Va'al wrote:ctrlFrequency wrote:Va'al's a tease (not a surprise )
I do burlesque for a small tip. With robot cosplay.
What currency do you prefer tips in, Euro, Pound, Dollar, or Shanix?
Va'al wrote:ctrlFrequency wrote:Va'al's a tease (not a surprise )
I do burlesque for a small tip. With robot cosplay.
Burn wrote:P.S.
**** you CF.
Va'al wrote:ctrlFrequency wrote:Va'al's a tease (not a surprise )
I do burlesque for a small tip. With robot cosplay.
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Dead Metal wrote:We're on a roll here aren't we?
Dead Metal wrote:We did though in the case of the DJD, remember one of them is actually an Autobot spy that feeds information to the Autobots, this has become more and more unbelievable with each new appearance, we need to look behind the "we are horrors" image of the current DJD to make the Autobot spy more believable and to get more clues as to who it is, something that's been eating away at us even before MTMTE started.
Dead Metal wrote:ctrlFrequency wrote:When we don't have something cute to relate to the characters, it makes fiction more terrrifying.
To use Psychout's Twilight example, I remember a time when (before the stupid Interview With a Vampire movie) vampires were freaking scary. They have been humanized in fiction to the point where they are procreating with humans. Heavily romanticized, they'very lost their fangs and are wispy teenage idols. But 30 years ago, not so much.
Humanize fictional demons and they loose their power.
Twilight has nothing to do with the DJD, this is a group that was introduced to us as being interchangeable, their names and identities aren't theirs, they inherit them from the member that died using them.
We already knew they were more than just one note killing machines, this issue finally gives as more of an insight into who they are.
Dead Metal wrote:As for Vampires, they have been developing down this stupid line ever since Bram Stoker's Dracula introduced us to Dracula, the immortal undead king who cries out for his long lost love he seeks to replace with the vapid piece of cardboard that is Mina.
Twilight just went and made it full on teen girl porn.
Burn wrote:P.S.
**** you CF.
ctrlFrequency wrote:Va'al wrote:ctrlFrequency wrote:Va'al's a tease (not a surprise )
I do burlesque for a small tip. With robot cosplay.
What currency do you prefer tips in, Euro, Pound, Dollar, or Shanix?
Va'al wrote:ctrlFrequency wrote:Va'al wrote:ctrlFrequency wrote:Va'al's a tease (not a surprise )
I do burlesque for a small tip. With robot cosplay.
What currency do you prefer tips in, Euro, Pound, Dollar, or Shanix?
Who'm I kidding, I'll do it for free.
SW's SilverHammer wrote:Eat my ass funpub.
Burn wrote:And this is for taking Nemesis Maximo seriously.
*high fives Silly in the face*
carytheone wrote:I can't be assed to do any better right now.
Va'al wrote:ctrlFrequency wrote:Va'al wrote:ctrlFrequency wrote:Va'al's a tease (not a surprise )
I do burlesque for a small tip. With robot cosplay.
What currency do you prefer tips in, Euro, Pound, Dollar, or Shanix?
Who'm I kidding, I'll do it for free.
Burn wrote:P.S.
**** you CF.
ctrlFrequency wrote:Dead Metal wrote:ctrlFrequency wrote:When we don't have something cute to relate to the characters, it makes fiction more terrrifying.
To use Psychout's Twilight example, I remember a time when (before the stupid Interview With a Vampire movie) vampires were freaking scary. They have been humanized in fiction to the point where they are procreating with humans. Heavily romanticized, they'very lost their fangs and are wispy teenage idols. But 30 years ago, not so much.
Humanize fictional demons and they loose their power.
Twilight has nothing to do with the DJD, this is a group that was introduced to us as being interchangeable, their names and identities aren't theirs, they inherit them from the member that died using them.
We already knew they were more than just one note killing machines, this issue finally gives as more of an insight into who they are.
Oh I know, it's an analogy about what has happened to horror, not being allowed to be horrifying anymore.
ctrlFrequency wrote:Dead Metal wrote:As for Vampires, they have been developing down this stupid line ever since Bram Stoker's Dracula introduced us to Dracula, the immortal undead king who cries out for his long lost love he seeks to replace with the vapid piece of cardboard that is Mina.
Twilight just went and made it full on teen girl porn.
I thought Interview came out first? Well... to be honest my interest in vampires was never very deep, and over the years it's been beaten into nothingness (besides, I'm too old to remember what happened in the early 90s, it all blended together from youthful rebellion and drinking)
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Va'al wrote:Accurate prediction of the Megatron/Tarn relationship:
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Dead Metal wrote:Va'al wrote:Accurate prediction of the Megatron/Tarn relationship:
MTMTE # 42 Variant cover:
Va'al naked with a disgusted looking Swerve face censoring his penis.
