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This is from The Spectre vol. 3 #62, which is the final issue. For context, Jim Corrigan has been trying to reconcile his mission with the Spectre's actions— which have included wiping the entire population of Vlatava off the face of the map except for Count Vertigo and the rebel general— and his own anger and sense of injustice. He's met Father Richard Craemer, who's also served as the spiritual counsel for Belle Reve prison, home to the Suicide Squad. Craemer has suggested that Jim have a funeral, which (post-Crisis) he never has because his bones have been stored in a New York evidence locker. The Spectre notes with little surprise that he doesn't really have anyone but Craemer and a couple other supporting characters there to see him off. Suddenly people who've turned up in the pages of the series start coming out of the woodwork along with some other of Jim's old acquaintances. We begin with the group shot of everyone in attendance, including Swamp Thing, the Phantom Stranger, and the current Mr. Terrific, who first appeared in this series.     The next panel is everyone looking in surprise at the grave, where Jim no longer stands. Then, after everyone else besides Father Craemer leaves, Craemer too turns away from the blank headstone and walks off, thinking of how he's going to miss his friend. This follows.  Every time I read this issue it still gets to me. It helps if you've read the preceding issues and even this explanation can't do it justice without the full context. The Spectre volume 3 was a long personal quest for Jim Corrigan to come to terms with his past, himself, and his mission and John Ostrander knocked it way, way out of the park, especially with a finale like this.
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Lamuella posted:is that Kelley Jones on the art there? That's all kinds of gorgeous. Tom Mandrake.
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Jun 3, 2011 14:16
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shotgunbadger posted:Yea that's what makes it so great, he fully knows Shazam is a wizard and that magic gets around his immunities, but he still goes to tell him to shove it up his rear end. What else I love is that Superman so very rarely just goes off on somebody. Sure, he gave Manchester Black and his buddies some speeches, but he didn't lay into them the way he did with Shazam here. I love it when Superman gets flat-out pissed, but without beating on the object of his pisstivity to show it.
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Jun 25, 2011 04:39
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"Here, hold my Annihilus." Only in the context of actual Fantastic Four comics pages can that be anything but sexual innuendo. I need to read this and find out why Johnny has a pet Annihilus.
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Dec 23, 2011 05:46
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Hakkesshu posted:I'm not mad or bothered or anything, but you should maybe consider linking those images, as even the thumbnails plainly spoil what happens. I don't really have any interest in reading that series now. You really should anyway. It has some great moments, from Tommy giving Superman a pep talk to zombie penguins. It's Ennis going nuts without going too nuts like he did in Preacher.
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Sep 27, 2012 13:35
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Jiro posted:Goddamnit something's in my eye, and I have a dog I need to go hug. That makes me need to have a dog I need to go hug.
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Oct 5, 2012 01:40
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gfanikf posted:I really do like it though, nicely done, and the message is something really in line with Superman's own philosophy vs Superman gives a lecture on farm safety. Hey, it's not like he isn't qualified to talk about farms. Really, you've inspired me to think of a one-shot where Superman illustrates safety on the farm and in other highly-dangerous industries a la Staplerfahrer Klaus, except instead of him getting wrecked the equipment does. He regrows the super-mullet and doesn't tie it back when working near an industrial fan, wears loose-fitting clothing working a table saw, forgets to disconnect the power to a lawnmower while cleaning it, and so forth.
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Jul 1, 2013 19:43
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Wade Wilson posted:"Long-hair music"? Don't forget the Negroes, right next to spiders.
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Jul 2, 2013 18:50
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gfanikf posted:Yeah, it was definitely the acceptable nomenclature at the time. Funny enough it was still used on the last census. Apparently some older African Americans prefer using that term as its the one their accustom too (Black was also an option). My mother actually used it at least into the '80s. I remember her telling me (as a kid) that Brazil nuts were called "friend of the family toes." I think she genuinely thought that's what they were called because relatively recently I mentioned that fact to her and she asked me, "So what are they called?" Granted, she comes from one of those small towns where all the families have pretty much intermarried by now, everyone's got the same ethnic background, and time pretty much stood still there until the Internet hit.
