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boxturret · 6 months

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Slizers vs Throwbots: Regional differences

Its well known that the Slizer line was changed quite a bit for its release in North America. The line was renamed Throwbots, the individual set names were all changed (Honestly this seems to be an okay change, as apart from Judge I quite like the new names, and this doesn't seem to be an uncommon opinion), and the setting was changed.

One very subtle change that I've had a hard time tracking down was the actual art for the sets. I managed to acquire copies of the instruction booklets for every set, Slizer and Throwbots, and have scanned them all, and they can be found HERE.

What follows is comparison between the Slizer and Throwbots instruction booklets.

8500-Fire Slizer/Torch

The Slizer version features a humanoid fire being, but the Throwbots version removes the face entirely, though this being can still be found on the 6 pip disc art. In fact its the same illustration, just mirrored.

8501-Ice Slizer/Ski

The Slizer version features an ice outcropping with an evil looking face. The Throwbot version erases the face.

Though this creature doesn't appear in the discs, a similar concept of an avalanche with a face does, on the 6 pip disc.

8502-City Slizer/Turbo

This is the first one to not have any changes that I can see.

Every piece of Slizer art features the main set, and in the background one of the enemies the Slizer would face in its region. For City Slizer it seems to the be city itself, this large building featuring a monstrous face. For whatever reason this face was deemed not necessary to remove, perhaps because it was positioned mostly behind the logo.

The instructions use the cover background and the face can be seen more clearly there. Notably Flare Slizer uses the same background for its instruction book.

Turbo's 6 pip disc doesn't feature a malevolent building, but instead a truck intent on running them over.

8503-Sub Slizer/Scuba

Again, this one was not altered, perhaps it was found that removing the evil eyes off the giant jellyfish was counterproductive. A modified version of this art (or is the cover version the modified version? Hard to know what came first) can be found on the 6 pip disc.

This same creature also appears in the small comic on the poster I believe was included in some Slizer sets. Its delightful.

8504-Judge Slizer/Jet

Again, no change. Unlike the other's Judge doesn't feature this, or any creature on its 6 pip disc. This star monster is featured in the comic though, seeming to be the target for the disc launching game, of which Judge is the...judge of.

8505-Jungle Slizer/Amazon

Finally, there are more differences. The Slizer version features Jungle Slizer slicing this evil tree, complete with mouth, eyes, and hands, in half. The Throwbot version simply removes the eye light, the facial features are still there. The 6 pip disc features them fighting a different type of plant, something more modelled off a Venus Fly Trap. The 5 pip disc though does feature them chopping a seemingly not evil tree in half.

8506-Rock Slizer/Granite

This is one of the more subtle ones, way in the background there's a rock formation that resembles a skull. In the Slizer version it features slightly glowing eyes, the eye glow is removed in the Throwbots version. The 6 pip disc art features Rock Slizer facing off against a similar stone face with glowing eyes.

8507-Energy Slizer/Electro

Finally we come to Energy. This one I think is one of the more odd ones, as the Slizer version features this evil cloud zapping Energy with arms made of lightning. The Throwbot version removes the red eyes, but everything else remains the same, the mouth, the lightning arms, the zapped Electro. This exact art appears on the 6 pip disc.

To my knowledge there was only one set of discs, so despite the changes made to the packaging the Throwbots's discs featured all these creatures that the modified box art didn't want to show, its very odd.

And this is where the version differences end, for the instructions at least. After this, with the release of 8520, though they still changed the name, Millennium Slizer vs Millennia, they stayed with one instruction book for both, the back of the booklet even featuring both line's logos, and both names for each set (though you can see they are using the Slizer box arts).

Then by wave two proper there was no more name divergence, and the logos and names were left off the instructions entirely.

One has to wonder if the successor series, Roboriders, featuring the names of the characters printed right on their face pieces was an attempt to stop this whole naming issue coming up again.

I just wanted to have all this data in one place, I've spent a lot of time searching for the different versions and its quite hard to find good images, even leog's own site isn't consistent, featuring okay versions of all the Slizer's instructions, then this awful uncropped vertical scan of Electro.

So now everything is at least in one place and in consistent quality.

#Scans #Slizer #Throwbots #Version Differences #It happened again

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catholic-character-tournament · 11 months

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Round 2 - Resurrect Bracket (Losers Bracket) Side B

ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to [make it to the finals]

Propaganda below ⬇️

Jason

Okay it's cannon but like in an alternative universe because Comics. I just think the fact DC made Known Murderer and Reblious Teen with Daddy Issues a Catholic priest in a different universe. Just. Casually.

Jason Todd is may or may not be Catholic in the main timeline of DC Comics, but I the Flashpoint storyline, my man is a priest! He was a drug addict, thief, and in the Blood Brother cult before dying, only to come back to life and decide to become a priest in the hellhole that is Gotham. In the main timeline, he comes back after dying and stuffs a duffel bags full of heads! The common trait before all Jason Todds is that they all have to be as dramatic as possible. Dying and coming back as the most unexpected thing. Unbelievable. I love this man.

Vector

Single dad who is a private, self-employed detective who loves banging it to some tunes and is trying to pay rent. Thats literally the Chaotix’s whole thing: they pick up cases to pay the rent. And he’s Catholic.

There’s a big note post somewhere on this website that jokes about this and I think it’s funny. This guy takes communion

I saw him in the high submissions list and I had no idea this is hilarious and I need to make sure he gets in

https://forgottensonicfacts.tumblr.com/post/697923206384926720/according-to-his-profile-in-knuckles-chaotix honestly, I don’t really know how to explain this in my own words. Toodle pip!