Dead Metal wrote:I know, it still has nothing to do with the DJD, because they weren't introduced to us as such, sure to the characters they are, but we as readers have always known that there is more to them.
They were first mentioned to us as being the group of Decepticons with a double agent in their midst with the coolest way of relaying information ever.
Then they were revealed to be the nightmare of the Autobots and Decepticons.
Dead Metal wrote:Interview was published in 1976s, Bram Stoker's Dracula was published in 1897.
Talking about the original book, not the far superior movie.
Burn wrote:P.S.
**** you CF.
ctrlFrequency wrote:Dead Metal wrote:I know, it still has nothing to do with the DJD, because they weren't introduced to us as such, sure to the characters they are, but we as readers have always known that there is more to them.
They were first mentioned to us as being the group of Decepticons with a double agent in their midst with the coolest way of relaying information ever.
Then they were revealed to be the nightmare of the Autobots and Decepticons.
The comparison isn't for the DJD directly, it's for the genre of horror being degraded into absurdity by 'cuting' monsters.
When anyone can say "Oh how cute!" about the DJD, which were specifically developed into monsters, then they've gone the way of every scary thing before them... fan girl cute.
What happened to vampires (I'm excluding zombies because they're more gore than straight up horror)is comparable in terms of how we treat anything of horror these days. We have to turn it cute. Not everyone likes horror to be turned cute. I like to sink into the depth of terror and fear over "oh how cute!"
ctrlFrequency wrote:Dead Metal wrote:Interview was published in 1976s, Bram Stoker's Dracula was published in 1897.
Talking about the original book, not the far superior movie.
Okay, I should have specified because I actually never read either book, only saw the movies. And to be honest, I didn't know until after the movie came out that Interview was a book first, though I did (do) know about Dracula being a book well before the movie was made (and was really disappointed when I saw the movie, I guess I should have read the book first so I would have known to avoid the movie). I looked it up, Bram Stoker's came out 1992, Interview in 1994 (so no matter which way you look at it, you are correct)
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Dead Metal wrote:Normally I would agree, see my point about Rob Zombie's "brilliant" Halloween remakes
But the DJD is an exception because of how they've been introduced to us. Plus, almost everyone in Trasnformers comics has cute moments now.
Dead Metal wrote:Oh no, don't read Dracula, the book is awful. Sure the concept is cool, basically it's done as if it's a collection of newspaper articles and journal entries, so it's the book version of found footage, and it has cool moments, but it just sucks.
My complaints back then on Facebook while reading it were more entertaining that the book. It's kinda like the TF ongoing by Costa, just far duller. The female main characters are cardboard cutouts who act like they don't have a brain between them. The male characters spend all day talking about how f**king amazing, intelligent and beautiful the women of the book are and Dracula just stays away to make everything less interesting.
The movie is far more interesting, it shortens stuff, makes everything far more interesting and logical ( ) and it's pretty to look at.
Dead Metal wrote:The second best is Legacy of Kain, the now long dead game series, but that does humanize vampires a bit.
Burn wrote:P.S.
**** you CF.
ctrlFrequency wrote:Dead Metal wrote:Normally I would agree, see my point about Rob Zombie's "brilliant" Halloween remakes
But the DJD is an exception because of how they've been introduced to us. Plus, almost everyone in Trasnformers comics has cute moments now.
I haven't paid any attention to Rob Zombie and the Halloween remakes (I didn't care for the originals... slasher doesn't do a darned thing for me). So I'm clueless on that :pDead Metal wrote:Oh no, don't read Dracula, the book is awful. Sure the concept is cool, basically it's done as if it's a collection of newspaper articles and journal entries, so it's the book version of found footage, and it has cool moments, but it just sucks.
My complaints back then on Facebook while reading it were more entertaining that the book. It's kinda like the TF ongoing by Costa, just far duller. The female main characters are cardboard cutouts who act like they don't have a brain between them. The male characters spend all day talking about how f**king amazing, intelligent and beautiful the women of the book are and Dracula just stays away to make everything less interesting.
The movie is far more interesting, it shortens stuff, makes everything far more interesting and logical ( ) and it's pretty to look at.
I hadn't planned on it. I was so put off by the movie that I have no desire to read the book. And if the movie's better than the book... then I will make note never to even get curiousDead Metal wrote:The second best is Legacy of Kain, the now long dead game series, but that does humanize vampires a bit.
A little bit of humanization (especially for a game) has to be expected. Most people need some way to relate a character to themselves. Doesn't mean I have to like it for myself.
ctrlFrequency wrote:Dead Metal wrote:Normally I would agree, see my point about Rob Zombie's "brilliant" Halloween remakes
But the DJD is an exception because of how they've been introduced to us. Plus, almost everyone in Trasnformers comics has cute moments now.
