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... I am a simple man, with simple pleasures. I do not care what happens in the comics. All I want is J. Jonah Jameson angrily demanding pictures of Spider-Man.
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Jun 12, 2023 11:52
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I swear Spider-Man must be some sort of Springtime for Hitler deal, because the editors do everything in their power to make people lose interest in him, but he still bounces back every bit popular since the day he was born. Wasn't the Doc Ock/Superior Spiderman stuff actually pretty good at least?
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Jun 12, 2023 12:18
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Volmarias posted:... I am a simple man, with simple pleasures. I do not care what happens in the comics. All I want is J. Jonah Jameson angrily demanding pictures of Spider-Man. If you're not reading the Newspaper Spider-Man thread then you should be.
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Jun 12, 2023 12:50
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HopperUK posted:If you're not reading the Newspaper Spider-Man thread then you should be. I would be delighted if you could post a link!
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Jun 12, 2023 13:05
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Volmarias posted:I would be delighted if you could post a link! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3845273 Sadly there is no new Newspaper Spider-Man as the strip was canceled a year or two back, but it's well worth reading and people are reposting some classics. 
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Jun 12, 2023 13:14
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Unkempt posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3845273 Beautiful, thank you.
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Jun 12, 2023 13:42
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John Murdoch posted:Wasn't the Doc Ock/Superior Spiderman stuff actually pretty good at least? It’s a mess but unlike most spider man comics the main character has a character arc and the story feels like it’s trying to accomplish something which is pretty rare for spider man who is now closer to Homer Simpson
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Jun 12, 2023 14:50
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When NSM ended it turned out that the people writing, drawing, and inking it were a bunch of retired all star cartoonists (including Larry Liber and Stan Lee, though at the end Stan was only giving the plot outlines)
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Jun 12, 2023 15:39
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Unkempt posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3845273 Did it have a proper ending?
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Jun 12, 2023 15:43
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Did it have a proper ending? https://www.spidermancrawlspace.com/2019/03/the-end-of-the-spider-man-newspaper-strip-by-roy-thomas-and-alex-saviuk/ There you go. Not really much of an ending. And poo poo, it was four years ago?
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Jun 12, 2023 15:46
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Did it have a proper ending? The world is at peace and Spiderman goes on vacation with Mary Jane to Australia. Then after the final comic someone from the syndicate added in a low quality edit of existing panels where Spidey takes a nap on the plane and starts dreaming of reruns. Which is the perfect newspaper spiderman thread conclusion. Tunicate has a new favorite as of 16:46 on Jun 12, 2023 |
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Jun 12, 2023 15:55
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CharlestheHammer posted:It’s a mess but unlike most spider man comics the main character has a character arc and the story feels like it’s trying to accomplish something which is pretty rare for spider man who is now closer to Homer Simpson I think they also said it would be temporary and not the new normal.
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Jun 12, 2023 15:55
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Tunicate posted:The world is at peace and Spiderman goes on vacation with Mary Jane to Australia. Ahhhh, Australia: the Mecca of arachnids
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Jun 12, 2023 16:09
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Tunicate posted:The world is at peace and Spiderman goes on vacation with Mary Jane to Australia. I actually do think this is appropriate and perfect for newspaper Spiderman, which I always considered the only good Spiderman
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Jun 12, 2023 18:28
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Hey, thanks, pal
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MuscaDomestica posted:I think they also said it would be temporary and not the new normal. Well yeah but they do keep being him back. Hell they are teasing his return this fall making it the fourth time The third time ended with a deal with the devil
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Jun 12, 2023 20:03
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Even the really good runs usually end up with long term arcs that end up going nowhere because someone else takes over/some dumb huge crossover event fucks everything over. Yeah honestly the first comic I ever tried to read was Saga and read up to the point that they took the first big hiatus, and then never got back into it when they came back. It was already way too long and meandering for me at that point. That was probably after the first 2 volumes? Never cared to try to read any other comics and Saga's supposedly one of the all time greats.
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Anyone who wants to start reading comics should start with Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers or Batman RIP, get confused as poo poo, and stop. This is the best way as you'll decide to stop of your own volition and avoid the downward spiral of caring about comics.
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Jun 13, 2023 01:36
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Thanks for posting the link, Unkempt. I was on phone and then I totally forgot
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Jun 13, 2023 01:45
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I love comics now, but when I was first starting my friends all insisted I HAD to start with Watchmen, and Planetary, and Preacher, and Other Important Literary Graphic Novels. It was like a brick wall to a casual reader. I'm here to say gently caress that, just go to a real bookstore and pick up Chainsaw Man or Witch Hat Atelier or Delilah Dirk or Brubaker's Criminal. If you have to consult a wiki to know where to start, don't.
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Jun 13, 2023 03:02
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I straight up bounced off comics because I wanted to read about John Constantine after the Keanu movie, and I went into a comic book store and asked what the first one was, and some enormous loser spent forty five minutes explaining how you can't do that.
