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Batiuk made his cool new Air Elemental Hero look like the villain on his fake comic book cover.
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I suspect what happened is the cover he's based this on has the villain and hero in the opposite positions.
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Maybe he copied another fake comic (No he just sucks)
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Jucika "254 - Jucika And The Capricious Winter" "255 - Jucika's Touching Complaint"  "Panasziroda = Complaints Department"
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Doomykins posted:it's poetic idiocy that Batiuk is so bad at his half-assed fictional capes that he committed enormous Comics Marketing 101 blunders here. The hero is using the villain's pose and colors and the villain is using the hero's pose and colors. Static, sinister purple in a pose of authority/power with a robotic/soulless appearance vs a dynamic human clear-faced attacker in noble blue challenging him. You could forgive some of this since Atmos' entire gimmick is he's the suit but all of it together. Immediately clocked it as a Spiderman cover. Sure enough GIS brings up multiple like that where you have Mysterio where Batiuk put his hero. MariusLecter fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Sep 13, 2021 |
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Doomykins posted:it's poetic idiocy that Batiuk is so bad at his half-assed fictional capes that he committed enormous Comics Marketing 101 blunders here. The hero is using the villain's pose and colors and the villain is using the hero's pose and colors. Static, sinister purple in a pose of authority/power with a robotic/soulless appearance vs a dynamic human clear-faced attacker in noble blue challenging him. You could forgive some of this since Atmos' entire gimmick is he's the suit but all of it together. Yeah, it's the first issue. If it's not an established hero, you kind of need to show some indication of what the hero can do on the cover. What does Killerwatt do? Well, he has electrical powers. He throws lightning bolts. He seems nimble, maybe he can fly. What does Doctor Atmos do? Well, he...exudes a pink mist? It's poisonous, maybe? maltesh fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Sep 13, 2021 |
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For me the pose immediately read as Magneto. Regardless of the 'inspiration', the trope is so well worn that I didn't even realise the helmeted guy was the titular hero until Doomykins' post pointing it out.
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That 100 Demons gave me childhood flashbacks, but in a cathartic way. There's something healing about the acknowledgement of something knotted and shattered, sometimes.
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Doomykins posted:it's poetic idiocy that Batiuk is so bad at his half-assed fictional capes that he committed enormous Comics Marketing 101 blunders here. The hero is using the villain's pose and colors and the villain is using the hero's pose and colors. Static, sinister purple in a pose of authority/power with a robotic/soulless appearance vs a dynamic human clear-faced attacker in noble blue challenging him. You could forgive some of this since Atmos' entire gimmick is he's the suit but all of it together. I scrolled back up to see what you were talking about and only then realized that I had misidentified the hero and villain on my first look. I'm not even really a comic book reader, but I seem to have absorbed enough that the shorthand still clicked. I kind of wonder if Batiuk was just determined that his new character has to look like a badass on his cover, even though it messes up all the visual cues.
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2018 Spiderman 1979 comics  Gonna be mad if it's 'if you were deaf in one ear then surely you couldn't hear me at all when I was shouting into it  '.    Locher Tracy  Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Mandrake+Johnny Hazard=Not on Sundays 90s Overboard  Hey, it's the 'cartoonist appears in the strip' gag except it was funny back then!
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Count me in the group of people that just scrolled by the Funky comic assuming the helmeted guy with purple hands was the villain until I saw someone say that the hero and villain poses were swapped and scrolled back up, and holy poo poo. I'm starting to question if he's actually read a comic book in his life.Haifisch posted:
I think they're supposed to be whispering, so yeah it's probably going to be "If you were deaf in your left ear, you wouldn't have heard what I was whispering, only my dad, so you wouldn't have gotten confused."
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"The farm has gone under, I'm going to have to get a factory job. You can be a normal housewife. Isn't that wonderful?"
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Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons
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My Lovely Horse posted:Give Bettwy the Mark Trail gig, loving master of dramatic storytelling Left two plot threads dangling. 1) Why Tinkerson didn't have red pepper flakes on his pizza and 2) Where he decided to go get lunch.
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PetraCore posted:That 100 Demons gave me childhood flashbacks, but in a cathartic way. There's something healing about the acknowledgement of something knotted and shattered, sometimes. That’s such a good way to put it. Every teen has their outlook “shattered” in a way as part of becoming an adult, but Barry really bridges that gap between teen trauma and trauma trauma. She’s such a genius, and a born teacher.
