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If I'm going to read about super heroes, I want crazy silliness like this:
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They didn't know what would happen all these years later when they finished that panel. No, not at all.
 
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Oh, I assure you none of the double entendres are accidental. Catch any of these guys at a con and they'll tell you. It always amuses me how seriously comic book fans take comic books, compared to how little the writers and editors do.
 
daniel_ream said:
Oh, I assure you none of the double entendres are accidental. Catch any of these guys at a con and they'll tell you. It always amuses me how seriously comic book fans take comic books, compared to how little the writers and editors do.
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This reminds me of Super Troopers.
 
daniel_ream said:
Oh, I assure you none of the double entendres are accidental. Catch any of these guys at a con and they'll tell you. It always amuses me how seriously comic book fans take comic books, compared to how little the writers and editors do.
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Woudst that we still lived in that era, before the comic industry started hiring fans instead of professionals. I personally think the entirety of the downfall of the industry started there.
 
TristramEvans said:
Woudst that we still lived in that era, before the comic industry started hiring fans instead of professionals. I personally think the entirety of the downfall of the industry started there.
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Exactly. Writers from the early era didn’t invest their person into the characters.
 
Endless Flight said:
Exactly. Writers from the early era didn’t invest their person into the characters.
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100% accurate statement. They referred to them as "long-underwear characters," didn't take them seriously, often used pseudonyms because it was somewhat embarrassing, and treated it as just another writing gig.
 
TristramEvans said:
Woudst that we still lived in that era, before the comic industry started hiring fans instead of professionals.
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With the massive geek nostalgia going on right now, we're seeing the truth of the maxim that the worst thing that can happen to a beloved cult property is for control of it to fall into the hands of its fans.

On a related note, Wormhole X-Treme! is still my favorite episode of any TV show ever.
 
TristramEvans said:
Woudst that we still lived in that era, before the comic industry started hiring fans instead of professionals. I personally think the entirety of the downfall of the industry started there.
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On a related note, if I have to hear one more speech on Doctor Who about how the Doctor is the most wonderful person ever in the universe...

On top of that, having the Doctor be a legendary figure that almost everyone on every planet in every time period has heard of has really made all of time and space feel small. He's only about 2000 years old. Even with a TARDIS, you can't cover much ground in that time on a universal scale.
 
Baulderstone said:
On a related note, if I have to hear one more speech on Doctor Who about how the Doctor is the most wonderful person ever in the universe...
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Ugh, yeah, I liked Doctor Who back when it wasn't about The Doctor. It's been fanfiction for a while now.
 
Not a panel, so cheating, but possibly the greatest single page in super hero comics history, a badass from the Golden Age who makes Wolverine and his ilk look like pikers:
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Okay, found the single panel I wanted!
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The Comet doesn't care about trials and verdicts.
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A man dressed up as a bat scares criminals? How about a friggin' literal hangman?
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Now I find myself wanting to run a Golden Age MLJ super hero game, or one inspired by same...
 
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