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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2016 16:00:29 GMT -5
 Ack! Thbbft! (or the alternative spelling Ack! Thppt!" -Bill the Cat (many, many many, Bloom County strips by Berley Breathed) -M |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2016 16:03:40 GMT -5
"We have met the enemy, and he is us." Pogo Possum inWalt Kelly's Pogo circa 1970  -M |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2016 16:06:31 GMT -5
"It is a weak mind that imagines its version of things valid for all men!"
-The Vision in The Rage of Ultron OGN written by Rick Remender
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 6, 2016 3:07:48 GMT -5
"We don't do it for the glory. We don't do it for the recognition. We do it because it needs to be done. Because, if we don't, no one else will. And we do it, even if no one else knows what we've done. Even if no one knows we exist. Even if no one remembers we we ever existed."   -Kara Zor El, a true hero, via Alan Brennert, a true writer. The best summation of heroism I have ever read. Brings tears to my eyes every time I read it, especially the end. |
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 6, 2016 4:17:14 GMT -5
"We have met the enemy, and he is us." Pogo Possum inWalt Kelly's Pogo circa 1970 -M I was getting around to that one. |
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 7, 2016 12:52:26 GMT -5
"Did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood beneath this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof."
--V
V for Vendetta #9, Book 3 Chapter 7: "Vindication", March, 1989
by Alan Moore
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 7, 2016 13:05:22 GMT -5
Daredevil: "The conclusion I've come to after years spent doing this is that there are no innocents. Everyone's guilty. Even us. Especially us. Because for all the 'good' that we try to do, we can't damn the torrent of death and injustice that threatens to drown us everyday. We're guilty of being bandages on leprosy, but still our hubris would have us believe that we can make a difference. Well, we didn't make any difference to Quentin Beck. All that death and madness he caused-- all in the name of self-esteem. The guy ended lives-- promising or otherwise-- and for what? To prove he wasn't as big a loser as he felt the world thought he was? What a joke. No Peter-- there are no innocents. Even in the strictest of definitions, people liked the loved one you mentioned and Karen are still guilty. They're guilty of dying, and leaving us alone in this mire of solitude and misery. And can you blame them? Why should they hold onto life? Just to be liars like us? That's what we are, really-- liars. All we offer is false hope. We tell people that by putting on these clothes and beating up chain snatchers and muggers that 'It'll all be okay. We're here to stop the madness.' But we're lying, because we know we can't stop it all; there's too much. And in the case of someone like Karen, we've damned them simply by third party association. Costumed lunatic 'A' hates me, so in an effort to destroy me, he'll kill hero friend 'B'. It's insanity, man! And we're the crucial cog in the damnation machine, people like us! Because nothing good comes of anything we do! Because with Beck and all of his victims of that last few weeks dead and buried, can you tell me one thing-- just one thing-- that makes any sense in that mess whatsoever?!?"
Spider-Man: "You saved that baby girl's life, Matt."
Daredevil #8, "Guardian Devil Part 8: The Devil's Deliverance", June, 1999
by Kevin Smith
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 8, 2016 12:12:02 GMT -5
"This midget mansion the Pee-Wee People of Tiny Town gave us as a souvenir makes a good shield!" - Batman, "The Thousand and One Trophies of Batman!", Detective Comics #158 (April 1950) Why would anyone ever have to make a statement like that? But it starts to make a little more sense when you see that it's 1950 Batman. Dr. Doom has snuck into the Bat-Cave inside a mummy case that Batman and Robin have taken as a remembrance for the trophy room. Not this Dr. Doom! THIS Dr. Doom! Not only does Batman have two personal Fu Manchus, he also has his own personal Dr. Doom! Dr. Doom rigs the trophies - such as the giant penny and the robot brontosaurus - so that the Hall of Trophies is a death trap. But Batman and Robin nimbly escape every peril of their own Bat-Cave until Dr. Doom resorts to grabbing a grenade - that's also a trophy - and pulling the pin and throwing the grenade as he leaps into the mummy case for protection. Fortunately Batman has time to grab the "midget mansion" and he holds it in front of himself and Robin, protecting them from the blast. The explosion has jammed the lid shut tight on the mummy case and by the time Batman and Robin get some tools and pry the lid off (I'm sure they dawdled, had tea, ate some of Alfred's delicious cucumber and leek sandwiches), Dr. Doom has suffocated. The irony, the irony! I would like to have seen the look on Alfred's face when Luke Cage showed up at the front door of Wayne Manor, looking for Dr. Doom and saying, "I want my money, honey!" |
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 8, 2016 20:20:15 GMT -5
A tribute to everyone who stood behind every hero:  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2016 0:52:48 GMT -5
A tribute to everyone who stood behind every hero: Coincidentally I just finished reading the Terry & the Pirates Volume (#17) where Conklin was promoted to major and started Terry's flight training about a half hour ago. -M |
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 9, 2016 10:18:57 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 9, 2016 12:43:01 GMT -5
F'ing hated that! I was into the idea of the Ultimates, until I read further into it. I hated the portrayal of Cap and Hank Pym was a close second. Nobody who fought alongside the Maquis and Free French forces makes those kinds of jokes. I'm not a fan of Millar; not because he isn't a good writer; but, because he devolves into stuff like this, way too often. He comes off like a shock jock. I know he was satirizing a lot of America at the time; but, he has all the subtlety of a hammer to the face. Your mileage may vary. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 9, 2016 13:21:41 GMT -5
Jesse Custer on chins. {Spoiler} {Jesse Custer on chins}  |
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Post by berkley on Dec 9, 2016 22:40:51 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 10, 2016 1:04:15 GMT -5
F'ing hated that! I was into the idea of the Ultimates, until I read further into it. I hated the portrayal of Cap and Hank Pym was a close second. Nobody who fought alongside the Maquis and Free French forces makes those kinds of jokes. I'm not a fan of Millar; not because he isn't a good writer; but, because he devolves into stuff like this, way too often. He comes off like a shock jock. I know he was satirizing a lot of America at the time; but, he has all the subtlety of a hammer to the face. Your mileage may vary. Cap, in that scene, the letter on your head stands for either "arrogant" or "a**hole." For all the reasons cited by codystarbuck. |
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