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Toshimo posted:FWIW, Kate Bishop is a menace. Boomerang arrow. It comes back in the end.
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I think it was Deadpool/Hawkeye that had the really nice bit where Deadpool, unlike virtually every other superhero, is actually considerate enough to remember that Clint can't read his lips through a full-face mask, so he lifts the mask when talking to him. My wife adored that sequence, because she reads lips, and it's amazing how often people forget that if they're not looking at her when they talk to her, she can't understand them.
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He's kind of inconsistent with it. [Hawkeye vs Deadpool] But you're right that he does do better than most.  [Amazing Spider-Man Annual v3 # 1]
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Jul 10, 2018 12:12
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Ghostlight posted:He's kind of inconsistent with it. When did he become totally deaf?
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Jul 10, 2018 12:43
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Kate is the best.
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prefect posted:When did he become totally deaf? In Fraction's Hawkeye some hitman for the Tracksuit Mafia sneaks up on him and stabs his loving ears with arrows. Like a lot of disabilities in comics, it tends to come and go depending on when writers remember it. TwoPair fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Jul 10, 2018 |
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TwoPair posted:In Fraction's Hawkeye some hitman for the Tracksuit Mafia sneaks up on him and stabs his loving ears with arrows. I loved the Russian mafia. They all wore the same Adidas track suits and always called everyone “Bro”.
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Open Marriage Night posted:I forgot how good Hawkeye/Deadpool was, and you didn't even post the face panels. I read that once based on the same suggestion, but I'd warn that there is going to be a lot of stuff they will not get. To this day I still don't know what's the deal with Angel/Archangel and Apocalypse and what's up with the Age of Apocalypse, which I thought was made up for the story but I guess not? I just pushed forward and ranked everything that I didn't understand as "Typical X-Men Timeline/Dimension Fuckery" but still. Great story tho.
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Samuringa posted:I read that once based on the same suggestion, but I'd warn that there is going to be a lot of stuff they will not get. To this day I still don't know what's the deal with Angel/Archangel and Apocalypse Angel was one of the original X-men. At some point Apocalypse decided that Angel would be good Horseman of the Apocalypse material. He kidnapped him, brainwashed him, turned his feather wings into metal, turned him blue and augmented his powers. Archangel eventually broke free of the brainwashing, but has had a massive hate boner for A-poc ever since. quote:and what's up with the Age of Apocalypse, Age of Apocalypse was an event in the 90s. Short version, Professor X's kid Legion blamed Magneto for all the bad things that happened to Charles since they first met. In an attempt to "fix" this, Legion goes back in time to when Eric and Charles were friends and attempts to kill Magneto. But, because Charles is a good guy (sorta), he jumps in the way and takes the hit instead, killing him and creating a parallel timeline. As a result, Legion erases himself from that timeline, and Magneto takes up Charles' mission of peace. Apocalypse, noticing a power vacuum, sees the opportunity to take over the world and makes his play. AoA details the mission to set things back to "normal"
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Jul 10, 2018 16:16
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CzarChasm posted:Angel was one of the original X-men. At some point Apocalypse decided that Angel would be good Horseman of the Apocalypse material. He kidnapped him, brainwashed him, turned his feather wings into metal, turned him blue and augmented his powers. Archangel eventually broke free of the brainwashing, but has had a massive hate boner for A-poc ever since.
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Also, the Age of Apocalypse was so drastic that Marvel relaunched every single X-title for four months, with two one-shots (X-Men: Alpha and X-Men: Omega) as bookends. It was pretty wild.
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Endless Mike posted:Small correction, but he didn't really turn his feather wings metal, as they had been amputated at that point. Apocalypse offered to restore them, and gave him the metal wings. They had been amputated because he was attacked by the Reavers, an anti-mutant terrorist group who were eventually revealed to be working for... Apocalypse. Well, the Reavers only damaged the wings, they were amputated as part of a plot by his old college buddy, Cameron Hodge, who provided the seed money for the elaborate scam that was X-Factor, but turned out to also be an anti-mutant extremist with a grudge. Comic books!
