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i think giant man is the only person who might conceivably need the standard liefeld pouch ensemble. there are worse ways to carry and access many kinds of small objects. for example, Ghostlight posted:Lab equipment and chainsaws. that jumpsuit.
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May 23, 2017 18:30
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A.o.D. posted:If my occasional strolls through the Phobos Labs are any indication, chainsaws are most definitely lab equipment. Look, it's in the UAC packet, right after the section on human sacrifice. It's just science. This is how science works.
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May 23, 2017 18:58
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Ghostlight posted:Lab equipment and chainsaws.
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May 23, 2017 20:03
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i think giant man is the only person who might conceivably need the standard liefeld pouch ensemble. there are worse ways to carry and access many kinds of small objects. Does he still use that Swiss Army knife with hundreds of shrunken down attachments? I thought that was a clever way of using his established powers to say he can do some sonic screwdriver bullshit.
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May 23, 2017 22:04
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NorgLyle posted:That is, no kidding, the best version of Hank Pym by a country mile. I can't agree with this enough. Those late-Englehart West Coast Avengers issues had him being more useful than he'd ever been before. He carried a miniature spaceship in his pocket!
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May 23, 2017 23:05
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Are you counting the run up where he kicks the entire Masters of Evil's asses while immobilized?
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May 24, 2017 05:26
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Light Gun Man posted:I wanna know what's in Giant Man's pouches. More Avengers? Big Avengers have little Avengers, Who in their pouches ride 'em, And little Avengers have lesser Avengers, and so, ad infinitum.
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May 24, 2017 12:34
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Are the classic Captain Marvel issues collected anywhere?
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May 27, 2017 16:39
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A Strange Aeon posted:re the classic Captain Marvel issues collected anywhere?
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May 27, 2017 19:46
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Edge & Christian posted:Which Captain Marvel? Pretty much the only ones anyone remembers from Mar-Vell are the Starlin issues (which jump around and have fill-ins and end up in other books) and all of those are collected in a Captain Marvel by Starlin trade. poo poo, I think I meant Shazam, then? The Mr. Mind chat made me think of it. Wouldn't there be like 50 years of Fawcett comics? Have those ever been reprinted? I know there were some random fill-in issues with Alan Moore's Marvel Man, but I thought those stories were some other British rip-off of the American Fawcett stuff.
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May 27, 2017 20:34
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A Strange Aeon posted:poo poo, I think I meant Shazam, then? The Mr. Mind chat made me think of it. Wouldn't there be like 50 years of Fawcett comics? Have those ever been reprinted? I know there were some random fill-in issues with Alan Moore's Marvel Man, but I thought those stories were some other British rip-off of the American Fawcett stuff. I believe they're all out of print, but Amazon has pretty decent prices on DC's old line of Archive hardcovers. Marvelman was very explicitly a British comics company doing very well with Captain Marvel reprints in the 1950s and then just doing their own rip-off, which now Marvel owns and reprinted to resounding indifference.
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May 27, 2017 20:44
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Edge & Christian posted:Ahh. Yeah, DC owns all of that IP now, I think there might have been some sort of legal issue with reprinting them? That or they didn't want to reprint stories featuring the Marvel Family's servant Steamboat and Nippo the Superjap or whatever. Yeah that why they haven't reprinted the The Monster Society of Evil storyline in years. I remember they had plans but then just cancelled it.
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May 27, 2017 21:44
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Good to know on those reprints; seems like they aren't chronological, just a selection, but that's fine by me. I just like the lighthearted, whimsical tone in the stories I've seen, and would like to see more.
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May 27, 2017 22:50
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DC also did a Shazam Showcase, although it's the '70s version of Captain Marvel, not the original '40s stuff.
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May 28, 2017 14:29
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Based on that Seanbaby article, those books would probably constitute some kind of a hate crime now.
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May 29, 2017 03:16
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Nessus posted:Based on that Seanbaby article, those books would probably constitute some kind of a hate crime now. Eh. Yes and no. The original Whiz Comic books are all over the place. They have views which are genuinely something that would be considered progressive today. (There's an issue where Marvel argues that criminals are the product of their environment and suggests improving neighborhoods and housing rather than beating up the criminals for example.) And the actual stated goal was to be positive, inoffensive and not insult anyone. Unfortunately they are very much the product of their age and attempts to be inclusive are still poo poo that came across as awful. Steamboat (probably the most glaring of the horribly offensive ideas) was a legitimate honest attempt to include a black character and just critically failed in such a way that it was wildly offensive at the time, let alone these days. Likewise the Monster Society of Evil arc has tons of wartime overtones and there's no excusing it despite the fact it was a product of its time. Basically they have a lot of positive and uplifting and good messages sandwiched in between horrifying racism. And the racism isn't the product of intentionally awful things but that doesn't excuse it and reading them means you have to be prepared for a sudden left turn into "holy gently caress' territory.
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May 29, 2017 03:43
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That whole thing where he visits a muslim who can puke the ghost of Mohammed or whatever is like a racist fever dream.
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May 29, 2017 03:44
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It's kinda the same as reading Marston's early Wonder Woman. You see a very earnest, optimistic proto-feminism on the page right next to "yeah, it's so empowering for women to let me look at titties or get tied up."
