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Open Marriage Night posted:The Celestials are the best thing. Giant space gods make any story better.
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I remember this whole storyline and how weird I thought it was at the time, since I was a big mythology nerd as a kid, that the Marvel version of Set was named Seth for some reason.
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Mar 10, 2017 05:53
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My favorite thing about the Ani-Men has nothing to do with them. But immediately after Thunderbird's death there's a fantastically hilarious issue of X-Men where Cyclops is dealing with being a bad leader (since it was apparently his fault that Thunderbird jumped on a jet and punched it until it exploded to try and kill some guy in a vampire cape and monocle) and he's out wandering around in the woods when he has a little fit of emorage and blasts the forest with his optic beams. In doing so, for some reason, he shatters an ancient (I suppose) Native American ritual stone thing that releases an angry demon who comest to the mansion and tries to murder all the X-Men as they do. They fight him for a while and eventually defeat it and everyone just sort of goes "Huh. That was weird."
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Mar 16, 2017 02:28
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So the weirdest part about this entry is that Redstone didn't die at the end of the Squadron mini. I mean, he had basically no actual character or impact in the series so I don't care that much but it's weird that they randomly decided he was dead (the dude has no actual name, for example). Also it's possible he was supposed to be Native American which is kind of terrible. (I'm only guessing that based on him being colored funny in the original printings and combining that with the horrifying truth about Asp from the Serpent Squad that was revealed to me in another one of the threads here.)
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Apr 10, 2017 02:50
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I'm one of the people who really enjoyed the brief early 90s push for Wonder Man. It has always confused me that people don't do more with him but at this point he's been dead and resurrected so many times that I'm not even sure what his deal is. Did he ever get over his random pacifism from the beginning of Uncanny Avengers?
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Apr 10, 2017 22:16
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I'm sad that the Supreme Power versions never got to be in a Handbook.
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Apr 12, 2017 00:28
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The very beginnings of the book were pretty good and fun. It's just a shame that JMS went crazy or whatever.
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Apr 12, 2017 00:40
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Ever since I first saw him in some book I've been curious about how the Slug came to exist. Marvel already had Kingpin, the original Stay Puft Crime Boss and they also had the Blob whose power is literally superfat. What possessed them to say 'You know what? We need one more enormous fat dude but I feel like we should rastafy him by about 10 percent or so."
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Apr 14, 2017 09:10
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Tigra was also on the staff of Avengers Academy and, at the time, had some vague thing going on with Hank Pym. She wasn't very good in the book but at least she wasn't any more crazily sexualized than usual.
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Apr 18, 2017 23:50
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I always think of that Simpson's bit where Bart is explaining to Lisa about the short-lived 'Itchy and Scratchy and Friends' show when I run into characters like Sabra or Shamrock or whoever. 'Well the book was called the Contest of Champions so... they needed some champions.' I would totally buy a book where Sabra battled Klu Klux Clam.
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Apr 20, 2017 21:41
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The completely random and dumb thing that I remember about Operation Galactic Storm was the fight scene between some of the Avengers and the Kree... I don't remember what they were even called. The Shiar obviously have their Imperial Guard of (depending on your perspective) kind of hilarious Legion of Superheroes knock offs but the Kree never had anything like that -- they had the Accusers who were boring and like the Sentry robots who were even more boring. Someone during the course of writing that mess of a story decided that they needed a Winter Guard style team of 'Hey We Have Superheroes Too, See' Crossover fodder and so they introduced a very 90s collection of assorted superpowered Kree. One of them introduced himself as a 'Kree Eternal' which doesn't really make any kind of sense even in the extremely stretchable Marvel continuity.
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May 20, 2017 05:44
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Ghostlight posted:I know why there are two Captain Americas, but did they both need to bring a Rick Jones?
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May 22, 2017 02:37
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Ghostlight posted:Lab equipment and chainsaws.
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May 23, 2017 20:03
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Rirse posted:Reminds me of that one lame villain who has puppets for hands who somehow is tied with driving Scarlet Witch crazy.
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Jun 10, 2017 02:07
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:they weren't fake when he stole their souls
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Jun 10, 2017 04:02
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