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Bruceski posted:I actually do. I thought most people did. I looked it up and it seems most westerners remember things in first-person and most easterners remember in third person. Weird.
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Selachian posted:Don't even get me started on what I did with my Star Wars figures. Played with them and enjoyed a childhood of gleeful imagination and storytelling? 
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Endless Mike posted:I looked it up and it seems most westerners remember things in first-person and most easterners remember in third person. It is quite simple - the JLA obviously dog-piled him in front of a giant mirror. Where's my No-Prize?
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Wheat Loaf posted:It is quite simple - the JLA obviously dog-piled him in front of a giant mirror. Where's my No-Prize? That's a Marvel trademark you ignorant swine! 
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Jerusalem posted:Played with them and enjoyed a childhood of gleeful imagination and storytelling? Look where that got them? Posting on Something Awful, is where.
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Wheat Loaf posted:It is quite simple - the JLA obviously dog-piled him in front of a giant mirror. Where's my 
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Lurdiak posted:A lot of people have been pushing back against "Superheroes BUT IN THE REAL WORLD" lately but that sort of weird specific poo poo is why I'd love to see more good stories exploring the concepts. Like, how does a society deal with knowing something like Galactus exists? How do you handle confirming the multiverse on a theological level? In addition to Astro City, there was "Marvels," also by Kurt Busiek.
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Bongo Bill posted:In addition to Astro City, there was "Marvels," also by Kurt Busiek. Superman: Secret Identity, also by Busiek.
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"Superheroes BUT IN THE REAL WORLD" Hey theres always RUINS 
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SynthOrange posted:"Superheroes BUT IN THE REAL WORLD" That's almost my favorite bit from Ruins, but pretty much all of it competes for my favorite bit.
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I could be wrong, but I seem to remember Identity Crisis happening at the same time BSS was getting going. I remember the GBS mega thread, and I remember a lot of avatars getting bought speculating about the identity of the perp and people bitching about "stupid comic book avatars". One of the first mods was Bolt Vanderhuge I think?
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Thanks to this thread I just re read Identity Crisis for the first time since its release. The "conversation with dead person" thing hit me harder than I thought it would, because my mom died in March and I absolutely had a conversation with her just before she was cremated. And a couple times since then. Goddamn, the rest of that comic is garbage, though.
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Scaramouche posted:I could be wrong, but I seem to remember Identity Crisis happening at the same time BSS was getting going. I remember the GBS mega thread, and I remember a lot of avatars getting bought speculating about the identity of the perp and people bitching about "stupid comic book avatars". One of the first mods was Bolt Vanderhuge I think? It was around the same time, but like others said, I'm pretty sure bss came around from the old comic book megathread and other comic threads getting to be too much for gbs, and shortly after that identity crisis started. Last time this all came up i dug up the old identity crisis thread and poked through it, someone had put up a jean loring is the murderer avatar, but noone bought it because haha that'd be too stupid. Then in like the 4th issue it became clear it was her and everyone was just going "what?"
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What's weird is John Blake is the name of Joseph Gordon Levitt's character in DKR. Bongo Bill posted:In addition to Astro City, there was "Marvels," also by Kurt Busiek. And to bring it full circle, The Dark Age maxi-series from Astro City was originally conceptualized as Marvels part 2. At the end of it, Busiek included his several page pitch, with all the Marvel material redacted. Some of the characters are definitely easy to see what they were originally before being modified for the Astro City world.
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Choco1980 posted:What's weird is John Blake is the name of Joseph Gordon Levitt's character in DKR. His name was Robin Blake.
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Detective No. 27 posted:His name was Robin Blake. We don't find out that his first name is Robin until the last 5 minutes of the film. And even that was a last minute change as he was originally going to play Azrael.
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Name's still Robin.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Name's still Robin. So? They didn't call him that a single time in the film.
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This is like some "Ship of Theseus"-style paradox
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You're both right you numbnuts, his name is Robin (R.) John Blake in the film.
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Lurdiak posted:A lot of people have been pushing back against "Superheroes BUT IN THE REAL WORLD" lately but that sort of weird specific poo poo is why I'd love to see more good stories exploring the concepts. Like, how does a society deal with knowing something like Galactus exists? How do you handle confirming the multiverse on a theological level? You know drat well it's because "what if but real" stories are almost always empty vessels for exploiting the novelty of "innocent" figures brushing up against cheap shock material before gluing themselves back onto a traditional narrative rail. Even in good stories you'll get like, a one-panel joke about how Thor or Galactus or whomever inspired a cult and then be ignored, even though there's an entire novel's worth of story in exploring how global religion and culture would respond to the first true confirmation of a godlike being that conforms to none of their preconceptions. Captain Bravo posted:You're both right you numbnuts, his name is Robin (R.) John Blake in the film. Esquire
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Captain Bravo posted:You're both right you numbnuts, his name is Robin (R.) John Blake in the film. Which they managed to not leak until the film actually dropped.