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May 29, 2017 04:09
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ImpAtom posted:Basically they have a lot of positive and uplifting and good messages sandwiched in between horrifying racism. And the racism isn't the product of intentionally awful things but that doesn't excuse it and reading them means you have to be prepared for a sudden left turn into "holy gently caress' territory. I did like that Captain Nippon's dialogue is entirely normal without the racist L/R swap nonsense. At the same time, I strongly dislike that he's a vampire gorilla.
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May 30, 2017 00:07
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First of all, please don't die, thread!  Secondly, I can't decide who upsets me more. Doughboy the giant amorphous fleshpile, Shape the giant amorphous fleshpile hanging (but really mostly sagging) off a bony skeleton, or Slug the most horrifying possible combination of the two and also he is definitely a human. Does Skin have an entry? Thirdly, add my voice to the "8-Ball is the best ridiculous villain" chorus. Rahonavis fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Jun 4, 2017 |
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Jun 4, 2017 17:19
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Rahonavis posted:First of all, please don't die, thread! 8 ball had nothing on crazy 8
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Jun 4, 2017 22:33
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Nah, not dead yet. I'll try to be more on the ball with this thread. And now, coming soon to a Newspaper Spider-Man strip near you... Day 61: Tyrannus My only real exposure to this character was the Subterranean Wars storyline that ran through a few Avengers Annuals in the early '90s. I miss those crossovers in Annuals. Anyway, he's set to be starring in the next few months of Newspaper Spider-Man it seems. And if you haven't visited that thread, well you need to make sure you stop in and read it because it's amazing. Spectacular even.  
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Jun 4, 2017 23:10
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Not much to say about this one, other than that it's neat that early Marvel meticulously populated all these weird realms outside of mainstream society with their own warring factions. Subterranea, the savage land, various outer space regions, and to a lesser extent Attilan and Wakanda(and its neighbours). It made the universe feel so alive and it was always fun to see heroes dragged into a conflict they don't have a direct stake in other than preventing collateral damage.
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Jun 4, 2017 23:17
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Real name unknown? I had the tie-in book Hulk: The Incredible Guide when I was younger and it said that Tyrannus was in fact Romulus Augustulus, the last Emperor of Rome (whose fate remains mysterious to historians) who fled to his underground kingdom after he was deposed where he discovered the fountain of youth.
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Jun 4, 2017 23:55
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Wheat Loaf posted:Real name unknown? I had the tie-in book Hulk: The Incredible Guide when I was younger and it said that Tyrannus was in fact Romulus Augustulus, the last Emperor of Rome (whose fate remains mysterious to historians) who fled to his underground kingdom after he was deposed where he discovered the fountain of youth. This is also what Newspaper Spider-Man states.
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Jun 4, 2017 23:56
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"Costume: Clothing of ancient Roman Empire" Yeah, checks out, pretty sure Romans wore giant capes and championship belts.
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Jun 5, 2017 01:01
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"Aspiring conqueror" "Well guys, we tried, but just didn't manage to conquer this time. Maybe next?"
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Jun 5, 2017 01:08
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Wait, the loving cobalt Flame of Life? I was just a few weeks ago reading an early Avengers comic in which that was utterly destroyed. These time lines don't match up at all!
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Jun 5, 2017 01:13
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that is probably an overly generous description, considering how most of the time he brought in outsiders it was because he was losing to mole man.
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Jun 5, 2017 01:13
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Precambrian posted:"Costume: Clothing of ancient Roman Empire" Also, late Roman emperors definitely didn't cover themselves with purple to remind everyone that they weren't just a tin pot despot barely clinging to power. Seriously though, with how much comics love to put villains in purple, the one guy they choose to not use that color on is a deposed Roman emperor.
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Jun 5, 2017 01:44
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Prince Rey of El Dorado is a pretty confusing name/title
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Jun 5, 2017 04:29
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How many Marvel heroes & villains have that hair?
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Jun 5, 2017 14:56
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Quicksilver, Damian Hellstrom, sometimes Magneto...? Frankly I find it way more baffling than the classic Osborn cut.
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Day 62: Cannonball This is Sam Guthrie. And he's nigh invulnerable when he's blastin'. A longtime member of the New Mutants and then X-Force and most recently The Avengers. Right now he's married to the Shi''ar Imperial Guard member Smasher and they have a child and live on the Shi'ar planet Chandilar. At one point in the '90s I remember something about him being some huge deal Mutant Leader of the future but I don't know what ever became of that. He's best when paired with Sunspot.  
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Jun 5, 2017 22:13
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X-O posted:At one point in the '90s I remember something about him being some huge deal Mutant Leader of the future but I don't know what ever became of that. I've heard it was nipped in the bud because it was too similar to the plot of Highlander (this being when Highlander movies and the TV show were still being made) and they didn't want Bill Panzer or whoever to sue them.
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Jun 5, 2017 22:25
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Cannonball getting drunk with Wolverine on his 21st birthday and getting into a bar fight with Juggernaut is the best.
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Jun 5, 2017 22:57
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You can tell he's a keen strategist because he's strapped all those pretzel sticks to his front for a quick mid-battle snack boost.
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Jun 5, 2017 23:34
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Wasn't Cannonball going to be revealed to be young Cable before the latter's story went in a divergent path?
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Do you think he has a version of that outfit where the white part is just open, for the ladies?
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