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Scaramouche posted:There's a good bit in that issue that feels very Hastings-y where her dad is describing how cool he is. Still blows my mind that he's "made it", hopefully he keeps on truckin and does some mega event like Gwens of Future Past or something. He's very cool 
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I don't know much about dads, but I'm pretty sure that's a cool dad.
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From JLA: Act of God #3. Every superhero and villain in the world loses their powers, so after two issues of wallowing in self-pity a few heroes train with Batman to create new hero identities. Formerly Aquaman, King of Atlantis and Lord of the Seas...now...The Hand!
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Formerly Batman, now The Parents
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How do you use a mace to stop crime without straight up killing the criminal?
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what is this idiocy
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Rhonne posted:How do you use a mace to stop crime without straight up killing the criminal? Aim for their legs?
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Rhonne posted:How do you use a mace to stop crime without straight up killing the criminal? How do you swing a double mace like that around your head without braining yourself?
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Rhonne posted:How do you use a mace to stop crime without straight up killing the criminal?
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Mega Man #53 God I miss the Mega Man comic...
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Ghostlight posted:JUSTICE Batman: "I must apologize for Justice, she is an idiot. I have purposely trained her wrong, as a joke."
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Synthbuttrange posted:what is this idiocy I don't know much comics, but I do know that Act of God is pretty bad and basically just an excuse to fawn about how cool Batman is.
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Evil Mastermind posted:From JLA: Act of God #3. Every superhero and villain in the world loses their powers, so after two issues of wallowing in self-pity a few heroes train with Batman to create new hero identities. He is building a crime-fighting force of extraordinary magnitude! Unrelated:  (From a Lobo issue, think it's where he's supposed to be protecting some paranoid idiot... in the middle of a last-man-standing deathmatch. IIRC, paranoid idiot manages to be the last man standing.)(Edit: not my scan/image, so i dunno why they didn't do round 3 - more of the same, obviously.)
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Cleretic posted:I don't know much comics, but I do know that Act of God is pretty bad and basically just an excuse to fawn about how cool Batman is. For all the talk about how the story is all about how cool Batman is...he doesn't do a lot in it. Like he talks about how you can still be heroes without powers, he gathers together some to make the Phoenix group. Then he leads them on an attack on the villains (who include a mix of guys like Heatwave, Captain Cold and Metallo and Cyborg Superman. Some of these guys should be more of a threat than others.) But he's completely absent for the final fight. It's the Phoenix group heroes who we see fight everyone and do all the work. And Batman just shows up at the end to say they've done a good job. He's like a police captain in an action movie. There to provide the hero direction, but not to fight the bad guys for him/her.
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We call people like that 'hypocrites' last I checked
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Evil Mastermind posted:From JLA: Act of God #3. Every superhero and villain in the world loses their powers, so after two issues of wallowing in self-pity a few heroes train with Batman to create new hero identities. This reads like a bunch of D&D players describing their characters.
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GrandpaPants posted:This reads like a bunch of D&D players describing their characters. Right before the DM tells them to roll new, non-terrible characters.
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On the plus side, Aquaman got a power boost. Or is "Ha ha, talking to fish is literally the worst power" not actually applicable anymore? I admit I don't know anything about Aquaman since he grew the beard.
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Wait, what happened to the other Atlanteans?
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Dareon posted:On the plus side, Aquaman got a power boost. Or is "Ha ha, talking to fish is literally the worst power" not actually applicable anymore? I admit I don't know anything about Aquaman since he grew the beard. He's also almost as physically strong as Superman on dry land, and possibly even stronger when in the water. No one ever remembers that.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:He's also almost as physically strong as Superman on dry land, and possibly even stronger when in the water. No one ever remembers that.
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I'm glad they got Jason Momoa to play Arthur in the movie, but it's not gonna be Conan the Atlantean having adventures on the high sea, because it's Visionary Director Zack Snyder. And the standalone movie is directed by the guy who did Saw. gently caress the DCCU is what I'm saying.
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Zack Snyder strikes me as someone who is eminently suited for directing something Conan-esque, though.
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Zack Snyder isn't fit to direct traffic. Also, the guy who did Saw is the guy who did Furious 7 so he's an experienced superhero movie director. If anything the bigger warning sign is that guy writing it got his script for Justice League scrapped, got his script for Aquaman scrapped, then got rehired to do screenplay treatment on someone else's Aquaman script, and the only released movie he's written for has a (double checks) 31% tomatometer. Weirdly enough he's also the guy who's supposed to be writing the next Conan movie that's totally going to happen any time soon, so maybe you will get Conan the Atlantean..?