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mind the walrus posted:You know drat well it's because "what if but real" stories are almost always empty vessels for exploiting the novelty of "innocent" figures brushing up against cheap shock material before gluing themselves back onto a traditional narrative rail. Even in good stories you'll get like, a one-panel joke about how Thor or Galactus or whomever inspired a cult and then be ignored, even though there's an entire novel's worth of story in exploring how global religion and culture would respond to the first true confirmation of a godlike being that conforms to none of their preconceptions.
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I always thought that "The casings were forged by Hephestus!" line was pretty dumb. I know Supergirl is vulnerable to magic but the casing never really touches her. If he'd have said the bullets or even the gunpowder were made by a God, yea. Casings though, that's clearly stretching the limits of my disbelief 
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I always thought that "The casings were forged by Hephestus!" line was pretty dumb. I know Supergirl is vulnerable to magic but the casing never really touches her. If he'd have said the bullets or even the gunpowder were made by a God, yea. Casings though, that's clearly stretching the limits of my disbelief The firing pin was forged in the heart of a red sun, and the night sights are made with kryptonite.
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Idk that gun looks like 100% bullshit to me
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I always thought that "The casings were forged by Hephestus!" line was pretty dumb. I know Supergirl is vulnerable to magic but the casing never really touches her. If he'd have said the bullets or even the gunpowder were made by a God, yea. Casings though, that's clearly stretching the limits of my disbelief Honestly, I know next to nothing but guns, like most people who have never held a gun in their life. But when I read that, I was thinking "...So, wouldn't that make the casing so tough, it won't bend therefore gunpowder can't ignite, and the projectile would be stuck from the casing being unable to expand anyways?"  For our next useless trick. Thinking about suspension springs forged by Hephaestus not being very useful.
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Turns out Supergirl was vulnerable to guns the whole time, but everyone just assumed she wasn't so they never tried.
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Bruceski posted:Turns out Supergirl was vulnerable to guns the whole time, but everyone just assumed she wasn't so they never tried.
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I'm the darts that go krunk
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Gold star for lateral thinking.
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JLU ccounterpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsS1MPnA-vs&t=15s
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Kammat posted:JLU ccounterpoint: Suffering permanent spinal damage from the throw onto a car, the robber sued the justice league for brutality and ironically made vastly more than they'd attempted to steal.
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Section Z posted:Honestly, I know next to nothing but guns, like most people who have never held a gun in their life.
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Lurdiak posted:A lot of people have been pushing back against "Superheroes BUT IN THE REAL WORLD" lately but that sort of weird specific poo poo is why I'd love to see more good stories exploring the concepts. Like, how does a society deal with knowing something like Galactus exists? How do you handle confirming the multiverse on a theological level? If someone could write a version of The Wire but with superheroes, I would be a happy man. I genuinely want to know how the stats game would work when you have magic and the eighteen superheroes in New York messing with your cases. Would gangs have plans in case the Punisher strolled down their block? Important questions.
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darthbob88 posted:Well, the casing doesn't matter for the gunpowder, since that's ignited by the primer which is separate from the casing, but yeah the crimp might be an issue; either it's too tight for the bullet to leave and something explodes, or a Hephaestus-forged casing is too hard to crimp and so the bullet's just sitting loosely in the top of the cartridge. Of course, this is ignoring the fact that anything Hephaestus makes is going to be perfect for its job, so Hephaestus-forged casings would be like ordinary brass, but somehow better. Likewise, his suspension springs would be both absurdly elastic and stiff, able to bend infinitely and snap back to its original position. It does raise the question of how that idiot manged to get an audience with a Greek god, and used it to ask for special bullets. 
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nerdman42 posted:If someone could write a version of The Wire but with superheroes, I would be a happy man. I genuinely want to know how the stats game would work when you have magic and the eighteen superheroes in New York messing with your cases. Would gangs have plans in case the Punisher strolled down their block? Important questions. Like Powers, maybe?
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Ehh little problems and weird story directions kind of soured me on Powers.
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Avulsion posted:[img - Supergirl KO'd by gun] Why do they draw Supergirl to look like Bill Paxton in a wig?
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