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Travis343 posted:You're alive and in society, so yeah it loving is. It isn't my problem with regards to finding a hypothetical joke story idea appealing.
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Lurdiak posted:That's stupid, there's nothing gritty about most golden age heroes and those guys were basically serial killers. Well, yes and no. A lot of it depended on their popularity; Batman and Superman started out being pretty dangerous guys, then as they got to be popular with the kids (which was only a few years in), editors started being like "whoa, Batman only shoots to wound!" and then "Batman doesn't shoot, period". Which is how you get stuff like the radio version of The Shadow, who's reduced to using his ability to cloud men's minds to go and sneak out what the criminals are doing, and then... call the police on them. You still had stuff like Captain Marvel shooting fleeing men in the back with a machinegun in the old film serials (mind, they were foreign bad guys, and so a white American shooting them in the back was probably still legal), but some comic book editors were concerned about that sort of thing well over a decade before Seduction of the Innocent. It wasn't so much that Golden Age heroes were more bloodthirsty, but that there just weren't the same established conventions for how superheroes were supposed to act until the Comics Code landed and codified things for most publishers.
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WickedHate posted:I would just personally like something like that. Pretty sure this is an example of the problems we have with you, sorry. Also, if you think people being poo poo irl isn't your problem, you're really naive.
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Feb 27, 2016 15:06
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Stop letting WickedHate turn conversations to be about her.
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Feb 27, 2016 15:58
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People should stop jumping on every little thing I say and making conversations about me. I'm dropping it.
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Feb 27, 2016 16:03
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Squizzle posted:Stop letting WickedHate turn conversations to be about her. Let's talk about Squizzle instead. I heard if he touches Wickedhate they'll explode like matter and anti-matter. Joking aside, what is everyone's favorite comic book weapon/item/artifact? Cap's shield? Thor's hammer? The cosmic cube? Doom's time travel platform? The Infinity Gauntlet is a pretty obvious choice, but I'm also a big fan of the Mother Box.
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Feb 27, 2016 16:19
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Die Laughing posted:Let's talk about Squizzle instead. I heard if he touches Wickedhate they'll explode like matter and anti-matter. I'm a big fan of Rick Jones's Big Room o' Memorabilia. 
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Feb 27, 2016 16:24
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I like the cosmic rod. It has such a cool design, and Jack and Stargirl both wield it in a way that feels realistic and badass at the same time. Cap's shield is neat but it's the first thing every writer breaks to show how serious things are. It's the Worf of Marvel Comics.
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Feb 27, 2016 16:25
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obscure pick: that one glove thingy Hawkman had that one time that let him hit Superman with the cumulative force of earth's gravity or something in Superman/Batman. not a particularly good comic, but I always thought that thing was cool. ride or die for Hawkman.
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Feb 27, 2016 16:25
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I know it's gotten talked about to death because it has got a Bat-Butt in it right now, but I really love the Mobius Chair. Ultimate knowledge paired with ultimate laziness.
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Feb 27, 2016 16:25
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Die Laughing posted:Let's talk about Squizzle instead. I heard if he touches Wickedhate they'll explode like matter and anti-matter. For some reason I always really liked those little discs that Mister Miracle uses to fly.
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Feb 27, 2016 16:27
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:obscure pick: that one glove thingy Hawkman had that one time that let him hit Superman with the cumulative force of earth's gravity or something in Superman/Batman. not a particularly good comic, but I always thought that thing was cool. ride or die for Hawkman. Oh, I liked that one armor Batman used against Superman and the JLA last year or the year before. It took down the rest of the League but as soon as Superman entered the fight it was a realistic scramble for Batman to stay alive, which I like. The idea of Batman ever standing toe to toe against Superman(or Darkseid, etc.) is just dumb. It's cooler and makes me actually root for him when he really is the underdog and not just Iron Man with a black coat of paint.
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Feb 27, 2016 16:29
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:For some reason I always really liked those little discs that Mister Miracle uses to fly. It is a design that can really only work in comic books without looking too stupid (and don't get me wrong, they can look really goofy) but I like those too. They are probably silent, but I always think that Mister Miracle is making little "woooosh" sounds whenever he flies around with them. The New Gods just have a lot of out there and cool items.
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Dr. Hurt posted:It is a design that can really only work in comic books without looking too stupid (and don't get me wrong, they can look really goofy) but I like those too. They are probably silent, but I always think that Mister Miracle is making little "woooosh" sounds whenever he flies around with them. The New Gods just have a lot of out there and cool items. The Astro Harness has never stopped looking weird as hell to me. 
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Feb 27, 2016 16:32
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:For some reason I always really liked those little discs that Mister Miracle uses to fly. ooo good call, those are rad.
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Feb 27, 2016 16:34
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I've never liked most of Kirby's New Gods designs but the N52 actually went a long way towards salvaging Orion and his harness' look.