He is a single father of a bee child and a teenage chameleon at age 20. Who else has a popular tumblr post of them baptizing a chao with pepsi?

Vector is one of the characters ever: he has a gold chain, he never takes off his headphones, he leads a detective group, said detective group is a teenage ninja chameleon, a six-year-old, and occasionally an armadillo with herculean strength

I think (hc) vector is the only cishet character in all of the sonic universe which makes him being catholic that much funnier like. He goes to church wearing a “proud dad” t-shirt then he goes home to his 2 trans kids to tell them how much he supports them etc etc. Also one time someone posted how Vector would be the funniest character to be catholic only to find out in the notes that was basically canon so.

#cct polls #tumblr tournament #tumblr bracket #tumblr polls #red hood #robin jason todd #jason todd #batfam #batman #dc comics #polls #vector the crocodile #sonic the hedgehog #r2losers

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pocketsizedquasar · 1 year

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If you’re willing to share, what sorts of changes are you going to be making to Fedallah and the other Asian crew members? (I’m reading Moby Dick for class right now, and Melville’s racism blindspots are really interesting)

hello! this is an excellent question, and one which i’m constantly in the process of wondering how to address.

melville’s racism is rampant in moby dick. even as he tries to write consciously abt race & capitalism, he still perpetuates racist, orientalist, etc stereotypes and beliefs, with all his characters of color. queequeg hardly ever gets to speak for himself, and instead is spoken over by the white narrator. the three officers, all white men, get introduced with backstories and personalities and nuance, while the harpooners, all nonwhite, are introduced via reductive stereotypes and descriptions that center almost exclusively on their “exotic” bodies. the officers all get last words, final soliloquies, as they die, and the harpooners get no such respect. ahab & fedallah’s filipino crew are regularly described as demonic and referred to with pejorative anti-asian language. pip’s suffering as a Black character at the hands of a white supremacist is treated as some divine revelation, & pretty much exclusively is used to further the (ostensibly) white ahab’s anguish.

and fedallah himself — a textbook orientalist caricature of a ~spooky exotic persian man~, whose prophecies and ~satanic~ tendencies plague and doom the narrative.

(putting under a cut bc this got long)

i’ve tried to deal with much of melville’s racism through my comic by expanding on the gaps — like you said, the blind spots — that melville left. queequeg, tashtego, and daggoo all get to speak for themselves and to each other; they exist beyond their relationship to the white characters; i’ve tried my best to deliberately ensure the cast of the pequod is diverse and full of characters of color as whole & non caricatured & authentic as i can. this includes the filipino stowaways who we later discover are ahab & fedallah’s oarsmen.

i’ve mentioned this a bit in the past, but i’m trying to draw a line between moby dick’s watsonian or in-universe racism (stubb being a racist dickhead to, well, everyone, but especially pip & fedallah), vs it’s doylist or out-of-universe or authorial racism (melville calling queequeg a s*vage and referring to pip as “bright” in the way “blacks” are bright). so while i’ll keep the fact that stubb is a racist asshole, i’m not going to treat queequeg and pip the way melville did. characters in moby dick: or, the webcomic (henceforth MDOTW) are racist, but hopefully, if i’ve done my job right, the narrative itself is not.

i’m not going to get this right every time, but i’m hoping i’m doing an okay job.

fedallah specifically is...difficult. he is also deeply personal to me as a persian person & someone w zoroastrian roots in my family. the stereotypes to which melville reduces him are ones that i’ve directly dealt with in my life.

some things i can do to fix fedallah are simple: design choices such as getting rid of melville’s stupid matted hair thing & giving him a proper & period-accurate hair covering, etc. some are more difficult — the things that make fedallah a racist caricature (ie the mysticism and prophetic bullshit) are also the things that mark his role in the plot: his prophecies are important foreshadowing, and they do come true.

some of the things i have done to mitigate this:

-- the design choices i mentioned earlier . no more fucken weird visual orientalist caricature. he is a person and will look like one jfc

-- fedallah is not the only middle eastern character in MDOTW. i have made a very deliberate and conscious choice to cast ahab as nonwhite, particularly a middle eastern man. (i’ve waffled back & forth abt the specific ethnicity, but). i read an essay ages back called ‘the question of race in moby dick’ by fred v. bernard which made the case for reading ahab (and ishmael, tho that’s not the point of this post) as mixed Black, and since then i’ve had trouble reading ahab as white. i’ve talked a lot about how the take of ahab as just “privileged dude leading everyone to their doom” is sort of the most boring one for me; it’s certainly a valid reading of the text, but not particularly interesting. what’s more interesting to me is how the world in which ahab lives is legitimately an awful one — violent and colonialist and capitalist — and how ahab tries in his own deeply flawed ways to fight that world. in what ways is ahab’s rally against the white whale a rally against whiteness itself, and capitalism and colonialism and all these systems that have caused his trauma etc etc? but i digress — my point here is that i personally get even more from this narrative by casting ahab as nonwhite. i’ve made him swana as a persian person myself — i don’t feel equipped as a nonBlack person to tell this specific story about ahab if he were Black — but also because there are a lot of things about ahab where him being arab or persian makes a lot of sense. one of them being his relationship with fedallah, certainly, but also the way he describes religion, his relationship with fire (slash the worship of fire) etc etc lend to this. this also means, back to the original point, that fedallah no longer has to bear the burden of sole representative for this group of people. it allows the two of them to feed off each other. it also allows another dimension to their relationship — how does ahab know fedallah? why does ahab trust fedallah so much? well, the solidarity of being two persian or two swana people in this hellscape of USian whaling certainly is a compelling reason

