purple death ray posted:

My favorites are every single one of DCs attempts to make a Spider-Man

KaosMachina posted:

I feel like maybe I chose my wording poorly here. Ah, well. There's also recursive stuff like Mongul, who is a knockoff Thanos, who is a knockoff Darkseid.


That's literally Amalgam Comics Spider-Boy.

Lurdiak posted:

The school would just get attacked every 3 issues.

Lurdiak posted:

Yeah only most of them died so far.

Samuringa posted:

I didn't read it but isn't that basically Avengers Academy?

A Strange Aeon posted:

What made everyone take the plunge to digital comics?

A Strange Aeon posted:

That drifted off somewhere, sorry--few people gave their ages,

Lurdiak posted:

Goku is more or less explicitly "What if Superman was in Journey To the West?", at least originally.

Timeless Appeal posted:

Some real talk New York City education politics: I can't imagine that going well.

Remember that charters are actually publicly funded despite receiving a lot of money from donors and not necessarily complying with state regulations. This is why it's important for most charters to have lottery systems in order to seem fair and not just be handpicking the best and brightest. So right off the back, there would be a lot of push-back to what would essentially be a publicly funded Xavier Academy. But you would have to probably pitch it as Mutant/Superhuman friendly then strictly tailored for them. That's hard to sell while still presenting the fact that you have open enrollment. Also, dealing with a board of directors would be a huge hassle. Forget an Xavier style Danger Room because suddenly you have to deal with having an Anti-Mutant rich rear end in a top hat who is on your board of trustees trying to sway your decision making because of how he thinks muties are supposed to be. Not to mention you'll end up in the State Test Score rat race that most charters end up in which really seems like a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation. If your tests scores are low, better believe you're going to get pressure to make sure nobody is fighting any Magnetos or poo poo between the months of February and April. But you got to figure if your test scores are too high then that Anti-Mutant trustee who is still baffingly on your board is going to say, "Well, it was probably because ya got one of those Jean Greys or what have you in your school." And for better or for worse ant-charter folks are going to question your data.

But this is all assuming that you have found your own site for your school which while possible (there are a few charters that do a good job at this), is pretty hard. Co-locating like most charters do would be a bitch to deal with for tons of reasons. I mean how are you going to justify to the parents of the school downstairs that the Wrecking Crew is loitering outside during pick-up like half of the time? But that isn't the worst of it. Say you do get a Danger Room style training facility. Guess what? New York City law--not sure about state--requires equitable facilities between co-locating schools. So the non-superpowered kids downstairs also need to have a Danger Room.

Working at a charter school has made working at Xavier's seem like a cake walk.

Skwirl posted:

Actually it's worth nothing at all, because you have no way to resell it. But people who are buying floppies because they think they're going to buy the next Amazing Fantasy #15 are going to lose a lot of money on a lot of junk.

RandallODim posted:

I'm gonna try to make a hot buck on my first-run Captain Marvel #1 when the movie comes out.

And by that I mean I'm literally going to try to make even a dollar.

Rhyno posted:

She's based on Gwen Stacy, no matter how much back-peddling Marvel has done on it. She debuted on a Gwen Stacy cover month variant.

Lurdiak posted:

These people are short-sighted idiots who probably don't really read comics that much and are only invested in the industry as yet another front in their culture war. But it's pretty easy to paint an imbecilic narrative of DC being the "anti-sjw" side if you only cherry-pick things. Frank Miller's Batman here, the often extremely white JLA there, Johns sidelining a ton of minority characters to bring back boring white dudes, Superman being a literal white ubermensch who explicitly stands for The American Way (western values)... If you ignore like, 98% off the actual content of DC and Marvel's comics, you can totally say that DC is for mature rational adults who believe in western values and Marvel is an SJW cuck-fest who panders to tumblr teens with (((diversity))). Then you fit that idiotic take and Marvel's currently-bad sales and fit them into the moronic narrative that since the republicans won an election with the lowest turnout in modern history, progressiveness is over forever and the tide will never ever turn again.

It's all very circular and has almost nothing to do with reality on any level.

TenCentFang posted:

I've been on a semi-media blackout for awhile now and it's done wonders for my stress. Trump? The plague of internet assholes who make MRAs look like saints? Haha I'm just shutting all that poo poo out.

The downside is that I'm waaaay in the dark about a lot of stuff I actually like, especially after ComicsAlliance shut down.

TenCentFang posted:

May I suggest video games? There's definitely nothing troublesome about that crowd.

Roth posted:

I thought it was hilarious when I saw people complaining about Ollie calling himself an SJW in the Rebirth issue of Green Arrow.

It was like immediate confirmation of the fact that none of these people read comics outside of random scans posted to /co/.

X-O posted:

You should remedy that. It's probably one of the most consistently good books DC is publishing right now.

Also if there's any person in the entire fictional world of comic books that actually is a social justice warrior it's Green Arrow. That term is perfect for him.

Rhyno posted:

My local shop when I was a kid got a ton of 2099 promo posters right when the line launched. I had that thing on my wall for 10+ years, it survived a cross country move! I was so hyped for those books and I never got to read anything other than Spider-man until years later.

Here's the poster!

X-O posted:

Skwirl posted:

Are there any of those? Gwenpool doesn't count because Deadpool has never really been a Spider-Man villain.

TenCentFang posted:

Slott's Silver Surfer was straight-up Doctor Who fanfiction. It was embarrassing.

purple death ray posted:

I can't believe they haven't moved on to Steven Universe like the rest of the Adventure Time fandom

Madkal posted:

Hold on. Are they saying Superman should have let those workers be killed? Do they think Superman regularly let's gunmen kill people because those people who are being shot at are from another country? Do these murderous idiots even know who Superman is?

Ferrule posted:

The thing about Kirby's art that often gets lost (i.e., not spoken about), and this is in no way a damnation of Stan or any other script-writter, is that, you take some Kirby pages, white out all the words. All of 'em. You can still read the story.

Mr. Maltose posted:

Yeah they're engaging in direct harassment of female comic creators and apparently have been making a big push to get someone booted off IDW's GI Joe book. It's not just assholes waving dick on twitter.

X-O posted:

I know. There's no simple solution to that kind of online negativity and there never will be. Some people are pieces of poo poo and will always be. At a point you just have to make peace with it and realize the best thing you can do is try not to expose more people to it. I'd imagine that person probably got more Twitter followers after being responded to by the people he's going after. He doesn't give a poo poo about Tynion telling him to gently caress off but I'm betting he's happy that his visibility increased and that's all he wants.

purple death ray posted:

We're surrounded by garbage and instead of trying to clean it up you want to put a clothespin on your nose and pretend you can't smell it.

Aphrodite posted:

https://twitter.com/jonnywaistcoat/status/825521837828403200

I don't know who this is* but someone linked it in Discord earlier and it seems appropriate.

Remember what Cap says**: Always Punch a Nazi




_{*: So if he's a milkshake duck don't blame me.
**: Maybe not that one...}


Brevoort actually did share Waid's post.

site posted:

I am shocked

shocked

that waid would give him a pass so quickly

Teenage Fansub posted:

Found this gem making the shipping thread.
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JUL171603
Red foil printed on leather cover...