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Zaphod42 posted:What. Hey, that wasn't meant to be an insult, more that a lot of people misremember those films as gorier than they were due to the conversation around them. That being said: lmao ok
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May 6, 2021 22:47
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Zaphod42 posted:(, and the good Clone Wars) Both Clone Wars were good.
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May 6, 2021 22:52
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MonsterEnvy posted:Both Clone Wars were good. Agreed. Genndy's has a ton more style, and is pretty short so it's easier to digest, but the Disney one is pretty great once it hits it's stride, and kinda has this nice balance between like "hijinks of the week" and an overarching plot.
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May 6, 2021 23:15
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Sab Sabbington posted:Hey, that wasn't meant to be an insult, more that a lot of people misremember those films as gorier than they were due to the conversation around them. There's also the human brain's natural inclination to fill in the gaps and remember gore where there wasn't any because the crunchy audio made you think some sick poo poo was happening.
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May 6, 2021 23:30
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Ccs posted:Haha I totally forgot about that. It was a cool touch. You might want to check out the Ultimate line of Marvel that came out in the '00s, it was Marvel's attempt to reboot a separate continuity with more focused creator-control. Although only Ultimate Spider-Man really lived up to that (most of the run was written by Bendis and illustrated by Bagley, and is well over 100 issues iirc), and the earlier bits of Ultimate X-Men and esp. Ultimate Fantastic Four were pretty good. You could also read the Ultimates (Avengers) if you are OK with Millar. Unfortunately as Bendis got more and more popular, Marvel decided to start murdering the line and most of it was discarded except for Sam Jackson Nick Fury and Miles Morales. Aside from that all that comes to mind are various British comics, alt comics like Preacher, etc.
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I don't actually like Bagley that much, he draws bad faces. Immonen takes the book over at like, issue 110 and then Pichelli when it switches to Miles. Hitch drew Ultimates and it's predictably excellent, there's a really cool like five page splash in vol 2. As for UFF, well, Greg Land drew most of it...
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If you're looking for long contained comic runs that have pretty consistent art/direction and they don't necessarily need to be superheroes then Y: The Last Man and Fables are options. There are plenty of others but I just saw those yesterday when scrolling comixology and remembered enjoying them, so they're fresh on my mind. I'd probably need to dig out my old external drive to give many other recommendations but there's always BSS for that too E: I liked the ultimate line when it came out but maaaaan I find that to be a hard sell these days knowing how it evolved Good Citizen fucked around with this message at 03:25 on May 7, 2021 |
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May 7, 2021 03:19
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Good Citizen posted:If you're looking for long contained comic runs that have pretty consistent art/direction and they don't necessarily need to be superheroes then Y: The Last Man and Fables are options. There are plenty of others but I just saw those yesterday when scrolling comixology and remembered enjoying them, so they're fresh on my mind. I'd probably need to dig out my old external drive to give many other recommendations but there's always BSS for that too I don't have a problem with political narratives, but for those of you who get frustrated with Libertarians I'd recommend not reading Fables.
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zoux posted:It reminds me of the old 90s ultra violent animes that we had to trade on tapes like Ninja Scrolls or Vampire Hunter D. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that it was an intentional parallel, given the Akira homage in episode 7. Stuff like that is old hat now but when I was a lad, we'd never seen anything that graphic. It was way more graphic than even actual Hollywood gore movies. Zaphod42 posted:Uh, what hollywood gore movies are you watching? This sounds really out of touch. Invincible is violent, but it was infinitely less graphic than Saw 2, much less the later Saw films or Hostel or half of modern Hollywood horror films. Ninja Scroll and Vampire Hunter D were on the milder side of the 90s goreporn animes that were getting passed around between fans back in the day compared to stuff like Genocyber, Violence Jack and Urotsukidoji Legend of the Overfiend. Of course those movies also had a big influence on western comics and gore movies so it's kinda pointless to argue whether 90s/00s western films were gorier than 90s/00s anime films because they were both feeding off each other. Eli Roth got his start as an animator and he's a huge fan of Japanese horror cinema (he gave Takashi Miike a cameo in Hostel 2) so it's almost certain that he would have seen a whole bunch of those earlier ultra violent Japanese animes.
