Agonus
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Hero- the Sentry
Villain- Black Adam
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Destroying the Destroyers has destroyed their chance to cause destruction, even if saying out loud sounds a bit redundant. Those big and strangely colored targets are hard to resist. You destroyed many Destroyers to earn this badge.
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Here's Ad A, found in Uncanny X-Men (and it's possibly the Marvel ad).
And here's Ad B, found in Justice Society of America, (and possibly the DC ad).
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Gimme a few minutes here, I'll see if I can find scan in both ads...
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Quote:Eh? Even removing phrases, that still leavesOriginally Posted by Durakken
...Interesting to me... there are less words for hate ^.^
abhor,
abominate,
anathematize,
contemn,
curse,
deprecate,
deride,
despise,
detest,
disapprove,
disdain,
disfavor,
disparage,
execrate,
loathe,
nauseate,
scorn,
shun,
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Quote:A Life Model Decoy, or LMD, more'n likely. The all-purpose US versions of the Doombots that get the blame for some of Dr. Doom's actions.Originally Posted by NiVra
Wait, then who the heck was he talking to like two issues before?!?
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Quote:Instead we get Peter guilt-tripping MJ into making a deal with "a devil" to sacrifice their marriage and future years. Mind you, comic book time aside, Peter and MJ could have up to another 60 years together.Originally Posted by LiquidX
You know what the worst part was? One More Day could have been made more far more tolerable (Other then Joe Q not being allowed to touch it, that is) if it had been Mary Jane who had been shot, and not Aunt May. At least then Peter's decision to sacrafice his marriage to save her life would have made more sense.
And this was to save the life of someone who, for all intents and purposes, has already lived a full life, and will more than likely be dying of NATURAL causes in what, 2, maybe 10 years tops? -
Quote:For all intents and purposes, Grievous was a badass in the original cartoon because Tartakovsky and his crew were only given barebones information on the character. They had to fill in a lot of the blanks they weren't being given by Lucasfilm.Originally Posted by OzzieArcane
Grievous was badass in the cartoon. He took on 5 Jedi at once and won. Now in the movie, yeah he was lame because Lucas flailed his arms yelling "NO ONE IS BETTER THEN VADER! WAH WAH WAH!" then proceeded to throw Grievous on the ground and **** all over him.
Grievous was screwed in the movie because the fight choreographer had no idea how to portray a fight scene with a 4 armed "man" using 4 swords at once. So Grievous lost his two extra arms at the beginning of the fight to make things managable.
And as far as Grievous's cough, the behind-the-scenes and official explanation are about as goofy as how bringing balance to the Force is supposed to work. Sadly, Windu crushing Grievous's chest at the end of the cartoon has nothing to do with it. -
I like the multi-word anime and manga titles, even if I don't read or watch most of them. anything from
One Shot Bug Killer! (about chibi robots sent to kill bugs)
to
Transformers: Super-God Masterforce
Immortal-Man-In-Darkness, Chinese superhero in the DC universe. Partly because I had IMiD mixed up with Socialist Red Guardsman.
Repo! The Genetic Opera, gothic cyberpunk horror opera movie. -
Quote:I've been behind on my pull list for a while, so I have a borked sense of what's come out when the past few months, but I'm pretty sure Thor's been back on track post JMS/Coipel. I'm a big fan of what JMS did on Thor.Originally Posted by ChrisMoses
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Thor is off-schedule and kind of hard to gauge at the moment.
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In my humble opinion, Kieron Gillen was a great choice to follow JMS. Not a big fan of Billy Tan, but Asgardians seem to suit his style better than the tights crowd. There's a neat fill-in arc now with gorgeous art by Doug Braithwaite, before the book goes back to the Kirby era "Asgardians are aliens with sci-fi" schtick. Pasqual Ferry will be on art, don't know the writer offhand. I'll be dropping the book at that point, partly because I preferred the mythological spin on Asgard, partly for budgetary reasons. -
Quote:Oh, wow, that was fast.Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
In short, no. Using only the color combination is not going to get you in trouble.
