Lurdiak posted:

Yeah, something like that. And it came off the heavily advertised "wedding of Archie" thing, if I recall, so it was like a bait and switch.

zoux posted:

I know there are plenty of books about how regular people deal with living in superhero universes like Marvels and Frontline, but has anyone ever done a book where the entire populace is living in a constant nightmare state? If the poo poo that happens in the Marvel/DC universe happened here people would lose their minds 24/7 and live in a constant state of terror.

Cricken_Nigfops posted:

Believe that was the premise of the tabletop RPG Brave New World.

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

I don't have the panels handy but last week's Injustice was hilarious. WW going full blown mental and kicking the poo poo out of Superman, with the last panel being her breaking his arm while Bats just has a HUGE loving grin is hilarious. Even better, Catwoman is just like "How did I even GET involved this bullshit?"

mind the walrus posted:

1. The tragic woman abused by the predatory man she fell for, reclaiming her identity, which is a superlative arc and what most fans I've met fall back on to justify her even though it's only her origin arc at most.
2. The incredible variety of outfits and fun combat styles her red/black "sexy clown" motif can support which is the biggest reason for her continued popularity through memetic imagery like cosplay and merchandise, which I'm 110% in support of.
3. The directionless nothing her character becomes the instant you finish her origin arc, which she shares in common with characters like Hawkman and has writers trying to staple anything they can onto her in the hopes that it sticks.
4. The "Deadpool w/tits" meme factory which is absolutely insufferable and near-impossible to do well.

Ensign_Ricky posted:

Especially when there's just something about a Brit's casual use of "oval office" that for some reason I find hysterical.

ImpAtom posted:

Guy Gardner, like most of the non-Hal GLs, didn't really begin that way. He was a social worker who got the ring and was presented as an equal choice to Hal, it was just that Hal was closer to Abin Sur when the call went out. A series of "Hal fucks up" left him in a coma with brain damage and that, plus Hal being an rear end in a top hat, lead to Guy being gradually written as more of a dick. JLI really solidified the dude as "giant rear end in a top hat" but he wasn't initially that.

bunnyofdoom posted:

Oh gently caress me, I now get why Yellow is the weakness.

Section Z posted:

"Robin! Only I'm allowed to brutalize people with no though of the consequences, jeez "

Prison Warden posted:

I mean, I think Hal could just use his GL ring to make green fire or something to heat the colourless air until batman can't stand the heat and then just punch him but Hal's never been the most creative GL so aside from the cool psychological effect Bats could've just put on a yellow hat or something.

Chaos Hippy posted:

How far down this rabbit hole do you want to go?

Sizone posted:

The power of a woman is to be forgotten about and literally turn invisible. That episode made me realize a point which countless panels of Reed being a dick to Sue had failed to impress upon me.

DigitalRaven posted:

They would, but the tape's been in the car for more than two weeks.

Teenage Fansub posted:

Honestly, she looks pretty human for the time.

SomeMathGuy posted:

It's weird that they assumed it would be the kiddiest show when the underlying premise is an ultra-nihilistic "Everyone who says Batman's war on crime is doomed to pointlessness and failure is right" take, but maybe that grew out of the planning phases as a natural consequence of wanting a younger character as a Batman-in-training sort.

I think I might've been at that panel - were they also showing off that short-lived Legion of Superheroes cartoon? Small world.

Anyway, content - Mr. Weatherbee is sick of bears, and your poo poo:



e: Source is Jughead #8.

Wade Wilson posted:

This is somewhat what happens in Afterlife with Archie, except the faculty are presumably all dead and the kids are surviving by basically running away.

One of them just made a literal deal with the Old Ones to have them restore the girl he loves to life in exchange for him betraying the remaining survivors by murdering the one keeping them going.

10 Beers posted:

Is this the one with the infamous zombie dog scene? Man, that one got me.

Scaramouche posted:

Have they touched on Jughead's mysterious hypnosis hat pin that makes the ladies go crazy in the new ones?

Nessus posted:

While true, it's not on like, an ongoing basis.

FFT posted:

^idgi

Chaos Hippy posted:

I was going to say, I can't really argue with this. WestBats wouldn't have to obey traffic laws, but he darned well would.

Dareon posted:

I like that Jughead's whoopee cap looks significantly less crownlike.

... I would not complain if the whoopee cap made a comeback. Mostly because they were apparently made from fedoras.

Ghostlight posted:

I really like the "gods receive power from worshipers" trope because it's a good narrative device that explains why old gods may have faded away, allowing you to dispense with ones you don't want to use; provides a mechanism for introducing new gods that isn't "I guess she was born out of his forehead"; and allows you to scale individual power levels rather arbitrarily for whatever sort of story you're writing (Thor is the most powerful of the classical gods because neo-nazis exist).

Nessus posted:

These are excellent books, this does not mean the concept needs to ring eternal. People got sick of elves and poems in fantasy novels too.

dont even fink about it posted:

Welcome to the limit!

Keeshhound posted:

And somehow I'd believed that this was an original idea (the comic linked to is fine, but Oglaf as a whole can be )

BravestOfTheLamps posted:

Aside from the fact that it's faithful to the point of basing compositions on individual comic panels, the direction of the movie is not "taken" from the comic (comic books are not directed). It's rather obvious from things like how scenes, action, and dialogue play out. One example is how the comic at points indulges in empty negative space that has a coldly calming effect, while in the movie this aspect is completely absent.

Here's a 300 funny to get away from the derail:

Bongo Bill posted:

Differing from source material is not ruining.

Skwirl posted:

Fitting since that's where we get the word "laconic" from.

biracial bear for uncut posted:

The study of teaching?

purple death ray posted:

I'm not saying this is an intentional reference but I definitely think pro comic book people would water down a reference like that for plausible deniability if it was deliberate.

prefect posted:

After this, let's argue about Hydrox and Oreos.

Punkin Spunkin posted:

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Choco1980 posted:

When asked what the J stands for, apparently his default answer is "Genius"

darthbob88 posted:

Other guy, whose right hand is apparently transparent.