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Herc v Hulk has most often boiled down to a draw. Hulk is stronger, no doubt. But a lot of it boils down to circumstance given that Hulk's power levels may as well be dictated by a die roll given how consistent he is. Or isn't.
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Lurdiak posted:That's stupid, there's nothing gritty about most golden age heroes and those guys were basically serial killers. Well, yes and no. A lot of it depended on their popularity; Batman and Superman started out being pretty dangerous guys, then as they got to be popular with the kids (which was only a few years in), editors started being like "whoa, Batman only shoots to wound!" and then "Batman doesn't shoot, period". Which is how you get stuff like the radio version of The Shadow, who's reduced to using his ability to cloud men's minds to go and sneak out what the criminals are doing, and then... call the police on them. You still had stuff like Captain Marvel shooting fleeing men in the back with a machinegun in the old film serials (mind, they were foreign bad guys, and so a white American shooting them in the back was probably still legal), but some comic book editors were concerned about that sort of thing well over a decade before Seduction of the Innocent. It wasn't so much that Golden Age heroes were more bloodthirsty, but that there just weren't the same established conventions for how superheroes were supposed to act until the Comics Code landed and codified things for most publishers.
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Feb 27, 2016 15:00
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Shatterstar's sword! It has two blades. That's, like, double the sword.
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Feb 29, 2016 17:58
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The original Wonder Woman would be more than a little weird to try and translate to the modern day. Most people would likely think she was some sort of parody. Or, alternately, a spinoff for Empowered.
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Mar 1, 2016 02:20
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Teenage Fansub posted:You can find out next month. That cover makes me feel like some kind of physic.
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Mar 1, 2016 02:33
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CapnAndy posted:Ultimatum is so, so much worse than Ultimates 3. You're gonna suffer. It's easily one of the top five worst comic series put out by Marvel that decade. Of course, if I put Ultimates 3 on the same list, I start to... make that a top ten, though. There have been a lot of really, really bad Marvel series when I think too hard about it.
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Mar 6, 2016 00:04
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CapnAndy posted:I honestly thought Ultimate X-Men got pretty interesting. Never well written enough to be good, but there was a story there. Yeah, I kinda liked the Brian Wood run, it wasn't great, but it kept me at least curious to see where he'd take it next. It mostly just seems to meander to a conclusion, unfortunately, and a lot of story branches just die. But it was interesting.
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Mar 6, 2016 07:17
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Lightning Lord posted:It had the fatal flaw of being written by Brian Wood though. This was riiight before the accusations of harassment came up, IIRC. But yes, it's something that might color the run in retrospect.
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Mar 6, 2016 18:08
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Ultragonk posted:And I think Valkyrie is dead again, which is loving amazing considering the effort they put in to having Thor save her thankfully she attacked the master of magnetism with a sword. These people are terrible. Really what encapsulates Ultimatum for me is the part where Valkyrie cuts Magneto's arm with her sword somehow, even though she's coming right at him and he's not like "boy, maybe I should stop this", and also for some reason he isn't like "AAAAAA MY ARM". No, instead he stands there like an action figure, chides her for using a metal sword against him, which, I dunno, seems to have worked out beyond anybody's wildest expectations, given that he's minus an arm, and kills her with the sword. Nothing in that sequence makes the faintest bit of sense and yet some editor was like- wait, the book has multiple editors credited? There were as many as four whole people who looked at that series and were like "yup, that'll do".
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Mar 6, 2016 20:39
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Ultragonk posted:I didn't quite see the point of killing her once and then doing it again. I'm not sure anything in Ultimatum had a point to it, it's baffling. Ultimatum is also problematic given Loeb's personal history; it's about a man reacting to the death of his daughter, and Loeb went through the death of his own son to cancer a few years previous to writing it, and has done a number of tributes to his son in various books. But the fact a lot of his writing is colored by that tragic event makes the series even more uncomfortable.
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Mar 6, 2016 21:47
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DigitalRaven posted:Add Simonson's Thor to that list. Come for Thorse, stay for Volstagg's philosophy of food. Absolutely, read this.
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Mar 8, 2016 21:51
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Captain Britain was an abusive alcoholic for awhile.
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Mar 20, 2016 20:55
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It's real bad. Easily one of the weakest books Matt Fraction has done for Marvel. About the best thing that can be said is that we got a pretty dece pinball table out of it.
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Apr 18, 2016 19:27
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CapnAndy posted:I thought Lady Death doesn't actually get naked, she just constantly wears that outfit to make her fanboys think she's gonna at any given second? Well, you can't sell porn to adolescents if the characters don't wear at least token clothing. zoux posted:Wildstorm? Lady Death was Chaos!, and Shi was... some other forgotten company? Wildstorm was still an Image imprint at the time.
