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Endless Mike posted:"Oh cool another Superman origin story! Just what I've always wanted!" said no one ever
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You know how the big two have always had characters that went all in on "things we hear the kids like" like skateboarding, disco and so on? Have they more or less stopped that or are there some minor characters out there with... I dunno, like instagram filter powers or the ability to throw fidget spinners?
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Mar 9, 2018 17:37
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Goldballs shoots gold balls, a thing the kids like.
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Mar 9, 2018 17:50
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SiKboy posted:You know how the big two have always had characters that went all in on "things we hear the kids like" like skateboarding, disco and so on? Have they more or less stopped that or are there some minor characters out there with... I dunno, like instagram filter powers or the ability to throw fidget spinners? Memes
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Mar 9, 2018 18:02
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I did read a Marvel comic recently where the characters said variations of ‘you got this’ a half dozen times in the same issue though.
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Mar 9, 2018 18:15
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Kamala has the power of writing lots of fanfic
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Mar 9, 2018 18:22
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A lot of the recent comedy books are some heavy "hello, fellow kids" stuff.
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Mar 9, 2018 18:26
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Y'all a bunch of chickensluts for forgetting EMOTICON from Gail Simone's Welcome to Tranquility though jeez, that was a decade ago. More recently you've had self-proclaimed Social Justice Warriors and Alt-Right people and Too Big to Fail Diplomatic Immunity corporate supervillains in Captain America: Sam Wilson though I guess that's more Ripped from the Headlines than trying to appeal to kids. We've kind of reached the point right now that superheroes themselves are the hip signifier that *other* IPs are trying to glom onto to appeal to the youth demographic. When NYC tourism and Dole are using superheroes to promote healthy eating and art appreciation, you don't really need to try to make kids care about superheroes in a way you might have 20-40 years ago.
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Mar 9, 2018 18:51
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Now he'd be Emoji
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Mar 9, 2018 19:00
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Didn't Gwenpool take jobs on not-craigslist? I guess that kinda counts.
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Mar 9, 2018 19:24
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Ant man had that linkedin app for supervillains
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Mar 9, 2018 19:31
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Does Squirrel Girl's Twitter count?
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Mar 9, 2018 19:49
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Hellcat is all about how millennials can't get jobs
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Mar 9, 2018 20:15
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Selachian posted:Does Squirrel Girl's Twitter count? That's a weird fan.
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Mar 9, 2018 20:19
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IRL @unbeatablesg is official PR
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Mar 9, 2018 20:29
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Lurdiak posted:That's a weird fan. He might be talking about every issue opens up with her in universe twitter feed.
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Mar 9, 2018 20:29
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Lurdiak posted:That's a weird fan.
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Teenage Fansub posted:irl @unbeatablesg is official PR Excuse me that's really Doreen 
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Mar 9, 2018 20:30
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Captain Marvel had superhero tinder which everyone had an account on but her
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Mar 9, 2018 20:32
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Sinners Sandwich posted:Captain Marvel had superhero tinder which everyone had an account on but her Oh god , the NYC one would be like actual tinder in the Olympic village.
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Green Lanterns has been running its most recent arc about Superhero Tinder, which totally exists except it turns out it's a nefarious trap to get the personal information of superheroes so a galactic super-slavery ring can kidnap them. And Jessica's been spending the whole time on it even after she knows this, just swiping through heroes. (It's called Caper, which is pretty clever.) CapnAndy fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Mar 9, 2018 |
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I think there's a thin line between like "acknowledging a comic is taking place in the year it is being published" and "pandering to Kids These Days", something like a character in 2018 having Twitter or playing MMOs or whatever doesn't really strike me as pandering the way that I dunno, having a character build a giant deadly Space Invaders machine to trap the Thing in in 1981 where like the writer feels the need to explain what Pac-Man is and how much money kids spend in these "Arcades" in order to set up the issue's main plot. Characters started having the Internet and cellular phones in the 1990s without it being some sort of massive attention-grabbing thing. Even something like Captain America having a string of BBS kids looking out for cases for him to tackle in the late 1980s seemed like less pandering in the style of Hypno Hustler and more taking things that exist in the world and trying to fold them into the fictional world. Most of the examples people are giving of off-brand Twitter/Tinder/Craigslist seem closer to that, especially when they're just a plot device and not the main plot? That stupid Hench App thing in Ant-Man seems closer to the pandering, though I am sure this just makes me look like a Nick Spencer Hater again. Does anyone remember the Life Model Decoy Revenge Porn plot from Captain America that led to Lady Stilt-Man trying to commit suicide over online slut shaming? That feels like a good example of this.
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Mar 9, 2018 20:40
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Twitter's average user is a whole lot closer to Ryan North than teenagers at this point.
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CapnAndy posted:Green Lanterns has been running its most recent arc about Superhero Tinder, which totally exists except it turns out it's a nefarious trap to get the personal information of superheroes so a galactic super-slavery ring can kidnap them. Marvel's was called Cloak and Dater  Edge & Christian posted:Does anyone remember the Life Model Decoy Revenge Porn plot from Captain America that led to Lady Stilt-Man trying to commit suicide over online slut shaming? That feels like a good example of this. 
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There was Final Crisis: Dance which featured a bunch of Japanese Superheroes really trying to tap in to the whole social media vibe.
