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Archyduchess posted:That Denny O'Neil run is underrated and if your article touches on it I'm even more excited than I already was. I have a colleague in my dept who's been an effective evangelist for the flawed but interesting Chichester run and I need to get back at him by making him revisit Micah Syn. I've probably overhyped it already. I should just stop talking about it, except I'm really excited. I've been collecting different Daredevil action figures to make a display in my office for whenever it comes out.
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Uthor posted:*she was totally real and not just someone he made up. Technically, she was both. And also greatly resembled him, which probably is its own can of worms.
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Dec 25, 2018 18:00
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Unfortunately I didn't get into O'Neil's run (because there's too much of it I haven't read) -- just Miller, Bendis, David Hine's Daredevil: Redemption miniseries, and then skipped Brubaker and Diggle to cover Waid and Soule. Diggle sucks but the Brubaker run was fantastic.
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Dec 25, 2018 19:28
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:I've probably overhyped it already. I should just stop talking about it, except I'm really excited. Nah, I'd be excited too if I was getting the chance to publish what sounds like a real passion project! If you post what journal it's in when it comes out I'm definitely stoked to read it.
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Jordan7hm posted:Diggle sucks but the Brubaker run was fantastic. I own all the Brubaker books and agree it was great, although that bummer ending with Milla's fate just depresses the hell out of me. That's reaching new depths, even by Brubaker's standards. But he didn't focus as much on the legal aspects, which is what my paper was about. Archyduchess posted:Nah, I'd be excited too if I was getting the chance to publish what sounds like a real passion project! If you post what journal it's in when it comes out I'm definitely stoked to read it.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:But he didn't focus as much on the legal aspects, which is what my paper was about. Please tell me that your paper is titled "Matt Murdock is the Worst Attorney on Earth".
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Random Stranger posted:Please tell me that your paper is titled "Matt Murdock is the Worst Attorney on Earth". Haha, no, but that would have been great. My thesis is that the general public (non-lawyers) forms its ideas about lawyers and the legal system from film and television portrayals, so I expand that to talk about the portrayal of legal practice in Daredevil comics over the last few decades, and how they in turn influence the TV series. But of course, the show got canceled after my article got accepted for publication, so I'm going to have to write an addendum about that. I try to balance examples of Murdock and Nelson as heroic, crusading lawyers who ultimately make the general public feel better about the idea of lawyers as "good guys," while also drawing attention to the conflicts of interest and ethical issues Murdock encounters due to his dual identity, and all the time he screws up, gets sanctioned, disbarred, etc. The conflicted, ethically-challenged lawyer is another pop culture archetype, but ultimately, I argue that he is a heroic, if flawed, character. Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Dec 25, 2018 |
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Dec 25, 2018 23:07
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That Thanos comic about him meeting Death as a child isn't the worst thing ever but like a lot of similar comics published in the past 2 decades showing a villain's childhood, it was completely unnecessary. Books of Doom was good, but then everyone and their mother tried to do their own version of it for characters who either already had their backstory fully fleshed out or really didn't need it. I do not want to read about what Red Skull was like at 10.
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i do, as long as red skull at age 10 still has the gross deformed red skull face and the plot is about him trying to secure the holy grail so that he can become top of his class by having all the better-performing students expelled but is ultimately thwarted by another student in a fedora.
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I think Thanos Rising might be the worst thing I’ve read by Jason Aaron. I think it is pretty terrible. Probably my least favorite Thanos story ever.
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Bulgaroctonus posted:YES!!! Thank you!!!! It’s #222. That’s my first comic book (other than Archie Digests). I’m amazed that it’s as early as it is; I would’ve been about five years old. Gonna have to go looking around for that as my copy is long-gone. Thank you again. I miss comics with numbers that went into the triple digits.  
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Dec 26, 2018 10:50
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So I just finished the second trade of Back Hammer, it seems that the volume 3 trade is out next month but there are also lots of trades "from the world of Black Hammer". Are any of those essential or worth getting if I've enjoyed the first to volumes?
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prefect posted:I miss comics with numbers that went into the triple digits. Action Comics went back to the original numbering, so it's in quadruple digits.
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Dec 26, 2018 18:20
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Heya, does anyone know why the second trade for loki agent of asgard isn't in print but books 1 and 3 are? The only physical copies of the second trade I can find online are massively overpriced second hand copies
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Dec 26, 2018 18:38
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The Libearian posted:Heya, does anyone know why the second trade for loki agent of asgard isn't in print but books 1 and 3 are? The only physical copies of the second trade I can find online are massively overpriced second hand copies I asked about it a while back, just a small print run for some reason
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Dec 26, 2018 18:42
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Yeah you’ll run into something like that every now and then. I wasn’t aware that was one in that situation. Makes me glad I got my copy when I did.
