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Avengers II: Age Of Ultron - Sequel Assemble! [Superheroes]

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  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Black Widow, I assume, I had to load the URL manually to cache it before it would show in-line. And was disappointed/relieved when it wasn't just a picture of an actual black widow spider.
    Yup. I had to do the same thing.

  • nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    So the final trade of Azzarello and Chiang's Wonder Woman dropped today and I binged the whole run after stopping shortly after the first First Born arc

    Man what a great book

    It isn't perfect, it has some pacing issues and Azzarello kept cramming in really bad puns for some reason that detracted from the really grandiose, dark story he was telling.

    But man it wasn't like anything else from either Marvel or DC outside of maybe the first arc of God of Thunder. Just an amazing, horrifying, awesome story with one of the best supporting casts in ages.

    Also The First Born is legitimately the creepiest villain I have seen in years. Motherfucker is unsettling.

    Its mostly just the gods throwing puns around and that made a lot of sense to me.

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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Cybertronian Paranormal Eliminator Registered User regular
    edited April 2015
    Got to love Bleeding Cool.

    They posted an article going "Is this unnamed Inhuman's name actually Gordon?" basis his theory on a simialr character popping up in the comics.

    Except Gordon was named as such on the show in at least two different episodes, IIRC. :razz:

    Undead Scottsman on
  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Look, that site has been bleeding for so long now that they've got to be cool-anemic at this point.

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Ironically, Bleeding Cool has never been cool at all

  • AtomicTofuAtomicTofu She's a straight-up supervillain, yo Registered User regular
    Because they bled it all out

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Bleeding Cool Revealed to Have Been Transfusing Cool from Better Sites Since Inception

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Yeah no those special effects just look too good for a 90s movie, sorry

  • nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    I like the spliced in video of floppy discs.

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  • SnicketysnickSnicketysnick The Greatest Hype Man in WesterosRegistered User regular
    See this is a better execution of the same idea

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY5eELnVISc
    I do really love the tag line of "If you're going to make enemies, make damn sure it's not with America"

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  • LadaiLadai Registered User regular

    I knew that voiceover was coming even before it started.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    @Solar what was the creepiest scene in WW for you?

    I was probably most freaked out by
    Cassandra feeding Kronos the remains of Hades (who might have been still alive, either that or Cassandra just heard him cause she's nuts) over and over because they fell out of the hole carved out of his stomach so he was always eating but never not hungry.

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    edited April 2015
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    @Solar what was the creepiest scene in WW for you?

    I was probably most freaked out by
    Cassandra feeding Kronos the remains of Hades (who might have been still alive, either that or Cassandra just heard him cause she's nuts) over and over because they fell out of the hole carved out of his stomach so he was always eating but never not hungry.

    That was pretty creepy, for sure!
    Typically though physically gory stuff like that isn't a huge deal for me, I am more into the existential horror stuff. When Diana goes to marry Hades, and the handmaiden before her ceremony was dripping blood and it turned out to be Persephone, that was pretty intense though. Like, the whole idea that Hades does try to be kind and loving, but doesn't realise how cruel and harsh what he sees as kind and loving can be. And then we see that she had a breakdown and tried to kill herself, but Hades wouldn't let her leave, so now she just bleeds from her slit wrists forever so she can never forget, and she's basically trapped in this necropolis realm forever, with only the sound of her own blood dripping endlessly on the soul-forged floors of that empty palace to break the silence of the endless grave... that's pretty intense man!

    Solar on
  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Surprisingly, hades is pretty fucked up!

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  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 2015
    Solar wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    @Solar what was the creepiest scene in WW for you?

    I was probably most freaked out by
    Cassandra feeding Kronos the remains of Hades (who might have been still alive, either that or Cassandra just heard him cause she's nuts) over and over because they fell out of the hole carved out of his stomach so he was always eating but never not hungry.

