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Post by Icctrombone on May 25, 2014 5:48:08 GMT -5
And although I knew he was supposed to die, I was hit kinda hard by these last 2 pages.  |
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 25, 2014 7:43:34 GMT -5
I'm not much of a crier, but Usagi almost made me cry twice. 'A Mother's Love' was one, and the other one is the one where a ghost helps Usagi in the snow which I can never remember the name of.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 25, 2014 8:28:35 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on May 25, 2014 8:35:33 GMT -5
I could never actually cry from a comc book ("It's only lines on paper folks") but as a little kid I got choked up by the sacrifice of Proty to help bring back Lightning Lad. He was such a cute ball of protoplasm    Whenever someone makes that type of sacrifice, it chokes you up. |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 25, 2014 8:46:07 GMT -5
Red Tornado sacrifices himself in JLA # 102   |
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Post by ironchimp on May 25, 2014 9:34:30 GMT -5
maus is a good call - very affecting
not cry as i can never get that deep into a story but the death of buddy's family and his voyage to discover why they must die in the last 8 or so issues of morrison's animal man + his eulogy to lost characters from crisis on infinite earths was really nicely done.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 25, 2014 20:02:46 GMT -5
Don't think I've ever been moved to tears over a comic book...at least emotionally (price wise is a different story)  The most I've been was bummed out. Tears? nah. |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 25, 2014 20:04:35 GMT -5
Plus, after the Superman Death, you really can't take any deaths seriously. They all come back. Before the 90's it was you losing these characters forever.
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Post by antoine on May 25, 2014 20:18:14 GMT -5
Paul à Québec by Michel Rabagliati. I went to my brother's place and I saw his GF crying on the patio.. Went to see her and she told me she was reading the latest Paul, which I hadn't bought yet... i thought she was maybe too emotional, but I bought it the next day and also cried while reading it... Only time it happened with a comic book.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2014 21:20:59 GMT -5
icctrombone beat me to the death of Krypto from Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow. Not a dog person, but that got to me. And I may be alone in this, but the death of Squirrel Girl's sidekick Monkey Joe in GLA #3 and her reaction had me tearing up, too.   I get that it was a response to Identity Crisis, but I read the GLA series years later, so while I read it as a comment on violent trends in comics, it also hit me as a story in and of itself. And I liked Monkey Joe.
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Post by Nowhere Man on May 25, 2014 23:11:35 GMT -5
The only time I remember tearing up was back in the late 80's after reading a Marvel Comics Presents story featuring Red Wolf. I believe it was the origin story of his wolf sidekick. The story began with a bunch of rednecks with rifles, drinking beer in the back of a pickup, while chasing and shooting a wolf mother and her pups in the desert. Red Wolf took care of the rednecks and the one surviving pup became his pal.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 26, 2014 6:57:31 GMT -5
The only time I remember tearing up was back in the late 80's after reading a Marvel Comics Presents story featuring Red Wolf. I believe it was the origin story of his wolf sidekick. The story began with a bunch of rednecks with rifles, drinking beer in the back of a pickup, while chasing and shooting a wolf mother and her pups in the desert. Red Wolf took care of the rednecks and the one surviving pup became his pal. I believe that was part of his origin story in Avengers #80. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on May 26, 2014 21:10:46 GMT -5
The first one that I always think about is Nick Abadzis' Laika. It's such a powerful story masterfully told. I can't recommend it highly enough. It probably helps that I'm a dog lover, but any story about the death of a dog is one of those things that a man gets a crying pass for.
I second this, when you talk about a well executed story this one really needs to be mentioned. |
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Post by the4thpip on May 27, 2014 12:06:25 GMT -5
Recurring characters in European comics rarely die, so this one hit me pretty hard:  |
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Post by MatthewP on May 27, 2014 14:51:24 GMT -5
The one book that gets to me is I Kill Giants. Despite its fantasy elements, it has a more real feel to it than most comic books, so it has more effect on me than superhero books do.
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