ProcessedMeatMan
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Haven't been here in years. First thing I see? A thread where Durakken is wrong about something.
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Quote:Huh. Well I stand corrected. What the heck have I been reading? haOriginally Posted by Innovator
I have a collection of comics that show Spider-Man wearing the Iron Spider suit for much more than two seconds. He only took it off when he had a falling out with Tony Stark, and when he joined the other Avenger group, they put him in the black suit. Anyway it's not theory, the reason was actually stated by artists in interviews in the past. -
Quote:I'm betting you're right. They could take a lesson from Marvel and when they did their whole "fresh start from #1!" debacle in 1999/2000. Eventually most of the titles were returned the original numbering.Originally Posted by Dark One
How many times in the past have we heard the line, "This will change everything!" only to have it retconned within a year? This is an event and it will expire. They'll go back to renumbering Action and Detective Comics within 5 years, I'm guessing.
Now they're starting up some ridiculous re-numbering system where they take long-existing titles, boot the main character, and continue the numbering with some C-lister that can't sustain a book on their own.
For example, Daredevil: Man Without Fear changed to Black Panther: Man Without Fear (wtf??) after the events in Shadowland.
The Incredible Hulk changed to The Incredible Hercules after World War Hulk.
And Marvel keeps rebooting titles when they don't even need to. Moon Knight has had three new titles in as many years. Arrggghhh!!! Though thematically it makes sense because he suffers from multiple personalities, but it still annoys me. -
Quote:This theory doesn't really match with reality. Spider-Man's costume didn't change when he joined the Avengers. The only significant costume change to come about since that time was the Iron Spider outfit, which he wore for all of two seconds... and he barely wore it at ll in the Avengers books.Originally Posted by Innovator
Spider-Man's costume changes in the comics every time he's put on a team book (Fantastic Four, Avengers, Etc). The reason is his web pattern on his costume take a really long time to draw out. When you have a bunch of other people to draw, the artists tend to get overwhelmed by the deadline, so Spider-man's costume is the first to get an "update". The symbiote suit came from another "team" book, Secret Wars. Usually, the suit remains unchanged on his own books, unless the writer get ideas on doing stories around the new one.
The FF outfit makes sense... and fits with your theory, but in general whenever he's drawn in a team book, a lot of artists get lazy and just leave the webs off the outfit. Heck, that happens in his regular books all the time! -
Apparently these new ticket sales started today at 10AM PST.
They appear to be using a new system that might fare better at keeping away the scalpers, at least in theory. I'm gonna try for a Sunday ticket just so I can go and loot the trade bins, but I'm not getting my hopes up!
The con is still dead to me, but I'd like to go kick its corpse one last time hehe -
Back to Comic-Con talk for a bit... my girlfriend and I got curious so we looked up how many tickets are on sale on craigslist/auction sites. There are literally HUNDREDS of pairs of tickets up for auction, some of them going for $600-$800 for a pair of four-day passes!!!! This irks me to no end. And further explains why the ticket system they used this year was so overwhelmed. Scalpers and ***holes were flooding it.
The system they use for this is not working. Which is bizarre because you actually have to go there in-person and show a picture ID in order to get your pass.
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Quote:Sequoia National Park is great. The gf and I went there last summer.Originally Posted by Dark One
Think it's Sequioa Nat'l Park.
Downside of moving it to Florida? Mosquitoes the size of a Buick.
General Sherman is an awe inspiring thing fer sure.
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Quote:The series just wasn't set up like that. There have been no indications whatsoever that any sort of scam was in the works. It could be retconned that way, obviously, but I highly doubt that's been the plan all along.Originally Posted by ThePill
What if it's a scam? No, not by Marvel to sell more comics. But, by Peter, Aunt May and her houseguests, and maybe Nick Fury and SHIELD? (Okay, maybe it's partly Marvel.) But all these espionage people around and nobody thinks to pull a public shell game like this?
Mark my words, there's more than just polybagged shenanigans going on here. -
Quote:Which version? The original Miguel or the retconned Timestorm version where he's now a teenage kid?Originally Posted by Veritech
Dead, and apparently only six or seven people even liked him as Spider-Man.
Personally, if we can't have Pete, give me Miguel O'Hara.
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Quote:At some point in the movie it was stated that the ring would alert a Lantern to danger. It didn't specify what kind of danger, just danger. Hammond had kidnapped Hal's woman. The ring blinked. Threat or not, the ring alerted him to it. Not that hard a concept to grasp.Originally Posted by Durakken
Yes and he ignored it to fight Hammond. Hammond isn't a threat by any definition.
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Quote:That issue confused the crap outta me. The way the frames were drawn made North Korean Spidey and all the other Korean supers seem 80 feet tall, when only a couple of them were. Bad drawing all around that issue.Originally Posted by Unknown_User
Maybe it's the asian Spider-Man that appeared in New Ultimates vs. Ultimate Avengers #5
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The ring blinked right before the last fight with Hammond.
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Quote:This is the only complaint you've made so far that I can really agree with. It made no sense at all for Sinestro to put on the yellow ring, especially after his speech not five minutes earlier talking about unity and strengthening the Corps. I was pretty confused about that.Originally Posted by Durakken
Actually no it's not, it's the opposite.
