced violence", says the transforming robot with a giant gun barrel over his shoulder The gun now fires confetti as Megatron has renounced violence and taken up being leader of the Partycons. Alternately, it now just fires magic healing rays, like a videogame.
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# ? Feb 11, 2016 03:27 |
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Alacron posted:On the front it says "Here Comes Grimlock!" With a picture of Grimlock pulling a wooden duckie.
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# ? Feb 11, 2016 03:44 |
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Choco1980 posted:With a picture of Grimlock pulling a wooden duckie. A helium balloon of Swoop.
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# ? Feb 11, 2016 06:47 |
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ManiacClown posted:A helium balloon of Swoop. Stop making me want things that don't exist
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# ? Feb 12, 2016 02:07 |
The last two pages of of the last issue of Alias. Luke has just admitted to Jessica that he has feelings for her. Very, very deep feelings. She's got some news for him, too: she's pregnant. And it's his. And he just BEAMS. Such a huge smile, it's wonderful. And then his face suddenly gets all nervous. And he asks her: "Do you want it?" and she says: "Very, very, very much." and again, he BEAMS. Really sweet.
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# ? Feb 13, 2016 06:36 |
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Parahexavoctal posted:The last two pages of of the last issue of Alias. Their relationship has remained one of the brightest spots in Marvel, it's wonderful
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# ? Feb 13, 2016 07:13 |
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The New Avengers annual where Jessica accepts his marriage proposal out of nowhere and Luke has this blissful look like he's about to fall over is one of my favorite comic moments.
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# ? Feb 13, 2016 07:17 |
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I'm glad somebody in comics is allowed to be happily married.
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# ? Feb 13, 2016 15:19 |
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Yvonmukluk posted:I'm glad somebody in comics is allowed to be happily married. Agreed. Comic writers seem to be obsessed with the idea that readers hate happy relationships and do everything in their power to kill them most of the time. I'm glad to see this on survive.
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And then the baby was a skrull!!!! Edit:: I swear this was a last page twist once but can't find it, so maybe I'm crazy Chinaman7000 fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Feb 13, 2016 |
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I think they randomly just showed her with green eyes in secret invasion to hint that she was a skrull but then it turned out to be a random nonsense misdirect.
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# ? Feb 13, 2016 17:37 |
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Geostomp posted:Agreed. Comic writers seem to be obsessed with the idea that readers hate happy relationships and do everything in their power to kill them most of the time. I'm glad to see this on survive. I wonder if they're slightly projecting, sometimes.
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# ? Feb 13, 2016 17:44 |
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Geostomp posted:Agreed. Comic writers seem to be obsessed with the idea that readers hate happy relationships and do everything in their power to kill them most of the time. I'm glad to see this on survive. Hate probably isn't quite it. But it's easy drama is why. Also 'it's humanising'. I mean, normal couples can be as infuriating as they are lovely. Then you add superpowers and heroing to the mix? All the while possibly juggling a secret ID? The struggles are conflict, which sells things. Seeing them work through it makes them real. Seeing them perfectly happy makes you feel good also, while it lasts. Then someone complains they're too happy or some such and 'welp'. More easy drama. I remember the older days of Spider-Man(Or at least I remember reading some old anthologies). When Mary-Jane had giant hair, and they and Peter were happily married, and she was a movie star and his own job was doing well too.
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Bloodly posted:I remember the older days of Spider-Man(Or at least I remember reading some old anthologies). When Mary-Jane had giant hair, and they and Peter were happily married, and she was a movie star and his own job was doing well too. See, that just seems like a good time to do the Miles Morales thing and have a new character take up the old hero's mantle. There's a reason you don't see a lot of Professional athletes stick on into their 40s and 50s, and superheroics seems, if anything, like it'd put even more of a strain on your body. Just come up with an origin story for the new guy, have the old hero mentor them for a while, then retire from full time heroics to enjoy a quieter professional life and raising a family. Have them occasionally drop in to bail the newbie out of a deathtrap, or give them advice on a case. Maybe do a temporary team up for some big threat.
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# ? Feb 13, 2016 18:48 |
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Keeshhound posted:See, that just seems like a good time to do the Miles Morales thing and have a new character take up the old hero's mantle. There's a reason you don't see a lot of Professional athletes stick on into their 40s and 50s, and superheroics seems, if anything, like it'd put even more of a strain on your body. Just come up with an origin story for the new guy, have the old hero mentor them for a while, then retire from full time heroics to enjoy a quieter professional life and raising a family. Have them occasionally drop in to bail the newbie out of a deathtrap, or give them advice on a case. Maybe do a temporary team up for some big threat. That's kind of exactly what Astro City did with Jack In The Box (who's basically that comic's analog to Spidey already)
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# ? Feb 13, 2016 18:50 |
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Keeshhound posted:See, that just seems like a good time to do the Miles Morales thing and have a new character take up the old hero's mantle. There's a reason you don't see a lot of Professional athletes stick on into their 40s and 50s, and superheroics seems, if anything, like it'd put even more of a strain on your body. Just come up with an origin story for the new guy, have the old hero mentor them for a while, then retire from full time heroics to enjoy a quieter professional life and raising a family. Have them occasionally drop in to bail the newbie out of a deathtrap, or give them advice on a case. Maybe do a temporary team up for some big threat. Isn't that what they tried to do with Ben Reilly?
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