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Cheap Trick posted:Or rhyming slang for "dyke"? I wasn’t aware that Aussies did rhyming slang. I thought it was more of a British thing.
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ecavalli posted:I wasn’t aware that Aussies did rhyming slang. I thought it was more of a British thing. Yeah, Australians have done some evil things, but let's not go overboard.
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Sep 27, 2019 11:17
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ecavalli posted:I wasn’t aware that Aussies did rhyming slang. I thought it was more of a British thing. We do. Some of it is taken directly from the Brits but some (eg Barry = Barry Crocker = shocker, Harold Holt = bolt, seppo = septic tank = yank ie an American) is our own.
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Sep 27, 2019 12:01
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I imagine some of this stuff was also euphemism to get around the CCA rules about swears, though maybe not frail in specific. A body starts to notice the more distinctive Claremontisms.
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Sep 28, 2019 08:09
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bessantj posted:So question, what's everyone's favourite character with the word "dragon" in their name? 
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Sep 28, 2019 19:07
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are there any good sites where I could easily find a list of what a publisher put out during a certain month/year? for example, if I wanted a list of every comic DC put out in October of 84
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Sep 28, 2019 20:34
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Parallax posted:are there any good sites where I could easily find a list of what a publisher put out during a certain month/year? for example, if I wanted a list of every comic DC put out in October of 84 GCD: http://www.comics.org Here's October DC Comics '84
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Sep 28, 2019 20:52
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Quick note, that link is searching by cover dates, if you click through on any of the given issues you'll see they mostly actually came out in June or July of 1984. You can switch to on-sale date in the advanced search options though to get books on sale in October I kind of like dcindexes.com for this sort of thing, it's easier to sort of "browse" with their newsstand feature. Here's their On Sale in October 1984 page. Sometimes there are contradictory on-sale dates floating around for stuff in the pre-direct market era, mostly because things hit different distributors on different weeks sometimes. There are official release schedules from Marvel/DC/etc. floating around in old fanzines/promotional magazines going back to the mid-1970s, but those don't reflect delays either. There aren't always exact established dates/weeks for comics that can be pieced together with 100% certainty prior to the late 80s/early 90s, where at least you had comic shops posting their shipping lists to Usenet, plus the earliest days of people posting New Comics Day reviews so you can put a timestamp on the exact week everyone got pissed off about [insert comic here] and posted about it on the Internet. Edge & Christian fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Sep 28, 2019 |
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Sep 28, 2019 21:50
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Can somebody sell me on Moondragon? I've up to Infinity Gauntlet in my Quasar run and she's becoming a larger supporting character in that. Is she more than just repeating plotthreads of Steve Englehart's Mantis with less clothing or are there some cool depths or hooks that haven't shown up yet. I know later she ends up being a prominent lesbian character.
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Sinners Sandwich posted:Can somebody sell me on Moondragon? I've up to Infinity Gauntlet in my Quasar run and she's becoming a larger supporting character in that. She's garbage. Even when they make her a lesbian character all she and Phyla-vell do is be assholes to everyone and get caught in confusing meta-cosmic drama. I mean this one time she brain blasted Quicksilver and it cured him of his racism towards Vision, which was a pretty hilarious way to wrap up that subplot. Lurdiak fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Sep 28, 2019 |
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Sep 28, 2019 22:50
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As someone who has repeatedly claimed that there's a kernel of a great character in practically every Avenger from the 1960s-1990s if you tell their story right, I can't really mount a good defense for Moondragon. Tigra, Starfox, Hellcat, Monica Rambeau, Black Knight, Stingray, Doctor Druid, Firebird, D-Man, USAgent, Sersi, Quasar, Rage, Fabian Stankowicz, Triathlon? Sure. Moondragon is a puzzler.
