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John Byrne
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These stunts depend on two things, primarily: speculatrs who are too dumb/greedy to remember how badly they got burned last time, and civilians with no concept of how the market works and think they will be able to pay for their kid's college education with these investments. The stupid and the uninformed.
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Phil Geiger
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It'll be interesting to see the sales numbers on this when it's all said and done.
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John Byrne
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It'll be interesting to see the sales numbers on this when it's all said and done.•• 
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Carmen Bernardo
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Where'd you pull that one up from, John? It actually got a chuckle out of me. I'll just make my own guess at what it signifies for the discussion.
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Jason Scott
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The thing that strikes me about all this is the contrast between this 'Secret Wars' and the original.
To ten year old me, the original felt like it was rounding up all the main characters of the Marvel Universe and having fun with them together in the one story.
Fast forward to this one though, and I felt like I couldn't count the number of alternate reality/continuity versions that are jammed in together. It feels like it sums up the problems with Marvel, and really comics in general. That they can't think up any new villainous plots or imaginative interactions with their lead characters, and so depend on an ever increasing expansion of alternate versions of their main stars. Until their comics universe/multiverse just becomes a big bloated mess, with endless varied or tweaked versions of the same characters because almost nobody is imaginative enough to come up with any decent new ones of their own.
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Jason Schulman
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Or the decent new ones -- like the Runaways -- are resolutely ignored.
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Phil Geiger
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Good one, JB. That's my take on it as well.
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Brian Hague
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Those panels are from the comic strip drawn for the 1965 film "How to Murder Your Wife" starring Jack Lemmon as a cartoonist. The strip, "Bash Brannigan" supposedly created by Lemmon's character, Stanley Ford, was done by Alex Toth and Mel Keefer.
Here's a shot of actress Virni Lisi in that scene from the film. Lemmon's character has given her "goofballs" which will make her "go up" and then down.
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Carmen Bernardo
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Thanks for the clarification on the source, Brian. I started having that figured out after a second look. Getting high and crashing low, indeed.
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Rick Whiting
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It just gets more DC all the time!!
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Pretty much. Hickman has basically turned the Avengers into a combo of the Legion of Superheroes and the JLA. It's like Hickman wanted to write the Legion and the JLA and decided to turn the Avengers into a combo of those 2 teams, complete with Legion and JLA knockoffs added to the team. Even worse, the book is completely new reader unfriendly.
Edited by Rick Whiting on 05 February 2015 at 9:27pm
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