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Serious Frolicking posted:starr owns the bugle right now. he wants to sell his boss pictures of him beating up said boss. "Hey, I took these pictures of you getting beaten up by Spider-Man at your isolated country retreat hours away from the city. I was just in the grounds at the time and happened to see the action going down!"
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I love that Spidey's reaction to Ant-Man getting shrink gassed is just like "oh, suck it up, you god drat baby".
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Also, if they didn't have that as a gimme, it would be a pretty terrible power. "Look out, I'm small now! I can't fly or anything, but I am very small! Given a long piece of string and some time, I could probably climb into your ear and punch your eardrum!"
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Lurdiak posted:I could think of plenty of things you can do while small even if you don't keep your strength. It depends how small and in what context. Like, it'd definitely be great for a lot of scientific and medical work, among other things, but if Shrinks Man is trying to stop any sort of immediately happening crime and his gimmick is "reduce self to one inch tall with land speed of 3cm/second", that's not a great hammer for that particular nail.
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Oct 3, 2016 04:44
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Oh man, Hank aged? This truly is the best continuity.
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Oct 7, 2016 23:40
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Looks like Jonah got a little shrinking gas in his eyes, there.
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Nov 6, 2016 23:23
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Endless Mike posted:He still hasn't disproven my hypothesis that he is searching for the best hamburger on Earth. "Ronan accuses this burger...of being delicious!"
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Nov 30, 2016 22:14
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I mean, if you have a magic power that makes you incredibly strong despite having no muscle tone, it's not a stretch to say that same magic power protects you from snapping yourself in half when you lift something. Even "traditionally" super strong heroes have to be subjected to this same suspension of disbelief, they'd be similarly physically improbable due to the fact that you can't just "scale up" natural bodies and expect them to still work consistently.
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Dec 16, 2016 13:00
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Like, when Superman lifts an ocean liner, scientifically speaking all his incredible strength would mean is that his hands puncture the hull. Even if you have enough strength to lift something huge, you also need a sufficient distribution of pressure over a surface area relative to the size of the object, or you'd just punch straight through it (unless it was made of a material hard enough to distribute the massive amount of force applied rather than buckling or being pierced by it). In general trying to explain superpowers through science is a bit of a mug's game. e: not that that means it's not fun, especially when Squirrel Girl does it, because it totally is!
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Dec 16, 2016 13:06
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Newspaper Rocket looks horrifying. His little teeth, man.
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Dec 29, 2016 09:53
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I love that Rocket isn't executing any kind of shoulder charge or directed strike and is just launching his entire body plank-wise at Spider-Man.
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Jan 2, 2017 16:53
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I'm amazed and delighted that Rocket instantly repeated his ludicrous "throw self forward in rigid, arm-locked position" attack from before, and that it worked if anything even better this time.
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Jan 4, 2017 10:12
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Space raccoons have an internal propulsion system that allows them to achieve ramming speed, I bet.
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Jan 4, 2017 10:37
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Rocket looks like a character from one of the poorer Five Nights at Freddy's sequels.
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Jan 5, 2017 17:11
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Weekend Rocket is so skillfully drawn after day on day of staring into the dead, beady eyes of that nightmare fang puppet. It'd almost be jarring if it wasn't such a relief.
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Jan 8, 2017 17:00
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MJ's anatomy in this strip is a nightmare, it's like she's been struck by a curse and is mid-way through transforming into a gorilla. Like, where are her hands going? Why is her butt sticking out?
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Jan 9, 2017 16:35
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A naked Rocket Raccoon fights a stray dog over trash outside a motel. I don't know what you even add to that. It's perfect.
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Jan 21, 2017 13:30
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I just noticed MJ's skeleton leggings. Stylish!
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Jan 23, 2017 23:52
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I love Rocket's beautiful lady hands, this strip is amazing.
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Feb 3, 2017 09:44
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I mean, let's be real. This is the guy it's okay to kill right here. That said, maybe Spider-Man's leniency will avert a diplomatic incident.
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Mar 15, 2017 12:31
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DACK FAYDEN posted:I'm a little confused by Rocket's quotes around "AIR". Like... yes, air is a thing that every planet with gravity will have. It's not a novel concept. I actually think it's pretty deft. The quotes imply that Ronan isn't breathing in the way we would understand it, he's just doing something analogous to breathing, which makes him passing out instead of asphyxiating make a little more sense. Also I'm pretty sure air is more usually defined as specifically the mixture of gases in Earth's atmosphere, so it's correct in that sense too.
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Mar 18, 2017 15:00
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With this feat I'm pretty sure Newspaper Spidey has established that he's far, far physically stronger than his comics incarnation, because drat.
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Apr 13, 2017 13:57
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Oh sure, he's strong, but "tearing apart volcano-proof alien metal with his bare hands" is a new level compared to his comics benchmark.
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Apr 13, 2017 14:20
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Spider-Man's charm (really the central premise of his character) comes from the fact that he's a put-upon average guy trying to use his astonishing powers for good despite life's slings and arrows. Back in the 60s, this was what set Marvel apart in the comics industry and, arguably, revolutionised the whole practise of storytelling in comics: while DC traded in strong, heroic archetypes Doing What is Right, Marvel introduced a range of characters who were weird, had flaws, and were comparatively more grounded. Like, DC's flagship character is Batman, but back then Batman wasn't the flawed, layered, psychologically textured character people know him as today. He was a goofy costumed do-gooder who had adventures where a laser gave him a magnetised zebra costume or, like, flattened him into a disc. Not all Batman stories were goofy, but his character back in the early 60s was pretty simple: he was a brave hero who fought costumed kooks and upheld the law with the help of his child sidekick. He was rich, talented, and supremely capable, and if he had serious problems they were usually of the zebra laser variety. Spider-Man was a poor teenager from a working class family in Queens who had to make enough money to get by selling photographs to a tyrannical boss. He was bullied at school, unlucky in love, and not always so great at the whole hero thing. There's an early story where he has to fight crime with a broken arm, and another where Aunt May nearly dies because Peter, serving as the donor in a blood transfusion for her, doesn't realise that his blood is still radioactive from the spider bite and will poison her from the inside out. Understandably, people related more to the average guy trying to do what was right despite his life being confusing and hard than they did, at that point, to flawless archetypes like Batman and Superman. DC eventually picked up the lead after they realised they needed to compete with the narrative complexity that was driving Marvel's massive commercial success, and that's why we have the comics industry we have today. That said, Newspaper Spider-Man is astonishingly, beautifully incompetent and that is part of his unique charm. But it's coming from somewhere.
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May 16, 2017 11:42
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Endless Mike posted:I'm willing to bet there's no Tyrannus and this is all a clever ruse to get May to marry him. It would explain how weirdly ready he appeared to be to martyr himself to Lenny.
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Jul 3, 2017 10:41
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Johnny Walker posted:What happened to the runoff Fountain of Youth water when the plug was in there? The pool would eventually fill if there's a constant stream, so it must go somewhere. There's a moloid with the Robin Williams disease from Jack acting as an overflow pump, constantly vacillating between very old and very young.
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Sep 19, 2017 15:22
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Push El Burrito posted:*smashes everything in the room* You guys wanna come hang out in my cabin?
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Binary Badger posted:Pretty sure we're gonna either have a gamma-powered Lizard or a Liz/Hulk fight, which will be over in ten seconds with the Hulk throwing the Lizard who goes 'ronk!' and lands in Connecticut. This would mean that Newspaper Spider-Man was currently engaging in sophisticated foreshadowing, which would be pretty fantastic.
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