Webtoons is probably the most likely place you'll get Harley/Ivy.
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COMICS!!! |OT| September 2021 | Is it really Spencer Spider-Man if you don't leave with more questions than answers?
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i was joking sorry
Mage and Demon Queen rules!!
It's kinda rushed to hell and back and has some translation mistakes, but it's pretty and has nice music. One of those "maybe check it out after reading the original"
Damn that sucks. Hate when things are rushed.
I've been re-reading Fullmetal Alchemist instead of watching anime and having a ball. I do want to watch a few more shows though like Martian Successor Nadesico and a rewatch of Mob Psycho 100, Not feeling up to watching Zombieland Saga for some reason. If I get too bored I must do Lupin Part 5 and sign off.
Are we at a point in history where I can say both FMA anime are bad and the only true canon is the manga?
Are we at a point in history where I can say both FMA anime are bad and the only true canon is the manga?
I feel so sorry for JMS.
His Spider-man run got super fucked by editorial.
I'm still not over the volume-length flashback to the Ishbal Civil War being reduced to one episode.
Or how Brotherhood had to speedrun the first six volumes of the manga even though those first six volumes are really good, so the first 14 episodes of Brotherhood are a total disaster.
If you take the first anime and the second anime and Frankensein them together, they still aren't anywhere near as good as the manga.
As much as I love Norman, there is no logical way that a middle aged white dude with that haircut was ever getting near Gwen.
I'm exhausted by these "the manga is always the better option" takes.
Its not always true.
I actually prefer the Jojo anime to the manga. And the second Hunter x Hunter anime.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88nj7g/batman-and-faze-clan-team-up-for-crossover-no-one-asked-for
If you listen carefully, you can hear the sound of all that goodwill Batman generated a couple of hours ago disappearing into the wind.
If you listen carefully, you can hear the sound of all that goodwill Batman generated a couple of hours ago disappearing into the wind.
It's not always true.
Mob Psycho 100 is better as an anime, for example. JoJo's manga and anime exist as distinct entities despite the anime being so faithful to the manga it'll straight up use the character's silly-ass posing because it uses the medium to tell the same story but conveyed through its unique filter that can't be found in sequential art.
Otherwise yes the manga is always the better option.
oh my fucking god what
Wow, Twitter taking this thing a little too far. Now you can't even view images without getting the Log in / sign up popup box. It can all be avoided if you just block twitter cookies, though. 🤷♂️
This shouldn't be shocking. Manga is almost always the source material, so of course it's going to be conveyed better in that medium. Unless the adaptation is very very good, which has happened on occasion.
Yeah that's how I approach it.
It's not that manga is this innately superior artform, it's that adapting a manga to anime poorly means you're getting a story written, paced and told with the expectations of sequential art in a medium defined by movement. FMA for example has the famous "Ed gets mad someone called him short" running gag, except Ed is infinitely less annoying in the manga because these tantrums last a single panel and he's always got a different absolutely tilted facial expression. In the anime though? You gotta listen to him screech for seconds at a time and throw all these long-winded speeches out on his height. They're the exact same gag, but formatted differently through the expression of their mediums.
Adapting to anime means you have to make some kind of change, you have to draw something out that couldn't be conveyed in manga like how JoJo runs hard on pop-art colouring and the groovy OSTs.
Like, Akira Toriyama's panel art in Dragon Ball animates better than the actual anime.
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It looks dumb.
Speaking of dumb - that Vice article puts Superman vs. Mohammed Ali (a beloved book) in the same paragraph as the Northtrop Grumman tie-in and NFL Superpro.
Can anyone find and post the images they're talking about? Just the crop I see there looks hilarious.
Edit: looking around, that's the full image, not a crop.
Hopefully Microsoft can give it a cease and desist for those controllers.
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For folk who aren't familiar, FaZe Clan is well known to be accused of directly exploiting young adults with cryptocurrency scams. Several of their members were known to be involved in scams where they'd advertise a new cryptocurrency launch on their Twitch+social media, and then when it launched they'd sell all of the currency they were given to advertise it after which the currency would crash and never recover. The FaZe organization is believed to have been a part of these, but have managed to avoid being directly tied to it so far. Also, if that wasn't enough, racist/sexist/shitty streamers involved in that clan specifically.
