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It’s one of the many many many variant covers for Detective Comics 1000 https://www.comicburst.com/blog/detective-comics-1000-complete-cover-checklist/
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Random Stranger posted:Who hasn't heard of Lady Cop? Next thing you'll be telling me is you're not familiar with Linda Carter Student Nurse! It's stuff like this I come to this thread for.
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Apr 9, 2019 08:35
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Benito Cereno posted:It’s one of the many many many variant covers for Detective Comics 1000 Perfect, thank you!
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Has Hank McCoy ever become likable in anything? Young version doesn't count, though I imagine he's still insufferable in that form.
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Hank hanging out with Wonderman in the Avengers was pretty good in my opinion.
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Schneider Heim posted:Has Hank McCoy ever become likable in anything? Young version doesn't count, though I imagine he's still insufferable in that form. beast is strange because he's really good in all of the cartoons and movies, but sucks rear end in the comics like a reverse Storm
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Schneider Heim posted:Has Hank McCoy ever become likable in anything? Young version doesn't count, though I imagine he's still insufferable in that form. He was pretty cool right up until Morrison's X-men.
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Lurdiak posted:He was pretty cool right up until Morrison's X-men. I think the question concerned recent runs, not ones that ended 15 years ago.
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After Steve Englehart got a hold of him in the early 70's, Beast was awesome. He blues himself, fights Iron Man, joins The Avengers, and ultimately ends up getting the only legitimately fun moment across the whole Avengers 200 debacle. He's kinda cool in early Ultimate X-Men until he gets catfished by The Blob. It sucks. Whedon's Beast from Astonishing is... not terrible from decade-old memory? Hank Pym is in a similar situation. They'll never be THE BEST, but they can't be THE WORST, but the other things they've found to do with them, be that creating genocidal (sex)robots, experimenting with your own DNA, slapping your wife around, or abducting your and your friends' younger selves through time are maybe not the best use of their skills.
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Mr. Maltose posted:Hank hanging out with Wonderman in the Avengers was pretty good in my opinion. And that recent comic where they did karaoke with Absorbing Man.
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So I was sitting down eating a Burger King when I had a thought. Wolverine is probably the most famous Canadian Superhero. It's one of the most iconic aspects to him and a fact that I knew from when I was a child getting started in reading comics. I only realised for the first time about 30 minutes ago, that Sabertooth (Wolverine's best known villain) is probably also Canadian.
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The Question IRL posted:So I was sitting down eating a Burger King when I had a thought. How dare you overlook Canada's greatest and most noteworthy hero, Stallion Canuck. 
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Squizzle posted:How dare you overlook Canada's greatest and most noteworthy hero, Stallion Canuck. Is it just the angle, or does that horse body have super-short front legs?
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When exactly did "vat of chemicals" become key to the Joker's origin?
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Detective Comics 168 (from late 1950/early 1951) was where the Red Hood/vat of chemical backstory to the Joker was introduced, though I feel like it wasn't a Big Recurring Motif until the one-two punch of Killing Joke in 1988 and the Batman movie in 1999. As in, the character of "The Red Hood"/ didn't appear on panel or get talked about anywhere that I can find between 1951 and 1988 outside of a few panels in a "History of Batman" mini-series in the early 1980s. 1988 is also the year that they published The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told TPB/hardcover that was the first time (outside of a 100 Page Giant in the late 1960s) that the original Red Hood story was ever reprinted, so you can pretty much pinpoint it becoming "key" to his origin somewhere in 1988-1989. They used it (hewing closer to the movie version, so no Red Hood I don't think) in the 1992 animated series, brought it up (complete with the Red Hood) in a mainline DC storyline in 1990, and it seems to have stuck ever since. Edge & Christian fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Apr 13, 2019 |
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Rhyno posted:When exactly did "vat of chemicals" become key to the Joker's origin? A bit of googling suggests that the first Joker origin story was in Detective Comics #168 in 1951, and included the Red Hood disguise and the vat of chemicals.
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Inkspot posted:Whedon's Beast from Astonishing is... not terrible from decade-old memory? Yes, this is the case.
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Has there been a comic that explains what Bruce Wayne tells non-superhero people about where the hell Damian Wayne came from? Like, Damian was grown in a vat in New 52 because having an actual 13 year old son would have made Bruce too old or something, right? So what does he tell people?
