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Things I learned today: Calendars match up every 28 years: Also the Marvel Age comics had a calendar on the last page in '92 and January was just everyone happy Rick Jones was dead: 
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Kalli posted:Things I learned today: Calendars match up every 28 years: I.. I just really like Sandman being the number twelve there. Good on ya, Marko!  (Marvel Super Hero Adventures: Sand Trap!) Snackmar fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Jan 2, 2020 |
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Jan 2, 2020 06:21
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 Spidey Super Stories #11 (1975)  Machine Man #15 (1980)  The Sensational She-Hulk #3 (1989)  The Comet #18 (1992)  Batman: Shadow of the Bat Annual #3 (1995)  The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #21 (2017)  Catwoman / Tweety & Sylvester #1 (2018)  Harley Quinn / Gossamer #1 (2018)
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Jan 2, 2020 16:10
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Darthemed posted:
What is happening here?
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Jan 2, 2020 18:52
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hiddenriverninja posted:What is happening here?
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Jan 2, 2020 19:15
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InsertPotPun posted:batman learns to listen to his mom You'd think he'd have learned when she said, "I don't care if it's shorter, let's not take a short cut down crime alley to get back to the car."
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Jan 2, 2020 19:34
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hiddenriverninja posted:What is happening here?
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Jan 2, 2020 20:14
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Darthemed posted:That’s a pool floatie of the Joker’s head, caught in storm winds and teaching kids lessons. What in the ever-loving gently caress? That's like having a Hitler pool floatie.
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Jan 3, 2020 06:49
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Toshimo posted:What in the ever-loving gently caress? That's like having a Hitler pool floatie.
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Jan 3, 2020 09:53
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Nessus posted:It celebrates HISTORY, not JOKER CRIME. It's heritage, not hate. My grandpappy was a veteran in the war against Northern Batman Aggression.
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Jan 3, 2020 10:06
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The fun thing about that is; the sort of person who would have a joker pool floatie in gotham is the the exact kind of person who would own one in real life
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Jan 3, 2020 11:03
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It's adorable you'd think businesses in the DCU would have better taste or restraint than the capitalist hellscape we live in (Batman v3 #16)
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Jan 3, 2020 11:26
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Man that's not even the funniest panel from that issue.
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Jan 3, 2020 11:28
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Gnome de plume posted:It's adorable you'd think businesses in the DCU would have better taste or restraint than the capitalist hellscape we live in It's a well that comics, especially Batman comics, have gone to a lot and it's just as hosed up every time they do it.
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Jan 3, 2020 14:13
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Nessus posted:It celebrates HISTORY, not JOKER CRIME. I mean, if you go with Grant Morrison's thing where every Batman story is canon, maybe that's an old float produced back when Joker was goofy and doing boner crimes instead of being a mass murderer.
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Jan 3, 2020 15:09
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This reminds me of the question I've always had about Gotham: why would you ever do anything even vaguely circus related there. Absolute best case scenario, you get no business because everyone thinks it's in awful taste. Worst case scenario, the joker, the scarecrow, mad hatter, and professor pyg all show up with a menagerie of mutants they found in the sewers and turn your crew into mutant feed and your circus into bioweapons. And yet, people keep trying.
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Jan 3, 2020 15:22
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Lurdiak posted:This reminds me of the question I've always had about Gotham: why would you ever do anything even vaguely circus related there. Absolute best case scenario, you get no business because everyone thinks it's in awful taste. Worst case scenario, the joker, the scarecrow, mad hatter, and professor pyg all show up with a menagerie of mutants they found in the sewers and turn your crew into mutant feed and your circus into bioweapons. I think Gotham has some sort of sorcerer or hypnotist running their tourism board, because I can think of any other reason people who aren't already trapped within city limits would go there.
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Jan 3, 2020 15:25
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I mean...where else you gonna go? Metropolis? Have fun getting flattened by falling debris from the third super powered battle this week. Central City? Have fun being murdered by an evil speedster thirty seconds before you know you’re dead. Anywhere else? Doesn’t matter, Apokolips is invading, Darkseid just zapped you for no reason, anyways. Living in a comic book world is basically Hell.
