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Push El Burrito posted:You'll get a second Joker who will name himself the Jokest. An arsonist and an abnormal drugs trafficker. The Smoker and the Midnight Toker.
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Sep 18, 2020 23:26
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The Ride-On King   
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Sep 19, 2020 00:58
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Well, he's got my vote
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Sep 19, 2020 02:26
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 Batman beating a villain through social welfare programs. TwoPair posted:Well, he's got my vote I'm pretty sure that's Putin who's been isekai'd. So, cool as that was, he doesn't have mine.
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Sep 19, 2020 03:35
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skaianDestiny posted:
And unlike real life, he probably follows through.
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Sep 19, 2020 08:03
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TwoPair posted:Well, he's got my vote He had it regardless.
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Sep 19, 2020 09:52
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Kalli posted:Steel Joker, Cyborg Joker, Jokerboy and a fake Joker but who kidnapped and regenerated the real Joker to steal his Uh-huh. And you call yourself 'Joker's Daughter' despite the fact that you're clearly Two Face's.
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Sep 19, 2020 10:18
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Nilbop posted:I'm probably in the minority here but this is legitimately my least favourite type of story for exactly this reason; we know nothing is going to change. Every year or two someone writes a big "No, [SUPER/BAT]man! This time you HAVE to kill him!" story where they lampshade and mock a very specific part of the industry and propose the killing of the bad guy. And we know that even if Joker, or Thanos, or Magneto gets killed they're going to come back. So I'd rather see a random writer celebrate that side of the industry, having fun with it Lego Batman or Ninja Batman style, rather than trying to hype up their latest "This time it's fo' real" moment. No, yeah that's my point. Regardless of how how interesting or unique the storyline is the status quo will get reset down the line. It's a major issue with mainline Marvel + DC comics. Self contained storylines like Long Halloween or Dark Knight Returns are much more interesting, because it doesn't matter what they do with their set piece characters. That's why I love manga so much, because you can become much more engaged with a series when you know there's not going to be a reset switch (Unless it's part of the series aka Dragonball  )You also get to see a much wider range of topics than just seeing Peter Parker as the perpetual teenager. For example Countach that I'm currently reading. The hook? Guy always wanted a Countach, and he gets one. That's literally the setup. (Like alright the guy writes to a billionaire who gives him one, and he buys it at a massive discount) [url=https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=19682]It ran for 28 volumes[/urk] Countach - Chapter 16 tl;dr version: Main character gets into a street race with a scumbag Porsche 911 owner who has keyed the absolute poo poo out of the second characters Porsche 928GTS, kidnapped her cat, and threatened to murder it. Posting whole sequence cause it rules.        Like don't get me wrong I'm still a huge comic nerd, but I feel you find much more interesting and offbeat stories in manga. "Owns a car" is such a dumb concept to get a series off the ground, but the artwork is dope and it's filled with lots of great info about old supercars.
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Nilbop posted:He had it regardless. 
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Infinitum posted:No, yeah that's my point. Regardless of how how interesting or unique the storyline is the status quo will get reset down the line. It's a major issue with mainline Marvel + DC comics. Self contained storylines like Long Halloween or Dark Knight Returns are much more interesting, because it doesn't matter what they do with their set piece characters. This makes sense to me. I like shared universes but I also feel like they really kind of incentivize just reiterating and reiterating the basic contours of that universe over and over. It's possible of course to have genre fun within that space and to carve out odd or offbeat niches-- I especially adore that stuff-- but it also means that fundamentally you're accepting and working around a big umbrella "rule-set" for your stories that are going to be more or less immutable.
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Sep 19, 2020 17:56
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Hey, I remember reading the first chapter of Countach a while back and occasionally wondering how it turned out. I'll have to remind myself to check it out again once I catch up with Souboutei Must Be Destroyed
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Manga can have it's own negative cycles they can fall into, mostly long-running shonen titles (and a few other titles like Detective Conan) where it enters its own sort of stasis where storylines repeat but with bigger numbers or arbitrarily larger stakes. But it is, thankfully, much rarer and even the most bloated manga eventually ends (although one piece might be trying to prove that wrong) rather than entering some kind of holding pattern or a cycle of continuity reboots.
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oriongates posted:Manga can have it's own negative cycles they can fall into, mostly long-running shonen titles (and a few other titles like Detective Conan) where it enters its own sort of stasis where storylines repeat but with bigger numbers or arbitrarily larger stakes. Also manga creators can be at the mercy of their editors to a ridiculous degree.
