Nate Skalman
What’s in the basket?
it's all coming back now...Superman did a "Red Sun" issue where Superman goes Russian, complete with hammer and sickle logo on his chest- I almost forgot about that one
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Dak
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I'm a nerd and a half on some things, but never really got comics books. Especially now. Only animated super hero thing I ever liked as a kid was Batman: The Animated Series and showing it to my kids as an adult is kind of glass-shattering.
Nate Skalman
What’s in the basket?
Comics are just scratching the surface of nerdery...even Magic cards are mild- try Gorka-Morka or Warhammer 40,000 lol. You had to have gotten beat up in middle school (a lot) to understand geek culture...this older kid took my Ninjak #1 foil cover, stuck it down his pants and "wiped his ass" with my cherished comic...pretty funny, really. Thats ok, he got arrested in his 20's for statutory rape
Nate Skalman
What’s in the basket?
I looked around and do have The Amazing Spider-Man 162 with Jigsaws first appearance (and Punisher)...is your #1 the "preview" edition? (I don't have that)yea those valiant comics were expensive as fuck. Remember the Wizard price guides?
I also have The Punisher #1(1989), which is only worth around $50 the last time i checked. His first appearance in The Amazing Spider Man is where the moneys at. I also have a bunch of his War Zone stuff and the whole PunisherMAX run in hardcover.
Nate Skalman
What’s in the basket?
Last one, promise...
...gets surgically altered into a undercover black guy by a junkie-prostitute skank, then goes into the city to bust black drug dealers...gets pulled over the first hour by the cops for being black!!!...this is fucking Marvel!! Crazy...
...gets surgically altered into a undercover black guy by a junkie-prostitute skank, then goes into the city to bust black drug dealers...gets pulled over the first hour by the cops for being black!!!...this is fucking Marvel!! Crazy...
TechnicalBarbarity
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very good series. Didn't appreciate it as much when i was a kid. Wouldn't mind owning the whole run if it's released on Blu-ray. The only animated comic book series i really liked was The X-Men, edit: oh and TMNT.
I think 129 was his first appearance. Yellow cover with Spidey in his crosshairs.
I have the first issue that they gave him with his own name...
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Nate Skalman
What’s in the basket?
Badly worded...yeah jigsaw's debut, the Punisher was just also in that issue as well
Nate Skalman
What’s in the basket?
Yeah, I got that one. that's the start of his "own" series- this is what I need...1986 original "preview"
CiG
Harbinger of Metal
So do it. [shrug]
My problem has always been shit writers trying to do politics. They all want to be Alan Moore but they seem to have the depth and subtlety of a shit-filled saucepan.
Nah I already knew about them, I am subbed to a fair amount of trannies on Youtube, most of them are right-wing and they still discount them because they're often not very objective.
CiG
Harbinger of Metal
I went ahead and dredged up my position myself, as I said I don't mind politics in comic books even if I totally disagree with the politics, just as long as the writing is good:
Anyway, we need to revive the comic book thread, I need to pick some brains again soon.
Anyway, we need to revive the comic book thread, I need to pick some brains again soon.
TechnicalBarbarity
Poser Disposer
yea i was about to say you were probably complaining about hamfisted politics. Political agendas do not belong in "traditional" comics that are still geared towards the younger generations. Watchmen is neither hamfisted nor geared towards youngsters, so i'll give you that.
For example, i dont mind a political backdrop in some of the more adult orientated comic's like PunisherMAX had. But Superman touching on topics that are currently causing a lot of turmoil in this country? No fucking way
For example, i dont mind a political backdrop in some of the more adult orientated comic's like PunisherMAX had. But Superman touching on topics that are currently causing a lot of turmoil in this country? No fucking way
Dak
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CiG
Harbinger of Metal
I can see that, I definitely tend to prefer more adult-oriented comic books anyway.
Unlike you and others I didn't grow up on comic books (but I had Spidey toys and stuff), they sort of happened to me in my late teens.
CiG
Harbinger of Metal
AllShallFall
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H.P. Lovecraft
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Damn hooligans, quoting me. Anyhow, the comic plague has only exacerbated. Not even The Shadow, a literal Randian objectivist, is safe anymore, thanks to Si Spurrier. Because, you know, we needed obnoxious "RESIST DRUMPF" bullshit slathered all over The Shadow. Also, let's have The Shadow, an objectivist, morally binary, criminal killing machine, lecture school shooters on their white privilege. Oh, and a token Latina quasi-protagonist who barks about misogyny and a subtle as nuclear genocide Trump stand in president character. Worst bastardization of a comic hero since Mark Waid's Daredevil.
CiG
Harbinger of Metal
Weird coincidence I was just watching a video of someone reviewing that. Sounds absolutely horrible.
Nate Skalman
What’s in the basket?
Nate Skalman
What’s in the basket?
Geeks are usually liberals at their core- superheroes normally represent some protection from bullies and since geeks write the comics and know real superheroes won't protect them, there's bound to be some liberal bleed through into comics...
H.P. Lovecraft
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