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Edge & Christian posted:I think there's a thin line between like "acknowledging a comic is taking place in the year it is being published" and "pandering to Kids These Days", something like a character in 2018 having Twitter or playing MMOs or whatever doesn't really strike me as pandering the way that I dunno, having a character build a giant deadly Space Invaders machine to trap the Thing in in 1981 where like the writer feels the need to explain what Pac-Man is and how much money kids spend in these "Arcades" in order to set up the issue's main plot. Characters started having the Internet and cellular phones in the 1990s without it being some sort of massive attention-grabbing thing. Even something like Captain America having a string of BBS kids looking out for cases for him to tackle in the late 1980s seemed like less pandering in the style of Hypno Hustler and more taking things that exist in the world and trying to fold them into the fictional world. Most of the examples people are giving of off-brand Twitter/Tinder/Craigslist seem closer to that, especially when they're just a plot device and not the main plot? That stupid Hench App thing in Ant-Man seems closer to the pandering, though I am sure this just makes me look like a Nick Spencer Hater again. Possibly part of the reason you don't see so many characters/stories built around the Cool Thing Kids These Days Are All Into is that comics now aren't written for Kids These Days.
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Madkal posted:There was Final Crisis: Dance which featured a bunch of Japanese Superheroes really trying to tap in to the whole social media vibe.
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Nessus posted:You know, considering that I know all these nerds watch anime, why do they keep making such hellacious Japanese characters for the Japan team or whatever? Like New Super-Man kind of dodged this, but I suppose they actually have to treat China as an equal, while Japan doesn't give much of a potential poo poo over Lolita Canary and Honey Lemon. What, you don't think Katana, wielding her ancestral sword that eats people's souls, or Armor, whose mutation is an exoskeleton powered by the souls of her ancestors, are culturally appropriate representations of Japan? There's Sunfire, whose powers have nothing to do with ancestors or souls. He's got radiation fire powers (also his mom died of radiation poisoning because she was present at the bombing of Hiroshima).
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Mar 9, 2018 23:05
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Nessus posted:You know, considering that I know all these nerds watch anime, why do they keep making such hellacious Japanese characters for the Japan team or whatever?
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Skwirl posted:There's Sunfire, whose powers have nothing to do with ancestors or souls. He's got radiation fire powers (also his mom died of radiation poisoning because she was present at the bombing of Hiroshima). He's one of those "children of the atom".
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Mar 9, 2018 23:18
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Nessus posted:You know, considering that I know all these nerds watch anime, why do they keep making such hellacious Japanese characters for the Japan team or whatever? Like New Super-Man kind of dodged this, but I suppose they actually have to treat China as an equal, while Japan doesn't give much of a potential poo poo over Lolita Canary and Honey Lemon.
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Skwirl posted:What, you don't think Katana, wielding her ancestral sword that eats people's souls, or Armor, whose mutation is an exoskeleton powered by the souls of her ancestors, are culturally appropriate representations of Japan? And DC's Global Guardians, who are a perfect collection of country stereotypes, have Rising Sun, whose powers are guess what. Wasn't Honey Lemon non-Japanese, though? Or was that just the movie?
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Selachian posted:And DC's Global Guardians, who are a perfect collection of country stereotypes, have Rising Sun, whose powers are guess what. Just the movie. Here's the start of her wiki blurb: "Aiko Miyazaki was enrolled in the graduate program at the Tokyo University of Science when she was recruited by Naikaku Jōhō Chōsashitsu (Naichō), Japan's premiere intelligence agency. Miyazaki's sharp intellect and stunning looks made her a prime candidate for secret agent status" The movie BH6 is basically nothing at all to do with the comic except some names.
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ImpAtom posted:The movie BH6 is basically nothing at all to do with the comic except some names.
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Edge & Christian posted:More than any global politics, It might have something to do with the fact that Gene Yang is actually Chinese-American and Billy Tan (who is one of the two main artists on the book) grew up in Malaysia where your Chris Claremonts and the like... aren't. Marvel should hire more diverse writers like Akira Yoshida, hopefully the new EiC can do something about that.
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Selachian posted:Wasn't Honey Lemon non-Japanese, though? Or was that just the movie? There's also the fact that Steve Seagle and Duncan Rouleau created the characters to appear in Alpha Flight (as the "Japanese Alpha Flight" as a nod to Alpha Flight debuting as "the Canadian X-Men" in X-Men) and then through the brilliance that was Marvelcution era Marvel, had the characters scooped out and put in a Scott Lobdell written mini-series before the creators got around to introducing them, with apparently very little input beyond the concept art passed from Seagle/Rouleau over to Lobdell. So Lobdell wrote their first story arc, then Seagle/Rouleau used them in Alpha Flight (tweaked to line up with Lobdell's mini-series), then Alpha Flight got canceled three issues later. Five years in 2004 Scott Lobdell was writing a new volume of Alpha Flight and had a revamped version of Big Hero Six show up for a couple of issues right before that Alpha Flight series got canceled. Then in 2008, Chris Claremont wrote a Big Hero Six mini-series for no clear reason and revamps the line-up as well, introducing the worst (to my untrained western not-reading-the-book) of these characters, Wasabi-No-Ginger. Then they showed up in a back-up story to a dumb Dan Slott Amazing Spider-Man arc. That's the entire published comic book history of Big Hero 6 for some reason, despite being a pretty successful movie.
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The big question here is how Scott Lobdell keeps getting work
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Edge & Christian posted:It's been forever since I read the (first) book and I haven't seen the movie, but from everything I've heard they took a ton of liberties in adapting a nearly-forgotten D-List team into the movie. This is a massive understatement. Outside of the name, the movie has almost nothing to do with the comics.
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What are some really good Ra's Al Ghul stories?
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Roth posted:What are some really good Ra's Al Ghul stories? His appearances on Batman the Animated Series are better than any of his comic appearances. And make sure you watch the Batman Beyond episode for the greatest Bruce Wayne moment in history.
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