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E: never mind I'm dumb as hell, as payment here's your reminder to find the story where Mojo forces Sam and Bobby to make a show for him. Looks like it ran through Astonishing Tales Volume 2?
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X-O posted:Day 62: Cannonball I grabbed a metric ton of X-stuff from the Amazon sale, and the very first book I opened with Psylocke featured a "focused totality of my telepathic powers" within like six panels of her showing up. Both of these goofy turns of phrase are exactly why I love comic books. 
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Jun 6, 2017 01:25
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Don't forget Cannonball had a younger sister named Husk who could rip off her flesh to have a body made of whatever she could think of in a situation. Because they were from the Midwest, see. Don't know if she ever had corn-flesh though.
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Jun 6, 2017 12:09
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Don't forget Cannonball had a younger sister named Husk who could rip off her flesh to have a body made of whatever she could think of in a situation. Because they were from the Midwest, see. Don't know if she ever had corn-flesh though. Is she the one who went on to have sex with Angel in midair in front of her parents in a Chuck Austen story?
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Jun 6, 2017 13:59
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Don't forget Cannonball had a younger sister named Husk who could rip off her flesh to have a body made of whatever she could think of in a situation. Because they were from the Midwest, see. Don't know if she ever had corn-flesh though. I just remember her crossover character for Amalgam was Dial H for Hero.
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Jun 6, 2017 14:15
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Don't the Guthries have like 20 siblings or something insane? I remember DARK BEAST tried experimenting on one of the younger ones when he and regular Beast were trying to undo M-day. Because he figured hey, 2 mutants in the same family, gotta mean something.
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Jun 6, 2017 14:17
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Wheat Loaf posted:Is she the one who went on to have sex with Angel in midair in front of her parents in a Chuck Austen story? Yes. She was cool in Generation X, it sucks that *this* is what she's remembered most for 
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Jun 6, 2017 14:18
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There's at least three mutants from that family. There's also the one who can mind control a Sentinel.
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Jun 6, 2017 15:09
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Lurdiak posted:Don't the Guthries have like 20 siblings or something insane? There's at least 10. https://uncannyxmen.net/family-tree/the-guthries
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Jun 6, 2017 15:20
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Don't forget Cannonball had a younger sister named Husk who could rip off her flesh to have a body made of whatever she could think of in a situation. Because they were from the Midwest, see. Don't know if she ever had corn-flesh though. Kentucky is the midwest? The Guthries are from coal country, dude. No, really - Cannonball's father died of black lung from working in a coal mine so young Sam dropped out of school to work in the same mine that killed his old man, and when there was a mine collapse that's what activated his mutant powers.
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Jun 6, 2017 15:20
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joehonkie posted:I just remember her crossover character for Amalgam was Dial H for Hero. Dial a HUSK. She'd tear her skin off to reveal a different hero underneath. It was a cool, creepy, visual.
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Jun 6, 2017 16:29
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Open Marriage Night posted:Dial a HUSK. She'd tear her skin off to reveal a different hero underneath. It was a cool, creepy, visual.  Dial H.U.S.K.e: 
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Jun 6, 2017 16:32
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Dial-a-Husk sounds like a sexy hotline for gross aliens. EDIT: Ack, that picture is like some weird optical illusion. The part where she's tearing off her face and the tiara is UNDERNEATH. Nightmares, man.
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Jun 6, 2017 16:40
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redbackground posted:
Yeah, yeah. I have that whole card set, and the DC vs Marvel one. Nightcreeper was another favorite.
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Jun 7, 2017 06:39
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Day 63: Thin Man I know basically what's on this entry and nothing more. I think his profile picture there is fairly hilarious though. Just don't call him Flat Man. I assume he hates that.  
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Jun 8, 2017 02:01
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drat, PhD in undisclosed area of science is such a comic book thing. This guy was pretty neat when he made a go of being the Daredevil to Reed Richards' Spider-Man a few years back in one of the many attempts to get a new Invaders book off the ground.
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Jun 8, 2017 02:21
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His power is forgettable but those small, superfluous lapels... that's forever.
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Jun 8, 2017 03:53
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X-O posted:Day 63: Thin Man Flat Man, meanwhile, thinks it's a lovely compliment.
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Jun 8, 2017 04:19
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The Thin Man is old school. How old school? Mystic comics #4, his first appearance, was dated August 1940. For reference, Captain America's first comics appearance, Captain America Comics #1, was dated March 1941. Check out the Thin Man's entry in this Marvel Wikia, it's pretty delightful.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Check out the Thin Man's entry in this Marvel Wikia, it's pretty delightful. Wow, Captain America can be a real dick.
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joehonkie posted:Wow, Captain America can be a real dick. Well, yeah, he's a Nazi.
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Jun 8, 2017 14:57
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Day 64: Chondu The Mystic Hmm, let's take a look at this guy...  Whoa. That is quite a design.  
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Jun 10, 2017 01:20
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oh yeah, that's the stuff.
