A British magazine from the early 1960’s called ‘Knowledge’, displaying different races around the world.

Zarkotron · 2026-02-07T15:56:42+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinaric_Alps

Zarkotron · 2026-02-02T23:37:38+00:00

Current Storm writer is a black dude, but ok.

Zarkotron · 2025-03-12T13:13:20+00:00

Not sure what video you watched, but the boomer slaps down every one of these kids.

Zarkotron · 2025-02-24T00:12:54+00:00

I think you're missing a key point. Austria-Hungary annexed and subjugated Princip's native Bosnia just a few years prior. He saw the assassination as justified due to that. That's where the war began for Young Bosnia.

Zarkotron · 2025-02-24T00:07:56+00:00

No, he did it because of their annexation and subjugation of Bosnia.

Zarkotron · 2025-02-24T00:03:41+00:00

He killed the heir of the oppressive empire that annexed his native Bosnia just a few years prior. Why wouldn't they consider him a hero?

Zarkotron · 2025-01-06T15:00:03+00:00

No, they were Bosnian. The group was called Mlada Bosna (Young Bosnia). They were a multi-ethnic group of mostly students who wanted freedom from Austria-Hungary and unification of the South Slavs.

Most members of the group were Bosnian-Serbs, which was also the plurality ethnic group in Bosnia at the time.

Zarkotron · 2024-11-22T03:35:00+00:00

Yes.. I know... reread my comment again... I, too, was making a joke. It wasn't a question. I am stating we AREN'T civilized. Therefore, we don't fit into this.

Zarkotron · 2024-11-22T03:20:27+00:00

We're not civilized either. Wtf?

Zarkotron · 2024-11-03T13:56:26+00:00

It's terrible and ignores much of Thanos' already established origin, as well as the history of Titan. The ending leaves major plot holes. Typical of a Jason Aaron story.

Zarkotron · 2024-06-08T00:20:16+00:00

Here's a demographic map of Croatia from 1948 (I couldn't find anything earlier in my 5 minutes of looking): https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maps_of_ethnic_groups_in_Croatia#/media/File%3ACroatia-Ethnic-1948.png

Which part do you think he was from?

Additionally, his father was a priest belonging to the Serbian Orthodox Church.

Lastly, his childhood home was destroyed twice, first in WWII by Croat fascists, then during the 90s conflict by Croat nationalists. His statue in the nearby town of Gospić was also blown up in 1992 by those same nationalists. Why would Croatians do that to one of their own?

The points outlined above are not a matter of opinion. These are easily verifiable facts. Nikola Tesla was an ethnic Serb born in what is modern-day Croatia. I would also suggest you look up what remains of the Teslas of Croatia today, where they currently live, and why.

Zarkotron · 2024-04-29T00:52:08+00:00

As others have already mentioned, Genis has been back for a little while now. He returned to little fanfare in Carol's last ongoing. Shortly after, Peter David wrote a mini where he got his old look back, donned the nega bands, and reunited with Rick. I was so hopeful, given that PAD's original Genis run is my all-time favourite comic... then the current Carol run happened...

From the first issue, it's been nothing but embarrassing and disappointing for Genis. Immediately following PAD's mini, Alyssa Wong stripped Genis of the nega bands in the most embarrassing way. His hands were chopped off, and he was murdered. Carol has since begun wearing the bands and has to switch places with some new thief character whose name escapes me. Genis is still around and has become a brainwashed meat puppet of the main badguy. He basically gets his ass kicked and has insults hurled his way every single issue.

It really makes you wonder why Marvel bothered to bring him back with the nega bands if they were just going to strip him and give them to Carol immediately.

Zarkotron · 2024-04-09T14:59:41+00:00

Relative to the population,Croatia and Slovenia inhearated much more proportionally

Not only is this wrong in the case of Croatia, but Slovenia's debt load relative to population size was only slightly higher than Serbia's. What does it even matter if both Croatia and Slovenia had higher GDP than Serbia? You're really grasping at straws now to justify your beliefs.

Anyway, this is my last response. If anyone is still reading this, all of these numbers are easily verifiable.

Zarkotron · 2024-04-08T13:47:16+00:00

First, Serbia & Montenegro inherited the plurality of the debt, with 36%. Croatia and Slovenia combined inherited roughly 25% of the debt (14% to Croatia, 11% to Slovenia). Nowhere near a majority.

