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Lobok posted:Zodiac comes up quite a bit in old Shield/Fury stories. That double splash page that has been a BSS favourite for years of a shirtless Fury blasting through a wall on his jetbike has a dude (Scorpio?) wielding the Zodiac Key.
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This guy seems slumming it for the High Evolutionary having already created Man-Beast, the creature with the brain of a man a million years into the future and the powers of a wolf a million years in the future as well as the knowledge of the next million years of martial arts training.
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Seth is quite an old transliteration, but I have a few mid-century mythology books that use it.
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Synthbuttrange posted:Orb, Mysterio, Ruby Thursday, any other sphere headed people I'm missing?
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Mar 11, 2017 04:12
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'Other distinguishing features: None' has never been more true.
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Mar 13, 2017 23:34
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He's a Thor from the future that was tricked into going back in time to attack Thunderstrike so that a villain could use dual mjolnirs to power a time travel machine despite obviously only needing one mjolnir and him necessarily already having a time travel machine to pull off the scheme.
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Mar 14, 2017 21:37
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I should've just said Masterson - this was pre-Thunderstrike but post-Odinson-banishment, so at the time he was 'Thor II' with Mjolnir.
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Mar 14, 2017 23:54
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Ferrule posted:And yet that's not the same Frog-Man form the Spider-Man comics. Edge & Christian posted:Ahem, that's Frog-Man II, who they EXPLICITLY TELL YOU NOT TO CONFUSE WITH FROG-MAN I. THEY ASKED YOU POLITELY BUT FIRMLY RIGHT IN THE MASTER EDITION.
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Mar 16, 2017 02:12
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Nah, he's correct. Frog-"killed a man jk"-man is Leap-Frog's son.
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Mar 16, 2017 04:05
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They were skeleton-themed in that Red Skull has a skull for a face and his henchman Crossbones was bone-themed because he henched for a guy with a skull for a face. Everyone else was just a D-list villain with their own gimmick that went back to being an E-list villain once Red Skull got bored of being low-rent Cobra Commander.
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Mar 18, 2017 02:18
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I read that Doughboy introduction arc last night and I just want to say that after that image everyone gets inside Doughboy who transforms into a supersonic UFO to take them all to Zola's bio-engineered living castle where Captain America has to battle an automaton driven by Hitler's brain to prevent Zola from taking his Face Off.
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Mar 18, 2017 03:21
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All three are based on The Heap who debuted in 1942.
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Mar 19, 2017 22:53
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Those are a lot older than ten years - Wimmer started drawing the strip in the early 2000s and his name would be on the title plate/signature. Last time it came up in the comic strip megathread the theory was the fat fetish was either fading by the time Brady wanted to retire, or it ended when he retired and passed drawing duties to Wimmer; either because no longer drawing it meant it lost its appeal for him, or because Wimmer also took over writing on Brady's behalf.
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Mar 20, 2017 01:49
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I would like to nitpick that it was not the Hate Monger, Adolf Hitler consciousness drifting between (alleged) clones, in Captain America & The Falcon #211-212 but the actual physical brain of Original Adolf Hitler.
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Mar 20, 2017 22:57
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Lurdiak posted:I might be getting my stories confused, but I'm pretty sure the Hate-Monger who teamed up with Blastaar was secretly the Man-Beast, who's basically the Satan of Counter-Earth. He pretended to be Hate-Monger because he thought it was funny(the actual reason was probably just for the story to have a pointless twist).
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Mar 21, 2017 10:16
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Okay, but what's your pitch for reviving Man's Laughter.
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Mar 21, 2017 23:04
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Googling says his later name was Animus and based on his powers being identical to hate monger but not requiring a hate gun, and having no backstory, it looks like he was an aborted attempt to move hate monger away from being psychic hitler. It looks like he made a handful of appearances in the early 90s but never went anywhere. He's apparently in the handbook.
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Mar 22, 2017 13:27
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Yes in that it's very much Mignola-esque, but no in that it's Kirby/Coletta from Thor #176.
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Mar 27, 2017 04:21
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It's such a clusterfuck. The whole comic starts as a dystopian world ruled by the Planeteers in which Looten Plunder is a good guy who swiftly progresses from concerned citizen to garbage avenger to garbage wolverine before being, as mentioned, put on the adamantium space bus.
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Mar 31, 2017 08:08
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The Resistants very much came off in the Captain America comics as an off-brand X-Men team that were cast as the villains despite being right because Captain America was the somewhat-villain protagonist. The 'R' is very much in the vein of everyone having huge 'X's across their costumes, just less stylish. That said, the uniform you're referring to is there slightly miscoloured - it's usually more orange than yellow, and it's Peeper's usual suit outside of the Resistants rather than being a team uniform.
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Apr 2, 2017 21:52
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I remember Lucifer having a big build up in the comics and then the reveal was a guy who looked and felt like a quick sketch of Magneto, a character debuting eight issues earlier. I also remember Grotesk because he was the guy who killed Professor X the first time.
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Apr 3, 2017 23:06
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Endless Mike posted:I think this is some common Marvel angst since Donald Blake did the same thing with Jane Foster. Because, really, how could any woman love a man who has to use a walking stick?
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Apr 4, 2017 21:24
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Lamprey is Parasite.
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Apr 5, 2017 03:01
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I wouldn't really consider "fox based name and is also a black lady" an analogue, but then I didn't create Wundarr the Aquarian.
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Apr 5, 2017 07:54
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 Appears to be the south-western part of Alto Rio Negro in Brazil.
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Apr 6, 2017 02:24
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He's actually a double-reference. Note he's credited as Whizzer II - this is because The Whizzer was one of Marvel's original golden age heroes who was also the father of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver (until his babies were retconned into being still births so Magneto could be Quicksilver's dad because they both had similar hair). Piss yellow whizzer is a legacy character.
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Apr 10, 2017 01:50
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Michael Redstone (actual name) is Apache, and derives his powers from his contact with the ground. He died in Death of a Universe due to going into orbit.
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Lightning Lord posted:I feel like I should know why that guy is a Party Nazi but it's escaping me atm.
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Apr 14, 2017 08:08
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I always thought Tigra was originally an actual cat. I have no idea why.
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Apr 18, 2017 23:41
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I googled "Bendis Tigra" and the first result was a comicvine thread titled "Should Tigra Get a Restraining Order Against Bendis?"
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Apr 19, 2017 05:22
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I would like to imagine it's not just poor wording but that the 'Other current aliases' section really is suggesting that she also goes by Sweet Prickly Pear.
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Apr 20, 2017 02:21
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Quasar literally debuted as Marvel Boy.
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Apr 25, 2017 00:53
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It's Latin for "to see".
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Apr 25, 2017 05:50
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I guess I'm between gigs right now, just making ends meet as I guess what you would call a "professional" criminal? But I was previously the warlord of Atlantis and the head of a movie studio so I think I've got some serious leadership skills to apply in the right position. Personal strengths? I'm literally superhumanly strong, ambitious, amphibious, and a long term planner. My only real weakness is perhaps that I have no weaknesses - oh, and I can't survive out of water for more than nine minutes.
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Apr 28, 2017 01:40
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Is Seaweed Man the name of a city, a hero rooted to the seafloor, or just missing a comma?
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Apr 28, 2017 03:01
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Namor also ran a movie studio so I need to go back and find out if it was the same one or if they were in some kind of surface proxy war through box office receipts.
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I just noticed that they give Skull-Face's origin as Mystic #6 when he's actually from Mystery Tales #6. I'll give him that he's trying to dress the part, but I think "casual skeleton" is a little more spooky.
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