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Captain Marvel is capable of great wisdom, but only has the knowledge bank and life experience of a relatively bright 12-year-old to draw upon. That was my take.
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Pastry of the Year posted:Captain Marvel is capable of great wisdom, but only has the knowledge bank and life experience of a relatively bright 12-year-old to draw upon. But it's not like he's capable of the strength of Hercules but only has the muscle mass of a relatively active 12-year old.
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Skwirl posted:But it's not like he's capable of the strength of Hercules but only has the muscle mass of a relatively active 12-year old. Well, no, but see upthread re: the difference between intelligence and wisdom. For the sake of discussion, wisdom is the ability to synthesize available information and make the best possible choice. Strength seems like a less ambiguous metric: you can either lift as much as Hercules or you can't.
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Pastry of the Year posted:Well, no, but see upthread re: the difference between intelligence and wisdom. For the sake of discussion, wisdom is the ability to synthesize available information and make the best possible choice. Yeah, but it's also magic.
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Jan 24, 2020 23:01
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Skwirl posted:Yeah, but it's also magic. Yep. I was just trying to no-prize the gaps between the definition of wisdom, the fact that Solomon ostensibly stopped adding to his body of knowledge in Old Testament times, and that Captain Marvel isn't, like, terrified of street lights or whatever.
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Jan 24, 2020 23:08
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Billy Batson thought it was cool to date Courtney Whitmore in a grown-up's body. Captain Marvel realized it was creepy.
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Jan 24, 2020 23:35
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There is only so much great wisdom can be applied in a comic book where getting in to a fight is going to be the result of most interactions the character happens to have.
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Are any of the Harley Quinn books any good? been reading the New52 one and it's pretty mediocre.
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radlum posted:Are any of the Harley Quinn books any good? been reading the New52 one and it's pretty mediocre. Her original ongoing is pretty good for the fist 2 years or so if memory serves.
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Jan 25, 2020 18:51
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“Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass” is cute.
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it is in fact very good
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Yeah, great creative team, great story, and probably the one interpretation of the Joker I've had any patience for whatsoever since Mark Hamil's. It's lovely.
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So I want to check out this new Quantum & Woody that's coming out Wednesday since Hastings is writing it. Do I need to know anything about the series before this? Do they tie in with the larger Valiant universe?
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I'm getting that X-Men Children of the Atom box set and it collects up to issue 143, then the Uncanny X-men omnibus vol 3 starts at issue 154. Where are issues 144-153 collected? It ain't Uncanny X-men omnibus vol 2 because that one only goes up to 141. Is that part of some other storyline that got collected elsewhere? VVVV thanks, dumb mistake on my part VVVV Happy Hippo fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Jan 27, 2020 |
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Jan 27, 2020 01:32
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Happy Hippo posted:I'm getting that X-Men Children of the Atom box set and it collects up to issue 143, then the Uncanny X-men omnibus vol 3 starts at issue 154. Where are issues 144-153 collected? It ain't Uncanny X-men omnibus vol 2 because that one only goes up to 141. Is that part of some other storyline that got collected elsewhere? This https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0...k-xmen-guide-20 Says it's got 132-153, it just gets broken up at 141 because there's an annual in the middle.
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When/where did whoreswhoreswhores starting being used as a meme to describe Frank Miller's work?
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Doctor Spaceman posted:When/where did whoreswhoreswhores starting being used as a meme to describe Frank Miller's work? February 7, 2006.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:When/where did whoreswhoreswhores starting being used as a meme to describe Frank Miller's work? Born Again and Sin City.
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Skwirl posted:Born Again and Sin City. And Batman: Year One, with Selina.
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I know why the meme exists, I just was curious about who started it.
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Jan 31, 2020 14:11
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I think it was that comic about the guys working in a toy store? The one that was super pandering to its audience. Short Packed, I think. Yeah it was Short Packed. https://shortpacked.com/comic/whores The Question IRL fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Jan 31, 2020 |
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Jan 31, 2020 15:15
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don't worry, DivineCoffeeBinge, I saw your post and I thought it was funny and helpful
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Cubone posted:don't worry, DivineCoffeeBinge, I saw your post and I thought it was funny and helpful I gave the date and everything! 
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Sorry I am programmed not to respond to Spider-men in hard hats.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:I gave the date and everything! It was a good post. 
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What is the best of the New 52 stuff?
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bessantj posted:What is the best of the New 52 stuff? I liked Grant Morrison's Action Comics.
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bessantj posted:What is the best of the New 52 stuff? There's honestly quite a bit of good stuff. The main complaints about the N52 was that a lot of fan-favourite titles got unceremoniously cancelled and wiped from canon and that a few new titles completely stank. But (from stuff I've read) you've still got things like Tomasi, Morrison and Snyder on various Batman titles, Azz on Wonder Woman, Demon Knights, Dial H, Morrison on Action Then later on in the N52 there were things like Grayson, Prez, Lemire's Green Arrow, etc. Doctor Spaceman fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Feb 4, 2020 |
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Feb 4, 2020 22:41
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Morrison was on Grayson?
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Skwirl posted:Morrison was on Grayson? Urgh I phrased that terribly, thanks. That's what I get for posting without coffee.
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Thanks for the answers. Was New 52 from 2011-2016?
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bessantj posted:Thanks for the answers. Was New 52 from 2011-2016? Sort of. They changed the branding to DCYou in 2015 and introduced a wave of new titles. It represented a slight change of focus but it wasn't the kind of big rebranding / redirection that Rebirth was a year later.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Urgh I phrased that terribly, thanks. That's what I get for posting without coffee. That's fine, I'd only read the first trade and thought maybe he came on later or something. I liked the first trade by the way, my library just didn't have the second one last time.
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bessantj posted:What is the best of the New 52 stuff? All the weird poo poo. Check out I, Vampire along with stuff already mentioned. The further from Justice League level characters you get, the better the comic, generally speaking. Pretty much all the Dark line was good, except for Justice League Dark. Swamp Thing and Animal Man are amazing, and I think our complaints about the Grey crossover taking too long is negated by having everything right there to read through instead of waiting month to month.
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GMo's Action, Azz's WW, Snyder's Batman. Those are the standouts. I remember Flash being okay at the start and Green Areow being poo poo. 8 books were canceled by #8 and like 20 others had creative teams shuffled constantly. The New 52 was a goddamned mess.
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Flash was okay writing-wise but the art kicked rear end. Manapul did this thing where he'd work the story title into the art and I loving loved it. 
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Lemire’s Green Arrow was fun, and I liked a lot of the smaller books, like Dial H and the Frankenstein one.
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I'm going second, third and fourth I, Vampire - beautiful art and a fun (mostly) self contained story. Demon Knights was also a lot of fun for the first two arcs but don't bother wants Cornell leaves the book. Snyder's Batman run is mostly top tear stuff too.
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I think new 52 had more interesting stuff going on than rebirth did.
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Thanks for the other suggestions. I've been meaning to read Animal Man, it looks good but I've never bothered.
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