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Jan 3, 2020 15:32
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Phylodox posted:Living in a comic book world is basically Hell. This is why people gamble with getting powers. Even if you're a C-list superhero/villain, the odds of you surviving -- or even coming back from the dead -- increase a thousandfold. Nameless construction worker who got snuffed in the latest Crisis ain't even gonna be mourned.
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Jan 3, 2020 15:35
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Phylodox posted:I mean...where else you gonna go? Metropolis? Have fun getting flattened by falling debris from the third super powered battle this week. Central City? Have fun being murdered by an evil speedster thirty seconds before you know you’re dead. Anywhere else? Doesn’t matter, Apokolips is invading, Darkseid just zapped you for no reason, anyways. Move to New York City, nothing ever happens there in the DCU.
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Jan 3, 2020 15:36
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Crowetron posted:I think Gotham has some sort of sorcerer or hypnotist running their tourism board, because I can think of any other reason people who aren't already trapped within city limits would go there. The Joker and Gotham's tourism board share the same sentiment: If You Gotta Go, Go With a Smile!
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Jan 3, 2020 15:37
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MikeJF posted:Move to New York City, nothing ever happens there in the DCU. poo poo happens on coney island if harley's in town but it rarely touches other burroughs so
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Jan 3, 2020 16:48
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Lurdiak posted:This reminds me of the question I've always had about Gotham: why would you ever do anything even vaguely circus related there. Absolute best case scenario, you get no business because everyone thinks it's in awful taste. Worst case scenario, the joker, the scarecrow, mad hatter, and professor pyg all show up with a menagerie of mutants they found in the sewers and turn your crew into mutant feed and your circus into bioweapons. Gotham would be a ghost town full of joker smile corpses and nerve gas,with maybe a killer croc underground And the scarecrow skulking about. Metropolis would consist of a few rocks and a shrub after a week.
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Jan 3, 2020 16:58
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Lurdiak posted:This reminds me of the question I've always had about Gotham: why would you ever do anything even vaguely circus related there. Absolute best case scenario, you get no business because everyone thinks it's in awful taste. Worst case scenario, the joker, the scarecrow, mad hatter, and professor pyg all show up with a menagerie of mutants they found in the sewers and turn your crew into mutant feed and your circus into bioweapons. "My father was a clown. His father was a clown. As was his father before him. I swore the Pagliacci Oath when I was sixteen, and if my art gets me murdered, I will go to Clownhalla, to my ancestors, with pride." I would read a story about an ancient brotherhood of clowns going after the Joker for betraying their order.
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Jan 3, 2020 17:09
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Precambrian posted:"My father was a clown. His father was a clown. As was his father before him. I swore the Pagliacci Oath when I was sixteen, and if my art gets me murdered, I will go to Clownhalla, to my ancestors, with pride." I forget where I read it, but along the same lines, someone proposed the Joker loving with the egg-based Clown Face Registry and the clowns being really offended that he's messing with sacred clown traditions.
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Jan 3, 2020 17:17
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Tin Can Hit Man posted:This is why people gamble with getting powers. Even if you're a C-list superhero/villain, the odds of you surviving -- or even coming back from the dead -- increase a thousandfold. This is what Gwenpool figured out.
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Jan 3, 2020 17:24
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Bobulus posted:I forget where I read it, but along the same lines, someone proposed the Joker loving with the egg-based Clown Face Registry and the clowns being really offended that he's messing with sacred clown traditions. You may be thinking of Pratchett's Men at Arms.
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Jan 3, 2020 17:49
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Keeshhound posted:You may be thinking of Pratchett's Men at Arms. It's a real thing. A lot of the most absurd stuff in his works actually are pulled from real life. And clowns are stupid serious about the integrity of their "art".
