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Lurdiak posted:So he's an extra huge dick for 99% of the game, repeatedly threatening to murder people and generally being a violent psychopath, and then punches Alfred back to life and goes on a quest for revenge. Wow, so much nuance. And I prefer that to the other games because he actually seemed human at the end. No need to be a smart rear end because we disagree on videogames.
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Jun 14, 2016 19:45
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Lurdiak posted:So he's an extra huge dick for 99% of the game, repeatedly threatening to murder people and generally being a violent psychopath, and then punches Alfred back to life and goes on a quest for revenge. Wow, so much nuance. I'm starting to agree with a post I read a while back where someone said they realized they don't actually like Batman. They just liked him in B:TAS.
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Jun 14, 2016 22:53
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Canemacar posted:I'm starting to agree with a post I read a while back where someone said they realized they don't actually like Batman. They just liked him in B:TAS. When I say Batman is my favorite comic book character, that's mostly out of simplicity. Nearly every member of Batman's supporting cast is more interesting than Bruce himself. Dick, Tim, Cassandra, Batwoman, Jim Gordon, etc. But they don't exist without Batman. My actual favorite thing in comics is the situations that arise among this patchwork family and their relationships to each other and to this insane hellhole of a city they protect, and then you've got similar situations among the motley crew of mobsters and psychopaths they're fighting/working with/whatever. That's a goddamn mouthful, and none of that happens without Batman there at the center, so I just tell people yeah, I love Batman.
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JT Smiley posted:I'm probably alone on this one, but I'll take the Origins portrayal of Batman over City and Knights any day of the week. He's just a total dick to each and everyone of his allies in the Rocksteady games and never lets up. Well that's only because he only has one ally in Origins. And he's a ruthless rear end in a top hat to him too. He only stops once the guy dies and he has to bring him back. In Knight he's really nice to Dick and Barbara. Like weirdly nice considering how awful he is to Tim in both City and Knight. Travis343 posted:When I say Batman is my favorite comic book character, that's mostly out of simplicity. Nearly every member of Batman's supporting cast is more interesting than Bruce himself. Dick, Tim, Cassandra, Batwoman, Jim Gordon, etc. But they don't exist without Batman. My actual favorite thing in comics is the situations that arise among this patchwork family and their relationships to each other and to this insane hellhole of a city they protect, and then you've got similar situations among the motley crew of mobsters and psychopaths they're fighting/working with/whatever. That's a goddamn mouthful, and none of that happens without Batman there at the center, so I just tell people yeah, I love Batman. Same. Dick is my secret favorite DC character of all time, but they don't make enough stuff with his logo on it so I became the Batman guy. Bat-Family stories are the best Bat stories. Stories that get rid of all the Family to focus on just Batman tend to suck.
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Jun 15, 2016 00:42
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I have high hopes for the telltale Batman game, though it will probably be more investigation than punching.
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Canemacar posted:I'm starting to agree with a post I read a while back where someone said they realized they don't actually like Batman. They just liked him in B:TAS. Well, I mean, that statement only really works if you assume Batprick is really the Platonic Ideal of Batman (aka "Batonic Ideal"). Which doesn't really fit either, considering the pendulum occasionally swings back to the more Silver Age-y Batusi Bats that showed up in Brave and the Bold and has his own comic series right now in the form of Batman '66.
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Jun 15, 2016 00:58
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Canemacar posted:I'm starting to agree with a post I read a while back where someone said they realized they don't actually like Batman. They just liked him in B:TAS. All Batmen without voices will sound like Kevin Conroy forever, but I have to say BTAS is not my ideal Batman. It's the best adaptation of Batman probably, but it's not my favorite interpretation of his character. He's a vicious rear end in a top hat. Young Justice Batman is better than TAS Batman. YJ Batman is great.