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Skwirl posted:Has there been a comic that explains what Bruce Wayne tells non-superhero people about where the hell Damian Wayne came from? Like, Damian was grown in a vat in New 52 because having an actual 13 year old son would have made Bruce too old or something, right? So what does he tell people? I could swear the cover story was that he had an overseas fling that resulted in a pregnancy and wasn't told about the child until years later. Or is that literally what pre-New 52 Damian was?
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Pastry of the Year posted:I could swear the cover story was that he had an overseas fling that resulted in a pregnancy and wasn't told about the child until years later. Or is that literally what pre-New 52 Damian was? I think originally the explanation was Talia roofied Bruce, but Damian was the result of natural birth and aging.
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Skwirl posted:I think originally the explanation was Talia roofied Bruce, but Damian was the result of natural birth and aging. The roofie was a retcon by Morrison because he didn't check the original story.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:The roofie was a retcon by Morrison because he didn't check the original story. You mean Son of the Demon?
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Skwirl posted:You mean Son of the Demon? Yeah Grant Morrison posted:For a long time, DC said Son of the Demon was out of continuity. Now it’s just kind of out of continuity. I didn’t actually read it before I started writing this. I messed up a lot of details, like Batman wasn’t drugged when he was having sex with Talia and it didn’t take place in the desert. I was relying on shaky memories.
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It's bad form to rag on Morrison twice in one page but if I was going to write a story involving rape I would double check.
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Working on a thing about characters reinvented by Batman the animated series. Any good resources to read about this?
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This, sadly out of print Batman Animated https://www.amazon.com/dp/0067575315/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_sw.SCbA3SVZ44
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I saw that on bookstore shelves so many times and put off buying it because I was broke. Regret it SO much.
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I bought it when it was new and my roommate swiped it when he moved to Michigan.
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Rhyno posted:I bought it when it was new and my roommate swiped it when he moved to Michigan. I got a copy for a few bucks a while back. I had no idea it was in such demand.
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Even the SC is $80. Jeebus.
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Unmature posted:Working on a thing about characters reinvented by Batman the animated series. Any good resources to read about this? Sounds like a good excuse to just marathon the entire thing
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Retro Futurist posted:Sounds like a good excuse to just marathon the entire thing While I second this I think he's looking for insight from other people as well, maybe even from people that worked on the show.
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If you bring materials and equipment to build an aircraft to the savage land, and you build that there, can you take off and leave the savage land without crashing? Or do you need a transactional sacrificial crash before the island will let you leave?
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Lurdiak posted:It's bad form to rag on Morrison twice in one page but if I was going to write a story involving rape I would double check. Especially when you criticize Alan Moore for doing it as part of your insane wizard beef against him.
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CzarChasm posted:If you bring materials and equipment to build an aircraft to the savage land, and you build that there, can you take off and leave the savage land without crashing? Or do you need a transactional sacrificial crash before the island will let you leave? That's the island in Lost. The Savage Land is a hidden valley in the antarctic.
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Rhyno posted:That's the island in Lost. The Savage Land is a hidden valley in the antarctic. I believe they're referring to how 99% of the time, people just can't seem to make it to the Savage Land without crash landing. I don't have it on hand but I know there's an Avengers panel where Iron Man insists he can land the Quinjet just fine and they end up crashing
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TwoPair posted:I believe they're referring to how 99% of the time, people just can't seem to make it to the Savage Land without crash landing. 
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Unmature posted:Working on a thing about characters reinvented by Batman the animated series. Any good resources to read about this? You could try the Arkham Sessions podcast.
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Retro Futurist posted:Sounds like a good excuse to just marathon the entire thing Oh I’m very well acquainted with the characterizations on the show I’d just like to be able to more definitively say things like “this character trait didn’t exist in the comics prior to the show” Here are some more specific questions I'm curious about and having trouble researching: When did Two-Face first show multiple personalities and not just an obsession with the number two? Did Mad Hatter have the same M.O. (loneliness and companionship) before the series? I know Joker was always Batman's nemesis, but when does it go from enemies to a straight obsession with each other? Is it pre-Killing Joke? Unmature fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Apr 15, 2019 |
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