Endless Mike posted:Zdarsky loves his Ani-men, I guess. Edge & Christian posted:Ahem, that's Frog-Man II, who they EXPLICITLY TELL YOU NOT TO CONFUSE WITH FROG-MAN I. THEY ASKED YOU POLITELY BUT FIRMLY RIGHT IN THE MASTER EDITION. Frog-man 2 is also pretty obviously biting Leap-Frog's gimmick more than anything to do with the original Frog-man. And since I brought up Leap-Frog, I can't not bring up how terrifying he used to look. 
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Lurdiak posted:Frog-man 2 is also pretty obviously biting Leap-Frog's gimmick more than anything to do with the original Frog-man.
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Didn't Frog Man II get horribly maimed in the Thunderbolts series with Osborn in control?
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Edge & Christian posted:Frog-Man II is literally Leap-Frog's son who took his costume and tried to make something of himself. I think you're conflating 2 stories involving frogs that were published the same year.
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Nah, he's correct. Frog-"killed a man jk"-man is Leap-Frog's son.
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Rirse posted:Didn't Frog Man II get horribly maimed in the Thunderbolts series with Osborn in control? Frog-Man (II) and Spider-Kid were briefly a team-up in 1980s Spider-Man comics, as a couple of nerdy goofs that wanted to show up Spider-Man. In Thunderbolts Spider-Kid was now Steel Spider, a hard-drinking rebel fighting the SHRA. He got a scene of being a cool badass who could hold his own with some of the Thunderbolts, then Venom ate most of him.
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Didn't Toad join Frog Man and Spider Kid as a team called the Misfits? I remember a pretty epic cover.
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X-O posted:Day 29: Thunderstrike quote:Thor #421 gave up custody of his son to wife The hell are these comics? That sounds awesome.
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Day 32: Doughboy Created by Arnim Zola, which is unsurprising. "His body resembles dough both in appearance and in consistency."  
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Mar 16, 2017 22:31
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"The general populace is unaware of Doughboy's existence" kind of sums him up.
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Look out, it's Majin Buu's crusty brother!ImpAtom posted:"The general populace is unaware of Doughboy's existence" kind of sums him up. Whether it was intended that way or not, I don't think there's a way to read each instance of 'The general populace of earth etc." as anything but sarcastic.
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Mar 16, 2017 22:38
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He looks so happy.
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Doughboy was also in an episode of Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. https://streamable.com/t23g8
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Mar 16, 2017 23:23
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I just want to say I love this thread so much
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Edge & Christian posted:I know that was the MO for that series but as best I remember/can see from a quick search they just arrested/maimed/destroyed ("revamped" in Ellis speak) Jack Flag, American Eagle, and Steel Spider. American Eagle actually ended kicking everyone's rear end. It was great.
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Conrad_Birdie posted:I just want to say I love this thread so much Yeah. Doughboy is something truly incredible. And I'd never have known about him until this thread
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red skull used to lead a skeleton-themed villain group called skeleton crew? i guess crossbones is the only member that lasted to the present.
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They were skeleton-themed in that Red Skull has a skull for a face and his henchman Crossbones was bone-themed because he henched for a guy with a skull for a face. Everyone else was just a D-list villain with their own gimmick that went back to being an E-list villain once Red Skull got bored of being low-rent Cobra Commander.
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Ghostlight posted:They were skeleton-themed in that Red Skull has a skull for a face and his henchman Crossbones was bone-themed because he henched for a guy with a skull for a face. Everyone else was just a D-list villain with their own gimmick that went back to being an E-list villain once Red Skull got bored of being low-rent Cobra Commander. Comics rule
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doughboy is my favorite supervillain and he's also the best supervillain here's another opinion: all of the animen loving rule
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The Animen would be my jobbers of choice because the Wrecking Crew and Serpent Society are so played out. As ironic as current writers are, I can't believe we're this far into this millennium without Deadpool shoving Doughboy into a giant oven, or him brutally murdering someone in a Bendis book.
