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Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Samuringa posted:

The exact same thing happens in Runaways, how many vampires will suck solar blood before they learn???

It's pretty hard to pass on that knowledge after you have burned to death.

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Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Evil Mastermind posted:

And the symbol of his order was a Times New Roman "X" with a circle around it.

It was, as I said, not a good story.

:drac:"In my language it means 'hope'"

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Infinitum posted:

Batman dismantles a room full of mercs, then dismantles the same room in a different manner

Torture is not badass.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Lobok posted:

He was threatening them, not torturing them (well, debatable with the shoulder injury guy). The head dude knows Batman won't kill so Batman scares him into cooperating. Isn't that what he does?

The head dude also knows that Batman knows exactly how much he can torture someone before they die.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Skwirl posted:

I know it's his entire schtick, but Scrooge is such a money grubbing poo poo it's a little hard for me to read some of his comics.

The Don Rosa comic is very open about how getting rich will gently caress you up:

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Android Blues posted:

Daredevil could also just be wrong. Like, what is he, the Handbook to the Marvel Universe? You expect every hero to keep up on the intricacies of which Foolkiller is which, they'll never have time to stop muggings.

That's probably why Deadpool published all those villain cards.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Doc Hawkins posted:


when the workers explain they need to work to live, she gives them bulging sacks of gold coins


And by that devaluing the metal so that the workers gets shafted.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Nessus posted:

Secret nothing that's like the through line for most of the early Vertigo stuff.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Doc Hawkins posted:

a lot of comics are secretly about Margaret Thatcher

They weren't really that secretive about it. Alan Moore wrote in the foreword to V for Vendetta that his hatred for Thatcher was a huge reason for why he wrote the comic for example.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Android Blues posted:

Or,

"Hey, should we engineer a debt crisis to get rich off market speculation?"

"Yeah, great idea!"

"But I'm worried that the immortal Spirit of Vengeance will horribly take me away from this mortal coil and curse me to sorrow and torture forever."

"Nah, man, he only gruesomely murders like, mafia guys and cultists and stuff. It's fine."

"Oh, okay! Cool!"

There's a scene in Punisher Max where two crooks has that same conversation about Frank Castle. Then one of them says "but what if that's no longer true?" and then they both run away.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Synthbuttrange posted:

I still enjoy Black Summer even if it wasnt what I wanted it to be. Looking back on it now, it really is about how seductive the superhero is as a power fantasy is. Ellis had some words about that.






It's kinda funny how there's basically just one guy drawing all the Avatar comics.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Lencho posted:

Well, to be fair there were 2 guys doing the art on all Avatar comics (Jacen Burrows and Juan José Ryp).

Turns out it's not that easy to get people to illustrate literal torture porn.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




AkumaHokoru posted:

good or bad loki owns bones.

Did you mean to say Cat Loki?

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Lurdiak posted:

The idea of Batman being out all night every single night is a very modern one, they used to play it more realistic.

For a long time it was canon that most people in Gotham didn't even believe that there was a "batman".

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Beachcomber posted:

Obviously Batman is secretly Wolverine. Or vice versa.

Isn't there currently three or four Wolverines, including one actual wolverine, in the MCU?

Alhazred fucked around with this message at 11:49 on Oct 20, 2019

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011





Kill Six Billion Demons

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




DigitalRaven posted:

Absolute Carnage #1 - Spidey and Venom have their lunch interrupted.

Why do even people bother trying to be burglars in the MU?

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




habeasdorkus posted:


Read Kill Six Billion Demons, goddamnit.
Hell yeah:




Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




CzarChasm posted:

So can those soldiers understand her or not? Sword guy speaks English at the end, but everyone else is speaking <>. Can't blame them for not surrendering if they don't know that's what you are offering.

Pretty much every non-american understand english to some degree.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




ManiacClown posted:

I suspect Wolverine's beer flowchart looks somewhat like this.
pre:
	   Is it beer?
	        |
	        |
	—————————————————
	Yes		No
	  |		|
	  |		|
	  ↓		↓
	Drink		Meh.
	it.

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Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Skwirl posted:

Calculator and robot both used to describe humans.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




jng2058 posted:

Beast? Also went blue, keeps getting new characterizations and a hosed up evil darker blue version who escaped from AoA.

Lets be real, Beast was already hosed up and evil.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




E. Revenant posted:

It's a bunch of paint haphazardly strewn across a canvas for the purpose of fleecing art snobs.

Pollock didn't randomly splash paint on canvas, he used fractals. Fractal analysis can actually be used to authenticate his paintings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollock#Fractal_computer_analysis

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Infinitum posted:

A secondary knife-attracting mutation

Marauders #20

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




ImpAtom posted:

That bugs the poo poo out of me because it only makes sense if The Flash somehow acknowledges it is impossible to imprison KGBeast.

Like.. you have super speed. He can be in a jail cell before he can blink. You don't need to Watch Every Move He Makes unless you are acting on the inexplicable knowledge that it is impossible to keep a supervillain imprisoned at which point you should be trying to find a solution to that instead of spending your free time monitoring KGBeast.
Of course the KGBeast will be released/escape. Prisons and mental hospitals just doesn't work in super hero comics.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011





Still my favorite Kill Six Billion Demons page (Allison have been challenged to a drinking contest and part of the rules is that they have to sing)
:

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011





Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 48

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward total triumph for Dr. Doom.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




I really liked how that story was told like if it was a film noir story.

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Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Another panel from the Valhalla comics, The Serpent in the Abyss. Tor's struggle against Jormungandr is the most iconic part of his legends and Peter Madsen did a great job retelling it:

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