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i thought the art made it very clear. once tyrannus' magic water wears off completely, he will turn into aunt may. it is the fate of all subterranean roman emperors.
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I mean, Aunt May is right upstairs and probably in trouble, so it really shouldn't be a big deal for Pete to get out of this.
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So Tyrannus doesn't like, have any powers. There's no reason Spider-man couldn't just barge into his room and web him to the wall and achieve the same results.The Question IRL posted:I remember an episode of teenage mutant ninja turtles where at one point one of the turtles pulls a giant plug out of the sewer to drain away water to take out a bad guy. Yeah but that was a comedy show, primarily. Newspaper Spider-man is high drama.
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Lurdiak posted:So Tyrannus doesn't like, have any powers. There's no reason Spider-man couldn't just barge into his room and web him to the wall and achieve the same results. Clown 9 didn't have any powers and he beat Spider-Man.
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Twelve by Pies posted:Clown 9 didn't have any powers and he beat Spider-Man. Excuse me, Clown 9 had the power of being motherfucking Clown 9
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Johnny Walker posted:What happened to the runoff Fountain of Youth water when the plug was in there? The pool would eventually fill if there's a constant stream, so it must go somewhere. 
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Lurdiak posted:So Tyrannus doesn't like, have any powers. There's no reason Spider-man couldn't just barge into his room and web him to the wall and achieve the same results. He must have something going for him. He managed to scare off Mole Man and his dreaded whacking stick after all.
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Sep 20, 2017 03:13
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 It's like Tyrannus is Peter.
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Sep 20, 2017 06:10
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*In Gauntlet Dark Legacy voice* Tyrannus is about to die.
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dementia's already setting in, hence the expositioning
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Otherkinsey Scale posted:
RIP Tyrannus
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The fountain drained really fast
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Otherkinsey Scale posted:
Nope, still hearing him as Zapp Brannigan, and it's still the best thing 
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There's something off about Tyrannus' color there...
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Otherkinsey Scale posted:
I'm pretty sure the last emperor of Rome wouldn't worship Jupiter.
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Alhazred posted:I'm pretty sure the last emperor of Rome wouldn't worship Jupiter. He absolutely worships Jupiter. It's the reason for him getting more stupider.
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Today in "Facts That may Only Interest Me", let's talk briefly about Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman Emperor. Romulus was, like most of the emperors of the terminal phase of the Western Empire, merely a hand puppet for whichever general happened to have the most troops around Rome at the time. In Romulus' case, that was his father Orestes. Romulus himself was 15 years old when he became emperor and his reign only lasted ten months from 475 to 476 before his father got ganked at the Battle of Placentia by the forces of the German mercenary, Odoacer. Odoacer was pretty tired of the whole ruins of an empire thing and basically said "gently caress all this", mailed the imperial regalia to Constantinople as a way of saying "ain't no Empire in Rome now" and set himself up as the first King of Italy. Surprisingly, Odoacer didn't bother killing Romulus, just kicked him out of town and set him up with an allowance to go live quietly in Naples. After that, he's pretty much missing from history. The house in Naples he lived in was converted to a monastery in 488, so some people speculate that Romulus was dead by then, but there are other records that suggest that as late as 507 he was still receiving his allowance from Theoderic the Great, the guy who assassinated Odoacer at a banquet and took over Rome in 493. So sure, I guess in 508 at the age of 48, Romulus decided that this aging thing sucked and went underground to find the Fountain of Youth after changing his name to Tyrannus for some reason. 
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Turns out "Romulus" means pig fucker in Moloid.
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Push El Burrito posted:He absolutely worships Jupiter. It's the reason for him getting more stupider.
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jng2058 posted:Today in "Facts That may Only Interest Me", let's talk briefly about Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman Emperor. Romulus was, like most of the emperors of the terminal phase of the Western Empire, merely a hand puppet for whichever general happened to have the most troops around Rome at the time. In Romulus' case, that was his father Orestes. Romulus himself was 15 years old when he became emperor and his reign only lasted ten months from 475 to 476 before his father got ganked at the Battle of Placentia by the forces of the German mercenary, Odoacer. Odoacer was pretty tired of the whole ruins of an empire thing and basically said "gently caress all this", mailed the imperial regalia to Constantinople as a way of saying "ain't no Empire in Rome now" and set himself up as the first King of Italy. Surprisingly, Odoacer didn't bother killing Romulus, just kicked him out of town and set him up with an allowance to go live quietly in Naples. After that, he's pretty much missing from history. The house in Naples he lived in was converted to a monastery in 488, so some people speculate that Romulus was dead by then, but there are other records that suggest that as late as 507 he was still receiving his allowance from Theoderic the Great, the guy who assassinated Odoacer at a banquet and took over Rome in 493. Or, in 488, to fund his expedition he sold his pad, and in 508 he just stopped having his mail forwarded.
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Doing some ceremonial work for a year and then retiring to a castle in southern Italy at sixteen, plus a pension seems like a pretty sweet life plan.
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So was this strip always this crazy, or did it start serious (by comic book standards)? And, if the latter, is there a point where you can say 'the ride started here'?
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I don't know how long it's been in print, but if it existed back in the silver age, it certainly never left it.
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SilverSupernova posted:I don't know how long it's been in print, but if it existed back in the silver age, it certainly never left it. 1977, and it was pretty crazy back then too  That's actually one of the earliest strips, from January of that year. Forgive the goofy watermark.
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nsm was never meant to be a joke. it'd be less funny if they were doing it on purpose I think
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Lightning Lord posted:1977, and it was pretty crazy back then too Somehow that speech to the UN doesn't seem all that crazy these days 
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howe_sam posted:Somehow that speech to the UN doesn't seem all that crazy these days Oh, the crazy part is Kissinger looking crestfallen instead of super eager to work with DOOM
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Sep 21, 2017 01:14
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That art though.
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Lightning Lord posted:1977, and it was pretty crazy back then too "Life is a joke!" has got to be a top contender for thread title.
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 The amazing recap day
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I can't believe spider-man didn't get owned by a pile of rubble he dropped on his own head
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Manatee Cannon posted:I can't believe spider-man didn't get owned by a pile of rubble he dropped on his own head It's still too early for such claims.
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maybe the cave-in is following him, waiting for its chance to strike after getting home after all this nonsense, peter lies down in his bed with a tired sigh. he looks up at the ceiling... and it falls on him. rip
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Sep 21, 2017 03:57
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The cave-in has detected its natural foe, the underground version of Spiderman(aka Tyrannus) & has allied with Aboveground Spiderman to take him down.
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Manatee Cannon posted:maybe the cave-in is following him, waiting for its chance to strike i've had that happen to me and it is not a fun time
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Push El Burrito posted:That art though. Back when they had one of the best spider-man artists instead of the intern they pay in meth that they currently use
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Not going to lie, it is pretty nutty that John Romita was drawing a newspaper comic strip. I really do need to buy those collections of the first seven years or so of the strip.
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howe_sam posted:Not going to lie, it is pretty nutty that John Romita was drawing a newspaper comic strip. I really do need to buy those collections of the first seven years or so of the strip. Comic books and adventure strips used to share some of the same talent, like Mike Grell, Gil Kane and Gray Morrow did the Tarzan strip for years. You also have guys like Russ Manning who were primarily strip artists but did lots of comic books too.
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I think it's easier to contextualize in a pre-digital era where periodicals, newspapers, and comics were dominant forms of mass media with comparably huge audiences and thus the capacity to share/utilize high level talent.
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comic strips don't have to have bad art. at times they've been pretty great looking even, like calvin & hobbes
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