From the Danish Valhalla comics. Hard-boiled Odin is investigating the mystery of Suttung's mead.   Valhalla #11(1998) (Unofficial translation. Transl. date unknown) Valhalla has never been officially translated into English, but I am posting the entire run in the favorite comics thread. SimonChris fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Aug 30, 2023 |
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I really liked how that story was told like if it was a film noir story.
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Aug 29, 2023 11:25
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MarriageToxin #54: Super assassin Gero has been given twelve months to find a wife, Or Else. He's partnered up with a crossdressing marriage swindler to find true love, and they've got him taking odd jobs to find suitable marriage candidates. This time, he's helping a bodyguard lady get a mob princess to safety.           Squidster fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Aug 30, 2023 |
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Aug 30, 2023 03:08
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SimonChris posted:From the Danish Valhalla comics. Hard-boiled Odin is investigating the mystery of Suttung's mead. This is cool. And of course Odin finds the buxom lass.
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Aug 30, 2023 03:18
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   Source: Immortal Thor #1 Al Ewing knows a thing or two about epic comic book storytelling and the art excellent for its purpose. It's especially fun because it alludes to the mythological character Utgard-Loki (no actual relation to the god Loki). So, what if there was an Utgard-Thor as well? I just like this. It's neat. Melodramatic cape comics, yes, but Thor kinda needs that kinda tone.
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Aug 31, 2023 12:16
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If I could properly extract images from PDFs, I'd post the scene from Once & Future #21 where Sir Eliold devises a new way to fight the Gorgon.
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Aug 31, 2023 14:59
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Screen... shots?
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Aug 31, 2023 15:21
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Oh that reminds me I gotta get caught up on Once & Future. I think I only read up to volume 2 or 3 last time I caught wind of it (from this thread!)
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Aug 31, 2023 15:24
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Parahexavoctal posted:If I could properly extract images from PDFs, I'd post the scene from Once & Future #21 where Sir Eliold devises a new way to fight the Gorgon. This?   
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Aug 31, 2023 18:29
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Flesh Forge posted:remember when hank uses his ant control powers to have his ants ~do nonspecific but extremely suggestive bad things~ to janet during a domestic spat because he was mad she zapped him
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Aug 31, 2023 23:21
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Halloween Jack posted:I like how there was a bad domestic violence storyline in 1981 and then somebody decided it would be very mature to make it Pym's defining trait. Very pleasant to read about. That's what happens when you let Mark Millar loose on something.
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Sep 1, 2023 14:24
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Fil5000 posted:That's what happens when you let Mark Millar loose on something. The problem with Pym and everyone obsessing over that lovely story happened well before Millar's Ultimates.
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Sep 2, 2023 06:30
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I guess he read that Wonder Woman story and thought "I can one-up that."
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Sep 2, 2023 08:31
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Once and Future is probably my favorite creator-owned Giellen book and French Lancelot is a hell of a superhero design
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Sep 2, 2023 10:26
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Air Skwirl posted:The problem with Pym and everyone obsessing over that lovely story happened well before Millar's Ultimates. Did they? Everybody seem to have a gentleman's agreement to ignore it until Millar brought it back and decided to one up where you could probably blame Pym particles rattling around Hank's head as Yellowjacket (but you shouldn't, because it's still a terrible story nobody owns up to) where in Ultimates Hank's been doing this since he and Jan were in college.
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Dawgstar posted:Did they? Everybody seem to have a gentleman's agreement to ignore it until Millar brought it back and decided to one up where you could probably blame Pym particles rattling around Hank's head as Yellowjacket (but you shouldn't, because it's still a terrible story nobody owns up to) where in Ultimates Hank's been doing this since he and Jan were in college. Millar is the only one who retold the domestic abuse line, but I'm pretty sure there was a run of writers who each said "This will be the story that addresses Pym's abusive past!"
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Sep 2, 2023 14:15
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The only one of those I kind of like is Jeremy Whitley's attempt to deal with it in his run of The Wasp, because it wasn't about redeeming Hank, it was specifically about the impact it had on Jan and how she feels about it.
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Sep 3, 2023 03:02
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I think the damage is done. There might have been a chance to unfuck it, have Pym atone, acknowledge what he did as bad, whatever to try and move past it but that chance has long passed the character by. He is now and will always be Hank Pym: Wifebeater. It's too ingrained into the public knowledge of the character.
