Pretentious Git
^ Oh sure, next you're gonna tell me Ganondorf isn't really gone for good at the end of the game.
What matters in this life is much more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win, too. - F. Rogers.
Wow, that is a really anti-climatic death.
@Sera: Wouldn't either Sombra or Tirek make a good Darkseid? Especially if the latter was the G1 version {Who already had the Bad Boss, Knight Of Cerberus and Evil Overlord tropes going for him, much like Darkseid}? Sombra would work pretty well, given the fact that he seems to feed off of the despair and misery of his subjects {Not in a literal sense}.
edited 27th Jan '15 4:26:47 PM by marston
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Ohhh yeah Tirak would make a good Darkseid.
And another cool thing about possibly having Tirek as Darkseid: Scorpan could easily fill in Orion's role {IE Being the heroic relative of a pure evil ruler and also being very badass about it}.
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
I haven't really gotten into comics for the same reason I haven't gotten into Dr Who: there's way too much backlog to sort through. Most of my comic book reading is self-contained stuff like Watchmen or Irredeemable.
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One of my main reasons to not get into comics.
To much to know. Plus, the constant retcons and executive meddling, and just the overall attitude DC has of "fuck you!" To people who give them money. Or just hap pines in general.
Doctor Who, isn't really that bad if you start with the new series.
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I think the only mainstream,ongoing Marvel comic by their issues I read are Deadpool comics.But you don't need much background for most of his comics.
I don't want to get into Dr. Who since it just seems like I'll start out liking it for a little while,then grow to hate it more and more.It just sounds like it isn't gonna be fun and it'll just feel stupid and convoluted and shit.And I kinda feel like it will happen whenever I start Homestuck.
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The thing about comic books is, for any comic that goes on for a decent length of time, it changes hands change again and again and new people in charge often decide to change what came before with retcons or take things in a completely different direction. That's why I think adaptations of comics are so successful, they have a consistent staff. That and they get to pick and choose the very best stories from the comic's history.
Apparently the Pony POV Series has Grogar in the Bad Future's backstory as a Darkseid equivalent.
There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only... Hooty.
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
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This is the main reason that the only ongoing comics I read are either webcomics or manga; there's only one guy (or one consistent team) doing it meaning that there's way less chance of things going completely sideways because somebody decided to change something.
I was really into the Ultimate Spider-Man line, and to a lesser extent the whole Ultimate universe, for awhile, mostly because it didn't have decades of background material to worry about and it was really easy to just jump into. Outside of that I tend to prefer stuff that has a finite run like Sandman that tells a complete story.
Edited for hyphen. Very important apparently.
edited 27th Jan '15 6:25:58 PM by Crowfall
shine on
well, i know 616!Spidey is insistent on the hyphen. i haven't heard any of the others go on about it.
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
Element of Class
Really, to this day Sandman remains probably the best series I've read. I'm glad that Sandman Overture is living up, though I do kinda wish it'd come out a bit faster. Still, I get why it's taking so long, and I'll take long updates over reduced quality.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.
I'm going to assume that the rather terrible Ultimate's 3 and Ultimatum turned you away from the Ultimate Marvel universe {Because those are considered to be when that sub-franchise went downhill}. Am I right on that?
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I actually stopped shortly before that, just due to lack of time, but hearing about how crappy it got certainly didn't inspire me to jump back in later.
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Element of Class
It's coming out currently, and focuses on what happened immediately before the events of the first volume of Sandman: Morpheus travels to the edges of reality to fight a mad star and keep it from destroying existence. It's quite interesting so far, if a bit hard to follow for the surrealness of it, and the art is almost painfully beautiful.
As for the movie... ehhhhn? I've not heard good things about the scriptwriter, which is kind of super important in a story that is, essentially, about stories. I was initially reluctant about Joseph Gordon Levitt as Morpheus too, but I'm kinda warming up to that.
edited 27th Jan '15 7:17:04 PM by kegisak
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.
@Crowfall: For what it's worth, I've heard that the Ultimate Spider-Man series is still considered to be pretty good even after the rest of the Ultimate universe became crap, so there's that at least.
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Well that was always my favorite part anyway, so maybe I'll go back to it someday.
Man I wish Spidey could be part of the MCU. I don't really care about the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men I could take or leave, but Spider-Man is a pretty glaring omission.
More like giant cherries
Isn't it a play?
Why not Speedball?
Anyway, I wonder how they would match up to Worm characters. Rarity would be Parian so much.
The only one I've read is Watchmen. From what I've heard, the animated adapations are usually better anyway though.
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Also by that point, the harder they tried to push "No he's REALLY dead this time, for good, no resurrection, at all." And sell it as something that wouldn't just get undone in a few months just made sure no one believed it.
Pretty much by this point, ANY hero dying is pointless since no one will ever buy that it will stick.