Sinestro as presented in the movie has no reason to take on the Yellow Ring
He knows the yellow energy can corrupt you
He knows the yellow energy is weaker than the green
He is not only faithful to the GLC he believes what they stand for
Oh and not to mention in the movie Sinestro doesn't question the Guardians' decisions at all and when he argues his point he gets his way
So in effect he took on a weaker power that is likely to corrupt him for no apparent reason, at all. -
Quote:Believe me, if I were in your position, I'd be mighty pissed off too.Originally Posted by Durakken
and then there are people like me who actually read everything and we essentially get shafted...
I was not happy with the Spider-Man OMD fiasco, but I stuck with it. And after two years, I'm glad I did. While I still long for the days of Pete and MJ, Spidey has been a fun read. Sure there have been some duds, but you can't win em all I guess. -
I don't know how else to explain it, but I'm pretty... excited about this relaunch. I used to read a lot of DC stuff when I was just a wee tyke. But when I got back into comics about four years ago, the DCU seemed too big and cumbersome to really wrap my head around. So I just didn't bother with it. I stuck with the stuff I knew best: Marvel.
For all their faults, most Marvel comics are fairly easy to jump in and out of without getting too lost in the weeds (from my perspective anyway).
With this new relaunch, I feel like I'm getting a chance to get in at a break in the chaos. I've spent hours now reading up on the new titles, figuring out which ones I'm adding to my pull, getting reacquainted with the basics of DC lore and in general just looking forward to getting these books in my grubby little hands.
Whatever DC is doing, it's worked on me. -
I saw it tonight. I liked it. Sorry internet, your hyperbole didn't win this time.
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I know I'll probably regret asking this, but what's wrong with California?
Please tell me you have a better answer than something that's pretty much limited to L.A. or San Francisco hehe -
Quote:He might not be able to hear certain plot points over the shuffling of popcorn and whispers that are no doubt disrupting the audio. Those bootlegs never seem to get the sound right.Originally Posted by Mandu
And he only pays attention to about half the stuff he sees so he will often miss major incidents or plot points and thus argue that something that is reasonable (if you saw the lead in to it) is completely ridiculous and came out of nowhere.
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I think I'm done with Comic-Con. Just maneuvering around the place and getting into anything has gotten more and more frustrating as it gets more and more popular. The latest farce with just getting freakin tickets was the nail in the coffin for me. You are dead to me Con! Dead!
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Quote:Apparently so.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
So your complaint is that it was too realistic? That the show nailed the fact that people in general are sheep?
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The lame countdown right before the show started left a sour taste in my mouth. Like the show was full of itself already. I couldn't get past that the entire two hours...
And the people didn't seem all that concerned that they were being hunted by aliens. They walked about in daylight and set up huge tents cities within spitting distance of the giant mother-ship whateverthatthingwas. The whole thing seemed to defy common sense. -
Quote:I kinda thought the same thing. Though it wasn't something really something I dwelled on or really cared about in the grand scheme of things. The movie had enough flaws* that some minor thing like this really makes no difference.Originally Posted by Durakken
And no CLU reading the disc once is more than enough because he would have experienced it and thus his disc would then have that knowledge.
*Those flaws include the less-than-thrilling action sequences (IMO) and ignored plot developments from the beginning of the film, not to mention the overall "meh"ness I got from the experience..
Flynn didn't necessarily "want" to stay on the Grid, he missed the window and couldn't leave... and he knew that any attempt to leave would most certainly lead to his capture.Quote:Originally Posted by Durakken
Why did Flynn want to stay in the Grid?
That was the only way to do it while inside the Grid. On the way out, circumstances being what they were, Fynn was left with few options at the time.Quote:Originally Posted by Durakken
Why was the only way to destroy CLU to kill himself?
Ya know... for someone that pretends to wax intellectual about films, you sure do miss the obvious stuff. You sure you actually watched it? -
Quote:Originally Posted by Durakken
Even being the creator of a system doesn't mean you know everything or prepared for everything. If we're going to talk about assumptions it is the one that is made that is made by the movie. CLU knows that Kevin has the ability to do something that we are given no reason to believe he can because other than a character saying he can, a character that has limited knowledge, there is no evidence that he can.
At this point it's has nothing to do with facts. It has to do what you all consider a plot hole is in comparison to what I do. So let's just agree to disagree, because this isn't going to go anywhere.
How can you talk about assumptions when you haven't even watched the movie?
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Quote:Originally Posted by Ironik
He actually wears the suit, and Slott sets up an excellent reason for him to do so. Tron isn't mentioned or even hinted at. Of course, he could've just modified his regular suit, but then it wouldn't have been as cool -- or as easy for the reader to know that he's trying something new. 651 came out this week, too, but apparently I'm only worth $10 to my buddy.
I'm a "writing uber alles" kind of guy and these pass muster. I like good art, too, but good art can't elevate bad writing as much as good writing can overcome bad art, in my opinion.
Also, that's not the "Tron" suit anyway... this is!
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Quote:Fair enoughOriginally Posted by Lothic
P.S. I only bother to spend this much effort analyzing shows I actually "enjoy" watching. If I thought this show was complete crap I wouldn't be thinking of ways it could have been even better.