I haven't paid any attention to Rob Zombie and the Halloween remakes (I didn't care for the originals... slasher doesn't do a darned thing for me). So I'm clueless on that :pDead Metal wrote:Oh no, don't read Dracula, the book is awful. Sure the concept is cool, basically it's done as if it's a collection of newspaper articles and journal entries, so it's the book version of found footage, and it has cool moments, but it just sucks.
My complaints back then on Facebook while reading it were more entertaining that the book. It's kinda like the TF ongoing by Costa, just far duller. The female main characters are cardboard cutouts who act like they don't have a brain between them. The male characters spend all day talking about how f**king amazing, intelligent and beautiful the women of the book are and Dracula just stays away to make everything less interesting.
The movie is far more interesting, it shortens stuff, makes everything far more interesting and logical ( ) and it's pretty to look at.
I hadn't planned on it. I was so put off by the movie that I have no desire to read the book. And if the movie's better than the book... then I will make note never to even get curiousDead Metal wrote:The second best is Legacy of Kain, the now long dead game series, but that does humanize vampires a bit.
A little bit of humanization (especially for a game) has to be expected. Most people need some way to relate a character to themselves. Doesn't mean I have to like it for myself.
ctrlFrequency wrote:Dead Metal wrote:Normally I would agree, see my point about Rob Zombie's "brilliant" Halloween remakes
But the DJD is an exception because of how they've been introduced to us. Plus, almost everyone in Trasnformers comics has cute moments now.
I haven't paid any attention to Rob Zombie and the Halloween remakes (I didn't care for the originals... slasher doesn't do a darned thing for me). So I'm clueless on that :p
ctrlFrequency wrote:Dead Metal wrote:Oh no, don't read Dracula, the book is awful. Sure the concept is cool, basically it's done as if it's a collection of newspaper articles and journal entries, so it's the book version of found footage, and it has cool moments, but it just sucks.
My complaints back then on Facebook while reading it were more entertaining that the book. It's kinda like the TF ongoing by Costa, just far duller. The female main characters are cardboard cutouts who act like they don't have a brain between them. The male characters spend all day talking about how f**king amazing, intelligent and beautiful the women of the book are and Dracula just stays away to make everything less interesting.
The movie is far more interesting, it shortens stuff, makes everything far more interesting and logical ( ) and it's pretty to look at.
I hadn't planned on it. I was so put off by the movie that I have no desire to read the book. And if the movie's better than the book... then I will make note never to even get curious
ctrlFrequency wrote:Dead Metal wrote:The second best is Legacy of Kain, the now long dead game series, but that does humanize vampires a bit.
A little bit of humanization (especially for a game) has to be expected. Most people need some way to relate a character to themselves. Doesn't mean I have to like it for myself.
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Va'al wrote:As much as this is fun to watch develop, could we try bringing it to be a little more overtly relevant to the comic issue, or at least the series/characters?
I feel we're straying a little too far now.
Burn wrote:P.S.
**** you CF.
ctrlFrequency wrote:Va'al wrote:As much as this is fun to watch develop, could we try bringing it to be a little more overtly relevant to the comic issue, or at least the series/characters?
I feel we're straying a little too far now.
Darn it, Va'al!
(don't forget, you helped spiral this thread to derailed)
Va'al wrote:As much as this is fun to watch develop, could we try bringing it to be a little more overtly relevant to the comic issue, or at least the series/characters?
I feel we're straying a little too far now.
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Convoy wrote:I'll preface this comment with: I'm not all that familiar with the current comics, yet. Sorry if I inadvertently cover any spoilers.
You have been warned.
Is Megatron still an Autobot?
A while back I made a joke about Optimus becoming a Decepticon. If Roller is a part of Optimus in this continuity and Roller is Tarn then Optimus, or a piece of him, IS a Decepticon. And that piece of himself is gallivanting around mutilating other Decepticons (and Autobot doubles?). Give me your face.
Thanks, Va'al, for the recommendation. I'm going to have to hunt down that little collection. Looking forward to reading your review.
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Dead Metal wrote:Yes, Megatron is still an Autobot, an currently he seems to actually mean it. He's also pretty badass in protecting the Autobots under his command.
No part of Optimus is a Decepticon. There are two Rollers in the idw continuity.
A former police force colleague and friend of Optimus from before the war broke out, this guy is very likely Tarn, and may be the double agent Agent 113.
And the traditional Roller we all know from the 80s, just with the added twist that this Roller was named so by Optimus in honor of his friend.
padfoo wrote: they make Cybertonians (and readers) piss their pants!
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