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Jun 13, 2023 03:05
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Captain Monkey posted:I straight up bounced off comics because I wanted to read about John Constantine after the Keanu movie, and I went into a comic book store and asked what the first one was, and some enormous loser spent forty five minutes explaining how you can't do that. Stuff like this is why Newspaper Spider-Man was the best superhero comic, you could literally jump in at any time and have the exact same experience of it being comfortably dumb as poo poo at any given moment.
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Jun 13, 2023 03:11
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I started with whatever the local library had. Watchmen, Mr Punch, The Kindly Ones. rear end-backwards way of getting into comics but it worked out.
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HopperUK posted:I started with whatever the local library had. Watchmen, Mr Punch, The Kindly Ones. rear end-backwards way of getting into comics but it worked out. I'm sorry but did you just say your introduction to Sandman was The Kindly Ones? I can't imagine how wtf that just have been.
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Jun 13, 2023 06:29
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Captain Hygiene posted:Stuff like this is why Newspaper Spider-Man was the best superhero comic, you could literally jump in at any time and have the exact same experience of it being comfortably dumb as poo poo at any given moment.   
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Jun 13, 2023 06:45
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Who can forget one of the all-time greatest villains, That Chauffer, Or Whoever He Was
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NSM has a great rogue's gallery. Other favorites include: 1) Clown 9. He was just some guy with a clown themed get-up. He was also somehow one of Peter's most challenging foes. But seriously just look at him.  2) A homeless werewolf guy. He was just a werewolf. That was his power. This guy was, of course, defeated by luring him into a planetarium and having it simulate the sunrise. This snapped him out of werewolf form, but also killed him. Sometimes these things happen. Don't worry about it. 
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My own short foray into comics was picking up The Runaways, which started out as a fun and fairly self-contained story about the children of a bunch of super-villains, well, running away. That went well enough for a while until some random-rear end secondary characters just sort of dropped in with no introduction, seemingly on the understanding that I should know who they are, and a footnote told me to read an entirely different comic to understand what their deal was. Decided not to bother to chase any of that down. The only other comic I spent any time on is Kill Six Billion Demons, which does fortunately own a lot, but it's unfortunately not yet finished 
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Soysaucebeast posted:I'm sorry but did you just say your introduction to Sandman was The Kindly Ones? I can't imagine how wtf that just have been. That's how I did it too. In the nineties when I was 15 or so I managed to get work experience with some CB artists that lived in my town, around the time they were working on 'Death-the time of your life'. They had a full-on 3 room library of comics that I had unfettered access to, and the artwork for the Kindly Ones grabbed me, so I read that first. I fell in love with it and read the rest very quickly after that. The name of the artist is Marc Hempel, I really loved 'Breathtaker' as well, it was an early subversion of the superhero genre, that's well worth a look https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathtaker
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Haifisch posted:NSM has a great rogue's gallery. Other favorites include: To be honest I'd be intimidated by a guy with that level of confidence too. He also looks and appears to be acting straight out of Venture Bros. Also makes me wonder if triggering a werewolf's transformation out of cycle actually could be dangerous to them; a body can only take so much, after all.
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Haifisch posted:NSM has a great rogue's gallery. Other favorites include: That final panel is such a Jack Kirby face.
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Clown 9 was possibly the greatest super villain ever created, I say this with no exaggeration.
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A buddy who worked at a comic store got me to read Demo, which really got me hooked. Also Criminal, 100 Bullets and Transmetropolitan. Although I quickly learned to avoid a certain type of people who dressed like Spider Jerusalem, it was like the comic fan version of the fedora stereotype. E: oh yeah, Black Hole was the first he gave me. That was pretty mindblowing for somebody who basically only knew Spider-Man. I should really read that again. Fruits of the sea has a new favorite as of 07:50 on Jun 13, 2023 |
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Haifisch posted:NSM has a great rogue's gallery. Other favorites include: Not only does Clown-9 look like a badass, he drives a bitchin’ duckymobile. That the MCU hasn’t centered an entire film arc around him is proof enough of its poor quality.
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I need a toy of the clown-9 car
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Soysaucebeast posted:I'm sorry but did you just say your introduction to Sandman was The Kindly Ones? I can't imagine how wtf that just have been. While I didn't start with the Kindly Ones I didn't start with Preludes & Nocturnes either. I started with whatever my lokal library had in store.
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I remember going into a comic shop that had a couple of issues of Transmet and I asked if I could get back issues so I could read the whole thing, and they acted like I was asking for all the world's diamonds So I read it on CDisplay
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Brawnfire posted:I remember going into a comic shop that had a couple of issues of Transmet and I asked if I could get back issues so I could read the whole thing, and they acted like I was asking for all the world's diamonds I bought the Transmet 'Absolute' books I & II as a gift, intending to get the full set before giving them - turns out the final Absolute Book III got a drastically reduced print run, is rocking-horse-poo poo-and-hens-teeth rare and commands frankly ridiculous asking prices even pre-owned. I hope they do a reprint someday.
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Soysaucebeast posted:I'm sorry but did you just say your introduction to Sandman was The Kindly Ones? I can't imagine how wtf that just have been. Yep! I managed to work it out.
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