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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    H-heeey Trajectory....how you livin'

    In mansions with benzes, givin ends to her friends and she feels stupendous

  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Dedwrekka wrote: »
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    Damn, that's a good summation
    the injustice comic is very good and I hope that guy gets to write something he really cares about

    he's currently writing All-New Wolverine, which is fantastic

    he also just did a three issue arc on Batman/Superman that was really good

    Good for him!

    I know people were caught up on what superman does to go bad in the injustice game but its actually pretty well written and GOOD superman's speech to bad superman in that thing is great

    Weirdly, Injustice is a great rebuttal to what BvS wants superheroes to be

    from the fucking mortal kombat team

    Who is this writer?

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Tom Taylor I believe

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  • Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Harley Quinn gets the full movie makeover in comics today, with the individually dyed pigtails and jacket and booty shorts

    Which

    Hey fine Marvel does that shit all the time

    But she goes "Oh I love it! It's so...cinematic."

    Uggggh
    Deadpool could get away with a line like that, although that's still pretty badly written no matter who's saying it. But as much as DC wants Harley to be their Deadpool, she's no Deadpool.
    I take crap for this, but I actually really like that DC is shifting Harley into a less serious Deadpool-style character and I've liked the current series (although I'm a bit behind in my reading).

    It's kind of a lame line, but truthfully it feels like DC has been successful flipping Harley into their Deadpool. The merchandising of her character has been crazy and they've even managed to get her into their kid's Superhero High line. And somehow (Joker aside) Suicide Squad looks like a better movie than one with Batman and Superman in it.

    In a world where Batman keeps getting darker and darker and less for me, I like that a major character in that universe is still lighter and more fun. I understand that some (much) of the humor is juvenile - but the comic is super colorful and pretty and I'd much rather read that than face torn off Joker.

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Tom Taylor I believe

    The Toolman?

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    That's from the Injustice comic which I don't think was written by the MK team. It was pretty clearly a fuck you to WB.

    That's also the series that had a Wonder Woman illustration so bad that I ran a competition based on it in the AC.

  • Dizzy DDizzy D NetherlandsRegistered User regular
    Tom Taylor I believe

    The Toolman?

    The Unwritten.

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  • Theodore FlooseveltTheodore Floosevelt proud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelo dorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Harley Quinn gets the full movie makeover in comics today, with the individually dyed pigtails and jacket and booty shorts

    Which

    Hey fine Marvel does that shit all the time

    But she goes "Oh I love it! It's so...cinematic."

    Uggggh
    Deadpool could get away with a line like that, although that's still pretty badly written no matter who's saying it. But as much as DC wants Harley to be their Deadpool, she's no Deadpool.

    oh this line is not that bad

    like it's not particularly funny and it's entirely obvious, but it's also just so... entirely inoffensive

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  • StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Gustav wrote: »
    I'm supremely dreading his Dirk Gently adaptation most of all.
    Elijah Wood, friend of Max Landis, was just cast in the lead role!

    I love Elijah Wood

    But I can't imagine how you read that book and come away with the idea that Wood is the best fit for Dirk

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    Elija Wood could play fucking anything. Put him in King Kong as the gorilla.

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Harley Quinn gets the full movie makeover in comics today, with the individually dyed pigtails and jacket and booty shorts

    Which

    Hey fine Marvel does that shit all the time

    But she goes "Oh I love it! It's so...cinematic."

    Uggggh
    Deadpool could get away with a line like that, although that's still pretty badly written no matter who's saying it. But as much as DC wants Harley to be their Deadpool, she's no Deadpool.

    oh this line is not that bad

    like it's not particularly funny and it's entirely obvious, but it's also just so... entirely inoffensive
    It's just a huge groaner for me

    Like

    Its not even funny

    Like going OH IT IS LIKE THE MOVIES isnt a joke

    And cinematic is a terrible way to describe a makeover

    It is a Family Guy level joke

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  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Gustav wrote: »
    I'm supremely dreading his Dirk Gently adaptation most of all.
    Elijah Wood, friend of Max Landis, was just cast in the lead role!

    Apparently as a completely new assistant character.

    But there is no amount of good casting this show could do to offset the fact that Max Landis is in charge of it.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Harley Quinn gets the full movie makeover in comics today, with the individually dyed pigtails and jacket and booty shorts

    Which

    Hey fine Marvel does that shit all the time

    But she goes "Oh I love it! It's so...cinematic."