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Begemot posted:They had been amputated because he was attacked by the Reavers, an anti-mutant terrorist group who were eventually revealed to be working for... Apocalypse. Well, the Reavers only damaged the wings, they were amputated as part of a plot by his old college buddy, Cameron Hodge, who provided the seed money for the elaborate scam that was X-Factor, but turned out to also be an anti-mutant extremist with a grudge. I was going to offer a minor correction to this but I realized that 80s X-books are such a tangled hairball of subplots that I'm not even sure I was right.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:I think it was Deadpool/Hawkeye that had the really nice bit where Deadpool, unlike virtually every other superhero, is actually considerate enough to remember that Clint can't read his lips through a full-face mask, so he lifts the mask when talking to him. I read through it last night, yes it does. I don't remember how consistent it was after this, though.  E: They also had a two page splash where Agent Preston in the LMD explains that she knows sign language. 
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CzarChasm posted:Angel was one of the original X-men. At some point Apocalypse decided that Angel would be good Horseman of the Apocalypse material. He kidnapped him, brainwashed him, turned his feather wings into metal, turned him blue and augmented his powers. Archangel eventually broke free of the brainwashing, but has had a massive hate boner for A-poc ever since. Endless Mike posted:Small correction, but he didn't really turn his feather wings metal, as they had been amputated at that point. Apocalypse offered to restore them, and gave him the metal wings. Begemot posted:They had been amputated because he was attacked by the Reavers, an anti-mutant terrorist group who were eventually revealed to be working for... Apocalypse. Well, the Reavers only damaged the wings, they were amputated as part of a plot by his old college buddy, Cameron Hodge, who provided the seed money for the elaborate scam that was X-Factor, but turned out to also be an anti-mutant extremist with a grudge. In short Samuringa posted:"Typical X-Men Timeline/Dimension Fuckery"
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Begemot posted:They had been amputated because he was attacked by the Reavers, an anti-mutant terrorist group who were eventually revealed to be working for... Apocalypse. Well, the Reavers only damaged the wings, they were amputated as part of a plot by his old college buddy, Cameron Hodge, who provided the seed money for the elaborate scam that was X-Factor, but turned out to also be an anti-mutant extremist with a grudge. Close! His wings were damaged by the Marauders who worked for Mister Sinister during the Mutant Massacre event. Sinister was later revealed to have worked with Apocalypse in the past but was, as of the time of the Mutant Massacre, a free agent. The bit with Cameron Hodge is correct, and the metal winged Archangel eventually cut off Hodge's head because of it. (Hodge got better.)
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For a very sad and vague definition of better, honestly. The arc of Cameron Hodge is one of those escalations that is quintessentially cape comics.
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CzarChasm posted:Angel was one of the original X-men. At some point Apocalypse decided that Angel would be good Horseman of the Apocalypse material. He kidnapped him, brainwashed him, turned his feather wings into metal, turned him blue and augmented his powers. Archangel eventually broke free of the brainwashing, but has had a massive hate boner for A-poc ever since.  Begemot posted:They had been amputated because he was attacked by the Reavers, an anti-mutant terrorist group who were eventually revealed to be working for... Apocalypse. Well, the Reavers only damaged the wings, they were amputated as part of a plot by his old college buddy, Cameron Hodge, who provided the seed money for the elaborate scam that was X-Factor, but turned out to also be an anti-mutant extremist with a grudge.  jng2058 posted:Close! His wings were damaged by the Marauders who worked for Mister Sinister during the Mutant Massacre event. Sinister was later revealed to have worked with Apocalypse in the past but was, as of the time of the Mutant Massacre, a free agent. The bit with Cameron Hodge is correct, and the metal winged Archangel eventually cut off Hodge's head because of it. (Hodge got better.) 
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jng2058 posted:Close! His wings were damaged by the Marauders who worked for Mister Sinister during the Mutant Massacre event. Sinister was later revealed to have worked with Apocalypse in the past but was, as of the time of the Mutant Massacre, a free agent. The bit with Cameron Hodge is correct, and the metal winged Archangel eventually cut off Hodge's head because of it. (Hodge got better.) How soon after was it revealed that Sinister was clone souping the reavers anyway? Because at the time, them driving Colossus to kill one of them was a huge character development for him. Not a funny panel, outside of Riptide's face and that he's menacing a scrub named Harpoon but: 
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This subforum must've been a compilation of Kate Bishop avatars when the series first came out, huh?
