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  • Man of the WavesMan of the Waves Registered User regular
    Nope. You don't redesign mohawk Ororo.

  • RubberACRubberAC Sidney BC!Registered User regular
    Man most of that site is just people re-drawing the image in the book. Kind of boring.

  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    on this other hand, this Porcupine redesign is pretty boss:

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    man I wanna track down some classic marvel and dc handbooks

    I never owned one, even as a kid

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  • GankGank Registered User regular
    That is indeed boss.

    I support every change the artist made to that costume. Especially the baggy shorts.

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  • HenslerHensler Registered User regular
    man I wanna track down some classic marvel and dc handbooks

    I never owned one, even as a kid

    You should track down some Battle Books instead. Use your favorite super heroes to fight friends... with books!

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    i don't like the ribbing and i don't like the belts on that porcupine redesign, otherwise yeah, better.

  • Werewolf2000adWerewolf2000ad Suckers, I know exactly what went wrong. Registered User regular
    man I wanna track down some classic marvel and dc handbooks

    I never owned one, even as a kid

    I've accumulated more or less complete runs of the various mid to late eighties Marvel/DC Handbooks/Who's Whos, though I've been replacing the Marvel ones with their Essential volume reprints. They're fascinating things, perfectly preserved views of the companies thought processes and what mattered at the time. The first DC Who's Who, where you can practically see it changing from pre- to post-Crisis in real time as it goes on; the first Marvel Handbook, where the Punisher's real name is unknown and Ghost Rider is initally relegated to a footnote; the Marvel Deluxe Handbook, where the events of Secret Wars II and the first Scourge massacre are Really Really Important; and of course the '89 Marvel Update, which is basically a snapshot of the company in the instant just before the Lee/Macfarlane/Liefeld juggernaut rolled over everything and Changed Comics. Or to put it another way, Venom's in it but Cable isn't.

    That Porcupine scan also reminds me of one of the most fantastic features of the Marvel Deluxe Handbook: With deceased characters, their illustration was always accompanied by a reprint of their death panel - And if their moment of death was never actually seen, they had it specially drawn for the Handbook. Hilarity ensues.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    Hensler wrote: »
    man I wanna track down some classic marvel and dc handbooks

    I never owned one, even as a kid

    You should track down some Battle Books instead. Use your favorite super heroes to fight friends... with books!

    nooooooooope

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    As if TLB has friends to play with

  • durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    I love the handbooks. There is nothing funnier than the compressed history of a comic character.

    Probably my favorite is John Jameson. Hero Astronaut->superhero->supervillain->astronaut->werewolf->man-wolf->star-wolf alternate universe adventurer->driving Captain America's van->dating she-hulk->star wolf.

    We're all in this together
  • DMACDMAC Come at me, bro! Moderator Mod Emeritus
    DC was supposed to be doing an updated edition of Who's Who for their anniversary a couple of years ago and then it kind of got kiboshed because of the whole New 52 thing. Now they probably don't want to set things in stone too soon.

    Did anyone else collect those terrible Marvel handbooks that came as binder inserts?

  • Werewolf2000adWerewolf2000ad Suckers, I know exactly what went wrong. Registered User regular
    I love the handbooks. There is nothing funnier than the compressed history of a comic character.

    Or trying to incorporate/explain away bad stories. That Scourge thing in the Marvel Deluxe handbooks? You can see the writers struggling with the fact that none of it makes any sense. The back story that contradicts continuity. The way a tall, muscular male can disguise himself as a short woman. The fact that half his murders rely on him being present when a supervillain turns up somewhere he couldn't possibly have known they were going to be in advance...
    DMAC wrote: »
    DC was supposed to be doing an updated edition of Who's Who for their anniversary a couple of years ago and then it kind of got kiboshed because of the whole New 52 thing. Now they probably don't want to set things in stone too soon.

    There was also talk of them doing Showcase volume reprints of the original Who's Who, but there's been no sign of those, either.

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  • DMACDMAC Come at me, bro! Moderator Mod Emeritus
    Showcase reprints would be cool. I picked up a stack of them as back issues a couple of years ago.

    Some of the black and white reprints are kind of funny though. I picked up the Marvel Handbook reprints and one of them was a page showing S.H.I.E.L.D. uniforms for different ranks and I spent about 10 minutes looking at it trying to spot the differences when I realized they must have been different colors.

