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I've seen similar pages for Aquaman and, I think, Barry Allen Flash and it always strikes me as super lame when you need to have characters talk about how great other characters are. It's like whenever a Marvel writer tries to reassure that, 'No way guys, Hank Pym is actually really cool! Honest!'
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Much like Cyclops, my interest in Hank Pym as a character is inversely proportional to how cool the writer tries to make him.
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Feb 28, 2016 01:28
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It's not an accident that the most fondly remembered Hank Pym moments are the ones where he leans into being a complete hot mess of a human being.
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Feb 28, 2016 01:30
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Wanderer posted:It's not an accident that the most fondly remembered Hank Pym moments are the ones where he leans into being a complete hot mess of a human being. I really liked the Secret Invasion issue where it turned out they kept losing Hank Pym Skrulls because his chaotic, brilliant humanity kept driving them insane. 
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Feb 28, 2016 01:32
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Superstring posted:I've seen similar pages for Aquaman and, I think, Barry Allen Flash and it always strikes me as super lame when you need to have characters talk about how great other characters are. It's like whenever a Marvel writer tries to reassure that, 'No way guys, Hank Pym is actually really cool! Honest!' The Aquaman one was especially bad because it had people in he DC universe acting like Superfriends was a thing.
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Feb 28, 2016 01:38
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Wanderer posted:It's not an accident that the most fondly remembered Hank Pym moments are the ones where he leans into being a complete hot mess of a human being. There's a quote about Hank Pym and his most famous punch, but I'll be damned about remembering enough of it to even paraphrase it.
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Feb 28, 2016 02:42
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Calaveron posted:There's a quote about Hank Pym and his most famous punch, but I'll be damned about remembering enough of it to even paraphrase it. There's this, but not sure that's the one you're thinking of. Skwirl posted:God dammit, now I'm going to have to start reading Ant Man. However, living in the shadow of the guy who's most famous punch was Hitler is a completely different thing than living in the shadow of a guy whose most famous punch was his wife.
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Feb 28, 2016 04:15
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Didn't the writer of that scene describe the scene as "Hank pushes his wife away violently" and was  when the art came back as a literal punch?
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Feb 28, 2016 04:35
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MisterBibs posted:Didn't the writer of that scene describe the scene as "Hank pushes his wife away violently" and was Nah, he just didn't expect the backhand to be drawn like a hyper dynamic cross with Janet flying away like she's Thanos getting socked by Hulk.  It makes the violence seems way more over the top.
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Feb 28, 2016 04:39
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SirDan3k posted:From the shoulder On clearest days or through thick mist, no old man shall escape my fist. Let those who've aged far past their prime, Beware my power - it's punchin' time!
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Feb 28, 2016 04:44
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darthbob88 posted:There's this, but not sure that's the one you're thinking of. This was exactly it, drat. Was it ever expressed this way in any comic book ever?
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Feb 28, 2016 06:19
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Superstring posted:I've seen similar pages for Aquaman and, I think, Barry Allen Flash and it always strikes me as super lame when you need to have characters talk about how great other characters are. It's like whenever a Marvel writer tries to reassure that, 'No way guys, Hank Pym is actually really cool! Honest!' I loved the Avengers Age of Ultron follow-up oneshot that Mark Waid, that was awesome. as well as his characterisation in Avengers Academy. I think because in both cases they didn't try to hard to make him awesome, but that he was a guy who made mistakes and wanted to do better.
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Feb 28, 2016 08:44
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My personal favorite Hank Pym moment
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Feb 28, 2016 12:43
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Yeah but it's kinda ruined due to the excessive copy pasting going on
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McCloud posted:Yeah but it's kinda ruined due to the excessive copy pasting going on And the awkwardness of him talking to a screen with his nose 4 inches away from it
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Feb 28, 2016 18:24
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To be fair to Pym, it looks like Reed is right up against whatever camera he's talking into too.
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Feb 28, 2016 18:50
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Superstring posted:I've seen similar pages for Aquaman and, I think, Barry Allen Flash and it always strikes me as super lame when you need to have characters talk about how great other characters are. It's like whenever a Marvel writer tries to reassure that, 'No way guys, Hank Pym is actually really cool! Honest!' Get that a lot with The Punisher too. I don't mind authors having favorites and all that, but I hate being told "No, my guy is the best!" Especially when your guy is Barry Allen Flash.
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Feb 28, 2016 22:29
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Don't forget that Peter Parker hit his wife too, and while she was pregnant, no less! When Peter learns that Ben Reilly is really, truly, without a doubt the original, he goes nuts and this happens:  As with Pym, the script didn't call for him to hit her, he was just supposed to push her away and accidentally knock her down, but somehow it wasn't drawn that way. The interesting thing is that one of the artists for that was Bill Sienkiewicz, who, after the Pym comic was published, told Jim Shooter that if he'd drawn it he would've done it right. Looks like he had another chance and blew it.
