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Senior Woodchuck posted:Please don't ask about anything that's happened with Sandman since 1998. Amen. Byrne hosed him up so badly 😞. He was reformed and even joined the Avengers for a hot minute!!!! He helped beat the Sinister Six and hunted Nazis with Silver Sable!!! But then JB decided he just HAD to be a bad guy again....
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Gavok posted:Fantastic! And furthermore, it's unbelieva... Now how about some scenery???
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Samuringa posted:The legalese talk in this thread plus talking about Endgame in the movie thread reminded me that She-Hulk acknowledges that it is common for people to die and come back frequently in this universe I love this run, but good lord - has Juan Bobillo ever seen the Thing before? Stylized differences and all that, but it looks like he just got done reading Concrete and phoned it in from there.
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May 21, 2019 19:01
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From Captain America 375. Battlestar gets some... dubious advice from Red Zeppelin about what not to do when locked up.
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From the sad, late period of the Mark Gruenwald captain America run... Her three biggest heroes are Cap, Mother Theresa, and ... ummmm.... Michael Stipe. 1994 everybody!!!
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MikeJF posted:My destiny... lies with becoming an instant-results personal trainer and charging people lots of money to touch the orb! The best thing about this is he comes back in the 3rd Damage Control limited series as a cosmic janitor who wants to clean up the universe with a giant glowing pushbroom. The entire 3rd series is wrapped up in this as a major plot point. His name is Edifice Rex.
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Elissimpark posted:Nice. I love how excited he is to have the strength of a gorilla, which would be cool for a normal person, but wouldn't be anywhere near the magnitude of strength for a lot of superheros. Marvel had their share too... I would assume given Stan’s predilection for circuses, this ape somehow escaped from one. Also, holy lack of perspective on this! 
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A Strange Aeon posted:Not Brand Echh seems really goofy and fun, kind of like the Unglued and Unhinged Magic expansions, if anyone gets that deep nerd reference. Are they worth finding to read through? It’s both goofy and fun, and definitely worth a read. Most issues are up on Marvel Unlimited if you want to check them out. If you have any grasp of 1960s pop culture or politics, you’ll get most of the jokes. Lots of great sight and background gags. Yeah, there’s a lot of hacky, corny jokes but it’s still super fun to read and it’s fun to watch Lee and Kirby take shots at themselves. The first 8 or 9 issues of What The?!? Are the same way, but those aren’t up on MU for some reason. That series took a sharp left turn off a cliff, so you’d probably only want the issues in single digits
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Skwirl posted:I think they quoted the wrong picture and was saying the dude next to Michael J Fox was John Travolta, though it's not a great likeness. I used to love these cameos when I read these as a kid, but I was always confused as to why so many guys had blue hair.
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Open Marriage Night posted:And didn’t golden age Green Lantern get slowly pushed out of his own book by a crime solving dog? He was already second banana in the book to a Brooklyn cab driver turned sidekick named Doiby Dickles, then a woman sidekick named Harlequin, and then his book got turned into All Star Western out of nowhere. The Golden Age was wild - books changed concepts and titles on a whim. My all time favorite was Moon Girl. Started out as a fantasy title Moon Girl and the Prince for one issue, then suddenly changed to Moon Girl for 5 issues because superheroes sold better, then suddenly changed to Moon Girl Fights Crime! for 3 issues because crime comics were the rage. But romance comics sold even better, so it changed YET AGAIN to A Moon, A Girl... Romance! But it STILL wasn’t done because EC saw that horror comics were the big money seller, so it became Weird Fantasy with issue 13. 5 title and genre changes in 13 issues!!!
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Infinitum posted:
No I’m afraid I just grayed myself?
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David D. Davidson posted:I don't see wh no- And keep in mind THIS WAS FROM THE LATE 70s. Well after Claremont had re-established him as a badass in Uncanny. That cartoon was ..... something.
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How Wonderful! posted:I was curious about this because my wife is reading the Claremont run for the first time right now and it's been fun to hear about all the benchmarks and cool parts from a fresh pair of eyes. So, this episode aired in October 1978. The first time Magneto shows up in Claremont's run is Uncanny X-Men #104, which came out in April 77. Then he kind of just cameos a little bit for awhile and comes back for a big showy story in #111-113 which have cover dates of June-September 1978. I guess your mileage may vary but in #104 he still comes off as kind of a doofus, and I would say that the first really cool Magneto story is the second arc mentioned, and even then he's still pretty hammy-- as mentioned, tying people up and making them get treated like babies by a robot. On the other hand he looks completely sick drawn by John Byrne at the peak of his talents, which I'm sure helped a lot in elevating his profile. So there are little hints of Claremont turning him into something interesting by the end of 1978, but I think that if somebody from that year were to think that Magneto kind of sucks and is goofy they would not be totally unjustified. Even if he’s not the complex character he becomes later on in the Claremont run, he’s definitely not the doof he is in the early Lee years and in that cartoon. And yeah, I know they had to dumb everything down for a Saturday morning audience, but man that’s just bad...
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Daktar posted:I've been on an X-men kick since I read the Hickman books, so I went back and looked at some of the 60s stories. Those first few issues where Magneto appears they really thought magnetism could do anything. He's pretty much as psychic as Xavier, too. Stan Lee understood magnetism as much as he understood transistors. Those two things were pretty much magic back in the early Silver Age, they were the same catch-all back then as “nanites” are now.
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Push El Burrito posted:The best part of old Iron Man comics was seeing him charge the suit by just plugging it into the wall. Also him wearing the ginormous chest plate under his clothes and it not being noticeable. Even when he slimmed it down in the red and gold armor there was no way everyone he saw wouldn’t have noticed. That and the Angel hiding HUGE wings under his shirt in the back are the biggest “it’s the silver age, I just have to suspend a certain level of disbelief” things.
