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So which son of a bitch or set of sons of bitches was responsible for the shift away from the hundreds-long issue numbering schema to this fuckass stop-start-stop-start-new-number-one-every-two-years system at Marvel and DC?

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Moore is an odd case for "actually good as people say he is" though because he absolutely is but half the people lavishing praise on him do it in a way that betrays they have an uniformed negative opinion about every other comic book writer

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Gotham Central is very very good, to be clear. It's just also really blatant copaganda and not just by the incredibly loose standards of that term that are sometimes applied. Hold two truths

Sometimes run into Batman discoursers on this site who appear to have access to a secret, second Batman canon that's foundationally hostile to the idea of police and policing rather than in fact almost ubiquitously aligned with it, who then proceed to criticize specific (tbc exceedingly copagandistic) storylines like Gotham Central in terms of how they don't align with the ethos of second secret canon.

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Sometimes run into Batman discoursers on this site who appear to have access to a secret, second Batman canon that's foundationally hostile to the idea of police and policing rather than in fact almost ubiquitously aligned with it, who then proceed to criticize specific (tbc exceedingly copagandistic) storylines like Gotham Central in terms of how they don't align with the ethos of second secret canon.

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I’ve been reading old issues of Gotham Central, and the Renee gets outed at work storyline really emphasizes how attitudes have changed in the past 15 years. In 2004, that was something that the writers choose to play for drama. In 2019, being a gay cop in a major city is prime material for comedy sitcoms.

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Scion vs Plutonian - who wins?

Probably Scion. I think Plutonian has more untapped potential but it's a pretty big plot point that he himself doesn't understand a tenth of a tenth of a tenth of what he's capable of doing until about six seconds before he dies, and he's a giant ambulatory wad of emotional vulnerabilities and psychological fault lines on top of that, and Scion has Path to Victory. He could do this one in three words

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Another guy I kept asking who'd win in a fight between the Father, the Son and The Holy Spirit. No matter what he said I just kept trying to battle board them, assign stats

In high school one of my hobbies was antagonizing the catholic kids. There was this one guy I told I didn't believe in the pope. His eye twitched a little and then collected himself and tried to fall back on some kind of peacemaking liberal compatibalism line, you know, "oh, that's fine, everyone's experience of faith is mediated differently" and then I'd be like, no, I mean I literally don't believe the pope physically exists. There's never been a pope. Any time you see the pope that's just some random guy they dressed up as the pope to fool us into thinking he's real

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In high school one of my hobbies was antagonizing the catholic kids. There was this one guy I told I didn't believe in the pope. His eye twitched a little and then collected himself and tried to fall back on some kind of peacemaking liberal compatibalism line, you know, "oh, that's fine, everyone's experience of faith is mediated differently" and then I'd be like, no, I mean I literally don't believe the pope physically exists. There's never been a pope. Any time you see the pope that's just some random guy they dressed up as the pope to fool us into thinking he's real

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Now like many crank ontologies that arrive at stopped-clock policy positions this is of course not all sunshine and roses, as another downstream consequence of his belief is that he is, in theory, an extreme gung-ho imperialist expansionist in pursuit of, quote, "causing more of the world to exist." However he is in practice opposed to all actually-existing U.S overseas imperialism because, in his mind, in the absence of any formal annexation they're basically just throwing infinite money down a hole on operations that, in his worldview, suffer a 100 percent casualty rate the second the troops cross the border

A gag that I came up with years ago, but never found a good opportunity to deploy, is a guy who "doesn't believe in immigration," not in the sense that he's a nativist but in the sense he literally doesn't believe that it happens, because his personal ontology is that nothing outside the territorial borders of the United States of America actually exists, everything you see on the other side of the border is an SCP-3930 style collective hallucination, and that anyone who "crosses the border" is actually being created ex-nihilo that very moment and imbued with years of subjective experience; consequentially he believes that all people physically present in America definitionally have birthright citizenship and therefore ICE should be abolished

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A gag that I came up with years ago, but never found a good opportunity to deploy, is a guy who "doesn't believe in immigration," not in the sense that he's a nativist but in the sense he literally doesn't believe that it happens, because his personal ontology is that nothing outside the territorial borders of the United States of America actually exists, everything you see on the other side of the border is an SCP-3930 style collective hallucination, and that anyone who "crosses the border" is actually being created ex-nihilo that very moment and imbued with years of subjective experience; consequentially he believes that all people physically present in America definitionally have birthright citizenship and therefore ICE should be abolished

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have you got any particular thoughts on Red Son

It's alright. It's very silly but it makes no pretense to the contrary. I find it entirely plausible that the stuff about it that works was cribbed from/ghostwritten by Grant Morrison; the time travel ending in particular maps pretty well to how they handle the topic in their stuff.