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Open Source Idiom posted:I don't have a problem with political narratives, but for those of you who get frustrated with Libertarians I'd recommend not reading Fables. Fables isn’t that objectionable in my opinion outside of the four or so pages (like 2/3 of the way through the series) where the author’s favorite character rants about how much he loves Israel
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PmylfzD8NE Saitama v Boros The animation was so good and even drew from portions of the first episode kind of equating Saitama's drive with Boros. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoaCxj-KP-g&t=1236s LegoMan fucked around with this message at 05:49 on May 7, 2021 |
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May 7, 2021 05:44
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zoux posted:like when that guy gets his torso pulled out of his mech Yeah, that's one of those scenes I don't think I'll ever forget.
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May 7, 2021 06:21
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Speaking of good animation I quite enjoy the style going on in this one. Combat is super fluid and impactful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLo1MOy_6hU
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May 7, 2021 06:36
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GlassEye-Boy posted:Speaking of good animation I quite enjoy the style going on in this one. Combat is super fluid and impactful. Uh yeah this kinda owns. Apparently its a Chinese Anime? And new? I've never heard of it. Wow its so kinematic. The characters and the camera are just moving all over the place, really good stuff.
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May 7, 2021 07:38
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GlassEye-Boy posted:Speaking of good animation I quite enjoy the style going on in this one. Combat is super fluid and impactful. RIP Howard
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May 7, 2021 12:26
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Invincible and Falcon/Winter Soldier ended around same time. Despite all the upcoming Marvel content I am currently bereft of superheroes. I also just finished my rewatch of Legend of Korra. Maybe I'll go back and watch the original Avatar.
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May 7, 2021 15:13
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Ccs posted:Invincible and Falcon/Winter Soldier ended around same time. Despite all the upcoming Marvel content I am currently bereft of superheroes. Jupiter's Legacy just came out on Netflix. It's a bit derivative of other superhero deconstructions of the era but it's good. Couldn't burn any slower though.
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Looking forward to the next season and its eight hours of somber therapy action
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I really am surprised that this show exploded like it did. It wasn't a super popular comic when it came out. I think some of the changes they made, like having the guardians get offed in the first episode and the surprising violence, may have drawn people in quickly. Having that ridiculously good voice actors probably sealed the deal,.
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Monaghan posted:I really am surprised that this show exploded like it did. It wasn't a super popular comic when it came out. I think some of the changes they made, like having the guardians get offed in the first episode and the surprising violence, may have drawn people in quickly. Having that ridiculously good voice actors probably sealed the deal,. That definitely helped hook me in. Towards the end of the pilot I was flagging a lot and might not have continued if not for the "oh holy poo poo" ending.
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GlassEye-Boy posted:Speaking of good animation I quite enjoy the style going on in this one. Combat is super fluid and impactful. wth, why have I never seen or heard of this This fight of a man fighting a bird is legit super cool Here's the continuation; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E475vIKYvD4 Collapsing Farts fucked around with this message at 18:28 on May 7, 2021 |
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May 7, 2021 18:25
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Collapsing Farts posted:wth, why have I never seen or heard of this Currently 3 episodes available on Youtube. I read that it's pretty much a passion project of a small 6 person team, so releases are fairly infrequent.
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May 7, 2021 18:28
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Just binged through this and I gotta say watching Dragon ball as kid and adult prepared me for the twist quite well. Dragon ball did not prepare me for how many skulls I was about to see though  Real fun overall, can't wait to see season 2 and 3.
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May 8, 2021 03:08
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Yeah, that's one of those scenes I don't think I'll ever forget. Same here, to the point where when I saw your post with that snippet and no context I knew exactly what it was.
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Mostly kind of a shame they lost the part where Mark is largely undamaged until his fight with Omniman. He kinda looks like a complete chump in this season. Getting beaten bloody to the extent he was by cyber zombies of all things is a pretty bad look.
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May 8, 2021 04:52
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Captain Oblivious posted:Mostly kind of a shame they lost the part where Mark is largely undamaged until his fight with Omniman. He kinda looks like a complete chump in this season. Omni-Man explicitly states that Mark needs to push to develop his powers. The faster he flies, the faster he can fly; the more he lifts, the more he can lift. It surprises you that he needs to get hit harder to become tougher?
