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PsychoLarry1
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Alright, I'm making this after just finishing a reread of Morrison's entire run of New X-Men. The book is full of all kinds of incredible stuff, but there's one scene that always just nails me. After a ton of stuff happening including the destruction of Genosha, it is revealed that Professor X
So this thread is mostly just for us to discuss the really heavy moments in comics. What point in any run was effective for you? When did you realize the potential that the comic book medium held as an art form? When did the artist and writer just find the perfect way to draw you into a compelling story?
Is actually his evil twin Cassandra Nova who wants to destroy all Mutants and is about to get on board a Shii'ar super destroyer. He/she proceeds to drive Beast feral and then have one of the students beat Beast nearly to death, then calmly go on to link up with the Shii'ar and wreck their empire.
Now, as great as the comic alone was at that time, this moment really energized comics for me and just floored me in general. I sat starring at the reveal page for half an hour trying to comprehend just how far reaching the effect of what happened was. It really just amazed me how effective that two page reveal was.So this thread is mostly just for us to discuss the really heavy moments in comics. What point in any run was effective for you? When did you realize the potential that the comic book medium held as an art form? When did the artist and writer just find the perfect way to draw you into a compelling story?
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Animal Man.
Amazing. Absolutely amazing. I acknowledge that I am extremely biased towards Morrison, but Animal Man is certainly something anyone that calls themselves a fan of comics, or literature really, should read. Also...
Oh, and Scott Pilgrim.
I'm pretty sure I don't need to justify myself on that. Emotionally, when Envy shows up...yeesh. I really hate to use that "I can relate" cliche, but the truth is I can and I do...often.
Animal Man and Scott Pilgrim. Most enjoyable reading I've ever done.
The first is just the opening from Milligan's Shade: The Changing Man. The deaths in question really have no impact beyond the initial shock. The point is simply to put the main character in the position she needs to be in for the story to start and, while the deceased are clearly close to her, they mean nothing to the reader.
Nonetheless, the scene still stands out as a particularly effective opening that has stuck with me since the initial reading. As far as traumatic events go, it's up there. And yeah, maybe you'll feel a little twinge with that last page. I guess it's a matter of personal sensitivity.
The second is from Grant Morrison's Seaguy, a miniseries that didn't really take off and was denied the sequel that would have, presumably, rendered the entire thing understandable.
All you really need to know is that Seaguy is the only hero left in his world following a Crisis-style event while the fish accompanying him is lifelong companion Chubby the Choona. Together, the two took a trip to a theme park that, through a series of turns, led to them encountering Atlantis and a hive of clockwork wasps. This is probably the most heart-wrenching death scene I've ever read in a comic, a distinction that's all the more remarkable considering the character had only existed for two issues. The senselessness of it and the clear bond between Chubby and Seaguy along with the cruelty of Death himself all combine to give me a quick jab to the heart that's really a credit to Grant Morrison's writing.
I have to admit, though, the apparent silliness of the characters detracts from the scene if you haven't had an entire storyline to get used to them beforehand.
Issue Three starts immediately after, and while it's technically a second scene it does depict the final fate of Chubby the Choona.
Also, the one panel where J'onn is ripping a monster in half and he just thinks "I will never let my FRIEND King down" shook me up a bit.
Of course, the entirety of John Henry's tale.
And finally... "This one has been asking for a woman named Lois."
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Exiles had a ton of sad moments. Really enjoyable characters got killed off or removed from the team all the time. Or got to see mirror images of people they loved being killed. Or worse...having to kill them themselves.
There were so many parts of the Son of M series where I was just waiting for Quicksilver to do something horrible to his daughter. He finally realizes he's gone too far and sends her away, but I was on the edge of my seat every time he was around her. Also, when Spider-Man shows up...oh man...
Morrison held 52 hostage for it.
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That was the one with the black cover that depicted 9/11. The whole "You can't see us from the smoke, but we're here", and had people like Dr. Doom helping along side the Marvel heroes.
I wholeheartedly agree with the Martian Manhunter and King Faraday bit in New Frontier. That was some good shit right there.
The final confrontation at the end of Mark Gruenwald's Squadron Supreme maxi-series is heartrending. In fact, the whole series is filled with powerful moments, not all involving death.
Oh god that was so dumb.
"Hey isn't Magneto you know... a terrorist? Didn't he try to take over the world last week and kill off most of the normal humans?"
"Yeah maybe."
These are pretty much the two I had in mind, so I'll just go ahead and say that if you haven't read Loki, you really need to.
Same here. 9/11 was an awful tragedy, but it was still horribly glaring to watch these villains cry over the WTC, when they've attempted and succeded at killing as many, and more.
I was horrified that a hero that I looked up to died in such a brutal way.
I was nine years old when it happened.
Fuck the 90's.
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Anybody got a scan of that?
Or at least which issue of Son of M it was? I kinda skipped that series.
I was ashamed to read that
I know it gets a lot of hate, but I really liked the first issue of Identity Crisis. The whole "She's my girl" speech makes me a little misty eyed every time I read it.
also, in Sandman: The Wake
Oh god shut the fuck up
How dare you remind me of that.
The entirety of Flycatchers tale in 1,001 Nights of Snowfall.
Dear Lord yes. That page was magnificent.
Also, the end of House of M got me for some reason. It was just a simple "No more mutants" that just made you go "OH SON OF A-". Good stuff.
"Shazam. Shazam! SHAZAM!"
and the page afterwards showing the utter destruction.
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Doom I can understand. He's the leader of his own country so he knows how much it would suck to be attacked like that and might have SOME sort of sympathy.
That and he's probably crying because it was the ultimate Reed Richards screw-job and he didn't think of it first.
Magneto is probably responsible for 20 times that much destruction.
A happy scene I loved was towards the end of Young Justice when
The end of Batman: No Man's Land where
Ohhhh yeah. Good call. That's an awesome Tale.
I hated that so much.
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Here's another favorite sequence of mine from Spider-Man's Tangled Web. It's the conclusion to Flowers for Rhino, a take on the Flowers for Algernon story that follows the character of Rhino as dissatisfaction with his dull wit drives him to undergo an experimental surgery that increases his intelligence.
Unlike the original story, though, the flaw is not in the impermanence of the procedure's effects, but rather the continued development of the subject's mind afterwards.
Another of my favorite moments is in Red Sun: