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I miss the Hal Jordan that got so mad he murdered every single space cop
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I miss big dumb Green Lantern who got so mad at a road sign he flew into it head first but it's yellow so he's severely injured.
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Jan 31, 2024 01:32
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Cowslips Warren posted:I like the red lantern that was a stray cat. He wasn't always a stray cat, had a loving home until jerks killed his caretaker. Got revenge but was still angry so kept being a red lantern.
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Jan 31, 2024 01:32
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I like the time in the 70s when conservative square Green Lantern and champagne socialist Green Arrow went on a roadtrip around America and confronted the failure of the American dream.
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Jan 31, 2024 01:43
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FreudianSlippers posted:I like the time in the 70s when conservative square Green Lantern and champagne socialist Green Arrow went on a roadtrip around America and confronted the failure of the American dream. Push El Burrito posted:I miss big dumb Green Lantern who got so mad at a road sign he flew into it head first but it's yellow so he's severely injured. Pretty sure both are Hal Jordan.
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Jan 31, 2024 02:20
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The thing with Hal Jordan is that when he was well written his entire thing is that he was "a man without fear and with incredible willpower' which it turns out also translated into him being kind of an idiot and an rear end in a top hat, but that was like the intentional reading. He has the world's most powerful weapon and the conflict was that it was in the hands of a man with a good heart but who was honestly kind of a shitbird. And that was interesting and him being flawed and failing and doing poo poo like "accidentally slips in the shower during an emergency, forcing John Stewart to take over for him" was part of the appeal of the character. And then Geoff Johns came along and spent entirely too long making him the coolest smartest and best in a way that devalued every aspect of the character. And it isn't the only character he did that to. Barry Allen, the original Flash, was kind of dull. He wasn't awful but he wasn't super great either and his death in Infinite Crisis meant they could open up the path for Wally West, who is the Flash most people think of now in personality if not in name. He was kind of arrogant and goofy and a bit of a dumbass and his immense power was tempered by his flaws and he was genuinely popular. Except Geoff Johns went "He isn't the same generic white man I read about as a child" and wrote a terrible story bringing him back as the FOR REAL FLASH while crapping over all the replacement Flashes. Only it turned out nobody gave a shiiiiit about Barry Allen or had any ideas for him so what they gradually did was just graft Wally West's traits onto Barry, to the point where a good chunk of Barry Allen stuff outside of the comics itself is just someone writing Wally West and calling him Barry Allen. And I'll stand by "replace all the new characters with their older, more boring, and whiter counterparts" being a dumb marketing move that stopped any sense of progression in the DC universe dead in the water.
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Jan 31, 2024 02:44
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Jan 31, 2024 02:51
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Dumb Marketing Moves: Tell me about comic books
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Jan 31, 2024 02:59
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There's a lot of dumb in comic books.
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Jan 31, 2024 03:00
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I think Geoff Johns is an idiot
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Jan 31, 2024 04:39
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PhazonLink posted:why does earth have so many GL's seems like a problem for galactic power balance It's so infested with supervillains that they kinda cancel out. Also yeah a lot of problems come down to Geoff Johns having the worst mix of wanting to revert comics to his childhood memories but also making a half-assed diversity push, resulting in things like putting Cyborg on the Justice League and giving him literally nothing to do.
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Jan 31, 2024 08:24
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Totally different subject but Kevin Spacey is Back!* * quote:The actor has booked his first comic book convention appearance, set for Feb. 16-18 at Mad Monster, the con held in Concord, North Carolina. Organizers announced Wednesday that he will be among the guests signing autographs and posing for photos. Also Jesus someone tried to get Jeffery Jones for a con?
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Jan 31, 2024 08:28
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Did I totally miss some Marvel movie that starred Kevin Spacey or something? This seems like a strange decision on multiple levels for Comicon to take.
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Jan 31, 2024 10:10
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Fruits of the sea posted:Did I totally miss some Marvel movie that starred Kevin Spacey or something? This seems like a strange decision on multiple levels for Comicon to take. He was in a Superman.
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Jan 31, 2024 10:11
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Fruits of the sea posted:Did I totally miss some Marvel movie that starred Kevin Spacey or something? This seems like a strange decision on multiple levels for Comicon to take. And I thought Megacon inviting Gina Carano is baffling.
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Jan 31, 2024 10:38
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Deadwood was shot starting the year after Jeffrey Jones was registered as a sex offender for soliciting a minor.
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Fruits of the sea posted:Did I totally miss some Marvel movie that starred Kevin Spacey or something? This seems like a strange decision on multiple levels for Comicon to take. It's a horror con. Horror conventions are smaller, more intimate, and have more niche guests. Horror actors, directors, effects artists ect. I've been to one and it was cool kinda, but small. No one was evil there though.