    That was pretty creepy, for sure!
    Typically though physically gory stuff like that isn't a huge deal for me, I am more into the existential horror stuff. When Diana goes to marry Hades, and the handmaiden before her ceremony was dripping blood and it turned out to be Persephone, that was pretty intense though. Like, the whole idea that Hades does try to be kind and loving, but doesn't realise how cruel and harsh what he sees as kind and loving can be. And then we see that she had a breakdown and tried to kill herself, but Hades wouldn't let her leave, so now she just bleeds from her slit wrists forever so she can never forget, and she's basically trapped in this necropolis realm forever, with only the sound of her own blood dripping endlessly on the soul-forged floors of that empty palace to break the silence of the endless grave... that's pretty intense man!

    Yeah, I fuckin' loved that.

    I need to finish that series, I've only ever read the first two trades.

    Quetzi on
  • GreasyKidsStuffGreasyKidsStuff MOMMM! ROAST BEEF WANTS TO KISS GIRLS ON THE TITTIES!Registered User regular
    saw there was an extended trailer with finalized effects for AoU, thought it was like an older trailer with finalized effects. Watched the first ten seconds and stopped myself! MOVIE IS SO CLOSE. MUST RESIST.

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    One thing I really liked it how most of the antagonists end up being allies or at least fleshed out characters by the end
    really only Apollo, Cassandra and First Born end up being total monsters

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  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Surprisingly, hades is pretty fucked up!

    To be fair, he's often portrayed as one of the nicest gods in the mythological sources, so it is a bit surprising.

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    edited April 2015
    Hades was weird (in a cool way), though

    He was pretty fucked up in the comic. He basically was abusive to those around him. But at the same time, he did love them. He did actually just not understand why this hurt them, why they didn't want what he did. He just... existed differently to everyone else, because he's the God of the Underworld and that just requires a seperate perspective which is not necessarily worse but can be worse in terms of how it makes him act towards certain other people.

    Like, Hades wanted to love. Wanted to so badly... but his love is too brutal and cruel (from our perspective) for anyone that is not Hades to bear, because Hades is not like anyone else in a fundamental manner.
    Which was why the solution was so incredibly, awesome elegant; make Hades fall in love with himself, because Hades can endure and even enjoy his own nature. Diana made him stop hurting others and made him happy, she solved the problem by being willing to try and help everyone and love everyone, no matter who or what they are. And that's Wonder Woman, through and through, perfectly. Like, the pure idea of Wonder Woman, the warrior-diplomat of a better way, solving an maddening conundrum of by making a perfect shot at it with a bullet of divine love... that's brilliant, it's the ur-act of her as a character concept and I don't think I've ever read a comic that realised this on the page so well.

    Solar on
  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Also Orion and Diana should have totally hooked up and that they didn't is a crime

    a crime I say

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Brian Azzarello agrees with you!

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited April 2015
    Spoiler from Flash's next episode
    Laurel's Canary Cry is a choker/necklace that looks like it amplifies her own scream so it is straight up her comics power.

    Doooooope

    BlankZoe on
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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    DC's giving folks another reason to pick up issues of the Convergence two-issue stories as they plan to put 8-page stories previewing what's coming out after the event. The list for the first group of previews and where to find them are in the box below.
    CBR.com wrote:
    "Doomed" (Written by Scott Lobdell with Art by Javier Fernandez)
    "Convergence: Superman" #2

    Reiser is just like every other college student — he worries about his grades, family, friends, girls, battling the Alpha Centurion in the streets of Metropolis as a Doomsday-infected monster…

    "Earth 2: Society" (Written by Daniel H. Wilson with Art by Jorge Jimenez)
    "Convergence: Justice League" #2

    The heroes of this new Earth battle over a mysterious device that could remake their old world or destroy the new one!

    "Green Arrow" (Written by Ben Percy with Art by Patrick Zircher)
    "Convergence: Speed Force" #2

    The series takes a more macabre tone, as Oliver Queen faces off against a murderous trucker in Alaska before he is called home by his half-sister Emiko (from the Jeff Lemire run) to help her save Seattle from nefarious forces.

