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2019-01-17, 08:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)
The hammer shoots beams. Turns out its just an oddly shaped blaster. Well, oddly shaped to us humans, as he comes from an entirely different culture of course his weapon requirements would be different and we would be hypocritical to complain about them after getting upset about the existence of heaven and hell.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-01-17, 10:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-01-17, 01:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)
In Babylon 5, the Vorlons appear to the younger races as angelic beings, to help them in the task of guidance they've taken upon themselves. Maybe the Star Power have a similar role in the cultural consciousness of the races across the galaxy.
Though it's probably best not to think about it too much.
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2019-01-17, 01:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)
I think it's a subtle hint of his backstory. His use of poetic language hints at an educated background. He probably was a [Language] major, and also philosophy and theology. But after 20 years or so working in underpaid or unpaid assistant jobs trying to get tenure he finally snapped and became an brutal warlord. His use of a warhammer supports that; I saw a lot of [Language] majors getting hammered back in university.
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2019-01-17, 01:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)
I think it's Star Wars.
A Lucas is just a Mookie that never stopped dreaming, and instead stopped accepting external input.Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2019-01-17, 01:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)
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2019-01-17, 01:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-01-17, 02:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-01-17, 06:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)
Didn't have a lot of time lately and I'm in a good mood, so might as well talk about something that DIDN'T bother me about the comic but was mentioned in this thread, namely the angel and the pizza box.
On a theoretical level, it's not impossible to create a world where small world building elements appear naturally in the background and might be used as important pieces of information later (Gunnekrigg Court is very good at that).
But very often shortcuts can be made, and elements from our experience are used to save us time and prevent the loss of focus.
The pizza box from the previous arc is a good example.
Maybe it doesn't belong in the created world, maybe something else could have been prepared and used, but a single panel with a cardboard box told us everything we need to know about the scene without words and we understood Danica's gesture without the need to divert our attention elsewhere.
The "angel" reference is more or less the same.
Ask yourself this, would you rather have a word from our time used to understand the context, or do you prefer countless of meaningless fillers about the religious background of the federation, just to replace this single word?
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2019-01-18, 01:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)
I'll kind of give you the pizza box, although I feel like there could have been something less anachronistic?
But the Angel thing is stupid because there is no point in him calling her that. Does he call anything that flies an angel? Is the concept of flying people so limited it requires religious implications?
Also, that's a weird way to start a rock off.
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2019-01-18, 02:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-01-18, 08:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)
I guess heavy metal showdown could literally refer to the fact that the axe is a heavy piece of metal...
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2019-01-18, 09:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)
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2019-01-18, 10:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-01-18, 01:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)
I see this as two separate things.
In the linguistic sense, I don't have any problem with it.
But yes, I fully agree that the use of the word "angel" felt awkward in this context, like he's trying to hit on her seconds before literally trying to hit her.
Anyway, I don't usually have problems with the art.
As a concept, I'm okay with everything as long as I can understand what's going on.
That means recognizing the characters, understanding the basic actions, not having the art contradict the words, and being able to intuitively read the panels without problems.
That last part baffled me, I had to read the page three times before understanding that the panel order is left, right, left, down.
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2019-01-18, 02:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)
I think you're using a narrow definition of the word. In mythology angels act as messengers and protectors, but are also powerful beings that are capable of destroying the enemies of God.
Or he is an incel.
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2019-01-18, 05:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)
Everyone knows an angel is a wheel of fire with a hundred eyes and a hundred wings and four heads (of eagle, lion, bull, and human) and a sword made of lightning.
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2019-01-18, 05:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-01-18, 05:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)
Or the most difficult role in Greek tragedies (angellos means messenger, and messengers in tragedies often had to describe the most important happenings, that could not be performed on the scene, like the battle at Salamis. This means that they had to elicit a reaction in the viewers just singing a description instead of acting it, while also while wearing a mask that hid their facial features.)
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2019-01-19, 12:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-01-21, 02:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)
That's not how momentum works, Mookie.
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2019-01-21, 09:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-01-21, 10:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-01-21, 01:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)
I'll resume reading this when the artist returns. Give us a shout, eh?
The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2019-01-21, 02:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-01-21, 04:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)
Meh, its close enough I can buy it. He smashed her in the head from above, flipping her over and slamming her into the ground. Its not PERFECT but its not like he swung UP or something.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-01-21, 04:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-01-21, 06:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-01-22, 02:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)
There's a classic almost nostalgic air to the tone of this thread, but I can't quite put my finger on why.
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2019-01-22, 08:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)
http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2004-03-19
http://www.starpowercomic.com/comic/season-finale/
I'm seeing a connection. Maybe.Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955