-- and along those lines, making fedallah more of a person than just a vessel for spooky cryptic nonsense. sure, stubb and flask might not-so-jokingly speculate on how he’s the devil in disguise and keeps his tail tucked into his pants, and sure he might make a weird comment about how ahab can only die by rope on a ship full of hempen rigging, but what else is he? does he care for ahab? are they friends? what does he think about the white whale (bc we know what starbuck and ahab and stubb and etc etc think about it)? what is he gaining or losing from this? can i put him up as a foil against starbuck — the voice of reason, begging ahab to turn back — vs him seemingly egging ahab on? almost baiting him to continue? who is fedallah beyond his prophecies? does he believe his own prophecies? is there a way i can depart from those prophecies even further, and not have to rely on them so much to push the narrative forward?

tl;dr to answer your question, what am i changing about fedallah? oh god. hopefully lots of things. hopefully enough.

#moby dick #melville #herman melville #whale weekly #captain ahab #ahab #fedallah #racism #mobydick #quasartalks #quasarwrites #ask #i-think-strange-things #long post #unsurprisingly this got very long #i like ishmelville do not know how to shut up #also the bolding is mostly just to make the readability easier since ik that can be an accessibility issue for some #when large blocks of text aren't broken up by any differentiation #lmk if this is readable and if there are more questions cause i'm happy to talk more about any and all of this

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twofoursixohjuan · 10 months

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Brotherband Championship Results: Round Three

Match 1: Stig vs. STEFAN

Match 2: Jesper vs. HAL

Match 3: EDVIN vs. Ulf

Match 4: INGVAR vs. Kloof

Biggest sweep: Edvin, unsurprisingly, against Ulf. Congratulations, however, to one-half of a comic relief side duo for making it this far.

Narrowest victory: Stefan pipped Stig to the post on a fingernail margin of 5.1%

Hardest-fought battle: there was, alas, very little propaganda at all this round. I expect great things from the semi-finals, friends!

Characters proceeding to the semi-final: Stefan, Hal, Edvin and Ingvar

Congratulations and consolation to Stig, Jesper, Ulf and Kloof.

The minor characters' bracket will go up once this championship is completed. In the next few days I'll set up a poll to pick the eighth returner.

#brotherband #brotherband chronicles #brotherbandchampion

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penelopepserver · 6 months

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Sunday weekly roundup, 13th November!

I just chugged half a bottle of cola and I'm feeling SO PUMPED RN RAHHSHDHAHAHAAAA- also, I was originally planning on adding a small article about Void's planned comic but I feel like that'd add a bit of pressure, so consider this snippet here a special mention! I love your work Void, but I love you more. If plans change, that's totally okay!

•Server's "Counting if bored" channel is currently at 266!

Server addition count! (13th of November- 19th of November): 15 new characters to the server!

This includes,

•quentins thirst will never be satisfied

•Bob sparks

•Lonan, Pip's father!

•...."my brother"??? I don't have a brother? What are you on about Pinface- this isn't canon!

Guys just letting you know I am NOT registering THE IMPOSTER as an actual character! That guy like.. bullied me for hours yesterday! No one seemed to get my sos signal<//3 BUT THATS OKAY I FORGIVE YOU ALL!!

among us scandal

A certain someone had a bit too much fun running around terrorising the locals as the imposter from among us, while this doesn't seem all too intresting the among us was very much feared, by Kolby and Edmund! I warn you all now of the imposter among us. ....sorry, I thought that was really funny.

Indigo has been kidnapped!

From what I can tell, Indigo, child of Bob Vesleb, has been kidnapped by the infamous Dr Danner! Resident megamind. This HORRIBLE occurance has only occurred today so progress regarding the case is little to none! Please can we get the word out?? If you know anything, tell me or get in contact with one of Indigos friends! :((

Void was kidnapped too!!

HELP ME IM SOBBING I WROTE LIKE 3 PARAGRAPHS ABOUT THIS BUT TUMBLR DIDNT SAVE IT IM SO DJSJAJAARARAAAAAHHHH

anyways, paraphrasing what I was supposed to say, Void cat was kidnapped in another server by show host and paranormal investigator, Bob sparks. His show is 100% gonna get cancelled when they find out about the animal abuse allegations I'm about to throw at him because the ONLY PERSON who likes his show is (and I'm really ashamed) Dodgems. LIKE POOKIE NO PLEASE THERES OTHER PEOPLE TO IDOLOZE, LIKE DEVILEENA!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE STOP THIS MANDESS<//3

If someone could save Void cat in the spooks of stepton it's actually give me a few years of my life back.. thanks in advance!<3

Dusk and Titch are friends!?

It was Jack the jester's birthday yesterday! Brother of invidia and son of Lord Zapza, we wish him a very happy birthday. Now, as my associate mentioned in a previous post: Dusk and Titch have been at eachothers throats since the BEGINNING- thankfully, due to the word of DUSK X JACK getting out, Titch and Dusk had a one on one talk in which they've been honest and caring towards eachother!? SHOCKING: TITCH SAYS SOMETHING NICE AND GENUINE.

Dusk: "Thank you.. so.. what exactly is your problem with me?.. there has to be something I can do to not anger you so much!"

