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What kind of maniac wouldn't share the cover from the first issue? I actually had a copy of this many years ago. It lies slightly - the cameo is Donatello only, if memory serves, but he is actually drawn by Peter Laird. He gives Punky Future Shades there directions and comments how nice pre-teens are these days.
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Archyduke posted:Lee Marrs is great-- I'd never heard of this but now I'm really excited. Huh, I hadn't realised that Lee Marrs was actually anyone interesting. Servoret posted:What I really like about that cover is that it’s a riff on a specific panel from the first issue of American Flagg, which was a fan favorite BITD. The first nine issues or so of Flagg are really good (and then the series loses energy/the joke gets old after that). Its the cover of the second issue. There's actually some depth here for what I thought was a cheap, throw-away gag of a comic. How ironically does this guy die?
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Zaodai posted:If I recall, he dies ironically but not due to dynamite. He ends up tricking some kind of giant mutant into thinking he's its brother so it will kill Kenshiro. When the mutant gets its rear end kicked like everybody else, it reaches out to its "brother" for help, but because the mutant is a bit of a retard, it can't understand its actually just immobilizing him so Kenshiro kills him too. Ghostlight posted:Kenshiro kills him by lighting his dynamite while he's trapped, so it's double irony. I was intrigued, so I watched the sequence. It is ironic, but you don't often see irony with such a complete lack of subtlety. I like that in context of the full conversation, Kenshiro seems more annoyed that the dude gave "throwing dynamite at people" a cool, anime attack name than the fact he brought dynamite to a fist fight.
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Feb 20, 2018 09:11
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For a pretty gimmicky concept from the '80's, TMNT has a lot of legs and can fit a whole range of moods and genres. I was early teens the first time round and it just keeps coming back. I guess there'll always be twelve year olds. (My secret theory, though, is that if you jump the shark hard and fast enough, you can get away with most anything. Boston Legal, for example, did in the first few episodes. TMNT does it before you've finished reading the title.)
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Oct 31, 2018 06:53
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Darthemed posted:
I have an Eagle annual somewhere from the fifties where a character busts a cross dressing male spy by tossing a pack of cigarettes to them, the spy catching them in his hands, rather than letting them land in his lap. For ladies are physically unable to catch things, you see.
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Jun 18, 2020 03:14
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oriongates posted:Superman isn't mad, he's just super disappointed.
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Aug 1, 2020 06:35
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Darthemed posted:
"gently caress's sake, I know Europe and Asia are technically the same land mass, but do we have to have this argument everytime a magical new continent arises?"
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Nov 3, 2020 15:53
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Pastry of the Year posted:
I love that he's driving around in his bug IN COSTUME. I'm imagining that's because it's awkward getting changed in the front boot of a bug.
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Dec 4, 2020 05:28
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Are there any established gorilla or gorilla-based villains in the Marvel Universe? DC has Gorilla Grodd and Monsieur Mallah for starters. Maybe he's just excited for the novelty.
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Dec 4, 2020 08:04
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FFT posted:Gorilla-Man, Gorilla Rider, Gorilla Girl? I thought you were taking the piss at first, but then I googled them.
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Dec 4, 2020 08:13
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Push El Burrito posted:Newspaper Spider-Man thread is currently running through a story where a rich guy buys a gorilla suit to destroy Spider-Man. 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. The dude in the Headmen is one of the three Gorilla Mans. And Man Ape counts. Gorillas seem like such a Golden- or early Silver-age thing. And I guess I associate that kinda thing with DC more readily. (I also found a Wikipedia list of fictional primates in comics. Technically, it should've included all human characters, but it limited itself to apes and monkeys.)
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Dec 4, 2020 15:02
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:I am now obsessed with Jennifer Glatzer, blasé Satanist. Natch.
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Dec 4, 2020 17:49
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Retro Futurist posted:All I'm saying is, picture Matt Berry yelling "by the hoary hosts of hoggoth" and then try to ever see anyone else as right for it ever again Oh, you prick. "Unhand me, Dormammu!!!" *extended slapsie fight
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Dec 17, 2020 05:08
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Dr Strange: Does a monk named Natasha work here? I called earlier about the Wicked Wand of Watoomb... Temple orderly: I can really only answer questions relating to items we are currently stealing or here in the temple...
