Rhyno posted:

This was the very first time I had a major emotional reaction to a comic.
From Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow by Alan Moore and Curt Swan. For those who have not read it the premise of the story is that Superman's foes have aligned against him and his friends are in danger so he gathers them together for protection.
A short time before this story Supergirl had died in battle and Clark is preparing himself for the inevitable final battle.

Colon V posted:

Yeah, plenty. And B and C-list characters like that drop like flies regardless of how many hypothetical scouters they explode with their power levels. The only way you can survive in a comic universe is to be popular.

FMguru posted:

That first panel (the face of someone about to die) is a repeated image in Watchmen, and the thug's shadow leaves a Rorschach-style patterning on his face. Oh, and the falling/splattering jack-o-lantern is another repeated motif (the Nostalgia perfume ad, the snowglobe, Dreiberg's watch parts, etc.). The only thing the page is missing is a Hiroshima-lovers silhouette.

Fried Chicken posted:

About none at all.

Kull the Conqueror posted:

Just for the sake of your guys' emotional wellbeing, Clark does rescue Krypto from the Phantom Zone in the same issue.

Matlock posted:

Via Injustice #11

DivineCoffeeBinge posted:

Thing is, we don't typically see - in the Marvel Universe - people sent to Hell (any of the many, many Hells) for being bad. It's implied here and there, but as a general rule the people we see sent to Hell get sent there because they made deals with demons. Even Dr. Doom's mother ended up in Hell because she cut a deal with Mephisto. poo poo, some of the dudes that do that get superpowers (see Blaze, Johnny). The "objective morality" you're referring to appears to be "don't sell your soul and you're fine," which isn't exactly the kind of tenet one builds a religion on.

Jerusalem posted:

He wasn't about to say,"Then when my Dad died I buried him on the moon too!" was he

W.T. Fits posted:

Just saw this posted over in the Kingdom Hearts megathread in Games, felt it was worth sharing:

Mr. Maltose posted:

Spoilers it totally does.

Timeless Appeal posted:

And then listen to the soundtrack because it's pretty amazing.

Vincent posted:

You forgot some important details: The proffesor (the owl) was also a nuclear physicist that was part of the Third Reich.

Kal-L posted:

Back a few years ago when I was working as a journalist, in a place where journalists lives are cheap, I always found a kind of consolation in that tirade. If J. Jonah Jameson is telling Ben Urich to not be afraid of the goddamn Kingpin, then surely I could do better.

Kal-L posted:

Kal-L posted:

There are real world journalists who do the same in worse circumstances. It comes with the job. If only every journalist could be issued a bulletproof vest and a ex-Spetnaz bodyguard!

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when he's supposed to be a veteran journalist who's walked the mean streets of NYC, where superpowered homicidal crazies can jump at you at any moment.

Kal-L posted:

Doesn't mean that, when faced with incredible odds, people should just stay quiet and not try to do the right thing.

Uthor posted:

While I like the sentiment and it makes sense because we know those characters in the story, I keep coming back to the fact that the three best people Thor has ever known in his thousands of years of life just happened to all live in the same 50 years or so. That's so improbable!

Toshimo posted:

I was 50/50 on posting this to the badass thread, but...

SynthOrange posted:

That's just Cable in Loki's helmet!

AnonSpore posted:

Who the gently caress installs inescapable lethal traps around a school

Mover posted:

I like a lot of things from Morrison's run, like Emma Frost joining the team, the mutant ghettoes and useless or horrific mutations, the continuing development of a person's mutations throughout their life. I actually really liked the character of Xorn up until the big reveal.

I have trouble forgiving him for taking the Jewish holocaust survivor (is Magneto maybe even the only cape who is tied to the holocaust so intimately?), who had been up to that point one of the best drawn and most sympathetic villains in any comic, and having him start marching humans into loving concentration camps and crematoriums as his big villainous plan.

But no, to Morrison he's "a bloody terrorist" and that means he can only be the worst of humanity, not only opposed to the heroes but contemptible and one dimensional.

I hope that didn't feel too rant-ish, I do think the run is worth reading.

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

I thought The Watcher showed up to tell Beast he sucked because he brought the young versions of the original xmen into the present day and completely, utterly, and irrevocably (cept for secret wars! ) hosed the timeline up.

Evil Mastermind posted:

If it's the one I'm thinking of, then yes: it was the Original Sin tie-in where in a flashback, Wade and Sabertooth go to kill Wade's parents, and Wade's memory is so hosed up at that time he doesn't know who they are.

Phylodox posted:

Pretty much Duggan's Deadpool in a nutshell.

purple death ray posted:

Batwoman is good for 25 issues or so

Choco1980 posted:

iirc, that was explicitly what his contract with Wildstorm was written to be. And boy was he pissed when WS got bought out by DC.

Malachite_Dragon posted:

Dude just wanted his wife back.

Proteus Jones posted:

In my head canon adult Calvin is involuntarily institutionalized because the voice in his head spurred him into a killing spree.

Rhyno posted:

Remember when Soul Caliber had different guest characters depending on which console you owned? I'm hoping for something like that and we get He-Man on Xbox, Lion-O on PS and I dunno, a loving Silverhawk on Switch.