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tragedyjones posted:Deus ex Krypton is a better example. 'God from Kypton' vs Kal from Machine. Depends on if you consider the birthing matrix to still be canon or not, I'd say. 
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This thread is amazing. Love it, reminds me of why I love comics. We3 and the Hanged Man story in Astro City are probably the best to me(I love how that Astro City tale is still relevant since DC can't stop having time altering world events). Just perfect moments. Surprised not to see more Miracleman or Sandman in here, not that I can think of any specific moments. I will definitely to to dig some up to contribute soon.
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KittenofDoom posted:I'm not arguing against flying people in leotards, I'm saying that selectively ignoring physics and reality to write your way out of a knot is lazy and contrived. It's like having Batman pull an Bat-Anti-Bullet spray out of his utility belt to avoid being shot in the face. Hey, when Superman picked Connor off the boat going Ludicrous Speed without slowing down, Connor should have been turned into a fine red mist. But I let it go. 
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Stop arguing stupid comic book physics or I'm turning this thread around right now, I swear to god!Magic Love Hose posted:Love that sequence. (Obviously.) It's actually thanks to your sig I bothered reading that issue. Here's a scene from Action Comics 762. It was released around christmas time, and just like christmas, some will like it and others will find it sappy and trying to hard.     
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Aug 25, 2011 15:44
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Vakal posted:Was combing through some some old No Man's Land comics and one of them had this short story done in the BTAS style. I love the emotion the artist conveys in Cassandra in the last panel even with her full mask with a simple hand gesture and a little shadowing.
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Trast posted:I love the emotion the artist conveys in Cassandra in the last panel even with her full mask with a simple hand gesture and a little shadowing.  Actually that would be Helena Bertinelli who was the first to wear that costume since at that time Cassandra was mute so she wouldn't have been speaking
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Aug 27, 2011 04:40
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Revol posted:
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Aug 28, 2011 13:52
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While reading Action comics 775, this little gem caught my eye. "It's worked for better men than me". How fantastic, how amazing. That this man who can juggle planets and ignite suns can still be so humble.  I posted this in the new DCU thread  I think it's sad that this is probably the best send-off of postcrisis Superman we'll ever gonna get. It's been fun, Kal-el. I'll miss you 
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Sep 1, 2011 11:03
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You might wanna check your image links there.
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Sep 1, 2011 11:31
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Lurdiak posted:You might wanna check your image links there. Oops! Thanks for the heads up
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I'm not the world's biggest fan of Geoff Johns, but I have to admit: this might be the best thing he's ever written. 
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Magic Love Hose posted:I'm not the world's biggest fan of Geoff Johns, but I have to admit: this might be the best thing he's ever written. Mind posting the source for that?
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Madkal posted:Mind posting the source for that? Secret Origin 1 or 2
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Sep 1, 2011 23:02
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He really knocked that scene out of the park. When he killed off Pa Kent I was kind of annoyed that Jeph Loeb had already used the speech from Superman 1, I think it would have been very fitting in Johns scene.
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Heh, I just read Superman: Secret Origin this week, and after disliking most of Johns' Green Lantern run and all the Blackest Night/Brightest Day stuff and HATING Infinite Crisis, I enjoyed the hell out of Secret Origin. I was stunned that he actually GOT the essence of Superman, in a way that many writers never have. I don't usually follow Superman discussion, so did fans generally like the story? Was it popular? It definitely had that "movie treatment" feeling (as long as they cut the Legion chapter), but it was so much better than Green Lantern: Secret Origin and had more heart than most of Johns' other recent work.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Heh, I just read Superman: Secret Origin this week, and after disliking most of Johns' Green Lantern run and all the Blackest Night/Brightest Day stuff and HATING Infinite Crisis, I enjoyed the hell out of Secret Origin. I was stunned that he actually GOT the essence of Superman, in a way that many writers never have. I don't usually follow Superman discussion, so did fans generally like the story? Was it popular? It definitely had that "movie treatment" feeling (as long as they cut the Legion chapter), but it was so much better than Green Lantern: Secret Origin and had more heart than most of Johns' other recent work. He had a really good Superman run
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bobkatt013 posted:He had a really good Superman run Yeah, if you liked Secret Origin, you should really see what he did when he took the book for a spin recently.
