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Retro Futurist posted:China Mieville Yea, I forgot I mentioned Mieville's Dial H as well. Selachian posted:Off the top of my head, Tamora Pierce (who's a big name in YA fantasy fiction) did a White Tiger mini for Marvel a few years back, and Jonathan Lethem wrote that Omega the Unknown miniseries that pissed off Steve Gerber. Can't believe I forgot Lethem as I have read a few of his books as well as Omega the Unknown. Also just thought of Michael Chabon who wrote some Escapist comics with BKV, though that seems a bit like a cheat.
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Madkal posted:I got my girlfriend a copy of Angel Catbird because she is a big Margaret Atwood fan, and we got talking about famous authors who went on to write comics (even if it was briefly). Is it any good? Joe Hill wrote prose before comics, no? I knew him from Heart Shaped Box at least.
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Not as well known as some of the others named (or at least I hadnt heard of him before his comics run), but Charlie Huston wrote a pretty good run of moon knight.
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Sep 9, 2016 23:04
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Samuel R. Delany wrote two issues of Wonder Woman back in 1972.
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SiKboy posted:Not as well known as some of the others named (or at least I hadnt heard of him before his comics run), but Charlie Huston wrote a pretty good run of moon knight. I liked his fiction when I was younger. I think he did urban fantasy stuff. I'll have to read his moon knight run.
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Sep 9, 2016 23:07
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Gregg Hurwitz is another.
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Halloween Jack posted:Can someone...explain...Professor Pyg to me? I wanted to like everything Morrison did with Batman, but Pyg just came across as a crazy ranting idiot who says random things and bounces between random schemes. Even when other Batman villains do that, there's a throughline that gives them a distinct appeal. I just don't get Pyg. He's kind of like the Mad Hatter, but inspired by Pygmalion (or more specifically; the song Pygmalism), and Harry Harlow (the wire mother, and I think one of titles refers to a Doctor HaHa) I'm a big fan obviously.
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Sep 9, 2016 23:26
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Michael Chabon wrote the novel Kavalier and Clay, where two men create a comic book called The Escapist, and then wrote an actual Escapist comic. Harlan Ellison was (and is) mostly a short story writer, but he's been in and out of comics since forever. His collection Dream Corridor is really good. I feel like there's been a lot of other classic scifi writers who tried comics but never went very deep into the medium.
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Sep 9, 2016 23:32
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Meltzer is famous? For what, me to poop on?
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How is Angel Catbird?
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Julio Cortazar got name dropped in a plot line in the semi-bootleg Mexican Fantomas comics (these are incredibly Fascinating in their own right btw), and I guess was so tickled by it that he went on to write a half prose half comic hybrid using that original art that was a very metatextual detective plot about the evils of multinational corporations. It's quite short, but fun.
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Scaramouche posted:Meltzer is famous? For what, me to poop on? His novels. And he does some nice kids books in his Ordinary People Change the World series. Chris Eliopoulos does the art. And I believe he helped create super hero versions of those family stickers you see on people's back windshields.
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Teenage Fansub posted:How is Angel Catbird? Just got it for her last night and it was wrapped so don't know it looks on the inside, by the synopsis on the back made it seem over the top silly. Seeing as the only Atwood I have read has been Handmaid's Tale I don't know if an over the top silly comic is something Atwood would be known to do or not.
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lifg posted:Harlan Ellison was (and is) mostly a short story writer, but he's been in and out of comics since forever. His collection Dream Corridor is really good. During the second incarnation of Dial H for Hero, they used heroes and villains sent in by readers. Most of the submitters were kids and teenagers, but then there was this guy .... (Note the caption box at the bottom.) 
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Jordan7hm posted:Is it any good? He still does, and Heart Shaped Box is very good.
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What's the current status of Captain Nazi America? (I'm literally at least a year behind on my actual reading.  ) I heard that the cause of the whole thing was a bad Cosmic Cube, but did they ever fix it?
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prefect posted:What's the current status of Captain Nazi America? (I'm literally at least a year behind on my actual reading. Still ticking time bomb. There's some hinting in future solicits that it's going to come to a head with Sam and Bucky after CW2 ends, but who knows.
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prefect posted:What's the current status of Captain Nazi America? (I'm literally at least a year behind on my actual reading. Not yet, but ironically Cap's being a triple agent and going behind Red Skull's back all on his own because he thinks Skull is a poor leader for HYDRA and Steve wants to Make HYDRA Great Again 
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Madkal posted:I got my girlfriend a copy of Angel Catbird because she is a big Margaret Atwood fan, and we got talking about famous authors who went on to write comics (even if it was briefly). Hard Sci-fi writer Richard K. Morgan wrote two Black Widow mini series.
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As for my question, I remember during Mark Millar's Spider-man run where he is going through his stuff and finds a photo of his past and says "Ben Reilly. God rest his soul." And it was a nice little reminder about how some comic characters have really sucky endings and you can just list their name and say "God rest their soul." Who else are characters who met really bad endings that so far haven't been reversed. 1) Ben Reilly 2) Eric Masters on 3) Charcoal: The Burning Man. 4) Mila Donovan 5) Jack Munroe.
