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« Reply #40 on: 01:05 PM | Friday, May 23, 2008 » |
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How would you propose they have done it? I'm still baffled here.
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« Reply #41 on: 01:05 PM | Friday, May 23, 2008 » |
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How would you propose they have done it? I'm still baffled here.
What's wrong with the old-school method? Why not run with the idea of the original Super Skrull? Nothing wrong with the green-and-purple costume. He had the power of the Thing, so his arm transformed to mimic the Thing's arm. Easy. Classic. Why would a Skrull impersonating the power of Wolverine need to wear a spiked cowl? Does it help him get more "in character"? Why wear Nova's three-burst chest design or Ikaris' chest emblem? Why do the Skrulls need to cosplay to show off their powers? |
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« Reply #42 on: 01:05 PM | Friday, May 23, 2008 » |
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What's wrong with the old-school method? Why not run with the idea of the original Super Skrull? Nothing wrong with the green-and-purple costume. He had the power of the Thing, so his arm transformed to mimic the Thing's arm. Easy. Classic.
Why would a Skrull impersonating the power of Wolverine need to wear a spiked cowl? Does it help him get more "in character"? Why wear Nova's three-burst chest design or Ikaris' chest emblem? Why do the Skrulls need to cosplay to show off their powers?
The simple answer is, because it wouldn't have made for a good splash page and Leinil Yu has to eat too!  But why would how a villain is visually portrayed really matter that much, it's comics; where we readily accept the necessity for people to don spandex in bright colors. |
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« Reply #43 on: 02:05 PM | Friday, May 23, 2008 » |
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But why would how a villain is visually portrayed really matter that much, it's comics; where we readily accept the necessity for people to don spandex in bright colors.
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« Reply #44 on: 02:05 PM | Friday, May 23, 2008 » |
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If that rationale gets you through the book, who am I to argue?
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« Reply #45 on: 02:05 PM | Friday, May 23, 2008 » |
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Yet you keeping arguing about it Because you keep bringing it up. |
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« Reply #46 on: 02:05 PM | Friday, May 23, 2008 » |
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« Reply #47 on: 02:05 PM | Friday, May 23, 2008 » |
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You read it here first folks.
Vince and David have divorced and Vince has married Wood.
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I had no problem with the sex or the exploding baby. comics aren't meant to be popular, get over it people.
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« Reply #48 on: 02:05 PM | Friday, May 23, 2008 » |
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Now if only all of this energy could be harnessed for good.
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« Reply #50 on: 04:05 PM | Friday, May 23, 2008 » |
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I just downloaded it and I see that it is already 1 hr 22 minutes. Don't let these things get too long (you guys were doing so well  ) I will listen to it tonight with a nice beverage and a vintage stogie in hand. the Tiki  |
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« Reply #51 on: 04:05 PM | Friday, May 23, 2008 » |
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I just downloaded it and I see that it is already 1 hr 22 minutes. Don't let these things get too long (you guys were doing so well ) It was an anomaly. Won't happen too often. |
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« Reply #52 on: 04:05 PM | Friday, May 23, 2008 » |
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I just downloaded it and I see that it is already 1 hr 22 minutes. Don't let these things get too long (you guys were doing so well ) Boo! What, you don't have a pause button? |
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« Reply #53 on: 04:05 PM | Friday, May 23, 2008 » |
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« Reply #54 on: 05:05 PM | Friday, May 23, 2008 » |
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It was funny, at the 1 hour mark Vince started trying to wrap up and David, Wood and I just kept going We actually stayed on the line for another half hour after that. |
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I had no problem with the sex or the exploding baby. comics aren't meant to be popular, get over it people.
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« Reply #55 on: 05:05 PM | Friday, May 23, 2008 » |
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and IMHO, Cassanova  Well, now you're just talking crazy. If you believe a Skrull mishmash of X-Men is cool, more power to you. I think it's gradeschool silliness. But because Morrison is a magician and wants to do crazy things to DC characters that's not silly? His wacky ideas are more highbrow than Secret Invasion? I guess because I need a PhD to follow his stories I'm better off in the sandbox with the rest of the gradeschoolers. Last year Marvel tried something a little heavier with Civil War and - while still comic book-y violence - politics played a big part in the story. This year, maybe they thought they would try something more familiar that the audience can get behind. I get that you feel that this is a new 'low'. You think it's poor form to have a Skrull appear mashed up as the heroes of a team. If they all looked like K'lrt maybe it would be confusing. Maybe. Maybe twenty years ago they would have been more subtle. Would I have liked that? Probably. Yes, the old, classic formula worked. But maybe they want to try things without going to that well, visually. Geoff Johns brought Hal back because that was his Green Lantern when he was growing up. Byrne wanted to play with the toys Stan and Jack created. Bendis has a love for certain Marvel characters, like Spider-Woman and Power Man. So he created a team where he could use them. Maybe someone thought these mishmashes were 'cool' and wanted to see them realized.EDIT: Read like an unfinished thought. |
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« Reply #56 on: 05:05 PM | Friday, May 23, 2008 » |
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We actually stayed on the line for another half hour after that.
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« Reply #57 on: 05:05 PM | Friday, May 23, 2008 » |
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Boo! What, you don't have a pause button?
I try to stay loyal and support too many podcasts. If ones are too long I have to chop away at my que (only so many hours in the day). the Tiki |
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« Reply #58 on: 05:05 PM | Friday, May 23, 2008 » |
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Well, now you're just talking crazy.
But because Morrison is a magician and wants to do crazy things to DC characters that's not silly? His wacky ideas are more highbrow than Secret Invasion?
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« Reply #59 on: 05:05 PM | Friday, May 23, 2008 » |
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So your rebuttal to my criticism of Secret Invasion is to criticize DC?
Wonder why that is?
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