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Feb 27, 2016 16:38
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WickedHate posted:I've never liked most of Kirby's New Gods designs I didn't understand why people were giving you poo poo until this very second. 
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Feb 27, 2016 16:43
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:For some reason I always really liked those little discs that Mister Miracle uses to fly. There's a crowd shot in some shortly-post-7S event comic where Shilo Norman is floating with both feet on a single aero-disc, his arms outstretched so his whole pose is cruciform. I always liked that image; it felt like the artist actually read 7S: Mister Miracle.
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Uthor posted:I didn't understand why people were giving you poo poo until this very second. I'm a fan of Kirby's other designs.  I would kill to watch a Celestial football game or that Shakespeare play he did costumes for.
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Feb 27, 2016 16:51
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I've always liked The Green Goblin's glider, specifically when it looks close to how it does in the 90s cartoon, purple with a face on the front.
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Yeah I'm just realizing New God transportation is the coolest poo poo all around.
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WickedHate posted:that Shakespeare play he did costumes for. What??? Link please!
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Squizzle posted:There's a crowd shot in some shortly-post-7S event comic where Shilo Norman is floating with both feet on a single aero-disc, his arms outstretched so his whole pose is cruciform. I always liked that image; it felt like the artist actually read 7S: Mister Miracle. Found it. From 52 #1:  Apologies for the sloppy crop job. But check out how much that owns. e: Uthor posted:What??? Link please! Biff! Bam! Pow! Shakespearean stage performance isn't just for kids anymore! Squizzle fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Feb 27, 2016 |
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Well, yes and no. A lot of it depended on their popularity; Batman and Superman started out being pretty dangerous guys, then as they got to be popular with the kids (which was only a few years in), editors started being like "whoa, Batman only shoots to wound!" and then "Batman doesn't shoot, period". Which is how you get stuff like the radio version of The Shadow, who's reduced to using his ability to cloud men's minds to go and sneak out what the criminals are doing, and then... call the police on them. I didn't say ALL of them were killers, and I was counting pulp guys like Sandman in that definition too, not just superheroes. And again, nobody would call that stuff gritty.
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another dark horse candidate (no pun intended): Grendel's awesome double-forked lance.
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Die Laughing posted:Joking aside, what is everyone's favorite comic book weapon/item/artifact? Cap's shield? Thor's hammer? The cosmic cube? Doom's time travel platform? The Infinity Gauntlet is a pretty obvious choice, but I'm also a big fan of the Mother Box. 3 words: Boxing. Glove. Arrows. Sorry Hawkeye but until you develop boxing glove based technology, you remain the inferior arrow-based hero in comic books
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TwoPair posted:3 words: Boxing. Glove. Arrows.  
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She-Hulk's endless collection of back issues that are considered legal documents in the Marvel U.
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TwoPair posted:3 words: Boxing. Glove. Arrows. Look, let's not start this Hawkeye vs Green Arrow thing again. You don't want to get on Ollie's bad side. 
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Lurdiak posted:Look, let's not start this Hawkeye vs Green Arrow thing again. You don't want to get on Ollie's bad side. what the gently caress Ollie
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CapnAndy posted:Ollie were you carrying that around on your back Better than his front pocket. Do you want Black Canary to get cervical cancer?
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kizudarake posted:Do you want Black Canary to get cervical cancer? ugh why does every comic chattin' community get tangled up in this question all the time?????
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it explodes into a big pile of sour candies when it hits the target, don't worry
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Lurdiak posted:Look, let's not start this Hawkeye vs Green Arrow thing again. You don't want to get on Ollie's bad side. I take back Hawkeye's boomerang arrow. That rules.
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It also made it into JLU, in a slightly modified form! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPkvcTEqq4U
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Dr. Hurt posted:It is a design that can really only work in comic books without looking too stupid (and don't get me wrong, they can look really goofy) but I like those too. They are probably silent, but I always think that Mister Miracle is making little "woooosh" sounds whenever he flies around with them. The New Gods just have a lot of out there and cool items. I even liked them when they were used by an old Shang-Chi antagonist who got worked on by aliens and fought the Silver Surfer. 
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Soggy Cereal posted:I just read Kingdom Come. I really enjoyed it, particularly the art. The answer to all of these questions is "Alex Ross wants you to get off his lawn"
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:obscure pick: that one glove thingy Hawkman had that one time that let him hit Superman with the cumulative force of earth's gravity or something in Superman/Batman. not a particularly good comic, but I always thought that thing was cool. ride or die for Hawkman. Claw of Horus. Shame on you all for not giving All Black, The Necrosword a shout out.
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Ooo, The Satan Claw is pretty slick too.
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The Spear of Destiny is a pretty neat plot device object, especially when Hitler uses it to keep superheroes out of the European theater in WWII.
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