    Uggggh
    Deadpool could get away with a line like that, although that's still pretty badly written no matter who's saying it. But as much as DC wants Harley to be their Deadpool, she's no Deadpool.

    oh this line is not that bad

    like it's not particularly funny and it's entirely obvious, but it's also just so... entirely inoffensive
    It's just a huge groaner for me

    Like

    Its not even funny

    Like going OH IT IS LIKE THE MOVIES isnt a joke

    And cinematic is a terrible way to describe a makeover

    It is a Family Guy level joke

    Nah. Like even family guy has clever dialogue now and then. This is Fuller House level writing

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Like

    I am totally fine with Harley Quinn becoming her own character and shifting more towards the goofy and comedic, on paper that is a decision I am completely okay with

    But the comic isn't good or funny at all, in my opinion of course, so it all falls flat. Plus her randomly becoming a 4th wall breaking character is super jarring.

    I also kind of hate how she is presented as this gleeful mass murderer who will murder a bunch of women at a charity auction to get a date with Bruce Wayne or chop up an airport worker and put her in a suitcase because she was rude to her. Deadpool also kills people but has a surprising amount of depth in that regards and hates both himself for doing it and that others see him as good for nothing but killing when he wants to be more. In contrast Harley wants to be more "heroic" but all that means is she gleefully kills people who she thinks are bad and that's about the only difference.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Gustav wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Gustav wrote: »
    I'm supremely dreading his Dirk Gently adaptation most of all.
    Elijah Wood, friend of Max Landis, was just cast in the lead role!

    Apparently as a completely new assistant character.

    But there is no amount of good casting this show could do to offset the fact that Max Landis is in charge of it.
    Oh my bad, the headline said he was cast as a lead, I assumed it was, yknow, the lead.

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Like

    I am totally fine with Harley Quinn becoming her own character and shifting more towards the goofy and comedic, on paper that is a decision I am completely okay with

    But the comic isn't good or funny at all, in my opinion of course, so it all falls flat. Plus her randomly becoming a 4th wall breaking character is super jarring.

    I also kind of hate how she is presented as this gleeful mass murderer who will murder a bunch of women at a charity auction to get a date with Bruce Wayne or chop up an airport worker and put her in a suitcase because she was rude to her. Deadpool also kills people but has a surprising amount of depth in that regards and hates both himself for doing it and that others see him as good for nothing but killing when he wants to be more. In contrast Harley wants to be more "heroic" but all that means is she gleefully kills people who she thinks are bad and that's about the only difference.

    Yeah, Deadpool's mined entire emotional arcs out of the conflict between his wanting to be a "good guy" and his tendency to resort to violence and murder in response to difficult situations (because doing the wrong thing is easier than doing the right one). It's why his character works.

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  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    I don't think any comic has had breaking the fourth wall be half as a clever as the writer thinks it is.

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    The occasional comic cover that makes fun of how what they show on the cover never happens in the book is, I think, exactly as clever as it intends to be.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
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    I love Luke's fashion sense in this new book so much

    Dude is stylin

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  • belligerentbelligerent Registered User regular
    Hobnail wrote: »
    Gustav wrote: »
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Gustav wrote: »
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Gustav wrote: »
    it'll be a cold day in hell before i ever like a youtube film review

    I suddenly want us to force Rorshach to make a youtube review series reviewing other Youtube film reviews.

    I can make this happen.

    I just need a box, some string, and some coors light tallboys.

    Olde English.

    It would be Olde English, not Coors Light.

    Not if I'm buying

    Pssh...

    Half-measures

    Full-measures would be a waste of all of our skills and resources.

    Also they don't have Olde English at the gas station on my street. And I'm not going further than that for beer for other people.

    The gas station...you people live like lunatic barbarian kings, I have to buy my booze from something called the Nova Scotia Liqour Commission, I buy it from the government because I have to

    until about... 2 years ago, Pennsylvania had the same thing. State liquor stores. When I went to MA and found out you could buy beer at the goddamn 7/11 it blew my mind.

    And then I asked where were the drive thru beer distributors. And found out that you had to get out of your car to buy beer if you were in a hurry.

    yinz are some fucked up people.

  • BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    Ceno wrote: »
    Go watch Rocket Raccoon be a better Superman in Guardians.

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    Coran Attack!
  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
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    I love Luke's fashion sense in this new book so much

    Dude is stylin

    Wait, what's the W stand for?

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    I think the W is part of that radio station they are plastering, not Heroes For Hire

    WH4H IS ON THE AIR, etc.

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    I think the W is part of that radio station they are plastering, not Heroes For Hire

    WH4H IS ON THE AIR, etc.

    Oh I get what they're going for then. Weird, I've never seen a number in a radio station call sign before.

