|
But doesn't being one of the most powerful beings in the universe increase the chances of John Constantine loving with you?
|
# ? May 14, 2017 14:31 |
|
|
# ? May 30, 2024 13:38 |
|
Jerusalem posted:Tony: This is just nonsense, pure nonsense. I imagine all of Reed Richards' petty arguments come down to "Well, my four-year-old daughter understands this, so you must be an imbecile."
|
# ? May 14, 2017 14:38 |
|
Scaramouche posted:It's great if you love reading pages and pages of so and so pushed/pulled the thinger interspersed with so and so burned (metal). It's loving worse than Wheel of Time's adjusted skirt/pulled braid nonsense. Yeah action scenes being described sucks. Should just say then he punched a dude x1000 IMO.
|
# ? May 14, 2017 14:42 |
Jerusalem posted:But doesn't being one of the most powerful beings in the universe increase the chances of John Constantine loving with you? When you become the most powerful being in the universe I would assume you'd also gain enough knowledge to get the gently caress away from Constantine (like the Swamp Thing did).
|
|
# ? May 14, 2017 14:49 |
|
Alhazred posted:Being in the close proximity of John Constantine and surviving pretty much makes you the most powerful being in the universe. Chas is God?
|
# ? May 14, 2017 15:16 |
Alhazred posted:When you become the most powerful being in the universe I would assume you'd also gain enough knowledge to get the gently caress away from Constantine (like the Swamp Thing did). Too little too late. John cost him his soul.
|
|
# ? May 14, 2017 15:57 |
Sentinel Red posted:Chas is God? Well, one of Constantine's friends turned out to be be the once and future king of England so its not exactly unprecedented.
|
|
# ? May 14, 2017 16:06 |
|
Jerusalem posted:Tony: This is just nonsense, pure nonsense. Tony: Excuse me for just a moment...
|
# ? May 14, 2017 16:09 |
|
Alhazred posted:When you become the most powerful being in the universe I would assume you'd also gain enough knowledge to get the gently caress away from Constantine (like the Swamp Thing did).
|
# ? May 14, 2017 16:10 |
Ygolonac posted:
It makes me laugh every time I see that posted that Tony's holocard inexplicably shows Maria Hill's boobs instead of just her head and shoulders.
|
|
# ? May 14, 2017 16:14 |
Lurdiak posted:It makes me laugh every time I see that posted that Tony's holocard inexplicably shows Maria Hill's boobs instead of just her head and shoulders. I'd like to think that the breasts aren't hers, they're actually something the holocard adds to anyone who calls.
|
|
# ? May 14, 2017 16:20 |
|
Discendo Vox posted:I'd like to think that the breasts aren't hers, they're actually something the holocard adds to anyone who calls. "Stark, it's Richards... why are you giggling like a madman more than usual?"
|
# ? May 14, 2017 17:16 |
|
Maybe he was inspired by the ancient Greeks and Romans? https://i.imgur.com/lOuGj8N.jpg (linked for statuary penis)
|
# ? May 14, 2017 19:24 |
|
Gorilla Salad posted:Maybe he was inspired by the ancient Greeks and Romans? This is the ideal make body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
|
# ? May 14, 2017 20:53 |
|
|
# ? May 15, 2017 09:48 |
Grendels Dad posted:Normally I'd agree, but if it's magic that's so easy a five year old could use it I feel there needs to be some sort of explanation for why nobody else uses it. Like, what would stop Joker from giving Zatanna constipation right back?
|
|
# ? May 15, 2017 10:00 |
|
"Gnihtyreve od em tel Problem solved
|
# ? May 15, 2017 10:25 |
|
Nessus posted:Zatanna had to train a whole bunch in order to get good at magic, the backwards words is just her focusing device. I think she also has a nebulous focus/energy limitation so she can do anything but not everything, so to speak. There was also her 90s miniseries, Zatanna: Come Together, which revamped her powers to do away with the backward-speaking; instead, she got a magic staff and elemental-based magic powers. I'm pretty sure it was forgotten the moment the last issue shipped.
|
# ? May 15, 2017 12:01 |
|
Inkspot posted:I imagine all of Reed Richards' petty arguments come down to "Well, my four-year-old daughter understands this, so you must be an imbecile." I actually far prefer the idea of Reed being genuinely perplexed that people don't get it and just wanting earnestly to help them figure it out, which ends up perplexing him more because he can't understand why everybody is getting so frustrated and angry at him. Reed: Look my 4-year-old daughter gets this, so I know you can too buddy! Tony: Now Doom on the other hand.... there's a dude who likes to rub it in if you don't get it.
|
# ? May 15, 2017 12:23 |
I remember Hickman's run starting with Reed angrily yelling at a room full of scientists because they were proposing sensible solutions to humanity's problems instead of dumb comic book nonsense. I don't know what exactly Hickman was going for there but that's probably one of the most perfect encapsulations of why everyone hates Reed Richards I've ever seen.
|
|
# ? May 15, 2017 12:32 |
|
Hey, when you live in crazy, magical super science land you drat well better be using some super science.
|
# ? May 15, 2017 13:52 |
|
yeah, real world physical problems generally shouldn't be problems in the mu except when some cartoonishly evil dudes (usually roxxon) deliberately cause them. if i was capable of ending world hunger single-handed at any time i wouldn't have much patience for useless academics either.
|
# ? May 15, 2017 14:13 |
|
gimme the GOD drat candy posted:yeah, real world physical problems generally shouldn't be problems in the mu except when some cartoonishly evil dudes (usually roxxon) deliberately cause them. if i was capable of ending world hunger single-handed at any time i wouldn't have much patience for useless academics either. Richards might have a leg to stand on if 99% of his time wasn't spent jerking off into the Negative Zone and another 0.9% spent fixing doomsday scenarios he caused.