Titch: "It's just....it feels like you get special treatment...like everyone treats you like a helpless baby that can do no wrong....I know that it's not true but.....this....upset me so much"

The Ethan vs Spirit phone debate

It was heavily argued wether Ethan or the spirit phone gang would win in a fight- setting the scene: its a boxing ring. No weapons, no hand to hand combat. Even if Pickles is a murderous spirit, Ethan has memorised banishing spells so that's all 3 ghosts out the picture immediately. Arabella is out of the picture too- it'd be a pretty miserable fight, Arabella vs Ethan.

Ethan vs Kolby: if Ethan had prep time beforehand and a weapon he would win but I'm pretty sure in terms of hand-to-hand in a boxing ring Kolby takes the crown, Void declared it a draw.

Ethan vs Pip? Imagine this: feisty crows in a trenchant vs mortal boy. Its a pretty even matmating you ask me- the winner was never declared and personally even I can't decide!

Now, if you have a a differing a opinion, lmk! You can even tell me anonymously if it's that good.. >:) we support fighting and drama here

for anyone wondering, Dani is still in the process of being saved. Uh.... at the time I'm writing this I'm actually kinda in danger but yknow- whatever. To save Dani!

Thats all for now folks, until next time!

-Penelope Paparazzi

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adamwarlock · 2 years

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what's your favorite era (appearance, characterization, etc.) of adam warlock? you're like the #1 fan of adam warlock 😍👌

This is no joke anon I'm incapable of being normal about Him.

My favorite comic Ever of All Time is the classic 70's Warlock by Jim Starlin!!! What is there to say about it even it's simply THE quintessential Adam Warlock story and I think everyone should read it :^) it has it all... unavoidable tragedy, evil alter ego, martyrdom, blatant anti-christian allegory, catholic guilt, suicide, existentialism, nihilism, funky visuals that make it obvious it's the 70's and everyone's on drugs, the wizard of oz, clowns, shark in space, Adam/Soul Gem OTP, first appearance of The Magus, Adam's first time meeting Pip/Gamora/Thanos, Thanos killing Adam, Adam killing Thanos, Adam and Thanos kissing in a tree (ok I made this last one up) etc.

Also Adam's perfectly coiffed hair + sideboob/bootyshorts look goes hard as hell I refuse to hear otherwise.

My other fave looks <3 Counter-Earth + Infinity Gauntlet/Infinity Watch/Infinity Crusade

I like Roy Thomas/Mike Friedrich's baby Warlock, he's cute, but Jim Starlin's Adam is the most specialest boy in the whole universe I LOOOOVE HIM with my whole heart and everything Starlin has written with Adam and/or Thanos is near and dear to me.

I think there's at least something to like about every "era", I love the Magus, I love the Goddess, Adam's big queer gender self-discovery adventure is definitely a highlight, I LOVE the Infinity Watch... I am admittedly a bit of a Jim Starlin purist though, Adam (and Thanos) written by other people always just feels a bit off and ranges from ''bad'' to ''pretty good'' but I'm fond of Annihilation/GOTG Adam by DnA too.

Definitely though my BIG FAVE era besides Warlock is the combined last two trilogies by Starlin, Thanos Annual + Infinity Revelation/Relativity/Finale & Infinity Siblings/Conflict/Ending + Infinity Entity + Thanos vs Hulk + GOTG: Mother Entropy. I know that's a lot but it counts as one in my head lol.

Best comics ever actually, I was already obsessed with Adam and Thanos beforehand but these really irreversibly rewired my brain so there's no hope for me anymore. For context you must understand that by the time these books started rolling out Starlin hadn't written for Marvel in a decade with no sign of returning so I lost my fucking shit when they were announced lmao. I had already accepted that we wouldn't get any proper sendoff/conclusion to Thanos and Adam's character arcs after some 40 years of slowburn because that's just the nature of comics but!! WE DID!!! Starlin came back and gave them an actual ending, he tied up his version of these characters with a nice little bow, while it's obviously still left open for other writers it frankly doesn't really matter to me what anyone else does with them going forward because I'm satisfied with the story that's already (almost) entirely contained within Starlin's work. Not that I won't still complain if they're terribly ooc but that's not My Canon, you know.

Like. I would sit here with my tinfoil hat on and conspiracy theory board out connecting the dots and yelling about the growth between Adam and Thanos and the overarching themes/motifs... Just endlessly speculating on how this tentative friendship of theirs would even work since we hadn't actually gotten to see it in action since they Officially became Friends™ in the very last issue Starlin wrote before leaving Marvel for 10 years and no other writer wanted to touch them. Big thoughts about how it's all REALLY about loneliness and love and TRUST and redemption, how Thanos is desperately in love with completely obsessed with Adam, how Adam in many ways mirrors Mistress Death, how perpetually aloof Thanos learns to genuinely and wholeheartedly trust in Adam and how opening himself up to the living (Adam/Eros/Gamora/Pip) gives his life true meaning, how Adam and Thanos literally cannot exist without each other or they'll self destruct... THEN my guy my dude my very bestest pal Jimbo strolled in and casually validated all my inside brain thoughts by further expanding on the pre-established themes and making all that more explicitly canon and I just had to grin and bear it and pretend I'm normal. like???? HELLO????? IT FEELS SOOOOO GOOD TO BE RIGHT ABOUT LITERALLY EVERYTHING

The juxtaposition between these books and his older work (Warlock in particular) is actually so satisfying to me too. The numerous callbacks, echoes of past storylines, the role reversals... I know some people hate how repetitive Starlin's storylines can be but I love the consistency, this infinite loop of death/rebirth that Adam and Thanos are stuck in narratively really highlights how they change (or don't change) over time, it works perfectly for them both in text and metatextually. The becoming God and blowing up the universe for the 50th time doesn't matter it's about the friend(s) we made along the way.

