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X-O posted:They're also currently in the middle of some story involving Theresa and The Chameleon. So who knows what comes of that at this point. Oh goddammit, comics. Stop being stupider than my stupid jokes about you!
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to be "fair" she isn't a possible robot but a possible chameleon which i guess is like a whole race of people? I always thought that Chameleon was a tech based villain.
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Just once I'd like one of these big changes that don't fundamentally change anything about the character but give more depth to be mandated to stick. Just editorial saying "Spider-Man has a sister, no clone or imposter stories about her, period". This is how we ended up with the Clone Saga otherwise
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Gaz-L posted:Just once I'd like one of these big changes that don't fundamentally change anything about the character but give more depth to be mandated to stick. Just editorial saying "Spider-Man has a sister, no clone or imposter stories about her, period". This is how we ended up with the Clone Saga otherwise See now they'll introduce a clone of Peter's sister. The Sister Clone Saga.
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Aug 18, 2021 14:10
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Rhyno posted:See now they'll introduce a clone of Peter's sister. The Sister Clone Saga. Ahmed literally just did a Miles one
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Gaz-L posted:Ahmed literally just did a Miles one You can probably buy reversed engineered Latverian cloning tech at multiple places in the 616 NYC.
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The cool clones are Judge Dredd and Solid Snake. These other clones are slumming it, they're giving clones a bad name. Kinda like that Bon Jovi song.drrockso20 posted:There's a reason my chronological Marvel WIR has an eventual rough ending point at some point in the late 80's to early 90's, so I can avoid much of the worst stupidity Marvel was up to in that decade What's a WIR? That sounds like a mondo amount of comics, I assume some abridging skipping not great stuff along the way? Sounds cool.
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People should use Judge Dredd's first name more often when talking about him. Oh, you mean Judge Joe Dredd? Keep you from being confused about if someone is talking about Judge Rico Dredd.
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Rico Dredd is A: not a Judge anymore and B: dead
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Aug 19, 2021 03:54
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Sorry about the spoilers
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Aug 19, 2021 03:54
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muscles like this! posted:People should use Judge Dredd's first name more often when talking about him. Oh, you mean Judge Joe Dredd? Keep you from being confused about if someone is talking about Judge Rico Dredd. Plus, we've got the original 70s stories brother Rico or the later Rico guy from the 2000s. The Mills created one and the Wagner created one. But I think ol' JD has earned the moniker of Dredd. I also like "Old Stoney face"
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Aug 19, 2021 04:29
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Heavy Metal posted:The cool clones are Judge Dredd and Solid Snake. These other clones are slumming it, they're giving clones a bad name. Kinda like that Bon Jovi song. It stands for Where I Read, it's a common format over on one of my main non-SA forums, and while I'm not reading literally everything Marvel published during that approximately 30 year period, ideally I'll try and read as much of the main continuity stuff as possible, check my posts in the previous thread to see where I'm currently at(have to double check but I should be pretty close to when Amazing Spider-Man premieres)
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Very cool. As long as this 30 year period includes Darkhawk. Just reading 30 years of one comic is an undertaking, I'm still not caught up on any I'm trying that with as of yet. (Judge Dredd and X-Men, though I intend to skip some big chunks of X-Men, over 40 year periods for those.)
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Aug 19, 2021 23:28
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Heavy Metal posted:Very cool. As long as this 30 year period includes Darkhawk. Just reading 30 years of one comic is an undertaking, I'm still not caught up on any I'm trying that with as of yet. (Judge Dredd and X-Men, though I intend to skip some big chunks of X-Men, over 40 year periods for those.) It helps that doing it this way means I'm jumping between different books, so I'm not stuck in a single series more than one or two issues in a row So far the roughest comic has been Incredible Hulk surprisingly(first issue is classic but the other issues of his first run are oddly weak like they just weren't able to grasp what made the first issue work so well) while Fantastic Four is definitely the strongest overall book so far
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There's a reason Hulk was canceled after six issues. It does get better when he splits books.
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What's y'alls Robin rank? Here's mine. Exclusively as Robin: 1- Tim 2- Dick 3- Steph 4- Damian 5- Jarro 6- Carrie 7- Duke 8- Toy Wonder 9- Jason Todd. And if we also take into consideration the characters after they were Robin (In the previous list I considered Dick's tenure as Robin, but not Nightwing): 1- Tim 2- Dick/Nightwing 3- Steph/Batgirl/Spoiler 4- Damian 5- Duke/The Signal 6- Jason Todd/Red Hood 7- Jarro 8- Carrie 9- Toy Wonder
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Tim is my favorite DC character period and Dick and Steph are not far behind. So my rank is pretty much identical.
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I would put Todd higher as Robin just for his role in For the the man who has everything. Also I don't know much about Steph's tenure as Robin but she makes a great Spoiler. Also Duke was never a Robin so he isn't on my list. My list would be: Tim Dick Damien Jason Carrie Steph (mostly because I never read any comics with her as Robin so don't know how she was) For post Robin stuff: Dick as Grayson Steph as Spoiler I never saw Tim as moving past Robin despite the name changes.