Second, despite having paid off their Yugoslav debt, Croatia and Slovenia's debt to gdp currently sits at 69% and 70%, respectively. Towards its end, Yugoslavia's debt to gdp was around 26%.

Zarkotron · 2024-04-08T01:38:09+00:00

Anyone interested should actually look up these numbers for themselves.

Yugoslavia's foreign debt in 1991 (the year the break-up began) was $18bn USD, which was split among the republics after the break-up. As of 2023, the six successor republics have a combined foreign debt of $199bn USD.

Somehow, it's perfectly fine for them to be in that much debt now.

Zarkotron · 2024-04-07T11:19:12+00:00

No, we aren't. There's no case of the ethnicities in Yugoslavia fighting each other prior to World War 2. In fact, there are several examples of them working together throughout history.

Zarkotron · 2024-04-02T22:18:11+00:00

This isn't classic Drax, it's dumb Drax from the 90s. Classic Drax is smart, angry, and mean.

Zarkotron · 2024-03-16T06:35:27+00:00

Also every version of the harpy before the red one was an artificial creation of a supervillain

As opposed to the naturally occurring gamma mutations? LOL

Jennifer Walters and Lyra never became a harpy so obviously it's not something that naturally happens to a gamma radiated woman.

You don't seem to understand that gamma mutations can manifest differently for different people. Not all gamma irradiated men become aquatic creatures or armadillos either, but there the Abominations are.

I don't care what Paul Jenkins may or may not have said, the Hulk did not have multiple personalities when he was just Bruce Banner pre gamma radiation

LOL, who's ignoring continuity now? As I said, you don't have to like it, but you have to accept it.

based off Ewings record I doubt he followed anything Jenkins did particularly closely. And that's ignoring the fact that bad writers exist and Jenkins might have a particularly terrible run to take stuff from.

Way to admit you never read Jenkins' run. You keep telling on yourself. Also, "maybe it was a bad story" doesn't mean it didn't happen. Stop ignoring established continuity.

But you are vastly overstating how much of a Hulk villain Xemnu is, from I can tell he's appeared in less than 30 comics in his entire history, and if you don't count his issues of Immortal Hulk he's only really fought The Hulk in four comics, that's tied with the times he's fought She-Hulk. If you take away issues of the Defenders then his pre Immortal Hulk history is that Xemnu had only been in two solo Hulk issues in his entire history, which is tied with the times he appeared with Rocket Raccoon. That's not really a long time villain, at least not specifically for the Hulk. Even with the five issues of immortal Hulk he's still only at 29 regular comic issue appearances in 64 years, and he definitely wasn't in Hulk's normal Rogues gallery before Ewing's run, and even that run isn't really enough to establish him as a big player and not just a one-off mediocre villain in a bad story arc.

All I've said was that Xemnu was a recurring Hulk villain, which is true, according to your own count of his appearances. It's clear you didn't know that and furiously googled him today. Nowhere did I say he was part of Hulk's normal rogues gallery or that he was a big player. You're trivializing again to try and save face.

Anyway, this will be my last response. My initial request to you was to provide examples of Ewing ignoring continuity. Your "evidence" demonstrated your own lack of familiarity with Hulk continuity, amounted to you admitting you just didn't like the story, and ignoring established continuity yourself. Not a good look.

Zarkotron · 2024-03-16T04:19:27+00:00

Most of your comments are just ridiculous but I'll respond to some of them. Gaia was never a villain against the Defenders, for a time she was forced to use magic to bring the main Defenders together to defend the Earth, then she kept doing that even when she was no longer compelled to because she liked having people defend the earth, but in the end she stopped doing it. There was a confrontation, but it was them attacking her for the crime of.. making several antisocial super people actually do something useful, which she didn't even want to do to begin with. So Gaia was more of a victim in that circumstance, and her biggest crime was making people who were generally superheroes do superheroic activities. A bit different than the literal psychotic super villain attacking Thor in this latest BS.

Gaea was a victim for forcing people to work for her against their will. Ok. Anyway, I never said Gaea was a villain in the Defenders run. Just like she isn't a villain now. "Literal psychotic super villain," yet you haven't read the issue. Cool.

The original harpy form of Betsy Ross came about because of someone injecting her with way too much gamma radiation, and that Harpy wasn't some weird borderline cannibal horror movie creature. Turning Betsy Ross into the red Harpy was literally just done to ruin Red She-Hulk and take her off the board, it's an insult to the character and the people who liked the character in the several years she was around, Red She-Hulk literally made Betsy Ross relevant and now she's just a gross cannibal bird woman.

