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Tin Can Hit Man posted:Nameless construction worker who got snuffed in the latest Crisis ain't even gonna be mourned. 
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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. Yeah, as previously mentioned, Gwenpool got the right idea the minute she realized she was in a comic  
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I never realized Cousin Itt could be so threatening.
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Knormal posted:I never realized Cousin Itt could be so threatening. Don't let the squeaky voice and Casanova demeanor fool you, he is an Addams.
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Darthemed posted:
This is the sound Batman is making in that last panel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du-TY1GUFGk&t=2s
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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. There's an excellent sequel story to The Nearness of You in the most recent Astro City run, where the protagonist leads a support group for people who've lost loved ones to superhero drama. Astro City good.
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Android Blues posted:There's an excellent sequel story to The Nearness of You in the most recent Astro City run, where the protagonist leads a support group for people who've lost loved ones to superhero drama. Astro City good. Yeah that one is really moving too. The three parter? I liked it a lot and as much as I would have melted if it had somehow ended with Miranda coming back I get that the ending is basically perfect as is. I don't teach superhero comics much (really I don't teach comics much at all although I'm doing a Carta Monir minicomic this semester) but if I were to incorporate more The Nearness of You would be on the shortlist.
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Archyduchess posted:Yeah that one is really moving too. The three parter? I liked it a lot and as much as I would have melted if it had somehow ended with Miranda coming back I get that the ending is basically perfect as is. I don't teach superhero comics much (really I don't teach comics much at all although I'm doing a Carta Monir minicomic this semester) but if I were to incorporate more The Nearness of You would be on the shortlist. I'd go with Tarnished Angel. But you can't really go wrong with Astro City.
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My biggest complaint with (older) Astro City was the Confessor naming his sidekick "Altar Boy" instead of "the Acolyte", which is a superior name on all levels. But really, that's all I have to complain about when I decide to read something from the first four trades.* The Nearness of You competes with Samaritan's introduction as my favorite AC story. Great stuff. Haven't kept up religiously with the later stuff but everything I've read is gold. It's almost the Platonic Form of a Comic Book. (* I know what he was going for with the Mock Turtle, but I sometimes think a whole issue was too much so we'll call it 1.5 complaints. But I suppose it wouldn't have had the same impact without the full issue. Maybe he could have told intertwined stories, introducing a local up-and-comer who got by on his brawn and toughness as a counterpoint, for that issue?)
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Astro City, with its messages about comics and superheroes and humanity, is what Grant Morrison, Geoff Johns, and the rest of DC wish their recent "high concept" meta-narrative series and Crises could be.
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Kurui Reiten posted:Astro City, with its messages about comics and superheroes and humanity, is what Grant Morrison, Geoff Johns, and the rest of DC wish their recent "high concept" meta-narrative series and Crises could be. 
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Where are my Astro City OSHCs?
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Admiralty Flag posted:The Nearness of You competes with Samaritan's introduction as my favorite AC story. Great stuff. ITS 7:31 AM you didnt have to make me cry
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I'd heard about Astro City before but looking into it now, I'm disappointed to find out it's not, like, the Astro Boy expanded universe.
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That would be Pluto!
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Archyduchess posted:That would be Pluto! Which, for the record, is also loving excellent. Yes, it's manga, but it is an immensely excellent stand-alone story from the same person responsible for the similarly excellent Monster.
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As the resident manga-disliker, I can vouch for Monster being Very Good. It's a shame the multiple attempts to turn it into a live action series have all fizzled out.
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Lurdiak posted:As the resident manga-disliker, I can vouch for Monster being Very Good. It's a shame the multiple attempts to turn it into a live action series have all fizzled out. The Monster cartoon is extremely good, though. I liked the start of Urakawa's Twentieth Century Boys, though I feel like it got stuck in one of those wheel spinning ruts that Japanese comics often stumble into. I also liked his Yawara, but I'm not sure about the English availability of that one since my books for it are all in Japanese.
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Random Stranger posted:The Monster cartoon is extremely good, though. Twentieth Century Boys and Billy Bat have some incredible moments, but they are very frustrating to read. Urasawa likes to pull these same tricks of like leading up to a big reveal, then skipping past it, then suddenly revealing it and using it to tease yet another big mystery that you have to wait another 20 chapters to resolve. It all comes together in the end, but getting there is a bit aggravating. The reason that Pluto is so good is that it's relatively short and to the point. Also it's just a really good story about robots that will make you cry.
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Lurdiak posted:As the resident manga-disliker, I can vouch for Monster being Very Good. It's a shame the multiple attempts to turn it into a live action series have all fizzled out. Monster was really atmospheric as well as incredibly well researched. The biggest drawback was how no person made an AMV of the series and set it to the song “Monster” by the Automatics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7X3LYGV_N8
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Pluto is great, I wish there was a way to read it on the Kindle.  The Astro Boy story that inspired it is a fun read, too. 
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WOAH Hey! post that smut somewhere else
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Kharn_The_Betrayer posted:WOAH Hey! post that smut somewhere else We're all consenting adult skeletons here.
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 Adventures into the Unknown #17 (1951)  Marvel Premiere #3 (1972)  Marvel Feature #11 (1973)  Spidey Super Stories #12 (1975)  The Inhumans #3 (1976)  Machine Man #16 (1980)  The Sensational She-Hulk #4 (1989)  Animal Man #37 (1991)  Batman: Shadow of the Bat Annual #5 (1997)  The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #21 (2017) Plus a right-to-left manga panel pair.  Occult Academy (2010)
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 Bobby no!   New Mutants #5 is p good Synthbuttrange fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Jan 9, 2020 |
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Rod Reis is so good but I want to point out in particular how rare it is to see someone who is not Chris Bachalo successfully sell a Chris Bachalo design as in any way cool looking.
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Archyduchess posted:Rod Reis is so good but I want to point out in particular how rare it is to see someone who is not Chris Bachalo successfully sell a Chris Bachalo design as in any way cool looking. Honestly, he draws it better than Bachalo did. I love it that Magik is loving terrifying, because she should be given her history and power set.
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cant believe magik is racist (im assuming shes happy theyre not human because she gonna kill them)
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site posted:cant believe magik is racist (im assuming shes happy theyre not human because she gonna kill them)
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institutional racism is literal huh
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The laws were designed for a mutant nation that has functional immortality. Someone drawing up the laws decided that since mutants were immortal, it'd be wrong to be able to kill humans, so they got that human protecting law into the basic tenets of Krakoan law, with the understanding that it applies to humans vs mutants. What they didnt count on was Magik going to space to murder aliens. Letter of the law!
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Archyduchess posted:Rod Reis is so good but I want to point out in particular how rare it is to see someone who is not Chris Bachalo successfully sell a Chris Bachalo design as in any way cool looking. He’s so good, he drew that issue in two days according to Hickman. That’s why those pages don’t have backgrounds.
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Open Marriage Night posted:He’s so good, he drew that issue in two days according to Hickman. That’s why those pages don’t have backgrounds. He didn't. https://twitter.com/JHickman/status/1215061152415277057?s=20
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Kirby would’ve done it.
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Open Marriage Night posted:Kirby would’ve done it. And had time left over to beat up some skinheads.
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Uphill both ways, etc
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From Magnificent Ms. Marvel #11, what do you do if your costume turns against you?
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I know they're not human because every human knows that if someone asks you if you're a human you say "YES"!
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