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Phy posted:I would believe it, because one of the most popular American media properties of the 20th century was a newspaper comic strip about hillbillies that absolutely nobody remembers today outside of Sadie Hawkins dances in school (and I don't know if they even do that any more) I went to that theme park when I was a kid. it was kinda crap
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The_Other posted:Coincidentally, I just finished reading a book about Capp and "sex pest" is putting it mildly. Didn't the comic strip have an arc where the hillbillies discovered some weird alien goo that could create a post-scarcity society? And the army attacked them for it? I might just be thinking about Weapon Brown since that's where I heard of Li'l Abner.
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palamedes posted:Didn't the comic strip have an arc where the hillbillies discovered some weird alien goo that could create a post-scarcity society? And the army attacked them for it? I might just be thinking about Weapon Brown since that's where I heard of Li'l Abner. That sounds like the Shmoo. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmoo)
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Oh, it looks like they've added the first several issues of this series since I last went through Moon Knight stuff on MU. It's a shame there's still so few.
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Are those power or telephone lines? Cause I'm pretty sure Moon Knight is dead if they're power lines. muscles like this! posted:From this week's HunterxHunter I read that chapter and it's just getting to be straight up word salad at this point. The mangaka, Yoshihiro Togashi, has been through the wringer and I would have assumed he'd want to do less work not more. This weeks Ginka & Glüna 
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The reason why Hunter goes on hiatus so often is he absolutely refuses to let anything important go to anyone else
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Infinitum posted:Are those power or telephone lines?
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Pilchenstein posted:Aren't you fine to touch power lines as long as you're only touching the power lines and not anything that could form a route to ground? Source: birds. Moon Knight looks to have his truncheon touching both lines, which is Bad. Birds only touch one line at a time, but even then people mostly think about small birds on low voltage lines. The bigger the bird or the higher the voltage the less safe they are.
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Lobok posted:Moon Knight looks to have his truncheon touching both lines, which is Bad. Birds only touch one line at a time, but even then people mostly think about small birds on low voltage lines. The bigger the bird or the higher the voltage the less safe they are. Nah it's fine. Konshu protected him with some random bullshit
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(I'm gonna use the alt title, cause it's dumber) Although It’s the Weakest and Unprofitable Occupation,『Blacksmith』, Has Become the Strongest. ~Realized He Can Make Anything He Wants, the Man Started His Leisurely Life~ - Chapter 113  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gY-JTDhQC0
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Pilchenstein posted:Aren't you fine to touch power lines as long as you're only touching the power lines and not anything that could form a route to ground? Source: birds. No idea which superman comic this is from. 
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Sounds like the scientific method properly applied.
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Bucnasti posted:No idea which superman comic this is from. I mean, the saying goes "it's a bird!"
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Bucnasti posted:No idea which superman comic this is from. Action Comics #1. Superman is intimidating a guy by carrying him around like a sack of potatoes. That first story ends on a cliffhanger of him making a jump to a nearby building with the guy and missing.
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Uthor posted:I mean, the saying goes "it's a bird!" Pretty weird now that I think about it. Who gets that excited about a bird?
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Libra posted:Pretty weird now that I think about it. Birders
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Libra posted:Pretty weird now that I think about it. Used to work on the 5th story of an office building with transmission poles a bit out from the building that hawks would hang out on munching on their kills. Bunch of programmers would get p. excited about watching that not gonna lie. Also a few times birds did headers into the glass, same deal.
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Libra posted:Pretty weird now that I think about it.
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What the hell's up with his trousers?
