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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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Why the hell am I sad about that?! I haven't read Nintendo Power in like 15 years.
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Is that before or after Bruce's son died? Because man it'd be pretty lovely to pull that and then have Bruce basically become a shithead in his grief.
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Mar 31, 2013 14:31
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Atmus posted:That's why I'm disapointed that the Magog title didn't last long. Having him kill a bunch of drug smugglers or something, point out how Superman or The Flash could have cleaned up the whole border within an hour, and that all the superhero community was going to do was send Green Lantern to ask how many people he killed 'this time', really made an otherwise meh character pretty interesting. Eh. It's tiresome because it basically relies on status quo shields to exist as a story. When the only reason that either A) Superman doesn't deal with drug problems or B) Green Lantern doesn't throw your rear end in jail is "DC editorial says they can't," that's not a very interesting story.
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Apr 1, 2013 19:24
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Mister Roboto posted:I'd post some The Boys panels if I had any handy, Ennis brutally takes down the idea that any Superhero could possibly lead to a functional government. The only argument the Boys makes is a bitter and childish one. The reason that no superheroes are allowed to have any long-term positive effect is because the status quo doesn't allow it, not because it's impossible. Secret Identity, for example, ends with the idea that superhumans are becoming a part of society and that superpowers can be used for things beyond punching dudes. (Super speedsters functioning as couriers, for example.) It's allowed to, however briefly, explore something like that because it isn't beholden to a status quo.
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Apr 4, 2013 15:40
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mind the walrus posted:Oh good, that'll fix the legions of kids/morons who hate Superman because he's "too powerful" and like Batman because he's "realistic." Should have just called it the "kick Superman in the dick simulator 3000" and punched out for the week. The full story mode is out on The Tubes and that isn't really how it plays out.
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Apr 11, 2013 14:39
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I just can't take Batman clutching his head screaming "What did you do?!" like that at all seriously. It looks so ridiculous, especially in that art style.
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Apr 30, 2013 22:04
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Man, every time someone post something from the Alpha comic, it seriously looks pretty fun.
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Jun 2, 2013 22:42
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McCloud posted:Enough about the blood and rape already. This really should be the subtitle to the entire forum.
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Jul 19, 2013 00:02
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Gavok posted:He also has a pet coyote now! That coyote is going to die so hard.
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Babe Magnet posted:It's a good thing that's not what Injustice is! I doubt they really will change their mind upon hearing it's technically a fighting game, not a beat 'em up.
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Jul 7, 2014 06:17
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TwoPair posted:The fact that Bendis wrote Ultimate JJJ's whole story from start to finish does not excuse that whole last Peter revival story (which included JJJ's death) from sucking. It's okay. Ultimate Peter was murdered by a vampire a few days later. Even if he survived that he'll be dead when his universe dies.
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Mar 27, 2015 21:15
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Yeah, I have no interest in reading the comic anymore. The argument of "judge the work, not the creator" is great when analyzing the work but it doesn't apply when you're talking about supporting the work. (Even if you're just supporting it with pageviews.) It's a shame but nobody forced him to be a giant creepo.
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May 25, 2015 03:11
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Keeshhound posted:Batman gets to keep his connection to Bruce Wayne's associates secret, but what about the Gordon family? Well, prior to the reboot the Joker murdered his wife and crippled his daughter so that's a pretty good argument in favor of secret identities.
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Jun 3, 2015 20:07
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But they didn't make Godzilla lonelier. As the first of a new kid Godzilla was able to have children!
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Aug 20, 2015 21:20
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Lurdiak posted:Depends which of the 80 different Godzilla timelines you go by. Aside from the new one is there one where Godzilla doesn't have babby godzookis?
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Aug 20, 2015 22:17
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Choco1980 posted:any of the Millennium ere Godzillas (except Final Wars I guess sorta.) Frankly, GINO's the only one to actually have children of its own. Big G always went with adoption regardless of the film. I'm not even sure if Minya is the same species to begin with. Adoption still means he has more of his species around. (And frankly if there is a mysterious egg around that means SOMEONE is making more godzookis.)
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Aug 21, 2015 15:49
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I've heard a lot of complaining about those pages and I donno why. They're real good.
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Sep 3, 2015 21:54
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Phylodox posted:What's to complain about? I've heard people saying that Groot is arguing that the old Marvel characters are the problem and the new (i.e: female/non-white) ones are the 'good' thing. Which feels like a huge misreading of the page but y'know, assholes.
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Sep 3, 2015 22:16
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Morrison-M and Morrison-D both exist at the same time but can never be in the same room or it will cause space-time itself to distort into a fracture-universe whereupon all things exist at once and yet do not exist at all.
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Oct 14, 2015 20:20
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I feel like there is strange subtext in a transformer talking about his people being turned into marketable toys for humans to buy but I'll be damned if I can figure out what it is from those panels.
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Nov 16, 2015 23:45
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Bongo Bill posted:I can't keep track of any of those drat robots from panel to panel. I hoenstly have that problem when Transformers stuff is posted too. I imagine it's easier if you're reading it and get familiar with the characters but still.
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Nov 28, 2015 23:49
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It is always bewildering to me that someone took the ideal of Cable and Deadpool and made it work.
