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Edge & Christian posted:
Suburban Batman
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Lucifunk posted:Isn't Duke the daytime shift Batman? That is supposedly the situation, yes.
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CapnAndy posted:I love the one-two punch of Batman just taking a casual stroll on the sidewalk to girlwatch combined with the reveal that, for years, his policy has been “oh, that part of Gotham has too much crime in it, I think I’ll give it a miss”. That story is pretty goofy tonally, too. It's actually mostly a Titans story where the marginalised folks who live in that area have started policing the area themselves because the actual cops are either corrupt or are, y'know, cops, and thus Gotham wants to tear down the housing in the area to gentrify it. But the story's point is that 'the Youths' just need to pull up their bootstraps and tidy up the neighbourhood. Gaz-L fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Jan 23, 2024 |
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Jan 23, 2024 20:19
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Lucifunk posted:Isn't Duke the daytime shift Batman? Does anyone actually like Duke?
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thetoughestbean posted:Does anyone actually like Duke? He'd actually have to be in a current running comic for me to form an opinion
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Jan 26, 2024 14:14
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Duke is with Harper Row just off screen
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Jan 26, 2024 14:16
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thetoughestbean posted:Does anyone actually like Duke? Yes, but like entirely from Batman Family.
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Jan 26, 2024 14:24
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I liked Duke in the I am Robin series but since then he has gotten a new costume and done nothing. I'm not saying that he needs his own solo comic but it would be nice if he appeared in a few comics instead of just a background character. Put him Nightwing and have him learn from Grayson or something. Give him some character development.
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Jan 27, 2024 02:13
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Madkal posted:I liked Duke in the I am Robin series but since then he has gotten a new costume and done nothing. I'm not saying that he needs his own solo comic but it would be nice if he appeared in a few comics instead of just a background character. Put him Nightwing and have him learn from Grayson or something. Give him some character development. Doesn't Duke have some oddly complicated powers?
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Jan 27, 2024 03:36
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Duke's parents were infected by Joker's super Joker gas or something and Bruce promised to find a cure. I don't know if it has ever been mentioned since.
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Jan 27, 2024 17:35
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thetoughestbean posted:Does anyone actually like Duke? Only the Batman Family version. Duke is absolutely a #1 candidate for Most Likely To Get Written Out/Killed Off.
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Jan 27, 2024 20:34
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Madkal posted:Duke's parents were infected by Joker's super Joker gas or something and Bruce promised to find a cure. I don't know if it has ever been mentioned since. Much like Superman always finding a way to fix Kandor being shrunk, I'm sure he's working on it conveniently juuuust off-panel.
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Jan 27, 2024 20:43
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Here's a question, for long running series with multiple writers especially. When you jump back in and don't remember many things, how much do you stop to look stuff up, or just go with the flow? A pet peeve of mine is every fan wiki page features a prominent "status: DEAD" or something near the top, not always a great place to get a refresher on some character. For example I'm thinking I'll jump into some Jenkins The Darkness, it's been maybe 15 years since I read the previous stuff. I guess one bonus of forgetting stuff is the next writer often doesn't line up with the previous writer on things anyway.
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Jan 27, 2024 23:11
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Mr Hootington posted:Duke is with Harper Row just off screen 
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Jan 27, 2024 23:59
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If Falcon can talk to birds, and birds are dinosaurs, has Falcon ever used his bird-talking power to talk to dinosaurs? PS I haven’t read comics in a long time and I have no idea how long it’s been since Falcon has had the mutant power to talk to birds or how long it’s been since he was called Falcon of he’s now called something else.
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Jan 28, 2024 00:16
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He goes by Bald Eagle now and has, coincidentally, also adopted a very strict waxing regimen.
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I AM GRANDO posted:If Falcon can talk to birds, and birds are dinosaurs, has Falcon ever used his bird-talking power to talk to dinosaurs? I don't know about dinosaurs but in Avengers 689 (2018) Sam was able to make a telepathic link with Challenger, an alien that evolved from either birds or dinosaurs: 
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Heavy Metal posted:Here's a question, for long running series with multiple writers especially. When you jump back in and don't remember many things, how much do you stop to look stuff up, or just go with the flow? I almost never look stuff up. I would get random comics in the 90's (literally "3 issues for the price of 1" bags that not only had random issues, but I couldn't see what the third one in the middle of the bag was). Now, my reading club is going through events and I'm not bothering looking up anything that lead up to the event, so I'm lost like 50% of the time. I dunno, it's just fine for me. I don't know who a character is or whatever, but I get a good feel for the story being told (and boy, do a lot of the big crossover events feel "crappy"!) and I could go and read back issues if it interested me.
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Right on, that sounds like a cool way to do it. I also had those random flea market comic packs sometimes. Bloodshot, king of the flea market, was a key character in those.
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Heavy Metal posted:Here's a question, for long running series with multiple writers especially. When you jump back in and don't remember many things, how much do you stop to look stuff up, or just go with the flow?
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Nice, for me I'd probably take a peak at the previous issue if it's been forever.
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Bizzaro is either a failed clone of Superman or an inhabitant of a parallel universe/planet where things are backwards compared to our reality. He's got Superman's super strength and invulnerability, but talks backwards and is not exactly evil, but usually more just simple minded. He's not poisoned by green kryptonite, but one of the other colors does effect him. Instead of Heat Vision and Ice Breath, he has Ice Vision and Fire Breath. Does he have an "opposite" of x-ray vision? Can he not see through clear glass?
