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The Lone Badger posted:Don't you usually armor the right forearm because the left is protected by your shield though? Without a shield there isn't a reason to armor differentially. Maybe she's left-handed?
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Just noticed this in The Late Mr. Kent, an STAS episode that aired in November 1997: "FANS NIX NEW DUDS" is without a doubt the show's staff going  at Blue Raspberry Superman, who premiered in Superman #123, shipping in March of that year.
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The animated series guys were always complaining about the 90s comics, if I recall. Their treatments of Bane and Doomsday are pretty obvious middle fingers to those characters' iconic stories.
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Lurdiak posted:The animated series guys were always complaining about the 90s comics, if I recall. Their treatments of Bane and Doomsday are pretty obvious middle fingers to those characters' iconic stories. 
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Picklepuss posted:Unfortunately their treatments of Catwoman and Riddler were pretty awful too. And Riddler started out so well too. "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?"
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Toadstrieb posted:Anyone else seen these new (VERY Cam Kennedy-influenced) Knights of Ren concept art pieces? Black series, take my money. Does that guy on the left have a combination hockey stick and pizza cutter?
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Picklepuss posted:Unfortunately their treatments of Catwoman and Riddler were pretty awful too. Those are more like missteps.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Does that guy on the left have a combination hockey stick and pizza cutter? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_safW-zWHI&t=15s
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Amazing.
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"Whirlygig Saw on a Stick: Making Hitstun Work for YOU"
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McSpanky posted:"Whirlygig Saw on a Stick: Making Hitstun Work for YOU" I have a whirligig saw at +9 and got stumped at Lady Maria, tried to parry her instead. This might convince me to give her another whirl im sorry
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DC's Chinese Super-Man is not coming out of the gates looking good.
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X-O posted:DC's Chinese Super-Man is not coming out of the gates looking good. Does the designer have any background in Chinese culture? I ask because that looks like the sort of design you'd get from someone well-meaning and willing to do their research, but lacking any personal experience in Sino-anything. Like, the sort of costume you'd get if you locked me in a library for two hours, and asked me to make a Chinese Superman suit. The predominance of red, the octagon logo—those are the sort of ideas I think you'd have from research. What I can't say is whether the costume feels authentic to someone personally familiar with any sort of Chinese cultural experience. Maybe this is one of those cases in which a well-meaning, curious outsider and an engaged insider are apt to converge on the same ideas.
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X-O posted:DC's Chinese Super-Man is not coming out of the gates looking good. Not to make jokes about Chinese cheap copies, but it's really hard not to looking at this. Decius fucked around with this message at 08:40 on Apr 12, 2016 |
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Apr 12, 2016 08:36
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That really looks like someone drew a first draft and stopped.
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X-O posted:DC's Chinese Super-Man is not coming out of the gates looking good. HMm this looks like crap.
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I think it's really good and symbolises China as a nation perfectly, with the obvious basing in Mao Zedong's preferred design for the flag of the People's Republic of China. The powerful red representing the Communist revolution of China, with yellow piping inspired by the original yellow bar that represented the literal tearing apart of the country the revolution brought about, and the single yellow star on the shoulder that represents the CPC as the shining saviour of the Chinese people - intelligently agreeing with several founders of the CPC in forgoing the extra four stars representing the social classes below the CPC, as two of the stars represented the hated bourgeoisie. It sends a strong statement that this is a Chinese Superman, specifically a Nationalist Communist Superman that rightfully believes in the justness of the Chinese Civil War and that all of the lower social classes are subordinate to the victorious members of the Communist Party of China.
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Squizzle posted:Does the designer have any background in Chinese culture? I ask because that looks like the sort of design you'd get from someone well-meaning and willing to do their research, but lacking any personal experience in Sino-anything. Like, the sort of costume you'd get if you locked me in a library for two hours, and asked me to make a Chinese Superman suit. The predominance of red, the octagon logo—those are the sort of ideas I think you'd have from research. I dunno who designed it, but the writer sure does. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Luen_Yang
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X-O posted:DC's Chinese Super-Man is not coming out of the gates looking good. If he's flying forward, how come his cape isn't trailing behind him from the wind?
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It's not a cape, it's a giant Pacman eating the sun that he needs to fight.
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X-O posted:DC's Chinese Super-Man is not coming out of the gates looking good. Is he supposed to actually be a Chinese person from China, instead of a Chinese-American, Chinese-Britain, etc? If so, shouldn't the emblem be in Chinese?
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I don't think it's too awful myself, although the two-tone red look reminds me rather too much of the Flash.
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Technically it's a Kryptonian symbol for 'hope', so there's no reason to translate it. 
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Does not look very inspired. Also his name is Kenji which makes me really confused. As an American-born Chinese guy who loves superhero comics and is married to a Chinese lady this whole thing sounded really interesting but looks stupid as poo poo. Chinaman7000 fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Apr 12, 2016 |
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Ashcans posted:Technically it's a Kryptonian symbol for 'hope', so there's no reason to translate it. But in English you don't constantly have to explain it to people who have no loving idea what the symbol for hope is in Kryptonian (so everyone) Now everyone is like "The gently caress is the S for?" (I get what you meant it is just a humorous scenario)
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DarkCrawler posted:But in English you don't constantly have to explain it to people who have no loving idea what the symbol for hope is in Kryptonian (so everyone) And he goes "Superman? Duh?" It's not like people in China have no clue what a dude with a cape and an S on his chest means.
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Gaz-L posted:And he goes "Superman? Duh?" It's not like people in China have no clue what a dude with a cape and an S on his chest means. I assume there is a Chinese symbol for "Superman" by now EDIT: Related, but I just pictured the rocket landing in China instead of United States, haha "So uh there's this white baby here, what the gently caress is NASA doing these days?" "Maybe he's Russian you racist"
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DarkCrawler posted:I assume there is a Chinese symbol for "Superman" by now 
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Squizzle posted:The predominance of red, the octagon logo It's Stop Sign Man!
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X-O posted:DC's Chinese Super-Man is not coming out of the gates looking good. this costume really reminds me of  seriously wow that's bad
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Why is Chinese superman wearing a stop sign on his chest?
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Also why is Chinese superman using Latin letters as his symbol.
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Al-Saqr posted:Also why is Chinese superman using Latin letters as his symbol. Ashcans posted:Technically it's a Kryptonian symbol for 'hope', so there's no reason to translate it.
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Is he from Krypton though? Did Krypton have anything other than white people or is that just an effect of all the Kryptonians we see being Superman's relatives? something something skin melanin yellow sun 
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So is he from the house of El?
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hiddenriverninja posted:So is he from the house of El? As I understand it he is a born-on-Earth human being from China who gets Superman powers, somehow.
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I think the usual method is blowjobs.
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I remember in the Lois and Clark TV series some loser gets 50% of Superman's powers by being struck by lightning at the same time as him. Is this canon?
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X-O posted:DC's Chinese Super-Man is not coming out of the gates looking good. Stop-Man. Kenji Kong is also a really bad name.
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