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Wildcats 3.0 starred a hero who got down to the dirty business of making a battery that never runs out. ...well, okay, it starred the various problem-solvers he called in to get down to the dirty business, because there's only so many pages you can fill with innovation gradually but inexorably changing the world for the better, but it was pure and good and I loved it. 
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Wapole Languray posted:I know Valiant went harder into making their universe have a clear split where it just straight became a gonzo alternate timeline starting from WW2 and going batshit in the mid 2000's. Like, the first big obvious divergence was the Syrian conflict being ended super early because Assad was assassinated by psychics. Then time travelers conquered Romania, Mexico City was nuked out of existence, a psychic dictator conquered Somalia... Marvel tried to do something similar with the New Universe where it was the real world right up to the moment of the White Event. But then they didn't really do anything with that until it was clear the line was going nowhere and then they went bugnuts. The first obvious thing was that rear end in a top hat-Superman hosed up royally by deciding that he was too much of a gently caress up and tried to commit suicide two miles above Pittsburg. His choice of method, however, vaporized everything in a fifteen mile radius. Yes, that includes the earth's crust down to thirteen miles. Then they drafted everyone with superpowers into the army. Turns out Ronald Reagan had superpowers which were revealed when a guy they drafted and drove crazy tried to kill him. Then Washington DC was devastated by a Soviet Super Psychic who burned the copy of the US constitution in the National Archives for fun. And in all of this mess, a supervillain used his mind control powers to become president. I tried to find a funny New Universe panel for this post, but the books were either completely lovely in an unfun way or completely serious so it's not a surprise I couldn't find anything.
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Doc Hawkins posted:Wildcats 3.0 starred a hero who got down to the dirty business of making a battery that never runs out. That was a great book. Bummer it sold like poo poo.
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site posted:I'm not sure what the dilemma you're having is here, but suppressing cures means you can bleed the sick dry by keeping chronic care in check through pills you make them buy for decades So what you describe is a great reason for these companies to focus on finding management treatments over cures, but they're not the only actors. Cancer is also a complex and subtle disease, I think it would have been more evocative if Jane had tried other solutions and they just didn't work, whereas the Earth chemotherapy did, albeit slowly. Anyway none of this poo poo is funny panels. Here's one from Astonishing X-Men, when Wolverine was getting over a bad case of thinking of himself as a simpering Victorian boy with an illness. 
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May 5, 2018 08:29
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How was Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men so good and Joss Whedon's Runaways so bad?
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May 5, 2018 08:33
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Skwirl posted:How was Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men so good and Joss Whedon's Runaways so bad?
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May 5, 2018 09:16
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Nessus posted:What did that weirdo do with Runaways, oh my lord At the time it seemed like the most slam dunk idea for a follow up to BKV's run, the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer writing a bunch of teenagers with powers they don't fully understand while trying to stay under the radar of the grown up world and also helping people.
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May 5, 2018 09:28
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Does Wolverine vape now?
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May 5, 2018 10:13
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We live in a boring dystopia and no one is looking for cures because they turn out to be unprofitable in the long run.
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May 5, 2018 10:17
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Nessus posted:Anyway none of this poo poo is funny panels. Here's one from Astonishing X-Men, when Wolverine was getting over a bad case of thinking of himself as a simpering Victorian boy with an illness. The beer can whispers "remember who you are" in his ear
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May 5, 2018 13:46
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TwoPair posted:The beer can whispers "remember who you are" in his ear And then Wolvie's all "snikty-snooj" and starts kicking rear end. 
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May 5, 2018 13:50
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TwoPair posted:The beer can whispers "remember who you are" in his ear Oh! That's beer.  I thought it was a can of tomato soup and was very confused.
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May 5, 2018 15:06
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The hell do you live that tomato soup cans have poptops?
