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Someone linked to those old American Express commercials that Seinfeld did with a cartoon Superman(cause Seinfeld is a huge Superman fan) and honestly I'm really digging their take on Superman there as portrayed by Patrick Warburton, like most of the time Superman is the straight man, here him being a bit of a goofball is rather refreshing
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Saw some recent Dilbert comics posted on another site and good Lord is it some dire stuff, this might just be the most severe drop in quality for a newspaper comic(by a single creator) from its peak I've ever seen
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Jul 21, 2021 20:32
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Servoret posted:I can almost believe it really worked because I ended up buying that jerkoff spell issue of The Invisibles under semi-mysterious circumstances after I’d dropped out of buying comics for a while. I stepped out of my house without a jacket in the middle of a snowstorm one evening, and for some reason (because I was a dumb teenager) walked in no particular direction through the snow for an hour before I realized I was near the comic store I used to shop at. I went in and bought that issue of The Invisibles plus The Big Book of Conspiracies. Kind of spooky to me because I had no conscious intention of doing any of that. The Big Book Of series is very underrated and I would pay good money for them to be rereleased
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Jul 23, 2021 18:10
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Random Stranger posted:90% of them you can still get pretty cheap because they were mass market paperbacks and sold pretty well in regular bookstores. They also had an absolutely amazing line up of talent working on them since they could go to pretty much anyone and say, "Wanna do three pages on something you find amusing in this topic?" I keep meaning to pick up more of them. True, though it would be nice for them to get like one of those premium collections, personal favorites are probably Conspiracies and The 70's
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Jul 23, 2021 18:21
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Random Stranger posted:Is it really any more moronic than how Nick Fury got the Watcher position? You have a point but you don't counter stupid with stupid
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Aug 1, 2021 00:04
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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
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Aug 15, 2021 04:32
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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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Aug 19, 2021 04:40
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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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Aug 20, 2021 00:47
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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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Aug 27, 2021 16:06
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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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Aug 27, 2021 16:24
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Random Stranger posted:Phillip Jose Farmer has much to answer for. Nah the Wold Newton Universe is a wonderful thing, especially when you dig into the more wacky offshoots, like how they explain there being like 50 different versions of Dracula and how most of them are in fact the real Dracula in spite of all the contradictions and paradoxes that should cause
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Sep 10, 2021 02:26
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Pastry of the Year posted:My first exposure to the Wold Newton stuff was this writeup folding Scooby-Doo, of all things, into it: http://www.pjfarmer.com/secret/hyde/mysteryinc.htm Yeah that one is a classic, my personal favorite is probably the big multi-part one that someone did for Superman and a bunch of other related characters, especially the bit where they reveal that due to Clark Kent/Hugo Danner donating blood during his service in WW1, he inadvertently causes the boom in Metahumans that will occur several decades later, as his Kryptonian blood will result in mutations in the descendents of those who received his blood and cause bits and pieces of the Kryptonian power package to awake in them Also it becomes kind of funny how in spite of the WNU's original intention was to be a relatively grounded pulp crossover universe, in its more expanded form that Buffy The Vampire Slayer(which is like the opposite of grounded) ends up being a very important series conceptually for a lot of people's takes
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