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Sep 15, 2016 15:57
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Jack Munroe's the most depressing story ever.
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And then Bucky killed him.
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It seems that characters who spun off from a better-known character have a marked tendency to be killed off and forgotten about, often with little fanfare. Milla Donovan's story is depressing, but it's a rare instance of a writer actually going through with a hero's family being irreparably harmed by his life choices. No ifs ands or buts, Milla would be better off if she'd never met Matt Murdoch. I don't think any of the guys you mentioned had it as bad as Shift and Indigo from DC's Outsiders. Not even Jack Munroe. It's pretty rare for a superhero to tell another superhero that he's not a person and should commit suicide. Rarer still for that guy to be forced to kill his girlfriend and then say "I think I'll take you up on that." Madelyne Pryor also had it really, really bad for long complicated reasons I won't go into. I would name D-Man, but I hear they brought him back. Aztek blew himself up to help defeat a villain nobody remembers now. AFAIK, the original Anarky ended his superhero career in juvenile detention. The Un-Men from American Freak Wildstorm's DV8. Every character on the team was a mentally ill teenager with superpowers, pressed into service as super-soldiers. I don't know what's been done with them since the Worldstorm and all that, but the book had a higher body count than any version of Suicide Squad I've ever read, and those who didn't die along the way I'm pretty sure died in the series finale. Vision has died a dozen times, to the point where I think it's a philosophical question whether or not he's the same person. The rest of the Avengers don't seem to particularly care when he dies, either. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Sep 15, 2016 |
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Sep 15, 2016 16:36
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Comic character might be a bit of a stretch, but I recall there being a Batman Beyond villain that could phase through walls. Her powers went outta control and she just phased down through the Earth into oblivion.
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It was a guy.
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Lurdiak posted:Vision has died a dozen times, to the point where I think it's a philosophical question whether or not he's the same person. The rest of the Avengers don't seem to particularly care when he dies, either. Jonah, who the Young Avengers didn't rebuild on the basis that Cassie died and therefore he'd just be angry and sad all the time. Whoops!
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Sep 15, 2016 19:31
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Shadowhawk died of AIDS so that was a bummer.
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WickedHate posted:Jonah, who the Young Avengers didn't rebuild on the basis that Cassie died and therefore he'd just be angry and sad all the time. Whoops! I didn't say that. 
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Lurdiak posted:I didn't say that. I'm literally confused by what this post means, I was just adding on to the Vision thing. IIRC Jonah was the "new Vision" after Disassembled, but then Vanilla Vision came back so I guess they thought Vision Jr. was no longer needed.
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WickedHate posted:I'm literally confused by what this post means, I was just adding on to the Vision thing. IIRC Jonah was the "new Vision" after Disassembled, but then Vanilla Vision came back so I guess they thought Vision Jr. was no longer needed. Your post is quoting me saying something someone else said.
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Lurdiak posted:Your post is quoting me saying something someone else said. Oh, huh. I have no idea how that happened.
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Ventriloquism!
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If we're counting villains, one of the Scourges of the Underworld was just unceremoniously given the Death Dust treatment by the Red Skull for loving up. Another got killed by the Ameridroid. The insensitively-named Mother Night got blown away by Bucky. Red Skull shot Superia in the face, then she showed up alive later due to Cosmic Cube shenanigans. Crossbones killed Cutthroat, who showed up alive years later with no explanation at all. Johann doesn't give a gently caress if his stupid minions kill each other. He's pretty good at arming and unleashing third-rate villains on the world just to demoralize the public and waste Steve's time without it blowing back on him. Joker could learn something from him. Then there was Blitzkrieger, one of the German government's super Nazi hunters. He got killed by his teammate Zeitgeist, a man covered in clock faces, who was actually Everyman, a lame supervillain disguised as one of the only German words Mark Gruenwald knew.
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Lobok posted:Superventriloquism!
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Lurdiak posted:It was a guy. Right right, mixed him with Inque for some stupid reason. I should rewatch that series.
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Baby May Parker. Also Mettle, and pretty much every character in Avengers Academy who didn't show up someone else first. Limbo sucks.
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SonicRulez posted:Right right, mixed him with Inque for some stupid reason. I should rewatch that series. Maybe it's because Inque is also the source of some body horror stuff when she agrees to share the serum that gave her her powers with an accomplice, then tricks him and gives him half the stuff, which turns him into a grotesque, misshapen blob creature. The one that made the biggest impression on me was in "April Moon" where Terry realises the failsafe that'll deactivate the bad guys' cybernetic implants, and when he uses it one guy's robotic arms and legs just fall off him in pieces.
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The Question IRL posted:As for my question, I remember during Mark Millar's Spider-man run where he is going through his stuff and finds a photo of his past and says "Ben Reilly. God rest his soul." Wouldnt he just look at the photo and go 'Huh, I dont remember dressing like this.'? 
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SynthOrange posted:Wouldnt he just look at the photo and go 'Huh, I dont remember dressing like this.'? Maybe it was when Ben had his hair bleached.
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Unless he for real came back later the D-Man thing was a joke. A guy tried to summon a demon but messed the spell up and so he summoned D-Man. Who then proceeds to have the best day of his life... right as the final incursion happens.
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