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Apr 18, 2016 21:18
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Mover posted:But I don't think I'm familiar with the Doom at the bottom, which looks to be either Valeria or Sue taking up the armor. Anyone know what that's referencing? And I guess that last wasteland too, if it's anything specific. That little guy in silhouette does look kinda striking. That does look like an older Valeria, who, in her original appearances, sported a ponytail and wore a Doom-style cape, gauntlets, and boots over a Fantastic Four-themed dress, it was quite a bit of fashion confusion.
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May 6, 2016 03:55
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I just wanted to mention that I've been an agent of HAMMER all along, and am now edgier and cooler as a result. This isn't your grandpa's Alien Rope Burn!
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May 25, 2016 17:57
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Yeah, Wolverine has gotten his head hacked off in at least one other What If and I think something Warren Ellis-penned, even though it doesn't really seem possible under normal circumstances.FilthyImp posted:It honestly seemed like a cute little experiment to reinvigorate the line. The real problem is when writers realize they have freedom to do all sorts of things they couldn't in normal continuity, which means diverging not only from normal continuity, but the basic setting of "Earth as we know it, but with capes". And though that might seem interesting to the writers penning it, it creates a whole new level of things that need to be explained on top of all the complicated superhero shenanigans.
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Jun 3, 2016 09:35
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Original five + Storm, Wolverine, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, and Rogue. I doubt think having an "iconic X-Men team" is true to the spirit of the franchise but that's who my mind goes to.
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Jun 4, 2016 22:46
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Rhyno posted:Millar's run had potential but it fell behind schedule and then they slotted in 4 extra issues by Tom Peyer that were not very good. Pretty much the Authority is a book that shouldn't have gone past #12. Yeah. Mostly the best stuff you can say about later Authority is that it was notably still doing something different than other superhero books at the time, but if you're not reading them in the moment they were made they have not stood the test of time. The nadir was when they got Art Adams as an artist, DC decided it was too violent, and then asked Art Adams to redo pages, necessitating the whole Peyer fill-in arc. It's amazing how hard DC hobbled Wildstorm just as it started to reach a creative peak and then eventually drove them into utter obscurity, eventually just leaving the line to serve as the DC Try-Out Book.
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Jun 13, 2016 00:06
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Grey Area posted:If you care about the Fantastic Four I can recommend Baxter Building by Jeff Lester and Graeme McMillan. They read a dozen issues of Fantastic Four every month starting from #1 and talk about them. Not as polished and concise as J&M, but quite entertaining. Do they have something resembling a formula? I generally like what they have to say but Wait, What?! kept going onto half-hour diversions about their local waffle hut that just lost me. My favorite comics podcast is House to Astonish with Paul O'Brien and Al Kennedy, though they're more a news 'n review sort of show, Paul O'Brien's X-Axis blog reviews (that dated back to rec.arts.comics.marvel.xbooks) were a big inspiration behind JAMXTX. If nothing else, if you listen to one comics podcast ever, make it House to Astonish's Handbook Tapes episode, which is a world wonder of comics nerddom.
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Jun 14, 2016 00:33
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I think Guy Gardner was best summed up by Chris Sims:Chris Sims posted:As annoying as Guy can be–and brother, he can be annoying–he’s a brilliant character. Why? Because a guy that was totally honest and totally fearless really WOULD be a complete jerk.
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Jul 2, 2016 01:28
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Bear in mind John Stewart's undergone some serious character erosion from when he was a clever, outspoken, and independent hero who was an educated architect... to the modern version that had his sense of humor excised by blowing up a planet, and his military background somehow became his overriding trait that drowned out most of his personality. Is Johns responsible for him becoming a Serious Soldier Guy, or is JLU to blame, or something earlier?
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Jul 3, 2016 05:05
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In that context, what's the general opinion of the old Harley & Ivy series? Given it was the series that all but made the subtext text.
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Aug 26, 2016 06:43
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I've always wanted to go through all of Dr. Strange's comics and detail all the spells he's used. But not enough to actually do it or anything, mind.
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Sep 8, 2016 20:02
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"Orphan Battle" is my friends' nickname for Batman vs. Superman.
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Sep 20, 2016 17:41
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It was always meant to end on a Bill Hicks quote. Obviously.
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Dec 5, 2016 01:04
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Lurdiak posted:I'm sure if I posted either of those pieces of poo poo on imgur or reddit it'd get a million points and tons of comments saying it's the best version of the characters they've ever seen. It's easy to mistake tragedy for meaning.
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Very few Bendis comics have anything that could be called a "payoff".
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