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Doctor Spaceman posted:Last year someone suggested (seriously, as far as I can tell) that Squirrel Girl was designed to fail so that Marvel didn't have to keep making stuff with a female lead. It was both dead serious and loving hilarious.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 00:51 |
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Last year someone suggested (seriously, as far as I can tell) that Squirrel Girl was designed to fail so that Marvel didn't have to keep making stuff with a female lead. I love the idea of false flag comic books.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 01:06 |
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Skwirl posted:I love the idea of false flag comic books. It was a plot by the Rand Corporation, in conjunction with Ike Perlmutter and the reverse vampires.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 01:20 |
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Travis343 posted:I'm glad people like Squirrel Girl. I don't want to put people down for liking it. Just had to get that off my chest. This opinion is acceptable, you're cool in my book.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 02:31 |
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attn DrProsek
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 03:20 |
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Well that plan backfired since women led books were among Marvel's top sellers last year.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 04:57 |
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Travis343 posted:I'm glad people like Squirrel Girl. I don't want to put people down for liking it. Just had to get that off my chest. I can respect that opinion as, while I like the book, I do find that all of North's characters sound a little same-y and his dialogue sounds unnatural at times (as though he's trying to force characters to fit punchlines into 4 panels ) TwoPair fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Feb 26, 2016 |
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Best Mutant Ever: Found!! jfc, his speech balloons are little scrolls.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 07:57 |
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Squizzle posted:Best Mutant Ever: Found!! oldschool Comicraft was so good
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 13:13 |
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Backstory: My phone is dead after an inadvertent bath. I'm old and don't do the Facebook much, but it seemed the best way to get the message out that "hey, don't bother calling me until I can buy a new phone on payday". I have a carpool buddy and wanted to let her know, but we weren't FB friends yet, so I looked her name up. Found her, but it took a good hot minute of scrutinizing her features in the photos she posted to conclude that this sexy woman without glasses, slightly different hair, and a non-work outfit was actually the same gal I work with every night. My point being: suddenly the "how does anyone not realize Clark and Superman are the same guy?" question has become moot for me. It happens in real life.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 15:35 |
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sup thread I know absolutely nothing about comics. When I turned eight (or nine or ten, goddamn I wish this had a date) I went to see a movie with friends and afterward spent a few minutes in a comic book shop. There was an artist there and my two friends and I got to name our favorite superhero and he drew drew them. They chose Wolverine and Spiderman but they're lame as gently caress Anyone recognize the signature? Was this an actual artist or some schmuck who could draw well? Estimated year was 1992-1994.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 21:57 |
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Aliquid posted:sup thread Looks like Art Nichols to me. Fairly regularly-used inker and sometimes penciller. Did some covers of DC's The Ray with Joe Quesada. edit: Yup. Zoom in on the front cover to see the matching autograph. (you may have to scroll down to get to the original listing) redbackground fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Feb 26, 2016 |
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Chinaman7000 posted:STAH thread makes me wonder, what's the actual best/most clever use of GL or any GL style power in comics. So you can create anything you think of, that's cool, there should be like a million great stories using that cleverly. Instead, the most iconic GL stuff seems to be more about being space cops or emotional warfare. I like Kyle and designs given to him were more interesting to look at but still feels like it hasn't been tapped that much as a concept. My favorite use is from a Justice League story from the post-Giffen run when Maxima and Guy swindled some aliens. They apparently owned the deed to our galaxy and long story short, Maxima paid them off with a fuckton of gold or space gold or whatever it was. In actuality, she just mentally told Guy (who was using Sinestro's ring those days) to construct mountains of that stuff. The constructs would dissipate eventually, but the aliens would be long gone and supposedly wouldn't notice for years. I miss Maxima. She never showed up in New 52, did she.
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# ? Feb 27, 2016 01:15 |
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Gavok posted:I miss Maxima. She never showed up in New 52, did she. She was a supporting character in Supergirl before it was canceled.
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Action Jacktion posted:She was a supporting character in Supergirl before it was canceled. Man. I liked what Supergirl was doing with some of its characters. Its version of Silver Banshee was actually a pretty cool idea. Execution was kinda lacking over the whole series, but, eh, whatever.
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redbackground posted:Looks like Art Nichols to me. Fairly regularly-used inker and sometimes penciller. Did some covers of DC's The Ray with Joe Quesada. Thanks!
