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El Gallinero Gros posted:And Fisk abhors losing face. He’s lucky he’s never been in an Ennis comic
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# ? Jul 2, 2018 18:21 |
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SonicRulez posted:I thought this was going to be when he came prepared with a written list of fat jokes. have at you
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# ? Jul 2, 2018 18:32 |
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I like Bendis' writing. I like when he makes people talk over each other.
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# ? Jul 2, 2018 19:07 |
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Doc Hawkins posted:I like Bendis' writing. I like when he makes people talk over each other. When Bendis is good, he is very, very good.
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# ? Jul 2, 2018 19:27 |
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And when he's bad he's ca ca doo doo
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# ? Jul 2, 2018 19:36 |
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Pee pee doo doo he is a bad writer
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# ? Jul 2, 2018 21:53 |
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Push El Burrito posted:Pete also rocks the black suit in that story. The black suit revival was one of those stupid movie synergy things as that story arc was happening at the same time as Spider-Man 3 was coming out.
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# ? Jul 2, 2018 22:56 |
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Push El Burrito posted:Pete also rocks the black suit in that story. Jesus, he's doing the one-handed lapel hoist but with Kingpin's pec skin. That just makes me more impressed by Fisk's skin elasticity than anything else in those panels.
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# ? Jul 2, 2018 23:23 |
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muscles like this! posted:The black suit revival was one of those stupid movie synergy things as that story arc was happening at the same time as Spider-Man 3 was coming out.
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# ? Jul 2, 2018 23:42 |
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X-O posted:Lobo has literal BDE. oh my god
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 01:31 |
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The Peter/Fisk prison scene is prefaced by the Kingpin ransacking his cell and uncovering a literal giant sack of cash that he had hidden in there which he uses to bribe a guard. It's really fuckin stupid.
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 01:58 |
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Peter should respond "Venom dresses like ME!"
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 03:29 |
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Really hard to read this without hearing Cap sound like Moe Szyslak. Marvel 2-in-1 #4 And this I just thought was surprising: Marvel 2-in-1 #1 Didn't expect a comicbook to use the word "porno" in the mid-70s.
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 03:50 |
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Show of hands, after reading "porno", did the magazine title look like "Titties" to anyone else?
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 03:55 |
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Yes. I didn't see it originally in context but as soon as I isolated the panel Titties was staring me in the face.
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 04:06 |
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Lobok posted:Titties was staring me in the face.
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 04:17 |
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Lobok posted:Really hard to read this without hearing Cap sound like Moe Szyslak. That was Gerber, yeah? I could see him getting away with it. A few years later in 1980, right when Kitty Pryde is introduced, Wolverine is right out there in front of everybody reading Penthouse and Playboy at the drugstore (well, I mean, we get PENTHO- and PLAYB- before some coy panel cropping so maybe he was reading Playbeast and Penthoggoth, who knows). Edit: come to think of it both issues are prime examples of superheroes being truly awful to small-town shopkeepers.
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 05:36 |
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Archyduke posted:That was Gerber, yeah? I could see him getting away with it. A few years later in 1980, right when Kitty Pryde is introduced, Wolverine is right out there in front of everybody reading Penthouse and Playboy at the drugstore (well, I mean, we get PENTHO- and PLAYB- before some coy panel cropping so maybe he was reading Playbeast and Penthoggoth, who knows). Is the next panel Colossus (I assume that's Colossus) clocking Wolverine after the distraction to avoid an incident?
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 06:12 |
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Funny that Wolverine's original character was pretty much a permanently angry jerkass.
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 07:03 |
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Is that Iron Fist?
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 07:05 |
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Synthbuttrange posted:Is that Iron Fist? More like Iron Pissed-Himself at that point.
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 07:21 |
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Logan's glove thingies where his claws come out make it look like Iron Fist's sporting an insane grin at being threatened and I can't unsee it anymore
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 10:15 |
Retro Futurist posted:He’s lucky he’s never been in an Ennis comic He appeared in the punisher game that Ennis wrote.
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 11:55 |
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Alhazred posted:He appeared in the punisher game that Ennis wrote. Didn't Ennis 'write' in that they just ripped a bunch of stuff from the Marvel Knights run?
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 13:54 |
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Archyduke posted:That was Gerber, yeah? I could see him getting away with it. Yep, that was Gerber. And yep, Thing comes off as a huge rear end in a top hat to the shopkeeper. And in the premiere issue. Right from the very first splash page he's tearing up the guy's store. Took me years to realize that Marvel Team-Up and Marvel Two-in-One were really just "Spider-Man series #2" and "Thing spin-off comic". Like they were afraid of saying it plainly or didn't want to write themselves into a corner of always having to use those two. But they didn't use that freedom much. In Team-Up, Spider-Man is only missing from 10 of 150 issues.
