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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 6, 2015 6:54:20 GMT -5
HYDRA: for being basically a neo-fascistic organisation with deep ties to Nazi Germany, they tend to be pretty equal opportunity. In a sense, I think that's fairly realistic: like many organizations, over time, Hydra veered away from its ideological roots and got to be just about money and influence. From time to time you'll get a new leader who insists on going back to the basics, but pretty quickly things will go back to business as usual. I can think of several political parties that started with ambitious social projects and then became all about winning the next election within a few short years... or big unions created to defend the rights of workers that degenerated into tyranical organizations mostly thinking on how to preserve their grasp on their members' fees and their influence. I'm sure many old farts within Hydra were told by younger members to get on with the times and embrace globalization! One of my favorite scenes involving Hydra was in Team America #12, in which a lady explains she joined the organization because it had a great dental plan. It really showed how Hydra had gone mainstream. |
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Post by crazyoldhermit on Jan 6, 2015 10:56:45 GMT -5
I think what makes Waid's Daredevil a lighter book isn't subject matter or even visual style, it's that overall it's an optimistic run about self-improvement and healing. People can get shot, stabbed, decapitated or whatever and it's still pretty light because the message is a positive one. Miller's Daredevil has (by today's standards) really cartoony art that would today signal a book with more levity, but because of the brutal atmosphere it comes off as being far more violent and nasty than it actually it.
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Post by speakerdad on Jan 6, 2015 13:15:07 GMT -5
On that topic, from an old CBR cover contest... someone posted this one.  Seriously, he's wearing his glasses UNDER his mask? Sitting at the airport, plane delayed 2 hours and this just made me laugh out loud! Man did I need that... |
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Post by The Captain on Jan 6, 2015 14:05:34 GMT -5
On that topic, from an old CBR cover contest... someone posted this one. Seriously, he's wearing his glasses UNDER his mask? I'm actually torn on this one. On one hand, it makes sense because where is he going to stuff them while he's out crimefighting? If he's going to slip from Matt Murdock to Daredevil and back again without raising too much suspicion, then MM is going to need to have his dark glasses on or else it would be a little weird. Spidey either did the "web backpack" or the "web my clothes to the underside of a building ledge" thing with his stuff, but what is Matt going to do? Put them in a DD fannypack? However, wearing his glasses underneath his mask is just a giant recipe for disaster. Think of how many times he got punched in the face or slammed to the ground, and then how many pairs of glasses he wound up breaking because of that. He would have had to buy them in bulk or else he had the most durable frames on the planet that never broke. Also, why was there no outline of his glasses underneath the mask, which presumably was form-fitting? |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jan 6, 2015 15:09:35 GMT -5
On that topic, from an old CBR cover contest... someone posted this one. Seriously, he's wearing his glasses UNDER his mask? I'm actually torn on this one. On one hand, it makes sense because where is he going to stuff them while he's out crimefighting? If he's going to slip from Matt Murdock to Daredevil and back again without raising too much suspicion, then MM is going to need to have his dark glasses on or else it would be a little weird. Spidey either did the "web backpack" or the "web my clothes to the underside of a building ledge" thing with his stuff, but what is Matt going to do? Put them in a DD fannypack? However, wearing his glasses underneath his mask is just a giant recipe for disaster. Think of how many times he got punched in the face or slammed to the ground, and then how many pairs of glasses he wound up breaking because of that. He would have had to buy them in bulk or else he had the most durable frames on the planet that never broke. Also, why was there no outline of his glasses underneath the mask, which presumably was form-fitting? Plus, blind or not, getting broken pieces of glasses jammed in your eyes is going to hurt. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 6, 2015 15:10:47 GMT -5
Well realistically dark glasses wore by blind people are for the benefit of those of us that can see, because we are always disturbed by things different and a lazy or wandering eye "offends". So really society is to blame for conundrum.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jan 6, 2015 15:40:31 GMT -5
Well realistically dark glasses wore by blind people are for the benefit of those of us that can see, because we are always disturbed by things different and a lazy or wandering eye "offends". So really society is to blame for conundrum. True. My half-sister and her husband are both blind (she's legally blind, meaning she can see a little, and he's totally blind) and they never bothered with them. Of course, he always was a "I don't give a crap what you think" kind of guy. He had to walk to take the bus to work, using his cane to check his path. When he encountered a car parked across the sidewalk, he'd whack the hell out of it with the cane as he went around it. It's not like anyone ever yelled at him, because he's blind. Of course, he probably couldn't get away with that today. |
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Post by Spike-X on Jan 6, 2015 19:52:43 GMT -5
I've been tempted to do that many a time, and I'm not even blind.