    "Green Lantern" (Written by Robert Venditti with Art by Billy Tan)
    "Convergence: The Atom" #2

    On the run, RENEGADE Hal Jordan is confronted by both sides of the law at a galactic outpost. Beware his new power gauntlet, and watch out for his new partner!

    "Green Lantern: The Lost Army" (Written by Cullen Bunn with Art by Jesus Saiz)
    "Convergence: The Question" #2

    On a planet more alien than they can begin to imagine, John Stewart and a small group of Green Lanterns encounter new life, new dangers, and a mission of survival unlike anyone's faced before!

    "Midnighter" (Written by Steve Orlando with Art by ACO)
    "Convergence: Nightwing/Oracle" #2

    Midnighter's on the hunt for the Perdition Pistol, a legendary weapon believed to fire bullets with body-snatching demons inside -- but you shouldn't listen to everything the old stories say….

    "The Omega Men" (Written by Tom King with Art by Alec Morgen)
    "Convergence: Batman & Robin" #2

    The Omega Men kill Kyle Rayner?

    "Prez" (Written by Mark Russell with Art by Ben Caldwell)
    "Convergence: Batgirl" #2

    Social media sensation Beth Ross is about to become the first teen President -- but only if she can survive her first diplomatic run-in with the UN. Will her Pad Thai craving get in the way?

    "Red Hood/Arsenal" (Written by Scott Lobdell with Art by Denis Medri)
    "Convergence: Titans" #2

    Jason and Roy face off against the forces of Kobra!

    "Section Eight" (Written by Garth Ennis with Art by John McCrea)
    "Convergence: Harley Quinn" #2

    From the pages of "Hitman" and the dumpsters of the Gotham City Municipal Dog Pound, a mysterious figure emerges. Could Dog Welder really be back from the dead?

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Brian Azzarello agrees with you!

    It is such a shame, really it is

    Like, you can tell he put thought and care into setting that up and it really made so much more sense than the editorially mandated Diana/Clark set up. Like, you'd have thought that the writer of Wonder Woman would be able to control the direction of her personal life over some other writer in some other book but no! No, it seems not.

    And really, it's a great match. The Goddess of Love and War, defender and herald of a better, brighter way, and the Hound of War, born of the apocalypse, raised in heaven to defend it against the same boundless rage that surges in his own veins. That's proper mythical shit right there, man, and it was all undone.

    PEOPLE SHOULD BE PROSECUTED ZACK

    WHAT IS OBAMA DOING ABOUT THIS

  • RadiusRadius Registered User regular
    Brolo wrote: »
    Solar is no stranger to voicing his opinion on the President's dealing with DC, personally telling him to "bomb DC" during the 2014 White House Christmas Party.

    "I turned to the president and I said, something to the effect of, 'Mr. President, you need to bomb the DC Editorial Offices, because if you don't, DC will put Diana and Clark in a relationship on your watch and the course of world history will change,'" he told the Washington Free Beacon.

    The internet forum poster, who sought the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, said Obama had a "condescending smile on his face and laughed at me."

    He said he told him: "Well Solar, it's just not that easy."

    Everyday we stray further from God's light
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  • KingofMadCowsKingofMadCows Registered User regular
    Straightzi wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Surprisingly, hades is pretty fucked up!

    To be fair, he's often portrayed as one of the nicest gods in the mythological sources, so it is a bit surprising.

    Hades was never really nice in the myths. He just happens to be one of the least dickish gods. Plus the realm of Hades was mostly just a boring fugue plane and Hades was a rather passive god.

    Interestingly, Ares is also one of the least worst gods, mainly because he was just too cowardly and incompetent to cause as much harm as other gods.

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Solar wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Brian Azzarello agrees with you!

    It is such a shame, really it is

    Like, you can tell he put thought and care into setting that up and it really made so much more sense than the editorially mandated Diana/Clark set up. Like, you'd have thought that the writer of Wonder Woman would be able to control the direction of her personal life over some other writer in some other book but no! No, it seems not.

