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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 9, 2015 11:35:19 GMT -5
One I remember at DC was an issue of Green Lantern (with Green Arrow). Neal Adams did the ever of "a very special" issue (or however they billed it), but I agree; it was more a Marvel thing than DC. Conan was plagued by late deadlines at the end of Barry Smith's run, for instance, tough they never had to throw in a reprint. One time they printed directly from Barry Smith's pencils, which they tried to plug as a cool thing. Sorry man, but Conan #22 reprinted #1. No need to apologize, man; I'm human.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 9, 2015 11:38:59 GMT -5
Yeah but you're a Prince...
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Post by thwhtguardian on Feb 9, 2015 11:40:00 GMT -5
This never bothered me but it was a thought I had, was the "death trap" originated in comic books ? I look at comics now and never see it. They just shoot the hero. Nah, it's a carry over from the penny dreadfuls.
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Post by chadwilliam on Feb 18, 2015 22:06:06 GMT -5
This one wasn't a big deal, but only because I never really wanted to linger on it too much, but...
How responsible was Thomas Wayne for the death of himself and his wife? Joe Chill seemed pretty content with simply robbing a woman of her necklace, did Wayne's charging the gunman cause a robbery to escalate to murder?
Of course, the Lew Moxon connection absolves him of any culpability, but what about prior to 1956 when this new angle was introduced?
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 19, 2015 12:08:07 GMT -5
This never bothered me but it was a thought I had, was the "death trap" originated in comic books ? I look at comics now and never see it. They just shoot the hero. Heh! Heh! Heh! Modern writers just don't get it.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Feb 19, 2015 19:40:40 GMT -5
I have no idea how they handle it in the current X-Books, but I've never understood all the creative handwringing thats gone on about Magneto and Professor X being tied so closely to the era of WWII and the Nazi concentration camps. Magneto is basically Silver Surfer Jr. (People forget he can not only manipulate magnetism, but can read minds, astral project, manipulate light/heat, etc.) so him aging slowly, like Wolverine, would hardly be a stretch. Same with Professor X. (Of course my argument could very well be outdated at this point and this has already been done.)
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 20, 2015 14:55:32 GMT -5
This never bothered me but it was a thought I had, was the "death trap" originated in comic books ? I look at comics now and never see it. They just shoot the hero. Heh! Heh! Heh! Modern writers just don't get it. Without Seth Green the Powers movies wouldn't have made me laugh near as much. SCOTT!!!!!!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 24, 2015 11:17:01 GMT -5
It might not be quite old enough to qualify, but I hope the moderators will be lenient… Annihilation will be ten years old next year.
Something that irked me a lot is when Marvel turned the Nova Corps into the Green Lantern Corps, an intergalactic police force made up of aliens, and pretended it had always been so.
The Nova Corps was introduced as Xandar's space police slash planetary army. It was staffed by Xandarians. Earthling Richard Ryder was a fluke, who got his powers because one dying Nova officer had to delegate just about anybody to stop a big space baddie.
Nowadays we have stories about the new Kid Nova's dad having been a member of the corps himself. What? That's like suddenly telling stories in which Luke Skywalker and Han Solo were brought up together.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 3, 2015 9:37:17 GMT -5
It's beginning to bother me more, I guess, but Arch viilains seem to lose a lot to their opponents. How many times has Doom lost to the FF , 20, 30 times? Or maybe I've been reading comics too long.
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Post by fanboystranger on Mar 3, 2015 10:04:36 GMT -5
It's beginning to bother me more, I guess, but Arch viilains seem to lose a lot to their opponents. How many times has Doom lost to the FF , 20, 30 times? Or maybe I've been reading comics too long. "Doom does not lose. Doom strategically withdraws to instill a false sense of confidence in Richards and his cursed brood."
--Victor Von Doombot, Head of Lateverian Media Relations and Better Business Bureau
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 3, 2015 10:38:44 GMT -5
It's beginning to bother me more, I guess, but Arch viilains seem to lose a lot to their opponents. How many times has Doom lost to the FF , 20, 30 times? Or maybe I've been reading comics too long. It's one of the pitfalls of indefinitely ongoing comic books. Together with a nearly immutable status quo, ineffective heroes and sliding timescales. If you keep using the same characters, you will repeat yourself (or rather you will repeat your predecessors). If you start creating new characters, long time fans tend to complain that you are using your own pet characters over established characters and that they would rather see Dr. Doom and the Joker.. again.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 3, 2015 10:41:39 GMT -5
I would love if someone could tell me how many times the Joker has faced Batman since the beginning. Or how many time Doom has faced the FF.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 3, 2015 11:12:51 GMT -5
I would love if someone could tell me how many times the Joker has faced Batman since the beginning. Or how many time Doom has faced the FF. That would be an interesting statistic.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 3, 2015 11:32:10 GMT -5
I would love if someone could tell me how many times the Joker has faced Batman since the beginning. Or how many time Doom has faced the FF. That would be an interesting statistic. There was a GN where Doom finally conquered the world. Emperor Doom I think. He gave it back afterwards.
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Post by fanboystranger on Mar 3, 2015 11:36:44 GMT -5
That would be an interesting statistic. There was a GN where Doom finally conquered the world. Emperor Doom I think. He gave it back afterwards. It's an Avengers book called Emperor Doom by David Micheline and Bob Hall. The only two beings who can withstand Doom's Purple Man fueled mind control ray are Simon Williams and Namor. Good story. I think they collected it in the Judgment Day epic collection, which also includes the annual crossover featuring the Grandmaster vs Death. That, of course, gave us the quintessential Hawkeye moment:
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