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Other Media 2: It's Astounishing!

Discussion of comics, graphic novels, and more. Except for capes. No capes!

Please use spoiler font for new releases until after the weekend following release.


Liese S. - Sep 02, 2011 2:11:27 pm PDT #3777 of 5059
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Ahahah, those pics are hilarious! I bet I could work it out if I tried hard enough. But I still wouldn't look like that! That is not Mary Jane!


Steph L. - Sep 02, 2011 4:22:18 pm PDT #3778 of 5059
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Okay, I just read the Kick Ass TPB. I never saw the movie, so I'm wondering -- how faithful to the book is the movie? Because that is some violent shit going on there.


DavidS - Sep 02, 2011 4:33:08 pm PDT #3779 of 5059
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

how faithful to the book is the movie? Because that is some violent shit going on there.

Movie's pretty violent. Like, they don't shy away from Big Daddy's death.


Polter-Cow - Sep 02, 2011 4:58:37 pm PDT #3780 of 5059
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Superman tries to join Google+.


Steph L. - Sep 02, 2011 5:05:55 pm PDT #3781 of 5059
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Movie's pretty violent. Like, they don't shy away from

That didn't seem as violent to me as the electrocuted testicles, or some of Hit-Girl's fight scenes, where she literally cut heads in half.

Also, by the end of the comic, I was kind of glad that Big Daddy got killed. Because, damn, what a sociopath.

t edit I'm referring to the comic, of course, since I haven't seen the movie. (Which is why I asked about it. Durrr. I think I'm stupid on painkillers right now. Gotta say, reading Kick-Ass helps take the edge off of root canal pain.)


DavidS - Sep 02, 2011 5:10:44 pm PDT #3782 of 5059
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I really like the movie. It's pretty violent though.

The hardest scene to watch actually is when Hit-Girl is getting beat up by the adult sized bad guy at the end. Seeing an adult male punching out a little girl - even a Hit Girl - is difficult to watch in a movie setting.


§ ita § - Sep 10, 2011 10:41:48 am PDT #3783 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

So in JLA #1, GL meets Batman for the first time. Like, doesn't know who he is, or what his powers are (not). In JLI #1, Batman tries to talk Booster Gold into keeping Guy Gardner on the team.

Is there a guide to this?


Steph L. - Sep 14, 2011 11:39:03 am PDT #3784 of 5059
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Argh. Amanda Waller in the DC reboot underwent a bit of a makeover: [link]

Fuck DC. Just fuck them.


§ ita § - Sep 14, 2011 11:47:47 am PDT #3785 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

DC has no sense of tone.


§ ita § - Sep 14, 2011 4:46:44 pm PDT #3786 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Dick, you're a dick.