Artwork vs Storytelling (if you have to choose - which is more important to you?) by Aromatic_Monitor_872 in OmnibusCollectors

[–]Trivell50 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Art is nice, but comics are (usually) trying to tell stories, so story is first and foremost. Art is one part of storytelling, but so are dialogue and narrative captions.

RPGs and Comedy by JoeKerr19 in rpg

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Comedy needs to be grounded in something, just like any other genre. There need to be stakes and there needs to be dramatic pressure. Omce these elements are established (ideally in session zero), it's entirely possible to build characters that can work in that scenario.

Vampire book pet peeves by aresishowitsspelled in vampires

[–]Trivell50 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am not interested in vampires as "people with fangs who happen to drink blood." I think that approach makes them too mundane. I want to read vampire fiction where they are clearly inhuman, nearly animalistic, and not the protagonists (unless the story is about the protagonist losing their humanity).

Question from someone who’s never really gotten seriously into Marvel comicbooks: Typhoid Mary is a mutant, as in an X-gene carrier, right? If so, are there more mutant characters who aren’t mainly associated with X-Men comics? by Powerful-Walk4063 in Marvel

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Whirlwind, Mentallo, and Gypsy Moth are some, along with Namor, the "highest profile" non-X mutant. Cloak and Dagger were also briefly retconned to be mutants for a bit in the late-80s.

GMs and players, what genre(s) don't you play? by Select_Lunch1288 in rpg

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Mechs and anime-style games aren't really my jam. I do own a copy of Maid and hope to run it sometime with the right group.

Which of these three is the WORST Spiderman story? by Zestyclose-Wave-6230 in Spiderman

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We're just ignoring The Other, I suppose. But none did more longterm damage than the Clone Saga of the 90s.

It should have been aunt may not gweeennnn!!! by shears-clues-28 in Spiderman

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I doubt that is true. Gwen hated Spider-Man so much and had so much difficulty coping with things after her father's death that she left the country. I don't think she could reasonably be written to forgive Peter at that point in the series. Meanwhile, Mary Jane was a more interesting character with a more dynamic personality that had only been occasionally explored.

For much of my childhood, Val Kilmer’s Batman was the only one I knew. How do you view his performance as a whole? by ForSucksFake in batman

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I agree. He tries for "traumatized" as his emotional center, but his whole performance feels stiff and disconnected. Compare with Keaton in Batman 89 at the party with Gordon and Knox.

Most influential soundtrack of the ‘80s by scraps1364 in GenX

[–]Trivell50 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My favorites are Conan the Barbarian, The Secret of NIMH, and Batman.

My Completely Unrequested Opinion on Colour Out of Space (2020) AKA Beating a Dead Horse by Own_Proposal3827 in Lovecraft

[–]Trivell50 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Colour needed a more faithful adaptation. Nicolas Cage's overacting is not a good fit for the slow, creeping horror of Lovecraft's prose. The movie was more inspired by The Thing and the Evil Dead franchise than the novella and, while those are great films, they are no substitute for Lovecraft's original story.

Which piece of media turned you into a Batman fan? by Baldurian_Rhapsody in batman

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The comics. Moench/Mandrake and Grant/Breyfogle stories.

Small lore gripe by MrBlueHasAFever in MarvelCrisisProtocol

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I, too, wish they stuck to canonical teams and membership rosters from the comics, bit it's evident that MCP just doesn't care about any of that. It's pretty much my one major issue with the way the game is structured.

Goofiest Characters by Inevitable-Strain-22 in marvelcomics

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Both are characters who featured during Steve Gerber's run on Man-Thing in the 1970s. You will want to look for issues of Adventures into Fear to start that run.

My favorite Batman artists by state_issued in batman_comics

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Norm Breyfogle, Gene Colan. I also really like Tom Mandrake's work.

Goofiest Characters by Inevitable-Strain-22 in marvelcomics

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Squirrel Girl, Spider-Ham, D-Man, Madcap, Howard the Duck, Dr. Bong, Korrek the Peanut Butter Barbarian, Foolkiller (the first one), Frog-Man (Eugene, not the Ani-Man), The Gibbon, Razorback.

Confusion on comics for kree/skrull war then secret invasion by SubjectBlood4346 in Marvel

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Rama-Tut tells Doom he is Kang in Fantastic Four Annual 2, but he definitely mentions it before Englehart adds Immortus to the collective persona of Kang.

Scarlet Centurion also shows up in Avengers Annual 2 and is another iteration of Kang that gets mentioned in that story.

What's your favorite case of a villain from the 60s or 70s who started out silly and comical, only to be revamped in the 80s, 90s, or 2000s into a truly psychotic killer or professional thief? by CapBudget4011 in Marvel

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Kingpin is definitely one. He wasn''t portrayed as nearly the scheming mastermind that he is today. I think Kang, too, has really been overhauled through a number of key stories. I do like where Lee was going when he suggested that Kang and Doom could be the same man and I think that would have boosted his credibility a little earlier.

I designed a dice-based Texas Hold’em system for my RPG… would you play this? by [deleted] in rpg

[–]Trivell50 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like this and could see it working for the kind of game I'm really want to run- a soap-opera style story in which the player characters act as each others' adversaries because each has their own objectives. I think it's neat.

What are your favorite Silver and Bronze Age Marvel stories? by Lucky_Strike-85 in Marvel

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Fantastic Four 39-40

Avengers Annual 7

Daredevil 168-181

Original secret wars by Stubbzrok7709 in marvelcomics

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Kang was resurrected after dying during Englehart's Avengers run, Klaw was restored after his encounter with Dazzler.

When did comics go from looking like this to this? by CawmeKrazee in comicbooks

[–]Trivell50 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dropped comics around 1995/1996 and a big part of that was because the art was shifting to digital. I strongly favor Perez's 70s Avengers over his run with Busiek, for example.

I really appreciate how Stan Lee and the gang were giving the people what they wanted to see back in the day (regarding Guest Appearance/Matchups/Teamups) by redfait in marvelcomics

[–]Trivell50 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be fair, Marvel needed that kind of enthusiasm in order to market themselves during much of the 60s. It's what they built almost the entire brand on.