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twistedmentat posted:I'd hope I'd get the power to be like a super accounting power or the ability to code really well.
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Kinda digging tchallas hulkbuster armor
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Knowing about Eldrac there's no way I'd take a gamble on the Terrigen Mists.
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Sep 30, 2016 20:15
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Lick! The! Whisk! posted:Mettle was Pacific Islander, not black. X-O posted:Knowing about Eldrac there's no way I'd take a gamble on the Terrigen Mists. (That retcon that it was all a prank was bullshit. Although I will accept the theory that Lockjaw is in a fact a dog, but Terrigenesis gave him the ability to talk that he prefers not to use. Or he's an actual Inhuman who made lemons out of lemonade by figuring 'now I can poo poo wherever I want!'  )
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It's too bad they retconned the Alpha Primitives into being humans that were exposed to a different mist(Thanks to Slott and his hideous Mighty Avengers run). The idea that terrigenesis could backfire was a cool and it would have been a much better part of the current storyline if for every 100 Kamala Khans someone got turned into a caveman. That would make the whole world a lot less attracted to the idea.
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pretty sure it can still kill you, can't it? like you can fail in the transformation or something, not just mutant allergies
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Sep 30, 2016 22:47
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PaybackJack posted:It's too bad they retconned the Alpha Primitives into being humans that were exposed to a different mist(Thanks to Slott and his hideous Mighty Avengers run). The idea that terrigenesis could backfire was a cool and it would have been a much better part of the current storyline if for every 100 Kamala Khans someone got turned into a caveman. That would make the whole world a lot less attracted to the idea. you should really read about the Alpha Primitives. http://marvel.com/universe/Alpha_Primitives
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Sep 30, 2016 22:58
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Steve cap 5 is definitely one of the better issues in cw2 so far
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Mr Hootington posted:you should really read about the Alpha Primitives. http://marvel.com/universe/Alpha_Primitives That page doesn't note that Dan Slott retconned their creation during his Might Avengers run, his retcon is that they were humans who were exposed to XENOgenic mist which the evil former Inhuman king was going to use to hill the Kree. It's more explained on the wiki pages. Those Marvel pages are usually not very current. The Inhumans series by Jenkins/Lee became cannon if I recall because it's referrenced during Silent War. and Woz showed up in the Civil War: X-Men book. Yeah I know it's comics and there's been a million retcons since the original story that they were just made in a lab but the story that they were all "failed" inhumans cast out of their city to work in the darkness is the best one..
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PaybackJack posted:That page doesn't note that Dan Slott retconned their creation during his Might Avengers run, his retcon is that they were humans who were exposed to XENOgenic mist which the evil former Inhuman king was going to use to hill the Kree. Some of the Jenkins new Inhumans got their own book at one point as well. It was bad.
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Oct 1, 2016 02:43
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There's a special episode of "Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men" this week where Jay just sits on a couch with Al Ewing for an hour and a half. http://www.xplainthexmen.com/2016/09/x-tra-sofa-special-feat-al-ewing/ Skip to around 34:30 for important comics mustache news.
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So I've been reading through Brubaker's Captain America run on Marvel Unlimited after a ton of recommendations. At one point they have a backup story featuring Riki Barnes as Nomad. Has Marvel ever mentioned bringing her back? I know she gets "killed" in Onslaught but she seemed like a decent enough character and would fit with a lot of the younger heroes.
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Oct 1, 2016 10:24
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Wanderer posted:There's a special episode of "Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men" this week where Jay just sits on a couch with Al Ewing for an hour and a half. Along those lines, Kieron Gillen's Decompressed podcast is apparently back, and he talks with Al Ewing in the first one, too. That one was pretty great, and it looks like he's got Jonathan Hickman on the next one.
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So, we're starting to get the Now comics next week, close to three months before the end of CW2, presuming there are no further delays. It'll be interesting to see how Champions alludes to the event. If it's still set in the aftermath, I'm guessing incredibly vaguely. Probably more vague than was planned.
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Oct 1, 2016 11:41
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Is Avengers Assemble still horrible? I just saw that they have had both Ms Marvel and Captain Marvel in it. Also Angela?
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The ms marvel eps were decent and carol is a cocky jackass so they got her new character down i guess but no i wouldnt say the show itself has gotten any better or worth the trouble getting into I dont remember ever seeing angela either but all 3 seasons have been entirely forgettable so that memory may have just washed away
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Oct 1, 2016 17:43
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site posted:The ms marvel eps were decent and carol is a cocky jackass so they got her new character down i guess but no i wouldnt say the show itself has gotten any better or worth the trouble getting into I checked and she was actually in the Guardians cartoon, which I have never seen. I admit, I enjoy Ultimate Spider-Man enough, but that's more because he's got a good team with him and they go outside of the Spider-Man universe for stuff.
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Oct 1, 2016 18:15
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site posted:Carol is a cocky jackass so they got her new character down How is that her "new" character? She was always like that.