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Mierenneuker posted:Green Green Lantern L.E.G.I.O.N. Weatherby George Dupree
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Dec 18, 2020 11:29
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I'm sure that either way someone "more powerful than a locomotive" is able to withstand a shove from a nameless mook.
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Dec 30, 2020 02:41
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Bucnasti posted:Don Johnson, Michael J Fox, but I'm not sure who the third guy is supposed to be. Going from the subtle clue in his word balloon, it could be Sam J Jones who was Flash Gordon in Flash Gordon. He was bleach blonde in the movie, but his actual hair colour is dark.
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Dec 31, 2020 11:42
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Alaois posted:this is it, the Scientifically Perfect Picture of Cable No, missing a large blade that doesn't quite match the perspective of its handle. I was into the X comics, as a 14 year old, from X-tinction Agenda through to X-cutioners Song. I certainly managed to pick an interesting period of time to be into comics.
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"Because I live within it, you idiot" is slaying me. Most of my comic reading is this thread, so there's a lot of character history I have no idea about, but looking at Kang's story on Wikipedia, I would happily watch a time travelling comedy of alternate Kang's constantly loving up each other's plans of conquest.
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Jan 12, 2021 11:29
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Metalshark posted:It's not a comedy, but Avengers Forever is a 12 issue series that's really good and is essentially a fun team of Avengers caught up in Kang versus Immortus (Future Kang as opposed to Kang, from the future) shenanigans. Thanks, I'll have a look.
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Jan 12, 2021 12:57
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Darthemed posted:
Is there actually an egg rolling contest in Ottawa? Or is it a sandwich joke?
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Jan 14, 2021 23:52
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SimonChris posted:From the Online Creators thread. I like the implication that Superman thinks of Marvel's package as "Armageddon". "Captain Marvel is thrusting in the direction of the Armageddon!"
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:darkseid can't go shopping for furniture himself, he can't trust his underlings to do it for him, and robbing a furniture store would be beneath him. so, he remains stuck with a series of unpadded rock thrones. You can't be the despotic demi-god king of a place called Apokolips and have comfy couches lying about - it would give the thralls and minions the wrong idea. He probably sneaks off in disguise to Space Ikea on the space weekends and sits in all the display lounge rooms.
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Feb 26, 2021 18:16
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Ah yes despots of hell countries: well-known for not living in the lap of luxury. Yeah, but living somewhere called Apokolips needs a different aesthetic than somewhere called North Korea or Libya. And maybe if Granny had less welcoming furnishings SHE could be ruling over Apokolips with an iron fist.
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Feb 27, 2021 01:11
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Uthor posted:Random out of context panel that popped up on X-Plain the X-Men. What on earth is a 'psychic knife'? For the sake of new readers, maybe there should be some kind of explanation.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:it's the focused totality of my psychic powers (writing in notebook) ...focused...totality...gimme the GOD drat candy's pyschic powers Alaois posted:i'm still, to this day, unsure of how vulnerable to damage Cannonball is when he's using his powers Don't feel bad, I still don't know what Wolverine does or if he even IS the best at it.
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Mar 7, 2021 23:59
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Kalli posted:X-factor had pretty fantatic art. Pretty sure at one point Strong Guy references that tons of weirdoes live in DC to explain it all away. The Larry Stroman run on X-Factor are the only comics I deliberately saved from my Marvel phase as a 14-year old. I get it's not to everyone's taste, but considering it was all Leifeld, Jim Lee and that kinda stuff at the time, it was pretty bold.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:I really like it, it's visually striking and has a real charm to it. It makes the decline to the state his art was in 10 years ago much more tragic. Oh no! ruddiger posted:Larry Stroman is a pro loving follow on Facebook, his current stuff is fantastic. Phew! Seriously though, the last thing I saw him do was Tribe, about a million years ago.
