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"The Face" made me think of all the Dick Tracy villains. https://www.dicktracymuseum.com/new-page-1/ Which in turn reminded me of all of The Tick's villains. https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Category:The_Tick_Villains
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What was that series, I can't remember if it was vertigo or image, but their powers were being able to talk to art or animate it or interact with it in some fashion? All this talk of weird powers reminded me of it and I remember enjoying it.
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Most of the characters in John Layman and Rob Guillory's Image series Chew have food-related super powers. The protagonist, Tony Chu, is a cibopath, who gets psychic impressions from anything he eats. He uses those powers as an FDA Agent to solve food-related crimes. His girlfriend is a saboscrivner, a successful food critic who writes about food with such clarity and detail that her readers share the taste sensations she describes just by reading her work. (This inspired me to create a food blog of my own called The Saboscrivner, after seeking Layman's blessing on Twitter.) This Takeout article (from the media group that owns The AV Club) writes a really good synopsis of Chew: https://thetakeout.com/chew-s-hero-bit-into-people-and-also-our-culinary-obse-1798252855 CBR compiled the 15 weirdest food-based super powers from Chew: https://www.cbr.com/chew-on-this-the-15-weirdest-food-based-powers-in-chew/ And as much as I dislike citing Wikipedia, the Chew article includes a list of all the other food-related powers, which get quite esoteric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chew_(comics)#Food-Related_Powers Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Feb 8, 2019 |
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Most of the characters in John Layman and Rob Guillory's Image series Chew have food-related super powers. The protagonist, Tony Chu, is a cibopath, who gets psychic impressions from anything he eats. He uses those powers as an FDA Agent to solve food-related crimes. His girlfriend is a saboscrivner, a successful food critic who writes about food with such clarity and detail that her readers share the taste sensations she describes just by reading her work. (This inspired me to create a food blog of my own called The Saboscrivner, after seeking Layman's blessing on Twitter.) I was going to mention Chew but I knew you would show up and do a better job than I could!
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CityMidnightJunky posted:What's the weirdest/most original/bizarre power you've read about in comics? Maybe I'm just a bit tired of 'punches really hard' and 'shoots lazers', but I personally love reading about powers that are so out there it keeps you up at night with existential questions about how the gently caress these people function. Forget-me-not would be a good example, or the guy with two sentient worms that follow him around. There is the Brown Bomber, a racist white dude whose super power is turning into a black man. His existence is...problematic.
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Madkal posted:Damnit, I was trying to find the DC character who had a face in his torso but I can't find anything about him. I swear he exists. I think he even hit on Donna Troy or Starfire in a creepy way. He hit on basically every female character, but most notably asked Ms. Martian to turn into a giant vagina so he could perform oral sex on her, at which point she punched him, and then he shot lasers from his eyes and was kicked out the Titans.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:That's actually pretty creative. Yeah, Silverblade was a fun series. If we're doing comedy characters, Scott Meyer's Basic Instructions occasionally featured a character called Omnipresent Man, whose power was being everywhere at the same time. His nemesis was Mr. Everywhere, who had the same power.
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Madkal posted:There is the Brown Bomber, a racist white dude whose super power is turning into a black man. His existence is...problematic.  Naturally, it was Dwayne McDuffie who brought him back.
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CityMidnightJunky posted:What's the weirdest/most original/bizarre power you've read about in comics? Maybe I'm just a bit tired of 'punches really hard' and 'shoots lazers', but I personally love reading about powers that are so out there it keeps you up at night with existential questions about how the gently caress these people function. Forget-me-not would be a good example, or the guy with two sentient worms that follow him around. There was a time when Venom and Carnage were able to travel through phone lines and the internet. There's a team called Secret Weapons made up of people with what were considered worthless powers. One guy has the power to have objects appear in his hands, either on purpose or randomly, but he can't control what the object is. It's more apparent later on that these objects are all important to his future survival in one way or another. Then the team comes across a guy whose power is looking at objects and seeing who they originally belonged to. He makes note that all the conjured objects aren't pulled from elsewhere, but purely exist out of thin air. In the Harbinger Renegades, there's a guy named Torque. In his normal form, he's a teenager who doesn't have use of his legs. With his powers, he's covered in a psychic shell that turns him into the jacked Mary Sue version of himself from his fantasies. Normally, that would be a pretty cut-and-dry power, but there's a time when he gets in a relationship with team member Faith and becomes less of an insensitive prick. It appears that his powers feed off his toxic masculinity as his appearance becomes less bulky and closer to a swimmer's build. This also makes him weaker and after a team member dies, Torque is found in hiding in the form of a giant, as if he can't control his need to overcompensate.