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 17:36 |
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Did anybody ever read the Marvel Team-Up reboot they gave to Robert Kirkman during his brief run at Marvel? In retrospect, fairly prototypical Invincible (or maybe one of the Invincible spin-offs), but without the ultra-violence.
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 17:45 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:Did anybody ever read the Marvel Team-Up reboot they gave to Robert Kirkman during his brief run at Marvel? I think he actually got Invincible into an issue, didn't he?
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 17:47 |
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prefect posted:I think he actually got Invincible into an issue, didn't he? Yes, it's even canon for Invincible because he was stuck hopping dimensions at the time.
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 17:50 |
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Lobok posted:Took me years to realize that Marvel Team-Up and Marvel Two-in-One were really just "Spider-Man series #2" and "Thing spin-off comic". On the other hand, when they cancelled Marvel Two-in-One to actually put out a solo Thing spinoff comic, it was pretty bad.
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 17:51 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:Did anybody ever read the Marvel Team-Up reboot they gave to Robert Kirkman during his brief run at Marvel? I read the whole thing, yeah. I feel like I'm in the minority here being a fan of Scott Kollins' art. I remember him from that series and Flash.
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 17:55 |
Servoret posted:On the other hand, when they cancelled Marvel Two-in-One to actually put out a solo Thing spinoff comic, it was pretty bad. That's because they got John Byrne to write it.
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 17:56 |
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Servoret posted:On the other hand, when they cancelled Marvel Two-in-One to actually put out a solo Thing spinoff comic, it was pretty bad. Could not imagine reading an entire drat series about the Thing. The Two-in-One series is only interesting for who they pair him with and that's exactly how I'm reading it, just skipping ahead to characters I want to see.
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 17:57 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:Did anybody ever read the Marvel Team-Up reboot they gave to Robert Kirkman during his brief run at Marvel? I didn't read it, but I know Kirkman invented a kinda cool new gay character then brutally killed him. Freedom Ring (which is a cringeworthy name in 2018), he could alter reality, but only within like a four foot radius around himself, it's the kinda thing a good writer could go whole hog on with cool poo poo but still be able to maintain decent stakes for the comic, except he got stabbed a million time at once by an evil alternate universe Tony Stark called Iron Maniac. That actually would have been a good character to bring back with zero explanation as to how they're alive again after Secret Wars.
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 18:01 |
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Skwirl posted:I didn't read it, but I know Kirkman invented a kinda cool new gay character then brutally killed him. I think about this character a lot. It was definitely an interesting power (the radius was wider though, 15 feet) but I'm still not sure if it should have affected reality completely or just non-living/inorganic matter. With the ring he was able to augment and heal himself but if he could control reality within that distance he would have been able to completely manipulate or transform any villain he came across.
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 18:16 |
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Skwirl posted:I didn't read it, but I know Kirkman invented a kinda cool new gay character then brutally killed him. I always loved how the character came up with his super hero name. His boyfriend/love interest mentioned about getting some free dumb ring and it stuck ☺️
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 19:53 |
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Lobok posted:Yep, that was Gerber. And yep, Thing comes off as a huge rear end in a top hat to the shopkeeper. And in the premiere issue. Right from the very first splash page he's tearing up the guy's store. The Thing is a 1000 times more interesting when he has someone to play off of, and Ben Grimm has been my favorite character since I was about 5. The solo series in the 80s wasn’t too bad, especially once they got him off Battleworld and had him wander the country. I just loved going back and finding those two in one back issues to see how he found a way to wander into some other hero’s turf And I always thought Marvel Team Up was conceived as a Spider-Man/Human Torch book, but they got sick of it real quick and just had Spidey meet whoever they wanted. Torch then became the go-to character when Spider-Man needed a break.
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 19:59 |
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Counterpoint: The Thing sucks and is incredibly boring. Somebody post those pages. You know the ones.
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 20:04 |
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VanSandman posted:Counterpoint: The Thing sucks and is incredibly boring. Somebody post those pages. You know the ones. While I agree with those pages, I don't full on hate the Thing. He's good in small doses. And like GBTribefan, he's way better when playing off someone. That's why the idea of a Thing solo series sounds bad, because it sounds like the opposite of those two things.
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 20:14 |
I feel like the only way I'd like a The Thing solo is if they went full camp with it. Like the Batman: Brave and the Bold animated series a few years ago, make it so that the hero is the straight man to every zany thing in the universe.
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 20:22 |
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ConfusedUs posted:I feel like the only way I'd like a The Thing solo is if they went full camp with it. Like the Batman: Brave and the Bold animated series a few years ago, make it so that the hero is the straight man to every zany thing in the universe. Sounds like the Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur comic, except there was some point where she embraced the lunacy and I forget what issue it was.
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# ? Jul 3, 2018 21:19 |