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Sep 19, 2020 20:19
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One Piece has made a lot of people a hell of a lot of money. It will get stretched out as much as possible, but its getting there. I think weve been 2 years away from the end for 5 years now?
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Sep 19, 2020 20:20
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Was it the Yu Yu Hakusho author the one that was basically kidnapped inside a room by his editor until he finished a manuscript or something like that?
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Adnor posted:Was it the Yu Yu Hakusho author the one that was basically kidnapped inside a room by his editor until he finished a manuscript or something like that? see, that is badass
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Adnor posted:Was it the Yu Yu Hakusho author the one that was basically kidnapped inside a room by his editor until he finished a manuscript or something like that? I remember hearing a story like that about Rob Liefeld actually.
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Sep 19, 2020 21:58
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Alacron posted:I remember hearing a story like that about Rob Liefeld actually. An editor showed up and slept on his couch until he drew something, he wasn't held hostage.
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Sep 19, 2020 22:06
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Adnor posted:Was it the Yu Yu Hakusho author the one that was basically kidnapped inside a room by his editor until he finished a manuscript or something like that? Maybe after that he went off the grid and that's why Hunter x Hunter takes so long
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Adnor posted:Was it the Yu Yu Hakusho author the one that was basically kidnapped inside a room by his editor until he finished a manuscript or something like that? Ah, the Hunter S. Thompson method.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:One Piece has made a lot of people a hell of a lot of money. Oda's never been that specific, apart from when he went out and said chapter 500 was supposed to be around about the halfway point but that he'd probably fallen behind that by a year or so. For anyone not following the manga, the next chapter is 991. It does kinda feel like we're slowly entering the endgame setup, but it also feels like it could easily go on for another decade. We'll all kinda know by where he takes it after this story arc.
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Sep 20, 2020 11:17
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But how will we know where we're going without 100 extra chapters of flashbacks? 
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Kalli posted:Steel Joker, Cyborg Joker, Jokerboy and a fake Joker but who kidnapped and regenerated the real Joker to steal his power.
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Nilbop posted:Oda's never been that specific, apart from when he went out and said chapter 500 was supposed to be around about the halfway point but that he'd probably fallen behind that by a year or so. He's said the story has about '5 years left' last year, then this year said '4 or 5 years', because he's the kind of writer who is GOING to hit every beat he can think of and then some if he thinks it makes for even a slightly better story. There's a hickman comparison here somewhere about having too much story to tell
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Sep 27, 2020 21:49
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I wish that comics would hire people who actually spoke non-English languages... For one, in panel 3, Batroc calls the dude my little cauliflower (never mind that he uses "ma" instead of "mon"). "Mon petit choux" would be a better insult and fit better for a guy supposedly from Marseille, France. And I get that "Mon Capitan" is basically what people think it should sound like but it's "Mon Capitaine" Proper use of non-English languages is badass 
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Sep 28, 2020 18:47
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Batroc isn't really French he just does the accent for the ladies.
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Sep 28, 2020 18:56
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I thought that was The Swordsman?
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Sep 28, 2020 18:57
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actually its Fantomex. and I'm pretty sure Batroc has called people 'my little cauliflower' multiple times at this point, it might just be a running joke by now
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Sep 28, 2020 20:15
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If I ever get hired to write batroc I will his French absolutely atrocious just to spite you, specifically. Wee wee.
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Gologle posted:If I ever get hired to write batroc I will his French absolutely atrocious just to spite you, specifically. *Mimes throwing a baguette at you*
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I thought petit chou fleur was a term of endearment that also happens to mean cauliflower. I know no French but vaguely remember this exact same thing being discussed for the exact same reason when the TF2 Spy used it at the end of Meet the Spy.
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Yeah, there's a bunch of non Team Fortress 2 related references to "Mon petit chou fleur" being a common French term of endearment. They're mostly in the UK so it might not actually be a thing French people say though.
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A PYF discussion about the Thor MCU films reminded me of the all-time badass moment from Simonson's Thor, so I dug it out of this thread's archives. bobkatt013 posted:This is still one of the most badass moments in a comic full of badass moments.
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Ok, that's loving awesome.
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Hulk Smash! posted:I wish that comics would hire people who actually spoke non-English languages... You're right about the gender but 'my little cabbage flower' is an actual French term of endearment.
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Sep 29, 2020 02:46
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He stood alone at Gjallerbru and that is enough.
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The perspective in that first panel is... questionable. Unless Batroc forgot to mention “Munchkins” in his list of mercenaries.
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