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Random Stranger posted:
"CPT"? I'm sure it's nothing good.
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CzarChasm posted:"CPT"? colored people time originally the panel in the middle of the last row had him asking if this meant he was allowed to say the n-word, which they didn't allow in the final printing but they also didn't rewrite her response so it's kind of disjointed
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Alaois posted:colored people time OK, yeah that explains the panel a bit better. Though I guess I expected it to be somehow worse. Like "Black people are only capable of doing work for an hour, get it?" kind of thing
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It's a racist term meaning black people are constantly late so you have to adjust your expectations on them.
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Alaois posted:colored people time
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Nessus posted:I think it kind of works, since it's still really clear what he's fishing for in the silent panel. I didn't know about the missing word balloon and it still worked perfectly for me since I always read it as a stunned response to CPT.
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Madkal posted:There is the Brown Bomber, a racist white dude whose super power is turning into a black man. His existence is...problematic. Fortunately Tony Isabella had a lot more sense than editorial at DC when approached to write the Bomber's 'adventures' in the 70's. He asked the pointed question 'do we really want our new black super hero to be a white bigot?' Happily Isabella went on to create Black Lightning instead.
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frodnonnag posted:Where's the modern pages of this guy?  Turns out that getting demons for hands was a bad idea.
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TwoPair posted:Everyone's favorite character Rockslide has the power to blow himself up which is weird. His real power is an overactive imagination.
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You gonna say that and not post the page?
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Has Superman ever been in a videogame where he had alternate costumes? Been reading through the Byrne Man of Steel volumes and his Savior outfit when he's leading the Hunger Dogs on Apokolips is a cool one.
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Lobok posted:Has Superman ever been in a videogame where he had alternate costumes? Been reading through the Byrne Man of Steel volumes and his Savior outfit when he's leading the Hunger Dogs on Apokolips is a cool one. The late '80s Superman arcade game (a side-scrolling beat-'em-up) had the Player 2 Superman in a costume with the red and blue switched. I loved that it existed, and I was enough of a nerd even back then (elementary school) to refer to that character as Mon-El.
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Lobok posted:Has Superman ever been in a videogame where he had alternate costumes? Been reading through the Byrne Man of Steel volumes and his Savior outfit when he's leading the Hunger Dogs on Apokolips is a cool one. The Injustice games. Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:The late '80s Superman arcade game (a side-scrolling beat-'em-up) had the Player 2 Superman in a costume with the red and blue switched. I loved that it existed, and I was enough of a nerd even back then (elementary school) to refer to that character as Mon-El. Player 2 was red tights with a silver cape. I remember hearing people say that it was supposed to be a stealth Shazam inclusion. Kind of like how Marvel vs. Capcom had Red Venom and Orange Hulk.
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Gavok posted:The Injustice games. I haven't played it in about 30 years, so I got that wrong! But I'm sure I thought of him as Captain Marvel at different points as well.
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Lobok posted:Has Superman ever been in a videogame where he had alternate costumes? Been reading through the Byrne Man of Steel volumes and his Savior outfit when he's leading the Hunger Dogs on Apokolips is a cool one. Yep, there's several Superman games where he has alternate costumes, though there is yet to be a Superman game worth playing. The Superman Returns game offers a couple of alternative costumes: a golden age variation and a black post-resurrection suit. Similarly, the Death and Return of Superman game has that same outfit show up in game. Superman: The Man of Steel (which predates the movie by about ten years) has the same black suit with mullet (and you can have the mullet with the normal costume as another alternative), Superman Red/Blue outfits, Kal-L, and I think an Our Worlds at War black S symbol. In Justice League Heroes, you've got the black suit yet again, golden age, and the outfit from Godfall. The Injustice games have a ton of alternate costumes for Superman and shockingly no versions of the black suit. So besides his normal game outfit which I'd might call an alternate costume given how lovely the redesigned game costumes are, there's a New 52, Red Son, and Godfall outfit in the original game. Injustice 2 allows for wearing a variety of different costume pieces and has a lot of color schemes, but I wouldn't really call them "alternate costumes". But you can dress him as Ultraman or Bizarro. After all that, speaking as someone who owns all of the Superman games, don't. They're pretty bad. They're not all Superman 64 bad, but Injustice are the only ones that I'd really call "playable".
