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Destro, CC, and Baroness are the big three. Destro suffers from fan wank sadly, as Hama got lost white knighting him as a good "honorable bad-ass". Baroness is a stone cold bitch who wants to rule the world and has some good snark, while depending on your source material, CC is either a comedy villain or a tragic figure crushed by the economic crash of the 1970s and driven to evil, especially when you factor in the Devil's Due additions to his backstory.

Firefly's a cool villain with a convoluted past and a notorious costume change in the early 90s that still polarizes fans to this day. Scrap Iron is one of those characters who's a stone cold killer in the comics but who in the cartoon, is mostly known as a toadying sycophant who CC constantly has to bribe to be his only friend in Cobra. Zartan is another character ruined by Hama trying to create tragic anti-heroes out of his villains; the Dreadnocks are largely one dimensional thugs save for a couple (Road Pig is a scary as fuck enforcer who will fuck you up or if Zaranna asks him to do so, Zaranna is an evil cunt who gets off harming others and wants to be Queen of Cobra, and Buzzer is basically Hunter Thompson, if he went native and joined the Hells Angels instead of writing a book on them). Metalhead is a functional retard who just likes to blow shit up and who exists largely to annoy the fuck out of Destro, who has to personally tard wrangle him, Copperhead is a white trash boat racer who only joined Cobra for protection from gambling rings who want his head because he owes them lots and lots of money from betting on himself in his races, and Tomax and Xamot are yuppie criminals (though one of them ends up souring on Cobra and ends up working for GI Joe in the IDW continuity and gets a job running a casino), and Dr Mindbender is a large ham mad scientist who sucks up to whomever will keep funding his mad science experiments.
 
MirrorNoir said:
Destro, CC, and Baroness are the big three. Destro suffers from fan wank sadly, as Hama got lost white knighting him as a good "honorable bad-ass". Baroness is a stone cold bitch who wants to rule the world and has some good snark, while depending on your source material, CC is either a comedy villain or a tragic figure crushed by the economic crash of the 1970s and driven to evil, especially when you factor in the Devil's Due additions to his backstory.

Firefly's a cool villain with a convoluted past and a notorious costume change in the early 90s that still polarizes fans to this day. Scrap Iron is one of those characters who's a stone cold killer in the comics but who in the cartoon, is mostly known as a toadying sycophant who CC constantly has to bribe to be his only friend in Cobra. Zartan is another character ruined by Hama trying to create tragic anti-heroes out of his villains; the Dreadnocks are largely one dimensional thugs save for a couple (Road Pig is a scary as fuck enforcer who will fuck you up or if Zaranna asks him to do so, Zaranna is an evil cunt who gets off harming others and wants to be Queen of Cobra, and Buzzer is basically Hunter Thompson, if he went native and joined the Hells Angels instead of writing a book on them). Metalhead is a functional retard who just likes to blow shit up and who exists largely to annoy the fuck out of Destro, who has to personally tard wrangle him, Copperhead is a white trash boat racer who only joined Cobra for protection from gambling rings who want his head because he owes them lots and lots of money from betting on himself in his races, and Tomax and Xamot are yuppie criminals (though one of them ends up souring on Cobra and ends up working for GI Joe in the IDW continuity and gets a job running a casino), and Dr Mindbender is a large ham mad scientist who sucks up to whomever will keep funding his mad science experiments.
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Don’t you love how both Cobra Commander and Megatron’s “serious” depictions are just the “man thrown into a society” meme.

Megatron goes from miner who’s pissed off at the tiny hats to gladiator Tyler Durden to robo-Stalin to Darkseid wannabe.
 
MirrorNoir said:
Destro, CC, and Baroness are the big three. Destro suffers from fan wank sadly, as Hama got lost white knighting him as a good "honorable bad-ass". Baroness is a stone cold bitch who wants to rule the world and has some good snark, while depending on your source material, CC is either a comedy villain or a tragic figure crushed by the economic crash of the 1970s and driven to evil, especially when you factor in the Devil's Due additions to his backstory.

Firefly's a cool villain with a convoluted past and a notorious costume change in the early 90s that still polarizes fans to this day. Scrap Iron is one of those characters who's a stone cold killer in the comics but who in the cartoon, is mostly known as a toadying sycophant who CC constantly has to bribe to be his only friend in Cobra. Zartan is another character ruined by Hama trying to create tragic anti-heroes out of his villains; the Dreadnocks are largely one dimensional thugs save for a couple (Road Pig is a scary as fuck enforcer who will fuck you up or if Zaranna asks him to do so, Zaranna is an evil cunt who gets off harming others and wants to be Queen of Cobra, and Buzzer is basically Hunter Thompson, if he went native and joined the Hells Angels instead of writing a book on them). Metalhead is a functional retard who just likes to blow shit up and who exists largely to annoy the fuck out of Destro, who has to personally tard wrangle him, Copperhead is a white trash boat racer who only joined Cobra for protection from gambling rings who want his head because he owes them lots and lots of money from betting on himself in his races, and Tomax and Xamot are yuppie criminals (though one of them ends up souring on Cobra and ends up working for GI Joe in the IDW continuity and gets a job running a casino), and Dr Mindbender is a large ham mad scientist who sucks up to whomever will keep funding his mad science experiments.
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What do you think of the Energon takes on GI Joe lore right now?
 