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books you can find in Barnes and Noble

No Uterus No Glory: The Untold Story Of Brave American Women In The Blood Diamond Trade

Joe Rogan’s UNCENSORED Guide To Growing A Pair You Fucking Pussy

batman cookbook

Queer As H*ll: 250 Poems That Aren’t Good

A Firefighter Date With A… Pirate!? The 31st entry in the Firefighter Date series (has outsold the Bible)

Bhagavad Gita manga

The ADHD Emperor’s Pet Hat

Freedom Talks: Negotiating Like A Patriot

I Was President, by Bill Clinton

minecraft

The Red Grip Of Communism: An Unbiased History

A Sword Of Court And Woe

A Horse Of Force And Rose

A Throne Of Bone And Gloam

A Wand Of Land And Hand

A Fate Of Late And Great

A Drink Of Crown And Glory

I’m an Israeli artist and this is my modest proposal

kurt vonnegut cat’s cradle 257th edition

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So, these are for an AU I am currently working on, called the Gargantuan Endbringers!

Essentially, the idea for it is that the Endbringers aren't city destroyers that pop up every three months, nor are they, in any reasonable manner, something you can fight. They are living apocalypses, things that destroy whole states, countries even, and the aftermaths are far starker. Death tolls are uncountable, and whole entire cultures eradicated when they show, though it bears mentioning that it's only once a year.

However, that isn't the most interesting part of them. Their mere existence changes the world, drastically. The Behemoth's movements reshape the tectonic plates, crack mountains, create valleys and leave gaping tunnels through the earth that insane people explore. The Leviathan's movements cause the weather to be utterly unpredictable, storms and tidal waves, calm tides and rainfall, are all messed up, and since he sinks whole countries (Japan is gone, under the waves in totality), the remnants are used for exploration, or floating cities are erected on the wrecks. The Simurgh's wings blot out the sun where she passes, darkening whole swaths of land, her tinkertech is left on purpose to incite greedy capes and explorers to take it, entire cities repurposed into machines that are doing incalculable things for our understanding of the world.

Human culture shifts to utter desperation instead of the slow decline of canon, as there is no rebuilding this, just a quick countdown of utter destruction that is turning the world into a completely different place then what was before. Tinkertech is more readily available, and people are far more prone to risk taking, because, well, it's not like it matters. Cauldron and other capes are wildly more active, trying desperately to just survive. Villains are seen both in a harsher light, because everyone is already fucked, could you please stop- but also in a more comprehensive way - desperation, hopelessness does that - while heroes are far more focused on making things better, on trying to help, on making the world better through the chaos, even if there are the same exact failings as before.

There are so many things to explore in this AU, and I will write about it in flashes seen through the inhabitants of this Earth <3

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Thanks for rounding it out!

One thing I don't see talked about much in regard to Empire 88 is how many of their capes are named after deep cuts from Nazi military history/Nazi esoterica. You've got really obvious ones like Kaiser and Purity and Krieg and Alabaster and Crusader, and you've got the references to Norse mythology with Allfather, Jotun, Fenja, Menja, Niflheim and Muspelheim. But then Cricket and Stormtiger are both named after limited-run models of Nazi tank, Othala is named after a futhark rune that's used in Nazi iconography as a symbol of homeland and blood ties, and Night and Fog are named after the Nacht und Nebel decree. Hookwolf is kind of the odd man out in terms of their heavy hitters but he also came into the organization under that name. Out of universe this is clearly Wildbow having his typical fun with deep-cut names that make you google shit. In universe it strongly implies that a portion of the top-down support that E88 is getting from Gesselschaft is a branding guy. That's why Kreig never shows up in an actual fight, he's too busy drafting up new nazisonas

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No

One consequence of having had to live at home as of late and using my computer in a shared space is that I've been informed that there's a specific guttural noise I make when I see a post on this site so mindbogglingly dumb that it incites me to violent ideation

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You have to embrace sincerity and leave cringe culture behind, Charlie Brown. Be your most authentic self.