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Synesthesian Fetish posted:I remember in late 90s when the grocery stores on semi-rural Idaho sold comics I picked up some x-men comic books. Lol I had a similar experience except it was just my mum buying me random comics for a while that I hadn't expressed any interest in, which I appreciated but was bizarre. This was in the UK too so god knows how many years behind we were, or what weird repackaged stories we were getting. I remember getting a "Wolverine and Gambit" one for a while which seemed cool because I was 12 and we were probably getting the height of edgy stories. There was one completely incomprehensible one I still remember about Wolverine wandering through uh... an Asian city (Madripoor probably?) and going through a glowing magic door and meeting a psychic lady who spoke in riddles about his future. For once I don't think it was Jean Grey or a relative. I think he had bone claws and amnesia. I realise I am probably describing a good 60% of 90s Wolverine stories. For Spiderman comics I came in when everyone was still recovering from the clone saga and making fun of it. Mary Jane got blown up by a stalker on a plane and the Gathering of Five happened. At one point he found a middle eastern lady kept in a birdcage by an evil wizard and made out with her despite having a wife because she was just too seductive, which felt racially insensitive even at the time. Lunchmeat Larry fucked around with this message at 13:46 on Jan 12, 2024 |
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Fell down a rabbit hole trying to figure out what that Wolverine and Gambit issue was. Apparently it was a UK only book that reprinted old stories. There's a cover that has Wolverine with bone claws, but the story inside is a reprint of an issue from the Wolverine and Kitty Pryde mini series. Marvel database has the comic you're looking for somewhere, but it'd take a while to find it unless we can sus out what comic it was reprinting.
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For sure, before lots of trade paperbacks and DC++ in High School the sporadic comics I had did not make too much sense, but were aesthetically badass. Had three of the Fatal Attractions issues with the foil Gambit card and stuff. Speaking of badass nonsense, why can't our guy Deadpool get a long ongoing lately? And why so much time between those runs? There is DP money being left on the table. edit: oh hey DP is getting a new ongoing soon, how about that, written by Ziglar. Heavy Metal fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Jan 12, 2024 |
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Lol I had a similar experience except it was just my mum buying me random comics for a while that I hadn't expressed any interest in, which I appreciated but was bizarre. This was in the UK too so god knows how many years behind we were, or what weird repackaged stories we were getting. Oh man The Gathering of the Five. That brings back memories. They did the reset right after that and it was the first time I dealt with a reset for comics so I was confused
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Open Marriage Night posted:Fell down a rabbit hole trying to figure out what that Wolverine and Gambit issue was. Apparently it was a UK only book that reprinted old stories. Lmao it's so relieving that I'm not just a complete moron, I've definitely tried to find it before. Other things I remember about it that probably don't help: Gambit was I think fighting contras Wolverine throws a motorbike at some Triad men after stabbing it with his claws and it explodes Wolverine wakes up in what I now realise is an Apocalypse Now homage and refers to his tongue feeling like sandpaper because he has a hangover, which in retrospect, how on earth can he get a hangover I love 90s bullshit
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:I love 90s bullshit Speaking of this, I saw a cover of an X-Men "villains guide" today which featured some sort of cyborg Apocalypse who had robotic claws.  Look at this glorious bullshit!
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Speaking of this, I saw a cover of an X-Men "villains guide" today which featured some sort of cyborg Apocalypse who had robotic claws. He's as far about mutant as mutants are above humans and that means he can turn his arms into robot claws
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Speaking of this, I saw a cover of an X-Men "villains guide" today which featured some sort of cyborg Apocalypse who had robotic claws. EX-VILLAINS
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Speaking of this, I saw a cover of an X-Men "villains guide" today which featured some sort of cyborg Apocalypse who had robotic claws. I can’t remember if that showed up in the comics/cartoon show, but it was definitely a 90’s action figure.
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Speaking of this, I saw a cover of an X-Men "villains guide" today which featured some sort of cyborg Apocalypse who had robotic claws. I liked his design from, speaking of recent Sinister developments, the Cyclops and Jean Grey miniseries that got into Essex's origins. I always like when they play up the Egyptian motifs and give us basically biotech pharaoh Apocalypse.
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Speaking of this, I saw a cover of an X-Men "villains guide" today which featured some sort of cyborg Apocalypse who had robotic claws.
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Yeah I was about to post that Apocalypse can literally do that, it is within the scope of his powers.
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The pig nose is more concerning
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Joe Fisto posted:The pig nose is more concerning Sinister taped his nose up like at the start of Pee Wee's Big Adventure and he hasn't noticed yet.