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Doomykins posted:it's poetic idiocy that Batiuk is so bad at his half-assed fictional capes that he committed enormous Comics Marketing 101 blunders here. The hero is using the villain's pose and colors and the villain is using the hero's pose and colors. Static, sinister purple in a pose of authority/power with a robotic/soulless appearance vs a dynamic human clear-faced attacker in noble blue challenging him. You could forgive some of this since Atmos' entire gimmick is he's the suit but all of it together. lmfao just scrolling by i definitely thought Atmos was the villain here, wtf Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons  Garfield  Heathcliff  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Compu-toon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  No Rae the Doe just yet.....maybe in the morning.
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Surgeon's Tales  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake  Fingerpori -The Finns have a casual attitude to the masks -I haven't used a mask for six months... -...and no one has said anything. 
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riderchop posted:Safe Havens
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Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons I feel bad that the bartender had everything below his waist amputated but I'm pretty sure just sitting on the counter like that is some kind of health violation
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Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons How did the shark get into the bar? 
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Buni Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 9/12/01  Brenda Starr 3/16/47  I'm pretty sure Rocky is supposed to be red with irritation/embarrassment in that last panel, not suddenly suntanned or wearing blackface. Smokey Stover 4/18/43 
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Tiggum posted:That was just an ordinary cat, doing what cats do. What "lesson" is it supposed to learn? "Don't be a cat"? Why would you call animal control on it? It was a cat, trying to eat a bird, that then fought another cat. I could have my neighbour's cats destroyed for their daily behaviour in my garden under those rules.
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goatface posted:Why would you call animal control on it? It was a cat, trying to eat a bird, that then fought another cat. I could have my neighbour's cats destroyed for their daily behaviour in my garden under those rules. In some places, cats aren't allowed to roam freely, so you can trap them and have them collected; if they're pets, they're returned to their owner (who has to pay a fine). I don't know if that applies to wherever Safe Havens is set, or if "animal control" is the correct organisation to contact if it does, but that was my assumption.
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goatface posted:Why would you call animal control on it? It was a cat, trying to eat a bird, that then fought another cat. I could have my neighbour's cats destroyed for their daily behaviour in my garden under those rules. Ostensibly, it's now a cat that mauled a human badly enough to put her in the hospital. Animal control should probably be looking for this cat regardless of the DNA wizard's desires, if DNA magic is as covert as it sometimes appears to be.
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I suppose the implication is that it's feral. Or maybe Holbrook didn't think too hard.
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But it mauled another cat, not a human. She got turned into a human after. This is like picking at an open wound, I now it's bad but I can't stop. Holbrook comics have a way of just going straight to the "wait a loving minute" part of the brain.
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Cicadalek posted:But it mauled another cat, not a human. She got turned into a human after. I don't think anyone knows she was a cat at the time of the mauling, except for the DNA wizard and friends. Oh, and the cat, I guess. All animals are sentient in this setting, so I guess he could say so if captured? Haifisch posted:
Dude, you're a security guard who claims to have fallen asleep during a robbery, where you are the only suspect. Maybe you shouldn't be so indignant about the secrets the chief of police's ten-year-old son is telling him.
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Haifisch posted:The Lockhorns they're all so happy about that marching band  Strontium posted:
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Vintage Valiant (Mar. 23, 1947)   "Next week - America!" Tomorrow we will start a storyline (which overlaps with Ulfrun's story obviously) in which Val spends some time in what we would today call North America and interacts quite heavily with the locals. By the standards of the 1940s I think this whole adventure is pretty okay - if you remember the story where Val went to sub-Saharan Africa and visited a village being terrorized by gorillas, I'd say it's kind of in line with that. This story, however, is much longer, and there are some elements that, let's say, haven't aged well. I don't think anything really rises to the level of being super offensive or anything, but you should anticipate a few of the tropes you might expect in a story about "Indians."
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Crabgrass Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Old School Peanuts (Dec 31, 1952)  Calvin and Hobbes (Dec 26-27, 1989)   Blind Alley  https://kumerish.com/blind-alley
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When she magicked back into a person, do you think the cat scratches stayed cat scratch sized or does that woman have gouges out of her like she was mauled by a tiger?
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goatface posted:When she magicked back into a person, do you think the cat scratches stayed cat scratch sized or does that woman have gouges out of her like she was mauled by a tiger? Well, she was hospitalized.
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Mar. 23, 1947) Once again the little details make this. Val's beard and the sunken cheeks on both him and Ulfrun after being at sea far too long.
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