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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I always wondered why they bothered with UNUS THE UNTOUCHABLE because, basically the dude's power was "Hey, I can't be touched by anything. Seriously, it's like a body wide force field and I totally just, have pretty much no offensive capability whatsoever", but damned if he WASN'T A MUTANT POWER THAT COULD THREATEN THE VERY FABRIC OF THE EARTH ITSELF! If I remember correct Unus could turn his power on and off at will. Being able to become invincible whenever you want is pretty goddamn powerful with even a minor amount of thought. Also he could hit you with a baseball bat. 
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WickedHate posted:Starfire vs Rose Wilson: So was Rose supposed to be horribly mangled and have her leg broken or is that just lovely art?
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Huh, the Planetary omnibus is $50 on Amazon right now. Welp.
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Also Thor and Captain Marvel are both mythological characters who transform(ed in Thor's case) from a weaker form to a strong form with a bolt of lightning. It's honestly pretty sensible.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Convergence: Shazam #2. How can you post this and not the awesome "I'm the one who calls the thunder" scene. or really just post the entire book from start to finish.
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Didn't they show Dr. Doom's face when he got Ant-Manned recently too? Or am I misremembering it and they just obscured it.
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Not the only time that has happened to him. 
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Angrymog posted:Clark could have dragged the fight away from the city - I'm not suggesting he run, but that he physically move Zod away. He does try that, Zod just knocks it right back.
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Uthor posted:Hope? Superman saves lives? Definitely not grim-dark death and destruction on a Michael Bay level. But... there are a ton of Superman stories about him failing to perfectly save everyone and dealing with the consequences of that. Including the literal iconic Zod story where Zod murders the population of an entire planet and Superman executes him to prevent him from doing the same to Earth. Edit: In Death of Superman, Superman is not able to prevent any injuries and in fact Doomsday actively seeks out populated areas despite Superman's best attempts to stop him. Doomsday forces the battle to Metropolis and it leaves the city devastated and countless people missing, injured or dead despite Superman's best efforts.
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My understanding is that she dies in the middle of superheroics by shrinking so small nobody can find her. So she isn't dead really, just trapped in the microverse or whatever.
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Man, Loki's plot is such a Meta thing but it is an absurdly depressing meta-thing. (in a good way.)
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Aug 21, 2015 22:04
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Professor Wayne posted:That last panel is my new favorite thing. 
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Aug 29, 2015 05:58
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bobkatt013 posted:Fables ended this year. They are now trying to remake Vertigo after they lost Karen Berger Did anything ever come of it after the big war ended or was it just increasingly long treaties about how big Bigby's metaphorical dick is?
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Jiro posted:All that reminds me of is the abortion that was Infinite Crisis #4, and its much better sibling Edited Crisis #4. Poor poor Risk. You mean No-Arms McGee.
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Otherwise known as One Arm McGee.
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Die Laughing posted:Geoff Johns just isn't sensitive to that kind of violence. Rucka asked him about it during 52, and Johns just said he grew up on Mortal Kombat and didn't see the problem. It doesn't bother me either. He puts too much heart into his writing to accuse him of making gore porn. He absolutely makes gore porn. Mortal Kombat is gore porn. Not being sensitive to it doesn't mean it isn't. That is literally Mortal Kombat's selling point. Like are you seriously going to argue that the Mortal Kombat guys don't put their heart into that game and also create horrific displays of violence for the sake of violence?
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Lurdiak posted:Eh, only because comic books dictate he'll make a miraculous recovery at some point. In real life the problem would be permanently solved. Also if you kill him he'll be revived by the Hand or break out of hell or something. The "maybe I should kill him?!" thing in comics is so fuckin' dumb.
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Jan 6, 2016 18:59
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It always disappoints me when bad writers just boil JJJ down to 'crazy rear end in a top hat who hates Spider-Man" because when a good writer gets a hold of him he's one of the best.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:So what then, did heel Iron Man just run around doing the job for A-listers? He ran around jobbing to A-Listers you mean.
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Gaz-L posted:That's literally what he said. 'jobbing' is a wrestling term, from the notion of losing to someone as 'doing the job'. Well, I learned something today! I thought he meant "was Iron man the guy who went to arrest A-Listers."
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blarzgh posted:I've never understood the obsession with continuity. Comic books are ongoing soap operas that build off existing stories and concepts. This is the advantage they have over stories that end either thematically or meaningfully. Without continuity there is no reason to have ongoing stories or shared universes because they are defined by said continuity. If you read comics for the soap opera aspects (which a lot of people do, even if they won't admit it), it's actually fairly important to making it feel like the never-ending constantly-shifting increasingly-implausible stories have weight.
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BatB had a good run which is really all it can ask. I'd have kept watching it but I don't feel like it was killed unfairly early either. I was impressed that it could handle relatively dark subject matter well too. The Bwana Beast episode was a good way to handle that kind of story.
