• @PunnyName
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    741 month ago

    Well this is the only out of context comic panel I actually know, thus far.

  • @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    That single panel gives me goosebumps!
    It’s like a 1 sentence sci-fi horror story.

    (also, why is that one dude on his hands and knees?)

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    Ok, I think I’m gonna need some context for this one, I’m actually pretty intrigued

    Edit: thanks for the context! It all makes sense now. I’ve seen the movie a couple times in the past, just never read the graphic novel.

      • @ChicoSuave
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        101 month ago

        As an aside, the one thing the movie did better than the book was Ozymandias’ plan and execution.

        • @waddle_dee
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          71 month ago

          That’s a bold take that I don’t see many people take, who read the comics lol. May I ask why you view that?

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            51 month ago

            Spoilers yadda yadda

            Is it really controversial to say “framing superman as the threat we need to unite the world against to stop nuclear armageddon” is a better plotline than “I’m going to make it look like aliens attacked us, but in the goofiest way possible, with a plot device necessitating the existence of real psychics in a world that hitherto otherwise seemed to only have Dr. Manhattan as a genuine “otherworldly force””? Reading the graphic novels really threw me for a loop when that scheme was explained, lol.

            • @waddle_dee
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              21 month ago

              You know, I don’t think in all my life, since reading Watchmen multiple times, I made the Dr. Manhattan - Superman connection. In hindsight it is a little silly lol. I think, I always just liked the visceral look of the squid, and didn’t look much further past that. Thanks for opening my mind!

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                21 month ago

                Isn’t “The superman is real, and he’s American” a direct quote from the novel? Or at least one of those “additional blurbs” written from the perspective of the first Nightwing, unsure if those were “bonus content” or if there are versions of the novel with just the comics.

                • @waddle_dee
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                  11 month ago

                  I always remember that as Wally correcting a talk show host saying, “I never said the superman is real and he’s american. I said G-d is real, and he’s american.” So, I guess I never associated it with Superman and more or less as, the super man.

      • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】
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        41 month ago

        Man that is fucking wild, the enshitification. Fucking November 14th is still not even over and it’s already a best-selling graphic novel and feature film.

    • Celediel
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      171 month ago

      It’s Dr Manhattan’s origin in Watchmen, chapter 4.

    • @chryan
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      141 month ago

      I believe this is from the Watchmen comic, where Dr Manhattan is attempting to rematerialize from being blasted by his own experiment.

  • @Shardikprime
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    121 month ago

    Bro forgot to put on his skin after leaving the house

    As you do

  • @CrayonRosary
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    51 month ago

    How does one scream without lungs?