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Rhyno posted:Non Americans get all up in arms about Squirrel and Girl, this is no biggie. I've one of the few British accents where those two still rhyme, though both sound nothing like how Americans say it.
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Lobok posted:After I grew out of playing with action figures I would look back on those commercials and think "why didn't anyone sell the loving cubes?!" Ghostlight posted:nah I was all about the ones that look like a fake brick wall You mean like this?
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It was known, in the 80s, that entire populations would rise up in revolution based on a single song. It was a magical time.
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GPTribefan posted:Sounds like someone’s never heard the absolute banger “Cold Slither”
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Twisted Toyfare Theatre was one of the funniest things I had ever read at the time. Still holds up honestly.
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I still have so much of that at home. The funniest thing was how they used to have DC toys in their early strips, until WB told them that they couldn't make jokes about Batman and Superman. They then had to edit reprints of these old strips to either remove the DC guys or just not reprint them.
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Weren't the old straps full of misogyny and homophobia?
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Rhyno posted:Weren't the old straps full of misogyny and homophobia? It was on the internet in the late 90s/early 2000s so by default yes.
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The Question IRL posted:I still have so much of that at home. Batman? Who’s Batman? I think you mean Pumpkin Man
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Rhyno posted:Weren't the old straps full of misogyny and homophobia? Yeah, there's definitely some of that, but I wouldn't say full. I didn't include the next two panels because my understanding of what is and isn't homophobic isn't especially fine tuned and I didn't want to offend anyone. There's a funny Vindicator pun and then something about how Northstar used to be a mythical fairy but now he's just gay.
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I'd wager a stroll through old Wizards would not be all that pleasant. Lots of "LoL gay" in those pages.
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Okay, so I know Alan Scott's ring doesn't work on wood, but is he somehow physically weakened to wood too? I'm imagining him being taken down with a thrown handful of matches now.
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Thor & Loki - Double Trouble #3: Due to shenanigans, Thor and Loki have fallen into an unknown dimension.   
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If you ever played Sunset Riders, do you remember in the first level when you had to run on top of a couple of cattle stampedes?
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Gertrude Perkins posted:From Don Rosa's Scrooge McDuck in "Hearts of the Yukon" Okay, that got me. Wonderful!
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Elissimpark posted:Okay, so I know Alan Scott's ring doesn't work on wood, but is he somehow physically weakened to wood too? One of his big enemies is a dude with a baseball bat
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I don't really understand it here, but one thing I do like about modern Marvel is that they didn't just move on from Jane Foster Thor. In other eras of Marvel it would've been relegated to a weird forgotten footnote that you see on a wiki page and go 'wait, what'. But no, they're serious about letting her be a big, acknowledged deal and let it keep coming up, it's great.
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It’s not regular continuity. Jane is the new Valkyrie. It’s cool, but not as cool as her being Thor with beautiful Dauterman covers.
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Bruceski posted:Okay, that got me. Wonderful! Yeah, that's wonderful pacing and comic timing! I have one of the Rosa collections and it's decent, I keep meaning to pick up the missing Barks books I don't have, too.
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Gertrude Perkins posted:From Don Rosa's Scrooge McDuck in "Hearts of the Yukon" I'm not super familiar with Donald Duck comics, and for a moment I was wondering when Robert Crumb had started doing Disney stuff. Gonna have to check out some Don Rosa, I guess.
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Retro Futurist posted:One of his big enemies is a dude with a baseball bat There is a great Batman arc by Ed Brubacker called Made of Wood. It's about a person killing people and carving the words "Made of Wood." And Batman and Green Lantern have to investigate . The story was about how one time Alan Scott got the poo poo kicked out of him by the Sportsman using a baseball bat.
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Elissimpark posted:I'm not super familiar with Donald Duck comics, and for a moment I was wondering when Robert Crumb had started doing Disney stuff. the don rosa scrooge mcduck comics are genuinely one of the highest-esteemed and liked series out there
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This is the part where I plug Fantagraphics's 10-volume set of Rosa's complete Duck comics.
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Cleretic posted:That was the usual game plan for the 80s 'glorified toy commercial' cartoons. The U.S. wouldn't legally let you air a cartoon that's just an ad for the toy, but you could make a comic book that's a glorified toy commercial and then make a cartoon that's an adaptation of the comic. That led to the fun tagline on the final Marvel issue of Transformers, touting it as "#80 In A Four Issue Limited Series"
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Gaz-L posted:That led to the fun tagline on the final Marvel issue of Transformers, touting it as "#80 In A Four Issue Limited Series" That wasn't due to the cartoon. That was because the series was launched as a four issue limited series complete with the trade dress of "# in a four issue limited series". Then at the end of issue four, Shockwave kills all of the Autobots and they go on to issue five. It was the talk of my elementary school back in the day...
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Darthemed posted:
I don't think dudes that look like that would be very good spies, not sure they'd fit in anywhere but like, the zoo. I love stardust stuff, its all so weird and often strangely mean-spirited.
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One More Fat Nerd posted:I don't think dudes that look like that would be very good spies, not sure they'd fit in anywhere but like, the zoo.
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Darthemed posted:
I just love that they seemed more pissed off than scared of the skeletons. “Goddamit, I can’t believe I have to look at these stupid loving skeletons.”
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Gann Jerrod posted:I just love that they seemed more pissed off than scared of the skeletons. “Goddamit, I can’t believe I have to look at these stupid loving skeletons.” The skeletons don't look too happy, either. Just needs one of them checking their watch.
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It also doesn't say its projection of skeletons of people they killed, but the actual thing. So presumably he robbed a few graves just to have an attempt of giving some killers the equivalent of a children's time out to think about what they've done.
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Zaodai posted:It also doesn't say its projection of skeletons of people they killed, but the actual thing. So presumably he robbed a few graves just to have an attempt of giving some killers the equivalent of a children's time out to think about what they've done. Far from the most petty thing Stardust has ever done.
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Random Stranger posted:That wasn't due to the cartoon. That was because the series was launched as a four issue limited series complete with the trade dress of "# in a four issue limited series". Then at the end of issue four, Shockwave kills all of the Autobots and they go on to issue five. It was the talk of my elementary school back in the day... Which in turn led to one of the most badass covers of all time on issue 5: 
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The original Transformers miniseries came out before the TV show, so all the character designs were based on their toys, rather than the TV models that in at least some cases didn't match the toys at all. Ironhide, for instance, was drawn to look like this:
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Darthemed posted:
Yes, nothing puts the taste of shame and humiliation into your mouth like soy beans.
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