Anyway. I've actually grown to really like Adam's outfit in these books too, it's very old school but I'm into that... a glorious return to pointy shoulders <3 (he matches with Thanos hehehehe)

Okay that's all. He is my special little princess.

#I feel like this is maybe more than you asked for but augh I just. I have FEEEEELINGS ABOUT THEM #Also sorry I cannot separate Adam from Thanos if you let me go on for long enough I always end up talking about them both lmao #Adam really used to show SO much skin but then he became emo and started wearing black huh #anonymous #text

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ineedcoffee-sigyn · 9 months

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A Fate worse than Death | Oidhe Shenanigans

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Alchemist Philip

#Alchemist Pip | #Alchemist Philip Wittebane | #Alchemist Philip AU

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Philip Wittebane Design

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Ask

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#PipKris | #Philip x Kristina | #Kristina

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Raine vs. Terra in Detail

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Written

You guys killed your brother???

Why would Wild Witches do this?

SCAU Philip protects Caleb

Gray Character Supremecy

This Baby can fit so much Trauma

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supermansmeat · 11 months

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the urge to read adam warlock comics vs my extreme hatred for pip

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apostateapologist · 9 months

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also. also. the part of the run where frank reads the headline about matt being held in rykers and doing the equivalent of clapping and kicking his feet before he waltzes out of the diner to go get himself arrested as well because he thinks matt is finally going to kin him or smth and then later they get to play lawyer hostage to break out. what are we DOING here frank

#pip vs comics #i was sent into HYSTERICS

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yetanothercomicbook · 2 years

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Silver-Tongued Devil

Doctor Strange III #32

Mixed bag.

DS vs. Silver Dagger.

Pretty darn cool to have a comic that opens with Doctor Doom, Adam Warlock, the Silver Surfer and Doctor Strange standing around chatting in the midst of a crisis. Chatting... and drinking wine. It gets even better when Rintrah and Pip the Troll head out on a side-adventure. They are fun together, and it’s shaping up to be a good comic. However, Doctor Strange reappears and, in the end, it’s just a generic battle between him and the villain. Dense with the sort of detail that only matters to Roy Thomas. That said, the art is beautiful and it’s a fun read.

6/10

#August 1991 #Doctor Strange

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heart-forge · 3 years

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Pip pip cheerio good chap, are you familiar with the Lantern Corps’ from comic books? If so what Corps would your characters be in vs. what Corps would the want to be in?

Howdy! I, unfortunately, do not know anything about Lantern Corps! I looked it up and there seems to be just enough lore that I wouldn't feel confident guessing, either 😅 let's talk superheroes anyway!

Siruud

Good guy turned bad, with hope of redemption. In a bad superhero show, he's a one off episode character that teaches the boring lead an important lesson about what they could become. In a good one, he's a season arc and reoccurring character who's never really good again but he's on the side of good so like...okay.

Tahira

The extremely practical heroine; principles are nice and all, but no moral code is iron clad. She's at the very least a source of comedic relief because after a long speech about ethics she shows up with the villain already caught and handled because she didn't need to monologue about her job before she did it.

Valerian

Supervillian, but a fan favourite. He starts flame wars because some people are defending him because his actions don't not serve a greater good and so what if a few buildings fall in the process? But on the other hand cool motive but—

Abeni

Magical girl. Western Superhero canon can't handle her, because she's about to do good, have an ethical crisis about it, and look like a four hundred dollar cupcake while she does it. Fans will wildly misinterpret her motives, oscillating wildly between her conflict with institutional crime and punishment and her undermining of authority to serve a greater good.

Gnarl

The anime villain that Abeni is fighting. Redeemed at the end of a long arc that is held up by fans as one of the best runs the series ever had.

Trigger

Washed up superhero that mentors a bright young punk, who slowly manages to chip away his cynicsm and make him believe in heroes again...after he makes them run errands for him. Fandom is split between people who see him strictly as a mentor figure and find it weird that people want to bone him, and people who want to bone him.

Mantis

The most effective supervillain you've ever met in your life, the opposite side to Tahira's coin. No, she will not tell you her evil plan, no you will not be lecturing her on inherent goodness. She had a twelve step plan and she is going to execute it and possibly you. She shot him in ze legs because his shield is ze size of a dinner plate and he'z an idiot.

Crave

Good old fashion, home grown superhero. By day he's a nice boy who helps people out and builds his communities, by night he punches guys dressed up as clowns and weird stuff like that. Most likely to win with the power of friendship, half shojo main character and half Clark Kent. Undergoes a harsh round of corporate woobification, but his original comics run is dark as hell.

#talkForge #bad ritual #manor hill #hybrid #siruud #tahira #gnarl #valerian #abeni #trigger #crave #mantis #this is the second time that I've used that image for gnarl

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12 and 1! :D

12. Do you have an OC?

I tend to be so focused on the core canon cast that I don't really do too much with OCs! But I did tinker with a hamster mutant for IDW!verse one time :D

She was sort of envisaged as a shady antiques/black market dealer, more of a grey villain working with, and sometimes against the turtles.

I've also made a few rebel characters for my various SAINW!verse projects - probably Beckett is the most frequently used! She features in my Matricide comic and a few RPs.

