I Don't Mind
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Cobra Commander's hood looks like the finest imported silk. That shit breathes and flows.
Zemo's mask is made from some raggedy ass corduroy pants. That's why he looks pants-on-head retarded.
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Is it his Nazi Tiara or his lavender towel mask?
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3 hours ago, Jasonmufc said:
Many would say start in the 90s because that's where X-Men really came into their own, especially with the Jim Lee penciled X-Men being the basis for many of the future artwork of both the animated series and the characters as is going into the future.
Going further back, Dark Phoenix (1980) and especially Days of Future Past (1981) were the first major storylines that really propelled X-Men to the forefront and popularized it in pop culture.
Going even further back than that, i'd say go to 1975 and start when Chris Claremont took over writing duties, he pretty much defined the X-Men (And Marvel in general) into the 90s, creating many big named characters (Rogue, Jubilee, Gambit, Mystique, etc.) and turning Wolverine into the anti-hero everyone knows and loves.As a whole I can't really suggest Silver Age comics because they're tonally very different to what came in the bronze age and beyond.
EDIT: Additionally, X-Men in general wasn't popular until Claremont changed everything up. It was so bad that between 1970 and 1975 they only published reprints of old stories rather than create new content. So from 70/75 you can completely avoid.To add to this, 1982's God Loves, Man Kills was the loose basis of X-2 and was pretty great. We just read it for the Marvel Universe Book Club
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Groot by Jeff Loveness
Read this fucking book. Delves into Groot's inner workings and the particulars / origin of his friendship with Rocket. I cried.
Groot is thrown into space-prison and is constantly harassed, mocked, and bullied by guards for only being able to say "I Am Groot". So he constantly stands up for himself and gets thrown in the max security area, where Rocket is his roommate. Rocket at this point also only hears "I Am Groot". But they spend so much time partnered up in isolation that one day Rocket actually hears the translation.
Groot, after spending YEARS of being mocked and ignored by people who think he can't talk, gets a sudden wave of relief to have someone who can understand him. It's like one of those cases of children with severe debilitating autism who are given a computer and discover their brain works perfectly fine, it's only a matter of sending messages from the brain to the mouth.
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In an attempt to open things up to a larger audience, I'm going to try this again on Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/MUBookClub/
Anyone with an account feel free to join. If reddit falls flat, maybe I'll come back to just do reviews on the board again
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Finally got around to reading Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader and it was not what I was expecting at all. I've seen it top so many lists for "Essential Batman Reading" and "Best Batman Stories of All Time". Maybe it is objectively, but with the expectations I had going into it, I wasn't floored. I liked Gaiman's Sandman and knew he had a really weird, artsy style but at least most Sandman stories are stories. Whatever Happened is more of a visual essay on what it means to be Batman than it is an actual story. Literally, from cover-to-cover, nothing progresses. Nothing moves. You find out as a reader what the framing device means and then its over. Can other people who have read Whatever Happened let me know if I let my expectations ruin the book or if it's really overhyped?
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Apparently they got rid of it. It was useless to begin with, so hopefully they'll fix it and put it back on the website. Just have to use the filters after clicking series or creators or characters for what you're trying to find.
@Hutch2004 I'll consider it. I've gotten pretty lackadaisical utilizing my MU, so it would give me a reason to get my money's worth
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Variety posted an exclusive saying Brie Larson is in early talks with Marvel to play Captain Marvel. Take from that what you will.
Very talented actress, but she doesn't fit my idea of the character
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MARVEL:
Ghost Rider: Trail of Tears by Garth Ennis
Astonishing X-Men by Joss Whedon
Captain America: Man Out of Time by Mark Waid
Either run of Mark Waid's Daredevil (2011 - serious, dark, brooding) or (2014 - more light-hearted)
Black Panther by Christopher Priest
Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson
Thor: God of Thunder by Jason Aaron
DC:
Green Lantern: Rebirth by Geoff Johns
Wonder Woman by Brian Azzarello
Superman: For All Seasons by Jeph Loeb
Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth by Grant Morrison
MISC:
Preacher by Garth Ennis (Vertigo; imprint of DC)
Invincible by Robert Kirkman (Image Comics)
Irredeemable by Mark Waid (Boom! Studios)
Rat Queens by Kurtis J. Wiebe (Image Comics)
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Loved The Peanuts Movie. Great for all ages and level of familiarity with the franchise
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Been burning through a bunch of comics on my vacation.
Marvel 1872 - Gerry Duggan: Freaking fun and a quick read. Very fast-paced, lots of wild west action, lots of surprises and cameos. If there's one thing that disappointed me, it was how much more the cameos could have been if it stretched to a longer series.
Gotham Central, Book 1: In the Line of Duty - Ed Brubaker: I've been watching Gotham on FOX since the pilot which lead me to this series. Complex, flawed protagonists, who aren't guaranteed a victory by the end of each story. Awesome stuff, and usually I hate cop dramas. Just the right amount of supervillain peppering in to make the situations larger than life and stories worth telling.
Hawkeye Vol. 5: All-New Hawkeye - Jeff Lemire: I've read a lot of shade thrown on Kate Bishop's character in the past; I don't know that it was regarding this run or not, but I really liked the relationship between Kate and Clint. I really wasn't a fan of the storytelling format of this run though, splitting every page between current events and a scene from Clint's past. The story was alright, but the art was pretty lazy at times.
Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows - Dan Slott: Where Peter's life should have wound up in the 616. Very rooted in the Peter I know and made me love all the supporting cast as well. Annie Parker deserved her own series. I'll have to see how she compares to "Mayday" Parker from the other universe
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Captain America: Civil War
Ant/Giant-Man and Spider-Man were easily the show-stealers, but I haven't seen anyone post what went through my mind as to why
they were so great. Everyone on the screen is kicking ass, everyone has incredible superpowers, everyone gets their one-liners, but Scott Lang and Peter Parker invest you as a watcher because they bring a sense of realism back to the desensitized world built in the MCU. They're amazed that they get to be around these larger-than-life characters who can do equally or superior feats than they can do themselves. Opposite to that sense of fascination Lang and Parker have was T'Challa, who doesn't question anything he sees, tells Hawkeye he doesn't care who he is, and feels all too comfortable in this huge sci-fi conflict. On the one hand it makes me hyped for his stand-alone film, but to me, it's why he takes a backseat to Lang and Parker. The sole great moment I think Black Panther really had was stopping Zemo's suicide-shot with his hand and choking him out to turn him over to the authorities. The cliche "I won't become a killer like you" story arc was meh, but that was a seriously badass move.My sole complaint about this film is really a continuation of my thoughts on Age of Ultron. Last summer Jason Statham slammed the MCU for being so CGI-reliant that it didn't matter who was's playing the hero, it'd just be a bunch of stunt-guys in costumes at the end of the dya. I lost some respect for Statham because that just sounded like bitter ramblings. But some of the scenes in Civil War and other recent films were so obviously digitally rendered it momentarily took me out of the film. Panther particularly looked like an entirely different body shape than Chadwick Boseman when he wasn't in costume. I started correlating him to a Power Ranger whenever Panther was on screen.
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Just finished Kimmy Schmidt SS2 last night. I love, love, love Kimmy's story arc in this season. I was really left unsatisfied with how things were resolved though. The rest of the characters' stories were fine enough. Didn't become that big a fan of any of the new characters brought in this season
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6 hours ago, Benji said:
So I just found out Marvel are doing Civil War 2. What the fuck?
This time... it's personal
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The worst part of The Hand is they're so crammed into a trope I can't find a name for.
In the first few episodes feat. The Hand, one sole ninja is a believable killer. A deadly assassin to be feared. One Ninja could end Elektra, Daredevil, probably anyone he wanted. By the end, they're all cannon fodder because Daredevil's just gotten THAT good. And the only thing he changed - he listened
harder.
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Thoughts on the ending of SSN2 and a less popular opinion on something in the first half
The entire second half I was dying for an Elektra/Daredevil/Punisher teamup against The Hand. It would have added so much more gravitas for Daredevil to personally request the help of both cold-blooded assassins/mass murders to drive the ninja organization back. Somewhat glad Punisher showed up to help Daredevil but going from killing his own final boss and seeing a flakjacket to appearing with the skull and big guns to kill ninjas, there might as well have been a "scenes missing" title card. A personal request from Daredevil or just Castle telling Karen Page
his work isn't finished until every piece of scum who deserves to die is put in the ground or he is would have filled in that gap wonderfully and addressed the skull theatrics. As for Nobu not living up to Fisk in terms of big bad, his character had no legs from the start. He was a third-strong end-boss in the first season and pulls the strings mostly off-screen for the majority of this season. Plus with Fisk we had the added bonus of "this is a sympathetic villain who you can understand because we're going to devote the time to show you how he came to be this monster of a man". Nobu was a means to an end for this season. As for the magic sarcophagus they put Elektra into at the very end, I guess they always knew she would die and they would need it to bring her back to life? Or did it originally have a different purpose? I mean, why not just send The Hand to kill her if they've invested all that work on The Farm to bring her back to life, presumably under their control. Hopefully, but doubtfully it'll get addressed in Season 3.Unrelated to the end, but I'm going to go against the grain. I thought Punisher's graveyard monologue was a little dragged out. It hit me in the feels, but it went on forever. I was very aware "this is a monologue" and it pulled me out of the scene.[/quote]
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Watched Black Mass, starring Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger. Never have I watched so intently a 2 hour movie with absolutely nothing interesting going on. I'm really only hooked by any of the characters in the first act. From there, it just feels like an over-produced, sanitized attempt at any other gangster film. It tries to cover so much from so many perspectives that it lacks any connection. I just felt like it was a disjointed story that left out a lot of humanizing characters for anyone. Adam Scott's character pissed me off more than anything because he's frequently, FREQUENTLY cut to for reaction shots, but his character is completely inconsequential. I don't know if there's an entire deleted scenes side-story to his character or what but I could not possibly care based on what I saw. There are at least half a dozen characters who's names are hammered into our heads but who aren't memorable at all. For once I was wishing someone had made a story more Hollywood just to tell a better story. I also don't like the name of the film, but can't complain too much about that because they lifted it from the source material book
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I heard it as "Anderu" which I thought was some military thing
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Other than last night, I've seen every episode of Supergirl. That newsbite has too many exclamation points when talking about Supergirl.
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- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Kingsman: The Secret Service
- Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
- Inside Out
- Goosebumps
- Ant-Man
- Jurassic World
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Get Hard
- Room
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Has anyone checked out Lucifer? I haven't heard anything about it on the internet since it's premier, but according to wiki there's been good ratings
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I was concerned it was titled Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts. Made me really concerned for what that could even mean
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If that's episode 6, Red Faced, that's my favorite episode of the series. I thought Benoist was a fine actress but this episode sold me on her.
SpoilerWhen she laser-eyes Red Tornado into exploding, the expression on her face really runs the gamut of maxing yourself out with emotion. I'm sure filming it without all the special effects it probably looked silly, but damn, I believed she was all-powerful and could fuck your shit up if you piss her off
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The Comic Book Thread (spoilers)
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Shocker's outfit never bothered me. It certainly looks different but given the power of his gauntlets, I always assumed that's what the necessary protective insulation he'd have to wear would look like.