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Exalted Speed I want Jack Kirby's vision damn it.

20 Oct, 13 tweets, 5 min read

Most comics movies are based on multiple storylines, in some case it's one story with some mixed in but when talking about the movie Civil War I feel people forget to mention it's DNA also come from another Avengers storyline. One of the best, UNDER SIEGE!

Under Siege is one of the Gold Standard of the Avengers a tense story where the avengers are at there weakest while fighting against their evil opposites the Masters of Evil

This is also the story that Put Zemo as a mover and Shaker at Marvel. See for a long time he was kind of a joke but this set up his new more tactile incarnation who would do everything he could do to destroy Steve.

The story is tense with the Avengers breaking in to reclaim there home and free their trapped teammates. With many of the big guns taken out by various c-lister villains, proving how deadly they are.

This book also does a good job taking the heroes out, it never feels cheap, even Hercules is taken out after overwhelming odds, this story uses that nice old contrast of the real and fantastic to such great effect.

One of the things I like about this story? It's how much Cap is trying to hold onto his personal history it's sometimes easy to forget that Cap is from the 40 and even by the 80's did not have much left over of his old life seeing Zemo destroy his links is such a cold move.

The story is intense and personal, a tragedy at it's heart of a man wanting vengeance against a hero who is trying his best. This scene right here is so powerful

The story ends and Steve lost so much, while it might be junk it's a history he missed out on. The man out of time mourns for the only things left that showed his history. His partners. This is also why I'm highlighting this.

See one of the big talks is people focus on Civil War and only look to the crossover, while it's important to the movie it's honestly hard not to look at it's core and realize that it had a lot of this story in it as well for one, Zemo.

Zemo was very much not a factor in the original Civil war but in Civil War he is and this story takes some of the basics,
-using Cap's Personal history against him
-driving the avengers to the limits
-hurting the Avengers personal loved ones
It's all here in this story.

But besides that this story would go on to have major consequences going forward, for one, one of the greatest comics of the 90's!
*but the 90's su...
SHUT UP!
The 90's had plenty of amazing comics and Thunderbolts is one of the best Marvel titles.

Zemo's story is one of the most compelling at Marvel, a man who believes in the noble ideas of his family coming face to face with the horror of them and his own sins. If you want to know how to get into this character his Story in it's in TB and the Zemo mini.

One day when I have the time we might dig into Zemo more, there is a reason why he's considered one of the best Captain American rogues, even if Marvel thinks no one can take him seriously. But his actions became the basis for what many people consider one of the best MCU films.

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So Bob Kane everyone, people who have been reading my twitter know that I have a running gag of Fuck Bob Kane, and I'm often asked what did Bob Kane do get that? Well Let's talk about Bob Kane and why I go say fuck Bob Kane, this was a long time coming.

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But I keep getting asked about it, so this is the thread to help people and spread some of this info, I'm NOT GOING TO COVER EVERY SINGLE THING here but Bob Kane is probably one of the scummiest men to ever exist in comics and well start at the beginning.

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19 Oct

https://twitter.com/hufflepotts/status/1317881190997762048

Okay origin story it’s an RPG story on how I got this name. So there is this RPG tabletop called Exalted where it’s basically anime rpg kind of. I’m simplifying very hard but one example my character was basically Kenshin with a buster Sword.

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It has this system called stunts where you describe what you do in a cool manner and get rewarded for it. Basically something like “in dawn of the sun my character jumps to his enemy head on and slice him into two” very basic but you get the idea.

Now it was my turn there was a hostage and I had “writers block” to come up with a stunt. This was my first time playing so I wasted my character to be so fast he saved the person and so “I use my EXALTED SPEED!” And the dm had to point out I could not do that.

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19 Oct

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Swamp thing is one of the most important comics characters and I will tell you something I've heard people who HATE Moore say they LOVE his run on him, besides being one of the first strikes at the CCA it led to many great comics on it's own.

It leaves a huge shadow so understand I DECIDED TO GIVE THIS AS MUCH OF A CHANCE TO CONVINCE ME AS POSSIBLE! The Anatomy Lesson is often considered one of the most IMPORTANT comics of all time. I try to give the writer as much leeway to tell their story.

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18 Oct

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Like Ozy made sure to keep track of everyone close to him in the comic and ONE CLEANING lady broke in and stole his semen which he stored, and he didn't notice he was missing a vile even though you set up he catalogued it.

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18 Oct

Who is your favorite Kraven?

who your favorite Green Goblin?

Your favorite Black Cat?

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17 Oct

*So Exalted Speed what long thread on a esoteric subject do you have today?

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Now for intents and purposes this is a Tokypop original manga. It's not OEL because it's drawn by an actual well established manga creator. Ai Yazawa famous for Paradise Kiss and Nana.

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