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Jan 3, 2020 18:08
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Precambrian posted:"My father was a clown. His father was a clown. As was his father before him. I swore the Pagliacci Oath when I was sixteen, and if my art gets me murdered, I will go to Clownhalla, to my ancestors, with pride." But unfortunately it turns out that Joker set up some patsy to drop a dime on "suspicious clown-garbed agents", so the end of the issue would be a two page splash of a Marvel Hawkeye-style sequential illustration of Batman pulling all 12 of them out of their clown car and doing grizzly and severe orthopedic damage to each in turn
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Jan 3, 2020 18:17
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Bobulus posted:I forget where I read it, but along the same lines, someone proposed the Joker loving with the egg-based Clown Face Registry and the clowns being really offended that he's messing with sacred clown traditions. I love that Charlie Cairoll is just an off brand Charlie Chaplin.
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Jan 3, 2020 18:28
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Proteus Jones posted:It's a real thing. A lot of the most absurd stuff in his works actually are pulled from real life. Right, but I specifically meant the plot point of someone messing with it to criminal ends and the clowns being comically horrified by the desecration rather than the crime.
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Jan 3, 2020 18:29
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Kwyndig posted:Man that's not even the funniest panel from that issue. Batman eating a burger with a fork and knife right? Almost as bad as eating his steak well done.
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Jan 3, 2020 18:52
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Tin Can Hit Man posted:This is why people gamble with getting powers. Even if you're a C-list superhero/villain, the odds of you surviving -- or even coming back from the dead -- increase a thousandfold. Imagine living through a Crisis only to get home and discover you never existed in this new reality.
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Jan 3, 2020 18:58
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Rhyno posted:Imagine living through a Crisis only to get home and discover you never existed in this new reality. (You're all probably aware that) There's an excellent Astro City storyline about this issue. The Nearness of You.
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Jan 3, 2020 19:02
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Keeshhound posted:Right, but I specifically meant the plot point of someone messing with it to criminal ends and the clowns being comically horrified by the desecration rather than the crime. Ah, got it. Yeah, that was definitely in
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Jan 3, 2020 19:03
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Chinston Wurchill posted:(You're all probably aware that) There's an excellent Astro City storyline about this issue. The Nearness of You. Yeah, total tearjerker.
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Jan 3, 2020 19:13
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Rhyno posted:Imagine living through a Crisis only to get home and discover you never existed in this new reality. Bendis played with this a little in his post Secret Wars Jessica Jones series.
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Jan 3, 2020 19:21
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Phylodox posted:I mean...where else you gonna go? Metropolis? Have fun getting flattened by falling debris from the third super powered battle this week. Central City? Have fun being murdered by an evil speedster thirty seconds before you know you’re dead. Anywhere else? Doesn’t matter, Apokolips is invading, Darkseid just zapped you for no reason, anyways. I'm reminded of an issue of Blue Beetle set after One Year Later where Jaime had to explain why he was missing for a year without revealing he was trapped in space as Blue Beetle and his explanation is just that he got hit with Weird Crisis poo poo and has no memory and everyone just buys it because that exact thing happened to a bunch of other randos.
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Jan 3, 2020 19:21
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Tin Can Hit Man posted:This is why people gamble with getting powers. Even if you're a C-list superhero/villain, the odds of you surviving -- or even coming back from the dead -- increase a thousandfold. that's why there's so many all powerful wizards and gods all hanging about but they never interfere, they're all busy contriving all the ways random bystanders all "miraculously" come back to life. like how all the people who returned in danger in Endgame were all saved by the magical heroes off screen (it doesn't take all of strange's concentration to create a tornado)
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Jan 3, 2020 21:09
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Rohan Kishibe posted:I'm reminded of an issue of Blue Beetle set after One Year Later where Jaime had to explain why he was missing for a year without revealing he was trapped in space as Blue Beetle and his explanation is just that he got hit with Weird Crisis poo poo and has no memory and everyone just buys it because that exact thing happened to a bunch of other randos. There was a part in Spider-Man: Far From Home where Flash Thompson had a drink taken away from him because he was one of the people snapped out of existence so he's still technically underage.
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