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Travis343 posted:When I say Batman is my favorite comic book character, that's mostly out of simplicity. Nearly every member of Batman's supporting cast is more interesting than Bruce himself. Dick, Tim, Cassandra, Batwoman, Jim Gordon, etc. But they don't exist without Batman. My actual favorite thing in comics is the situations that arise among this patchwork family and their relationships to each other and to this insane hellhole of a city they protect, and then you've got similar situations among the motley crew of mobsters and psychopaths they're fighting/working with/whatever. That's a goddamn mouthful, and none of that happens without Batman there at the center, so I just tell people yeah, I love Batman. This is a good observation. Tim is my favorite DC character and Dick is great too, so is Damian. I like Batman too of course, but I'd rather read about any Robin not named Jason before I'd rather read about Bruce.
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Travis343 posted:When I say Batman is my favorite comic book character, that's mostly out of simplicity. Nearly every member of Batman's supporting cast is more interesting than Bruce himself. Dick, Tim, Cassandra, Batwoman, Jim Gordon, etc. But they don't exist without Batman. My actual favorite thing in comics is the situations that arise among this patchwork family and their relationships to each other and to this insane hellhole of a city they protect, and then you've got similar situations among the motley crew of mobsters and psychopaths they're fighting/working with/whatever. That's a goddamn mouthful, and none of that happens without Batman there at the center, so I just tell people yeah, I love Batman.  Like, I'd totally love to read solo books for basically every one of the Batman supporting heroes and I'm WAY happier with Detective Comics for having all the cool side characters than I am looking forward to the upcoming Batman series that are mostly just Bruce, but at the same time if DC ever hard rebooted again and floated the idea of divorcing all the supporting characters from Bruce and making them totally independent characters, I'd say you'd lose a lot of what makes Bruce likable, and the relationship between those supporting characters is so much weaker when its' just "colleges in the same line of work" instead of "brothers and sisters in a weird bat-crime-fighting-family"..
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Batman's terrible outside of the DCAU and Brave and the Bold, and I don't really care much for the Bat-family, and I actually hate some of them, but I like the other people who populate Batman's world. Alfred, the villains, the mobsters, Arkham Asylum as a whole, Detective Bullock, Commissioner Gordon, even nobodies like Vicki Vale.
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Lurdiak posted:I actually hate some of them Okay Jason, yeah, but who else? Stephanie? Damian? I can't really think of many past Red Hood.
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Jun 15, 2016 02:32
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SonicRulez posted:Okay Jason, yeah, but who else? Stephanie? Damian? I can't really think of many past Red Hood. Nightwing's a fine idea on paper but he's a totally dislikeable rear end in his personal life. Some people seem to find that endearing but I don't. Barbara bores me to tears, too. She's the worst Batgirl and I resent that Johns-ism has brought her back to the front at the expense of better characters. Tim's all right but his hacker stuff is real tired.
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Jun 15, 2016 02:40
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Lurdiak posted:Nightwing You've made a powerful enemy today.
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Jun 15, 2016 02:41
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Well Barbara is absolutely the worst Batgirl, the secret is that there are no bad Batgirls.
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No, I made a powerful enemy when I sent Joe Quesada a fax of my rear end.
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I enjoy most of the Bat family more than Batman himself as well. Dick, Tim and Damian are all great characters in different ways. I think one of the problems though is that DC hosed up the Batman & Robin dynamic, which works best as one of contrast. This is why it was great when Dick was Batman, because him and Damian as partners is an interesting reversal of the dark/light Batman/Robin dynamic. It's also why the Bruce/Damian dynamic doesn't work, because they're both just moody and violent. Basically what I'm saying is DC should have kept Damian partnered with Dick as Nightwing's "Robin" and kept Tim as Robin paired with Bruce.
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I like the Bat-ladies and Spoiler and Bluebird but the Robins are fine too.
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Circutron posted:Well, I mean, that statement only really works if you assume Batprick is really the Platonic Ideal of Batman (aka "Batonic Ideal"). Which doesn't really fit either, considering the pendulum occasionally swings back to the more Silver Age-y Batusi Bats that showed up in Brave and the Bold and has his own comic series right now in the form of Batman '66. I think Batman can be dark and intense and still be compassionate and idealistic, and those are the portrayals I tend to like best. The Animated Series, The Batman of Arkham, Batman/Planetary: Night on Earth, much of Morrison's run, etc.
