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  1. Furio
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Agonus View Post
    Sadly, Brock/Venom is looong gone and barring lots of retconing and hand-waving of plot developments, not coming back.

    Gargan/Venom joined the government run Thunderbolts. Gargan lost the symbiote for reasons I don't know offhand, leaving the military with the suit. The military decides to temporarily give the suit to a current Spider-Man supporting cast member and send him on covert missions with it. I'll give it a shot, but it my interest really depends on who gets the suit.



    I forget his exact reasoning (which made sense when I read it like 10 years ago) but when he was drawing the book McFarlane intentionally put Spider-Man in as many limb breaking poses as he could.
    I would think it be to emphasize the extreme extent of his enhanced flexability
  2. Furio
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    Originally Posted by Mothers_Love View Post
    Nice news!, surprised Nolan has gone with the Bane character for his realism-themed trilogy! , Tom Hardy is great news, Hathaway would make a cute Catwoman, especially if they make her more the kleptomaniac cat-burglar of the rich & famous / antiquities.

    Interesting news! ... which radio station?, (maybe they have some kinda web transcript?).

    It was the Ron and Fez show, on XM radio.
  3. Furio
    I really just wish Fox would stop. Apologize to Marvel and pay them to take the movie rights back.
  4. Furio
    Just heard on the radio, still waiting for confirmation from another source

    Tom Hardy as Bane, Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle/Catwoman
  5. Furio
    Uh...so, Angel is Wanda Worthington now, i guess?
  6. Furio
    That Hecatomb could have financed a large portion of your IO experimentations.

    Unless you're at the inf cap, you can always use more inf
  7. Furio
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    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    I don't think that position is even physically possible
    Spidey does it all the time. Just usually letting go of another web, instead of firing a weapon behind him.
  8. Furio
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    Originally Posted by Lothic View Post

    But somehow this situation (a fictional female comic book character attached to real life makeup) just makes me almost think they went a tad too far with it. Again I understand it's just pure capitalism at work. It just seems unfortunate somehow that the only thing they thought Wonder Woman was good for was for selling makeup. Did they really have to jump to that stereotypical combination? There's nothing "wrong" with it, but it doesn't exactly feel "right" either.

    I think the situation probably came up the other way around. Cosmetics company approached DC...it likely wasn't DC's marketing arm saying "What can we slap Wonder Woman's image on today?"
  9. Furio
    A shame. I too would have liked more backstory on the Xenos. I've posted here before how I just can't wrap my head around how they could have developed naturally on their home planet. They're simply too effective an apex predator to not have extincted themselves by eating/reproducing through everything of a suitable size.
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    Was gonna say something along those lines. Liefeld does go overboard with pouches, but he comes in second to the actual military
  11. Furio
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    Originally Posted by Silver Gale View Post
    Okay, I don't want to devalue your experience or anything, but please imagine for a moment that instead of a team of players who work together well and are willing to report back, you had three or four prima donnas who don't need no stinkin' communication because *they* know what they need to do and if the rest of the team doesn't fall in behind them, well, too bad for the rest of the team.

    Do you think in such a situation, you would be able to correctly pinpoint the source of your failure? Would you say "The Sewer Trial is difficult, but I think we could have done it with a better team and more communication", or would you say "We wiped again and again, it was frustrating and unfun, this is another example of why I hate TFs"?
    This does seem more a case of a team meshing well and winning, rather than "challenge done right". I think one would get the same feeling on most of the TF's/Trials given similar circumstances. Well, maybe not the boring original TFs
  12. Furio
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    Originally Posted by Ironik View Post
    Considering that the black suit wasn't Venom-ous when Peter was wearing it, maybe it takes on aspects of the person's subconscious. That'd be a cool take on the character. I'm given to understand that this may not be the classic symbiote but a version weaponized by the government. (Not sure if "weaponized" is the right term when speaking of Venom.)

    That's exactly what happens. It absorbs bits from its hosts.
  13. Furio
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    Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang View Post
    I looked at the pic and thought Frank Castle snagged a symbiote.
    I was thinking more Deadpool...although that would actually be a cool storyline...Wade with a symbiote
  14. Furio
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    Originally Posted by White Hot Flash View Post
    It's a reboot in the same sense that a comic gets "rebooted" when a different writer picks up the title and does something different with it, ignoring things that previous writers did because it doesn't fit in to the new story.

