the escape goat posted:

Fun fact: Matt Fraction named Fat Cobra after a porn shop in Portland OR!

Cuchulain posted:

Incidentally, Pacific Northwest Bender is one of Fat Cobra's secret techniques.

Toshimo posted:

RiotGearEpsilon posted:

Holy poo poo, what is this from

Toshimo posted:

prefect posted:

Does the keytar represent sins?

Toshimo posted:

Yeah, probably.

She also is a rad 1-man band that plays YES - Big Generator because it was the 80's.

Yvonmukluk posted:

This loving needs to be in the Alita: Battle Angel sequel.

Toshimo posted:

The Question IRL posted:

That assumes that Alita gets a sequel. I liked that movie but I do not think it will make enough money to get a sequel.

Toshimo posted:

Lurdiak posted:

I always hated how they framed Alita as some kind of martyr. She's basically Kenshiro but stronger and doesn't age, and everyone lives in complete and utter misery. Helping people isn't some kind of horrible burden, unless you're Ayn Rand.

Wapole Languray posted:

Isn't that the part where she's going to fight the seeming indestructible insane super-cyborg who's destroying the entire city because he has a grudge against her and everyone is basically telling her to go commit suicide so they can live?

Lurdiak posted:

Yeah, Spider-man does that poo poo all the time.

Lurdiak posted:

I always hated how they framed Alita as some kind of martyr. She's basically Kenshiro but stronger and doesn't age, and everyone lives in complete and utter misery. Helping people isn't some kind of horrible burden, unless you're Ayn Rand.

Doc Hawkins posted:

Sure, the manga makes her fate look super-cool, but the movie's design choices remind me that she is basically a child soldier mutilated to fit inside of a mars-adapted raytheon drone shaped like a child soldier, and that's an extremely disturbing and horrifying prospect. She's a living crime against humanity (again, leaving aside a lot of the manga), and also maybe this is just because I watched Shane again but I think most of the martyr stuff is just the Shane story rehashed: "humanity would be better off without all you cyborgs, but in the meantime, oh god, we're dying, please do something."

The Question IRL posted:

Hawkeye: I won't be secret about it.

Fin.

The Question IRL posted:

Civil War. A play in two acts.

Act I.

Politican: I an a politician. And I say that this disaster would not have happened if there were no untrained, unregulated super heroes.

Captain America: I cannot debate with you over this. Otherwise there would be no second act.

Politician: Furthermore, we have put together militarized police who will enforce our new "no more superheroes" law. They will keep us safe.

Captain America: I and the rest of the superhero community will abide by your law. Only because your new police force while jerks, are not evil. And we have enough of a respect for the rule of law that we will abide by it.

Politican: The superheroes have all retired. Now let's just wait and world peace will surely be declared.

(Exunt Thor, pursued by an owlbear.)

Act II.

Politican: You super villains! Don't you know that by being here you are breaking our laws? Leave now.

Electro: My entire adult life has been spent ignoring the rules of society.

Sentinels: Beep-bop-boop. We are programmed to murder minorities. You can't legislate away our reason for existing.

Wendigo: I'm from an ancient tradition that existed long before your edicts and laws. They mean nothing to a force of nature like me. Also Wen-di-go!

Politician: Noooo! These reprobate who ignore laws aren't obeying our militarized fascist police force. Tina Turner was wrong, We Do Need Another Hero.

Captain America: Despite being earlier told to sit on it and swivle, we are going to come back and save all you jerks. But we are going to feel secretly smug about it.

Hawkeye: I won't be secret about it.

Fin.

Svensken posted:

It's the plot of The Incredibles.

Doc Hawkins posted:

Sure, the manga makes her fate look super-cool, but the movie's design choices remind me that she is basically a child soldier mutilated to fit inside of a mars-adapted raytheon drone shaped like a child soldier, and that's an extremely disturbing and horrifying prospect. She's a living crime against humanity (again, leaving aside a lot of the manga), and also maybe this is just because I watched Shane again but I think most of the martyr stuff is just the Shane story rehashed: "humanity would be better off without all you cyborgs, but in the meantime, oh god, we're dying, please do something."

Lurdiak posted:

Who was talking about the movie?

The whole cyborg discrimination aspect of the manga is so underwritten that it's basically forgotten about for over 90% of its run time, especially when they go to space (yeah, the character you're supposed to view as a martyr gets to go to space while everyone else keeps rotting and dying on earth).

There's this weird double standard for suffering in the story, where everyone else's suffering is just like, set dressing to establish the cruel nature of the world, but when it happens to the main character it's this horrible tragedy. People's brains get ripped out of their skulls all the time, but oh no, Alita had to think about something sad. It gives me that same weird vibe as when unkillable martial artists lecture the starving wastelanders about courage and morality in Fist of the North Star.

I'm completely ok with a character who's just trying to survive and is a mercenary and occasional reluctant hero, but when the narrative acts like they're Jesus, it's weird.

The Manual of Hands and Feet posted:

[The monks] only take apprentices to replace an old master when he dies, so that someone will always be around to make sure Ki Rata does not exist in the wider world. Many supplicants flock to Rayuba in the hopes of being trained by the masters, who sometimes are forced into self defense when they are challenged to unwanted duels.

When I arrived there, hoping for some insight, I witnessed such a duel between a low-ranking monk of the style and a well-known master of Pilgrim fist. Within three moves, the monk, a rather short fellow, use a two finger one-point technique to completely vaporize the bones in both the master’s arms.

Doc Hawkins posted:

I said why I mentioned the movie: its design choices gave me a perspective.

Flesh Forge posted:

Oh wow, I never realized the early appearance of that red longnose demon guy there

Knackered posted:

I've been looking for a new avatar, if you don't end up using it on some other poor soul let me know.

Pacra posted:

The second panel spoke to me

Gavok posted:

Venom Annual

This is a revisiting of the events of Venom: The Madness, only this time it's James Stokoe writing and drawing Madness Venom vs. Juggernaut and it is entirely my poo poo.











Juggernaut's expression in that first panel of the old lady's apartment is begging to be somebody's avatar.

Dr Christmas posted:

Who is narrating that Venom scene?

Dr Christmas posted:

Who is narrating that Venom scene?

Gavok posted:

Just some criminal. The annual is an anthology of Venom stories as told by people in a bar.

That story ended with Juggernaut threatening that guy to never tell anyone what actually happened.

CzarChasm posted:

I'm choosing to read it as Juggernaut talking in the third person.