Doc Hawkins posted:

e: OH and of course with the power rangers. I saw that that panel ITT.

Admiralty Flag posted:

Even more valuable, Luke Cage joins the rarefied ranks of Sue Storm and Squirrel Girl, namely people Doom respects. I like to think Doom kept $200 in that credenza just in case Luke showed up in Latveria.



Also Luke doesn't care for your international law jibba-jabber, unlike some square supers:

(I think it's from the Supes vs. Spider-man. There's also a crossover showing Supes failing to catch Doom clumsily jogging down the block to the Latverian Embassy; not sure if this is the same story.)

Choco1980 posted:

When I was a kid, we got a cup with a meal at Hardees that had a comic strip on it with Doom pulling the Latverian Embassy maneuver on Hulk and She-Hulk. (The latter assuring the former that the law was legit, natch) Hulk solved the problem by picking up the concrete Doom was standing on and moving him off the embassy grounds.

Lobok posted:

If you had a second to decide whether Spider-Man is a good guy or bad guy his costume and name don't scream side of the angels.

Ghostlight posted:

You're thinking of this panel




e:

Ghostlight posted:

I've been saving this one for the ol' colour conversation

Gavok posted:

One bit I liked in that story was how Invincible was unfazed by the idea that Peter would be married to MJ. "You're in great shape, you're not a bad looking guy, you have a sense of humor and you appear to be a really good guy. Why wouldn't she be married to you?"

"I think you're my new favorite superhero."

New Leaf posted:

When I quit spending so much money on comics initially a few years back (other than random trades that I would pick up), "Invincible" was one of the only titles I stuck with to the end, and I'm incredibly glad that I did. I love that comic so much.

Rhyno posted:

The end is pretty spectacular.

Keeshhound posted:

I Superman just super-depressed here?

Kwyndig posted:

Yeah, the idea is that they're depressed, but that's not what they called it back then.

New Leaf posted:

Ghostlight posted:

Yes. She couldn't fly at all until Silver Age, at which point she got the mentioned gliding ability to make it easier for writers to get her from one place to another, and then later her signature invisible jet so that they didn't have to deal with making excuses as to why she could glide across the Atlantic or whatever. It wasn't until the Crisis on Infinite Earths backstory reboot into a clay figure that they gave up on all that poo poo and just had flight as one of the gifts she received from the Greek gods along with super-strength and actual life.

Knormal posted:

Huh. She doesn't look very aerodynamic to me, must be the boob eagle.

bobkatt013 posted:

Teenage mutant ninja turtles 91

El Gallinero Gros posted:

Tremendous.

Keeshhound posted:

Ok, but what is the cheese for?

Gnome de plume posted:

Putting together a ham woman makes a girl hungry.

Keeshhound posted:

Ok, but what is the cheese for?

Gavok posted:

It's the best character on the show.

El Gallinero Gros posted:

Tremendous.

Phy posted:

Am I missing something other than the obvious Daredevil ref?

Phy posted:

Am I missing something other than the obvious Daredevil ref?

quote:

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' origin story paid homage to the first issue of Daredevil from 1963, in which young Matt Murdock is blinded by a radioactive isotope while pushing an old blind man from the path of an oncoming truck. Eastman and Laird extrapolated that after the canister containing that isotope struck Murdock, it collided with a bystander who was carrying a fishbowl containing his pets — four baby turtles. The turtles and the canister, which bore the initials T.C.R.I., fell down a grate into the sewer below, where they were discovered by an inquisitive rat, Splinter. Splinter had been the pet of the exiled ninja warrior Hamato Yoshi, who was slain along with his lover, Tang Shen, by the treacherous Oroku Saki, who blamed Yoshi for the death of his brother, Oroku Nagi.

"Splinter's name was a tip of the hat to the Daredevil supporting character Stick," recalls Laird, discussing the ninja master created by Miller who provided young Matt Murdock with the skills he would require to fight crime as Daredevil. "I think we chose a rat because as we began working out the story for the first issue of TMNT, we knew a lot of it would be set in the storm drains and sewers and back alleys of the city, and we figured that a common denizen of those places was the humble rat." Since The Hand menaced Daredevil during Miller's tenure, it was only natural that the Turtles would find themselves in conflict with The Foot, a clan of ninjas whose leader, the Shredder, was none other than Oroku Saki. The Shredder took his design inspiration from a metal cheese grater that struck Eastman as a potential weapon in the hands of the wrong person.