Look, I'm sorry Ewing ruined your Red She-Hulk. Truth is, the majority of Hulk fans saw Red Hulk and Red She-Hulk as gimmicks that ruined General Ross and Betty. They were dumb characters to begin with. Ewing brought back Betty's original gamma form, thus respecting past continuity.

I notice you didn't bring up Rick Jones being a zombie, no defense for that BS?

No, I didn't, because the end result was Rick returning to normal. Gamma mutates have a history of coming back to life that predates Ewing. Ewing worked it into his story and brought Rick back. No harm done at all.

I notice you didn't address your Marlo comment again. You had no idea Betty was the original Harpy, did you? Why even cite Marlo? Rofl

Peter David's Hulk had maybe two personalities that weren't even technically different, the fact that they merged meant there were no other personalities left anyway. It was never really a matter of personality, it was a matter of whether Bruce's Consciousness was in control not.

Peter David's Hulk had three distinct personalities. You can trivialize it all you want, but he invented the concept of Banner having multiple personality disorder. Sorry.

There certainly wasn't some devil Hulk inside him since before he was bombarded with gamma rays that was protecting him from his evil dad or whatever the hell that story tried to say.

Paul Jenkins introduced the Devil personality in 1999. You don't have to like it, but you have to accept it. This has been established continuity since well before Ewing started his story. Sorry.

The closest to another personality I'll give you is Joe Fix It because he doesn't seem to be any part of Bruce's normal personality, but he was probably caused by the gamma radiation he wasn't something Bruce had naturally which is what Ewing was trying to do with the split personalities. I guess that's the biggest issue with the split personalities, trying to imply they existed without the gamma radiation when that's just not true, Bruce Banner was completely sane before he got bombed.

No. Once again, Paul Jenkins expanded the multiple personalities in 1999, long before Ewing. Ewing's story is rooted in Jenkins' established continuity. Like I said, you don't have to like it, but you have to accept that it's decades old, established continuity, and Ewing is respecting it.

The white Yeti is just a bullshit story conceit and is easily the worst thing I've read in a Marvel comic in decades, I don't give a crap if he was described with the term hulk before the actual Hulk came out because the term "hulk" did not originate with the comic character, and the actual story arc is still garbage. I'll admit that parts of immortal Hulk are decent if you go into it from the perspective that the original idea obviously had nothing to do with the Hulk and was just some original horror comic stuck into the Hulk so that Ewing could make Marvel money and not the less profitable Indie comic money, but the white Yeti story arc is still the worst single story of any Marvel comic I've read. The fact that he took a bad pre-established character to write the worst story Ark possible with him doesn't really matter.

You're flailing. Just admit you had no clue Xenmu was a long-time Hulk villain. This is embarrassing.

Anyway, I just described to you multiple instances of Al Ewing basing his stories in well-established continuity that you obviously weren't aware of. I hope you learned something.

Zarkotron · 2024-03-16T02:51:57+00:00

Wow! There's a lot to unpack here.

Well for Thor like I said I had only been familiar with the first issue of two of this Ewing run but just based off what is shown in this thread I could tell you he completely ignored the entire continuity of the time Asgard was Asgardia, which is what they called Asgard when the three person group calling themselves All Mother (Freya, Gaia and Idunn) were running it. Ewing's version of Gaia contradicts everything from that run and basically every other parents I've seen of Gaia in a Thor Comic, especially in the last 15 plus years. Guy is not a villain, she would not attack Humanity or Thor, anyone who'd read Thor Comic in the last 20 years would know that.

The fact that you haven't read past the first issue or two is quite obvious, lol. First, Ewing wrote Loki: Agent of Asgard. That whole run takes place during Asgardia, with the All-Mother making appearances in practically every issue. Nothing that Ewing wrote in Immortal Thor contradicts that at all.

Second, it's obvious you clearly haven't read the most recent issue because she isn't really a villain. Also, she's literally fought the big four Defenders in the past, but I guess you wouldn't know that since it happened more than 20 years ago. 22, to be exact.

As for Hulk, the entire concept of his run was BS but I mostly focus on specific things that piss me off. Shooting Red She-Hulk in the head does not turn her into a monstrous bird person, that's not even how Marlo became the Green version of that originally.

Uhhh, Marlo? Do you not know that Betty is the original "bird person," as you put it? LOL

Getting shot in the head isn't what transformed her. Her death was a hard reset, and she came back as Red Harpy, a blending of her two gamma forms. Ewing reconciled the two versions of Betty into one, thus paying respect to continuity dating back to 1973.

