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Infinitum
Jul 30, 2004



Kengan Asura - Chapter 18

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SimonChris
Apr 24, 2008

The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.
Grimey Drawer

nine-gear crow posted:

Also, I'm not watching the #SnyderCut, but I can be drat certain that it will not include any scenes of Darkseid just casually chilling in someone's living room just waiting for them to get home and discover him there as a means of starting a menacing conversation with them:



From the Online Creators thread. I've always loved that kind of scene myself. Does anyone have some good examples with other villains?

Saoshyant
Oct 26, 2010

:hmmorks: :orks:


That dude's favorite place in the world is someone else's couch. A new one to experience every day for the god of couch surfing.

Infinitum
Jul 30, 2004


Forgot to put 'Dr' before 'Doom Chair'

Argue
Sep 29, 2005

I represent the Philippines
My headcanon is that Darkseid will never admit this but he thinks that earth's sole contribution to the universe is the invention of the comfy chair.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
darkseid can't go shopping for furniture himself, he can't trust his underlings to do it for him, and robbing a furniture store would be beneath him. so, he remains stuck with a series of unpadded rock thrones.

John Dyne
Jul 3, 2005

Well, fuck. Really?

SimonChris posted:

From the Online Creators thread. I've always loved that kind of scene myself. Does anyone have some good examples with other villains?

This has made me realize that all I really want is for Snyder to get Weird Al to reprise his role as Darkseid in a live action film.

Larryb
Oct 5, 2010

John Dyne posted:

This has made me realize that all I really want is for Snyder to get Weird Al to reprise his role as Darkseid in a live action film.

Wait, Weird Al played Darkseid? In what?

Cleretic
Feb 3, 2010


Ignore my posts!
I'm aggressively wrong about everything!

Larryb posted:

Wait, Weird Al played Darkseid? In what?

Teen Titans Go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ICmOMLX3rQ

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"




College Slice

Mystery Men Comics #13 (1940)




Superboy #70 (1959)

TheCenturion
May 3, 2013
HI I LIKE TO GIVE ADVICE ON RELATIONSHIPS

Saoshyant posted:

That dude's favorite place in the world is someone else's couch. A new one to experience every day for the god of couch surfing.

Hey, at least he doesn't eat their cereal and piss in their houseplants.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

darkseid can't go shopping for furniture himself

Who's going to stop him?

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Who's going to stop him?

Honestly, he'd have one of his minions build a furniture store where all the employees are kidnapping victims forced to work with threats of torture, but which other customers view as some sort of campy sales tactic.

"please buy this table or I will get put on the rack"

"oh you, hahaha"

Elissimpark
May 20, 2010

Bring me the head of Auguste Escoffier.

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

darkseid can't go shopping for furniture himself, he can't trust his underlings to do it for him, and robbing a furniture store would be beneath him. so, he remains stuck with a series of unpadded rock thrones.

You can't be the despotic demi-god king of a place called Apokolips and have comfy couches lying about - it would give the thralls and minions the wrong idea.

He probably sneaks off in disguise to Space Ikea on the space weekends and sits in all the display lounge rooms.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Elissimpark posted:

You can't be the despotic demi-god king of a place called Apokolips and have comfy couches lying about - it would give the thralls and minions the wrong idea.

He probably sneaks off in disguise to Space Ikea on the space weekends and sits in all the display lounge rooms.

Ah yes despots of hell countries: well-known for not living in the lap of luxury.



(Yes I know this isn't Darkseid [or is it?!?!?!?], just pointing out that the ruling class of Apokolips are extremely at home on comfy chairs even at home.)

Phy
Jun 27, 2008



Fun Shoe

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Ah yes despots of hell countries: well-known for not living in the lap of luxury.



Soft cushions for me, rugged anti-homeless park benches for everyone else

ConfusedUs
Feb 24, 2004

Bees?
You want fucking bees?
Here you go!
ROLL INITIATIVE!!





Argue posted:

My headcanon is that Darkseid will never admit this but he thinks that earth's sole contribution to the universe is the invention of the comfy chair.

Mine too, now

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Phy posted:

Soft cushions for me, rugged anti-homeless park benches for everyone else

Welcome to the Democrat National Committee.

Elissimpark
May 20, 2010

Bring me the head of Auguste Escoffier.

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Ah yes despots of hell countries: well-known for not living in the lap of luxury.



(Yes I know this isn't Darkseid [or is it?!?!?!?], just pointing out that the ruling class of Apokolips are extremely at home on comfy chairs even at home.)

Yeah, but living somewhere called Apokolips needs a different aesthetic than somewhere called North Korea or Libya.

And maybe if Granny had less welcoming furnishings SHE could be ruling over Apokolips with an iron fist.