1. What's your favorite iteration/version?

Ahaha you totally know this already xD

2k3 owns my heart and soul, for many, many reasons. For me, it has:

- the best balance of dark tone vs ridiculous mutant shenanigans

- plenty of action, angst and peril to satisfy my thirst for suffering :D

- lots of long, meaty plot arcs that flow consistently and are followed up and have consequences

- my favourite versions and voice actors for most canon characters cross-iteration, with the possible exception of Casey; he's ever so slightly pipped at the post by Elias Koteas in the 90s movies :'3

Season 1-4 are amazing, 5 less so, 6 and 7 sorta fun but very aesthetically and tonally different to the point of being jarring. Whenever I need cheering up, 2k3 is what I watch. The intro is like a warm hug.

For the TMNT Ask Game

#ask game #sassatello

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lorkhran · 3 years

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@adamwarlock Seen some recent pictures of Will Poulter and I can see it. I can see it. Still wanna see if he can pull off the purple but. thinking about annihilation conquest and my baby boy

but instead of phyla-vell it's rocket. (also moondragon should show up to finish drax's arc). ALSO he's gonna be the strongest in the universe (fuck carol and wanda) he's the true powerhouse of all the universes!

ALSO we are totes gonna get that Thor vs Adam fight like the comics and i will squeal

ALSO PIP IS IN???? WE GONNA GET THE BRO TEAM HERE GUNN???

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thanosfarm · 4 years

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Thanos: reading order (simple)

Irrelevant/not canon appearances in general are not included, no matter if they are a single panel or a complete saga.

1. THANOS WAR

Iron Man #55

Captain Marvel #25

Captain Marvel #26

Captain Marvel #27

Captain Marvel #28

Captain Marvel #29

Captain Marvel #30

Marvel Feature #12

Captain Marvel #31

Captain Marvel #32

Avengers #125

Captain Marvel #33

2. Warlock vs The Magus

Strange Tales #178

Strange Tales #179

Strange Tales #180

Strange Tales #181

Warlock #9

Warlock #10

Warlock #11

Warlock #15

Avengers Annual #7

Marvel Two-in-One Annual #2

3. 80’s and The Death of Captain Marvel

OUT OF CANON: Spidey Super Stories #39 (Thanoscopter’s appearance; and that isn’t the most terrible stuff in this story. A good read for the lols, but maybe difficult to find).

Marvel Graphic Novel #1 - The Death of Captain Marvel

4. INFINITY GAUNTLET

Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #34

Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #35

Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #36

Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #37

Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #38

The Thanos Quest #1

The Thanos Quest #2

Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #40

Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #44

Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #45

Optional: Spider-man #17 (an autoconclusive chapter with Thanos and Mistress Death appearances, setted at some moent during Infinity Gauntlet. It has nothing to do with the main plot and can be considered out of canon).

Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #46

Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #47

Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #48

Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #49

Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #50

Infinity Gauntlet #1

Infinity Gauntlet #2

Infinity Gauntlet #3

Infinity Gauntlet #4

Recommended: Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #55, #56 (while Silver Surfer is waiting for the moment of his intervention with Adam Warlock, he imagines a result of the conflict in which Thanos wins. Can be read as some kind of “What if…”.

Infinity Gauntlet #5

Recommended/optional: Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #59 (can be recommended because Thanos is in it, but the chapter itself is a side plot for Silver Surfer’s series while the main event continues).

Infinity Gauntlet #6

Warlock and the Infinity Watch #1

5. INFINITY WAR

Warlock & the Infinity Watch #7

Infinity War #1 (1992)

Infinity War #2

Infinity War #3

Marvel Comics Presents #108

Marvel Comics Presents #109

Marvel Comics Presents #110

Marvel Comics Presents #111

Warlock and the Infinity Watch #8

Recommended: Quasar #38 (the Clash between the Avengers and the Infinity Watch, mostly from Wendell’s point of view).

Infinity War #4

Infinity War #5

Recommended: Quasar #40 (more of Quasar’s plot in the moment he uses de Ultimate Nullifier).

Warlock and the Infinity Watch #9

Warlock and the Infinity Watch #10

Infinity War #6

6. Between Infinity Sagas.

Marvel Holiday Special #2 [F Story]

Optional: Warlock and the Infinity Watch #15, 16 y 17 (for a better understanding of the next event beginning).

7. INFINITY CRUSADE

Infinity Crusade #1

Warlock and the Infinity Watch #18

Infinity Crusade #2

Warlock Chronicles #2

Warlock and the Infinity Watch #19

Infinity Crusade #3

Warlock Chronicles #3

Warlock and the Infinity Watch #20

Optional: Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #83 (it connects with Silver Sufer’s plot during main story).

Infinity Crusade #4

Warlock Chronicles #4

Optional: Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #84 (more of Silver Surfer’s plot during main story and its conclusion).

Infinity Crusade #5

Warlock Chronicles #5

Warlock and the Infinity Watch #22

Infinity Crusade #6

8. BLOOD AND THUNDER

Thor #468

Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #86

Warlock Chronicles #6

Warlock and the Infinity Watch #23

Thor #469

Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #87

Warlock Chronicles #7

Warlock and the Infinity Watch #24

Thor #470

Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #88

Warlock Chronicles #8

Warlock and the Infinity Watch #25

Thor #471

9. COSMIC POWERS

Secret Defenders #12

Secret Defenders #13

Secret Defenders #14

Cosmic Powers #1

Cosmic Powers #2

Cosmic Powers #3

Cosmic Powers #4

Cosmic Powers #5

Cosmic Powers #6

10. 90’s after Infinity Trilogy.