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Oct 1, 2016 21:25
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There's probably something to be said about how Carol's portrayal has shifted over the years. Under Claremont, she was calmly self-confident because she was very competent, though not without error. Post-Rogue, she became an increasingly tragic character, until Busiek, who wrote her as having a hair-trigger temper and brought her out of her alcoholism. Which is fine, as far as it goes, as a big part of her arc is that the modern Carol lost a lot of herself to Rogue that she would never get back, so that would naturally come with a lot of anger and a personality shift. Then Brian Reed comes along, and he writes Carol as starting from the ground up, gradually becoming more self-confident as she goes, but still prone to error and increasingly cocky. DeConnick builds off of that to basically write the modern Carol as the stereotypical fighter pilot: a self-assured risktaker. Weirdly, I think Warren Ellis, of all people, wrote the closest thing to Claremont's Carol in Avengers: Endless Wartime.
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Oct 1, 2016 22:07
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Trast posted:So I've been reading through Brubaker's Captain America run on Marvel Unlimited after a ton of recommendations. At one point they have a backup story featuring Riki Barnes as Nomad. Has Marvel ever mentioned bringing her back? I know she gets "killed" in Onslaught but she seemed like a decent enough character and would fit with a lot of the younger heroes. I don't believe so. There's an odd resistance to giving Cap a sidekick/teen counterpart. The closest is Ms America Chavez, and beyond wearing a blue t-shirt with a star on it, there's not much connection. I really liked Riki, and the Nomad miniseries had some kickass covers and a great moment at the end, where Black Widow finally gets Cap (Bucky at the time) to meet with her after the 616 version of her brother died during the events of the mini.
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Oct 1, 2016 22:07
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She wouldn't even have to be a Cap sidekick. Having her as Nomad and palling around with say Kate Bishop or Ms Marvel would be fun.
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Oct 1, 2016 22:22
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I think the best use of Carol was when she was in that coma ward or like 10 years.
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Oct 1, 2016 22:31
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This week's kingpin was a better punisher story than the punisher book
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Endless Mike posted:Batman is like half as good as Vision So basically I should give DC another chance because half as good as Vision is p.loving good
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Oct 3, 2016 01:06
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If you want to read a DC comic written by Tom King then The Omega Men is the correct choice.
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Thank god they didn't go with the stupid "Julian Day is super strong early in the year, but becomes a decrepit old man at the end of the year....so lets have him shoot all the guns" thing they implied from the Rebirth 1.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:If you want to read a DC comic written by Tom King then The Omega Men is the correct choice. And his Vertigo comic, Sheriff of Babylon is even better. e: Grayson ain't nothing to sneeze at neither. Don't let company ties stop you reading Tom King comics. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Oct 3, 2016 |
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There's some indie book you kept on saying people should buy Teenage Fansub, was that Sheriff of Babylon?
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The recent Vertigo ones I recommend are Unfollow and that, but my indie recs for the day are Low and House of Penance. Everybody read what I tell them, thanks. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Oct 3, 2016 |
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Lick! The! Whisk! posted:There's some indie book you kept on saying people should buy Teenage Fansub, was that Sheriff of Babylon? Sheriff of Babylon is right up there with The Omega Men, yes. Edit: Check out this great writeup comparing Vision, Omega, and Babylon Space Fish fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Oct 3, 2016 |
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Teenage Fansub posted:The recent Vertigo ones I recommend are Unfollow and that, but my indie recs for the day are Low and House of Penance. I read Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur and it was fun, so I trust you.
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site posted:Kinda digging tchallas hulkbuster armor the kitty ears make this armour.
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Wanderer posted:I can definitely see how, especially in the Marvel Universe, a bunch of normal people faced with a potential source of an origin might decide to stick around and go for it. Think of all the geeks who live in the real world and avidly follow anime, comics, or bad fantasy, finding succour from reality only through the juvenile power fantasies they play out in their heads daily while never having the characteristics or drive to be one of the special people in even a more grounded realistic way. Then think of how frustrating living in a world where some people get impossible abilities that make them special JUST COS would be, where there is even more of a gap between what some people have and what others could ever achieve. Finally here come the Terrigen Mists to make them as special as they've always wanted to be. Then their dick falls off and they lose all their hair and become so rotund they can only move by rolling and the unfairness of the world continues.
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Neurosis posted:Then their dick falls off and they lose all their hair and become so rotund they can only move by rolling and the unfairness of the world continues. Sensational new character find of 2016?
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Oct 3, 2016 08:37
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oh yeah I saw that comic where that happened to Princess Peach.
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Endless Mike posted:Yeah, being a big loving nerd is definitely on top of my list of superpowers. Well, I meant have a power that was actually useful in some way in the regular world. Like if I could have any super power in the real world, I'd want to be Doug Ramsey. You'd always be able to find good employment if you can speak literally any language. Failing that, healing factor.
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I would rather have a superpower to have all the money I will ever want or need so I don't need to work at all.
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Endless Mike posted:I would rather have a superpower to have all the money I will ever want or need so I don't need to work at all. You would be jailed for some kind of economic crime.
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Lurdiak posted:You would be jailed for some kind of economic crime. Also I'd be rich and white, so even if I lost, I'd get house arrest at worst.
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Me, I'm a guy of simple tastes. I just wanna fly. Be it wings, telekinesis, rocket farts, whatever man, just let me soar with the eagles. Not enough to actually risk ending up like that dude X-O mentioned though, uh-uh. Twisted makes a good point, Doug's would be useful as hell (which is funny considering he was always kind of seen as the lamest of the gang).
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