CaptainFoamerang
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And all this fuss is being made over Hell's Kitchen?
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Quote:Hell, I'm surprised there's a demand for Marvel comics at all.Originally Posted by UnSub
Reading through that comment thread: is there really a demand for Falcon: Man Without Fear?
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Quote:Why's the BLACK Panther gotta be BLACK huh?Originally Posted by Robo_Knight
But... isn't the Black Panther supossed to be black? -_-;
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I don't know why some people get bent out of shape over it. Pretty much every hero adventure story has the good guy overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds.
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Looking for 16. If it helps, yes it's about published comic book stories, and there will be guidelines to define a story in terms of comics. -
Can't remember the last time we had a comic story draft of if we've even had one, and that just seems like a shame.
Rules and guidelines to come later.
Any takers?
Ok, Argonus, I'm going to go ahead and start this and you can be an alternate in case someone drops out. That work out for you?
DRAFT RULES AND PROCEDURE- Basic draft rules and procedures apply. Drafter #1 will make one pick, then Drafter #2 will make one pick, and so on, until Drafter #8, who will get two picks, and the order will go back up with everyone getting one pick until Drafter #1, who will get two picks; the order will continue until everyone has made four picks. Drafters will get 24 hours to make their pick.
- If 24 hours passes and they have not made a pick, they can be skipped. However, if they manage to make their pick before the next person in the order does, that pick is valid. On the other hand, if the next person in the order makes their pick after the previous drafter's time is up, the previous drafter is skipped and must wait until all regular drafting is complete to make up any skipped turns.
- Suggesting picks by those watching the draft and draft participants while selections are still taking place is strongly discouraged.
- Friendly jabs and light-hearted taunts during the drafting and voting periods are fine, but all drafters and voters are asked to refrain from personal insults and other malicious comments.
- Drafters are kindly asked to PM the next participant after they have made their pick. If any drafters do not wish to receive PMs because their inbox is full or they simply find them annoying, they should express this as soon as possible.
SELECTION CRITERIA- We are trying to see which comic book story is considered to be the best by the good people of these forums.
- A comic book story is defined as follows:
- Written and illustrated by a creative team, although the writer and artist may be one and the same, so you can draft a story from any country (manga is allowed), but you would be advised to keep voter preferences in mind.
- An arc, one-shot, or single issue that is or can be collected in a single volume of no more than 13 issues; this means that you cannot draft an entire series or an arc that consists of more than 13 issues and is broken down into multiple volumes.
- Voters will be asked to choose between two stories for each matchup. They are asked to make their selection based on the following
- The writing (is the story as funny/moving/scary/epic as it sets out to be?)
- The artwork (pencils, inks, coloring)
- The significance (personal/historical/cultural/internal, as in significance to the fictional universe)
- However, voters will be allowed to use their own discretion when weighing the impact of these factors, so they may justify their decision by saying great writing makes up for the so-so artwork, for instance.
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Quote:Well he was never really a rapist because she consented to have sex with him at the time.Originally Posted by Local_Man
OK, here's another plot problem with Superman Returns:
In Supes II, Lois and Clark "do the deed," while Clark is unpowered. Then he gets his powers back (after being told that he lost them forever, but nevermind about that), and then gives Lois the "Amnesia Kiss" power that came out of nowhere.
Five years later, he comes back and Lois has a kid. Thanks to the "kiss," Lois has no idea where the Kid came from. During the course of "Superman Returns," she learns that the kid is Superman's . . . which means that they had sex sometime and she doesn't remember it. As far as she knows, Superman ***** her while she was unconscious, and then left the planet. So, as far as Lois is concerned, Supes is a rapist and a deadbeat dad. Don't you think she would be a little upset about that?
<Hoping that Chris Nolan can make the first Superman film without stupid plot holes big enough to drive a Space Shuttle through. Even the first two "Donner" films had horrible plot holes.>
It's more like some folks had sex but one of them bumped their head and lost their short term memory of it, only it was the other person who knocked em on the head.
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Quote:You forgot written by Bendis.Originally Posted by Veritech
they may be canceling Thunderbolts, but hang around for the exciting new superteam... Avengerbolts and it's companion book Criminal Avengers! From the House of Ideas!
*EDIT*
Aw damn now I can't get the image of Bendis as Gollum clutching the Avengers titles out of my head. -
Quote:Well there's been numerous explanations over the years as to why Superman actually was the last survivor of Krypton. The most common element is that the Kryptonians were such a proud race and the governing body didn't want to believe that they could be destroyed so easily, so they ignored Jor-El's claims. Also, I think Jor-El was Krypton's greatest scientist, so it might have been that he was the only one who could actually verify his own data.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
And they couldn't prevent their planet from exploding or get off of it in time or have enough colonies...
