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Which is of course, solely filtered through the lens of my esteemed namesake. 52, for him, was meant to be the spine of the overarching DC Universe and the big moments to come, Wacker, Giffen, Morrison, Johns, Waid and Rucka cleverly decided to gently caress that off and just tell some awesome stories. Countdown was closer to what Didio originally wanted 52 to be.
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Oh Silver Age innocence... And prom is tomorrow night!! (Amazing Spider-Man #5)
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Endless Mike posted:I guess I should be more fair: he is good at layouts and storytelling, but I think his actual drawing is pretty garbage. Larsen is a great artist who, for some reason, can't draw the Hulk, and is generally terrible at drawing eyebrows. He's a good artist when he has an editor guiding him, but when left alone, he goes all over the loving place, and there are typically lots of big guns involved. 
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Dan Didio posted:Which is of course, solely filtered through the lens of my esteemed namesake. 52, for him, was meant to be the spine of the overarching DC Universe and the big moments to come, Wacker, Giffen, Morrison, Johns, Waid and Rucka cleverly decided to gently caress that off and just tell some awesome stories. I don't trust anything you post solely because of your name. 
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Red posted:Larsen is a great artist who, for some reason, can't draw the Hulk, and is generally terrible at drawing eyebrows. I love this issue so much. It's just adorable.
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Red posted:Larsen is a great artist who, for some reason, can't draw the Hulk, and is generally terrible at drawing eyebrows. It's SPIDER-CABLE! (Oh god they just tied the whole Grey/Summers bloodline into the Clone Saga! WASN'T BREAKING THE MULTIVERSE GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU, MCCOY?)  (Daredevil 354)
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KaosMachina posted:That's not a punchline. That's an actual character from DC Comics from a group called The Inferior 4. The punchline was that Dumb Bunny (of the Inferior FIVE) was being used to make a statement about how female characters are used in comics in the incredibly slyly feminist Bulleteer comic, 16 years after they made a joke in Animal Man about how she could be brought back into proper continuity as a serious feminist message. It's really a shame that Seven Soldiers was such a short experiment. Some of the books were really, really good*, and Bulleteer was one of them . The whole thing was this whole major critique of gender politics in comics, hiding behind exactly the sort of cheesecake art that some argue is part of the problem. Also, her character of actively not wanting to be a superhero despite life disagreeing was an interesting turn. *(shining knight and mr. miracle were really the only ones that didn't thrill me. Then again, MM was a decoy the whole time and never actually one of the "seven soldiers")
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Man even if you could hang upside down, maybe a chili dog is probably best eaten when it wont fall into your nose and choke you.
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Synthbuttrange posted:Man even if you could hang upside down, maybe a chili dog is probably best eaten when it wont fall into your nose and choke you. It's okay, he's using his spiderpowers to make sure the ingredients stick to the bun.
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Chili dogs are actually at their most lethal once they're inside your digestive system. How you eat one doesn't matter much.
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Lobok posted:Chili dogs are actually at their most lethal once they're inside your digestive system. How you eat one doesn't matter much. MrBibs parachute account spotted.
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Lobok posted:Chili dogs are actually at their most lethal once they're inside your digestive system. How you eat one doesn't matter much.
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Knormal posted:Especially once the chili's turned green. Unless that's relish on a chili dog, which is its own sin. Get yourself some chili verde my dude
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:Get yourself some chili verde my dude
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Stop saying chili dog in there!
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 From Batman: Gothic. He just loving flew into an Austrian monastery in full costume to start awkwardly asking the monks in sloppy German for directions.
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chitoryu12 posted:
What a dick. "You're a scary dude." "Only if you're a bad person grr."
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That's a real police line of thinking. "Why are you scared of the man dressed like Dracula. Only someone with something to hide would do that." That reminds me, I think it was the Batman 0 issue after Zero Hour in the mid 90s when they went back to Bruce's time in university. Didn't he study law and contemplate becoming a police officer until he decided there would be too many layers of red tape?