But I digress...
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 9, 2015 6:48:22 GMT -5
It always annoyed me a little that Dark Horse (and then many fans) started using the word "xenomorphs" seriously to describe the Aliens. The term was first used in the movie Aliens, and it was clearly meant as a joke, as a way of underlining how the authorities often slap ridiculous names on things as if naming them made them known and controllable. (As you'll recalll, the Marines from the movie had no idea what the lieutenant meant when he used the word).
The joke has apparently been lost to the following generations.
(On a culturally-related side note, something similar happened with the expression "bon matin" in Quebec; it started being used as a joke about ten years ago, as a humorous litteral translation of the English "good morning", but spread like a virus in our daily parlance and is now frequently used as if it were a proper French expression. Ugh).
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Post by paulie on Jan 10, 2015 9:50:13 GMT -5
HYDRA: for being basically a neo-fascistic organisation with deep ties to Nazi Germany, they tend to be pretty equal opportunity. In a sense, I think that's fairly realistic: like many organizations, over time, Hydra veered away from its ideological roots and got to be just about money and influence. From time to time you'll get a new leader who insists on going back to the basics, but pretty quickly things will go back to business as usual. I can think of several political parties that started with ambitious social projects and then became all about winning the next election within a few short years... or big unions created to defend the rights of workers that degenerated into tyranical organizations mostly thinking on how to preserve their grasp on their members' fees and their influence. I'm sure many old farts within Hydra were told by younger members to get on with the times and embrace globalization! One of my favorite scenes involving Hydra was in Team America #12, in which a lady explains she joined the organization because it had a great dental plan. It really showed how Hydra had gone mainstream. How awesome is this board? An issue of Team America is being used as a practical example in a discussion with absolutely no irony. That is how awesome this board is. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 10, 2015 10:13:08 GMT -5
In a sense, I think that's fairly realistic: like many organizations, over time, Hydra veered away from its ideological roots and got to be just about money and influence. From time to time you'll get a new leader who insists on going back to the basics, but pretty quickly things will go back to business as usual. I can think of several political parties that started with ambitious social projects and then became all about winning the next election within a few short years... or big unions created to defend the rights of workers that degenerated into tyranical organizations mostly thinking on how to preserve their grasp on their members' fees and their influence. I'm sure many old farts within Hydra were told by younger members to get on with the times and embrace globalization! One of my favorite scenes involving Hydra was in Team America #12, in which a lady explains she joined the organization because it had a great dental plan. It really showed how Hydra had gone mainstream. How awesome is this board? An issue of Team America is being used as a practical example in a discussion with absolutely no irony. That is how awesome this board is. We all love Krypto too, I'm sure! |
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Post by paulie on Jan 10, 2015 10:15:02 GMT -5
How awesome is this board? An issue of Team America is being used as a practical example in a discussion with absolutely no irony. That is how awesome this board is. We all love Krypto too, I'm sure! I love Krypto. Blew it when an ex-girlfriend presented me with a 16 pound white dog a couple of years back and I named him Brady. I guess I'm a New England Patriots fan first. But I still have regrets! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2015 17:06:16 GMT -5
...that Super-Heroes wore their costumes under their street clothes. Even as a kid I thought they would be so hot all the time. Even Flash put on his costume over his street clothes!!
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Post by Pharozonk on Jan 10, 2015 17:30:48 GMT -5
...that Super-Heroes wore their costumes under their street clothes. Even as a kid I thought they would be so hot all the time. Even Flash put on his costume over his street clothes!! Barry usually stored the costume in a ring though. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2015 17:42:11 GMT -5
...that Super-Heroes wore their costumes under their street clothes. Even as a kid I thought they would be so hot all the time. Even Flash put on his costume over his street clothes!! Barry usually stored the costume in a ring though. And then put on his costume over his street clothes! |
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