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Northstar was explicitly created to be gay but this was like 1982, so homosexuality was a much more taboo issue than today. Jim Shooter pitched a fit. And that is why Northstar was a 100% hetero fairy for a while.
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It's a minor plot point in one of the Mark Waid Daredevils that DD's marriage got annulled.
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May 17, 2014 22:23
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Daredevil's caption boxes say her parents had their marriage annulled because of her diminished mental capacity right when she first shows up.
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Also only a small proportion of the world speaks/reads English.
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What do people get out of podcasts? I'm not being obtuse, there's a few non-comics ones I listen to, but my wife wants to start one. Most of the comics ones I've seen are multi hour affairs. They all tend to get rambly and off topic. The podcasts I like are generally shorter, less than an hour at least. They usually end up off topic too, but get back on track quicker.
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Oct 30, 2014 21:14
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That jibes pretty exactly with what I was thinking.
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Oct 31, 2014 14:19
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If I remember right Timely/Atlas/Marvel signed a deal with National/DC in the fifties to distribute their books because the market was so far in the toilet. The deal ended in I want to say 1968 because of Marvel's popularity. Remember, at the time proto Marvel was a tiny player in the market. And DC wasn't the media giant they are today. DC limited Marvel to 8 titles a month. That worked just fine for a company that published weird monster books and little else. DC never published for Marvel as such.
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Dec 8, 2014 17:00
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Uthor posted:...whatever you would call Zenoscope...
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idonotlikepeas posted:"It's cool, guys, he only used the mind control machines on her a little bit so he could have sex with her, then be born as her child and then have sex with her more." - An actual human writer, whose work was viewed and approved by other human beings before being published The story behind Avengers #200 is fascinating and insane.
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Mar 3, 2015 15:01
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It's mostly the laziness that gets me. I understand why an artist would do it: even in the best of circumstances you won't make poo poo as a comics artist. And I owe why an editor would go along with such half assed work: a good chunk of comics fandom don't care about art beyond looking "realistic" and if you're tracing poser models how can you miss a deadline? But even in the hands of someone who really, really, really knows what's up (Kyle Baker) it always looks utterly stiff and lifeless. Without twisting the composition at least a little it's almost impossible to create a line of action. It's much harder to guide the eye along the page. And the rigging on all of the models is questionable at best and a nightmare at worst. Even stick figures are more respectable than poser.
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Jul 12, 2015 00:12
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When Bill Gaines was high as poo poo on benzos and testifying before congress he essentially said that adults were his target market (but also that the severed head cover was in good taste in certain contexts... don't get high and talk to congress, kids).
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Aug 17, 2015 19:49
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It's always kinda shifty. You can track down the end of Gen X to either the DC implosion of 1978 (or some say the publication of Superman vs Mohammad Ali or even Contact with God). On the other end of the spectrum the Millennial Age may have begun as late as 1984, with the publication of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Feb 23, 2016 16:24
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He's the shittiest Robin so obviously DC loves him best.
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Mar 4, 2016 05:03
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And throwing punches before you even have time to think is a very Hal Jordan thing to do.
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Are there any great comics blogs anymore? I've spent the last couple weeks trying to pimp a kickstarter I've got going on, so I've been trying to find every possible comics blog and my god they're all just bubbling morasses of bullshit about the Flash or Supergirl shows, or even worse, dumb listicles that relate to the upcoming movies or marketing events. I think those of us just looking for news and commentary on comics are seriously in the minority. Okay, Comics Journal kinda screws that pooch because it's like 90% what I want. But it's really the only one. I'd say The Beat is okay but it's definitely been bit by the TV bug. Skimming the front page only one or two things make me say "Who gives a poo poo?" out loud (and to be fair they're totally the things that interest tons of people other than me). A lot of their stories could do with an editing pass, but such is life on the internet. Comics Alliance always kinda skewed heavy on the pop culture fluff. Looking at the front page there's like two things I might want to read on it. The only things I consistently read on it are the little tributes to classic creators they let Benito Cereno write when he's pumped out enough listicles about the top ten characters that should show up in Suicide Squad or whatever. Robot6 is drowning in pop culture fluff. Comics Should Be Good are deluged in pop culture fluff, but at least it's all tightly comics targeted. I've probably looked at fifty different Bob's Discount Comics Blogs in the last week. I don't think it's bitter grapes that makes me dislike them. Like, at least when Chris Sims is sperging out about Superman's birthing egg he's writing in an engaging, enjoyable style. Most of the people that try to emulate it don't realize how much it deflates itself and admits straight up that caring a lot about the Kryptonian birthing matrix is super super goofy.
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