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I definitely read a Batman comic involving law school when I was a kid. I think it was a reprint of some Neal Adams material but I'm not sure. Hilariously, the part Bruce Wayne got angry at was that law enforcement and lawyers had to punish people who, in his eyes, had done nothing wrong.
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Lurdiak posted:Hilariously, the part Bruce Wayne got angry at was that law enforcement and lawyers had to punish people who, in his eyes, had done nothing wrong. I'm curious what it is that he deemed "not wrong."
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It was one of those "Even the passenger gets in trouble!" laws, as seen in ancient Law For Kids memes. The passenger wanted to get out of the car before the driver committed a crime didn't lessen his guilt in the eyes of the law, and Batman decided the law was bullshit and that he would only cripple people he feels like crippling.
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Lurdiak posted:It was one of those "Even the passenger gets in trouble!" laws, as seen in ancient Law For Kids memes. This is from The Untold Tale of the Batman, basically a miniseries recapping Batman's origin and early years. It's a few years before Crisis on Infinite Earths and Year One resets things. It's one of my favorite comics. Its from before I was born but I had a black and white digest sized reprint when I was a little kid. Specifically the question was about a group of kids stealing a car for a joyride. One of them feels remorse and he wants to get out, but before he can the driver hits a pedestrian and kills them. Bruce said he'd find the other people guilty of car theft but not manslaughter. The instructor says they all face the same punishment under the law and Bruce realizes the law and justice aren't always on the same page, and that he can't work within the system to serve justice. purple death ray fucked around with this message at 15:38 on May 23, 2017 |
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May 23, 2017 15:34
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Keeshhound posted:I guess they had to come up with some reason why he's ok with vigilantism. Without going the whole "I want to fe: y'know, this 
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prefect posted:What a dick. "You're a scary dude." "Only if you're a bad person grr." He's a bit of a dick in this one. It's the arc where Mr. Whisper shows up to murder mobsters, and they go so far as to build an upside-down Bat Signal to summon him. He shows up, tells them never to turn it on again, and leaves. Doesn't give a poo poo that Mr. Whisper is a child murderer back from the dead until he realizes that it's his old headmaster from school, who he thought murdered one of his friends there. He also swoops down to save a guy from an alleyway stabbing by announcing that he's "the king of hell" and runs away while the guy he saved cowers and tries to offer him money to not hurt him too.
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Kinda wanna read a comic where Batman's more of a terrifying jerk than a crimefighter. No, I don't mean Miller's stuff.
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Batman can't let his kayfabe down even for a second or nobody will ever be scared of him again. I bet it sucks
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purple death ray posted:Batman can't let his kayfabe down even for a second or nobody will ever be scared of him again. I bet it sucks 
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Lurdiak posted:Kinda wanna read a comic where Batman's more of a terrifying jerk than a crimefighter. That one Morrison issue with Joe Chill kind of fits.
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Lurdiak posted:Kinda wanna read a comic where Batman's more of a terrifying jerk than a crimefighter. No, I don't mean Miller's stuff. In "The Birth of the Demon", Batman opens up by getting whacked in the back of the head with a shovel because he turned his back on a guy digging one of al Ghul's Lazarus Pits to let him leave in peace. There's a hilarious series of panels I can get where he slowly climbs out of the river of muck he fell into and props up a sign he knocked over, his mouth dropping open in horror when he sees that he fell in a pool of toxic waste. He then keeps yelling at Alfred when he suggests that he visit a doctor instead of hunting more Lazarus Pits because he looks seriously ill. It doesn't actually impede him in the final battle, though.
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Lurdiak posted:I don't get it. 
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Lurdiak posted:Kinda wanna read a comic where Batman's more of a terrifying jerk than a crimefighter. No, I don't mean Miller's stuff. So Modern Batman?
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