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prefect posted:The part where Guardian's suit can make him stop moving relative to Earth's rotation seems like it would require some crazy physics. Pfft, that's basically just super speed. Earth rotates around 1,000 MPH so that's not even Quicksilver speed.
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Lobok posted:Pfft, that's basically just super speed. Earth rotates around 1,000 MPH so that's not even Quicksilver speed. If he's way up north in Canada, it's much slower. I don't know if that was ever shown.
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Lobok posted:Pfft, that's basically just super speed. Earth rotates around 1,000 MPH so that's not even Quicksilver speed. In exactly one direction, ever, though. That's the shittiest super speed.
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Cleretic posted:In exactly one direction, ever, though. That's the shittiest super speed. It's one of those "I wouldn't complain if I had it but it's not very good" powers.
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bobkatt013 posted:And filming money A Vancouverite superhero who's power is to not-quite resemble anyone—good enough to fool most people if they aren't paying attention, but people who know him immediately pick up who he is.
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Cleretic posted:In exactly one direction, ever, though. That's the shittiest super speed. The name? Latitude! And I've got attitude! The closer I get to the equator the faster I go, and pal, we're at 9° so you're about to see some serious $#!† ! Wait no, come back! Go that way! Aww
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Push El Burrito posted:They kept baby Magneto in a cell. It's a baby jail. Then later on Magneto captures the x-men and locks them in baby chairs so they can suffer as he did: ![]()
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X-Men living the best lives ever and they hate it.
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![]() ![]() The Blue Beetle #3 (1940) ![]() Haunt of Fear #4 (1950) ![]() House of Mystery #14 (1953) ![]() House of Secrets #10 (1958) ![]() The Silver Surfer #18 (1970) ![]() Blue Devil #2 (1984)
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I love that everyone, even monsters, had to wear tiny little trunks back in the old days. It led to Fin Fang Foom's pants in Nextwave.
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Kalli posted:Then later on Magneto captures the x-men and locks them in baby chairs so they can suffer as he did: Draft script of The Matrix lookin' good.
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Saoshyant posted:Peter tries to get a new job: also, hawkeye, don't be a dick, thor can afford his own glasses.
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Senior Woodchuck posted:"The ultimate product of Canadian technology" Hey we built the least broken part of the space shuttle program.
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You know, early Blue Devil wasn't great, but it was Good Enough.
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Scaramouche posted:You know, early Blue Devil wasn't great, but it was Good Enough. You like late Blue Devil instead? The first year is a fun book.
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Random Stranger posted:You like late Blue Devil instead? Ehhh not as much a fan. I liked Blue Devil as a kid (yes I was alive when it originally published) but the more it leaned into the hell stuff the less I liked it. Edit-whoops missed your point entirely. Yes I like the earlier stuff better, despite the warts of the time period
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Scaramouche posted:You know, early Blue Devil wasn't great, but it was Good Enough. Blue Devil was my favorite comic as a kid. I have an entire collection of the first series. The whole technology and supernatural thing was kinda new at the time.
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![]() For context: a man who loves karate dies and goes to a fantasy world. This is how he dies: fighting a car thetoughestbean fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Apr 29, 2020 |
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Scaramouche posted:Ehhh not as much a fan. I liked Blue Devil as a kid (yes I was alive when it originally published) but the more it leaned into the hell stuff the less I liked it. I enjoyed BD myself, but like too many humorous comics (looking at you, Justice League), it got sillier and more sitcom-ish as it went on. Still, silly was better than the grimdark stuff they did with BD during the Day of Judgment/Shadowpact era. (And Paris Cullins was a great artist.)
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thetoughestbean posted:
The fact that the name of this comic is literally "Karate Idiot Fantasy World" charms me.
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thetoughestbean posted:
drat this makes me want a baki isekai
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thetoughestbean posted:
It's always a truck isn't it. ![]() From Isekai Shikkaku
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'Truck-kun' being the preferred way to send heros on their isekai adventure is as much of a trope, as it is a meme. So what happens if you make a series about the driver of Truck-kun? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Series is Isekai Transporter
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....Peter Sutcliffe, the Manga. (If you are not from the UK, do not Google him. Just accept that this was an on point reference and move on. You don't want to know what he did.)
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The Question IRL posted:....Peter Sutcliffe, the Manga. Killer reference there
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bunnyofdoom posted:Killer reference there Literally
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Ygolonac posted:
quote:Abdul Smith - an African-American shoeshine boy who received half a million dollars due to a bug in his bank's computer. He shrewdly multiplied that stake, returned it to the bank, and had a million dollars left.
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Skwirl posted:Like that kid wouldn't have ended up in jail for the rest of his life when he tried to return the money, if he wasn't shot. ![]() Even more unbelievable is that they tried to reboot it. ![]() (It ran six whole issues, everyone accidentally gets superpowers via nanites, and it ends with them buying the Teen Titans.)
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Oh well if this was under Prez's administration he obviously did something to the national chi to make this feasible. Under America's first teen President, many things are possible.
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Skwirl posted:Like that kid wouldn't have ended up in jail for the rest of his life when he tried to return the money, if he wasn't shot. Also, please note that the only way the writers could think of for a black kid to get that rich in the first place was a bank error. The other kids made their respective piles in oil, shipping, and movies, but ol' Token over there just got lucky.
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a kitten posted:Spy x Family Did they redraw that joke for Americans? Do the Japanese use the idiom "whole enchilada?"
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Skwirl posted:Did they redraw that joke for Americans? Do the Japanese use the idiom "whole enchilada?" From the Spy X Family thread: a kitten posted:Something like this according to someone on reddit:
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Evil Mastermind posted:Even more unbelievable is that they tried to reboot it. It had a counterpart that released at the same time, too, that was meant to be like the other side of the coin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Movement_(comics) It ended up making it to twelve issues.
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Selachian posted:Also, please note that the only way the writers could think of for a black kid to get that rich in the first place was a bank error. The other kids made their respective piles in oil, shipping, and movies, but ol' Token over there just got lucky. Reading the wiki it said he made money with wise stock investments after the initial error but then apparently his wise stock investment was to show some guys he had money and for them to invest it for him.
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Push El Burrito posted:Reading the wiki it said he made money with wise stock investments after the initial error but then apparently his wise stock investment was to show some guys he had money and for them to invest it for him. That's so loving dumb. Couldn't just be that he learned how to pick stocks by shoe shining on Wallstreet or whatever.
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Me in an art supply store (at least it was, in the before times) https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1257112822221344768?s=20
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Evil Mastermind posted:Actually, the more unbelievable part is that the kid went into a stockbrokers' office, showed them his million dollars, and the stockbrokers invested the money for him instead of ripping him off. Meanwhile, in the late 1980s, ![]()
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