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Mar 20, 2021 04:27
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Kevin Palpatine posted:just hiding behind a lamp post in my bright green and yellow costume, doo de doo... Well the street is obviously yellow and the shadows are blue, so a green outfit is about the best thing to wearing in that situation. Evil Mastermind posted:I just love how his giant-rear end collar is sticking up in every panel. Seriously, that probably would help. The human brain likes spotting human shapes and faces, so anything that breaks up his silhouette is a good thing.
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I was actually reading 2000ad when that arc was published. Such a great ending. I got nostalgic for a bunch of 2000ad stories last year and read the earlier Zenith arcs too. Its not obvious here but I love how Zenith is a self-centred dick through the whole thing. Also, the politician dude there is a Tory, and I'm sure it's implied he used his powers to get Thatcher elected. It's a really weird take on superheroes, so in conclusion, read Zenith.
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Dareon posted:"just increase your production of serotonin" easy for you to say, mister superhero. In fairness, everyone in that room would be potentially able to that, other than Archie.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Exactly the kind of thing you'd send a pink disco robot to deal with. Maybe its me, but I feel that the Venn diagram of "things that need to dealt with" and "things that I can send a pink disco robot to deal with" is probably a circle.
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Daktar posted:Yeah Cyclops is referred to as the strongest several times in the early issues. And that was with his eye beams needing to recharge between blast rather than being always on. How long did that take? It makes him sound like a crappy video game boss.
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Apr 20, 2021 02:15
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How Wonderful! posted:I choose to believe that Angel makes airplane noises when he flies. And machine gun noises when firing his feathers.
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Apr 20, 2021 05:16
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robziel posted:(Heat vision + cold breath) = steam + super strength = portable iron. Clark always looked freshly pressed. Effort. Just use your super-hypnotism to make everyone THINK you're freshly pressed.
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Apr 20, 2021 15:16
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IYKK posted:Why even bother with clothes at all then? Just hypnotize people into thinking you are wearing clothes. I'm liking this grubby Superman reboot. Lex hates Superman because he's the only one who knows he's not wearing clothes, but no believes him.
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Apr 22, 2021 02:18
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Libra posted:Superman should also be tubby and out of shape. He gets his incredible strength from the sun and can lift buildings with ease, which makes it difficult to get a proper workout, let alone a bodybuilding routine. He just uses hypnosis to make everyone believe that he's totally chiseled and ripped. Comes back from the super fridge with a super hoagy to find fat, naked, schlubby Darkseid sitting in his spot on the couch, ruining all of the comfy contours with his rocky bum.
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Libra posted:I mean, he could just be left-handed. You jest, but go have a look at some pictures of Sinestro...
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Apr 24, 2021 18:12
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Cleretic posted:You're also under a higher level of scrutiny, I think, and you're much more likely to be banned. Especially a problem for Taskmaster, I'd think, because I can only imagine his power would get banned under most sports codes once they realize that it's both really unfair and basically stealing. I know enough about sports leagues to know that the NFL would totally crack down on him. I'd disagree - if Michael Phelps' weird swimming body wasn't regulated, I wouldn't see a sporting body having an issue with Taskmaster (presuming he's white, of course). Dude still has to work out like everybody else.
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Cleretic posted:I named the NFL because I know they actually have passed rules that just go 'hey gently caress this one guy specifically', even if the thing they're making a rule against isn't actually all that useful or insurmountable by more normal players. Tom Dempsey's probably the best example; he had a deformed foot that required a special boot made, and also happened to be a very good kicker, so they passed a rule saying that players with deformed feet have to play with prosthetics that imitate a normal foot. Because sure, the fact he didn't have any toes was totally the deciding factor. Geez, I didn't know about that - what arses! Of course there's the whole thing with Caster Semenya and the levels of testosterone in her body as well. To be honest though, I'd probably choose the career that let me run around in spandex and a cool skull mask too. (To be super honest, I'd probably do that anyway irl, if I could find stuff that would fit me...)
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