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May 5, 2018 15:11
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and say "BEER" on them in the first panel.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:The hell do you live that tomato soup cans have poptops? America? https://www.campbells.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/0011-7_RW_Tomato_10oz-e1459787519295.png Edit: I'm not that dude who thought it was tomato soup (it's loving Wolverine, man, what the hell do you think that can's gonna be?), but like all my soups at this point have poptops. poo poo's just convenient mercenarynuker fucked around with this message at 15:42 on May 5, 2018 |
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May 5, 2018 15:26
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Nessus posted:What did that weirdo do with Runaways, oh my lord A boring time-travel arc that broke up Victor and Nico (still mad about that) and introduced a new teammate no one cared about. Still, Molly got to punch the Punisher in the stomach: 
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May 5, 2018 15:31
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Zereth posted:and say "BEER" on them in the first panel. I wasn't studying each panel in detail. I saw a red can with a red blob on the label hit him on the head. I just assumed the joke was "he got hit on the head and it cured his amnesia."
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May 5, 2018 16:19
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The can has the word BEER on it.
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May 5, 2018 16:20
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TwoPair posted:The beer can whispers "remember who you are" in his ear I'm imagining the popeye music playing. I think the best joke in Whedon's AXM is Colossus’s “since childhood I have dreamed of destroying Breakworld”
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Senior Woodchuck posted:A boring time-travel arc that broke up Victor and Nico (still mad about that) and introduced a new teammate no one cared about. The only good thing in the Whedon run besides Molly beating up the Punisher was this:  For those who don't get it.
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May 5, 2018 17:31
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You guys don't have beer brand soup where you live?
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Keeshhound posted:Oh! That's beer. Dude.
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Push El Burrito posted:You guys don't have beer brand soup where you live? No but we have soup brand beer around here.
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May 5, 2018 18:55
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Rhyno posted:Dude. I can see you've played soupy beery before.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I can see you've played soupy beery before. I'm Bob Dole, and I approve of this post.
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Senior Woodchuck posted:A boring time-travel arc that broke up Victor and Nico (still mad about that) and introduced a new teammate no one cared about. Punisher War Journal: hhhrrrrnnggggg.........
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Avulsion posted:Punisher War Journal: hhhrrrrnnggggg......... I know she's super strong, but how strong, exactly? Is Frank going a few days without eating, or does he need to go to the hospital before his ruptured colon goes septic?
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Keeshhound posted:I know she's super strong, but how strong, exactly? Is Frank going a few days without eating, or does he need to go to the hospital before his ruptured colon goes septic? Assuming she wasn't holding back the only reason her fist didn't go straight through his body and out the other side is her short arms.
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May 5, 2018 20:23
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Keeshhound posted:I know she's super strong, but how strong, exactly? Is Frank going a few days without eating, or does he need to go to the hospital before his ruptured colon goes septic?   (Runaways v2 #26) I kinda want to say he's still standing there, trying manfully not to poo poo his entire digestive tract into his boots, at the end of that whole story arc, but I can't find it for sure.
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May 5, 2018 20:35
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He's fine, the pseudo-super-soldier-serum drugs have made him tough enough. (That is a thing that happened, right? I'm not just hallucinating that.)
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goatface posted:He's fine, the pseudo-super-soldier-serum drugs have made him tough enough. The Punisher didn't have super-soldier drugs back in the '80s, as far as I can remember.  Although he also wasn't an angel, either.
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He's not officially a meta but he definitely has some kinda super healing poo poo going on considering how often he gets shot and stabbed and that one time he lost an eye that reappeared ten issues later
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May 5, 2018 20:58
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The Punisher sold his soul and family to Mephisto to survive Vietnam and his secret is hell-power, like a super-mild Spawn. That's the version I like best.
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Skwirl posted:Assuming she wasn't holding back the only reason her fist didn't go straight through his body and out the other side is her short arms. Kevlar might have helped. Might.
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He didn't get chopped up and Frankencastled for a few more years after that.
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The amazing thing about that story is that it didn't lead to Garth Ennis writing a comic where the Punisher hunted down and murdered thinly veiled expys of the Runaways.
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prefect posted:Although he also wasn't an angel, either. That was the mid 90's right?
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MH Knights posted:That was the mid 90's right? 1998.
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What the gently caress, I always thought that monologue about "The angels showed me the way" in Welcome Back, Frank was some sort of metaphor, he actually worked for real angels?
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Yes. If you accept it as canon.
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