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Bloodhound: Crowbar Medicine #5 For context Travis Clevinger is an ex-cop, current convict on a work release program with the FBI tracking down people with superpowers. In this series a scientist has been offering to implant people with a device that will give them superpowers, they tracked him down to his base of operations only to discover he had implanted himself with some kind of Green Lantern construct ability and a healing factor. They were then captured so he could explain his plant to rouse the population against superpowered individuals by showing it inevitably corrupted them and led to tragedy and loss of life. This is when Travis gets free and traumatises the entire room.        I could post most of what he gets up to in Bloodhound since he takes a licking but keeps on ticking.
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In the context of the series he's the protagonist, though I would hesitate to call him a hero. In about 17 issues that was the first time the excessive violence was used upon a person of colour, the majority of the time it has been used upon white criminals and sociopaths abusing powers. Which was probably part of why it didn't seem problematic to me, though in hindsight I can understand why people would have issues with it. The handing out of superpowers themselves formed a metaphor for gun control and the idea that "the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun", in an earlier issue Clevinger lost his daughter to an explosion caused by a well meaning person attempting to stop an armed mugging with superpowers granted by the scientist.
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Mar 31, 2014 09:51
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Yeah, thank goodness Amazon doesn't have trades with those issues, that would be terrible! http://www.amazon.com/Captain-Brita...tain+alan+moore http://www.amazon.co.uk/Captain-Britain-Vol-4-Siege-Camelot/dp/184653433X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y quote:Captain Britain returns fighting alongside the Black Knight and Merlyn to save fabled Camelot and Otherworld from the hideous hordes of Necromon! Plus, Captain Britain is reborn as the acclaimed Alan Moore and Alan Davis begin their momentous run and Britain's hero faces the terrifying Fury! Collects Hulk Comic Weekly #42-55, 56-63, Marvel Super Heroes #387-388, Daredevils #1-11 and The Mighty World of Marvel #7-13.
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Apr 29, 2014 15:00
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Parahexavoctal posted:Lot of nice scenes in the original Suicide Squad - for instance, Gort vs Deadshot. They didn't fall out of the plane.     Edit: Ostrander really made Deadshot who he was, the new 52 origin is just weak compared to the old one.
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May 8, 2014 22:21
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He just realised he's surrounded by a bunch of sociopaths who are unmoved by the destruction of a city.
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May 17, 2014 15:44
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 Destroyer MAX miniseries from 2009 with Robert Kirkman writing, Cory Walker on art and Val Staples on colouring.
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May 24, 2014 19:50
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It was, a psychic disease that turned their powers against themselves resulting in immolation. From Martian Manhunter v2 #0 written by John Ostrander with art by Tim Mnadrake.  
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Jul 11, 2014 14:09
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I can think of another two well written "deaths" of Superman that put anything Max Landis can conceive of to shame, Alan Moore's Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow, a farewell to the Silver Age and Grant Morrison's All Star Superman which also served as a rather fond tribute to Silver Age Superman.
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Aug 24, 2014 12:46
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Every issue ends with a text discussion between Uatua and Machine Man explaining the info you need to know
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Aug 26, 2014 21:21
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I love that run, the pulp Iron Fist, the other immortal weapons. It's all just fun.
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Aug 26, 2014 22:35
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I'm mostly just wondering how a lady got to the moon to pock the damned thing up. It's Marvel, little old ladies probably go up to the moon for tea and cakes with the Watcher or Black Bolt first Sunday of the month.
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Sep 9, 2014 10:35
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Miniature red sun kneepads.
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Nov 14, 2014 14:15
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He was being backed by the rich collateral damage of the Marvel Universe.
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Dec 2, 2014 03:41
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Skwirl posted:I really want to see these pages. I do love John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake's work, I should look up some Grimjack panels for the thread one of these days.        And this is the reason his lawyer mentioned Vlatava.    
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That's what Hank McCoy is there for.
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Lurdiak posted:It felt a little self-indulgent. Whedon.txt
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Dec 29, 2014 10:28
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Nah, the anatomy is still buggered. For a start his left arm would have to be made of rubber or it broke as well, also his body should be on Walter's right side from the momentum of the grab and the punch. It's just a bit of bad art.
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Dec 29, 2014 14:26
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Teenage Fansub posted:When it's exploding heads? Yeah! I think you mean Riki-Oh.
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Jan 2, 2015 22:41
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Even DKR involved a significantly weakened Superman and Bruce essentially counting on him holding back long enough for the Kryptonite gas arrow to come into play. I try to forget the sequel.
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Jan 22, 2015 13:47
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Vincent posted:
Miller gently accelerating towards that batshark, ski's steady, the ramp shining in the sun.
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Jan 27, 2015 22:33
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Daktar posted:Planetary had evil Fantastic Four though. That doesn't seem much like 'capes at face value' to me. Evil Fantastic Four who killed not-Superman when he was a baby, wiped out not-Wonder Woman and her civilisation and ripped out the ring from not-Green Lantern's chest. oh and they blackmailed not-Nick Fury into working for them. Planetary was pulps and pulp-sci-fi with just a soupçon of capes rather than a cape comic. As for Ruins I kind of like it now, but I read it as taking the piss out of nitpicking comic nerds by pointing out how horrifically wrong their favourite comic origins could have gone. First time I read it though I was pretty annoyed with the attempt to create a cynical nihilistic counterpoint to the hopeful tone of Marvels.
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Wildstorm did have its own Captain America, the constantly reincarnating soul of George Washington. There he is killing Hitler.
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Feb 2, 2015 12:11
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prefect posted:I don't know if this is a fair comparison, but nothing says "patriotic hero" to me like a flag tattooed on your face. Well he was patriotic to the idea of America rather than the country. So he attacked Wall Street, destroyed the records of various major banks, shot a senator in the head and killed the Supreme Court Justices before they were able to stop him.
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Feb 2, 2015 21:32
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Oda started as an assistant for the Rurouni Kenshin guy. Pretty sure a lot of the bignames nowadays started off as assistants.
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Idran posted:Yeah, but compared to how many assistants that didn't? No idea, from what I can gather from Google though it seems to be the general entrance route to the industry for most people, for example Murata started off as an assistant to Obata Takeshi. Interestingly they apparently get paid out of the credited creators pocket and do get credits on the volume collections, so it seems to be less exposure and more of an apprenticeship system. Anyway for content here's a time travelling cowboy fighting a tyrannosaurus rex from 2000Ad's Flesh. 
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Feb 12, 2015 22:25
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There was another arc that got a bit weird with Satanism and some Moonchild business that ended with Mary Poppins killing Harry Potter. I did read one of the books featuring Nemo's daughter, who took the title, that was pretty neat involving a Mountains of Madness type expedition and this new one looks quite fun as well.
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Mar 30, 2015 11:53
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prefect posted:I call bullshit on this, because Tony Stark is a great engineer, but not the kind of scientist who could build a synthezoid. Creating, probably not, but rebuilding him? I can buy that, they most likely ran hundreds if not thousands of scans on Vision over the years, giving him a lot of info. Not to mention the possibility of consulting with the likes of Reed Richards, but of course Tony's ego wouldn't let him admit to doing that. 
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Alacron posted:I don't think that any thought beyond "THIS IS HARDCORE BRO" was put into this. Mark Millar in a nutshell.
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