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MGM has picked up the rights for JMS' "Rising Stars" comic to be made into a movie with JMS writing the script. It's been forever since I read the comic but I remember it starting strong but ultimately ending unsatisfactorily. For those who haven't read it, the premise is about a small town in which a fireball appears in the sky and any fetus in utero at the time gained varied superpowers. It is ostensibly set in the "real" world so there's a lot of reaction to the idea of people having superpowers.
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Travis343 posted:When I say Batman is my favorite comic book character, that's mostly out of simplicity. Nearly every member of Batman's supporting cast is more interesting than Bruce himself. Dick, Tim, Cassandra, Batwoman, Jim Gordon, etc. But they don't exist without Batman. My actual favorite thing in comics is the situations that arise among this patchwork family and their relationships to each other and to this insane hellhole of a city they protect, and then you've got similar situations among the motley crew of mobsters and psychopaths they're fighting/working with/whatever. That's a goddamn mouthful, and none of that happens without Batman there at the center, so I just tell people yeah, I love Batman. Man... I like Batman but this post may have opened some doors I'm not ready to deal with...
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http://variety.com/2016/film/news/spider-man-homecoming-donald-glover-1201795278/ please be Miles please be Miles please be Miles please be Miles
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muscles like this? posted:MGM has picked up the rights for JMS' "Rising Stars" comic to be made into a movie with JMS writing the script. It's been forever since I read the comic but I remember it starting strong but ultimately ending unsatisfactorily. For those who haven't read it, the premise is about a small town in which a fireball appears in the sky and any fetus in utero at the time gained varied superpowers. It is ostensibly set in the "real" world so there's a lot of reaction to the idea of people having superpowers. It started off really strong, went to okay in the middle. And dropped off badly just before it became one of those "horribly delayed books that we thought JMS would never finish." Only he did finish. And the last issue I felt had a really good ending that actually lived up to the potential for the first issue. I will put this as one where JMS did stick the landing.
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As for Batman Arkham Origins, I give that game a lot of forgiveness because it has a fantastic script. Like this exchange between Bruce and Alfred is one of the best dialogues I have heard. quote:Alfred: Master Bruce. Stop, Master Bruce. Bruce!
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Sion posted:http://variety.com/2016/film/news/spider-man-homecoming-donald-glover-1201795278/ I don't think Miles works at all if he's older than Peter. Edit: But that might be because there's never been a Miles story that wasn't about Peter. Aphrodite fucked around with this message at 13:41 on Jun 15, 2016 |
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Jun 15, 2016 13:33
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He was already Miles/Spider-Man...and then he bites Peter and they're both Spider-Men!!!
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He's probably just going to be a teacher at Peter's school or something. He doesn't make sense as Miles at his age. Prowler could be cool though...
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Haven't all the other people from Community shown up in the MCU? I don't watch Community but I recognize some of them in Cap 2/3.
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I'll settle for Flash Thompson.
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Of the main cast, only Danny Pudi and Jim Rash have, and only in bit parts (Danny Pudi's is just "Com Tech #1").
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I assume Dean Pelton runs MIT the same way he runs Greendale. He originally was dressed as Black Widow. Still holding out hope for Allison Brie as Spider-Woman, which would work with a Brie Larsen Carol Danvers.
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One of the other Derrick Comedy guys was also the Apple Tech in Cap 2.
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He's going to play himself in a recreation of the parade scene from Spider-Man 1. He'll be replacing Macy Gray.
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Logan Marshall Green and Martin Starr has joined Spiderman - Homecoming, Green as a villain. http://www.comicbookmovie.com/spider-man/prometheus-star-logan-marshall-green-silicon-valley-star-martin-starr-a142657
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lomzus posted:Logan Marshall Green and Martin Starr has joined Spiderman - Homecoming, Green as a villain.
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Screw it, make Glover a young JJJ and watch the internet burn...
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Donald Glover isn't a good actor so maybe don't give him a big role.
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GLOSS posted:Screw it, make Glover a young JJJ and watch the internet burn...
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