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Jan 31, 2024 12:31
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The MSJ posted:And I thought Megacon inviting Gina Carano is baffling. But if you read the comments on Facebook page, people are so excited because clearly she's a star on the level you would pay to get autographs from. I'm kind of surprised Disney hasn't dropped a brick.down that, you think, they would have some issues about her making money off of their licensed characters when they gave her the boot.
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Jan 31, 2024 13:20
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She was also at that megacon a few years ago. She draws a crowd. Just not a good one lol
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Jan 31, 2024 15:45
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Her fan base is literally people who hated her until she was fired by their woke enemy It's hilarious that she courts the same people who called her role sjw pandering
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Brawnfire posted:Her fan base is literally people who hated her until she was fired by their woke enemy And they still hate her when she's in rightwing-made movies as A Strong Female Character. poo poo's weird, yo.
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Jan 31, 2024 17:41
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She needs to change her name because whenever she's brought up my mind instantly goes to Carla Gugino first and I have a moment of panic.
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Jan 31, 2024 17:48
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Guga Carlano? Nona Gincarlo?
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Jan 31, 2024 17:52
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Hank Hill is a Green Lantern right
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Jan 31, 2024 18:15
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Hank only fills his lanterns with clean burning propane
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Jan 31, 2024 18:31
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If it's clean, it's green!
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Reminder Johns came up with a load of color-coded Lanterns that even got a cartoon, it was a license to print money but someone at DC or WB put the kibosh on it because, or so the rumor says, too many girls were into the cartoon thus the action figures didn’t sell well. *stares at the camera in Super Sentai/Power Rangers*
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Reminder Johns came up with a load of color-coded Lanterns that even got a cartoon, it was a license to print money but someone at DC or WB put the kibosh on it because, or so the rumor says, too many girls were into the cartoon thus the action figures didn’t sell well. *stares at the camera in Super Sentai/Power Rangers* I think that was Young Justice but wouldn't be surprised if it was both.
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It was both.
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The GL movie failing also killed the GL cartoon. They didn't have shelf space for the cartoon toys when the movie toys were still clogging the inventory years after its release. Contrast this with Transformers which can have toys for a new movie, a current cartoon, a movie from 40 years ago, a movie from 15 years ago and a cartoon from 20 years ago being sold together. The MSJ has a new favorite as of 04:11 on Feb 1, 2024 |
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Feb 1, 2024 04:08
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Really it's kind of a dumb marketing move that it somehow took them so long to come up with other colors of lantern besides green and yellow. Once yellow was introduced it seems like the flood gates should have opened.
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My favorite was Larfleeze, the Orange Lantern of Avarice. It made him an uncontrollable agent of greed that believed that everything in the universe was begging him to acquire it. And there was only ever 1 ring for obvious reasons. I actually really like the Emotional Spectrum and their various Lantern Corps as a comic book concept.
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Ommin posted:My favorite was Larfleeze, the Orange Lantern of Avarice. It made him an uncontrollable agent of greed that believed that everything in the universe was begging him to acquire it. And there was only ever 1 ring for obvious reasons. I actually really like the Emotional Spectrum and their various Lantern Corps as a comic book concept. Technically there's a lot of rings, and they've possibly against Larfleeze's will 'deputised' some characters at points (including Lex Luthor) but usually they're just laying in Larfleeze's hoard. Definitely one of those fun concepts that deserves some actual competent writers exploring it, Geoff Johns seems to at least come up with or sign off on some good ideas but then has so many stubborn hangups and refuses to let them actually develop. Doesn't help a lot of comic writers are just as bad, I heard one writer openly hated all the non human looking characters and kept trying to kill them all off, which is a bit of a problem when that's pretty much literally every supporting character many of which are fan favourites.
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Yeah, I want to say that the alien characters ended up being a complaint about the movie, but I thought Oa was one of the few things they did well and they should have spent more time there. Michael Clarke Duncan and Mark Strong were inspired casting and completely wasted. Oh poo poo, this isn't the movie thread. Sorry to continue the derail.
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Feb 1, 2024 06:12
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Phone game ads are basically an ocean of straight up lies nowadays but this one was really something special. Try and guess the game before revealing the spoiler!  SHOOT NOW, MY LORD
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Feb 2, 2024 02:54
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gently caress that's not what the gameplay is for that game, like not at all.
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Feb 2, 2024 02:58
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Kwyndig posted:gently caress that's not what the gameplay is for that game, like not at all. I've seen ads for it, if the gameplay wasn't like that then someone would have said something by now and they'd be in trouble.
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Feb 2, 2024 03:37
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On the bright side, now the ad matches the gameplay in terms of the amount of large-breasted women in gowns it contains
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I was not expecting to get it right 
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Dewgy posted:Try and guess the game before revealing the spoiler! Good lord, I actually got it right. What do I win? Arbitrary Number posted:I was not expecting to get it right We are the mightiest hivemind.
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