And in recent years I think they said something like there was a call to all Kryptonians to come back to Krypton before it exploded. I think it had to do with Brainiac attacking and stealing Kandor. They were also supposedly aware of what the various suns could do for them, but space travel was highly regulated. -
Quote:If I recall correctly, Kryton was only one sector away from Earth.Originally Posted by Veritech
it's been a while since ive seen the movies. but do they actually say Krypton isn't in the Milk Way Galaxy? also, i'd always assumed some sort of warp travel was involved anyway. if you can accept being under a yellow sun gives a guy super powers, assuming the folks that sent him here had FTL tech isn't exactly a big leap.
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Quote:Kryptonian crystal tech is self-repairing and infinitely reprogrammable, at least according to what's been done with it in the comics.Originally Posted by Gehnen
I see. So the ship that carried him here as an infant is entirely operational, and suits his adult size just fine.
Five years of oxygen (or whatever the heck he breathes naturally when not powered by our sun), food, water, all in what is an escape pod.
I know I'm digging a little far on what's supposed to just be fun, but even comic movies shouldn't test the limits of my suspension of disbelief this far. -
Quote:Er, also in the movie you can see that he came back in the ship cuz it crashed in the Kent Farm field and he tells Ma Kent that he buried it the morning after.Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
The prequil comic shows he took the space ship that carried him to Earth as a baby.
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Quote:I love being able to look at different artists and tell who's being influenced by who. Really gives the industry a sense of history.Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
The East and West have been stealing from each other, artistically speaking, for centuries.
It's a beautiful cycle and I hope it continues.
The bass tacks of the matter is, the big-eyed look of anime was lifted heavily from Felix the Cat and early Disney(Ub Iwerks). Young Japanese artists of that day were as capivated by a look and style that was as farily novel to them as the style found by kids who grew up in the West 40 years later watching Astroboy and Robotech. What they watched influenced their personal style and what you get is each culture apeing the other's stylistic quirks as viewed through the pure lense of a child's eyes with the end result continuing to mutate and evolve.
The thing is, eventually, the style will cease to be novel due to sheer saturation and its pupularity will wane until the cycle comes back around in the generation after.
The humorous thing to note is who admits to being influenced and when. Currenly, most Western artists freely admit to being influenced by anime and manga, but few Japanese artists will cop to it when they swipe from the West. But when the cycle was at its opposite point, Osamu Tezuka freely admited to being a huge admirer of Disney for example.
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Quote:Basically as long as this franchise keeps making money they'll keep making them. It's not like Milla Javapojba;ldh is going to get tired of playing a metahuman anytime soon.Originally Posted by Rock_Crag
....Does this movie series have some sort of favorable B-movie vibe that I'm missing?
I never really liked the games... and haven't played them very much at all. I saw the first movie and thought it was decent. Saw the second movie on TV and wondered what horrible atrocity I committed to deserve such punishment (though I did like the actress who played Jill). DVR'd the third movie and was left wondering where the connection between 2's cliffhanger and 3 was... Come to think of it... I'm pretty sure I watched it all the way to the end and yet I can't remember *how* it ended. It must have bored me so much that I just blocked it out of my mind.
Now there's a fourth movie and I'm absolutely stunned that it even made it passed the concept stages. Granted, I haven't seen it... but I've seen the others and I can't imagine this one being any better or worse.
As far as I can tell, there's no real story holding the series together other than 'Virus breaks out/zombies rule the earth' and 'Alice is a clone supersoldier dealio'. This also makes me wonder if there's ever going to be any real resolution.... or if the series will just run out of money and stop producing films. -
Quote:This is truth. I've had to do this for a game or two that otherwise wouldn't work for whatever reason. Think one of them was GTAIV.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Not all. Yeah, the ones that do, you may have to tell Steam to launch in "offline mode" for them to work (looking at things like HL2,) but others you can launch directly from a shortcut. The Steam overlay won't do anything and your friends list won't indicate you're in game.
Just check steam/steamapps/common and check out the install directory. (Mine's nearly 200 gb... >.< ) Go into the directory for the individual game. Most will have some launcher or executable - you can go directly from there without Steam being involved for many of them.
As for being online all the time, c'mon, folks, if you don't have an permanent broadband connection these days, you just ain't living.