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CzarChasm posted:Bizzaro is either a failed clone of Superman or an inhabitant of a parallel universe/planet where things are backwards compared to our reality. He's got Superman's super strength and invulnerability, but talks backwards and is not exactly evil, but usually more just simple minded. He's not poisoned by green kryptonite, but one of the other colors does effect him. It actually depends on the version. It's been portrayed as "the ability to see through lead (and only lead)" "X-Rays except the bad kind that gently caress you up real bad" "He doesn't have X-Ray vision but instead X-Ray hearing that can hear through everything but lead" "Instead of X-Ray Vision it's Solid Vision which makes anything they look at more solid" etc.
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CzarChasm posted:Bizzaro is either a failed clone of Superman or an inhabitant of a parallel universe/planet where things are backwards compared to our reality. He's got Superman's super strength and invulnerability, but talks backwards and is not exactly evil, but usually more just simple minded. He's not poisoned by green kryptonite, but one of the other colors does effect him. Paging Slim Goodbody
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Disco Pope posted:Has it ever been discussed if Batman comes out earlier and stays out later in Winter or how he adjusts to less darkness in Summer? Like, if you get mugged at 9.30pm on a balmy July night is it just "gently caress you, then"? I remember in the Knightfall novelization, which was probably written by Dennis O'Neil because it seems like he wrote all the Batman novels, it's commented that Batman 'Never appeared before dark, and seldom before 11'. The exception being Bane and co decided to blast down Arkham at like 7 PM, so it takes an extra moment to grab Batman's attention.
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Cornwind Evil posted:I remember in the Knightfall novelization, which was probably written by Dennis O'Neil because it seems like he wrote all the Batman novels, it's commented that Batman 'Never appeared before dark, and seldom before 11'. The exception being Bane and co decided to blast down Arkham at like 7 PM, so it takes an extra moment to grab Batman's attention. It was indeed written by O'Neil. It was kind of cool to see Batman's thought processes right before he plans on taking people down.
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Cornwind Evil posted:I remember in the Knightfall novelization, which was probably written by Dennis O'Neil because it seems like he wrote all the Batman novels, it's commented that Batman 'Never appeared before dark, and seldom before 11'. The exception being Bane and co decided to blast down Arkham at like 7 PM, so it takes an extra moment to grab Batman's attention. Batman only coming out at night was very much a thing changed after CoIE. 2 of the biggest negatives that happened to modern Batman were his omniscience preparedness and the virtual abandonment of him being Bruce.
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It was barely tenable even in the best circumstances in his solo titles and completely unworkable in a shared universe, but I always had a fondness for the "urban legend" Batman. It's definitely scarier if the criminals aren't even sure if there is a Batman, let alone what he can do and how he operates so they can counter-plan, y'know? Bruce ought to let JLA members take the cowl out for a spin on random nights, just so that the criminals in jail are like "yeah, loving Batman walked right through the wall and got me" and another one's like "I dunno about that, if anything he seemed too solid to me, I unloaded an entire shotgun clip in his face and he didn't even blink" and a third guy's going "no I'm telling you, he turned into a grizzly bear" and everyone mocks that dude for making up obvious bullshit.
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CapnAndy posted:It was barely tenable even in the best circumstances in his solo titles and completely unworkable in a shared universe, but I always had a fondness for the "urban legend" Batman. It's definitely scarier if the criminals aren't even sure if there is a Batman, let alone what he can do and how he operates so they can counter-plan, y'know? "Any of you guys noticed that Batman has a beard nowadays? And he just shoots people with arrows instead of using those batarangs?" "Are you sure that wasn't Green Arrow?" "Buddy I know my colors, the arrows weren't green"
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I’m telling you, Batman was bright red and constantly making jokes when he punched me with his very stretchy arm!
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thetoughestbean posted:I’m telling you, Batman was bright red and constantly making jokes when he punched me with his very stretchy arm! I don't know why he wears those sunglasses though, weird look...
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CapnAndy posted:It was barely tenable even in the best circumstances in his solo titles and completely unworkable in a shared universe, but I always had a fondness for the "urban legend" Batman. It's definitely scarier if the criminals aren't even sure if there is a Batman, let alone what he can do and how he operates so they can counter-plan, y'know? I'm thinking about that episode of Superman: TAS where Superman has to stand in for Batman
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Should've known Batman was a phony when he called me a "poozer" and flew away in a green streak.
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Inkspot posted:Should've known Batman was a phony when he called me a "poozer" and flew away in a green streak. Ironically that's just Hal, he just picked up Kilowog's salty language
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Question about the 90s X-Men cartoon series, in the opening where listing all the character names when they get to Beast he's listed as "the Beast" is there a reason for that?
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They just pulled it from the series when he blue'd himself.
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It was pretty consistent even before that, at least based on the original run of X-Men covers:  The Beast is pretty consistently called "The Beast", as as "The Hulk", "The Thing", "The Human Torch", and "The Wasp" in the early days. Angel/"The Angel" is less consistent. It's never "The Iceman" or "The Cyclops" that I can find, though "Ice Man" is occasionally thrown out, as seen above.
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Rolling into a similar question, did they ever give a reason for why Jean's code name never gets used?
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because Jean Grey is way punchier and more memorable than Marvel Girl
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She was just “Jean Grey” in the comics at that time too. “Marvel Girl” is kind of a lame hero name, so probably once the character was brought back to life they wanted to dump that and Phoenix, since that was a different character and her daughter from the future was also going by the Phoenix name in the comics at the time. And Jean does go by Phoenix for the Phoenix stories in the cartoon.
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