    That doesn't usually involve starting from scratch though. They may not acknowledge what came before, but very rarely do they start the character at square one again.
  15. Furio
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    Originally Posted by Mothers_Love View Post
    Joe Q's the power behind the comics, but Its Kevin Feige who is the power behind the Captain America/Thor/Avengers build-up and Marvel films in general.
    Well, Joe's not going to be just the EIC of Marvel Publishing anymore...he's also going to be Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment, tasked with making sure that all portrayals of the Marvel universe in other media fit.
  16. Furio
    What, they don't have the tech to bleep songs in Canada?
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  18. Furio
    Looks like everyone has covered the pertinent bits here already

    1) Not a lot to do in open areas, people are in missions
    2) Check out Virtue, also check out the Virtue forum and introduce yourself there. Could make it even easier to find like-minded people.
    3) Just randomly offering to correct people's characters (bio, name, power-choices,etc) is something I'd suggest avoiding.
    4) Welcome aboard
  19. Furio
    Yup. Support the artists, or they will be no more.
  20. Furio

    Positron Interview

    POST-ACTION

    City of Villains at launch I'd say was a re-invention. They had to invent a word just to describe what it was.
  21. Furio
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironik View Post
    Pop quiz:

    How many female characters wear revealing outfits that show off their assets? How much skin is shown?

    How many male characters wear revealing outfits that show off their assets? How much skin is shown?

    The vast majority of female characters in the Golden and Silver Age wore skirts and showed skin, while only a few male characters showed skin. Martian Manhunter, Namor, Hawkman, Magnus Robot Fighter... and that's about it. I suppose you could include Ka-Zar, but he was really a Tarzan knock-off from the pulp era who was brought back.

    Miss Fury is one of the few Golden Age characters who comes to mind who didn't wear a skirt -- and she was written and drawn by a woman. When Miss Fury was rebooted decades later, her outfit went from a complete catsuit to one that showed ample cleavage and had bondage overtones. Her breast size also increased substantially. Written and drawn by men, of course.
    Theres not really a whole lot of difference between skin/no skin when you're talking about super hero costumes of those eras...almost everyone was wearing tights. Granted they weren't drawn as detailed as a lot of todays artwork.
  22. Furio
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Durakken View Post
    No. Anyone who read what I said and wasn't trying to pick a fight would know that I disagree with the entirety of copyright law and that there are many things wrong with it that lead to ridiculous law suits. You must forgive me for expecting people to read and understand based on the full context of what I wrote and not pick at little things that are not relevant to the topic.



    Again, "the way you thought," is a completely stupid thing to say. The only thing I got wrong is the length of time a copyright is in effect. What I thought and still think is correct. I also eluded to there being other things that go into effect which was the whole point of bringing up the Superman thing in the first place.
    Whatever Dur. If you want people to know something that you're thinking on a forum, don't allude. Write it down. I'm not a mind reader, I'm just reading what you wrote. And one thing you wrote and and then used as support for your belief about the Superman case seemed wrong, so I looked it up. It was wrong, and regardless of your beliefs about how copyright *should* work, it's not how they do work.

    I'm not saying people should constantly look things up, but if you have to put "i believe , I think" or other qualifiers before you make a statement about anything other than your opinion, maybe you should take a second and google. You might learn something.
  23. Furio
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Durakken View Post
    The Superman lawsuit IS ridiculous.

    Your usage of the word "understanding" is wrong.

    I was wrong about what the current time period before a copyright goes to public domain is, which it is clear I'm not certain of. I also mention before you replied (though it is posted right after) that the law has changed and I don't care to keep tabs on it with how much it changes around copyright.

    Oh? You put forth an incorrect idea (or understanding) of how copyright/public domain works in the US, followed by a statement that the Superman lawsuit is ridiculous because you believe it would have entered public domain by now. Since that's the only justification you give, any reader would believe that you're basically saying "The lawsuit is ridiculous because the character should already be public domain"

    Since things do not enter public domain in the US they way you thought, your stated reason (the only one I can go on) that the lawsuit is ridiculous is not based in any kind of fact, so you can't just say "is so!" as a justification.

    What I don't understand is why you would put forth an opinion and then in the same breath say you're not interested enough in the details surrounding it to bother looking things up....especially when you're already at a computer.
  24. Furio
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    Don't forget the Eldar.

    Filthy Aliens.
  25. Furio
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Durakken View Post
    That's nice. Research wasn't necessary.
    Obviously it was, since you were wrong, and based your belief that the Superman lawsuit was ridiculous on that incorrect understanding of how public domain works in the US.