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I’ve been on a nostalgia TF kick, the Marvel Compendium 1 is up for preorder btw, Into the Smelting Pool is still a peak TF story, gritty war drama, Terminator homage, horrific violence and the hero going apeshit and killing a ton of bad guys with the means that they killed his Bumblebee-equivalent.

I hope the compendiums go far enough to catalogue G2 and Regen, both are controversial but I consider both valid and fitting continuations for the world. Even if Regeneration One is more of Furman’s way of delivering some of his intended ideas for IDW1 (Omega vs Monstructor, the Dark Matrix creature being more like the Dead Universe, Jhiaxus being an ancient seperatist rather than a descendant, Bludgeon being a bit more crazy, Galvatron being puppeted by a lovecraftian monster, Scorponok being a Bond villian who has a rivalry with Grimlock, the Dinobots being on bad terms with Grimlock) all of those are firmly IDW1.
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So true always love the tf marvel storyline even the uk one has good stuff.
 
Man I watched some random video about Superboy and the guy ignored the New 52 version. Cant blame the guy, it was one of most infuriating titles that I ever read due to crossovers and events. i just wanted to read Superboy solo title and had to deal with titans and superman event bullshit.

Its been so long but I remember having a Jon Kent before the more famous Jon Kent, does anyone remember?
 
Currently reading the last Black Widow series. I like the art style a lot. Won an Eisner.

Was it ever confirmed as to what Comicstorian actually died from? I know it said accident problem is, that could mean pretty much anything.
 
Registration said:
Man I watched some random video about Superboy and the guy ignored the New 52 version. Cant blame the guy, it was one of most infuriating titles that I ever read due to crossovers and events. i just wanted to read Superboy solo title and had to deal with titans and superman event bullshit.
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Technically NU52 Superboy was a different character, wasn't he? Retroactively I think but still.
I didn't read the books involved tho, so I'm running on hearsay from back then.
Registration said:
Its been so long but I remember having a Jon Kent before the more famous Jon Kent, does anyone remember?
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You may be thinking of Chris Kent, the one from around the time of the Superman Returns movie, where Supes had left Earth but returns to find he'd gotten Lois pregnant when he left, and now they had a son (called Jason White tho, because Lois got a fiancee while Supes was gone, who gave him his surname).
So the comics introduced Chris, who wasn't their son, but a Kryptionian child who showed up in a ship one day. Turned out to be Zod's son and eventually became Nightwing (the "and Flamebird" kind, not the "graduated Robin" kind).
 
Nick Obre said:
Technically NU52 Superboy was a different character, wasn't he? Retroactively I think but still.
I didn't read the books involved tho, so I'm running on hearsay from back then.

You may be thinking of Chris Kent, the one from around the time of the Superman Returns movie, where Supes had left Earth but returns to find he'd gotten Lois pregnant when he left, and now they had a son (called Jason White tho, because Lois got a fiancee while Supes was gone, who gave him his surname).
So the comics introduced Chris, who wasn't their son, but a Kryptionian child who showed up in a ship one day. Turned out to be Zod's son and eventually became Nightwing (the "and Flamebird" kind, not the "graduated Robin" kind).
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Nu52 superboy was a clone (not from luthor and superman)

No, it wasn't chris Kent, it was Jon Kent, this was on new52 not before


Found it on the wikia


Note that this isn't even the Superboy that was on new 52 (Kon-El)


And the current Jonathan... See the birth, they retconned the fucking birth of a 2015 character, holy shit I hate DC so much.

 
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I started reading Garth Ennis' Nick Fury stories. Finished up his first arc from 2001 yesterday. I thought it was middling. Half of it is just Ennis seething about militaries and governments, particularly America. The other half is a pretty generic "old soldier can't cope with the changing times." In terms of tone, it feels like the middle point between Ennis' goofy Marvel Knights Punisher run and his far more serious Punisher MAX run, leaning more towards the former. The art was fine, nothing special -- there was this weird thing wherein Nick Fury himself was often drawn realistically and detailed whereas everyone else is more plain and cartoony.

I didn't hate it but I doubt I'll ever re-read it. Next up is 'Fury: Peacemaker', hopefully it's better.
 
