And so I'm not going to be a total jerk: The guys who made/put out this promo poster said it's not completely black and white. For some reason, I don't know. Rest assured, all the nerds picked it apart for traces of other colors. Blackened fucked around with this message on 04-18-2006 at 11:47 PM.
It's not something people hear about.
And it doesnt look like Topher.
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We were all impressed when Mooj wrote:
Jesus, he looks like he's about to start cutting himself at any second.
he's so goth his wrists cut themselves.
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Maradon! painfully thought these words up:Yeah, I'm not seeing it.
Was pretty funny to see everyone scramble to confirm it, though...
That pic's old, though. Personally it looks like he's trying to fellate himself to me.
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-H
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Hellbender enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
Can't be the symbiote, if they're holding close to the source material. The symbiote never had any webs across it like Spiderman's original costume. Just had the big ass spider.-H
kinda like organic webbing am i rite?
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nem-x had this to say about Captain Planet:
tbh organic webbing is cooler than web shooters
True.
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nem-x wrote this stupid crap:
tbh organic webbing is cooler than web shooters
Blasphemy! Organic webshooters mean that any old dick could be Spider Man! Webshooters showed that Peter was a geek with too much time on his hands. Plus, it made for comedy gold when there was the occasional misfire.
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Mooj had this to say about pies:
Blasphemy! Organic webshooters mean that any old dick could be Spider Man! Webshooters showed that Peter was a geek with too much time on his hands. Plus, it made for comedy gold when there was the occasional misfire.
Geeks don't make Hollywood monies.
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LeMiere had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
Geeks don't make Hollywood monies.
YOU don't make hollywood monies!
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Mooj stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
YOU don't make hollywood monies!
You just proved his point.
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Y.O.T.C had this to say about Punky Brewster:
You just proved his point.
I do make monies for old men with a movie camera and an invite to star in my own 'feature film' however.
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Maradon! had this to say about pies:Yeah, I'm not seeing it.
Didn't see anything yesterday either, but there is a person's head reflected in his eye.
Just tilt your head a little bit to the left.
Who that guy is, I have no clue.
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Tarquinn impressed everyone with:
Didn't see anything yesterday either, but there is a person's head reflected in his eye.Just tilt your head a little bit to the left.
Who that guy is, I have no clue.
Camera man.
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Tarquinn stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
Didn't see anything yesterday either, but there is a person's head reflected in his eye.Just tilt your head a little bit to the left.
Who that guy is, I have no clue.
All I see is the Quake 2 guy and Quake guy's face.
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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Peanut butter ass Shaq Tarquinn booooze lime pole over bench lick:
Didn't see anything yesterday either, but there is a person's head reflected in his eye.Just tilt your head a little bit to the left.
Who that guy is, I have no clue.
Holy shit... wait I think you're right
it's... it's...
SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!!!!!
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So quoth nem-x:
tbh organic webbing is cooler than web shooters
Didn't the write in that he developed natural webbing somehow like in the movies?
-H Hellbender fucked around with this message on 04-21-2006 at 09:22 PM.
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Hellbender had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
Didn't the write in that he developed natural webbing somehow like in the movies?-H
They must have, or else the 'losing the powers' thing in 2 would have been pretty weird.
'I no longer believe in my mission, so my web canisters will magically stop working!'
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Zaeron wrote this stupid crap:
They must have, or else the 'losing the powers' thing in 2 would have been pretty weird.'I no longer believe in my mission, so my web canisters will magically stop working!'
He was just so emotionally distraught that he no longer had the will to test for duds.
Doh.
But frankly I like the "Ultimate" universe a lot more than the 616 ("prime") universe. Sure, the books come out slower (least it seems that way) but there's the whole feeling from them that they're CRAFTED better. They're trying to tell a more or less unified story, the characters themselves are incredibly well-defined and three-dimensional, and their version of the characters is pretty bloody well badass. It's the first time in years I've been able to read issue after issue of Spider-Man and not been bored to tears (Prime universe, Spidey now has a Tony-Stark-designed red and GOLD uniform with go-go-Doc-Ock-Ripoff robo-arms these days), much less read X-Men and not loathe it (though, in all fairness, Whedon's run on X-Men was very tasty).
I like the Ultimates so much these days that it's actually been wooing me away from all the DC books I was keeping up on. Their "Infinitely-long-to-tell-rollback-all-the-major-progress-from-the-last-twenty-years-CRISIS" storyline has been so bloody tedious that I've more or less given up on a lot of the books there until they publish the Infinite Crisis storyline in TPB form so I have some clue as to where things stand. I know they killed Wally and Bart (Flash and Kid Flash/Impulse) and I know they're bringing them back...but yeesh. The body count on that series is nutty. Superboy's out, Shazam is out and Captain Marvel is the new Shazam...
