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Cubone posted:from what I remember of the X-Men cartoon, he can make his arms longer In Evolution he could just move his hand and you lose. https://youtu.be/A_ootjPzTN4?t=928 I wish he had that ethereal pharaoh look more. Ah well.
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Egyptian theme. Timeless. Is Apocalypse Vandal Savage?
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Oct 1, 2019 23:06
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LadyPictureShow posted:Anybody else have the early 90s Apocalypse action figure? If you rotated his arm (I think that's how you did it) his torso extended like, a quarter of an inch. I remember thinking 'This guy sucks. What a terrible power.' I eventually got to read X-Cutioner's Song and realized he was way cooler than 'gets a little taller'. Yep. The virus was released in the last issue of that one (Sinister's reward for turning Scott and Jean over to Stryfe). Right before Morrison came on, Beast developed a cure that would require a mutant to sacrifice themself, and Colossus stepped up. (That move in turn got us Emma Frost's diamond form, because until then Morrison had been planning to use Colossus and now needed someone who could get strong and punch stuff.)
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Oct 1, 2019 23:18
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I don't remember Emma Frost doing much punching in Morrison's X-Men, or lifting heavy thing.
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Oct 1, 2019 23:26
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SonicRulez posted:Egyptian theme. Timeless. Is Apocalypse Vandal Savage? I looked it up, I guess they gave him a more Egypt-centric backstory in the CW shows. I guess that's a similarity, though Apocalypse having Egyptian roots pre-dates those shows by at least twenty years. Also Morrison did call for Colossus to be part of his X-Men team in his initial pitch for New X-Men and was told that he couldn't use him. He also later added in Emma Frost, but the idea that it's a direct find/replace is misleading, since his initial pitch for the first 6-12 issues of his book called for other things like most of the Special Class showing up in the first arc as Edge & Christian fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Oct 1, 2019 |
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Oct 1, 2019 23:34
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Yeah, they gave Vandal Savage an Egyptian background in the Arrowverse because they also tied his story to the Hawkpeople.
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Oct 1, 2019 23:38
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They kind of merged Vandal with that weird Hawkman villain, Hath Set?
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Oct 1, 2019 23:56
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Oct 2, 2019 01:17
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muscles like this! posted:Yeah, they gave Vandal Savage an Egyptian background in the Arrowverse because they also tied his story to the Hawkpeople. Ooooooh. My exposure to that character is the Justice League cartoon and him harassing Hawkgirl on the CW. I realize now that even those two characters had little in common, but comics. I have been warned against ever trying to comprehend Hawkpeople continuity.
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Oct 2, 2019 03:19
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Endless Mike posted:Are you sure? Because the Cyclops/Colossus romance would have been a very new direction! That almost makes sense, only because when Kitty was first introduced it was the perfect era for later finding out your first boyfriend was gay.
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Oct 2, 2019 03:24
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Has there been any word/rumor as to when NK Jemisin's Green Lantern series is supposed to come out?
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Oct 2, 2019 20:37
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I’ve started reading Green Lantern Corps New 52. Why does Guy not know Martian Man Hunter? Can’t remember my DC event history like I can my Marvel.
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Oct 4, 2019 11:11
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hadji murad posted:I’ve started reading Green Lantern Corps New 52. Too many blows to the head?
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Oct 4, 2019 12:00
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hadji murad posted:I’ve started reading Green Lantern Corps New 52. At the start of the New 52, MM was on Stormwatch, which was mostly the Authority plus J'onn, and they were supposed to be like some Men in Black-esque shadow team of the DCU that would deal with huge threats to the universe without the Justice League or anyone knowing. At some point, MM just decided he was done, wiped everyone's memories of him from their minds, and bounced. Then later popped up in Justice League where everyone acts like he's always been there. As for Green Lantern, it's one of those awkward consequences of the GL books not really rebooting when the rest of the universe did.