But that's in response to getting online through Steam to access games and such. I don't mind it because Steam's allowed me to pick up a lot of great games real cheap. When it comes to something like Ubisoft's DRM, though, it's just retarded.
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Quote:That's because you're a heathen who hasn't accepted West into their heart.Originally Posted by BlackArachnia
Yeah, but the Jon Stewart exposure will counter the Hal Jordan character. Some viewers will expect Jon and will be disappointed/angry with Hal.
It's like how so many people here consider Wally West to be The Flash. Barry Allen will always be the Flash to me.
And no matter what, Hal Jordan's always going to be more popular than John Stewart as GL. A lot of folks who watched JLU were comic book fans or probably got into comics after watching it, and Hal was figured prominently in the titles during and after the show's run, so, again, not worried about exposure. Plus, I think all the GL fans recognize the potential for the series to shift focus between the human GLs due to whatever circumstances that arise. -
Can't wait to see the GL movie.
I don't think we'll have to worry too much about people being aware of the character, because of the exposure of JLU and all the work Johns has put into the GL titles these past several years. -
Quote:I don't see anything on either of those games' store pages about the DRM so I think you're good.Originally Posted by BlackArachnia
This will get locked, but what I am looking at is buying Mass Effect 1 and 2, and I do not want SecureROM on my system. Does anyone know if they will be included should I buy through Steam? I do not own a 360 yet, so am unable to go that route.
edit: Nice to see familiar posters chiming in. We don't know each other personally, but I have a fair amount of respect for most of you.
It will say on the right hand side amongst the Title, Genre, Developer, etc info if there's a DRM. -
Yup.
Take a look at any of the recent Ubisoft games and you'll see the part on the side regarding the permanently online requirement for the DRM. -
Must have a Green Arrow vs Deadshot episode.
Don't even have Clark in it. Have him off in the world doing something else and leave Metropolis to Ollie for the night. -
Does Astro Boy count?
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Quote:Er Storm and Jean still used their powers in the first one. Storm called down a ******* lightning bolt into a crowded building to knock Sabertooth through a wall. Jean used her telepathy more than her TK in the first one but that was switched for the sequel.Originally Posted by Divus
Storm's shortcommings were written into the script. They're even more glaring in the novelizations of X1 and X2. Singer also gave Jean Grey the shaft. Even if Berry wasn't playing Storm, the character would have still be shafted. If there is one thing I liked about X3 is that the characters bloody used their powers, not correctly, but they still used their powers.
Storm and Jean Grey getting beaten around by Toad of all characters...ugh.
Singer didn't want Storm to be in the movies but the Studio and Marvel insisted and it shows. Singer's heroines are victims: Jean Grey, Lois Lane, Storm, Rogue, they are all crap compared to Mystique and Lex's snappy henchwoman. Only men and villains get to take control in his movies and it shows.
Also Rogue kinda saved Wolverine at the end of the first movie and Jean saved everyone at the end of the second, so it's not like the female characters didn't get their moments. Not to mention Jean overpowering Cyclops.
Oh I know she's been known to fight in the comics, but in the movies it just looks idiot when she turns herself into a spinning top to take down some baddies instead of doing something that actually makes sense, given that she doesn't have invulnerability and didn't know what those other guys could do. If the spikey guy actually used his powers before she hit him she might have died.Quote:Oh, and in the comics, Storm gets into fist fights a lot. She pulled Marrow's heart out of her chest, stabbed Callisto in the heart with a dagger and beat down Crimson Commando, as well as getting into a mass cat fight with a harem of alien wives.
I think Singer wrapped up the Wolvie-centric stuff with the second one and we would have moved on to the Phoenix stuff a little better had he been involved with that film.Quote:My biggest gripe about the X movies is that they are essentially Wolverine movies with guest stars and the characters I like are not just given short shrift, they are turned into powerless idiots and damsels in distress even though they are nothing like that in the comics.
Of course, comic wise after the last 10 years of the character assassination of Professor Xavier and the convenient amnesia concerning Emma Frost's role in the creation of Dark Phoenix, I've become inured to sudden bizzare changes in my X-Canon. The deaths in X3 didn't bother me because they're easily retconnable, especially people who died off panel. -
Quote:Ah okay. I stopped watching them after first couple sequels.Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
That was what Six was all about.
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Having just read the entire series last month, I am looking forward to this big time. I just wish they hadn't spaced out the last two films so much.
There was a ridiculous amount of content to the last book, though, so I'm glad they're making room for it.
Looking back at the series, I kind of wish they had went the LOTR route and made all the movies 3 hours long.