Only thing I really relish getting these days is Green Arrow. Ollie rocks.
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Mr. Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael? That sounds too much like Mr. Shit.
I know it's sacrilege to say this...But frankly I like the "Ultimate" universe a lot more than the 616 ("prime") universe. Sure, the books come out slower (least it seems that way) but there's the whole feeling from them that they're CRAFTED better. They're trying to tell a more or less unified story, the characters themselves are incredibly well-defined and three-dimensional, and their version of the characters is pretty bloody well badass. It's the first time in years I've been able to read issue after issue of Spider-Man and not been bored to tears (Prime universe, Spidey now has a Tony-Stark-designed red and GOLD uniform with go-go-Doc-Ock-Ripoff robo-arms these days), much less read X-Men and not loathe it (though, in all fairness, Whedon's run on X-Men was very tasty).
I like the Ultimates so much these days that it's actually been wooing me away from all the DC books I was keeping up on. Their "Infinitely-long-to-tell-rollback-all-the-major-progress-from-the-last-twenty-years-CRISIS" storyline has been so bloody tedious that I've more or less given up on a lot of the books there until they publish the Infinite Crisis storyline in TPB form so I have some clue as to where things stand. I know they killed Wally and Bart (Flash and Kid Flash/Impulse) and I know they're bringing them back...but yeesh. The body count on that series is nutty. Superboy's out, Shazam is out and Captain Marvel is the new Shazam...
Only thing I really relish getting these days is Green Arrow. Ollie rocks.
The current 616 Spider-Man is absolutely fucking badass and you're a heathen for saying otherwise. The only 616 Spidey book not up to snuff is Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, but that series has always been the middle ground between your dime a dozen writers and your Bendis, Vaughn, and Straczynski wannabes. The lead-in to Marvel's Civil War is fantastic, and while Spider-Man: The Other fell on its face at the end, the fallout from it is the best Spidey's been since the JMS days of Amazing Spider-Man. Stark/Parker is an excellent team and makes for the best reading in Marvel outside of Young Avengers/Runaways.
Infinite Crisis is well.. Infinite Crisis. It's the culmination of everything horrible and shitty about Geoff Johns as both a writer and a person. He's so entrenched in an outdated status quo that he has no idea what's gone on the past twenty years in comics, good or bad, he just wants to craft his Crisis on Infinite Earths analog and make everything happy-go-lucky Silver Age again. But he can't, and has fucked everything up royally by doing so. In the opening fucking pages of One Year Later titles we've got villains like Lynx and Magpie dying or being found dead, despite that they've already BEEN DEAD for years. Johns isn't telling stories about characters, he's trying to retell Crisis on Infinite Earths and molding characters to fit the roles he created, not create roles to fit the characters he has.
Bart is not dead; he, Wally and Jay ran Superboy Prime into the Speed Force and kept him trapped there. Trapped "for years" under red sunlight, says Prime, before he escaped. Before an unpowered teenager escaped the vigilante watch of THREE SPEEDSTERS INSIDE THE SPEED FORCE ITSELF. But nevermind. Just before Prime breaks out an unnamed Flash appears in Tokyo and warns, uh.. I think it was Dr. Light II, that he's coming back. Through a quick process of elimination involving the Teen Titans OYL issue (which was laughably bad, don't buy it, get a scan if you have to read this garbage) we find out it was Bart who came back. All aged up and becoming the Flash, just like Wally did in CoIE.
But apparently Bart has since retired from superheroing or something. It's as of yet unexplained, but the new Teen Titans lineup sucks and the only decent OYL book yet is Robin. Nightwing, Outsiders and the other Batbooks have been horrible. I haven't picked up Birds of Prey yet, or Aquaman, because fuck Aquaman. Sean fucked around with this message on 04-22-2006 at 10:26 AM.
It's not something people hear about.
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With great fanfare, Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael proclamed:
much less read X-Men and not loathe it (though, in all fairness, Whedon's run on X-Men was very tasty).
Just so you know, Astonishing X-Men is back from the little pause they took, and Whedon's still writing it.
I'm personally liking New X-Men. X-Factor looks interesting, but I don't have a nearby bookstore that carries it, so I don't get to keep up with it.
Most all of the other X-titles suck.
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Palador ChibiDragon, what the hell are you doin' out here? You oughta be in bed.