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Jul 2, 2013 20:42
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Mister Roboto posted:I want to be a part of whatever minority group gets that racial slur. Just so I can call myself that. Cajuns, maybe?
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Jul 10, 2013 05:41
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What happened to Bentley? Why is he now in a wheelchair and (apparently) his mid-twenties?
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Aug 11, 2013 15:42
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Oh, I get it now. He was talking to Klaw, showing that his brain is indeed far gone.
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Aug 11, 2013 17:53
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bobkatt013 posted:Death of Spider-man Fallout 6 Is it just me, or is May pretty much dressed up as Wong?
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Nov 16, 2013 19:30
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Ariong posted:This is a very nice panel, but that guard has some face. His face looks less like the surprise that comes from adulation and more like the surprise that comes from him catching Superman and Nightwing engaging in activities that belong at a rest stop men's room more than a public park.
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Nov 18, 2013 21:31
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The Leper Colon V posted:Instead of "The End" it said "The Beginning". The ending is just the beginning, my friend. 
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Dec 17, 2013 02:10
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Exit Strategy posted:Pretty sure my insurance doesn't pay for Tiny God Punches Heart Until It Shrinks The gently caress Down. It does if he's doing the negotiating.
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Jan 20, 2014 19:53
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drat you clods. I just got this derpy little 10-week-old lump of happy and you're already making me imagine the end. 
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Mar 7, 2014 05:38
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South Dakota here. We have Jotun plow our streets and driveways.
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Mar 14, 2014 04:07
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I will say that "grieving Batman" = "nuclear bomb waiting for you to push the button" in terms of getting your rear end kicked. It may have been extremely ham-fisted, but I don't think ANYBODY was dumb enough to interrupt him.
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Jul 3, 2014 19:08
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I'd like to see an X-Men funeral where the turnaround time is so fast the character actually walks in during the eulogy and is then invited to step up and say a few words. At this point, the death and resurrection process should be an upper-level lab class.
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Jul 16, 2014 17:44
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bobkatt013 posted:I am pretty sure an X-men funeral is just them getting together and taking odds on when they are coming back. Now I'm picturing Wolverine with a visor standing in front of a whiteboard. Edit: …taking a bet from the deceased.
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Jul 16, 2014 17:48
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Captain Bravo posted:Someone needs to post the panel of the afterlife as a giant casino, where the winners get to come back to life. From Incredible Hercules #129:  Edit: Fixed, thanks, zoux. ManiacClown fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Jul 16, 2014 |
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Jul 16, 2014 19:35
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Sort of, except I'm imagining the character actually having been dead. The character gets killed, they arrange the funeral the next day at 1:00 (the time they keep open for funerals), and by then the character's already been resurrected somehow. They show up because they know it's funeral time and SOMEBODY must have died (absentmindedly forgetting "Oh, it was me"), so when the open invitation comes the character volunteers, figuring "Eh, I may as well get it out of the way" and then looks over at the picture (which others had conveniently been in the way of) to see, "Oh, that's right! I died!" Of course, me imagining an appointed time set aside daily for dead X-Men now makes me picture a Sentinel showing up during the service, with Storm flying up and yelling at it to please be respectful and leave them alone during the ceremony, we will be more than happy to engage you after this is finished, thank you very much. By the way, we do apologize, but he was Catholic, so this will be a while. "ALL RIGHT. *WHIRR* *SITS QUIETLY*"
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Jul 18, 2014 17:06
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CzarChasm posted:Yeah BB's is a part of his costume. There was some panel a few years ago (maybe secret invasion era) I recall where he's hood less and fighting some skrull, and whispers in his ear after dodging a punch. I want to say he has a full head of hair as well. If I recall, Black Bolt's tuning fork is a means to more effectively channel his psionic control over whatever particle it is he manipulates. I'll check when I get home.