Optional: Silver Surfer Vol 3 #98 (a small appearance that can be considered canon)

Quasar #59

Cosmic Powers Unlimited #1

Warlock and the Infinity Watch # 40

Warlock and the Infinity Watch # 41

Warlock and the Infinity Watch # 42

11. The THANOSI*

*Thanos is veeeery bad written in the next sagas, so reading them is OPTIONAL . But I included them in the list because Jim Starlin retconned them as canon in his own way.

THANOSI Nº 1

Ka-Zar Annual

Ka-Zar Vol 4 # 8

Ka-Zar Vol 4 # 9

Ka-Zar Vol 4 # 10

Ka-Zar Vol 4 # 11

THANOSI Nº 2

X-Man/Hulk Annual #1

THANOSI Nº 3

Thor Vol. 2 #21

Thor Vol. 2 Annual 2000

Thor Vol. 2 #22

Thor Vol. 2 #23

Thor Vol. 2 #24

Thor Vol. 2 #25

THANOSI Nº 4 (AVENGERS:CELESTIAL QUEST)

Avengers: Celestial Quest #1

Avengers: Celestial Quest #2

Avengers: Celestial Quest #3

Avengers: Celestial Quest #4

Avengers: Celestial Quest #5

Avengers: Celestial Quest #6

Avengers: Celestial Quest #7

Avengers: Celestial Quest #8

12. Mini-story in Captain Marvel Vol. 4

Captain Marvel Vol. 4 #17

Captain Marvel Vol. 4 #18

Captain Marvel Vol. 4 #19

13. INFINITY ABBYS

Infinity Abyss #1

Infinity Abyss #2

Infinity Abyss #3

Infinity Abyss #4

Infinity Abyss #5

Infinity Abyss #6

14. MARVEL UNIVERSE: THE END

This event isn’t considered canon in general for Marvel Universe, but it is for Thanos.

Marvel Universe: The End #1

Marvel Universe: The End #2

Marvel Universe: The End #3

Marvel Universe: The End #4

Marvel Universe: The End #5

Marvel Universe: The End #6

15. THANOS: REDEMPTION

Thanos #1

Thanos #2

Thanos #3

Thanos #4

Thanos #5

Thanos #6

At this point ends Jim Starlin work in the main Thanos’ canon. From now on, he only is going to write the ending of his canon and a side-story while the main canon diverges substantially from his point of view.

16. THANOS: SAMARITAN

Thanos #7

Thanos #8

Thanos #9

Thanos #10

Thanos #11

Thanos #12

17. ANNIHILATION

Recommendation for a better understanding of the main event: Drax the Destroyer #1-#4

Annihilation: Prologue #1 (2006)

Recommendation for a better understanding of the main event: Annihilation:Nova #1-#4

Annihilation: Silver Surfer #1

Annihilation: Silver Surfer #2

Annihilation: Silver Surfer #3

Annihilation: Silver Surfer #4

Recommendation for a better understanding of the main event: Annihilation: Super-Skrull #1-#4 y Annihilation: Ronan #1-#4

Annihilation #1

Annihilation #2

Annihilation #3

Annihilation #4

Annihilation #5

Annihilation #6

18. THE THANOS IMPERATIVE

It can be convenient at least know the context and a summary of War of Kings event, and, specially, it’s continuation Realm of Kings, because first Thanos’ appearance in The Thanos Imperative takes place as result of this second event. Plus, it is the reason why he is in the next Guardians of the Galaxy chapters.

Guardians of the Galaxy #24

Guardians of the Galaxy #25

The Thanos Imperative: Ignition #1

The Thanos Imperative #1

The Thanos Imperative #2

The Thanos Imperative #3

The Thanos Imperative #4

The Thanos Imperative #5

The Thanos Imperative #6

——— ———— ————

At the end of The Thanos Imperative, it’s clear that no one knew what to do with Thanos, but he had to start becoming an important character in the comics because he was going to be the main villain the in movies. So they decided to reboot the character in a more dark tone, changing basic features of original Thanos, for a more modern view. In particular, they made official the idea of Thanos never getting over his obsession with Death; indeed, she is manipulating him since birth. This was because most of the public never followed the main canon properly, so Thanos was more known because of his sporadic appearances during 20 years as a standard basic villain, his obsession with Death never forgotten (and being she the responsible of that obsession and his acts), as if the development after Infinity Gauntlet never took place.

Thanos and Gamora relationship is going to change too, gradually, and Nebula will become Thanos’ daughter too, both cases adapting the movies canon. Plus, in this new canon, Adam Warlock and Pip aren’t included as Thanos’ related characters.

19. THANOS RISING

Thanos Rising #1

Thanos Rising #2

Thanos Rising #3

Thanos Rising #4

Thanos Rising #5

Based on the reboot, Jonathan Hickman put Thanos as one of the villains of this series Avengers, New Avengers and Avengers World, that taked place at the same time during some years with a unique plot (ok, Avengers World started later in his run). The first turning point of this run was the event Infinity, in which not only Thanos is introduced, but it’s also the most influential work for everything related to his lore at this moment. If you are interested only in Thanos part, you can read his plot understanding the main ideas, and ignore the rest of the event. Problem is that, after Infinity, the series continued to a shared ending in the next event, Secret Wars, and Thanos appears sporadically to the end. My recommendation, if you don’t want to read the three series from the very beginning, is to search for a detailed summary to know what’s happening at any moment. Otherwise, even if his part in Infinity can be understand, the rest to Secret Wars is nearly impossible.