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Jun 10, 2017 01:39
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...brain transplanted into the body of Nighthawk II, then mind transformed by Doctor Strange into the body of fawn, then mind transferred into artificial brain of monster body described above; became insane. You don't say.
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Jun 10, 2017 01:48
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Reminds me of that one lame villain who has puppets for hands who somehow is tied with driving Scarlet Witch crazy.
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Jun 10, 2017 01:49
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It's okay, his insanity was cured, but at the cost of his whole body (and his unicorn horn).
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Jun 10, 2017 01:50
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I love Chondu the Mystic. Some other good Chondu looks:  These days he's a bartender. 
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Rirse posted:Reminds me of that one lame villain who has puppets for hands who somehow is tied with driving Scarlet Witch crazy.
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Jun 10, 2017 02:07
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they weren't fake when he stole their souls
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:they weren't fake when he stole their souls
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Jun 10, 2017 04:02
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To clarify, all of Master Pandemonium's limbs are puppets. They were established as fake in the lead up to Pandemonium kidnapping then absorbing them, and then it being revealed that in fact he was never recovering pieces of his soul but that he had been tricked by Mephisto into recovering pieces of his demonic essence that he had lost when he got blown up by Franklin Richards. Then Wanda got mindwiped and they disappeared until House of M.
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Jun 10, 2017 04:28
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Byrne's latent misogyny led to some of the most convoluted stories in comics. And bad fashion, for that matter (unless someone else designed that rig-out of Sue Storm's).NorgLyle posted:The entire central thrust to the story was a part of John Byrne's weird tantrum over the Vision leading to his emotionless ghost look See, I always thought of this as a tantrum over Wanda because of the "fake kids" thing, what was Byrne's issue with Vision?
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Byrne's latent misogyny led to some of the most convoluted stories in comics. And bad fashion, for that matter (unless someone else designed that rig-out of Sue Storm's). Man, I don't want this cool-rear end thread to turn into a Byrne derail, but this reminds me of the weird tendency we have to judge people by the Worst Things They've Done - if someone starts out lovely and grows as a person, there are always going to be people who never let them forget it, and if someone starts out great and then devolves into a crank or a weirdo or a shithead, then their past good works invariably get viewed through a poo poo-smeared lens. Byrne was definitely going Weird Places in his life by the time he took the reins on Avengers West Coast, but his work on X-Men, FF, and (yeah, I'll say it) Alpha Flight was really good. I also really liked Sensational She-Hulk, which he was putting out around the same time as AWC and, arguably, was as fun and female-friendly a comic as you'd find at that time.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:See, I always thought of this as a tantrum over Wanda because of the "fake kids" thing, what was Byrne's issue with Vision? Vision is a "toaster" and has no emotions, and the hundreds of comics contradicting this notion are LIES.
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Jun 10, 2017 12:31
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Pastry of the Year posted:Man, I don't want this cool-rear end thread to turn into a Byrne derail, but this reminds me of the weird tendency we have to judge people by the Worst Things They've Done - if someone starts out lovely and grows as a person, there are always going to be people who never let them forget it, and if someone starts out great and then devolves into a crank or a weirdo or a shithead, then their past good works invariably get viewed through a poo poo-smeared lens. How does BSS not already have a thread dedicated to Byrne?
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Jun 10, 2017 18:35
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Lurdiak posted:Vision is a "toaster" and has no emotions, and the hundreds of comics contradicting this notion are LIES. Including the most famous panel of him crying
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Jun 10, 2017 18:37
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ecavalli posted:How does BSS not already have a thread dedicated to Byrne? Talking about Byrne is like chewing tobacco. It's uncivilized and leaves a nasty taste in your mouth.
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X-O posted:Day 63: Thin Man A great character idea badly realized? Hey, DC can do that, too! (See: Ron-Karr of Neptune) 
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John Byrne's whole thing by the early 1990s when he did Avengers West Coast (and only hardened going forward) was this sort of weird FRAMER'S INTENT philosophy. It got even worse after Kirby died and Byrne briefly batted around trying to take on the mantle of The New King, Heir to Jack's Throne before getting slapped down violently by well, everyone. Therefore when he did his New Gods stuff in the late 1990s, he insisted no one but Kirby's interpretation mattered. Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch were loyal members of Magneto's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants back when STAN AND JACK wrote them, so shouldn't they still be that? Hawkeye was a kneejerk hothead WHEN STAN AND JACK WROTE HIM so there's no way he'd be leader of an Avengers team! And Vision is just an android very much not made from the parts of the original Human Torch because that was Steve Englehart, who had probably slighted Byrne at some point so gently caress Englehart violating the original form of the Vision that Stan and Jack, er, Roy and John created. Now when he decided to invalidate half of the old style FRAMER'S INTENT of Superman in 1986, that was okay because ____________________.
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X-O posted:Day 64: Chondu The Mystic Former alias: Bambi...?
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