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In the first panel I was trying to figure out if those were supposed to be sparkles or pain stars (or, if you're Kurt Vonnegut, assholes), but then I realized they were supposed to be a cloud of actual shuriken that Riptide is throwing. (And why does the spinny wind guy have a water name?)
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Now that I'm at a desktop I can post why:  also, here's the Tracksuit Bronsons 
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Begemot posted:They had been amputated because he was attacked by the Reavers, an anti-mutant terrorist group who were eventually revealed to be working for... Apocalypse. Well, the Reavers only damaged the wings, they were amputated as part of a plot by his old college buddy, Cameron Hodge, who provided the seed money for the elaborate scam that was X-Factor, but turned out to also be an anti-mutant extremist with a grudge. It was the Marauders, not the Reavers. I think Harpoon and Sabretooth did the damage to his wings, then hung him like a butterfly specimen in the sewers. They were working for Mister Sinister by way of Apocalypse (?) and somehow Gambit was retroactively involved in the shadows.... The Reavers were the cyborg group on the Australian desert that eventually crucified a Wolverine.
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Selachian posted:In the first panel I was trying to figure out if those were supposed to be sparkles or pain stars (or, if you're Kurt Vonnegut, assholes), but then I realized they were supposed to be a cloud of actual shuriken that Riptide is throwing. (And why does the spinny wind guy have a water name?) Not a drat thing about Riptide makes sense. It's just one of those things you shrug and accept.
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Selachian posted:In the first panel I was trying to figure out if those were supposed to be sparkles or pain stars (or, if you're Kurt Vonnegut, assholes), but then I realized they were supposed to be a cloud of actual shuriken that Riptide is throwing. (And why does the spinny wind guy have a water name?) How did the shurikens pierce Colossus' skin? Were they thrown that fast?
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Colossus: A man whose body gets transposed with the Metal Dimension Cyclops: A man whose eyes are a portal to the Punch Dimension loving hell, who writes this poo poo?
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It so perfectly captures the emotion it's meant to. It makes me laugh every time. jng2058 posted:Close! His wings were damaged by the Marauders who worked for Mister Sinister during the Mutant Massacre event. Sinister was later revealed to have worked with Apocalypse in the past but was, as of the time of the Mutant Massacre, a free agent. The bit with Cameron Hodge is correct, and the metal winged Archangel eventually cut off Hodge's head because of it. (Hodge got better.) "Got better" as in returned as a herald of the Phalanx? Or was that later?
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davidspackage posted:It so perfectly captures the emotion it's meant to. It makes me laugh every time. He was some weird techno monstrosity with a head in Xtinction Agenda.
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Toshimo posted:Colossus: A man whose body gets transposed with the Metal Dimension Someone whose writing lacks dimension 
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GPTribefan posted:It was the Marauders, not the Reavers. I think Harpoon and Sabretooth did the damage to his wings, then hung him like a butterfly specimen in the sewers. They were working for Mister Sinister by way of Apocalypse (?) and somehow Gambit was retroactively involved in the shadows.... 
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davidspackage posted:It so perfectly captures the emotion it's meant to. It makes me laugh every time. That was later. First he was a regular cyborg, then just a head with legs for a while.
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Toshimo posted:Colossus: A man whose body gets transposed with the Metal Dimension
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Begemot posted:That was later. First he was a regular cyborg, then just a head with legs for a while. 
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Samuringa posted:This subforum must've been a compilation of Kate Bishop avatars when the series first came out, huh? Not a single one... ..but it's not too late.
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The Marauders are the absolute worst. Mutant Massacre is a real black mark on that run, just pointless grimdarkness while guys like Scalphunter and Harpoon take centre stage, with their only motivation for like a year of issues being, "we're really evil and hate mutants, and also, a shadowy figure with ambiguous motivations hired us to do this".
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I like this new gimmick of responding with Kate panels
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