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Sep 28, 2019 23:11
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i had to make sure you weren't loving with me and looked up Fabian Stankowicz. It's Stankiewicz, and now i can only imagine they named him by feeding everyone at Marvel Creative's names into a combiner and it picked Stan Lee, Fabian Nicieza and Bill Sienkiewicz
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Sep 28, 2019 23:14
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Edge & Christian posted:As someone who has repeatedly claimed that there's a kernel of a great character in practically every Avenger from the 1960s-1990s if you tell their story right, I can't really mount a good defense for Moondragon. There's potential for Moondragon, sure, but it all kind of falls apart when you remember that when she first appeared she was calling herself Madame MacEvil and working as a crime boss before she decided that actually the Avengers were pretty cool and mind-controlled them all into going into space with her so she could decide which one was worthy for her to bang. I genuinely suspect that part of the semi-traditional antipathy - respect but not always trust - between the X-Men and the Avengers stems from the fact that the X-Men have shittons of telepaths but the Avengers have had very few telepaths and both of them - Moondragon and Doctor Druid - have a documented history of "mind-control the whole team"
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Sep 28, 2019 23:34
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Edge & Christian posted:
these both work, thanks
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Sep 28, 2019 23:36
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:There's potential for Moondragon, sure, but it all kind of falls apart when you remember that when she first appeared she was calling herself Madame MacEvil and working as a crime boss before she decided that actually the Avengers were pretty cool and mind-controlled them all into going into space with her so she could decide which one was worthy for her to bang. - Daughter of Drax the Destroyer who was orphaned by Thanos doing weirdly not-modern-Thanos-y things - Raised in a monastary by Thanos's dad on a moon of Saturn - Possessed by a bootleg Phoenix Force that was a Dragon - Came back to Earth as "Madame MacEvil" and created a bunch of supervillains to - Auditioned to be the Celestial Madonna but lost to loving Mantis - Went into space to train Hellcat to be a space monk ninja - Decided to take over an entire planet with mind control - Got forgiven for that but was put on a short leash and given a power dampening collar - Got possessed by the Dragon Force again and killed a bunch of people but then killed herself (and all of the other non-marketable Defenders) to kill the Dragon Force [disappears for like five years] - Came back to life by manipulating her cousin to make her a clone body - Tried and failed to hook up with Quasar - Joined Adam Warlock's Infinity Watch and was somehow seen as a less trustworthy member than Thanos, lost her gem to someone from the Ultraverse [disappears for like five years] - Mind controlled Rick Jones's wife into leaving him for her while Rick was off in the Negative Zone bodyswapping with Mar-Vell's son, broke up with Marlo and immediately rebounded with Mar-Vell's daughter. [disappears for like five years] - Shows up in Annihilation, turns into the Dragon again, gets killed - Comes back from the dead, finds out her girlfriend died too, resurrects her girlfriend, they both die again - Then I guess alternate reality versions of both Moondragon and Phyla-Vell show up in Infinity Wars and cross over into the mainline Marvel Universe and also just sort of do some stuff? There's really not a lot to grab hold on as a hook, there are like a dozen "person with cosmic powers and uncertain alliances and a mysterious backstory" characters that are more popular and better established. All of the other characters at least have a vaguely unique hook and one or more stories you can sort of focus on. Which is all the more the shame since she's (as best as I can tell) the first openly gay member of the Avengers -- both in terms of the earliest person to join the team (in the 1970s) and to come out (in the early 2000s)
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Sep 29, 2019 00:29
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I would say it seems like there could be an interesting dynamic between moondragon and gamora but tbh all of that post sounds awful
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Sep 29, 2019 00:41
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The most interesting thing about Moondragon is that she's a shithead. Unfortunately she's usually not an interesting shithead.
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Sep 29, 2019 01:36
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when her dumb costume is one of the least awful aspects of her character.
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Sep 29, 2019 11:31
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I could swear that Moondragon tried to brain-blast Doctor Strange in one of the comics where Thanos was making all those clones, and Doc won the fight.  Doc also made Mantis look very silly once, so maybe he has special abilities against potential Celestial Madonnae. (I figure Mantis must have been arrogant on a cosmic level for it to make any sense at all, since she's supposed to be a top-notch kung-fuer.)
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Sep 29, 2019 12:38
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I haven't read much of Mantis, but from the way she is talked about her film version sounds a lot better than her comic version.
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Sep 29, 2019 12:50
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bessantj posted:I haven't read much of Mantis, but from the way she is talked about her film version sounds a lot better than her comic version. I've only read the Dan Abnett version and while she wasn't really prominent character she was still way better than the film version. Which is not a high bar to clear by the way. Alhazred fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Sep 29, 2019 |
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Sep 29, 2019 15:30
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Alhazred posted:I've only read the Dan Abnett version and while she wasn't really prominent character she was still way better than the film version. Which is not a high bar to clear by they way. Oh, cool. Something to look forward to then. Thanks. Has Apocalypse ever gotten the infinity stones?
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Sep 29, 2019 16:12
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Mantis used to be a horrible character and the only good thing about her was her association with Swordsman. Abnett basically just changed everything about her, including her appearance, other than the name and the basic power set.