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Feb 7, 2016 21:13
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team overhead smash posted:Also it doesn't work so well in comic when a few pages later Jonathan heat visions his cat to death, leaving only a charred skeleton. Curse you Dr. Manhattan! Stealing all the good from the universe! Thank god we have Geoff Johns here to assure our comics are happy and optimistic now.
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Jun 20, 2016 23:47
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bobkatt013 posted:It's going to him learn how to use his powers. This is him realizing that he needs to learn how to control his powers. With Clark it was breaking Pete Ross's arm. "I accidentally broke someone's arm" and "I horrifyingly murdered a pet" are not remotely on the same spectrum.
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Jun 21, 2016 02:47
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hup posted:Also, he pretended to be gay because he thought it'd make him look cool, which is gauche as gently caress. Beast is just the worst. ... Did Beast really do this?
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Jun 24, 2016 06:56
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Infinitum posted:Well enough about Literally-Hitler-Beast. I really appreciate that this isn't random chance but something Peter actively set out to do.
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Jun 26, 2016 22:00
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WH40K feels like it ran into the problem of being a joke that an uncomfortably large section of the fanbase started taking REALLY SERIOUSLY.
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Aug 17, 2016 05:35
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Infinitum posted:"And how will you be paying for all these alarms sir?" I think at the time Wally West was literally rich but I may be misremembering.
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Aug 19, 2016 19:40
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I'd possibly be more impressed by Superior Spider-Man if it hadn't been running alongside Scarlet Spider which did the story of an ex-supervillain Spider-Man redeeming himself through interactions with other people infinitely better than Superior Spider-Man did.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Well don't post panels of it or anything  Captain Bravo posted:Kaine needed to understand that he already was a good person. The interesting thing about Kaine was that he wasn't necessarily a good person. He was brutal, violent and without responsibility but also not heartless. He wanted to be a good person but was haunted by his own impulses, the literal monster inside of him, and his past, all of which hurt his attempts to be someone else. it would have been just as easy for Kaine to give up and go off to Mexico (which is what happens at the end of the series, though admittedly to set up New Warriors) rather than continue to struggle with the difficulty and pain of being a hero. It's a lot more interesting to me and I don't think it's a different side of the same coin. I think it's just much better executed. Superior Spider-Man on the other hand is just "haha, I'm a supervillain but I'm Spider-Man!!"
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Lurdiak posted:Kaine may have gotten a second chance at life and been mystically cleansed and all that but you can't shrug off the kind of monstrosities he did as a villain and say you're a good guy now. Sure, I rooted for him in his book, but the question "Can I be a good person" is a real one when you were an unrepentant murderer for like a decade (or 2 months or however the sliding timeline works). It's also worth remembering that Kaine was passed down (from near word of God none the less) that he existed because he could be the blighted murdering bastard that Peter Parker never could and he specifically could not be the hero Peter was because Peter needed to remain unsullied because ~plot device.~ And for good or ill he's the kind of dude who does stuff that event Agent Venom finds abhorrent, regardless of how justified lobotomizing Carnage might seem. Kaine was a murderer, an assassin, and an all-around rear end in a top hat who veered between selfish and basically 90s Venom and "can this guy actually be a hero instead of merely someone who kills bad people' is an ongoing part of his entire book that he isn't just a good guy in a bad lot but someone who genuinely did very bad things but with a spark of something more in him. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Sep 13, 2016 |
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Vision has always been kind of like Martian Manhunter in that his power set is absolutely absurd but he isn't popular enough to get it treated like it should be.
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Travis343 posted:Pretty funny that Marvel has way more legacy characters than DC now when that was supposedly DC's big thing before Flashpoint Yeah. Funny. 
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Sep 26, 2016 17:34
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Bringing Ultimate Peter Parker back just to murder him with the rest of his universe is like the dumbest loving thing.
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Sep 26, 2016 19:47
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Dick Trauma posted:EDIT: With health insurance you can get that 1,000 years down to just 250! Wow, health insurance in the Marvel universe is loving great. Only 1/4th the cost?
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Sep 26, 2016 22:04
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Dick Trauma posted:That's after you've met the deductible. It involves finding planets for Galactus to eat. Still better than what I got.
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Sep 26, 2016 22:09
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They're all "noble kings who must make HARD DECISIONS for their people" (see also: Black Bolt, certain versions of Magneto/Cyclops, ect) which is mostly an excuse to write a supervillain but pretend they're sympathetic because it's for a GOOD CAUSE. T'Challa is the best of that lot admittedly but the fact he's lumped in with them is a problem.
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Sep 27, 2016 20:24
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Choco1980 posted:What's funny to me about the reveal of the "Warden" in that Injustice issue is that This little doozy was my first exposure to Plas as a kid. Plastic MAn changes at least as fast as Elongated Man who is canonically established as being able to compete with Barry Allen's speed with his shifting. (That was one of the things he was originally introduced with, his shapeshifting and stretching was 'rocket-fast.') That probably doesn't hold up to SPEED FORCE GOES FAST Flash but at very least their shifting is absurdly fast.
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Pureauthor posted:I don't think there's a continuity where Gotham City is associated with 'happiness'. This is the same Batman where his idea of play is beating up a skinny dude with no fighting abilities.
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