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Squizzle posted:attn DrProsek Looking at Beef on Comicvine, has he genuinely been in way more stuff after he died than before? I've read New Mutants and X-Force and I think I've read most of Beef's appearances and it has all been Necrosha stuff. (No, I didn't totally forget that I added "something with Beef in it" to my reading list, why do you ask )
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Attention Gavok:
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# ? Feb 27, 2016 18:28 |
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Look at this Look
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# ? Feb 28, 2016 01:07 |
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Lurdiak posted:Attention Gavok: Holy. gently caress. Why does this even exist? Answer me!
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Gavok posted:Holy. gently caress. Well, as far as I can tell, it's originally from a 4chan "drawthread" where someone inexplicably requested it, and someone else thought it was weird enough to be fun to draw. I'm sorry that that's possibly the worst answer I could give to that question.
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# ? Feb 28, 2016 01:24 |
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Last year someone suggested (seriously, as far as I can tell) that Squirrel Girl was designed to fail so that Marvel didn't have to keep making stuff with a female lead. Love the /co/ belief that nobody likes anything but meat n potatoes superhero books, so anything else is ☆fake pseudo activism☆
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# ? Feb 28, 2016 01:43 |
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Lightning Lord posted:Love the /co/ belief that nobody likes anything but meat n potatoes superhero books, so anything else is ☆fake pseudo activism☆ Similarly I see people lament why DC is bothering to try to pick up new readers when the core meat n potatoes group are the only people who buy comics. Good point, I guess nobody buys Marvel comics. After all, if I'm not buying a comic, there is no way anybody else is reading it despite sales numbers. (In fairness going for the core audience would be better for DC than the DCYou middle ground where neither new nor core readers are buying DC in impressive numbers, but there is no form of media that survives with a model of "stop getting new folks, pray current fans live forever and never tire from our comics)
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# ? Feb 28, 2016 03:01 |
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DrProsek posted:(In fairness going for the core audience would be better for DC than the DCYou middle ground where neither new nor core readers are buying DC in impressive numbers, but there is no form of media that survives with a model of "stop getting new folks, pray current fans live forever and never tire from our comics) I think the idea is that they get to take their favorite characters with them, like an emperor's slaves to his tomb.
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# ? Feb 28, 2016 03:06 |
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I'm so loving tempted to get a complete set of Warrior Magazine on eBay. It would be such a stupid decision. Anything I want to read from it I own in better quality. But man....it would be so cool to own.
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# ? Feb 28, 2016 16:04 |
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Marvel did mini-crossovers in their annuals. The most famous ones are Atlantis Attacks and the Evolutionary War (which were also the biggest) but there were others like Return of the Defenders, which I've just read (involving the Hulk, Namor, Dr Strange and Silver Surfer annuals), the Korvac Quest (the GOTG, Silver Surfer, FF and Thor annuals), Subterranean Wars (Avengers, West Coast Avengers, Namor, Iron Man, Hulk) and others. For the most part, they were a bit of a drag, but I'm curious to know - were any of them especially good?
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Wheat Loaf posted:In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Marvel did mini-crossovers in their annuals. The most famous ones are Atlantis Attacks and the Evolutionary War (which were also the biggest) but there were others like Return of the Defenders, which I've just read (involving the Hulk, Namor, Dr Strange and Silver Surfer annuals), the Korvac Quest (the GOTG, Silver Surfer, FF and Thor annuals), Subterranean Wars (Avengers, West Coast Avengers, Namor, Iron Man, Hulk) and others. I remember Assault on Armor City's being really, really terrible.
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# ? Feb 28, 2016 20:57 |
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Backstory: My phone is dead after an inadvertent bath. I'm old and don't do the Facebook much, but it seemed the best way to get the message out that "hey, don't bother calling me until I can buy a new phone on payday". I have a carpool buddy and wanted to let her know, but we weren't FB friends yet, so I looked her name up. Found her, but it took a good hot minute of scrutinizing her features in the photos she posted to conclude that this sexy woman without glasses, slightly different hair, and a non-work outfit was actually the same gal I work with every night. When I was in the military, I was in the weight management program and two times a week, my Major and I would go to a spin class during lunch. I would also never wear my glasses when I exercise as I hate getting sweat on them. So we'd been doing this for a month or so and there was one other person in the class in the program (gotta get a paper signed by the instructor) and I always felt better that I wasnt the only one in the class who was doing that. So for about two weeks Id been seeing this girl, she would come over to my dorm room after she got off work, she was spending just about every night over, etc. Eventually, the other person and I both went up to get our papers signed at the same time and I could finally get a good look at her and see it was the girl I'd been dating. I had only ever seen her outside of our duty stations, so I had never seen her with her hair up and not in civvies. I asked her why she hadn't said anything up to that point and she said she thought i was embarrassed being in the program and didn't want to talk about it. Basically when Clark Kent takes his glasses off, so does the rest of the world.
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