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TwoPair posted:At some point, MM just decided he was done, wiped everyone's memories of him from their minds, and bounced. Then later popped up in Justice League where everyone acts like he's always been there. wait
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Oct 4, 2019 17:13
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Failed a friend of mine who comes to me for comic knowledge, so if anyone can succeed where I failed, he linked this page. Who's the guy in the bottom right, in the blue and white jumpsuit with the ringed planet on his chest? I thought Starfox at first because of the hair, but I'm pretty sure he never fought Mar-vell or had an outfit like that...
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Oct 6, 2019 05:09
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Cornwind Evil posted:Failed a friend of mine who comes to me for comic knowledge, so if anyone can succeed where I failed, he linked this page. That's a Kree military uniform (Mar-Vell's uniform was like that, only green, before he adopted his more iconic look), and so a bit of Googling tells me it's likely Yon-Rogg. Mar-Vell's first real foe and also his superior in the Kree military.
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Oct 6, 2019 05:20
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Cornwind Evil posted:Failed a friend of mine who comes to me for comic knowledge, so if anyone can succeed where I failed, he linked this page. Most of the images in that link have him in newer costumes, but here's a panel from the original Captain Marvel run: 
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Oct 6, 2019 05:20
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Who is Korvac and why is he important?
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Oct 6, 2019 22:10
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Sinners Sandwich posted:Who is Korvac and why is he important? Korvac was originally a villain from the 31st century who messed with the Defenders via time travel. He was kind of just a generic Kang figure with computer powers until he tried to interface with the computer on Galactus' ship, which turned him into a godlike ascendant being who tried to remake the universe to rid it of all injustice and suffering, along with this random lady he also turned into a godlike being. The Avengers didn't trust him because the Guardians of the Galaxy told them about his criminal past, so they punched him in the face, but it didn't work. But it made his lady doubt him, which made him very sad so he died. This story took an entire year to unfold and was a big deal because the Avengers might've been completely in the wrong on it. Korvac's popped up here and there since, but never for long. The main thing with him now is that his powers are cosmic in nature and dwarf that of most other characters, so him even throwing a mild temper tantrum can endanger all life on earth.
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Oct 6, 2019 22:20
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So it's like the Kree Skrull War where there's kind of interesting story threads to reference and build up on but the actual comic arc is super boring and goes on for too long?
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Oct 7, 2019 02:16
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Yeah, it’s like every other Marvel event.
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Open Marriage Night posted:Yeah, it’s like every other Marvel event. It's one of those events where the Wikipedia summary of it makes it sound better and more important than reading the actual story does. The best thing to do with the Korvac saga is read the issue where the Avengers and Guardians fight him and get their asses kicked. That's an amazing fight. There was also a hood Korvac story in Waids run on Captain America (after Heroes reborn.) But in that run, the story clearly was written with Kang in mind and had to be changed midway because Kang was showing up in Avengers Forever, and no one thought that a time travelling super villain could show up in two different stories at once.
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Oct 7, 2019 10:49
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Wasn't there a mini about a world where heroes only existed in comics and it turns out it was Korvac dreaming/creating a new dimension or something?
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Oct 7, 2019 21:54
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Scaramouche posted:Wasn't there a mini about a world where heroes only existed in comics and it turns out it was Korvac dreaming/creating a new dimension or something? Part of the reason people talk about the "Korvac Saga" as such a big deal is that it pre-dates a lot of things that make it seem uninteresting/cliche. In the same way that having a storyline that jumped between two comic books and pulled in plot threads from other ongoing titles was seen as an audacious and dangerously complex storytelling device in 1973 when Englehart did it for the Avengers/Defenders War, in the late 1970s no one had really done a long-ish story about a Would Be World Conqueror actually getting ultimate power and killing a bunch of heroes and taking over the world, only for almost everything to be put back at the end of it. It's old hat and not done as well as a ton of stories that came after it, but for 1978 -- before Dark Phoenix, before Secret Wars or Infinity Gauntlet or any of the sequels to either of those or Zero Hour or Emperor Joker or etc. etc. etc. it was fresh and new and exciting.