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Sep 3, 2023 03:32
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Yeah that's why he's been dead for ten years
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Another panel from the Valhalla comics, The Serpent in the Abyss. Tor's struggle against Jormungandr is the most iconic part of his legends and Peter Madsen did a great job retelling it:
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Electric_Mud posted:This? Ok but why not just close your eyes?
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Nowhere near as metal.
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Otherworldy Munchkin Dude gets isekai'd into a world that's run on D&D rules, and basically steals the Dungeon Master's Journal/Notes as he's being sent over. Stuck with only a single hit point, which doesn't increase as he levels. He's had to resort to munchkin/power-gaming tactics to make sure he doesn't get murdered while searching for his sister. D&D rules mean D&D solutions, especially when component costs are an actual thing you need to consider So how do you scout a base you can't gain access to, and find the routes free of traps? (Right to Left)         Otherworldly Munchkin: Let's Speedrun the Dungeon with Only 1 HP! - Chapter 23
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Dies when he stubs his toe.
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Sep 24, 2023 02:25
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A particularly large snowflake lands on his hat.
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Sep 24, 2023 03:20
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Fatal paper cut from the dungeon map.
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Sep 24, 2023 18:15
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The real end boss will be a housecat
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Isn’t there a Feat that says if you are at max HP and take damage that would kill you, instead you survive with 1 HP? Seems like that would make him immortal.
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I'm guessing that they're going with some kind of vaguely-defined old school D&D ruleset that doesn't give him those options.
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Sep 25, 2023 16:35
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EoRaptor posted:Isn’t there a Feat that says if you are at max HP and take damage that would kill you, instead you survive with 1 HP? Seems like that would make him immortal. Toughness (+3 health) comes up as a possible feat they could take. The argument is that it might not function correctly due to the curse that's keeping him at 1hp. He does (downside to having 1 hp spoiler) get taken out, in an extremely anime tropeish manner, and has to make a death saving throw at one point Halloween Jack posted:I'm guessing that they're going with some kind of vaguely-defined old school D&D ruleset that doesn't give him those options. Yeah it's either the 2nd or 3rd Edition ruleset that's being used. It's quite fun seeing the 'DMs Notes' being used as an actual mechanic, and the bastard strats he utilises.
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EoRaptor posted:Isn’t there a Feat that says if you are at max HP and take damage that would kill you, instead you survive with 1 HP? Seems like that would make him immortal. Those don't work if your max HP is 1, which I assume his is, since that's how these usually work. E;fb
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Sep 25, 2023 16:52
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D&D Fifth Edition the closest thing I can think of is the half-orc's "Relentless Endurance" racial trait, which I'll just quote:D&D Beyond posted:When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. You can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest. I don't recall any similar first-party feats in D&D3.5, but I've lost my encyclopedic splatbook knowledge by virtue of not playing 3.5e in over a decade.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:D&D Fifth Edition the closest thing I can think of is the half-orc's "Relentless Endurance" racial trait, which I'll just quote: This was going to be my guess against the tactic. Can't just use the feat endlessly, have to recharge it somehow.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:D&D Fifth Edition the closest thing I can think of is the half-orc's "Relentless Endurance" racial trait, which I'll just quote: Barbarians get a similar thing but they have to make a roll of increasing DC each time they do it between rests.
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5E's Death Ward spell does the same thing for 8 hours at a time, but requires access to 4th level spells. There's definitely some DM wiggle room there anyway if he's using Locate Object (concentration, specifies "an object") on a sack full of individual items. 3.5's variants of both spells are significantly more limited than the 5E versions.
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redstormpopcorn posted:5E's Death Ward spell does the same thing for 8 hours at a time, but requires access to 4th level spells. There's definitely some DM wiggle room there anyway if he's using Locate Object (concentration, specifies "an object") on a sack full of individual items. 3.5's variants of both spells are significantly more limited than the 5E versions. As an occasional DM, I'd allow this use of Locate Object because it's rad AF
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Daniel Warren Johnson is just the best. This is from his new Transformers book. 
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"Smelting" is a great robot cuss.
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Daniel Warren Johnson is just the best. This is from his new Transformers book. Well I normally have zero interest in Transformers.
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THOOM and BOOM are always great but G1 Transformers combat sounded to me like a swordfight with girders or someone bowling if every sound had been run through a metallic synthesizer filter. You can't make every onomatopoeia CLANK obviously but there must be more.
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