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Flying was kinda cool in the Returns game. Not much else though.
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I think part of the issue with Superman is that, with video games part of the challenge is that you have vulnerabilities. So developers have to come up with reasons for Supes to be vulnerable and so far we've not had any developers who care enough about Supes or think to enlist people who do, so they can come up with something. Personally, I'd roll with "Gets captured by Darkseid, has to escape Apokolips". You can come up with reasons to have him weakened from there. I know they did a game with Apokolips stuff, but the game stank of half-assery. Throw in Barda and Miracle as allies for multiplayer or something. You can have Fourth World characters like Kalibak, Granny Goodness, Vermin Wunderbar, etc. as bosses. Maybe even a mind controlled Orion. El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Feb 11, 2019 |
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Random Stranger posted:Yep, there's several Superman games where he has alternate costumes, though there is yet to be a Superman game worth playing. Hmph.  Atari Superman did deal with the "Superman needs vulnerabilities" aspect by making it a completely nonviolent game where you just raced the clock -- the bad guys could slow you down, but not hurt you.
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Selachian posted:Hmph. 2600 Superman is technically impressive for a game from 1979, but it suffers from the problems of Atari adventure games where they combine being obtuse with shallowness entirely due to the platform's limitations. Even in the early 80's, it wasn't one of the 2600 games people were interested in because understanding the game made it trivial and boring. But I'll agree that it's a reasonable approach to having Superman in a video game. That game is still in the upper half of the Superman games, though. The Kemco developed Superman for the NES has similar problems with being an obtuse adventure game on a platform not really designed for it, and adds in a lot of other misery (also, you only get the John Williams score if you play the Japanese version). The Genesis game plays like stabbing yourself in the genitals repeatedly. The best thing about the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube games is that they occasionally rise to the level of blandly mediocre.
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Selachian posted:Hmph. So this is where the storyline for Superman Returns comes ftom
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What is the first appearance of the iconic Superman pose where he’s pulling open a buttoned shirt to reveal the costume? edit: well i thought i couldn’t google it but then i found an article: https://www.cbr.com/superman-open-shirt-costume-debut/ looks like superman #11 is pretty drat close to the typical shot Ror fucked around with this message at 11:20 on Feb 12, 2019 |
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I think part of the issue with Superman is that, with video games part of the challenge is that you have vulnerabilities. So developers have to come up with reasons for Supes to be vulnerable and so far we've not had any developers who care enough about Supes or think to enlist people who do, so they can come up with something. I can't remember the title at the moment, but there was a Superman game on the DS where the player is invulnerable and instead it's the city itself that has a lifebar. I though that was a pretty good way to handle things.
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I know it's unconventional for a brawler game but I don't think Superman should have any HP or a life bar in a videogame. The wrestling games I played years ago had a kind of momentum system or tug-of-war gauge so that you and your opponent could trade attacks and stay even with one another. It was only when one wrestler was able to string a series of successful attacks together that they got an edge on the other wrestler, and even then a wrestler wouldnt go down through chip damage but had to be defeated through a submission move. Using that as a basis for Superman you could make it so that Superman never dies, especially not to weak attacks, but getting yourself out of a hole when you're behind in a fight and actually winning can still be difficult.
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Potsticker posted:I can't remember the title at the moment, but there was a Superman game on the DS where the player is invulnerable and instead it's the city itself that has a lifebar. I though that was a pretty good way to handle things. Superman Returns!
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Cheers!
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Ror posted:What is the first appearance of the iconic Superman pose where he’s pulling open a buttoned shirt to reveal the costume? Lois slips Clark a roofie in one of the early Action Comics stories.
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Can Drax the Destroyer fly around and shoot lazer beams out of his hands in the modern Gurdians comics?
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Nah. His powers got reconfigured when his look did in his pre-Annihilation series. He’s more knifey-jumpy now, basically like the movies
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Benito Cereno posted:Nah. His powers got reconfigured when his look did in his pre-Annihilation series. He’s more knifey-jumpy now, basically like the movies A lot stronger than the movies, though.
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But can he turn invisible?
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