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Dec 26, 2018 18:46
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Starsnostars posted:So I just finished the second trade of Back Hammer, it seems that the volume 3 trade is out next month but there are also lots of trades "from the world of Black Hammer". Are any of those essential or worth getting if I've enjoyed the first to volumes?
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Dec 26, 2018 18:58
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I asked about it a while back, just a small print run for some reason Cheers, I guess I will have to buy the kindle copy and take the hit to my stupid completionist brain
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Dec 26, 2018 19:57
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The Libearian posted:Cheers, I guess I will have to buy the kindle copy and take the hit to my stupid completionist brain It might get a reprint when the Loki/Scarlet Witch show comes out.
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Dec 26, 2018 20:14
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Skwirl posted:It might get a reprint when the Loki/Scarlet Witch show comes out. I doubt it. More likely a OSHC or UE of the entire series.
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Dec 26, 2018 20:21
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Uthor posted:He's been killed and "killed" (but not really) a few times. From a few pages back, but man, as much as I like Drax in the MCU, he's just a total bitch compared to his comic counterpart huh?
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Dec 26, 2018 20:21
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CityMidnightJunky posted:From a few pages back, but man, as much as I like Drax in the MCU, he's just a total bitch compared to his comic counterpart huh? Drax was badass, then he was kinda dumb and Hulkish for a while, but Abnett and Lanning (pbut) made him badass again. 
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Rhyno posted:I doubt it. More likely a OSHC or UE of the entire series. The real question is if we're getting a Zdarsky Spider-Man omnibus
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prefect posted:Drax was badass, then he was kinda dumb and Hulkish for a while, but Abnett and Lanning (pbut) made him badass again. I can understand why the movies couldn't use him even remotely the way the comics have him. Even if you dump the earth bound origins, Drax the being created and existing only for the purpose of killing Thanos doesn't work when the producers say "No Thanos until we get there with the Avengers." But a character who is only good at one thing and that thing is killing the most deadly person in the universe is something that could have been fun on screen.
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I guess I understand why they didn't, but I wish the entire MCU revolved around Adam Warlock.
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Uthor posted:I guess I understand why they didn't, but I wish the entire MCU revolved around Adam Warlock. Give it a few months and that's a possibility
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Why do you guys like superheroes?
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Lurdiak posted:That Thanos comic about him meeting Death as a child isn't the worst thing ever but like a lot of similar comics published in the past 2 decades showing a villain's childhood, it was completely unnecessary. Interestingly enough, UDON did one of these for Akuma and it was probably the best Street Fighter comic they did.
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Dec 27, 2018 22:44
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SonicRulez posted:Why do you guys like superheroes? It's a fun idea.
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SonicRulez posted:Why do you guys like superheroes? It appeals to a part of me that would like things to be fixable by beating up the right person. Thinking any harder on the subject than surface level leads to some rough places though and also shows that even in comics it's not that easy. Batman is Sisyphus, putting Joker behind bars over and over again. I like my supers comics relatively lighthearted because of this. Keep it light hearted and things work out fine, make it all grimdark and your characters start looking dumb for having no kill rules and such.
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SonicRulez posted:Why do you guys like superheroes? 
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SonicRulez posted:Why do you guys like superheroes? Gotta believe in something. Might as well be that people can change the world by being good.
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people living in fantastical places, struggling through adversity to defeat evil is like literally the oldest story ever passed down through humanity, i dont see anything wrong with enjoying it
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Dec 28, 2018 00:20
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The costumes.
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Dec 28, 2018 00:47
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SonicRulez posted:Why do you guys like superheroes? Why do you think Sonic Rulez?
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Also, nostalgia. X-Men animated was on when I was the right age to be obsessed with it, the first movie I may have ever seen was Superman 4 out the back of a van at a drive in, and I grew up watching Batman 66 on rerun. That'l do it.
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Superheroes are ridiculous pulp. They’re the more modern iteration of Conan and James Bond and John Carter. The more ridiculous the books the more I generally enjoy them.
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Senior Woodchuck posted:Gotta believe in something. Might as well be that people can change the world by being good. This is basically my answer. I find capes inspirational. There's just something about superhero media in any medium that gives me that feeling of wanting to do better. To have integrity and be kind. Somebody asked me why I like comic books so much. I think you can take a look at Avengers' last hour and think fans just like bright colors and explosions. There's more too it though, ya know? duck trucker posted:Why do you think Sonic Rulez? I was once an idiot child and now it's just guaranteed to be available.
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At least in the Marvel and DC universes, another appeal of superheroes is complexity -- there are thousands of characters and places to learn about, each with their own story, all the way from Superman and Spider-Man down to Moondark the Magician or Mr. Banjo.
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