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Maxie Zeus, as long as you don't mess up and imply that he's not a God, is going to be a pretty chill boss. Black Mask is definitely out, as is Joker, Zsasz or any of the serial killer guys. Poison Ivy might be alright if you were a woman. Harley has that Gang of Harleys now, they seem to be doing alright. Scarecrow is definitely going to test new kinds of gas on you. That's a given. Riddler would probably be the best balance of a high profile name and least likely to murder you.
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END ME SCOOB posted:I can entirely see some of those dudes going "Get in the truck, we're going to get you laser surgery. That concludes your health plan." Okay, as long as it's a real eye doctor and not some guy in a warehouse where all the operating equipment features prominent restraints. (I say as if you'd get a choice)
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May 9, 2016 21:46
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Riddler would have the risk of him deciding to totally screw up a job because he had to give Batman a fair chance to solve a riddle to stop him. Like you can't just in and out rob a bank in 30 seconds, you have to set up elaborate traps and pray the world's greatest detective can't solve Riddler's riddle. Calendarman would be okay but he'll have you working holidays all the time.
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May 9, 2016 21:50
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DrProsek posted:Calendarman would be okay but he'll have you working holidays all the time. So it comes down to whether or not he pays better than retail.
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May 9, 2016 21:55
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CapnAndy posted:Is Catwoman an option? Usually non-violent crimes, boss is fairly sane and won't kill you, probably get to wear civvies or at least just regular thief gear. Good deal. We disqualified Catwoman because she never really had any henchpeople.
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May 9, 2016 22:13
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Jason Todd would suck. He caps your rear end if pissed at you after a nice one on one talk.
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May 9, 2016 22:17
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Wasn't there a comic once where the Riddler's henchmen kept intentionally not planting his clues or something and he turned out to be crazy successful until he found out and got pissed off?
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May 9, 2016 22:21
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Madkal posted:We disqualified Catwoman because she never really had any henchpeople. Selina recently took over the mob to stop a violent gang war. I think she'd be pretty good to work for especially if Batman maybe goes easy on you because he's schtupping the Don.
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May 9, 2016 22:30
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I reckon Penguin would probably provide pretty good health insurance, pension plans and what have you, because he likes people to see him as a legitimate businessman.
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May 9, 2016 22:33
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Madkal posted:We disqualified Catwoman because she never really had any henchpeople. In Bru's run she had a bunch of street kids help her out and they got trained by wildcat.
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May 9, 2016 22:34
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bobkatt013 posted:In Bru's run she had a bunch of street kids help her out and they got trained by wildcat. This is where you decide if becoming a full-time street urchin is a personal upgrade or not.
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Working for the Calculator probably involves just refreshing Google News a lot and listening to police radio.
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May 9, 2016 22:39
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Clayface seems like a decent bet since you could just hang out in public while Clayface commits crimes looking like you. You'd get paid for simply being an alibi.
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I think Anarky would be a pretty cool boss. He's not violently crazy, he's ideologically focused on benefiting the proletariat so he's going to look after you and not sacrifice you for a goal, and he's probably open to byocostume.
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May 9, 2016 22:59
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Madkal posted:We disqualified Catwoman because she never really had any henchpeople. That's crazy talk. You gotta go Catwoman. You get to hang out with Lesley Gore! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NMYwQ0NKVs
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May 9, 2016 23:18
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Zachack posted:Clayface seems like a decent bet since you could just hang out in public while Clayface commits crimes looking like you. You'd get paid for simply being an alibi. Maybe, or you'd find out that you were actually a part of Clayface he'd broken off and get absorbed back into him.
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Starsnostars posted:Maybe, or you'd find out that you were actually a part of Clayface he'd broken off and get absorbed back into him. Any other charges?
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Ghostlight posted:I think Anarky would be a pretty cool boss. He's not violently crazy, he's ideologically focused on benefiting the proletariat so he's going to look after you and not sacrifice you for a goal, and he's probably open to byocostume. Depends on the version of Anarky. I haven't read much with Anarky but I remember reading that his creator, Alan Grant became a free-market fetishist (Libertarian) and so Anarky also turned into one, while earlier he was more of a leftist anarchist-socialist. The former would be unbearable, the latter would be the best option. Earth 2 Anarky from what I've seen of him is decent. E: Parasol Prophet posted:So it comes down to whether or not he pays better than retail. You would also get a lot of extra holidays to make up for the ones you lose working, in that you'd get to take off any day that doesn't have a major holiday Calendarman is trying to do something on. So I'd say even if he paid retail you might still end up with more vacation days  .
