Favorite Comic Book Moments

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Any chance of Spider Gwen ever meeting the beloved Spiderman? I sure hope so. Time to petition.

It's actually already happened, Marvel did a fun little 7 part Spider-Verse series where basically every Spiderman in the multiverse meet up (including Spider Gwen though this is before she got her own comic) as multiple villains were trying to kill off all the Spidermans so the ones that remained were gathered together to defend themselves.

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Though I'm sure that in her new series Spider Gwen will be seeing Spiderman and Marvel is suppose to be doing some big mash up to join all the multiverse into one universe so it's very likely we will get them both living on the same Earth and doing some duo crime fighting.
 

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This intro is going to be bit longer than usual, last time I touched on the Bronze age of comics where things got considerably darker in the comic book world. The changing audience of comic books showed writers that the comic book fan base were beyond the traditional Superhero flies in and saves the day type of reading. Writers at the time were trying to find out what direction their comics needed to go, they knew their readers wanted more mature content but didn't know exactly how to go about it which is part of the reason for the dark age of comic books in the bronze age which was most notable in the 1980s. It wasn't just killing and brutality that made up the Bronze age though, it was also the appearance of things that had never before been in comics such as drug abuse, minority inequality, and acknowledgment of an impoverished class, issues within modern society started to seep into the pages of comics and showed a whole new side of the heroes we once idolized who could do no wrong. In 1971 the cover page for Green Arrow #85 showed Green Arrow's side kick Speedy using several different types of drugs with a label "DC attacks youth's greatest problem DRUGS!" also was an issue were Daredevil's prostitute/porn star girlfriend Karen Page (yes the same Karen in the new Daredevil tv show) once sold away his secret identity for money to buy heroin with in Daredevil in "Daredevil Born Again" released in 1986. See what I mean about comics getting pretty dark in the bronze age? and a lot of this had a negative impact on super heroes that were once held in high regards so came the issue for writers of how to write mature comics without dragging the character of their admired superheroes through the mud, well that's what this post is going to do, show you some of the ways that comic books dealt with this very issue.
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Punisher: So one easy way for a comic book company to have free range with a hero to do basically anything, murder, kidnap, torture, blackmail, ect ... is to create a hero who has lost everything and instead of following the law of justice like most heroes would, takes justice into his own hands instead. Really it's a simple idea, you create a scapegoat of a hero who has grey areas of what's wrong and right and let him do all the killing that your readers want to see while guys like Spiderman and Captain America can continue to polish their outstanding character and keep their hand clean, and considering the immense popularity that Punisher has amassed I would say it worked pretty well. Even legendary metal rock band Megadeath wrote a song "Holy Wars...The Punishment Due" with the idea of the Punisher in mid for bringing justice to the UK for their acts against Northern Ireland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d4ui9q7eDM
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Suicide Squad: aka Task Force X, the Suicide Squad like the Punisher is another scapegoat for showing ruthless bloodshed and killing that can't normally be displayed in most comics on a regular basis. I have to admit that the Suicide Squad is probably one of the most genius ideas in comic books and for those who may not know what it is here's a quick explanation. Amanda Waller works for the U.S. government and is in charge of Task Force X, she uses captured supervillains to go on extremely dangerous missions that U.S. forces can't do and implants a tracking devise/bomb into the back of their neck and sends them off on their mission, if they succeed they get time off their sentence and if they fail they die either from the mission itself or Waller blowing their heads off. The explosive chip also works for keeping the villains in line, do something you're not suppose to and bye bye head (and trust me Waller doesn't hesitate on pushing the button). The whole thing makes for a pretty good read as these supervillains have to work together not because they want to or to bring down the Justice League or to rob a bank, but just to ensure their own survival and often times their are plenty of conflicts between them, along with the constant threat of death either from the mission itself or the explosive chip in their necks and villains do tend to die in these comics. Its almost always a rotating cast in Suicide Squad for various reasons, villains will be killed off so new ones replace them and nearly every mission has different villains as certain powers are needed to complete a mission though there are still frequently used villains like Harley Quinn for example. Now for the reason why I think this is such a genius idea other than what I have already said about, the villains used in the comic can be the villain of any hero in the DC universe so many of these villains have never even seen each other before yet have to work together for their survival (part of the conflict thing I mentioned earlier) and by doing this DC now has literal thousands of supervillains at their disposal who can be used on the Suicide Squad. Let me explain further, villains are always be introduced in comics for our superheroes to fight, sometimes they are well received and make repeat appearances and may even become a staple villain against our favorite superheroes and other times a villain is introduced and is a flop and never heard from again. With the Suicide Squad however, DC can dig up those flopped villains and have them comeback for maybe an issue or two just to be killed off for the continued bloodshed of the comic book. DC can even create new villains just for the Suicide Squad if they want to and see if they are well received by the fan base, if they are then keep them around and if not kill them of and move on. I could write forever on how great of an idea I think the Suicide Squad comic is but this post is already pretty long (understatement, lawlz) and I think I have gotten my point across anyway. For added tidbits, DC did an animated movie on the Suicide Squad called Batman: Assault on Arkham and for an animated DC production that wasn't directed by Bruce Tim its really good, it still has its flaws but I'm willing to overlook them. Also a live action movie for the Suicide Squad is in the works with a trailer already released and Will Smith starring as the lead role of Deadshot *shivers* not to worry people at least the animated movie was good.
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Bane: I know this post is already overly long but in my intro I touched on the subject of drug use in comic books and couldn't rightly end the post without continuing on that some. For those of you who are thinking of the Chrisopher Nolan's Bane from the third Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises, stop ... just stop. I want you to smack the side of your head until that atrocity is gone, the real Bane looks like this
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and those wires going into his body aren't for decoration either as they feed a drug called venom into his body. The venom drug is what gives Bane his immense strength but after being exposed to it he now has to take in the venom every 12 hours or his body will undergo server muscle decay to the point that he will be unable to even move, thus why he always carries venom with him. For those of you who haven't already figured it out, venom is the DC version of steroids, it makes you strong but also has harsh side effects on your body and while the message isn't overly sold by DC it's still there. Steroids are bad and you shouldn't use them, just look what has happened to Bane because of his steroid use.
 
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DeletedUser5819

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Best comicbook moments are lighting a fire with them :x

Roll on bonfire night.
 

DeletedUser3613

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I remember this one dandy comic that was awesome !!!

Desperate Dan run out of cow pie so the army parachuted some in for him !!!!

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DeletedUser49358

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oh yeah I know of that one, basically the British version of Paul Bunyan. Well British version of a western Paul Bunyan
 
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DeletedUser27128

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I don't remember which issue, but it was part of the Injustice storyline. Alfred head-smashed Superman in the face. It was glorious.

No Man's Land
One of the longest, but probably the best comic book stories I have ever read. Gotham City was reduced to rubble by a devastating earthquake, as all hell broke loose with criminals and gangs ruling the streets. With minimal supplies and no aid, the city was beyond saving, and was kicked out of the United States, and was proclaimed as a No Man's Land. It is Batman's most difficult challenge till date, as he struggled mentally, emotionally and physically to save his beloved city, and has to cross some lines he never thought he would.

Also, why didn't I notice this thread before :(
 
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Best Comic Book Moment. "Rosa Klebb - A Woman to Die For" :D

These are from Bob Crider's Pop Culture Magazine and were originally from a comic strip that appeared in the Daily Express in 1964

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