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Feb 28, 2016 23:28
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Action Jacktion posted:
That's Sal Buscema on art, although Sienkiewicz did the inking.
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Action Jacktion posted:Don't forget that Peter Parker hit his wife too, and while she was pregnant, no less! When Peter learns that Ben Reilly is really, truly, without a doubt the original, he goes nuts and this happens: Yeah but that was the 90s.
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Feb 29, 2016 00:10
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I think the general rule in comics seems to be "If it happened in the 90's then it didn't actually happen." Which honestly seems like a pretty good rule of thumb.
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galagazombie posted:I think the general rule in comics seems to be "If it happened in the 90's then it didn't actually happen." Which honestly seems like a pretty good rule of thumb. This applies to all aspects of life.
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Toshimo posted:This applies to all aspects of life. I was born in 1990 and can't really remember the 90's so it checks out. Well I remember bits and pieces but like said, I'm not sure if they happened...
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galagazombie posted:I think the general rule in comics seems to be "If it happened in the 90's then it didn't actually happen." Which honestly seems like a pretty good rule of thumb.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Particularly when it involves the Clone Saga. Can we keep Reilley's spider man costume? I always liked that one and wouldn't mind if it showed up again sometime. Although his scarlet spider costume sucks, we can toss that. Monaghan fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Feb 29, 2016 |
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Feb 29, 2016 19:00
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I would love it if they used the hoodie Scarlet Spider costume as Peter's first homemade suit in the new movie. That's about all it would be good for
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Action Jacktion posted:Don't forget that Peter Parker hit his wife too, and while she was pregnant, no less! When Peter learns that Ben Reilly is really, truly, without a doubt the original, he goes nuts and this happens: Peter's hit a few women in his time... Like when he killed Charlemagne
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Evil Mastermind posted:Particularly when it involves the Clone Saga. Pre-Clone Saga Spider-Man in the 1990s would probably be summed up by Solo smashing through a window firing two machine guns and yelling, "WHILE I LIVE, TERROR DIES!"
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Wheat Loaf posted:Pre-Clone Saga Spider-Man in the 1990s would probably be summed up by Solo smashing through a window firing two machine guns and yelling, "WHILE I LIVE, TERROR DIES!" Followed by the sparkle teleport.
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Tavarin posted:That's Sal Buscema on art, although Sienkiewicz did the inking. He said he'd've done the Pym panel right when he wasn't involved with it at all, so it seems like he at least could've said something even if he wasn't the main artist. Or maybe he decided it wouldn't sully Spider-Man's character since of course it wasn't the real Peter Parker doing it. Action Jacktion fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Mar 2, 2016 |
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Action Jacktion posted:He said he'd've done the Pym panel right when he wasn't involved with it at all, so it seems like he at least could've said something even if he wasn't the main artist. Or maybe he decided it wouldn't sully Spider-Man's character since of course it wasn't the real Peter Parker doing it. Except it was, in the end.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Pre-Clone Saga Spider-Man in the 1990s would probably be summed up by Solo smashing through a window firing two machine guns and yelling, "WHILE I LIVE, TERROR DIES!" Personally this image is what I think of when I think of 90's comics. Like I would go out of my way to include Solo in any story or part thereof set in the 90's.
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I think Spider-man gets a pass on idiot stuff like this because he lives in the ONLY reality in which he doesn't die horribly. Every single "What if..." starts with the basic premise that Spider-man is/is about to die. "What if Captain America dyed his hair black. Also Spider-man was eaten by crows?" "What if Wolverine-Oh poo poo Spider-man exploded!"
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Today's Omega Men #9. This is the very end of the issue, near the end of the series, so if you're trade waiting or something you might wanna not blow up the TIMGs. The evil colony of worlds leaders have massacred a planet to mine a resource and sell it to other worlds. The Omega Men have been on a mission of revenge. Their captive, Lantern Kyle Rayner has just exposed the massacre on space TV. He's been without his ring the whole series (the bad guy holding it as condition of him entering their system.)       
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Mar 2, 2016 13:51
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Is that multicolor thing new for him? I got bored of DC again after Blackest Night.
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Nevvy Z posted:Is that multicolor thing new for him? I got bored of DC again after Blackest Night. Nah it's been a thing for a few years now at least.
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Nevvy Z posted:Is that multicolor thing new for him? I got bored of DC again after Blackest Night. Remember the white lantern stuff from the end of Blackest Night? Kyle united a team of different colors in his N52 series and quickly earned the white ring (e: a year and a bit in) Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 14:41 on Mar 2, 2016 |
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So, what you're saying is that the White Rings are the superior lanterns that rule over all the lesser, Colored Rings?
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Toshimo posted:So, what you're saying is that the White Rings are the superior lanterns that rule over all the lesser, Colored Rings? Well, I mean the Black(Lantern)s were shown to have no redeeming qualities and only brought death, destruction and despair where they went and the world had to be saved by a white guy, so...
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