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I can't for the life of me find the scans, but.... One of my friends as a kid had an aunt who worked in a pulbishing company, so she got him tons of comics that I got to skim. And one that -really- stuck with me was Kevin O'Neil's Marshal Law series. It seemed like the late 80s grimdark antihero fare, only MORE. Except it really wasn't. It was a weird thing, an early deconstruction of a deconstruction. A Punisher-like vigilante hunting heroes who have gone mad with PTSD and formed gangs after the metahuman version of the Vietnam War. Except...his secret-identity unemployed construction worker self is dating a poli-sci college student who hates superheroes and is writing a thesis on how the very concept of them in damaging and toxic. And she's not protrayed as a loony SJW caricature. Rash, for sure, but also very much on point. And the very last pages of the first series, when after a ton of INSANE poo poo goes down, he finally reads her work, even about his own superhero identity, and it just lays bare the core of the world, the recent events, and his own motivation. It's sad and touching, and also a strange contrast with the super-colorful art style that still some how works.
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Spider-Man: Life Story once again knocking it out of the loving park. This is gonna be one of those stories that will remembered and recommended for years to come.
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Read JL #25 ya mooks. Best superman moment since all star
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McCloud posted:Read JL #25 ya mooks. Best superman moment since all star 
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Jun 8, 2019 19:04
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McCloud posted:Read JL #25 ya mooks. Best superman moment since all star Do I need to catch up on the previous 24 or the current arc or something?
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Jun 9, 2019 07:26
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Sephyr posted:I can't for the life of me find the scans, but.... On which note, could someone dig out the panel where Marshal Law finds a hero? It belongs in this thread.
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McCloud posted:Read JL #25 ya mooks. Best superman moment since all star Do you mean Superman Discovering The Power Of Anime?
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Jun 9, 2019 16:37
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Vincent posted:Do I need to catch up on the previous 24 or the current arc or something? Bare minimum the current arc starting on issue 19, but as usual the full context of the stakes would require reading all 25 issues plus JL annual 1. The gist of it is that the source wall is broken and that ancient and powerful beings are set to judge if the multiverse is in harmony. Lex luthor is trying to save the universe by awakening the creator of the multiverse and tilt rhe cosmic scale towards Doom, while the league are scrambling to stop him. It's the best this series has been in a good decade. ImpAtom posted:Do you mean Superman Discovering The Power Of Anime? Excuse you, anime discovered the power of Superman 
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Jun 9, 2019 17:25
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McCloud posted:Excuse you, anime discovered the power of Superman https://imgur.com/a/CeZ0Nbf I think this is the scene you mean then!
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Jun 9, 2019 17:40
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That's the one! Although it's much better if you read the preceding issues
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Jun 9, 2019 17:46
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If that pre punch page doesnt make you smile I dont know what is wrong with you.
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Jun 9, 2019 18:20
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I haven't kept up with DC very closely for years but I really like that scene, even without context. I think the best Superman stories fundamentally tell us that we aren't alone, and it's nice when that's flipped or expanded to include Clark himself, as someone who needs people and cherishes them. And of course, the punch was enormous, which is always icing on the cake.
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Jun 9, 2019 18:54
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Plus Ultra, father son Kamehameha, etc
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Archyduchess posted:I haven't kept up with DC very closely for years but I really like that scene, even without context. I think the best Superman stories fundamentally tell us that we aren't alone, and it's nice when that's flipped or expanded to include Clark himself, as someone who needs people and cherishes them. And of course, the punch was enormous, which is always icing on the cake. The open secret of Superman is that he's inspired by the people around him to be better. Not just Lois or Bruce or Pa, but regular folks who will stick their necks out to give you a hand when you need it. It's as much part of the character as that big S on his chest
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Jun 9, 2019 21:58
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McCloud posted:The open secret of Superman is that he's inspired by the people around him to be better. Not just Lois or Bruce or Pa, but regular folks who will stick their necks out to give you a hand when you need it. It's as much part of the character as that big S on his chest reminds me of that one with Dick Turpin leading the resistance against Darkseid. we inspire each other, as human beings also do we yet know how they fix that big hole he put in the earth?