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Speaking of this, I saw a cover of an X-Men "villains guide" today which featured some sort of cyborg Apocalypse who had robotic claws. Those are the alternate arms his action figure had.
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:I can’t remember if that showed up in the comics/cartoon show, but it was definitely a 90’s action figure. In early X-Factor he was basically like Evil Plastic Man.
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If you don't think Apocalypse isn't a T-1000 on top of whatever the story needs you haven't been paying attention
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Speaking of this, I saw a cover of an X-Men "villains guide" today which featured some sort of cyborg Apocalypse who had robotic claws. I can see how you're confused, but that's not Apocalypse, it's his cousin Apoclawlypse
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Is Apocalypse's ability to change shape/size a feature of the Celestial armor or part of his power suite?
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OnimaruXLR posted:Is Apocalypse's ability to change shape/size a feature of the Celestial armor or part of his power suite? Power set I believe.
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Air Skwirl posted:Power set I believe. Yeah something about being able to control himself on a molecular level Edit: misgendered En Sabah Nur Synesthesian Fetish fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Jan 13, 2024 |
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Synesthesian Fetish posted:Yeah something about being able to control her myself on a molecular level Yeah, that's his power basically, boosted by Celestial tech.
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I remember once on these very forums, when the Apocalypse movie was announced, someone in some thread asked "what are Apocalypse's powers, anyway?" and the answer some clever goon who's name I forget gave was to quote "he is the rocks of the eternal shore, crash against him and be broken!" But yeah, joking aside, that kind of is the answer. I think they've maybe gotten a bit better about it in recent years/decades, but for the 80s and 90s I'm pretty sure Apocalypse's power was emphatically just "shapeshifting + whatever the story needs" EDIT: Like, hell, how does Apocalypse's immortality work? Body hopping? Regeneration comas? Regeneration in special locations like Ra's al-Ghul and his Lazarus Pits? Just straight up immrtality? Yes. No. All of these!
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Speaking of this, I saw a cover of an X-Men "villains guide" today which featured some sort of cyborg Apocalypse who had robotic claws. Okay sure but WTF is that Magneto costume? It's like that weird Cyclops costume he never wore that for some reason was all over promotional stuff a decade ago
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Listen, if you got it you flaunt it baby!
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:EDIT: Like, hell, how does Apocalypse's immortality work? Body hopping? Regeneration comas? Regeneration in special locations like Ra's al-Ghul and his Lazarus Pits? Just straight up immrtality? Yes. No. All of these! Who is writing him and what year is it? It's been basically all three and also just regular-rear end immortality over the decades.
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In early X-Factor, he would fly around by turning is arms into jet engines!
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I like to think after living thousands of years at some points Apocalypse would just try out some goofy rear end poo poo for fun and to mess with people.
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He is as far beyond mutants as they are beyond you. 
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Apocalypse is very humble for never mentioning how he saved the world AND created Krakoa at the same time until the Krakoa era
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Synesthesian Fetish posted:Apocalypse is very humble for never mentioning how he saved the world AND created Krakoa at the same time until the Krakoa era
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Reminder that Apocalypse exists because Louise Simonson thought the idea of The Owl as a badass was stupid af.
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danbanana posted:Reminder that Apocalypse exists because Louise Simonson thought the idea of The Owl as a badass was stupid af. Yeah, deciding he should challenge the O5 was certainly a creative decision Bob Layton made.
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the more you think about it the more it feels like Bob Layton was trolling with that original X-Factor
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Alaois posted:the more you think about it the more it feels like Bob Layton was trolling with that original X-Factor Chris Claremont wouldn't disagree.
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Codependent Poster posted:I like to think after living thousands of years at some points Apocalypse would just try out some goofy rear end poo poo for fun and to mess with people. There is a point near the end of the O5 X-Factor where the issue is basically told through Cyclops narration and he actually speculates as to if he was doing that before and is doing it then because instead of shape changing he was just being big and shooting at them instead of previous tricks. Then he blows him up with a blast.
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The first comic I bought with my own money was the one issue of Uncanny with Jean on the cover near the very start of Onslaught. Like it was the second or third issue of the whole crossover. Being like 10 and coming from xmen animated was wild.
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Lmao when I started I first got New Mutants (warlock was p cool okay?) and theres references to tons of mutants being murdered off panel during the mutant massacre, and the other time everyone had apparently spent a year fighting on a place called Battleworld* {see the Secret War miniseries on sale now true believers!} :v Its just been my assumption growing up that theres always stuff going on that you'll never see because I'm at the mercy of whenever I'd get down to the newsstand and had enough change.
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Marvel should do a big event that takes place entirely off-panel in a miniseries that doesn't exist.
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