    And really, it's a great match. The Goddess of Love and War, defender and herald of a better, brighter way, and the Hound of War, born of the apocalypse, raised in heaven to defend it against the same boundless rage that surges in his own veins. That's proper mythical shit right there, man, and it was all undone.

    PEOPLE SHOULD BE PROSECUTED ZACK

    WHAT IS OBAMA DOING ABOUT THIS
    Hold on let me call Barry and ask

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  • AtomicTofuAtomicTofu She's a straight-up supervillain, yo Registered User regular
    You never told me you knew the Flash

  • AtomicTofuAtomicTofu She's a straight-up supervillain, yo Registered User regular
    #notmyflash

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    AtomicTofu wrote: »
    You never told me you knew the Flash
    I don't tell you a lot of things!

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  • AtomicTofuAtomicTofu She's a straight-up supervillain, yo Registered User regular
    How do you hashtag an emoji

    A sad face emoji

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    AtomicTofu wrote: »
    How do you hashtag an emoji

    A sad face emoji
    #:(sadface:(

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    AtomicTofu wrote: »
    You never told me you knew the Flash
    I don't tell you a lot of things!

    hey

    less typing, more calling the White House

  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    So the final trade of Azzarello and Chiang's Wonder Woman dropped today and I binged the whole run after stopping shortly after the first First Born arc

    Man what a great book

    It isn't perfect, it has some pacing issues and Azzarello kept cramming in really bad puns for some reason that detracted from the really grandiose, dark story he was telling.

    They were all homophonic puns, and I took it as his way of saying "The gods don't always mean what they say".

    I enjoyed them

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    I saw a dude at the grocery store last night with a Star Labs shirt
    Now I want one!
    That's genius marketing

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Solar wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    AtomicTofu wrote: »
    You never told me you knew the Flash
    I don't tell you a lot of things!

    hey

    less typing, more calling the White House
    I can do two things!

    B-Rock "The Islamic Shock" Hussein Superallah Obama says Clark/Diana is his OTP and that you are a plebe and some stuff I'd rather not repeat

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Keith wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    So the final trade of Azzarello and Chiang's Wonder Woman dropped today and I binged the whole run after stopping shortly after the first First Born arc

    Man what a great book

    It isn't perfect, it has some pacing issues and Azzarello kept cramming in really bad puns for some reason that detracted from the really grandiose, dark story he was telling.

    They were all homophonic puns, and I took it as his way of saying "The gods don't always mean what they say".

    I enjoyed them
    The one that pushed it for me was Hera's crystal clear one

    Strife doing it makes sense because who else would make terrible puns all the time other than the goddess of strife

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Keith wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    So the final trade of Azzarello and Chiang's Wonder Woman dropped today and I binged the whole run after stopping shortly after the first First Born arc

    Man what a great book

    It isn't perfect, it has some pacing issues and Azzarello kept cramming in really bad puns for some reason that detracted from the really grandiose, dark story he was telling.

    They were all homophonic puns, and I took it as his way of saying "The gods don't always mean what they say".

    I enjoyed them

    Well I certainly read this as "homophobic puns" at first and boy was I confused

    Mostly over what a homophobic pun could even be, and I did not want to try and figure one out

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    Here's a list of comics sitting at two nominations in the Best Non-Big Two comic poll:
    Prince of Cats
    Manifest Destiny
    Manhattan Projects
    Chew
    Daytripper
    Lumberjanes
    2000AD
    G-Man
    Nowhere Men
    Hellboy
    Trillium
    Fear Agent
    Andre the Giant: Life and Legend

    Here's a list of comics with only one nomination:
    ODY-C
    Bitch Planet
    Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
    Three
    Stray Bullets
    Goon
    Sixth Gun
    BPRD
    Abe Sapien
    Mouse Guard
    DMZ
    the Walking Dead
    Invincible
    Elephantmen
    House of Mystery
    King City
    Orc Stain
    Wrenchies
    Fatale
    Alex & Ada
    Lazarus
    Revival
    Roche Limit
    Scalped

    Still time to nominate or second whatever else you want

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