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Open Marriage Night posted:The Animen would be my jobbers of choice because the Wrecking Crew and Serpent Society are so played out. Man we're already getting the Spot as a badass enforcer type in Jessica Jones, what more do you want?
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Any writer worth their page rate would use the Spot. Bendis falls far short of Waid's use of him in Daredevil though. That was some amazing stuff. Daredevil fighting the Spot feels like one of those things that Waid came up with in a lucid dream, like DD driving a car. The guy lives super heroes. Open Marriage Night fucked around with this message at 07:08 on Mar 17, 2017 |
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i'm not much of a daredevil fan, but that really was a great run.
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hup posted:Yeah. Doughboy is something truly incredible. And I'd never have known about him until this thread  and of COURSE Kirby created him 
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No one since has really captured the wild-eyed grinning insanity Kirby gave Zola and it's a real loss for the comics world.
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Pastry of the Year posted:
what a loving page
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Yeah, there's a reason that Marvel pretty much officially made him God of the Marvel Universe. Kirby, not Doughboy.
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Wanderer posted:Weird coincidence: 8-Ball shows up for a panel in today's new issue of Star-Lord, so I guess there's another one now. The card game Sentinels of the Multiverse also, um, homaged 8-Ball: 
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That's probably just a coincidence, it's not like it's an entirely original design. Homestuck had a villain named Lord English that also had a cueball for a head, and talked in pool puns. I doubt the creator of Homestuck knew this one Marvel character too.
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IUG posted:That's probably just a coincidence, it's not like it's an entirely original design. Homestuck had a villain named Lord English that also had a cueball for a head, and talked in pool puns. I doubt the creator of Homestuck knew this one Marvel character too. Nah, SotM's entire thing is that it has similar-but-different versions of heroes and villains. Pretty much every single character is a slight-knockoff of an existing character. (Though to their credit they have some pretty cool ways of making a character similar but different.)
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Ah, I've never heard of whatever that is. I just assumed it was some card game or webcomic.
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IUG posted:Ah, I've never heard of whatever that is. I just assumed it was some card game or webcomic. It is a card game. it's a pretty fun one too. There's actually a digital version of it available on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/337150/ The art is completely goddamn poo poo early on but gets better as its expansions come out, though it's always pretty webcomicy.
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NorgLyle posted:My favorite thing about the Ani-Men has nothing to do with them. But immediately after Thunderbird's death there's a fantastically hilarious issue of X-Men where Cyclops is dealing with being a bad leader (since it was apparently his fault that Thunderbird jumped on a jet and punched it until it exploded to try and kill some guy in a vampire cape and monocle) and he's out wandering around in the woods when he has a little fit of emorage and blasts the forest with his optic beams. In doing so, for some reason, he shatters an ancient (I suppose) Native American ritual stone thing that releases an angry demon who comest to the mansion and tries to murder all the X-Men as they do. They fight him for a while and eventually defeat it and everyone just sort of goes "Huh. That was weird." Yeah, that's the bit where Cyclops gets into a shouting match with the caption boxes.
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Day 33: Adam Warlock, Kismet, Magus, & Goddess Today we'll just lump these all together as they're all related. I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with Adam Warlock. Well Kismet is his female counterpart, also known as Her or Ayesha. She's also in the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy sequel. Magus and Goddess are parts of Adam Warlock. They were the villains in Infinity War and Infinity Crusade. When Adam Warlock took the Infinity Gauntlet from Nebula in order to rule as a more pragmatic God he shed the good and evil parts of his psyche. Unfortunately those halves manifested their own personas. Magus represents the evil parts and Goddess the good. Magus also was a major part of the early Adam Warlock stories from Jim Starlin along with the Universal Church of Truth.        
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Warlock's personal chronology is pretty hosed up.
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For anyone who has it, Marvel Unlimited just added Warlock and the Infinity Watch this week.
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Such a shame those fresh-rear end character designs got wasted on Adam Warlock spin-offs.
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HitTheTargets posted:Such a shame those fresh-rear end character designs got wasted on Adam Warlock spin-offs. Magus is a little too pastel for me. Those colours could stand to be a little darker.
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Magus is very of-his-time.
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