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SimonChris posted:
"Cuts in defense spending." That's hilarious.
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I think there's enough nerds here that 'Magic the Gathering' and 'non-competition-legal parody set' aren't that deep a cut. Besides, you left out Unstable and Unsanctioned.      
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TwoPair posted:
He's the best at what he does. And what he does is get beat up by the second best Hawkeye.
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A Strange Aeon posted:Not Brand Echh seems really goofy and fun, kind of like the Unglued and Unhinged Magic expansions, if anyone gets that deep nerd reference. Are they worth finding to read through? Not really. I find them to be more annoying than funny. It's sub-Cracked (the magazine that was sub-Mad) level of humor.
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Elfface posted:I think there's enough nerds here that 'Magic the Gathering' and 'non-competition-legal parody set' aren't that deep a cut.
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Dec 26, 2020 16:23
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A Strange Aeon posted:Not Brand Echh seems really goofy and fun, kind of like the Unglued and Unhinged Magic expansions, if anyone gets that deep nerd reference. Are they worth finding to read through? It’s both goofy and fun, and definitely worth a read. Most issues are up on Marvel Unlimited if you want to check them out. If you have any grasp of 1960s pop culture or politics, you’ll get most of the jokes. Lots of great sight and background gags. Yeah, there’s a lot of hacky, corny jokes but it’s still super fun to read and it’s fun to watch Lee and Kirby take shots at themselves. The first 8 or 9 issues of What The?!? Are the same way, but those aren’t up on MU for some reason. That series took a sharp left turn off a cliff, so you’d probably only want the issues in single digits
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Darthemed posted:
Gonna repost this in the Newspaper Spider-Man thread because of the current story arc.
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Random Stranger posted:Not really. I find them to be more annoying than funny. It's sub-Cracked (the magazine that was sub-Mad) level of humor. Except it only ran from '67 to '69, not counting the 14th issue in 2017. Look at those writing/art credits.
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Suleman posted:What The?!? was occasionally pretty fun. Art wise that is a spot on Goseki Kojima.
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Not Brand Echh can also get racist. There's a story with the S.H.I.E.L.D. analogue discovering a villain's lair in a Chinese laundrette, which is handled with all the good taste you might expect from the '60s.
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TwoPair posted:Revenge of the Cosmic Ghost Rider #3: The Punisher has died. The real victim here is the devil, since either option will only give him a headache and he knows it.
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Shouldn't Mephisto be down with sending Frank back? More souls to be sent to hell and all?
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Gaz-L posted:Shouldn't Mephisto be down with sending Frank back? More souls to be sent to hell and all? The joke is Frank's life is so miserable and Mephisto knows it will continue to be even more miserable that Mephisto feels bad for Frank and thinks suffering eternal torment in hell would be a kindness.
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Gaz-L posted:Shouldn't Mephisto be down with sending Frank back? More souls to be sent to hell and all? Everybody dies, eventually.
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And the people Frank is likely to send down would end up there anyway.
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Suleman posted:What The?!? was occasionally pretty fun. I'm just starting a reread of Claremont's 70s and 80s X-stuff so this cracked me up, thank you. Anyway this is uncredited in What The--? #4 but I found a confirmation by Kurt Busiek that it was scripted by Peter David, penciled by James Fry III, and inked by Bob Wiack. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Dec 27, 2020 |
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How Wonderful! posted:I'm just starting a reread of Claremont's 70s and 80s X-stuff so this cracked me up, thank you. LET US KNOW HOW MUCH OF A JERK PROFESSOR X IS!!
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Suleman posted:What The?!? was occasionally pretty fun. That katakana error in the title bothers me way more than it should. Okay, two errors depending on how you want to write it but they're interconnected. Random Stranger fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Dec 27, 2020 |
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TwoPair posted:Revenge of the Cosmic Ghost Rider #3: The Punisher has died. I love it when they portray Mephtiso as just a guy who's job happens to be running hell.
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Darthemed posted:
Virtually every image I've seen of non-Guri Gwenpool has been pretty terrible, but this I liked. It's bees.
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Keromaru5 posted:That seems like an unusually roundabout way of fighting Mega Man. He's just foisting him off on Bubble Man to stall for time.
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Honestly I had to reread that panel because at first I thought it said Aquaman.
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Dude's name is Cannonball, but he has a bullet tip on his head. Does Spidey point that out at some point? Also whichever lady broke Beefo's enlarged heart should give him another chance!
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davidspackage posted:Also whichever lady broke Beefo's enlarged heart should give him another chance! I don't know. It seems like he has some rage issues. 
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Random Stranger posted:I don't know. It seems like he has some rage issues. I dunno, it looks like he confined his anger to inanimate iron bars and when dealing with the elephants he just gently shoved them aside.
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SimonChris posted:
Though current events have proven that egomaniacal jerks who are liable to join terrorist organizations like Cobra are unwilling to wear masks all day, so perhaps some of the comic's assumptions were flawed in retrospect.
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Darthemed posted:
IIRC this was part of a running plot that involved Frank being drugged making him more and more unhinged.
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Darthemed posted:
Superman could fly by the 40s, couldn't he? He could fly in the Fleischer cartoons made during the war at least. Like what was the best case scenario this thug was hoping for?
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Darthemed posted:
The antecedent to Nextwave's Captain ****. Also, god I love Ted McKeever.
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Skwirl posted:Superman could fly by the 40s, couldn't he? He could fly in the Fleischer cartoons made during the war at least. Like what was the best case scenario this thug was hoping for? No, he couldn't fly early on, just jump good.
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Begemot posted:No, he couldn't fly early on, just jump good. I know he couldn't fly at the start, but in the Fleischer cartoons he could and those were made in '41 and '42. I just don't know if it started there and was added to the comics later or if it was in the comics by that point.
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Skwirl posted:I know he couldn't fly at the start, but in the Fleischer cartoons he could and those were made in '41 and '42. I just don't know if it started there and was added to the comics later or if it was in the comics by that point. Here's a pretty decent looking answer. I suppose the short answer is "well, he flew before the cartoons, but only sporadically, and on the radio show which kind of did its own thing."
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