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Sep 10, 2014 22:02
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Benito Cereno posted:It's to absorb ambient electrons, which increases his power. I finally got a chance to find his OHOTMU entry. I couldn't find anything more recent. 
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Sep 11, 2014 04:57
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DoctorDelaware posted:The hair metal is great, but nothing made little-kid-me mark out like hearing a Weird Al song in the theater. Word! To add, The Touch— schlocky '80s inspirock though I've since recognized it as— still gets me pumped on a level with Lyle from Achewood.
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Nov 12, 2014 22:52
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FilthyImp posted:Wolverine is the CIA spook torching Banana Farm protestors because we need the region to be stable. Basically, Wolverine is The Comedian and Punisher is Rorschach, except not quite so nuts— nearly, though.
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Feb 1, 2015 06:36
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:What about the T-1000000? Not having paid attention to the franchise in quite some time, I don't know if this is a joke I should go with by posting shocked Vegeta or if you're serious.
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Jul 7, 2015 13:41
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X-O posted:We get it. Some of you don't like Squirrel Girl's art. I'm also in that camp. Shut the hell up about it though every time a panel is posted. We're all tired of seeing it. Can we just make a thread specifically for it? Maybe the thread could have FYAD rules in it, or the real thread is in FYAD while the thread here is locked and stickied and only has a link to the FYAD thread.
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Aug 16, 2015 06:05
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I actually liked the Spider-Funk from 3.
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Nov 10, 2015 02:43
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Infinitum posted:I think you mean Grimlock Squirrel You mean the sort of weasely-looking thing on FM's right shoulder? My daughter isn't even aware of that thing yet but I'm sure she wants one. That thing is completely  + .
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Nov 17, 2015 02:41
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Lurdiak posted:I think he means the thing on the bottom left. Oh, right, that thing. Without even asking her I know my daughter would want the weasel/red panda thing, probably the armadillo, the raccoon-bear (next to the armadillo), and that dragon-goat-giraffe in the upper right just because of how damned weird it is. She'd call it a Robo-Tall Goat because we've played way too much Goat Simulator.
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Nov 17, 2015 06:18
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Choco1980 posted:With a picture of Grimlock pulling a wooden duckie. A helium balloon of Swoop.
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Feb 11, 2016 06:47
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drrockso20 posted:a nice little epilogue of sorts to Purple Man's involvement in Luke and Jessica's lives(unfortunately I don't have any of the following pages so I don't know if we see the resulting beatdown); Here they are.   New Avengers v1 #3
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Feb 20, 2016 15:36
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Chaos Hippy posted:Yeah, that was probably the worst part of that fuckawful movie. That and Captain Marvel should never say "What the Hell?" ever. That whole thing calls to mind the alleged quote from Greg Rucka about "If you make a Superman movie that you can't bring your kid to, you've done something wrong." That movie was pretty PG-13, but par for the course for the modern DCU which borders on Image bloodshit territory.
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Mar 18, 2016 02:48
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Polaron posted:Pretty sure people have been killed by the police due to that toy as well, as the original predated the US laws requiring orange tips on the barrel. Allegedly it's the very reason for those laws.
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Apr 3, 2016 12:43
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Die Laughing posted:Yep. New Frontier is a must read for anybody who has ever picked up a DC book. Agreed. It's an excellent read and the animated adaptation is top-notch.
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May 15, 2016 18:59
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What news?
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Oct 23, 2016 17:39
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Skwirl posted:Tridents are a two handed weapon, kinda need two hands for it. He could have gotten a trident hand.
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Alacron posted:I don't even like cats.  This cat you see sometimes at the top of the forums was Winston. He had to be put down last Monday at 21 years old. He had an infection that wouldn't go away and his kidneys were starting to fail. No cat I've ever been around loved people like he did. We had to rehome him after finding out our daughter was allergic (level 3 allergy) to cats. He loved his then-current caretaker until the end. I wish I'd gotten to see him one last time before the end, but I know everywhere he lived after us he got love just like he did at our house. I miss our cuddle-pig. I always will. This hit me right where he lived.
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