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Dick Trauma posted:Hmm I remember that guy now that you mention him. Makes me wonder if there are any other supervillains based on swinging their big balls around. Giant-size Man-Thing?
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darthbob88 posted:I thought that was Thunderball, AKA Dr Eliot Franklin, AKA the Black Bruce Banner, a well-read genius who could very reasonably quote Shakespeare and Frederick Douglass. It is. During a battle in London, Thunderball tries to kill a wounded Captain America. Kelsey Leigh saves him using the shield but dies due to the shock of the impacts. Kelsey later returns as a new Captain Britain and seemingly kills Thunderball but he survives. It is, however, revealed that this Thunderball either is Mordred, the ally of Morgana le Fay, or Franklin possessed by him.
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I don't read nearly enough Marvel in my life, has there been much other cases of Thunderball being so erudite in the heat of battle? Most of my (admittedly limited) experience with him has been like, the whole Crew goes after Hulk at once or whatever.
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robziel posted:I think he would get frustrated because no one could figure it out (when it's SO SIMPLE!), and because no one can figure it out attendance drops so he goes back to his old habits. I figure attendance records would drop after it turns out that he forgot to make his escape rooms not death traps.
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Sonic Megadrive - The Next Levels It's only two pages but it's a very good fight  
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I will only read a Sonic comic if rings fly everywhere every time he takes a hit.
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Choco1980 posted:I don't read nearly enough Marvel in my life, has there been much other cases of Thunderball being so erudite in the heat of battle? Most of my (admittedly limited) experience with him has been like, the whole Crew goes after Hulk at once or whatever. Nah. My best guess is someone told Chuck Austen that Thunderball was actually kinda smart and college educated, unlike the rest of the wrecking crew, so he took that to mean that he was some kind of mega-genius who had memorized every book ever written.
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Onmi posted:Sonic Megadrive - The Next Levels They got the sound effects on the Sonic Dash perfect, I could hear it in my head just reading the panels.
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Lurdiak posted:Nah. My best guess is someone told Chuck Austen that Thunderball was actually kinda smart and college educated, unlike the rest of the wrecking crew, so he took that to mean that he was some kind of mega-genius who had memorized every book ever written. Chuck Austen was writing in the 70s? And calling himself Len Wein?
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Chaos Hippy posted:Chuck Austen was writing in the 70s? And calling himself Len Wein? I got confused about what we were talking about, clearly.
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It's possible I was being too sarcastic there. I don't know if Austen wrote the Shakespeare-quoting scene posted earlier, but Thunderball's origin story includes successfully designing a miniature gamma bomb. Dude's up there in the brains department.
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I'm sure they read a lot of Shakespeare at whatever technical college he went to.
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Nothing like being stuck with a prison library to get a smart guy a minor in classic English lit, honestly.
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Yeah I've never known a really really smart person who wasn't hungry enough to diversify their interests.
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Lurdiak posted:I'm sure they read a lot of Shakespeare at whatever technical college he went to. You can get a PhD at a technical college?
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no don't you get it guys smart people are only smart at one thing ever especially in comic books where a guy can be a biochemist who talks to ants but also invent artificial intelligence
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Lurdiak posted:I'm sure they read a lot of Shakespeare at whatever technical college he went to. I mean, the actual A-bomb test had Oppenheimer spontaneously quoting the Bhagavad Gita. Brilliant scientists are frequently widely read.
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In comic books especially, being smart is a superpower and basically anything you do with it can be handwaved as "S/He's really smart okay"
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Onmi posted:Sonic Megadrive - The Next Levels I am super appreciating this art style Also yes the hit sound on bosses is best described as BRAKK
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This is a rare opportunity for me to post this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lea-Dx6b5Y
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fatherdog posted:I mean, the actual A-bomb test had Oppenheimer spontaneously quoting the Bhagavad Gita. Brilliant scientists are frequently widely read. thank you for learning me something
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fatherdog posted:I mean, the actual A-bomb test had Oppenheimer spontaneously quoting the Bhagavad Gita. Brilliant scientists are frequently widely read. Well, now they have the internet so I wonder if that might change.
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Nevvy Z posted:Well, now they have the internet so I wonder if that might change. Because they can access a much larger variety of texts much more easily?
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Chaos Hippy posted:Because they can access a much larger variety of texts much more easily? They're more likely to be arguing in comment threads on blog posts, about xkcd/smbc comics or TV tropes.
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I like to think Oppenheimer would start up a youtube channel in the style of the red hot nickel ball guy, but using uranium.
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mind the walrus posted:Yeah I've never known a really really smart person who wasn't hungry enough to diversify their interests. Tony Stark probably doesn't read a lot.
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I Love Loosies posted:Tony Stark probably doesn't read a lot. I bet he's one of those assholes who thinks books on tape are the same as reading a book.
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I Love Loosies posted:Tony Stark probably doesn't read a lot. Not anymore he doesn't.
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I think Tony reads but doesn't really care because he's always been a know it all. Reed cares but it's a bit too autistic to internalize the finer details.
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I bet the Iron Man suit has vape rigs built into the helmet, what do you think?
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Stark the kinda arrogant rear end in a top hat who'd devise a way to get high off his own farts
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"Hey Yinsen, I've got a plan. Check this out." "It's... A suit? You're going to use it to escape?" "Uhhh... Yeah. Yeah, that's what it's for."
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Saw this while strolling back through the threadArchRanger posted:You left out the next few panels, which are my favorite part of the entire issue.
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bobkatt013 posted:Captain America 296 So he's beating a fat guy to death and then feels bad about it, while thinking about Bucky?
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I got confused and thought Bucky was beating him to death really smugly.
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bobkatt013 posted:Captain America 296 I have no idea what's going on here and why it's badass.
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Sorry should have added this http://geeksout.org/blogs/aaron-tabak/forgotten-gay-characters-captain-americas-gay-pal-arnie-roth
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