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Rhyno posted:I'M NOT MIDDLE AGED YET You're posting on Somethingawful. If you're not middle age in actuality then you're middle age in theory.
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ImpAtom posted:You're posting on Somethingawful. If you're not middle age in actuality then you're middle age in theory. I said yet! I got two years left!
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Just finished reading Blue is the Warmest Colour and I would recommend it to anyone wanting to read some good graphic novels. I wanted to post the last few pages but: A. I just returned it back to the library B. GIS isn't really pulling much except the first few pages (in French) and the more....explicit....pages of the book. But really the whole thing would probably fit in with this thread and I really do suggest people check it out.
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Rhyno posted:I said yet! I got two years left! Your doctor begs to differ... (as does mine)
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Achernar posted:"The Unicorn? That's a Russian guy who shoots laser beams out of his helmet!"
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most old political cartoons(or indeed political cartoons in general) would be a poor fit for this thread, this one I feel is an exception;
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Feb 12, 2017 10:06
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If that's a Confederate soldier on the left, that cartoon can gently caress right off.
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Feb 12, 2017 16:57
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Cursory googling suggests they're both Union soldiers and the point is more that black and white soldiers should be held in the same esteem, which was apparently a thing people promoted back then rather than suggesting that good and bad are actually the same.
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Senior Woodchuck posted:If that's a Confederate soldier on the left, that cartoon can gently caress right off. Why? Ex-Confederate soldiers went on to form the KKK, but it wasn't a universal thing. Rich man's war poor man's fight and all. Union and Confederate soldiers had mutual reunions for as long as there was veterans. It would be more heartwarming if it was a Confederate on the left.
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WickedHate posted:Why? Ex-Confederate soldiers went on to form the KKK, but it wasn't a universal thing. Rich man's war poor man's fight and all. Union and Confederate soldiers had mutual reunions for as long as there was veterans. It would be more heartwarming if it was a Confederate on the left. The takeaway from this information should be that a lot of Union soldiers were, and their descendants still are, super loving racist, not that Confederate soldiers were just following orders and were actually cool and good
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What the gently caress are you all arguing about? This is an idiotic derail about a cartoon that has to be almost 150 years old.
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purple death ray posted:The takeaway from this information should be that a lot of Union soldiers were, and their descendants still are, super loving racist, not that Confederate soldiers were just following orders and were actually cool and good Well, yeah, that too. My point is 2.75 million people is a varied bunch in any age and I think the slight ambiguity in which side the white guy fought for(iirc there was plans for a Confederate black fighting force but I don't think that ever happened?) adds to the work two human beings crossing immense division. WickedHate fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Feb 14, 2017 |
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WickedHate posted:Well, yeah, that too. My point is 2.75 million people is a varied bunch in any age and I think the slight ambiguity in which side the white guy fought for(iirc there was plans for a Confederate black fighting force but I don't think that ever happened?) adds to the work two human beings crossing immense division. No.
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flosofl posted:What the gently caress are you all arguing about? This is an idiotic derail about a cartoon that has to be almost 150 years old. To be fair arguing about a 150 year old cartoon is just as useful as arguing about a 15 second old cartoon
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WickedHate posted:Why? Ex-Confederate soldiers went on to form the KKK, but it wasn't a universal thing. Rich man's war poor man's fight and all. Union and Confederate soldiers had mutual reunions for as long as there was veterans. It would be more heartwarming if it was a Confederate on the left.
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Feb 14, 2017 21:52
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Apparently no one here saw "Glory"
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Ferrule posted:Apparently no one here saw "Glory" That movie made me cry actual tears in my seventh grade history class, but I don't think that completely invalidates the argument that on both sides, there were people who were undoubtedly coerced into fighting that may not have fully understood or agreed with the ideals their side was fighting for. edit: removing funny panels because my dumb rear end thought I was in the funny panels thread, not the touching and inspiring panels thread. wyntyr fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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Timeless Appeal posted:It's more about the phrase "good cause."
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Feb 15, 2017 22:29
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Cartoon only works if they were on the same side anyway.