Now, if you combine that with a similar name or backstory, THAT could get you in trouble. But a color combo won't be enough.
Nah, the name is completely different and the backstory is a work in progress, but it'll be as different as I can manage. The style of the costume won't even be exact (as far as you could get here, anyway) either, really. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
Give it to me straight: Does Marvel suck?
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Silly question.
Since this is a superhero game, I'm fond of putting flying brick or blasting type characters in "classic" tights and capes style costumes that use like 2-4 colors. But the thing is, there are only so many complimentary colors, and as the alts start piling up, I find myself looking more towards combinations I've been avoiding because they make -me- think of existing Marvel and DC characters.
So how far does the generic-ing process go? Can you get nailed if the only thing in question is that your superhero costume has the same color scheme as an existing character? -
Don't forget the Red Hulk will be joining the Avengers now. >.<
Quote:Considering his output since then, maybe he -should- have taken a longer break. Ultimatum? Wolverine and Sabretooth descended from centuries old warring tribes of wolf mutants? Red Hulk? Those are some of the most reviled storylines of the past 5-10 years.Originally Posted by SuperOz
Well, this largely falls on the shoulders of Jeph Loeb. And as much as I despised the whole Red Hulk saga and the really poor writing of him punching out the Watcher and Thor and so on, I have to have some sympathy for the guy.
He really didn't stop writing comics after the death of his son, and I think it really shows here...
And it's even worse when you consider how great Planet Hulk was, and World War Hulk was good at it's core, if the execution left a bit to be desired. But then they kick all that development out the window for the Red Hulk crap. -
Also
Arnim Zola. Just look at him.
Quote:Here's a bigger list. Plutonian is KM on a global scale. The grenade scene was just the first one that actually made me go "Gah!" in regards to the character.Originally Posted by RemusShepherd
Throwing grenades at kids? Aw, that is terrible.
Kid Miracleman ***** and killed most of the population of London. So...yeah.
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Cool. I've been playing in a Shadowrun campaign for the better part of the last year or so. Got a little bored with my speed based dual pistols guy, so I started switching him over to a sword-wielding fighter. But his essence is down to .3 after his last operation to get a cybernetic right arm, and he's pretty much broke, so it'll be a while before I can finish the transition. >.>
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Quote:Some Garth Ennis characters, especially from The Boys comic, can give Kid Miracleman a run for his money.Originally Posted by RemusShepherd
Kid Miracleman. No one else in comics comes close.
Oh, wait, did you mean villains that were bad at being villains, or the villains who were the worst, most vile and dangerous villains ever? Kid Miracleman is in the latter category.
Plutonian from Irredeemable too. There was a showdown where the Plutonian had a bunch of kids held hostage in a gym, and a hero is at the door. The Plutonian was/is angry that he had to hold back as a kid because of his powers, causing him to get teased relentlessly for being weak. So he wants to play dodgeball with the kids, and tosses a live grenade at them. The hero saves the kids, but still, yowch. -
Typeface. He fights with letter-shaped weapons. I don't think I need to say any more.
Toad. I'll never understand why this schmuck ALWAYS makes it into every media translation the X-Men get.
And this is more a personal thing, but I've always hated the Penguin. A short fat guy with a long nose, speech impediment, and fetishes for birds, umbrellas and dressing like a 1920's businessman. LAME!
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Quote:Dunno the level of detail you're looking for, but boxofficemojo.com lists pretty up-to-date foreign grosses for movies with a couple different breakdowns.Originally Posted by ChrisMoses
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This is what I'm banking on. This weekend to see how it does in Europe. If someone has it, I would appreciate a good global box office tracking website.
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So I was trying to think of a name for a Claws/Something Brute Doomsday homage to run through the Crusader Resistance arc. The character would be a scientist that injects himself with a drug that turns him into a hulking monster and forms the armor over his skin, and he'd form claws from the armor.
After much trial and error, I stumbled onto the name Johnny Reaper, and switched the the scientist aspect to an anarchist gothic punk sorta thing. The idea now would be when he's human size, it's Johnny Reaper, and in the monster form, he'd answer to Reaper.