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Sep 29, 2019 16:41
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bessantj posted:Has Apocalypse ever gotten the infinity stones? Nah. Even though he's sort of "the Thanos of the X-Men corner of Marvel," Apocalypse has never dipped his toe in anything Infinity Stone related.
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Sep 29, 2019 17:07
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Has Apocalypse ever really interacted with the non-mutant side of the Marvel universe? It seems like Magneto’s generally the only X-men foe who also gets to cross paths with the Avengers and the rest...
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Sep 29, 2019 17:36
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Does Apocalypse even have ambitions beyond Earth and humanity? The Gauntlet's power seems like overkill for most villains.
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Sep 29, 2019 17:40
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If ever Apocalypse's weird confusing grand design for humanity and the mutant race were to come to fruition, he'd probably set his sights beyond earth and try to instill that same grand order across worlds. He is like a weird Celestial wannabe, after all. Other heroes have interacted with Apocalypse, but it's almost always within the context of an X-men story, because Apocalypse is so focused on Mutant Stuff.
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Sep 29, 2019 17:54
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Angry Salami posted:Has Apocalypse ever really interacted with the non-mutant side of the Marvel universe? It seems like Magneto’s generally the only X-men foe who also gets to cross paths with the Avengers and the rest... The Hickman SHIELD origin comic showed him as one of humanity's allies centuries ago against an alien invasion, but it was more of a background cameo. There was also a story taking place centuries ago where Thor and Loki took on Apocalypse. He was also the big villain in Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter if that counts. Not that it really had much in terms of a story.
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Sep 29, 2019 18:05
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He fought the High Evolutionary during the Evolutionary War, but that was still in an X book. He turned Hulk into one of his Horseman one time.
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Sep 29, 2019 18:41
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Was it in a recent HoX/PoX issue where it's said that Apocalypse is trying to prepare Earth against an alien invasion?
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Sep 29, 2019 18:52
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Horseman Hulk was good stuff. Adam Kubert drew the best Hulk.
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Sep 29, 2019 18:52
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What's a good, fair site to get an idea of price for comics? I want to start clearing stuff out, for example, my Black Hammer run. I just looked up on another site and #1 was going for like $30 if it was an 8.0 quality, but I have no idea how to grade stuff. (They're all read once and then stuck in a bag/board, I'm not paying to grade this poo poo.) For now I just listed my stuff in a Google Doc, and then I'm using a pivot table for the collections (and it's how I'm selling a different collection). I just want to get the prices together and then give the link on Craigslist to see who wants to take this stuff off my hands as I'm putting them up. This is my current mockup list that I'm planning on building up.
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Uthor posted:Was it in a recent HoX/PoX issue where it's said that Apocalypse is trying to prepare Earth against an alien invasion? Maybe that was in Hickman’s page in Marvel #1,000. It was all about Apocalypse reviving the first horsemen.
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Sep 29, 2019 21:18
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Angry Salami posted:Has Apocalypse ever really interacted with the non-mutant side of the Marvel universe? It seems like Magneto’s generally the only X-men foe who also gets to cross paths with the Avengers and the rest... An alt reality Apocalypse showed up in the Bendis Avengers arc where Noh-Varr joins the team but didn't stick around for long.
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Sep 29, 2019 22:00
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IUG posted:What's a good, fair site to get an idea of price for comics? I want to start clearing stuff out, for example, my Black Hammer run. I just looked up on another site and #1 was going for like $30 if it was an 8.0 quality, but I have no idea how to grade stuff. (They're all read once and then stuck in a bag/board, I'm not paying to grade this poo poo.) Sold prices on eBay. GoCollect has sale prices by grade, though you’d have to cut those based on not slabbing the books. I’m doing something similar right now. I’m probably going to end up slabbing a handful of books based on probable grade.
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Sep 29, 2019 22:01
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How long did Age of Apocalypse take over X-Men titles for?
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Sep 29, 2019 22:05
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bessantj posted:How long did Age of Apocalypse take over X-Men titles for? 4 months.
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Sep 29, 2019 22:18
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a long rear end time for it to end with 'bombs fall, everyone dies'
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Rhyno posted:4 months. That doesn't seem too long for a crossover. What is the longest crossover from the big 2? Civil War seemed huge taking over everything for a good while.
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It's gotta be Crisis on Infinite Earths, doesn't it? That was published monthly, at 12 issues; Wikipedia says it "was first serialized as a 12-issue limited series from April 1985 to March 1986."
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