Hakkesshu posted:That's understandable in most cases, but Dark Horse's comics are unquestionably the best EU stuff out there. Legacy is like the best Star Wars-related thing in the past decade or so. It's a shame they're losing the license, but I'm also kind of excited to see what Marvel's going to do with it. Yeah, I really wish Legacy got a proper ending instead of a "To be continued". I don't have high hopes of Disney/Marvel picking it up.
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Dan Didio posted:The phrase as used in the Avengers film is so hilariously overwrought and stupid on it's face that I like to think all the writers who have adopted, or referenced, it are just taking the piss. It's almost 100% guaranteed that they're being pressured by editorial to include it, just like editorial forced Back in Black and Organic Web-Shooters and all those conveniently timed stories featuring whatever bad guy is in the latest film adaptation.
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Jan 6, 2014 21:42
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irlZaphod posted:No, it was an Avengers: Disassembled tie-in in Spectacular Spider-Man. It was remarkably similar to The Other though, it involved an insect-y villain called The Queen who incapacitates Peter, he ends up in a cocoon and when he emerges he has some new powers. Captain America showed up for 5 minutes too. Reminder that this, of all things, is something Slott chose to revisit as the focus of his Spider-Island event.
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Jan 7, 2014 10:33
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You forgot the part where he talks to some spiders.
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Jan 8, 2014 03:22
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Mimir posted:Whatever happened to the old guy with spider-powers who didn't wear shoes? What was his deal? Long story short, he found out about the predestined spider-powers in his youth and did some mystical malarky that gave him the same powers, and he created a huge empire of money and power with it. Turns out him contacting Peter was part of the price of his malarky: the only way for him to live was to sacrifice the proper chosen one to the spider-spirit that was furious about him usurping those powers. At the last minute he had a mindmeld with Peter that let him see that he was being a shitfuck and sacrificed himself to set things right.
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Jan 8, 2014 03:28
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Dan Didio posted:Moore's always been every bit the deranged, cynical, loopy old twat he looks like and I'm not sure why people are still treating him with kid's gloves as if he's just some poor vagabond set upon by Big Man Lazy Journalism. Moore's a lot of things, but I don't really know if I'd ever use the word "cynical" to describe him.
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moot the hopple posted:It used to be a fun story of modern, young superheroics a la Ultimate Spider-Man. Then it became panels of Ryan Ottley drawing people who get turned into spaghetti bolognese while Robert Kirkman does his best to cover all the artwork with his torturous word balloon layouts and wordswordswords I can think of few art styles less suited to gore than Invincible's clean bright colorful layouts, but here we are.
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Jan 13, 2014 02:27
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Personally my biggest pet peeve when it comes to Lovecraft is when someone puts a tentacle creature in their superhero/action/mystery/pulp book and then goes and says it's "in the vein of Lovecraft" in all the promotional stuff and interviews. Critics and readers are guilty of this too. I just kind of wonder if anyone who uses the term "Lovecraftian" has ever actually read anything the man wrote. [/grumpy old man]
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Jan 14, 2014 11:53
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Waterhaul posted:Well it's a bit better than having the stories include constant racist tirades of people with non white savage blood. Advertising a comic as a "Lovecraftian tale" only to have it feature heavy racism and weird ideas about eugenics and nothing else would be a pretty good troll. And technically more accurate than calling loving Thanos Imperative a Lovecraftian story.
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Jan 14, 2014 12:04
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Deadpool's definitely in the running.
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I strongly advise against looking into the storage practices of basically anything you might consider valuable television or film history. Or video games, for that matter.
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Jan 17, 2014 23:56
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Marvel has Ravenloft, and unlike Arkham, you have to be REALLY nuts or otherwise not in control of yourself to be sent there. More Carnage, Vermin and all than, like, Riddler. It's not seen too often, and Slott went and killed off Dr. Kafka, the lady who runs the place. Bullseye is very sadistic and definitely sociopathic but I don't think he hears voices, is delusional, suffered horrible trauma or is unable to understand the consequences of his actions. Lurdiak fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Jan 23, 2014 |
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Jan 23, 2014 09:33
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Hakkesshu posted:Orc Stain. I'm literally never going to read Orc Stain just because of that two-page thing about cutting up dicks to make them into currency someone posted years back. I know it's not representative of the usual content of the book, and I know it was just an extra in a single book, but I just ain't want to read no comic that has dick-cutting instructions attached to it.
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Jan 31, 2014 01:19
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Qwo posted:Dicks are great though, don't be a loser. Dicks are fine by me, I'm just not big on genital mutilation!
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Jan 31, 2014 03:37
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Hakkesshu posted:GBS is a mess, and a lot of people are calling for a general forum revamp and a mod overhaul. All I know about whatever's going on is that GBS went from a place where people yell at each other over news items, praise Macklemore and finance hot dog carts to a place that's funny as hell and that bad posters are afraid to touch. I had no idea there was a downside to this.
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Jan 31, 2014 19:15
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Endless Mike posted:But you post there. Why you! 
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Feb 1, 2014 10:56
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So does anyone in the know want to explain these panels to me? Because, to the untrained eye, it looks like an old Superman making out with a 14-year old (at most) girl.
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Feb 8, 2014 06:06
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Rhyno posted:John Byrne. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBJZwYpHUBo But also:  I was really hoping it was some kind of art problem.