But the more I flesh out Johnny with a costume and persona, the more I like it. I've been thinking about separating the Johnny Reaper concept from the Doomsday homage, but I'm at a loss for AT or powers.
So, wadda you guys think? What AT and powersets come to mind for a punk character called Johnny Reaper? I could post a pic later on tonight of the current Doomsday nod costume, it's sort of a cross between Doomsday and Doyle von Frankenstein. -
Quote:Heh. I'd rep you for that if we still had it.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
At this stage, it seems like it would have been simpler for the stuido execs who greenlit this bomb to have just gone out into the parking lot and set fire to 20-25 million dollars.
Ah, didn't know that. Anyone know what studios generally do with movies that bomb domestically before major global releases? Like, will it get a marketing push at all overseas?Quote:Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
SPvtW hasnt received a proper foreign opening yet its barely in release in Australia/New Zealand. At this point, August 25th, when its released in the UK, is the make-or-break date. Edgar Wrights films have always done better in England than America. In the case of his previous one, Hot Fuzz, the UK box office was almost twice as much as the US.
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Quote:There were ads in Marvel books too. It would be amusing if it was the case, but I haven't read enough comics from last week yet to see if DC got all Maelstrom ads and Marvel got all Desdemona ads.Originally Posted by BlackSun17
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- Great to see the full page GR ads in DC comics this week...
- BS17
So who was saying GR wouldn't get advertising in comics from the Big Two?
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Quote:Total gross for Pilgrim so far is a over 21 million worldwide (1 million foreign? Ouch.) after 2 weeks. There was a roughly 50% drop off in gross from the first week to the second. Production budget was 60 million.Originally Posted by Turbo_Ski
...On-topic: as dismal as the tickets sales are, universal will probably make up for it in game and dvd/bd sales. Keep in mind that the game was cheaply produced and has sold a lot of copies with promise of more DLC priced updates for fans. Also this is without a doubt a cult classic that is going to make money for years to come even if it continues to bomb in box office sales.
In an age of falling DVD sales due to Netflix and the like, it'll take those "years to come" of yours for Pilgrim to break even. -
Quote:Pilgrim bombed despite an ad campaign that bordered on over-saturation. But they still plastered ads everywhere for a property that a tiny niche audience was familiar with, and it wasn't enough to garner interest for non-geeks, nevermind the geeks that may have heard about Pilgrim before the movie but still didn't care.Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
Zero penetration in the contradiction in terms that is "the mainstream geekosphere"? Production news for SPvtW blanketed the moviegeek sites from AintItCool and CHUD on down since it was greenlit; the final cut received a standing ovation at Comic Con last month; and O'Malley has won both the Eisner and Harvey awards, among many cartoonists' accolades, for his graphic novel series (which has made best-of lists from Wizard to Entertainment Weekly). If anything, over-saturation is more likely to have contributed to the movie's disappointment at the box office.
I'm also pretty geeky myself, but when the movie production news started making the rounds, I had Scott Pilgrim mixed up with Barry Ween, and that's why -I- initially blew it off.
I disagree. Scott Pilgrim's got enough rave reviews that the movie's geek chic aspect and inevitable cult status will only be reinforced. I think that if anything Scott Pilgrim confirms that extremely obscure properties with small target audiences do not make for blockbuster movies.Quote:Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
It's entirely possible, of course, that SPvtW will put to rest the received idea that geek culture has truly penetrated the mainstream. The overlap on the Venn diagram between the two may turn out to be much slimmer than expected. -
I thought XMO:Wolverine took place in the 80's?
But anyway, the more I hear about First Class, the more it scares me.
Bacon as Sebastian Shaw?
Of all the crap Chuck Austen did during his X-Men run, they pick the utterly worst thing he introduced?!
And now it's set in the 60's?!?!
Ugh. And, now Frost and Havoc would be in their, what, 70's in modern times? I know it's an alternate universe and all, but still, bleh. That's almost as silly as Emma being like 26 -now- in the comics.