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Sassy Thor has no time for your bullets  Thor #283
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Esplanade posted:Don't know if Marvel Puzzle Quest is canon, but this is how Cyclops activates his "Mutant Revolutionary" power in-game. That’s Krakoa’s rear end
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FFT posted:Yeah, like Glob Did you say Blob??? 
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Elissimpark posted:Which would be more Cobra, having a dedicated choir who enjoy both singing and tormenting innocent ears with Muzak, or having a choir that is forced to sing Muzak as some esoteric punishment for failure that can also be used to torment innocent ears. Sounds like someone’s never heard the absolute banger “Cold Slither” https://youtu.be/bnM-u7rZwtI
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The Question IRL posted:I still have so much of that at home. Batman? Who’s Batman? I think you mean Pumpkin Man
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Random Stranger posted:That wasn't due to the cartoon. That was because the series was launched as a four issue limited series complete with the trade dress of "# in a four issue limited series". Then at the end of issue four, Shockwave kills all of the Autobots and they go on to issue five. It was the talk of my elementary school back in the day... Which in turn led to one of the most badass covers of all time on issue 5: 
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Phy posted:Bashied in the bazouks “Arrrr! He got me in 
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:
There’s so many things I hate about that era of Wolverine, but two of my nitpickiest are the corner box and the logo. That logo kept getting longer and longer am until it took up a drat 1/3 of the page And the corner box was a recolored Kevin Nowlan piece (from Marvel Comics Presents I think?) - it was originally the brown and orange costume but changed when Logan went back to the old yellow and blue. The whole thing just seems off putting
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How Wonderful! posted:I love that arc. Steve Ditko can suck an egg, Marie Severin is my definitive Doctor Strange artist for sure, nobody else has approached that beautifully austere, delirious quality she brought to those issues. Like a four-color Leonora Carrington, I love it. Not a hot take, but the truth. Ditko was great; but tell me you don’t look at those panels and say “THAT - that is what I think of when I think of Dr Strange”. Equally “hot” - she’s probably at worst the 3rd greatest Hulk artist after Sal Buscema and Herb Trimpe, and maybe even ahead of Trimpe.
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Darthemed posted:
To be fair..,. This was Morph trapped on Mojoworld, forced to perform 24/7, and intentionally doing a stupid comedy sketch. Yes I loved Exiles back in the day, sue me.
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Cleretic posted:I still feel like, out of anyone in that page, Doom might be one of the most likely to shed a tear for senseless mass death (behind only Magneto, depending on amount of mutants in the towers). Doom only cries because the planes missed the Baxter Building.
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Darthemed posted:
I was such a Marvel Zombie back in my youth that I bought almost anything they published that made it to the Waldenbooks or newsstand at my local mall. I bought all 10 issues of Speedball as they came out and even I had to admit that book was hot garbage. Ditko’s art was horrific, and Roger Stern was phoning it in. That middle panel of Robbie saying “MY PARENTS DONT LOVE ME ANYMORE” might be the worst Ditko had drawn to that point. That whole series is ripe for this thread - this comic wouldn’t have flown in the silver age, let alone the late 80’s. Also maybe don’t name your star character after a coke/heroin mix at the tail end of the cocaine epidemic. And to top it all off, the letterer misspelled “prostitute”.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Actually at this point Reed and Sue are Avengers, they joined in #300 and lasted until... well, #303, because it turns out Reed doesn't do the chain-of-command thing. Don’t forget, that was coming off the amazing lineup of Dr Druid, Black Knight, Thor, and She-Hulk. The Avengers were a mess after Stern left. I love Walt Simonson but he was handcuffed from the start and did the best he could. I’ll always have a soft spot for his Jarvis story in 298 tho 
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Ghostlight posted:so graceful How the gently caress is Captain America moving in that panel???? Also, I love Kirby but man could he never get consistent size or perspective on Giant Man
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Darthemed posted:
PYF Least subtle references
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Ghostlight posted:you don't even need multiple wolverines for that No ring
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:blessing any and everything at the drop of the hat is only a big deal when vampires exist. Wasn’t there a bit in the 90s Vampirella comic where she had a priest bless a rain cloud that was above some vampire stronghold? As a recovered Catholic, I will tell you that priests will bless literally anything you ask them to. One of the most popular things to buy at Ohio flea markets was always the “Jesus blessing a semi” picture. One trucker that used to frequent my pharmacy not only had the picture, but had a priest bless his own semi AND the picture that he kept in the semi.
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Darthemed posted:
Just gonna skip over Dick Hunter from Pound Ridge, huh?
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Tony you gotta be a little more subtle  Iron Man #123
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Going through the late 70s/early 80s Iron Man again has been a treat Is…. Is Scott gonna break this guys dick in half?
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From Iron Man #164, the first appearance and origin of the Proud Boys?
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The Thor equivalent of Newspaper Spider-Man Avengers Annual #19
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Seventh Arrow posted:Kinda want to see Superman chug all 2 liters of that soda - "I'm also invulnerable to SUGAR" Then he burps so loud that 4 birds nearby disintegrate from the sound wave
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Darthemed posted:
“WOW, a man landed on the moon” “Dude, a man made out of rocks helped a guy on fire beat a 100 foot tall alien in purple cargo pants last week while a living Oscar statue on a surfboard flew around and a giant bald guy set the sky on fire”. “Oh yeah…. “
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Vincent posted:Why is Rick Jones black in here? Long story short? He magically got returned to youth after a death worshipper made him an ancient one armed man with no teeth. He was so happy to be young and with Marlo again he got a new haircut, got a dark tan, and a new ‘stache. It doesn’t last long and he’s back to the floppy haired doofus look by volume 2
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