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Jedit posted:Omni-Man explicitly states that Mark needs to push to develop his powers. The faster he flies, the faster he can fly; the more he lifts, the more he can lift. It surprises you that he needs to get hit harder to become tougher? Yes? Because I don’t super care about the Watsonian rationalization, just the narrative result. In the comics he can make a plausible claim to the name Invincible at first and it makes the fight with Omni-Man all the more impactful. Here, him calling himself Invincible is farcical. It’s like a self deprecating joke.
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May 8, 2021 07:49
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After watching the first episode of Jupiter's Legacy I appreciate Invincible a lot more. How not to Invincible, crappy Super Santa Cosplay with a Code, code, code, code....
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Ninurta posted:After watching the first episode of Jupiter's Legacy I appreciate Invincible a lot more. How not to Invincible, crappy Super Santa Cosplay with a Code, code, code, code.... It picks up when they get more into the backstory, but man are the super effects bad. It's like Sky High
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Captain Oblivious posted:Mostly kind of a shame they lost the part where Mark is largely undamaged until his fight with Omniman. He kinda looks like a complete chump in this season. Yeah, I think in the comics the fight has more of an impact because its Mark's first big loss, and he loses *hard*. In the show its more of just a series of failures, and he was already considering quitting because of Amber.
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Captain Oblivious posted:Yes? Because I don’t super care about the Watsonian rationalization, just the narrative result. In the comics he can make a plausible claim to the name Invincible at first and it makes the fight with Omni-Man all the more impactful. Well it is treated more like a inside joke in the show thankfully . I thought you were quite vincible for example. It would've been nice if his dad had been his first real loss but then they'd have to rearrange the entire season.
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Captain Oblivious posted:Yes? Because I don’t super care about the Watsonian rationalization, just the narrative result. In the comics he can make a plausible claim to the name Invincible at first and it makes the fight with Omni-Man all the more impactful. Well, that's the Post/Username Combo Award won for the week. Mark's choice of alias is a reference to how all teenagers believe they're invincible and will live forever.
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Azhais posted:It picks up when they get more into the backstory, but man are the super effects bad. It's like Sky High Yeah, I'm about half way through and I totally agree. It's a very odd show, half super hero half Lovecraft style horror it seems, still waiting to see how the two halves fit together but it's unusual for sure. Terrible super power effects, as you say, but not from lack of budget.
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Well! That was interesting. Well done. Glad I stuck with it after a somewhat boring first 3/4 of the first episode. Is it just me, or did the animation get better as the season went on? Maybe I just got used to it.
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Boy my opinion of Atom Eve sure changed over the show. At first I thought she was pink Starfire. But then oh wait no she's more like Raven and Starfire combined- wait still no, she's like a pink Green Lanter- Okay still no, a combination of Green Lantern and Firestorm. Wonder how they're going to take things in the future. Are they going to use Omni-Man's blood to try and make their own clone like Superboy or are they gonna start putting it in people and make some pseudo Viltrumitians. It's also very refreshing to have a superhero setting that seems actively hostile to having a status quo forever after 32 Marvel movies that're having massive changes in the world at about 1/40 the speed they happen in the real world despite the aliens and magic and etc. It's probably just that I haven't been reading/watching the right stuff beyond this but it was cool how many plates this show's spinning between the Mars hivemind, the Flaxens, that revived green mummy thing, stuff like that.
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Jedit posted:Well, that's the Post/Username Combo Award won for the week. You worded this much nicer than what I was writing so thank you. That's exactly it.
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I finished the last 3 episodes last night before bed and this show is absolutely amazing. Just a really incredible and groundbreaking show that I love to love. I’m still collecting my thoughts but what Nolan put Mark through, the sheer indescribable horror and carnage of the subway specially... maybe one of the most hosed things I’ve literally ever seen. There’s lots of different kinds of evil at work in this show, but the way Nolan’s humanity sort of sloughs off of him during the fight as he became enraged at Mark’s weakness, all of it was just unbelievable. I’ve watched an absolute metric fuckload of prestige drama and superhero shlock in the last year and I don’t ever remember my jaw just hanging open like that for 5 minute straight before, I really could not believe what I was seeing. I spent the entire season thinking Cecil was Billy Bob Thornton, lmao I never read the comics, but it seems like the show is not following along and is sort of doing its own thing? JJ and Sandra Oh are phenomenal in here! The cast is out of this world! I even grew to love the Smurf twins by the end.
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