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Post by depluto on Dec 7, 2004 11:08:21 GMT -5
Knightt's sig made me laugh, thinking of some other offbeat lines Shooter would could up with.
I find it impossible to read with a straight face the line from Plasm 0 "What troubles you, Lust Mate?"
I don't think even Bendis could get away with that one. WOP was a pretty frisky comic.
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Post by Defiant1 on Dec 7, 2004 17:48:19 GMT -5
Knightt's sig made me laugh, thinking of some other offbeat lines Shooter would could up with. I find it impossible to read with a straight face the line from Plasm 0 "What troubles you, Lust Mate?" I don't think even Bendis could get away with that one. WOP was a pretty frisky comic. My favorite all time line was in Solar #3 when Harada told Solar he was too powerful to exist. My memory always intensifies it and makes it even more dramatic than it was, but the concept at the time just struck me like a ton of brick. That one confrontation escalated the magnitude of your typical comic book confrontation tremendously. You weren't seeing one big comic book ray blast vs. another. Jim took it a step inward into the characters and presented the uncompromising will of one individual attitude against another. Shooter has a way of making the motivations realistic and logical. It's not just about a witty or clever piece of dialogue. It' about shaping the world around a character and making that character develop a believable personality of their own. This is one of the last lines that made me laugh: "Ar…armo…hmm…Ar-mo-reens? Armor-eens? Oh. I get it. Marines…but wearing armor. So you call yourselves “Armorines.” Boy, that’s a pretty tortured pun…!" That was to be in Unity 2K #4. It takes the Armorine conceot which I thought was tedious and kicks the whole concept in the sensitive region. I seem to recall some dialogue where Peter Stanchek was asked why he looks so muscular (when he never had before). He answers that he's been working out. It was a jab at the fact the artist wasn't illustrating what Jim had described in his script. I haven't read the full script, but I did scroll through it and catch bits. Defiant1
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Post by knightt on Dec 7, 2004 18:32:27 GMT -5
Shooter came up with some wild s#!t back in the day... I dont know if it was 'corny' or well though out prose but many times it just cracks me up. I just read the inner cover to the Splatterball comic and at the end, that quote was there... Shooter still cracks me up after all these years.
MAN, how I wish he was back into comics... just imagine.
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Post by Defiant1 on Dec 7, 2004 20:48:31 GMT -5
Shooter came up with some wild nuts back in the day... I dont know if it was 'corny' or well though out prose but many times it just cracks me up. I just read the inner cover to the Splatterball comic and at the end, that quote was there... Shooter still cracks me up after all these years. MAN, how I wish he was back into comics... just imagine. There was a Harbinger issue where Ax or whatever his name was says "fat chicks have the sexiest voices" or something like that. When I read that it was probably the first and maybe only time I ever laughed out loud at anything in a comic. It took a certain type of character to say that and not just any character would have said it. It's like a sub-thought process that isn't critical to the story, but it adds color and flavor. Defiant1
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Post by Todd Luck on Dec 13, 2004 16:57:48 GMT -5
Favorite Defiant line: "I'm not Superman.. he is!" -Preach from the Chasm issue of Plasm Favorite Valiant line: "It's all jazz and I can play it"-Jack Boniface in Shadowman 4 Funniest Shooter written line: Armstong refering to Prince Albert as "Fat Albert" ;D, can't remember the exact line in A & A 1 Funnist thing Shooter's ever writen: the Defiant editorial were he talks about Stan Lee walking in on him body slamming Roger Stern. The image it produces in my head especially when Stan Lee says "Stay alive men!" and walks off is priceless .
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Post by Defiant1 on Dec 13, 2004 19:43:57 GMT -5
Funnist thing Shooter's ever writen: the Defiant editorial were he talks about Stan Lee walking in on him body slamming Roger Stern. The image it produces in my head especially when Stan Lee says "Stay alive men!" and walks off is priceless . It's funny BECAUSE Stan Lee is a legend, but I can only say that is extremely benign compared to events that happen where I work. Of course I'm to blame. Defiant1
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Post by knightt on Dec 13, 2004 19:58:24 GMT -5
STAY ALIVE MEN... a cl@$$ic line. I use it around the office here and it is totally acceptible. Of course, I get 'the look' from the younger troops but like I always say f**k 'em.
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Post by depluto on Dec 14, 2004 0:00:53 GMT -5
Funnist thing Shooter's ever writen: the Defiant editorial were he talks about Stan Lee walking in on him body slamming Roger Stern. The image it produces in my head especially when Stan Lee says "Stay alive men!" and walks off is priceless . I just read that the other night! You're right, that is a great little story. Sounds like my kind of place to work.
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