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Feb 8, 2014 19:25
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Ghostlight posted:On Saturday I sat in a pizzeria listening to the guys next to me have a real-life Goku vs Superman argument, but inclusive of other people in comics as well. I never thought anybody would ever actually have that argument, let alone decide that although Goku would beat Superman easily, he couldn't beat Flash "because Flash can run through time". That's sound logic and I endorse it.
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Feb 10, 2014 20:41
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theflyingorc posted:I don't think this is fair at all and that you were looking to be upset, but whatever. This is a really lovely and condescending thing to say, FYI. I ain't read Y: The Last Man but it's pretty dumb to assume someone picked it up hoping to get mad and disappointed at it.
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Feb 11, 2014 21:27
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Was it Paul Dini?
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Feb 12, 2014 05:59
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I think I meant Bruce Timm. Whichever one of them thought it would be rad to have Batgirl and Batman hook up.
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Feb 12, 2014 06:05
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It occured to me last night that almost no one calls Dr. Doom "Dr." in comics anymore. Everyone just calls him "Doom". I don't know if that's just an impression I get, but I feel like they've been more or less trying to ditch the nonsensical "Doctor" part of his name as much as they can get away with.
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Feb 19, 2014 22:49
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Mister Roboto posted:How about Eminem meeting the Punisher? That was a legitimately great comic and it was awesome seeing be-trenchcoated anti-social losers go insane over their idol crossing over with a "loving RAPPER".
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Feb 20, 2014 01:32
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Vision rules, you guys are jerks. 
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Feb 28, 2014 22:55
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CzarChasm posted:Ok. Sure. And next you'll get talking about what a great character Red Tornado is. No, Red Tornado is Vision without any of the things that make Vision interesting. He can go to robot hell.
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Feb 28, 2014 23:45
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Red Tornado is like the only character Batman: The Brave and the Bold wasn't able to make interesting, which is astounding.
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Feb 28, 2014 23:56
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theflyingorc posted:Uh, that episode is completely awesome. That christmas ep and the episode where he has a robot kid are the only ones in the entire series I kept wishing would end already. As my friend observed, "gently caress you, boring Vision."
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Mar 1, 2014 00:01
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theflyingorc posted:He gives batman a world's greatest detective mug, what is wrong with you. I have no soul? You just poo poo-talked the first Aquaman episode. Skwirl posted:The only interesting thing about Vision is that he's a robot who slept with a witch. Oh that is it, I'm going to make a Vision megathread as soon as I find my "40 Years of Avengers" DVD.
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Skwirl posted:I'm not sure who you're making fun of, you, or me, or Vision. I'm being serious!
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Mister Roboto posted:How do people feel about the rumor The Matrix franchise is getting a reboot? It'll be just as popular and memorable as the Total Recall and Robocop remakes.
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Mar 1, 2014 02:48
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I thought Rage had a lot of good ideas as a character but they were all a bit too on the nose and clumsy. Plus most of them got used way better when Bendis revamped Luke Cage.
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Mr. Maltose posted:Rage was the kid who had the Captain Marvel thing where he was in an super strong adult body but was like, 16, right? He was like 12, yeah, but he looked like a beefy adult. Everyone perceived him as BLACK AND ANGRY THUG but inside he was just a good kid who loves his grandma and fights injustice the best he can.
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Edge & Christian posted:Maybe MODOK could use a hug. That sounds more like a job for Mr. Fantastic.
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Mr Wind Up Bird posted:Man I wish all my lovely comics were worth a dollar each. If I could find someone to pay that rate for all of them I'd cash the gently caress out of this dumb hobby. I too long for this day. 
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His rep is "there's like 4 places I can be employed in comics, I better not talk poo poo about anyone, ever, or I might be down to 0 real fast".
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Timeless Appeal posted:I will say that I think the coloring is lifting things up a bit. I usually see Land's art paired with very glossy coloring that aims for photo realism, but misses and hits Photoshop and just accentuates the issues with his pencils. Yeah, those panels look like they might have been inked and colored with... actual inks.
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Marvel was pretty much entirely run by the marketing department at that point, it was pretty terrible all around.
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Literally The Worst posted:Straight up if you don't think "Garth Ennis reminisces about reading FLESH!" is the best arc in comics, smh. The very first FLESH! series was so unfairly good that everything else I read from early 2000 AD looked like crap in comparison. It hit that perfect balance of genuine awesomeness and heartless over the top satire and gore that makes Robocop such a memorable film. They did at least one direct sequel to it but it was soooo boring.
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Madkal posted:One thing I think DC has gotten right and Marvel hasn't in regards to the way they approach TV is Marvel is doing a whole shared universe thing which I find hinders their output. You can't have certain characters show up because of movies, and audiences already associate this character with this actor, and you can't tell a Thor story that is completely divorced from Thor (the character: the movie). With DC we have Arrow which is using a bunch of DC characters but putting it's own spin on it (pretty sure Ras is going to show up in next season but that is a hunch and I doubt it will be Liam Neeson's Ras). They have Fox developing a Commissioner Gordon show and while the early rumours don't sound good it is still independent of a movie universe. Eh, there's nothing stopping them from picking up bits and pieces from the movies. The Mandarin guy isn't gonna be asking for RDJ level salaries, for example. Smallville had essentially free reign over the entirety of Superman's mythos and was just as boring as Agents of Shield (if not more), and certainly wasn't as good as people are saying Arrow is. It's just a matter of the people running the show being terrible.
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