20. INFINITY

Free comic book day (2013) #1: Infinity

Infinity # 1

New Avengers #9

Infinity # 2

New Avengers #10

Infinity # 3

Infinity # 4

New Avengers #11

Infinity # 5

Infinity # 6

New Avengers #12

21. THANOS: A GOD UP THERE LISTENING

Note: this one was a web-comic that later was published as a comic book.

Thanos: A God Up There Listening #1

Thanos: A God Up There Listening #2

Thanos: A God Up There Listening #3

Thanos: A God Up There Listening #4

Thanos: A God Up There Listening #5

Thanos: A God Up There Listening #6

22. Between Infinity and Secret Wars (I)

Hickman’s Avengers plots continues. Plus, at Guardians of the Galaxy we have some info about The Thanos Imperative ending and what happened to Quill, Nova, Drax and Thanos at Cancerverse.

New Avengers #19

Guardians of the Galaxy #18

Guardians of the Galaxy #19

Guardians of the Galaxy #20

Legendary Star-Lord #4

23. THANOS VS. HULK

Starlin returned to Marvel. This mini-series is a prologue to his new Thanos trilogy (yet you can finish Hickman’s Avengers to the end at Secret Wars and then return here).

Thanos vs Hulk #1

Thanos vs Hulk #2

Thanos vs Hulk #3

Thanos vs Hulk #4

24. The New Infinity Trilogy

Actually, only the first part, The Infinity Revelation, was published at this moment. The rest of the graphic novels and the mini-series were released during the next years. But as this is the end of Starlin canon for Thanos, and has nothin to do with the official Marvel canon, I prefer to put all of it here for a simple reading.

Thanos Annual #1

The Infinity Revelation #1

The Infinity Relativity #1

The Infinity Entity #1

The Infinity Entity #2

The Infinity Entity #3

The Infinity Entity #4

The Infinity Finale #1

And this is the end of Thanos story according his creator, Jim Starlin. Later we’ll have a new trilogy that tell an auto conclusive side-story.

25. Between Infinity and Secret Wars (II)

Thanos part in Hickman’s plot continues.

New Avengers #24

Avengers #40

Avengers World #18

Avengers World #21

Avengers #41

Avengers #44

26. SECRET WARS

Secret Wars #1

Secret Wars #2

Secret Wars #3

Optional: Infinity Gauntlet Vol. 2 #1-#5 (in this tie-in a Battle World Thanos appears, but he isn’t ‘our’ Thanos).

Secret Wars #4

Secret Wars #5

Siege #3

Secret Wars #6

Siege #4

Secret Wars #7

Secret Wars #8

27. Ultimates and Civil War II

Recommendation: shearch for a summary of the first chapters of Ultimates Vol. 2 (or read them because they are good) to understand the context of number 5 and the next ones.

Ultimates Vol. 2 #5

Ultimates Vol. 2 #7

Free Comic Book Day 2016 (Civil War II) #1 [A Story]

Civil War II #1

Ultimates Vol. 2 #8

Ultimates Vol. 2 #9

Guardians of the Galaxy # 11

Ultimates Vol. 2 #10

Ultimates Vol. 2 #11

28. UNWORTHY THOR

Actually, Thanos part is only #2 and #5. That can be read while ignore the rest.

Unworthy Thor #2

Unworthy Thor #5

29. THANOS VOL. 2

Thanos Vol. 2 #1

Thanos Vol. 2 #2

Thanos Vol. 2 #3

Thanos Vol. 2 #4

Thanos Vol. 2 #5

Thanos Vol. 2 #6

Thanos Vol. 2 #7

Thanos Vol. 2 #8

Thanos Vol. 2 #9

Thanos Vol. 2 #10

Thanos Vol. 2 #11

Thanos Vol. 2 #12

Thanos Vol. 2 #13

Thanos Vol. 2 #14

Thanos Vol. 2 #15

Thanos Vol. 2 #16

Thanos Vol. 2 #17

Thanos Vol. 2 #18

30. The way to Infinity Wars

(This part should be checked carefully)

Mighty Thor #700

Thor #1

Thor #2

Thor #3

Thor #4

Thanos annual vol. 2 #1

Thanos Legacy (2018) #1

31. GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 2019

Guardians of the Galaxy # 1

Guardians of the Galaxy # 2

Guardians of the Galaxy # 3

Guardians of the Galaxy # 4

Guardians of the Galaxy # 5

Guardians of the Galaxy # 6

32. The Last Infinity Trilogy

Before the second Thanos’s regular series was approved, Starlin signed an agreement to make a new graphic novels trilogy about Thanos because Marvel wanted new material about him for IW release. At this moment Starlin can’t draw because an accident, so he works with Alan Davies. Shorly after the first part was published, the plot of the second part of the regular series was known, and Starlin was furious with Marvel because, according to him, they are copying his story. However, he accepts to end the trilogy because Davies involvement. Again, this story has nothing to do with current Thanos in Marvel canon.

The Infinity Siblings #1

The Infinity Conflict #2

The Infinity Ending #3

33. THANOS: ZERO SANCTUARY

A mini-story that definitley rewrites classic Gamora’s origin and her relationship with Thanos.

Thanos Vol. 3 # 1

Thanos Vol. 3 # 2

Thanos Vol. 3 # 3

Thanos Vol. 3 # 4

Thanos Vol. 3 # 5

Thanos Vol. 3 # 6

34. Thor 2020

Thor #6

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