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Steph as Robin was basically a plot device and lasted three issues of the Robin series, plus a handful of appearances elsewhere.
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Madkal posted:I would put Todd higher as Robin just for his role in For the the man who has everything. Think pure thoughts, chum!
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Is there anything with Carrie besides the Dark Knight Returns and it's sequels?
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I was telling a friend that despite being a long time comic book fan, I have read very few Batman books, almost all out of continuity. Therefore: Carrie Damien Batman '66 Dick The others
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Skwirl posted:Is there anything with Carrie besides the Dark Knight Returns and it's sequels? They've teased her on the new season of Titans as part of Bruce's dossier of potential Robins. Anyway, I've been reading the Master edition of From Hell which has some minor redone artwork and is colorized and frankly I don't think it adds that much.
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muscles like this! posted:They've teased her on the new season of Titans as part of Bruce's dossier of potential Robins. Yeah they teased her and everyone else who's ever been Robin but also made a big point that Robins are a mistake Bruce kept making so I doubt we'll see her on the show.
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Gripweed posted:Rico Dredd is A: not a Judge anymore and B: dead I honestly love how that resolved in like two issues.
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Alhazred posted:I honestly love how that resolved in like two issues. Old comics moved so much faster than modern comics. Back in the day they had to give people a satisfying read every single issue. Now they spend six issues just setting up the next 30 issue crossover.
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Doing an X-read with some friends and we've gone from Claremont to Bendis in a few months. It's stark.
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Whoa, you're moving fast. I'm doing a big x-read myself and I'm still in fairly early Claremont after picking at the project for a few months.
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We're just doing the big arcs/cross-overs. It's a little uneven at times as an event will end with a bunch of stuff unresolved and the next thing we read will have all of that taken care of. We actually got up to the early-00's, which were fairly slow paced, jumped back to Claremont/Simonson Inferno, which was packed with story, and then House of M, which left us going "nothing happened". Uthor fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Aug 26, 2021 |
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Uthor posted:We're just doing the big arcs/cross-overs. It's a little uneven at times as an event will end with a bunch of stuff unresolved and the next thing we read will have all of that taken care of. You should read Wolverine and the X-Men.
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Gripweed posted:Old comics moved so much faster than modern comics. Back in the day they had to give people a satisfying read every single issue. Now they spend six issues just setting up the next 30 issue crossover. Also, this being classic Dredd, it only had six pages an issue (so as to fit in four or five other stories at the same time), and the issues were weekly.
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Today is Otto Binder's birthday, so read some silver age Superman or the good golden age Captain Marvel stories.
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DigitalRaven posted:Also, this being classic Dredd, it only had six pages an issue (so as to fit in four or five other stories at the same time), and the issues were weekly. It's honestly amazing how much John Wagner and the others could cram into six pages.
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I’m deeply regretting buying the omnibus of Ex Machina instead of just a bunch of trades. This thing is loving unwieldy.
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So I saw The Show the movie Alan Moore wrote and has a small part in. It is very much a rambling kind of movie with the main character trying to track down a man and then a piece of jewelry in the town of Northampton, which just happens to be full of weirdos. While not a comedy it is at times very funny but there's a definite sinister undertone that takes over whenever Moore's character shows up. Also in peak Alan Moore form the main character is Dennis the Menace (the UK version) all grown up as a Zen hitman.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I’m deeply regretting buying the omnibus of Ex Machina instead of just a bunch of trades. This thing is loving unwieldy. Even the compendiums split it in two.
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The Show was fun, sort of Alan Moore doing Twin Peaks. It’s pretty dialogue-heavy, but not in a bad way, just in a way that demands constant attention to catch Moore’s humor. I wouldn’t call it a must-see; it touches on Moore’s ideas about magick, art, culture, and dreams all being intertwined, but not in a way that plumbs any new territory for him, I think. Apparently it’s a sequel to a 2014 film called Show Pieces that I didn’t even know about when I went in to watch The Show last night, and it has an ending that suggests he may do further stories in the same setting.
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Ex Machina is one of those comics that had an extremely good core concept but the execution wasn't particularly great
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drrockso20 posted:Ex Machina is one of those comics that had an extremely good core concept but the execution wasn't particularly great That's the BKV one with the mayor who can talk to machines? I remember thinking it was decent but yeah, kind of have to agree with you. I don't even remember how it all paid off, just a few story beats like the guy killing snowplow drivers to paralyze the city and the main character bullshitting some woman about hearing an unreleased Nirvana song from space.
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A Strange Aeon posted:That's the BKV one with the mayor who can talk to machines? Yup, again not particularly great(one of those comics that goes hard on being edgy dark and bleak more because the author thought that was cool than because they were able to tell a good story by going in that direction), but the way he handled certain aspects of it do make me feel reasonably confident in his ability to handle the script for the live action Gundam movie that's in development, he's got a perfect understanding of the Char archetype for one thing
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