Tor Lugosi said:
I started reading Garth Ennis' Nick Fury stories. Finished up his first arc from 2001 yesterday. I thought it was middling. Half of it is just Ennis seething about militaries and governments, particularly America. The other half is a pretty generic "old soldier can't cope with the changing times." In terms of tone, it feels like the middle point between Ennis' goofy Marvel Knights Punisher run and his far more serious Punisher MAX run, leaning more towards the former. The art was fine, nothing special -- there was this weird thing wherein Nick Fury himself was often drawn realistically and detailed whereas everyone else is more plain and cartoony.

I didn't hate it but I doubt I'll ever re-read it. Next up is 'Fury: Peacemaker', hopefully it's better.
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I recommend Fury My War Gone By, its my favourite of the Fury series and probably the best book ending Fury will get. The art is mid but the writing makes up for it. 2001 is just Fury doing gay ops for the government while being angry, Peacemaker is marginally better with the WWII POW storyline and My War Gone By is about his tours in Vietnam and Cuba with how his relationships start fading once he grows old.
 
The new Ennis series Get Fury, set in Vietnam is also pretty solid - Nick Fury is aboard a helicopter that goes down and he's captured by the NVA. Since the North Vietnamese don't seem to realize they have captured a man privy to information that could wreak havoc on the US government, and their shadier operations in Southeast Asia, the CIA decides to recruit and dispatch a man already on his third tour of duty to assassinate Fury before the NVA has a chance to interrogate him. He's already participated in a similar mission before, and he has no problem eliminating a man before he gets paraded around Hanoi and then tortured for information. He's a sniper and an expert infiltrator named Frank Castle.
 
I finished reading 'Fury: Peacemaker'. Definitely better than Garth Ennis' first Fury story but still not great. This time it's more of a standard, more serious WW2 story. Also far less handwringing over how bad militaries are.

My favorite part was the little bits that show how young Fury would later become the SHIELD commander we know. That said, one of the faults I had with the story is how often young Fury felt interchangeable with how Ennis also writes Frank Castle. I actually found the character of Stephen Barkhorn, the Nazi officer who Fury is supposed to kill, to be a more interesting character. Also, while I liked the plot overall, the ending was pretty shit. Felt like Ennis wrote himself into a corner, with the ending essentially being "and then Fury gets knocked out and stuff gets resolved off page, the end."

Up next is 'My War Gone By'. I plan to read Get Fury once they finish it.
 
There's been a uptick in Flash Gordon related interest, what with new collections of the Alex Raymond years of the strip coming out soon, and some outfit called Mad Cave Studios announcing they're going to be releasing new Flash Gordon comics and GNs, as well as the recent new FG comic strip that's been appearing in papers, written and drawn by Dan Schkade, that I've been entertained by - it has a "modern" sensibility but Flash Gordon is still a decent man who happens to also be a man of action, Dale Arden is something of a woman of mystery, taking off from her introduction in the original comic as "a passenger" but she's not a butt-kicking, flippant girlboss, and Zarkov is still somewhat erratic, and seeking to make it up to his companions for getting them into this mess but we do see him totally pulling a lady scientist in the kingdom of Frigia. It also started with Flash and allies working to bring down Ming, and what happens in the aftermath. OK, the evil overlord is gone, how do these allies remain allied? Plus there's all of the classic characters, including Witch Queen Azura and Prince Vultan - though as Schkade has noted in the original comic strip Vultan started out as a straight-up villain, who threw Flash into a cage and sent Dale off to his harem of slave women.

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Though I thought that for a title that starts off with "Flash Gordon as a jaded, washed-up athlete and cynic", the Dan Jurgens maxi-series from DC in the 1980s was actually pretty good.
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LolRaccoon said:
I have been debating whether or not to read "The Sandman" for a few years, and now when I finally decide to give it a shot, news comes out about him being a sex pest. Do I even bother reading it at this point?
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it's good, but Gaiman's been kinda arrogant over the years iirc.

Speaking of which, there's a Jack Vance's Demon Princes adaptation that's ongoing right now. I'll be reading it.
 
LolRaccoon said:
I have been debating whether or not to read "The Sandman" for a few years, and now when I finally decide to give it a shot, news comes out about him being a sex pest. Do I even bother reading it at this point?
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It's good, but the start can be a little slow. Give it some time to get going.

I wish Gaiman would do another long running comic series but he seems to have made so much from his other novels that he's really slowed down his output and just works whenever he wants. A shame, but oh well.
 
Arthur Morgan said:
It's good, but the start can be a little slow. Give it some time to get going.

I wish Gaiman would do another long running comic series but he seems to have made so much from his other novels that he's really slowed down his output and just works whenever he wants. A shame, but oh well.
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I really need to read the comic adaptions of Gaiman's Norse Mythology book. I really enjoyed the novel and the fact that Mike Mignola draws some of it makes it something I need to read.
 
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