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7. Favorite comic couple
Uh, I can't possibly pick just one.

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Storm and Black Panther

Marvel spent decades teasing us about this, dropping hints left and right without anything actually happening, then Ororo finally becomes queen of Wakanda and they're already divorced? Just like that? Fuck you very much, Marvel. Fuck you.

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Rogue and Gambit

I'm a sucker for relationships that can't be physically consummated. Complication: he's a womanizing skeezebucket and pretty much the last person you would expect to be interested in a relationship that can involve no physical contact. Then again, his motivation for choosing this may be the fact that he wasn't technically divorced when he started the relationship. I think starting a relationship that couldn't be consummated was some kind of excuse for him. Like I said: skeezebucket.

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Black Canary and Green Arrow

I was never a DC fan, and I haven't even read that many DC comic books, but for reasons I can't fathom, this couple really appeals to me. Maybe it's because Green Arrow is a diehard liberal and the fact that Black Canary is a special kind of badass normal: she has superpowers but mostly chooses not to use them. PS -- Black Canary's real superpower is getting away with wearing fishnets even when they're out of fashion.
 
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Underseer said:
Storm and Black Panther

Marvel spent decades teasing us about this, dropping hints left and right without anything actually happening, then Ororo finally becomes queen of Wakanda and they're already divorced? Just like that? Fuck you very much, Marvel. Fuck you.
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So true. What the hell were they thinking?

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Rogue and Gambit

I'm a sucker for relationships that can't be physically consummated. Complication: he's a womanizing skeezebucket and pretty much the last person you would expect to be interested in a relationship that can involve no physical contact. Then again, his motivation for choosing this may be the fact that he wasn't technically divorced when he started the relationship. I think starting a relationship that couldn't be consummated was some kind of excuse for him. Like I said: skeezebucket.
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A good pick, and a good reason to pick it. I never got this far in my questionnaire, but this would have been one of my top picks. Another was Hawkeye, but with which woman? I might have to go with Mockingbird, but they are currently ignoring their relationship in the Agents of SHIELD TV series, which has me a bit miffed. I guess I can just go with all of the above:

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Black Canary and Green Arrow

I was never a DC fan, and I haven't even read that many DC comic books, but for reasons I can't fathom, this couple really appeals to me. Maybe it's because Green Arrow is a diehard liberal and the fact that Black Canary is a special kind of badass normal: she has superpowers but mostly chooses not to use them. PS -- Black Canary's real superpower is getting away with wearing fishnets even when they're out of fashion.
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Although I probably read about as much DC as Marvel, I never really read Green Arrow. I am more of a Batman, Superman, Harley Quinn, Supergirl, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern fan when it comes to DC. So, another one of my top romance picks is, of course...







Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy:
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I bet you were thinking Superman and Wonder Woman. :)
 
How does Hawkeye rate all those smart, beautiful women anyway? I get that he's funny, but he's also a macho jerk.
 
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How does Hawkeye rate all those smart, beautiful women anyway? I get that he's funny, but he's also a macho jerk.
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Women go for that kind of guy, or so I've heard. At least they are smart enough to not stick around for long in Hawkeye's case.
 
8. Best series being published right now.
I am not currently reading anything. The most recent thing I read was part of Joss Whedon's run on Astonishing X-Men, which was epic.

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9. Most touching comic book/comic book scene.

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I stopped reading comics before Rogue was "cured" and can touch people.

I think the most touching moments came from Rogue watching strangers. It wasn't her watching lovers that was painful, it was her watching mothers with children. Invariably, mothering involves a fair amount of touching, and the most innocuous such gestures served to remind the reader of everything Rogue couldn't have. Even if she used artificial insemination to make a child without killing the father, the resulting pregnancy would almost certainly kill the fetus, and if she somehow made it past that hurdle, how do you raise a child with no touching?
 
10. Dream Vs match

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Doc Samson versus Arkham Asylum

Dr. Samson is one of the odd ducks in the Marvel universe. You see, Dr. Samson isn't his superhero name, that's just his name. He's a psychiatrist who "caught" some of the Hulk's superpowers while trying to treat him. For obvious reasons, he's become a psychiatrist who specializes in the unique issues of superheroes and supervillains. He's not a superhero who happens to be a psychiatrist, he's a psychiatrist who happens to have superpowers, which is why he doesn't have a superhero name.

Marvel and DC occasionally have big crossover events, and it seems they keep missing this possible storyline. If those two universes ever became aware of each other, I imagine that in short order Bruce Wayne (not Batman) would become obsessed with getting Dr. Samson to work at Arkham Asylum. Let's face it, he would be ideal. He's a good psychiatrist, he specializes in the peculiar issues Arkham residents are dealing with, and since he has superpowers of his own, there's almost nothing the Arkham residents could do to actually hurt Samson.

Who knows? He might actually be successful in treating one or two of the patients, and wouldn't that have some fun story possibilities in the DC universe?
 
11. Favorite comic book cartoon series.

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Nothing else comes close.

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If I absolutely have to mention an American cartoon based on an American comic book, then I would have to say The Tick. If that is disqualified because it is not based on a published comic book, then I'll go with Young Justice.
 
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If I absolutely have to mention an American cartoon based on an American comic book, then I would have to say The Tick. If that is disqualified because it is not based on a published comic book, then I'll go with Young Justice.
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Well, then, allow me to be the bearer of good news. The Tick was actually based on a published comic book:

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12. A comic everyone should read.

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The Watchmen.

If you read nothing else, you have to read this one. Yes, you still have to read it even if you saw the movie. The more you know about the Silver Age and the Golden Age, the more you can appreciate the deconstruction of comic book tropes, but even if you know nothing of those things, you'll be able to appreciate the beautiful use of the medium to tell a story.


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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

Yeah, I know. Geriatric Batman. It's still worth reading. Like the Watchmen, this is a brutal deconstruction of comic book tropes, but this one does it with some of the most beloved characters in comic books. Superman obediently does evil things for evil leaders simply because it's in his nature to obey without question. Batman is a borderline psychopath hellbent on revenge. Some of the rest of the story mocks the state of society and politics at the time it was written. Trivia: if you saw the original Robocop movie, that movie borrowed heavily from this comic book, including the use of banal idiots on TV yammering about nothing to convey plot elements.


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Moonshadow

If you have spent any time talking to western comic book fans, you'll have already had the above two recommended to you. If superheroes in tights just isn't your thing, you might enjoy Moonshadow. It's a quirky, surreal fairy tale for crazy people. That's the best I can do for a summary. The whole thing is done in watercolor paintings, so the art is higher quality than what you usually get with comic books.
 
I couldn't agree more about Watchmen, and The Dark Knight Returns. I have not read Moonshadow, but it sounds interesting. I have found comics done with watercolor art to be a mixed bag, some are terrible, and some simply amazing. The cover art on this one, however, certainly seems to be well done.
 
I just re-read The Dark Knight Returns a couple of days ago. I find more nuggets every time I read it.

Another one I just read (for the first time) is Batman: Arkham Asylum. It's another one that praised highly by Batman students (along with The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One) but my goodness is it ever dark. The artwork is technically well done, but appears as if it were done by the inmates. Joker is terrifying. It also has a lot of imagery and symbolism that goes over my head. I think you need a strong grounding in Lovecraft and the Golden Bough (which I don't) to appreciate it.

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James Brown said:
I just re-read The Dark Knight Returns a couple of days ago. I find more nuggets every time I read it.

Another one I just read (for the first time) is Batman: Arkham Asylum. It's another one that praised highly by Batman students (along with The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One) but my goodness is it ever dark. The artwork is technically well done, but appears as if it were done by the inmates. Joker is terrifying. It also has a lot of imagery and symbolism that goes over my head. I think you need a strong grounding in Lovecraft and the Golden Bough (which I don't) to appreciate it.

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Is that Bill Seinkeiwicz? Damn, but no one does crazy like he does. He's the reason Elektra: Assassin was so damn good.
 
KeepTalking said:
I couldn't agree more about Watchmen, and The Dark Knight Returns. I have not read Moonshadow, but it sounds interesting. I have found comics done with watercolor art to be a mixed bag, some are terrible, and some simply amazing. The cover art on this one, however, certainly seems to be well done.
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Cover art can be deceptive. Here's a page sample:

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KeepTalking said:
I couldn't agree more about Watchmen, and The Dark Knight Returns. I have not read Moonshadow, but it sounds interesting. I have found comics done with watercolor art to be a mixed bag, some are terrible, and some simply amazing. The cover art on this one, however, certainly seems to be well done.
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Cover art can be deceptive. Here's a page sample:

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I'm sure there's some legitimate arty reason that I'm too dense to understand, but what's the purpose of breaking up the image with the traditional panel divisions? I'll wager that the artist didn't paint four separate scenes which were then laid out on one page. He likely painted the one large scene, and then the artist or editor said, "Let's break this up into four parts."
 
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I'm sure there's some legitimate arty reason that I'm too dense to understand, but what's the purpose of breaking up the image with the traditional panel divisions? I'll wager that the artist didn't paint four separate scenes which were then laid out on one page. He likely painted the one large scene, and then the artist or editor said, "Let's break this up into four parts."
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The only reason I can see why the single piece of art there was broken into panels would be to give the reader visual cues as to the order in which the first person captions should be read. Of course they could have just placed the captions differently on the page and achieved the same goal. Sometimes the writer of the comic will story board his vision of the comic, and present the artist with how pages and panels should be layed out, but I don't get that feeling here.
 
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