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Jun 9, 2019 22:24
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LordSaturn posted:reminds me of that one with Dick Turpin leading the resistance against Darkseid. we inspire each other, as human beings I... Dick Turpin? The dandy highwayman?
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sammyv posted:I... Dick Turpin? The dandy highwayman? No, Private Pulsifer’s car
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Thaddius the Large posted:No, Private Pulsifer’s car I thought this was Batman's sidekick?
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sammyv posted:I... Dick Turpin? The dandy highwayman? No, that's Adam Ant.
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Jun 9, 2019 23:51
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dan turpin, my bad frames are like panels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0pcChyV6o4
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LordSaturn posted:also do we yet know how they fix that big hole he put in the earth? alternate dimension/future, doesn't count.
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edit: saw what I had posted before had already been posted a few pages back, I'll post this instead Injustice 2 Annual #2: This one's a flashback to before either of the games and before the world went to poo poo. Batman broke his arm and Superman has sent him and Alfred out to Smallville to force Bruce into some R&R  
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“That boy would take a secret to the grave.” *Announces Batman’s secret identity on Twitter in same series*
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Some people to this day think the twitter thing was dumb, when it was actually amazing.
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I like that issue because it also admits that Batman did have a role in escalating Superman's everything after the Joker nuked Metropolis because he did nothing to ease Supes' pain because of "muh Joker".
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Jun 12, 2019 03:42
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Lurdiak posted:Some people to this day think the twitter thing was dumb, when it was actually amazing. Especially since it was a plan that came from a pissed off teenager who had enough of his dad's bullshit.
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There's a very good fanfiction about Clark bringing Bruce and Diana to Christmas, and the Kents have a similar energy when they talk with Bruce as these panels. Edit: Found it. An excerpt posted:"Have a cookie," Mrs. Kent suggested, pushing the plate closer to Bruce's side of the couch. "Maybe it'll cheer you up." girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 12:49 on Jun 12, 2019 |
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Jun 12, 2019 12:46
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Lurdiak posted:One of the many reasons the Sam Raimi spider-man movies got Jonah perfectly is this scene: The pause after 'I trust my barber' where you can clearly tell Peter's thinking 'you shouldn't' and wishes he could say it is so good.
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My headcanon is that Ma Kent doesn't approve of Batman, but he really wants her to like him, so anytime he's at the Kent farm he comes off as Eddie Haskell.
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Aunt May reopened FEAST FN Spider-Man #7
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Endless Mike posted:Aunt May reopened FEAST Oh no is she going to die?
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ImpAtom posted:Oh no is she going to die? She did find out that she has cancer recently, wouldn't be surprised if they're slowly building towards killing her off again, this time in a more permanent fashion
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drrockso20 posted:She did find out that she has cancer recently, wouldn't be surprised if they're slowly building towards killing her off again, this time in a more permanent fashion and then putting her in (the Marvel equivalent of) a Lazarus pit so she can emerge looking younger and like Marisa Tomei to fit in the MCU.
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drrockso20 posted:She did find out that she has cancer recently, wouldn't be surprised if they're slowly building towards killing her off again, this time in a more permanent fashion It looks like Mary Jane is back in Peter's life so that's at least a decent bargaining chip with Mephisto.
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drrockso20 posted:She did find out that she has cancer recently, wouldn't be surprised if they're slowly building towards killing her off again, this time in a more permanent fashion she's gonna die and spend two panels in vahalla before returning
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site posted:she's gonna die and spend two panels in vahalla before returning I would read multiple issues of Aunt May in Valhalla.
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Aunt May giving Loki a stern talking to but also baking his favorite cookies
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Gologle posted:I like that issue because it also admits that Batman did have a role in escalating Superman's everything after the Joker nuked Metropolis because he did nothing to ease Supes' pain because of "muh Joker". I thought those panels were going to be that moment and I'm glad they weren't. That part of the issue sucks.
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Push El Burrito posted:I would read multiple issues of Aunt May in Valhalla. The einherjar love these wheat cakes! It gives them the will to fight and die another day!
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TwoPair posted:and then putting her in (the Marvel equivalent of) a Lazarus pit so she can emerge looking younger and like Marisa Tomei to fit in the MCU. I have to admit, I like Hot Aunt May. Probably not in comics though.
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