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Lurdiak posted:Click on it. I did, and still don't get it. Are you Dracula or Simon in this metaphor?
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Karl Rove is Dracula. I shouldn't have to explain this.
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Jun 5, 2017 06:09
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Lurdiak posted:Karl Rove is Dracula. I shouldn't have to explain this. Karl Rove encompasses so many villainous archetypes that you sort of need to let people know which one in particular you are invoking.
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Jun 5, 2017 06:14
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Skwirl posted:I did, and still don't get it. Are you Dracula or Simon in this metaphor? More importantly, which one is Lurdiak's brain tumor?
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Jun 5, 2017 06:18
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Toshimo posted:More importantly, which one is Lurdiak's brain tumor? we all are. luridiak is currently in a coma induced brain tumor and the mods/admins are his friends and family talking to him trying to get him to wake up.
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Jun 5, 2017 06:20
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ElMaligno posted:we all are. luridiak is currently in a coma induced brain tumor and the mods/admins are his friends and family talking to him trying to get him to wake up. Ha. I am lurdiak's embolism
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Jun 5, 2017 06:32
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Lurdiak posted:Karl Rove is Dracula. I shouldn't have to explain this. So you live in a castle on the moon?
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Jun 5, 2017 06:44
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Zeeman posted:Also, why does Lex's plan involve building a statue of Superman to show a baby? In Silver Age comics, Superman can perfectly recall his infancy on Krypton. It's one of his powers.
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Jun 5, 2017 08:43
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Silver Age Superman didn't think of the Kents as his real parents. He'd always think about "my human foster parents, the Kents" rather than "Ma and Pa" or say stuff like "even though you're not my real parents" and when your formative experience of Superman is the animated series, it makes it really jarring to go back and read them sometimes. Pretty far away from Superman flying so fast to try and save Pa Kent that his hair catches fire, in other words.
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Jun 5, 2017 14:02
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This kinda thing is why it never made sense to me that some Superman fans got mad at that speech from Kill Bill. Like did they not read old Superman comics, where Clark Kent absolutely was just a bullshit persona? I seem to recall a storyline where he just stopped being Clark Kent and became some kinda radio DJ.
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Jun 5, 2017 14:45
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Most people have not read comics from thirty years before they were born that are not kept in print, no
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Jun 5, 2017 14:54
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I guess I'm the real Superman fan.
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Jun 5, 2017 15:21
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Lurdiak posted:This kinda thing is why it never made sense to me that some Superman fans got mad at that speech from Kill Bill. Like did they not read old Superman comics, where Clark Kent absolutely was just a bullshit persona? The flaw with that argument is that Clark Kent wasn't a bullshit persona. The comics were weird and inconsistent but among other things he obviously treated his parents as his real parents and valued them. (Even in goofy-rear end issues where he was forced to leave them because he wouldn't reveal his secret identity or whatever.) Clark Kent The Daily Planet Reporter was a disguise but that's true even now and isn't the same as Clark Kent being a disguise. Hell, in the issue you mentioned the DJ was Clark the K. When he gave up Clark Kent he became Clark Kent again.
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Jun 5, 2017 15:27
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Hmm, fair enough. I just kinda saw that as him lacking imagination.
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Jun 5, 2017 15:31
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Clearly Bill was originally talking about the Martian Manhunter, but they had to swap it out for Superman because who the gently caress is the Martian Manhunter.
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Jun 5, 2017 15:49
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Clark the K was a pretty good DJ name for back then though. Hell, it'd be decent tier now.
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Jun 5, 2017 15:49
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Kwyndig posted:Clark the K was a pretty good DJ name for back then though. Hell, it'd be decent tier now. 
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Jun 5, 2017 15:58
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Kwyndig posted:Clark the K was a pretty good DJ name for back then though. Hell, it'd be decent tier now. It's not really imaginative, is it? Murray Kaufman (February 14, 1922 – February 21, 1982), professionally known as Murray the K, was an influential rock and roll impresario and disc jockey of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. During the early days of Beatlemania, he frequently referred to himself as the fifth Beatle.
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Jun 5, 2017 16:02
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Man being a dj means something entirely different now huh
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Jun 5, 2017 16:05
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I'm reading a collection of the first Superman comics. Just about everything he deals with is regular street crooks or corruption (sometimes on as low a level as fixing college football games). He also lords his strength over everyone, at one point nearly ruining his own plan because he gets shoved around by a guy while in disguise and hurls him across the room.
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chitoryu12 posted:I'm reading a collection of the first Superman comics. Just about everything he deals with is regular street crooks or corruption (sometimes on as low a level as fixing college football games). He also lords his strength over everyone, at one point nearly ruining his own plan because he gets shoved around by a guy while in disguise and hurls him across the room. Yeah, early Superman was awesome.
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Jun 5, 2017 16:10
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purple death ray posted:Man being a dj means something entirely different now huh Yeah now it is pressing play on your laptop
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Jun 5, 2017 16:51
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Evil Mastermind posted:He was pretty "with it" at the time. I can't tell which possibility is better for that dude in the lower right: that he's like some weird British Jimmy Olsen lookalike, or that Jimmy went over there and just decided "gently caress it, I'm doing this whole weird personality based on what TV has taught me about the English".
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Jun 5, 2017 17:18
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Keeshhound posted:And somehow I'd believed that this was an original idea (the comic linked to is fine, but Oglaf as a whole can be There's also http://oglaf.com/erstwhile/ :nsfw:
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Keeshhound posted:Now I'm imagining a superhero team that all wears the same face-concealing costume so that people THINK they're one omnipotent being, but they all have just one power each, Ten Brothers style. Or, just adapt the folk legend as a modern superhero story, I guess. Wow, this pointed me to
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CzarChasm posted:Wow, this pointed me to Oh, that children's book with the literal yellow face art? Yeah, that was my introduction to it too, but the actual legend is still pretty cool.
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Jun 5, 2017 23:34
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Wonder Woman.
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Jun 6, 2017 05:38
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Golden Age Wonder Woman really wasn't subtle about its kinks in the least, huh?
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Jun 6, 2017 08:26
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It's basically just a step short of saying "And then they hosed", yeah.
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Jun 6, 2017 08:29
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Every issue an even more elaborate foreplay than the last!
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Jun 6, 2017 09:04
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 Terrifying science-miracles are the best science-miracles.
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Jun 6, 2017 09:35
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Did somebody say science miracle? [Ultimate Spider-man #98]
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Jun 6, 2017 11:57
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Making water out of urine is hardly a scientific feat.
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Jun 6, 2017 12:05
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Once again Richards proves the only "science" he can muster is the feeble mimicry of better men! 
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Jun 6, 2017 12:31
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The Lone Badger posted:Making water out of urine is hardly a scientific feat. I wonder what he thinks they do at sewage-treatment plants.
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Dareon posted:Once again Richards proves the only "science" he can muster is the feeble mimicry of better men!
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Jun 6, 2017 12:52
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Amalgam had so many ridiculous mashups: The Exciting X-Patrol #1 (that's Dial H.U.S.K.)
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joehonkie posted:Amalgam had so many ridiculous mashups:  Ghost Rider + Flash + Etrigan? Why not?
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Evil Mastermind posted:It really did. That one came together so well, though. Enigma Fisk was the worst. Two characters that really just couldn't be linked. I'm still mad that at one point they named dropped "Prez, Master of Kung Fu" and didn't give us a visual.
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