|
# ? May 15, 2017 14:19 |
|
Who What Now posted:Richards might have a leg to stand on if 99% of his time wasn't spent jerking off into the Negative Zone and another 0.9% spent fixing doomsday scenarios he caused. well, that was his point. despite never doing jack poo poo to improve the world outside of superheroics, reed publicly announced that he was gonna get started. note: he still did jack poo poo in the end.
|
# ? May 15, 2017 14:29 |
|
Who What Now posted:Richards might have a leg to stand on if 99% of his time wasn't spent jerking off into the Negative Zone Don't kinkshame.
|
# ? May 15, 2017 14:51 |
|
gimme the GOD drat candy posted:well, that was his point. despite never doing jack poo poo to improve the world outside of superheroics, reed publicly announced that he was gonna get started. Didn't his solution involve "putting everyone who disagrees with me in a Negative Zone prison"?
|
# ? May 15, 2017 16:24 |
|
prefect posted:Didn't his solution involve "putting everyone who disagrees with me in a Negative Zone prison"? nah, that was an earlier run by a different author, plus there was event-related stupidity involved. hickman's ff run was pretty good.
|
# ? May 15, 2017 16:50 |
|
I think my favorite moment with Reed along those lines was some guy who was going to try to kill himself because he had cancer and was afraid of dying alone, so Reed gave him some sort of device to contact him when he's about to die so Reed can be there with him. Instead of, you know, curing his cancer or whatever.
|
# ? May 15, 2017 16:51 |
|
John Dyne posted:I think my favorite moment with Reed along those lines was some guy who was going to try to kill himself because he had cancer and was afraid of dying alone, so Reed gave him some sort of device to contact him when he's about to die so Reed can be there with him. Reed can't play god, damnit! *literally creates a new universe where he is god*
|
# ? May 15, 2017 16:57 |
|
John Dyne posted:I think my favorite moment with Reed along those lines was some guy who was going to try to kill himself because he had cancer and was afraid of dying alone, so Reed gave him some sort of device to contact him when he's about to die so Reed can be there with him. Look if you want the FF to cure your cancer you need to be a beloved long time mailman to the Baxter Building.
|
# ? May 15, 2017 16:59 |
|
I'm glad everyone here is coming around the realization that Reed is bad and Doom is good.
|
# ? May 15, 2017 17:04 |
|
Happy Noodle Boy posted:I'm glad everyone here is coming around the realization that Reed is bad and Doom is God.
|
# ? May 15, 2017 18:09 |
|
Toshimo posted:Doom is God
|
# ? May 15, 2017 18:12 |
|
Jerusalem posted:I actually far prefer the idea of Reed being genuinely perplexed that people don't get it and just wanting earnestly to help them figure it out, which ends up perplexing him more because he can't understand why everybody is getting so frustrated and angry at him. I did specify "petty." Jerusalem posted:Now Doom on the other hand.... there's a dude who likes to rub it in if you don't get it. Seems on the level to me. Omipotence, yes. Omniscience, no. Who doesn't like a good challenge?
|
# ? May 15, 2017 21:04 |
|
But if Doom already knows everything, there is nothing Doom has to strive for!
|
# ? May 15, 2017 21:45 |
|
Why people hate Reed Richards...
|
# ? May 16, 2017 01:11 |
|
This did that better:
|
# ? May 16, 2017 01:17 |
One of my favorite "Reed is a dick" stories, and I don't have the faintest idea what issue or run it was, was about a scientist who had spent like his entire career coming up with a giant clunky prototype shrink ray, and one day before meeting with investors, Reed revealed a handheld, fully perfected, ready for mass production and reversible shrink ray that'd he come up with, as an addendum to a press conference about something entirely unrelated. So basically something he came up with in an afternoon invalidated another man's entire life's work.
|
|
# ? May 16, 2017 05:55 |
|
Lurdiak posted:One of my favorite "Reed is a dick" stories, and I don't have the faintest idea what issue or run it was, was about a scientist who had spent like his entire career coming up with a giant clunky prototype shrink ray, and one day before meeting with investors, Reed revealed a handheld, fully perfected, ready for mass production and reversible shrink ray that'd he come up with, as an addendum to a press conference about something entirely unrelated. So basically something he came up with in an afternoon invalidated another man's entire life's work. I'm not sure if it's what you're thinking of, but there was an issue in Charles Soule's recent She-Hulk run that sounds really similar. A guy makes a shrink ray but can't get his partner/co-inventor to agree to sell it to a third party. His partner shrinks himself and hides in his yard to avoid responsibility, and She-Hulk has to find him (with help from guest star Hank Pym). When they do find him, Hank tells him the shrink ray is dangerous and unstable and the inventor gets pissed and claims Pym is trying to discredit him and dominate the shrinking industry.
|
# ? May 16, 2017 06:26 |
|
|
# ? May 30, 2024 13:38 |
TwoPair posted:I'm not sure if it's what you're thinking of, but there was an issue in Charles Soule's recent She-Hulk run that sounds really similar. A guy makes a shrink ray but can't get his partner/co-inventor to agree to sell it to a third party. His partner shrinks himself and hides in his yard to avoid responsibility, and She-Hulk has to find him (with help from guest star Hank Pym). When they do find him, Hank tells him the shrink ray is dangerous and unstable and the inventor gets pissed and claims Pym is trying to discredit him and dominate the shrinking industry. Nah it's way older than that. It might've been a Marvel Adventures issue but I don't know for sure. Hank Pym isn't involved at all, but Psycho-man does get involved.
|
|
# ? May 16, 2017 06:28 |