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 (Action Comics) Ghostlight posted:Zack Snyder isn't fit to direct traffic. The depth and breadth of nerd-dom's grudge against Zack Snyder for making movies they don't like always amazes me. It's George Lucas levels of creepy fixation on an entirely inoffensive author. He already directed the other good Conan movie (300). Also, lol at denigrating traffic workers. BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 12:38 on Jun 17, 2017 |
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It's not a grudge when his movies aren't very good and a primary contributor to that fact is his inflexibility and poor decision making as a director. Like, sure, 300 is a good movie - a good portion of that is because the direction is taken wholesale from the comic book. For some reason I thought this was the chat thread before, so here.  [Deadpool #20]
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Ghostlight posted:Like, sure, 300 is a good movie - a good portion of that is because the direction is taken wholesale from the comic book. Aside from the fact that it's faithful to the point of basing compositions on individual comic panels, the direction of the movie is not "taken" from the comic (comic books are not directed). It's rather obvious from things like how scenes, action, and dialogue play out. One example is how the comic at points indulges in empty negative space that has a coldly calming effect, while in the movie this aspect is completely absent. Here's a 300 funny to get away from the derail: 
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Breetai posted:How do you swing a double mace like that around your head without braining yourself?  The Question IRL posted:For all the talk about how the story is all about how cool Batman is...he doesn't do a lot in it. Tasteful Dickpic posted:Wait, what happened to the other Atlanteans?
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Those "heroes all lose their powers" stories drive me crazy. The flash has super powers, he is super fast. The Martian Manhunter doesn't, those are just things martians do. Like shouldn't monkeys start falling from trees because they lost their tree swinging powers, or fish all dying because they lost their super ability to breathe underwater? Also how long did it take them all to become peerless martial artists, and is anybody else bothered by them giving the Flash a trident when Aquaman is right there? I mean Aquaman is PROBABLY already proficient with a trident, why not give him a trident AND a robot hand? WaywardWoodwose fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Jun 17, 2017 |
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WaywardWoodwose posted:Those "heroes all lose their powers" stories drive me crazy. The flash has super powers, he is super fast. The martian manhunter doesn't, those are just things martians do. Like shouldnt monkeys start falling from trees because they lost their tree swinging powers, or fish all dying because they lost their super ability to breathe underwater? Is there anything special about the Martian Manhunter when compared to other Martians, other than not being dead? Is he just another Martian, or is he particularly good at Martianing?
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WaywardWoodwose posted:Those "heroes all lose their powers" stories drive me crazy. The flash has super powers, he is super fast. The Martian Manhunter doesn't, those are just things martians do. Like shouldn't monkeys start falling from trees because they lost their tree swinging powers, or fish all dying because they lost their super ability to breathe underwater?  both their powers comes from devices).prefect posted:Is there anything special about the Martian Manhunter when compared to other Martians, other than not being dead? Is he just another Martian, or is he particularly good at Martianing? BravestOfTheLamps posted:Doesn't Wonder Woman become Catholic in that comic?  Yup! Then when God doesn't answer, she almost commits suicide while pregnant with Clark's son! Trust me, I could go on. I don't think I've ever hated a comic as much as Act of God. It's like this amazing stupidity fractal where every time you re-read it or think about it critically you discover another dumb idea or plot hole.
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Was there not something in the series that hinted at how the Spectre might have been responsible for it all? Personally the Elseworld I hated the most from the same time period was the one where all the males on the planet (Apart from Superman and Lex Luthor die.) And rather than analyse the massive shift this would have on society or the PTSD that everyone would have or even hint at the idea that we might see a same sex relationship....the story becomes about Lex Luthor being a MRA and that the children of the world need a male influence. Oh and Superman leaves behind a bucket of Supersperm to repopulate the world, with no heed given to the fact that it means everyone is going to be half brothers and half sisters.
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The Question IRL posted:Oh and Superman leaves behind a bucket of Supersperm to repopulate the world, with no heed given to the fact that it means everyone is going to be half brothers and half sisters. Or the "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" problem.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Aside from the fact that it's faithful to the point of basing compositions on individual comic panels, the direction of the movie is not "taken" from the comic (comic books are not directed). It's rather obvious from things like how scenes, action, and dialogue play out. One example is how the comic at points indulges in empty negative space that has a coldly calming effect, while in the movie this aspect is completely absent. The Achaemenids sure look boring for modern audiences...  I know! Let's give them more piercings than a Hot Topic HQ, more mascara than a Depp pirate, subtly racist "exotic" trappings to make them otherworldly, ridiculous clothing that seems to be mostly made of gold to show off how rich and depraved they are, a bunch of slaves so they're enemies of ARE FREEDOM, a stupid religious overtone that is the opposite of what was historically present...  I'll stop ranting, been listening to Dan Carlin's podcast series on the Achaemenid Empire , highly recommend them.
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