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Yeah they tried way too hard to be dismissive when anyone with a brain would see this as a stupid bit of corporate synergy.
They also call Batwing "Arkham Knight" so they don't even have the nerd cred to back them up.
SO GOOD
JASON STEALING THE LAST COOKIE. BRUCE FIGHTING THE FAMILY FOR IT. SO GOOD.
Jason tackling Damian had me legit lol
You say that like giving Peter adult children is better and even then what we got was still what JMS came up for as plan b lol
Sins Past was a three-step disaster.
Step 1: Have a bad idea.
Step 2: Make the idea worse.
Step 3: Not only never remove the even worse idea from canon, but intermittently draw back to it over the years just when we start to think it's finally safe.
Step 1: Have a bad idea.
Step 2: Make the idea worse.
Step 3: Not only never remove the even worse idea from canon, but intermittently draw back to it over the years just when we start to think it's finally safe.
That reminds me that Screenrant put up an article the other day that said Peter and MJ NEED to have children in 616. Particularly citing AUs where writers just play with the idea (while also completely ignoring JJ Abrams and his son doing an AU story where Peter and MJ had a son instead of a daughter, lol).
I get what you mean, Oracle is important.
How many disabled superheroes do we have? Very, very few by my count.
DC basically deleting her with the New 52 is some bullshit.
I don't really get to have a say in representation of physical disability, I just find Barbara as Oracle to be a more interesting part of the Bat-mythos than her as Batgirl. I like the contrast with Nightwing where graduating from her role wasn't this triumphant "the son carves his own path" kind of thing like Dick got, it was this genuinely traumatic career ender for Barbara that she then overcame. Jason taps into that too where his graduation was another bad time, but then Jason strikes me as a more mismanaged character than Barbara was.
Like even the most iconic run of Batgirl post-return didn't really have anything to do with Barbara as Batgirl, she just became Steph but even more Millennial.
Like even the most iconic run of Batgirl post-return didn't really have anything to do with Barbara as Batgirl, she just became Steph but even more Millennial.
Yeah she doesn't die in Legacy.
She killed herself in a Rosenburg written Uncanny X-men story.
I havent read it myself, but it's that era when the series was meandering and directionless before the Hickman House of X reboot.
I've read a lot of X-men. But I doubt any man alive has read ALL the X-men.you were supposed to know everything, what a dissapointment
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Every time I re-read FMA I am filled with primal anger that it mistranslated "Xerxes", the lost civilization, as "Cselkcess" the entire run of the manga.
Ling as Lin is slightly less egregious because it only interferes with a fun gag later on, but Cselkcess just makes me irrationally angry enough to consider buying those hardcovers with the updated translation.
Ling as Lin is slightly less egregious because it only interferes with a fun gag later on, but Cselkcess just makes me irrationally angry enough to consider buying those hardcovers with the updated translation.
Yeah I've been collecting the hardcovers. They are really nice.
I'd forgotten about Viz's baffling translation mistakes.
The hardcovers only have six chapters apiece (which probably fucks real hard with the pacing considering FMA was pretty consistent on leaving things off every four chapters) while the VizBigs have twelve, and the hardcovers removed all the omakes at the end.
Unforgivable.
Damn, I didn't know Max was on art. I love them...
Signing up and downloading while I briefly have reception in this crappy town. Hope it's good.
oh yeah oh hell yeah buddy
(will be up in 2 hours according to the article)
That's Kelly Puckett's run on Batgirl in 2000, starring Cassandra Cain.
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Hmm I guess it depends on how you define classic, but I thought the Stephanie Brown run and the Kelly Puckett Cass Cain runs were both fantastic.
And, of course, the Batgirl Year One story was a classic.
Yeah that's the worst. The literal worst.
It isn't the only naming mistake either, Viz's One Piece is full of them.
One of the reasons I will never buy it.
That and the fact that it's like a hundred volumes.
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