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Guessing that's meant to be Billy, but there's some body-swap/powers-gone-wrong japery afoot gee whillikers
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Lobok posted:Moon Knight looks to have his truncheon touching both lines, which is Bad. Birds only touch one line at a time, but even then people mostly think about small birds on low voltage lines. The bigger the bird or the higher the voltage the less safe they are. Got to admit, Moon Knight frying because he doesn't understand basic electrical safety would be some extremely Ennis-esque poo poo
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Servoret posted:Action Comics #1. Superman is intimidating a guy by carrying him around like a sack of potatoes. That first story ends on a cliffhanger of him making a jump to a nearby building with the guy and missing. How did that work? Did the story continue in the next issue? I thought Marvel invented that in the 60s
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I Love Loosies posted:How did that work? Did the story continue in the next issue? I thought Marvel invented that in the 60s Yeah, IIRC it’s part of a war profiteer storyline that carries over to the next issue. I think that first Action Comics story is an amalgam of the sample newspaper strips Siegel and Shuster had lying around, so it doesn’t really have a traditional story structure. A bunch of things happen and then it just ends on the kind of cliffhanger a daily strip might have. I think they stop doing that after that first issue. Once they resolve the plot it’s just single part stories until sometime in the Silver Age. There’s at least one other example of a multi-issue story in the Golden Age. The Monster Society of Evil storyline in Captain Marvel Adventures was a serial that ran for 25 issues with continuity and cliffhangers at the end of every installment.
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The first two issues of Action Comics, the Superman story is actually a fairly unfortunate time capsule where the villain is a guy who wants America to enter WW2 (so he can make a vast and venal profit selling bombs!) and the message is that America should not intervene in a European war, and, subtextually, that people advocating for interventionism are just propagandists for war profiteers.
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Android Blues posted:The first two issues of Action Comics, the Superman story is actually a fairly unfortunate time capsule where the villain is a guy who wants America to enter WW2 (so he can make a vast and venal profit selling bombs!) and the message is that America should not intervene in a European war, and, subtextually, that people advocating for interventionism are just propagandists for war profiteers. The timeline doesn't seem right. The first 2 issues of AC were published in 1938. Germany and the Axis weren't exactly sweet innocent little countries back then but WW2 didn't start until 1939.
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Lobok posted:The timeline doesn't seem right. The first 2 issues of AC were published in 1938. Germany and the Axis weren't exactly sweet innocent little countries back then but WW2 didn't start until 1939. It’s an imaginary, I think South American, country. Edit: Another unfortunate time capsule thing is Superman doing “slum clearance” in an early Action Comics. Servoret fucked around with this message at 13:49 on Nov 1, 2022 |
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On checking, Superman gets involved in the war in (fictional) San Monte in the second issue, but the first issue's Superman story ends with him eavesdropping on a corrupt senator who's taking bribes from a munitions lobbyist to "push a bill through" that will get America "embroiled with Europe". He then terrorises the lobbyist with the power lines stunt and gets a lead on the guy trying to start a war in South America. So it's kind of both. People knew in 1938 that war was on the horizon, and the message was that America should stay out of it and the people agitating for it were capitalist vultures. Honestly it strikes me as an anti-war message that would have been the right view on history almost always, except for the fact that this was WW2 and Siegel and Shuster couldn't have known how morally necessary intervention would become.
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Android Blues posted:On checking, Superman gets involved in the war in (fictional) San Monte in the second issue, but the first issue's Superman story ends with him eavesdropping on a corrupt senator who's taking bribes from a munitions lobbyist to "push a bill through" that will get America "embroiled with Europe". He then terrorises the lobbyist with the power lines stunt and gets a lead on the guy trying to start a war in South America. While I agree it was morally necessary, morals, and what was happening in Auschwitz and other camps, was never the motivation for intervention. Heck, Canada and the US both had internment camps for Japanese citizens.
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Samovar posted:What the hell's up with his trousers? They're too short.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:While I agree it was morally necessary, morals, and what was happening in Auschwitz and other camps, was never the motivation for intervention. Heck, Canada and the US both had internment camps for Japanese citizens. Canada also interred Italian-Canadian and German-Canadian citizens, and, technically, Jewish refugees.
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This is a fantastic forum and thread not to have that discussion in, thanks.
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Sorry, my bad, I lost track of which thread was open in which tab.
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So some funny comics! Mike Maihack, whose art I've posted here before, posted this Supergirl/ Batgirl Halloween comic from 2013 on his Twitter Also, for Inktober, Maihack uses the prompts to put Supergirl & Batgirl in various scenarios. Here are some I found funny; Day 5: Flame  Day 11: Eagle  Day 19: Ponytail – Inspired by Chuck Jones  Day 21: Bad Dog  Day 22: Heist  Day 29: Uh-Oh  Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb.
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