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

The one with Scott is really hosed up because he's there to show Scott that Big Barda has been forced to act in pornography because gently caress John Byrne.

Alacron
Feb 15, 2007

-->Have tearful reunion with your son
-->Eh
Fun Shoe

ImpAtom posted:

The one with Scott is really hosed up because he's there to show Scott that Big Barda has been forced to act in pornography because gently caress John Byrne.

God I'd repressed that one.

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



ImpAtom posted:

The one with Scott is really hosed up because he's there to show Scott that Big Barda has been forced to act in pornography because gently caress John Byrne.

And suddenly my thought of reading through all of post-Crisis Superman just goes away.

Peyote Panda
Mar 10, 2019

ImpAtom posted:

The one with Scott is really hosed up because he's there to show Scott that Big Barda has been forced to act in pornography because gently caress John Byrne.

Random Stranger posted:

And suddenly my thought of reading through all of post-Crisis Superman just goes away.
Right there with ya. I recently saw that DC was putting out a new series of collected volumes of Byrne's run and had a fleeting twinge of nostalgia until I remembered skeevy poo poo like this was why I no longer owned those comics in the first place.

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"




College Slice

Mystery Men Comics #13 (1940)
The big spaces around the Lynx's name make me think it was a last-minute decision on what to call him.


Spider-Geddon #2 (2018)

Bucnasti
Aug 14, 2012

I'll Fetch My Sarcasm Robes

Darthemed posted:


Mystery Men Comics #13 (1940)
The big spaces around the Lynx's name make me think it was a last-minute decision on what to call him.

Did the term “Blackie” have any non-racist connotation in the 40s?
Like I don’t get calling a white kid sidekick to a white superhero named the Lynx that. He doesn’t even have a black costume.

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

Bucnasti posted:

Did the term “Blackie” have any non-racist connotation in the 40s?
Like I don’t get calling a white kid sidekick to a white superhero named the Lynx that. He doesn’t even have a black costume.

Sure. Blackie can be a nickname, especially for people who have black hair or "black" in their names -- see Boston Blackie, for instance. Some people still use it today, although its popularity has fallen off for obvious reasons.

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas
It was a name Stan Lee used a few times, actually. At the very least I can think of Blackie Drago, the Worse Vulture from ASM #48 and Blackie Gaxton, a gangster from ASM #11 who is primarily memorable for his luxurious curls. I think the usage Lee was drawing from was just a nickname for people with black hair. That being said this sidekick kid quite clearly has brown hair so I don't know what's up.

mercenarynuker
Sep 10, 2008

Darthemed posted:


Mystery Men Comics #13 (1940)
The big spaces around the Lynx's name make me think it was a last-minute decision on what to call him.

Ok, so he has a wildcat nickname, but fights nearly naked, has wings (???), can fly, as can his totally normal (???) sidekick, and is red colorschemed, despite lynxes not being that color. What the hell. And it's so wordy and explainative! Pretty clear why this one didn't make it to the silver age

Mister Olympus
Oct 31, 2011

Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies
His name is BLACKIE, the bolding is important, just like the spaces on the LYNX .

TwoPair
Mar 28, 2010

Pandamn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta
Grimey Drawer

Mister Olympus posted:

His name is BLACKIE, the bolding is important, just like the spaces on the LYNX .

It's like how you have to say the hyphen in Spider-Man, BLACKIE can hear if you're not saying it bold enough

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



Darthemed posted:


Mystery Men Comics #13 (1940)
The big spaces around the Lynx's name make me think it was a last-minute decision on what to call him.
The      LYNX      was originally The Moth, and was retooled after the publisher was sent a cease and desist by National Comics for his similarity to Batman - the story goes that they were going to passive-aggressively change his name to The Mothman after giving him a kid sidekick but for whatever reason (lawyers) they changed the name to the      LYNX      then got sued anyway and lost.

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"




College Slice
Neat, thanks for the explanation!

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Oh that's what Batman's cape looked like originally, right?

Begemot
Oct 14, 2012

The One True Oden

Is the LYNX wearing a flesh-colored body suit, or is he showing some serious side-dick in that last panel?

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Begemot posted:

Is the LYNX wearing a flesh-colored body suit, or is he showing some serious side-dick in that last panel?

What does your horny tell you?

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



no nips

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"




College Slice

Our Flag Comics #2 (1941)


Edge of Spider-Verse #2 (2014)

Vincent
Nov 25, 2005




There's some bots in this house...
(From Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye #7)

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"




College Slice

The Blue Beetle #12 (1942)


Weird Science #7 (1994)

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Beerdeer
Apr 25, 2006

Frank Herbert's Dude
Gentlemen!

Darthemed posted:


Weird Science #7 (1994)

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