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Lurdiak posted:Nah I think it's just the kind of story Fraction wanted to tell. It's an odd fit but most people were wiling to overlook that stuff because the rest of the story was good and the art was great. There's also a difference between a guy who may have to kill and a guy whose only setting is kill.
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Mar 18, 2016 20:22
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Lurdiak posted:That's only a thing with the Ultimate version. I don't think an increase in intelligence or tactical ability was ever mentioned in the main continuity. Quicker than average ability to react and analyze situations is a thing he's been stated as having before.
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Choco1980 posted:Did they ever have any moments where the weight difference when he had the adamantium removed was addressed? Like suddenly be like a shorter spider-man, strength and speedwise now that he wasn't lugging 100lbs around with him? I believe that was part of his generic power-up after he got it removed. He became faster and healed quicker but was weaker and actually could be broken.
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The quirky names are almost certainly because of licensing issues and any time it ins't translated that way is due to someone missing a change or there being something they can't edit.
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Jun 29, 2016 18:27
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What about the American version? Is it still Anime then? 
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Sandman is sitting right there so I assume the answer is "gets smothered to death under an endless tide of bulletproof sand."
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I'm not really sure how Clayface power armor is very useful to be honest.
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Oh, Does Clayface have a mental link to Batman? That makes more sense.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:This version of Peter Parker sounds like kind of an rear end in a top hat. It's no different than our Peter Parker who in his perfect fantasy universe in HoM was married to Gwen Stacy and who sold his marriage to the devil. Frankly "had a bad dream world" >>>> "literally selling your marriage to evil."
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Gavok posted:Maltose knows what's up. This is legitimately one of my favorite versions of Batman and it always made me very frustrated because "Fights villains at Batman, works to help and rehabilitate as Bruce Wayne" is something I like a lot more than "Fights villains as Batman, bangs supermodels and pretends to get drunk as Bruce Wayne."
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The problem with the "superstitious and cowardly lot" problem is that it assumes criminals are inherently evil people and not, y'know, people with serious mental illnesses or people who come from hosed up situations with no real better choices or so-on. Which is pretty loving ironic considering that Batman's rogue gallery is full of criminals who are neither superstitious nor cowardly and indeed a good chunk would in fact benefit more from serious actual help rather than being punched in the face over and over. Mr. Freeze or Two-Face for starters.
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Doc Hawkins posted:Not an answer to your question, but someone once told me there was a superman comic where a minor power-free villain went to Metropolis, and got some kryptonite. Superman catches up with him in a lead-lined bullet factory. So, where are the kryptonite bullets? They've been mixed at random in with the regular orders and shipped out days ago. The guy says something like: "When I was in jail, I saw you on tv a few times. When people shot at you, you kept doing this *mimes proudly showing chest*. I know you're gonna keep doing that, but from now on, when you do, I hope you think of me." That's incredibly dumb. Kryptonite is radioactive enough that the amount set into a ring gives people cancer and the vast, vast, vast majority of people buying bullets shipped from a regular factory are not going to be shooting Superman. Very few people committing crimes serious enough that Superman comes to stop them are using legally purchased stuff anyway and it also would be pretty trivial for them to track down the bullets once they were out of the lead lined factory. "Haha, Superman, I have MILDLY INCONVENIENCED YOU while you get Batman to track down the incredibly distinctive radiation signature of kryptonite. In the off chance any are missed they probably give a legitimate gun owner who never uses his gun cancer and/or end up embedded in an innocent victim!
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Uthor posted:But easy enough for Martha to sew! Okay, look, they are made of a special fabric that, when it comes in contact with Superman's bioelectric field, takes on the properties and durability of Superman himself. Outside of that field they are indistinguishable from regular cloth and since the cape regularly is outside of that field it tears much easier.  (actually I'm pretty sure that has been a canon excuse at some point.)
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Malachite_Dragon posted:I see that comic a dozen times, and every time I still I don't think Tony had any real idea of how far Vision had been pushed. Nobody did because Vision doesn't really show it and is normally fairly reasonable.
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that Tony seriously thought Vision was just going to let him waltz up and slap a force-field on him. I know Tony can be dense because of his ego but jesus christ.
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bobkatt013 posted:Except for that time he tried to take over the world Well yeah but he's an Avenger, that happens to everyone. Cap's trying to take over the world right now.
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The Phantom knows that the thing criminals fear most of all is striped underpants.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:There was a time years ago when Phantom was absolutely amazing. It was a storyline where the Phantom thought his wife Diana was dead, but she had really been languishing in a That second strip is really good. 
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It really isn't that complex. Vader was a broken man. He had literally nothing going for him but clinging to what he'd already done because there was no going backwards. However he's also not enough of a self-loathing rear end in a top hat to kill himself. So Palpatine either wants to break him so he can be rid of the lovely half-life samurai he made or he wants to force him to step up and be the guy Palpatine actually wanted. Either way Palpatine wins. Vader eventually is willing to kill Palpatine to save his son's life because he finally has a way to break free of Palpatine's long-term gaslighting.
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