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Feb 15, 2017 22:30
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Amazing Spiderman #700.5 "What would Spider-Man Do?" Click it 
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Amazing Spiderman #700.5 God drat.
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Wow. That started off down a path that I thought was going to be more of the old "Parker luck" bit.
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Mar 6, 2017 04:32
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It's pretty facile for a Spider-Man comic talk about what a great hero it's brand name represents.
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It's almost as if it's supposed to uplift the reader, should they be needing it, and show the effect heroes can have on ordinary people 
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:It's pretty facile for a Spider-Man comic talk about what a great hero it's brand name represents. The fact that "look how great our brand is" is your primary takeaway from that story is... yeah, that's sort of sad. Are you Darren Rovell?
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BravestOfTheLamp is an ongoing shitposter who goes into threads and makes intentionally inflammatory comments in order to derail the thread and make it all about himself. Please do not respond to him.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:The fact that "look how great our brand is" is your primary takeaway from that story is... yeah, that's sort of sad. Are you Darren Rovell? Everything anyone does is a cynical corporate ploy for money, except for Batman v Superman, which is the only pure work of art left in this awful world. If you read more terrible posts you'd know this. Try to keep up
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Amazing Spiderman #700.5 Is that Arthur from The Tick?
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Dick Trauma posted:Is that Arthur from The Tick?
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redbackground posted:Is Arthur's name Tommy? Maybe it's his middle name!
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What better way to disguise your real name than to use a completely different one as your superhero name/hacker alias.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:The fact that "look how great our brand is" is your primary takeaway from that story is... yeah, that's sort of sad. Are you Darren Rovell? i wondered what you meant, then I realized I didn't notice the imgur link on a mobile phone amd only looked at the one page without context, haha. Turns out the full thing was just innocently cloying. Sandman #75, the final issue of the series where Shakespeare is writing Tempest on commission from Dream, is one of my favourite comics. it's good because how it uses history and fantasy to presents the crushing yet utterly mundane tragedy of William Shakespeare's life in such a convincing manner. It might be the height of Gaiman's writing as a whole, really.   (I like the detail that the Endless in the background is usually relevant to what Shakespeare is talking about) BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Mar 6, 2017 |
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:i wondered what you meant, then I realized I didn't notice the imgur link on a mobile phone amd only looked at the one page without context, haha. Turns out the full thing was just innocently cloying. I agree with this. The Sandman comic hits and hits hard, on real, true regrets and wondering that anyone could feel. You can project your own musings in place of Shakespeare's, easily. The Spider-Man story is more 'everyone around Peter Parker must suffer to make him feel bad and the reader feel bad for him.' But then again, Spider-Man is written for children. Telling the same story over again is no sin when new children are your target audience.
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I think you take comics just a little too seriously, but you're entitled to your opinion. That is, indeed, a good Sandman comic though.
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VanSandman posted:But then again, Spider-Man is written for children. Telling the same story over again is no sin when new children are your target audience. About that...
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:About that... Manchildren are well-named.
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That second page echoes some things Gaiman has said about his own life in interviews. The Writer's Curse of a voice in the back of your head numbly-eagerly-lapping up every reaction and negative moment for storage to use in the craft is a sadistic devil.
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Choco1980 posted:That second page echoes some things Gaiman has said about his own life in interviews. The Writer's Curse of a voice in the back of your head numbly-eagerly-lapping up every reaction and negative moment for storage to use in the craft is a sadistic devil. "and yet... there was a part of me... the part that observes and writes... rubbing its hands, and saying... 'well, if she dies, at least I'll be able to use it in Animal Man. It'll add a nice touch of poignancy.'" -- Grant Morrison
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Parahexavoctal posted:"and yet... there was a part of me... the part that observes and writes... rubbing its hands, and saying... 'well, if she dies, at least I'll be able to use it in Animal Man. It'll add a nice touch of poignancy.'" -- Grant Morrison If it hadn't already been done many times, I would post that sequence of Animal Man right now. It gets me even on multiple readings.
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Do it anyway!
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