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Just bought and read Secret Origin thanks to the recommendations, and yeah that was great. Makes the Superman who showed up at the end of Justice League #1 really depressing though.
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Professor X tries to negotiate with Galactus to save the Skrull homeworld. It ends as expected... http://i.imgur.com/3tb0G.jpg http://i.imgur.com/YhynC.jpg http://i.imgur.com/72pJO.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1ZJmJ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/uiEEn.jpg EDIT: Oh, X-Men 90 (2nd Series) DarkCrawler fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Sep 6, 2011 |
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Sep 5, 2011 15:32
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Exiles #45. Just to refresh, the Exiles are a team of heroes from alternate universes who have become "unhinged from time" and must correct errors in other worlds, hoping to repair their own timelines and return to their own realities. After one such mission, the one who gathered them, the Timebroker, appears before Morph, and informs him the team is moving on to the next mission - without him...  
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The final pages of Incredible Hulks #635, the end of Greg Pak's run with the character. There was just a big storyline involving characters good and bad getting splashed with a wishing well and their wish magic clashing with each other. In the end, Hulk gives up an eternity of gleefully fighting Red She-Hulk and a world of demons so he can save Earth. Red She-Hulk still has a little bit of wish magic left on her, so she wishes that Bruce -- not Hulk -- would get what he wants. Nothing seems to happen and the villain Tyrannus points out what nobody else has realized: Banner and Hulk are not two different entities. They're just one guy who has trouble dealing with his issues and has to blame someone else. Hulk throws a hissy fit that knocks everyone away, turns back into Banner and walks off alone, saying "Yeah. You got me." Two weeks later, Amadeus tracks him down at a diner in the middle of nowhere.       The waving on the last page is adorable.
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DarkCrawler posted:Professor X tries to negotiate with Galactus to save the Skrull homeworld. It ends as expected...
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That Ignorant Sap posted:Exiles #45. Just to refresh, the Exiles are a team of heroes from alternate universes who have become "unhinged from time" and must correct errors in other worlds, hoping to repair their own timelines and return to their own realities. God drat do I miss Exiles.
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Gavok posted:The final pages of Incredible Hulks #635, the end of Greg Pak's run with the character. There was just a big storyline involving characters good and bad getting splashed with a wishing well and their wish magic clashing with each other. In the end, Hulk gives up an eternity of gleefully fighting Red She-Hulk and a world of demons so he can save Earth. Red She-Hulk still has a little bit of wish magic left on her, so she wishes that Bruce -- not Hulk -- would get what he wants. Nothing seems to happen and the villain Tyrannus points out what nobody else has realized: Banner and Hulk are not two different entities. They're just one guy who has trouble dealing with his issues and has to blame someone else. Hulk throws a hissy fit that knocks everyone away, turns back into Banner and walks off alone, saying "Yeah. You got me." That is a terrifyingly adorable way to end a Hulk story.
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ImpAtom posted:That is a terrifyingly adorable way to end a Hulk story. Honest to god, there could be no more Hulk stories after this and I would be fine with it.
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That Ignorant Sap posted:Exiles #45. Just to refresh, the Exiles are a team of heroes from alternate universes who have become "unhinged from time" and must correct errors in other worlds, hoping to repair their own timelines and return to their own realities. I loved this moment and the worst part about this scene is that both Mimic and Morph (effectively) are dead.
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Sep 6, 2011 20:42
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Matt Cruea posted:I loved this moment and the worst part about this scene is that both Mimic and Morph (effectively) are dead. As in their eventual fates are already set at that point, or they're both dead 'in canon'? Because the latter isn't true. Morph's still around. VVV And irritating the hell out of Blink, as is his rightful place. Gaz-L fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Sep 6, 2011 |
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Sep 6, 2011 22:04
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Morph is still around, yes. He was last seen helping out the new Exiles team, before the comic got cancelled (well before its time).
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Sep 6, 2011 22:06
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Fuego Fish posted:Morph is still around, yes. He was last seen helping out the new Exiles team, before the comic got cancelled (well before its time). I didn't follow the comic all the way to the end, but I do remember that Morph isn't actually Morph -- he's that Scottish reality-warping guy in Morph's body, but with Morph's brain patterns written on top of his, which isn't exactly the same.