  • Werewolf2000adWerewolf2000ad Suckers, I know exactly what went wrong. Registered User regular
    Yeah, that's the one big problem with the B&W Handbook reprints: Some of the illustrations/diagrams don't make sense without colour. The SHIELD uniforms being the most obvious example.

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    My favorite part of the Marvel Handbooks is always the insanely ill considered attempts to codify the strength class of the characters in it

    like, Ben Grimm is a class 90. So he can lift 90 tons! Which is obviously bullshit since he has lifted both way more and strained to lift less, but there it is, immortalised in ink. You get all that kind of stuff. All Asgardians are class 25, I think, except the women, who are all class 15. Crazyness, but amusing to read.

  • Werewolf2000adWerewolf2000ad Suckers, I know exactly what went wrong. Registered User regular
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    I love how 100 tons has always been the "screw it, we stopped counting" point on Marvel strength charts, like there can't possibly be any meaningful distinction above that, so Thor, Galactus and Iron Man II are all in the same class.

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Haha yeah

    Galactus: same class as Dragon Man

    also Hyperion is a class 75? what?

    he's basically Superman!

  • Werewolf2000adWerewolf2000ad Suckers, I know exactly what went wrong. Registered User regular
    Also, being in water adds 45 tons to the Sub-Mariners strength level.

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    The theory that I have always had is that Namor is actually a really powerful hydrokinetic

    He flies and is super-strong/tough because he can control all the water (shit just all the liquids in general, why not) in his body and use them to massively reinforce his physical form/levitate it, as well as do those big impressive feats like summoning tidal waves and so on.

    He gets a lot strong when he is submerged in water because he actually controls the water around him and uses it to boost his strength and durability

    Or he might just be a weird Atlantean hybrid mutant, you never know

  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    stilt man is stronger than man-thing

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  • Caveman PawsCaveman Paws Registered User regular
    All the speedsters can leg press 10000 (but ONLY leg press!)
    :lol:

  • GankGank Registered User regular
    How is the guy outside of his Titanium Man armour able to lift a fucking tonne?

    Also, Beta Ray Thor? Can't a Korbonite get a little love?

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    According to Wikipedia, the first Titanium Man underwent "medical treatments" that increased both his size and strength, apparently.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium_Man

  • GankGank Registered User regular
    Eh, I probably should have seen that coming.

    But really? Medical treatments?

    That's a pretty roundabout way to say "super roids."

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    Oh wow, through that page I discovered that in the Marvel Universe there is a Vietnamese super-scientist called "Half-Face".

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  • GankGank Registered User regular
    Sweet Mary mother of God, that's made my weekend.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
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    What on Earth is with that halo thing on his head??

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    stilt man is stronger than man-thing

    yo this gives me an idea

    @dmac draw me a stilt man-thing

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  • DMACDMAC Come at me, bro! Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited August 2012
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    What on Earth is with that halo thing on his head??

    I had assumed it was supposed to be a take on the reflectors doctors used to wear:

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    Maybe he fired beams out of it or something.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    More like 3/4s face
    or 5/6 face

  • WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    It's a bib, jeez guys, the guy obviously has enough problems with drooling and dropping food without you all making fun of him.
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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    dmac

    where's my stilt man-thing

    munch is starting to feel good about himself again!

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  • DMACDMAC Come at me, bro! Moderator Mod Emeritus
    Too busy playing video games.

  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    damn youuuuuuuuuu

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  • MunchMunch Registered User regular
    Five years ago today, Mike Wieringo passed away. I greatly miss seeing his art, which was full of a joy and energy that seems very rare in mainstream publishing.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    I'm gonna post some Kubert stuff now.

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  • Werewolf2000adWerewolf2000ad Suckers, I know exactly what went wrong. Registered User regular
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  • GankGank Registered User regular
    Munch wrote: »
    Five years ago today, Mike Wieringo passed away. I greatly miss seeing his art, which was full of a joy and energy that seems very rare in mainstream publishing.

    He was an art monster. I really do miss that guys work and I feel a small pang every time I look at my FFs with his art.

    He was also one of the few artists than can draw teenagers and kids so they looks like teenagers and kids, as opposed to tiny adult with giant heads and eyes.

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