X-Factor looks interesting, but I don't have a nearby bookstore that carries it, so I don't get to keep up with it.
I would drive fifty miles out of the way to keep up with X-Factor.
I'm so gay for Madrox. 
And Layla is hilarious in both HoM and X-Factor.
It's not something people hear about.
Pretty much everything else about Infinite Crisis pisses me off. I liked the modern continuity Superboy. Conner was cool and I liked the whole deal with him and Wonder Girl. Killing him off sucks.
As for 616 Spidey....eh.
I'm glad Peter's finally getting some props. He's in the new Avengers lineup, meaning his "outlaw" status has been fixed to "hero". I like where Peter is as a person. I even liked that they split him and MJ up for a while, because it forced Peter to figure out who he was, now, rather than who he was a few years ago.
And you're right, Sean...the one series of Spider-Man sucks ass. Not "Clone Saga" ass, but it's hoovering anus nonetheless. That having been said, why does Spidey need a tech suit? Why does he need to be Iron-Spider? Eh.
I will say that Civil War is looking like it's going to be a million times cooler than Infinite Crisis. I'm getting jazzed from what I'm hearing about it. If both companies are looking wistfully back at ages past, DC is looking to the "eh" generation of the Silver Age, and Marvel's looking back to the age when I loved them. Great writing potential, great crossover coming up (I haven't liked Marvel crossovers in general for years). And the repercussions are lovely.
Plus, frankly, Marvel's testing the limits. They're relaunching Moon Knight, for instance. Moon Knight had SOOOO much potential in the old days, but they never where to fit him in. Now they have a direction and mojo for him and I'm excited to see where they go with it. Thor's coming back, and for once the Odinson's going to have good people writing (some of the stuff that's been kicked around with him and the implication of a god walking the Earth is just loverly) it and they're actually going to do some much-needed work on him.
So there's POTENTIAL in Marvel right now that I think DC's going to lack until they find some way to get rid of Geoff Johns. I still prefer Ultimate Marvel stuff to the current Marvel stuff, but I am expecting it all to change soon. Though I still seriously dig the Ultimate Stuff.
"The Ultimates" is a good read, I haven't hated anything in Ultimate Spider-Man yet (just finished the Venom storyline), Ultimate X-Men is BLOODY FANTASTIC (I seriously dig that they have gone out of their way to not have the Shi'ar and the Mojoverse crap; it's unclear what the deal with the "Phoenix" in Jean is, Mojo is a fat bastard reality TV producer from Genosha, Longshot is a murderer, and Spiral is a sexay mutant). Magneto is played to the hilt, too. None of this mamby-pamby quasi-nice Magneto. He's a mutant terrorist. The philosophy's the same as 616, he just goes full-force with it. Hell I even dig the Ultimate Galactus storyline (And Captain Mahr-Vell is cool).
The only things out of DC that I've been really enjoying of late have been Green Arrow (Ollie is so cool), and I enjoyed the "Villains United" storyline...supposedly they're doing an ongoing series now, but eh. We'll see. Infinite Crisis has me wary.
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I can take orders if anyone is interested as a collector/connoisseur.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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How.... Bloodsage.... uughhhhhh:
There are a zillion comic stores near my house. Apparently, the French are really into graphic novels and such.I can take orders if anyone is interested as a collector/connoisseur.
Yeah my Dad mentioned that on his last trip to Paris. Insane numbers of the French equivalent to Manga, or something. Plus all the normal comics.
I'd place an order, except I don't speak French and having Lyinar read my comics to me would wear thin quickly.
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael, what the hell are you doin' out here? You oughta be in bed.
That having been said, why does Spidey need a tech suit? Why does he need to be Iron-Spider? Eh.
Because Stark wants him fully on his side when shit hits the fan in Civil War. He's recruiting him both as an employee and an ally. The suit can also mimic his iconic red and blues, which he does most of the time, so it's all good. 
It's not something people hear about.
Out of all the Ultimate books I've read, UFF surprisingly seemed best at shying away from timestamping their issues to a certain era of history. Sure, techicnically all comic books do it in some way or another via penning down other things (backgrounds, catchphrases, pop fashion, social norms, etc) but none of that is so specific as having Tony Stark hurr his face off talking about how he "could even fit that [information] on my iPod". As if Stark wouldn't have already invented some ridiculously better mp3 player that could store 100gbs worth of info. Hell, he'd invent a music format better sounding and smaller than the .mp3.
Speaking of Stark, his Ultimate origins was a horrible written piece of ass that flowed like a river of concrete bricks. Blackened fucked around with this message on 04-22-2006 at 04:50 PM.