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May 10, 2016 00:09
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I told my friends about how Psylocke used to be a british white woman with no martial arts ability and they all thought I was loving with them.
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Lurdiak posted:I told my friends about how Psylocke used to be a british white woman with no martial arts ability and they all thought I was loving with them. Does nobody remember that her loving name is "Betsy Braddock" or do they just not care?
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May 10, 2016 03:22
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I don't know anybody that cares about Psylocke, no.
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May 10, 2016 03:28
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Psylocke is cool now. In X-Force books anyway.
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Aphrodite posted:Psylocke is cool now. In X-Force books anyway. That was like four years ago. Also I'm not sure one 35 issue run in a 40 year history qualifies.
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May 10, 2016 03:36
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Im just saying that's like Benedict Cumberbatch. That's an incredibly british name. Like Steve Rogers is the ultimate American name.
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May 10, 2016 03:40
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It was just before Secret Wars. And hey that's better than Deadpool!
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Travis343 posted:Like Steve Rogers is the ultimate American name. Uh Aphrodite posted:Adam X THE XTREME
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Aphrodite posted:It was just before Secret Wars. Wait you were talking about that crappy run by Spurrier? Really?
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May 10, 2016 03:46
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That Penguin mini-series from the start of the New 52 shows that he's the sort of boss that if you accidentally bump into him (literally) in his club, even if you apologize profusely for the error he will still hack into computers to frame you as an embezzler and child pornographer and then commit arson to your apartment building to burn your family and friends alive and cut your parents' brakes so they drive off of a cliff and die and have someone stab your little sister with an AIDS infected needle. Because you bumped into him and may have apologized, but he still doesn't appreciate being bumped into. I don't know if this is an indictment on working for the Penguin or for the New 52.
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May 10, 2016 04:42
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I know better than to ask, but is that actually something that someone really wrote?
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X-O posted:I know better than to ask, but is that actually something that someone really wrote? Penguin Pain & Prejudice by Gregg Hurwitz. I got the "child porn" part wrong, but everything else was in this book. I think the "planting child porn" thing was from some other 'he's not a crazy person, but IF U CROSS HIM...' story about Kingpin or Lex Luthor or someone else where the writer doesn't seem to understand that no, if a criminal mastermind just punches their underling in the face for a minor screw-up they're like 100% less psychotic than the one who spends a full workweek ruining the lives of everyone the underling knows, even if they're not "a violent person".
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Edge & Christian posted:Penguin Pain & Prejudice by Gregg Hurwitz. I got the "child porn" part wrong, but everything else was in this book. I think the "planting child porn" thing was from some other 'he's not a crazy person, but IF U CROSS HIM...' story about Kingpin or Lex Luthor or someone else where the writer doesn't seem to understand that no, if a criminal mastermind just punches their underling in the face for a minor screw-up they're like 100% less psychotic than the one who spends a full workweek ruining the lives of everyone the underling knows, even if they're not "a violent person". That was from a one-shot by Jason Aaron and Jason Pearson a few years before the mini-series. I totally thought it was from that Hurwitz mini too until double-checking a second ago but I guess they were just very similar stories.
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The Aaron story was subtle in that take on Penguin as being completely unbalanced in his own way despite outwardly being a rather sane mob boss, but Hurwitz made it fairly caricatural.
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Lurdiak posted:The Aaron story was subtle in that take on Penguin as being completely unbalanced in his own way despite outwardly being a rather sane mob boss, but Hurwitz made it fairly caricatural. And it also gave us the excellent Aristocrats edit.
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I read Silver Surfer: Requiem. I think that's the best single, self-contained story I've ever read.
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Chip Zdarsky and Erica Henderson are off Jughead after issue 8, but Ryan North and Derek Charm are taking over and will be doing one of my favorite ideas from the old comic that nobody ever followed through on beyond a single issue: a friendship between Jughead and Sabrina!http://www.dailydot.com/geek/jughead-archie-comics-ryan-north-interview/
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Speaking of Archie, whatever happened to Afterlife with Archie and the Sabrina horror comic? Did they get cancelled and I just missed the news, or are they just on long term hiatus?
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They are delayed forever for God knows what reason, but Sacasa usually says it's because he was busy with developing the Riverdale show. That said, new issues of Sabrina and Afterlife come out next week and the week after, respectively.
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So the past three weeks-ish has been me perusing this reading list, modified with X-O's recommended reading order. It just sorta peters out after Thanos Imperative, huh.
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GMo kicks off his first issue of Heavy Metal with an oil painting of himself and freeverse gibberish. 
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Grant Morrison comes across as the Platonic Ideal of Insufferable.
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