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  • HermanoHermano Registered User regular
    Good news everyone!
    In Ben Affleck's Batman, here at last is the sadistic, fascistic, half-crazed vigilante that comics fans have been waiting for.

    http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160323-is-batman-v-superman-a-winner


    PSN- AHermano
  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Like

    I am totally fine with Harley Quinn becoming her own character and shifting more towards the goofy and comedic, on paper that is a decision I am completely okay with

    But the comic isn't good or funny at all, in my opinion of course, so it all falls flat. Plus her randomly becoming a 4th wall breaking character is super jarring.

    I also kind of hate how she is presented as this gleeful mass murderer who will murder a bunch of women at a charity auction to get a date with Bruce Wayne or chop up an airport worker and put her in a suitcase because she was rude to her. Deadpool also kills people but has a surprising amount of depth in that regards and hates both himself for doing it and that others see him as good for nothing but killing when he wants to be more. In contrast Harley wants to be more "heroic" but all that means is she gleefully kills people who she thinks are bad and that's about the only difference.

    An advantage Deadpool had is that he got good arcs before he went full goofy. He had a thing to return to. The recent run by Psehn and Duggan was basically a return to Kelly form, but modernized, after the reduction of the character to a quip-spouting psycho by Daniel Way. He had a thing to return to.

    Harley... doesn't as much.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Batman got a new costume and...I actually like it a whole bunch?
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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Thats a real real good chest bat

    I have a podcast about Power Rangers:Teenagers With Attitude | TWA Facebook Group
  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Yeah I like it when they incorporate the yellow into it and thats a real nice looking way to do it

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  • TurambarTurambar Independent Registered User regular
    The belt is a bit busy and there's too many muscle lines, but I like the colors and the bat

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Yeah I don't like the belt

    I have a podcast about Power Rangers:Teenagers With Attitude | TWA Facebook Group
  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    The interior of the cape being purple is really nice too

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  • UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    Hermano wrote: »
    Good news everyone!
    In Ben Affleck's Batman, here at last is the sadistic, fascistic, half-crazed vigilante that comics fans have been waiting for.

    http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160323-is-batman-v-superman-a-winner

    actual conversation I just had with a coworker via IM:
    Me: "Here at last is the sadistic, fascistic, half-crazed vigilante that comic fans have been waiting for.  "
    hooraaaaaay

    Him: I only made it  to episode 8 before I had to leave for tech checks, just a heads up
    But I'd say Frank is way beyond half crazed

    Me: oh no
    that's talking about Batman

    Him: oh

    Me: though I can see how you might be confused

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Man

    MCU Punisher is so good

    so good

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Dedwrekka wrote: »
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    Damn, that's a good summation
    the injustice comic is very good and I hope that guy gets to write something he really cares about

    he's currently writing All-New Wolverine, which is fantastic

    he also just did a three issue arc on Batman/Superman that was really good

    Good for him!

    I know people were caught up on what superman does to go bad in the injustice game but its actually pretty well written and GOOD superman's speech to bad superman in that thing is great

    Weirdly, Injustice is a great rebuttal to what BvS wants superheroes to be

    from the fucking mortal kombat team

    Who is this writer?
    Dizzy D wrote: »
    Tom Taylor I believe

    The Toolman?

    The Unwritten.

    Sweet
    Thanks!

  • FakefauxFakefaux Cóiste Bodhar Driving John McCain to meet some Iraqis who'd very much like to make his acquaintanceRegistered User regular
    Welp, probably time to bust this thing out of retirement.

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    Man just had a 6-way conversation at the office, all of us geeks to some degree, and man we certainly are a sample.

    One guy laughing at how terrible this all is and wistful that there's never gonna be another DC film as good as Dark Knight
    One guy who actually liked the Zack Snyder early stuff up to Watchmen and even liked Sucker Punch but hated Man of Steel and feels vindicated by this
    One guy who actually liked Man of Steel and will see this anyway because at least shit is gonna blow up good
    One guy whose favorite movie of all time is Amazing Spider-Man 2 and feels down on BvS
    One guy who's all grumbly and was really looking forward to BvS and refuses to admit it's gonna be terrible and still has that flame

    and me who's basically just excited at how terrible it is and kinda want to see it just out of schadenfreude now

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Batman got a new costume and...I actually like it a whole bunch?
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    Is this still Gordon, or did they finally cram Bruce back into it again

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    It's Bruce

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  • HermanoHermano Registered User regular
    edited March 2016
    SimBen wrote: »
    One guy whose favorite movie of all time is Amazing Spider-Man 2 and feels down on BvS


    What the

    Hermano on

    PSN- AHermano
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