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Sep 6, 2011 23:10
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prefect posted:I didn't follow the comic all the way to the end, but I do remember that Morph isn't actually Morph -- he's that Scottish reality-warping guy in Morph's body, but with Morph's brain patterns written on top of his, which isn't exactly the same. It's revealed that the crystals that were holding the bodies of the former Exiles, Morph included, were slowly "dissolving" them away. Although in a more technobabble kind of way. However, this worked out in Morph's favour, because the crystals got rid of Proteus first, returning Morph to his loveable self with no reality-warping Scot involved.
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Fuego Fish posted:It's revealed that the crystals that were holding the bodies of the former Exiles, Morph included, were slowly "dissolving" them away. Although in a more technobabble kind of way. However, this worked out in Morph's favour, because the crystals got rid of Proteus first, returning Morph to his loveable self with no reality-warping Scot involved. That's good to hear. I found it pretty depressing, what happened to Morph.
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prefect posted:I didn't follow the comic all the way to the end, but I do remember that Morph isn't actually Morph -- he's that Scottish reality-warping guy in Morph's body, but with Morph's brain patterns written on top of his, which isn't exactly the same.  E: There was an Annual issue that explained that Proteus had been re-awakened for awhile, and reasserted control during a battle against the Shaper of Worlds. He was getting beaten, not able to use all of Morph's power, until Morph reappeared and they worked out a deal to "share" the body, Morph coming back, and Proteus getting a "second chance" at life. That Ignorant Sap fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Sep 6, 2011 |
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Exiles is the epitome of too many chef's ruining the stew. Every new writer that came in had to put their own mark on how the back end worked and by the end the whole thing was a jumbled mess.
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Sep 7, 2011 03:13
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That Ignorant Sap posted:Actually... I love that Fat Colossus is there, almost definitely a jab at that one cosplayer who shows up at cons.
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Sep 7, 2011 03:17
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Gavok posted:I love that Fat Colossus is there, almost definitely a jab at that one cosplayer who shows up at cons. Either that or he just ate too many of those awesome sandwiches with their own little belts
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Chinaman7000 posted:Just bought and read Secret Origin thanks to the recommendations, and yeah that was great. Makes the Superman who showed up at the end of Justice League #1 really depressing though. I think Secret Origin had some good ideas, but never really gelled together into a cohesive storyline. It also suffers a bit from Geoff John's tendency to be Way Too Obvious Man. There are surely more elegant ways of setting up the dichotomy of Superman as a human or an alien than just having someone ask him flat out. My favorite origin of Superman is Birthright. Here's why. Spoilers, obviously. For context, at the start of Birthright, Mark Waid injects a head-slappingly obvious notion, that Jor-El and Lara had no idea whatsoever if Kal-El would survive his journey. They were living in hope and they put all those hopes into the rocketship. Fast forward to the present day, and Lex Luthor's first real plot against Superman is collapsing like a burning kite and Luthor, in a last-ditch attempt to save his hide, is using the same time/space wormhole he's exploited earlier to get his hands on Kryptonian images and information, to actually requesting help from what he considers the only beings in the universe he can hold a conversation with. This is the result. (Click for pictures.)           There are a lot of inspirational Superman quotes and stories. "There's always a way" from All-Star Superman is a great one. But for me, "Mother, father... I made it" is king of the hill. God, I love Superman.
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Sep 7, 2011 06:25
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Mark Waid really is the best. He is in my top 5 current writers.
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Sep 7, 2011 06:33
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Gavok posted:I love that Fat Colossus is there, almost definitely a jab at that one cosplayer who shows up at cons. I like to think he's an alternate, heroic Blob. Even though that doesn't quite make sense.
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bobkatt013 posted:Mark Waid really is the best. He is in my top 5 current writers. I got to meet him once years ago and he was just a big ol' fanboy, and I mean that in the best way. He just wanted to talk about comics and how awesome they were and how cool it was to get to write comics. He saw me walking by with a bunch of back issues and called me over because he wanted to see what I'd bought
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