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What’s a comic book moment that lives rent free in your head?
- Thread starter Dalek
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Nova is me every time I pick up a Marvel book after a hiatus.
I will not accept any slander against my man Dick Rider from anyone.
To quote myself from a previous thread, the best moment in cape comics history:
The original Suicide Squad run by John Ostrander and co. is one of the best comics of all time and hinges on a single great idea: The government uses all those supervillains that are locked up as disposable black ops agents. DC was full of minor league characters who were wasting away doing nothing so why not put them to use? And Suicide Squad generally had two uses for them: revitalize them, turning them into worthwhile characters, or as cannon fodder.
Into this comes Count Vertigo(the fact that some of you know who he is at all is thanks to Ostrander, Kim Yale and co.). Vertigo was a nothing character, a foil to the Green Arrow, and he shows up unceremoniously in Suicide Squad #24 not saying a single word, just another body waiting for its bodybag. Come issue #31 we get his first notable scene, a bit between himself(a Catholic) and a priest where we learn just what is going on inside his head:
Vertigo, who initially seemed like the most throwaway-able character imaginable, suddenly snaps into place and he would go on to be one of the most important characters in the whole book. And after many trials and tribulations(one minute being a supreme badass fighting on Apokolips or single-handedly keeping Superman at bay, the next being mind controlled and humiliated) he asks Deadshot for a simple favor: to shoot him in the head should he ask for it. Deadshot being Deadshot agrees but warns hims to be damn sure as he will do it.
Eventually we reach the end of Suicide Squad with issue #66 and of all the ways the book could've ended we go out with:
Also, from Delicious in Dungeon...
The original Suicide Squad run by John Ostrander and co. is one of the best comics of all time and hinges on a single great idea: The government uses all those supervillains that are locked up as disposable black ops agents. DC was full of minor league characters who were wasting away doing nothing so why not put them to use? And Suicide Squad generally had two uses for them: revitalize them, turning them into worthwhile characters, or as cannon fodder.
Into this comes Count Vertigo(the fact that some of you know who he is at all is thanks to Ostrander, Kim Yale and co.). Vertigo was a nothing character, a foil to the Green Arrow, and he shows up unceremoniously in Suicide Squad #24 not saying a single word, just another body waiting for its bodybag. Come issue #31 we get his first notable scene, a bit between himself(a Catholic) and a priest where we learn just what is going on inside his head:
Vertigo, who initially seemed like the most throwaway-able character imaginable, suddenly snaps into place and he would go on to be one of the most important characters in the whole book. And after many trials and tribulations(one minute being a supreme badass fighting on Apokolips or single-handedly keeping Superman at bay, the next being mind controlled and humiliated) he asks Deadshot for a simple favor: to shoot him in the head should he ask for it. Deadshot being Deadshot agrees but warns hims to be damn sure as he will do it.
Eventually we reach the end of Suicide Squad with issue #66 and of all the ways the book could've ended we go out with:
Also, from Delicious in Dungeon...
I don't have access to screengrab it, but the epilogue to Daredevil #1 by Mark Waid where he recalls some of his past traumas and makes the statement that he wants to live and basically bounces back into "swashbuckler" mentality that was the dominating attitude of Waid's early DD run... The quote "I want to live."
I read it when I was last harboring suicidal ideations and it felt like the start of me gaining the strength to stop thinking about ending my life.
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I read this for the first time recently and it was phenomenal. I can't imagine having read it when it was first released.Mine is also from Animal Man. The entire last issue, where Buddy finally confronts the man behind all of his suffering.His writer.
Spider-Man "Leah".
I loved Spider-Man since I was a kid and that ideal of superheroes representing the best of us, to go beyond to help as many people as Spider-Man can, and that childhood innocence of wishing against wishes he was real and to always protect us:
This made me bawl my eyes out.
I loved Spider-Man since I was a kid and that ideal of superheroes representing the best of us, to go beyond to help as many people as Spider-Man can, and that childhood innocence of wishing against wishes he was real and to always protect us:
This made me bawl my eyes out.
I don't have the page handy, but the bit in the Forever War where Mandela comes back from the war and his mother is dying and the state that sent him to war doesn't give the tiniest shit about him or his
Spider-Man "Leah".
I loved Spider-Man since I was a kid and that ideal of superheroes representing the best of us, to go beyond to help as many people as Spider-Man can, and that childhood innocence of wishing against wishes he was real and to always protect us:
This made me bawl my eyes out.
the fact tat he has two different outifts while fighting vulture, really drives the point of how much time passed. damn