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Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 17 Aug 2017, 11:55am
by Kory
Inder wrote:
16 Aug 2017, 10:40pm
Am I the only person here who enjoys DC more than Marvel?
I hope so.

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 17 Aug 2017, 12:10pm
by Inder
Kory wrote:
17 Aug 2017, 11:55am
Inder wrote:
16 Aug 2017, 10:40pm
Am I the only person here who enjoys DC more than Marvel?
I hope so.
Counterpoint:

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Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 17 Aug 2017, 12:37pm
by Dr. Medulla
Flex is a DC guy, so enjoy that dubious company.

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 17 Aug 2017, 1:29pm
by Wolter
Look at the relative ages of the DC people vs. the Marvel people and it makes sense. We came of age when Marvel was doing the cool stuff and DC was mostly dull*. Marvel really sucked in the mid-90s when y'all were coming up, and DC was a lot better overall then.


*Tons of exceptions, but the overall perception when I was a kid was that DC heroes were mostly stodgy and old-fashioned.

EDIT: Oh, a lot of deep comics nerds loved DC for the batshit continuity, but I wasn't a comic-book store type until I was older and reading more indie works. As a kid, the newstand casual readers broke overwhelmingly for Marvel.

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 17 Aug 2017, 1:32pm
by Inder
I was all over Marvel until the clone saga. ☠️

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 17 Aug 2017, 1:34pm
by Dr. Medulla
Wolter wrote:
17 Aug 2017, 1:29pm
Look at the relative ages of the DC people vs. the Marvel people and it makes sense. We came of age when Marvel was doing the cool stuff and DC was mostly dull*. Marvel really sucked in the mid-90s when y'all were coming up, and DC was a lot better overall then.


*Tons of exceptions, but the overall perception when I was a kid was that DC heroes were mostly stodgy and old-fashioned.

EDIT: Oh, a lot of deep comics nerds loved DC for the batshit continuity, but I wasn't a comic-book store type until I was older and reading more indie works. As a kid, the newstand casual readers broke overwhelmingly for Marvel.
This is a sound hypothesis, I'd say. Imprinting that happens at the age when you discover comics. I read Superman, Batman, and LSH when I was a kid, but they never really captured my imagination like Marvel, which did such a good job of conveying that all their comics were part of some epic narrative.

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 17 Aug 2017, 1:36pm
by Wolter
Inder wrote:
17 Aug 2017, 1:32pm
I was all over Marvel until the clone saga. ☠️
True story: that was the last straw for superhero comics for me for nearly a decade.It's when Marvel lost their fastball.

I had recently ditched the X-books that I used to love because they had gotten so fucking grim and confusing. Batman was still deep in Knightfall and the aftermath, which in hindsight was a better idea than I thought (replace Batman with the ultimate 90s Grimdark version to show why Bruce still mattered) but which sucked in execution.

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 17 Aug 2017, 1:43pm
by Dr. Medulla
Wolter wrote:
17 Aug 2017, 1:36pm
Inder wrote:
17 Aug 2017, 1:32pm
I was all over Marvel until the clone saga. ☠️
True story: that was the last straw for superhero comics for me for nearly a decade.It's when Marvel lost their fastball.
As I said to Kory in another thread not too long ago, because he said the same thing as you two, the second clone saga is what brought me back after over a decade away. I read about the controversy in a newspaper—the Spider-man Expatriates or something like that—and decided to investigate. It was all so crazy, but it also hearkened back to the point when I first discovered comics, right at the tail end of the first clone story, and I got sucked back in despite the clusterfuck of it all.

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 17 Aug 2017, 7:59pm
by Dr. Medulla
Holy crap, this is appalling. DC's animation wing pursues the lowest possible class of fan: http://io9.gizmodo.com/batman-and-harle ... 1797949316

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 18 Aug 2017, 12:45pm
by Kory
Dr. Medulla wrote:
17 Aug 2017, 7:59pm
Holy crap, this is appalling. DC's animation wing pursues the lowest possible class of fan: http://io9.gizmodo.com/batman-and-harle ... 1797949316
I am interested in the Swamp Thing cameo though.

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 18 Aug 2017, 12:49pm
by Flex
Dr. Medulla wrote:
17 Aug 2017, 7:59pm
Holy crap, this is appalling. DC's animation wing pursues the lowest possible class of fan: http://io9.gizmodo.com/batman-and-harle ... 1797949316
Damn shame. DC animated tv and film used to be the best cape stuff going, imho. Bummer how involved Bruce Timm is in making such bad product, too.

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 26 Aug 2017, 4:37pm
by revbob
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Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 30 Aug 2017, 7:56pm
by Inder

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 30 Aug 2017, 8:13pm
by Dr. Medulla
Who's the head second from the right? Barney?

Also, Marvel's Secret Empire was a superb clusterfuck. Horribly marketed due to a dubious premise that pissed off a lot of fans, grind thru ten issues of hyper-violence porn, and then wind it up with a lazy status quo ante resolution (tho maybe some people will remain dead until they're resurrected). A premise that could have generated a meaningful story, but it was ultimately pointless other than to jerk around fans' attachment to beloved characters. The whole "someone should get fired for that" outrage gets thrown around too much, but this was so poorly handled at every level and stage that those most responsible should be axed.

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 7:49am
by Dr. Medulla
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So, Dennis is a Randroid.