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Oct 7, 2019 22:20
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There was also a classic issue of What If? -- "What If the Avengers Had Become Pawns of Korvac?" that explored what might happen if he had won and gets into some truly cosmic-level ridiculousness. He kills, banishes, and/or absorbs most of Marvel's cosmic characters, and ends up destroying the universe with the Ultimate Nullifier. Seriously, just look at this page.  You can read more here. Selachian fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Oct 7, 2019 |
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Oct 7, 2019 23:07
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Selachian posted:There was also a classic issue of What If? -- "What If the Avengers Had Become Pawns of Korvac?" that explored what might happen if he had won and gets into some truly cosmic-level ridiculousness. He kills, banishes, and/or absorbs most of Marvel's cosmic characters, and ends up destroying the universe with the Ultimate Nullifier. Seriously, just look at this page. He’s apparently a shower, not a grower.
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Edge & Christian posted:I think you're thinking of Marvel 1985, which had a reality-warping character named Clyde Wycham, not Michael Korvac. That's the one, not sure how I conflated Korvac into there other than thinking "I bet it's Korvac" for some reason in the early goings. Thanks!
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Oct 8, 2019 00:34
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Selachian posted:There was also a classic issue of What If? -- "What If the Avengers Had Become Pawns of Korvac?" that explored what might happen if he had won and gets into some truly cosmic-level ridiculousness. He kills, banishes, and/or absorbs most of Marvel's cosmic characters, and ends up destroying the universe with the Ultimate Nullifier. Seriously, just look at this page. Missing in that picture: Quasar trying to get out of that universe because he gets nullified and getting blasted into the New Universe.
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Oct 8, 2019 00:38
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Post HoM the Avengers thought the guy who absorbed all the mutant power might be Korvac as well for like 2 panels.
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Selachian posted:There was also a classic issue of What If? -- "What If the Avengers Had Become Pawns of Korvac?" that explored what might happen if he had won and gets into some truly cosmic-level ridiculousness. He kills, banishes, and/or absorbs most of Marvel's cosmic characters, and ends up destroying the universe with the Ultimate Nullifier. Seriously, just look at this page. There was a weird sequel to this in the pages of a later What If issue. Dr. Strange came back from a dimension-hopping adventure to find reality is just a big, white void. Silver Surfer and Phoenix are still around for reasons. They just kind of chill out for a bit and talk about the situation until deciding what they're each going to do now that there's no universe left.
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Gavok posted:There was a weird sequel to this in the pages of a later What If issue. Dr. Strange came back from a dimension-hopping adventure to find reality is just a big, white void. Silver Surfer and Phoenix are still around for reasons. They just kind of chill out for a bit and talk about the situation until deciding what they're each going to do now that there's no universe left. gently caress?
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Lobok posted:gently caress? I know that the Silver Surfer looks like he has the genitals of an Oscar statue, but I know there is at least one story where he uses his Power Cosmic to give himself an 8-Bit Mega-wang before he got bizy with a lady. So in answer to your question, probably.
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drat, I hate the colouring on that, he looks too smooth there  This is how it looks on paper:   (Also it would make for a killer reveal in a story if someone came across the giant-size ultimate nullifier that scaled up with Korvac/Michael  )
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Oct 9, 2019 21:57
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Was any version of the names Arthur Fleck or Penny Fleck ever associated with The Joker before the movie? (This isn't a spoiler, they say his name early and often in the film)
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Oct 14, 2019 08:31
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Skwirl posted:Was any version of the names Arthur Fleck or Penny Fleck ever associated with The Joker before the movie? (This isn't a spoiler, they say his name early and often in the film) As far as I know, no.
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Skwirl posted:Was any version of the names Arthur Fleck or Penny Fleck ever associated with The Joker before the movie? (This isn't a spoiler, they say his name early and often in the film) A. Fleck?
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Beerdeer posted:A. Fleck? P.N. Guin?
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Beerdeer posted:A. Fleck? He's Joker AF.
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So a friend of mine was asking me about the Living Corpse comic series/new issues. I go look around, and he asks about a series called "Relics" (ie Living Corpse: Relics) that was funded on Kickstarter in 2016. I tried finding this series: nothing. Information about it is all based on the Kickstarter in 2016 and a Youtube 'trailer' in 2017 that has no comments. What happened to this new miniseries? Kickstarter nonsense? Did the author pass away or something?
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