Yeah, you need a little levity every now and then, and joke villains stop writers from turning legitimate threats into jokes.
Also, I like how his dissatisfaction with his career and constant attempts to make one final score highlight the unseen side of super-villainy, namely the desperation one must feel after constant defeats.
Yeah, you need a little levity every now and then, and joke villains stop writers from turning legitimate threats into jokes.
Also, I like how his dissatisfaction with his career and constant attempts to make one final score highlight the unseen side of super-villainy, namely the desperation one must feel after constant defeats.
This is true, though I admit I grew tired of its depiction in Spider-Man and now much favor the presentation in Invincible (e.g. MagmaMaster).
Plus, I still cannot get my head around OMD/BND/whatever. I know it's just fiction so I'm not trying to bitch, but I can't enjoy reading/watching stories without at least SOME attempt at explaining the backstory.
The whole reason Kingdom Come works as a story is because Magog started with the Joker and everybody knows he deserved it.
I liked seeing middle-aged Joker still had his groove, until he got shot in the gut by god magic at least.
I like to think he found it funny that, in the end, he wasn't killed by Batman, or even Superman whose woman he just offed, or any of the dozens of other heroes who had a legitimate reason to take him down permanently. Instead, it was some guy with a magic blasting stick who noone had heard of.
Then the guy gets acquited of the murder driving Superman into retirement.
I'm betting Joker would have gotten a chuckle out of it, well, if he still had lungs.
It's a really good piece of fan fiction and, given some tweaks to make it relevant in current continuity, would probably make a pretty good miniseries.
It's a really good piece of fan fiction and, given some tweaks to make it relevant in current continuity, would probably make a pretty good miniseries.
I love you. I've been trying to get that story out of old caches or the Wayback Machine for ages.
Some forward thinking person saved the story on their PC and reposted it. I just got lucky with my googling. I'm gonna do the smart thing and save it to my PC as well, because you never know when shit will disappear from the internets.
Funny thing is that he mentioned this on FF.net right around the time he finished Legit, but it's taken almost 18 months for the comic to see the light of day.
Good god I thought I was the only one who remembered that the Goblin used to ride a broomstick
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I also thought I was the only one who remembered Cardiac
This shit is great
I've learned after years of wasting time on fan fiction that, done right, a fan fic can be superior to a legitimate story. I've read a few Harry Potter fics that make me want to forget the last two books of the series. Legit has served to make me livid every time someone writing Spidey puts Shocker in there as a throwaway villain.
Yeah, well, when you read a great story where a character is all awesome and shit, then you read other stories where the writer treats him like a fucking doormat, it can be a more than a little infuriating.
but that story where he was awesome didnt actually happen.
In the Marvel Universe shocker is a joke villain. Spider-Man needs a few of those around to keep things light.
I understand that it's not canon. That still doesn't stop me from being annoyed that someone can't make Shocker as awesome as in this story, or from preferring the non-lame, unofficial version of him.
I've learned after years of wasting time on fan fiction that, done right, a fan fic can be superior to a legitimate story. I've read a few Harry Potter fics that make me want to forget the last two books of the series. Legit has served to make me livid every time someone writing Spidey puts Shocker in there as a throwaway villain.
the only fan fiction i've ever read was a story called "ashes of the phoenix". it was about all of the good mortal kombat characters teaming up with the good tekken characters to fight various evil tekken and mortal kombat characters. it was about 800 pages of single-sided printouts that a friend loaned me in eighth grade.
it was pretty good, but i decided that i had other things in line to read that weren't written as internet epics starring someone else's intellectual property.
though now i have a friend who has apparently written buffy fanfic. she has not told me this herself, but it's kind of a badly kept secret among our friends.
but that story where he was awesome didnt actually happen.
In the Marvel Universe shocker is a joke villain. Spider-Man needs a few of those around to keep things light.
I understand that it's not canon. That still doesn't stop me from being annoyed that someone can't make Shocker as awesome as in this story, or from preferring the non-lame, unofficial version of him.
This. I mean, who didn't like Ultimate Shocker suddenly turning round and *bam*?
but that story where he was awesome didnt actually happen.
In the Marvel Universe shocker is a joke villain. Spider-Man needs a few of those around to keep things light.
yeah but real stories get ret-coned into inexistent all the time to like taskmaster's modern armor for example
okay, but when has fan fiction ever been retconned into existence?
"that was a pretty great story you linked me too, there, mister ed brubaker. i really liked the way wolverine buttfucked gambit. it totally makes sense that he's a top. let's throw that plotline in."
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Spider-Man needs a few joke villains
Also, I like how his dissatisfaction with his career and constant attempts to make one final score highlight the unseen side of super-villainy, namely the desperation one must feel after constant defeats.
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
This is true, though I admit I grew tired of its depiction in Spider-Man and now much favor the presentation in Invincible (e.g. MagmaMaster).
Plus, I still cannot get my head around OMD/BND/whatever. I know it's just fiction so I'm not trying to bitch, but I can't enjoy reading/watching stories without at least SOME attempt at explaining the backstory.
USM Shocker is the best Shocker
Just a dude who constantly gets the shit kicked out of him
And then one day he wins and it ain't so funny anymore
I loved that Shocker story. It was a surprise (hah, you thought I was going to say shock!) and an awesome story when he won, all hail Bendis.
He survived it
I liked seeing middle-aged Joker still had his groove, until he got shot in the gut by god magic at least.
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
Then the guy gets acquited of the murder driving Superman into retirement.
I'm betting Joker would have gotten a chuckle out of it, well, if he still had lungs.
Here's the story, for anyone who hasn't read it yet. http://forgotten.faithweb.com/MaxLandis/legit00.htm
It's a really good piece of fan fiction and, given some tweaks to make it relevant in current continuity, would probably make a pretty good miniseries.
Funny thing is that he mentioned this on FF.net right around the time he finished Legit, but it's taken almost 18 months for the comic to see the light of day.
ahah, maybe he was Marvel_b0y
I've wanted to read it since it was mentioned here a while ago
Really bad
Poor lonely bastard
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I also thought I was the only one who remembered Cardiac
This shit is great
Yeah, well, when you read a great story where a character is all awesome and shit, then you read other stories where the writer treats him like a fucking doormat, it can be a more than a little infuriating.
In the Marvel Universe shocker is a joke villain. Spider-Man needs a few of those around to keep things light.
I understand that it's not canon. That still doesn't stop me from being annoyed that someone can't make Shocker as awesome as in this story, or from preferring the non-lame, unofficial version of him.
the only fan fiction i've ever read was a story called "ashes of the phoenix". it was about all of the good mortal kombat characters teaming up with the good tekken characters to fight various evil tekken and mortal kombat characters. it was about 800 pages of single-sided printouts that a friend loaned me in eighth grade.
it was pretty good, but i decided that i had other things in line to read that weren't written as internet epics starring someone else's intellectual property.
though now i have a friend who has apparently written buffy fanfic. she has not told me this herself, but it's kind of a badly kept secret among our friends.
it's thinly veiled continuity porn
I liked it just fine. What about it was "continuity porn"?
that's what makes it continuity porn man
okay, but when has fan fiction ever been retconned into existence?
"that was a pretty great story you linked me too, there, mister ed brubaker. i really liked the way wolverine buttfucked gambit. it totally makes sense that he's a top. let's throw that plotline in."
"sounds great, mister mike carey!"
edit- haha too late.