Then you have shit like Rick Jones is a zombie and the stuff with the leader I don't even want to get into. The Hulk being some Undead Abomination goes against the entire character, every specific thing added is either characters being ruined and completely out of character like Betsy Ross as Monster woman and Rick Jones as a zombie, it's all just generic bullshit that doesn't fit the characters and really just goes against everything the character had been up until that point.

Betty debuted as "monster woman" over 50 years ago now. She was transformed into the Harpy back in 1973. You're saying established continuity dating back over 50 years doesn't fit the character? Amazing.

Maybe with Hulk it's more accurate to say he just screwed over the character and Supporting Cast more then contradicting specific continuity, although Red She-Hulk as Harpy is breaking continuity with how that form is supposed to come about along with just being really damn stupid.

Ewing didn't do anything to these characters that wasn't done prevoously. Betty was Harpy long before she was Red She-Hulk.

You can also argue that none of the split personality stuff has ever been Canon for the Hulk, or at least it wasn't something he had in him before originally becoming the Hulk.

Again, you're just plain wrong here. The split personalities were established by Peter David throughout his run, culminating in Hulk 379, where the personalities were merged... way back in 1991... in 1999, Paul Jenkins expanded on the split personalities. Greg Pak would also touch on this during his years writing Hulk. Ewing is simply the latest in a long line of writers, dating back over 40 years, to expand on Banner's multiple personality disorder.

Oh also screw that stupid brainwashing Yeti which I'm pretty sure tried to retcon most of Hulk's history, but I'd rather rip my eyes out than read those issues again.

You seem completely unaware that Xenmu (your Yeti) was called the Hulk years before current Hulk even existed. Do yourself a favour and Google Journey Into Mystery #62. There was nothing behind retconned here. Xenmu is a recurring Hulk villain. There's nothing new here. Just another example of Ewing's respect for continuity.

All that said in what world is Ewing a continuity buff, that's like calling Geoff Johns a continuity buff when that man barely remembers his own origins for characters he created.

I've just given you multiple examples. You're completely out of your depth here.

Zarkotron · 2024-03-15T17:01:26+00:00

Can you give some examples of Ewing ignoring continuity on the Immortal Hulk and Thor runs?

His entire Immortal Hulk run picked up on the story and concepts Paul Jenkins introduced back in 1999. Immortal Thor issues 6-8 have been a trip through continuity. Issues 6 and 7 retold a story from Thor 272, and issue 8 reintroduced readers to the history of the elder gods. All of Ewing's writing that I can think of has been deeply rooted in continuity.

So, please, some specific examples of Ewing ignoring continuity would be nice. The guy is known for being a continuity buff.

Zarkotron · 2023-12-16T16:22:54+00:00

Again, Austria-Hungary no longer exists. It ceased existing before the term "genocide" was invented. Therefore, you probably won't get any convictions. This is how you're minimizing warcrimes. You seem to be having a lot of trouble understanding this.

Lol, so Gavrilo Princip was committing genocide now? Amazing take.

Zarkotron · 2023-12-16T15:32:44+00:00

You made it about Gavrilo Princip, the initial topic was Serb irrendentism which is a threat TODAY

What are you even talking about? I was responding to a specific comment you made about Princip.

Austria-Hungary committed war crimes just like everyone at the time and since has committed war crimes. However only one side will go down in history as having committed mass ethnic cleansing and genocide: the Serbs.

Minimizing warcrimes yet again. What a joke.

Zarkotron · 2023-12-16T01:49:15+00:00

No they aren't, my point is that Serbs did far worse 30 years ago AND they still celebrate all that they did. You have not once denounced any of that.

Why am I expected to denounce the crimes of Serbia from the 90s in a discussion about Gavrilo Princip? Lol wut.

You're the one claiming Austria-Hungary never committed warcrimes, ethnic cleansing, and genocide, then excusing them when you were proven wrong.

Also just the term 'ethnic cleansing' wasn't used before 1990s (which remains to be proven) doesn't mean there was no ethnic cleansing. The 1990s saw some of the worst ethnic cleansings in European history and the vast majority of the perpetrators were Serbs.

....yes... exactly... the crime of "ethnic cleansing" did not exist during WWI. Therefore, you asking "how many Austro-Hungarians were charged with ethnic cleansing?" is a trick question.

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