― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 20 October 2006 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:28 (seventeen years ago) link
Obviously future technology means that the ageing in real time is a bit of a cheat - active lifespan can be as long as the writers need it to be - but definitely Dredd's role in the stories has shifted: he's more of a planner than an action man, and he's gone from being the best Judge of an upcoming generation to a living legend with a mildly anti-system aura - his repeated refusal to become Chief Judge, for instance. There's a younger Judge Dredd running around too, of course - the second Rico (I think).
I don't think Wagner planned any of this at all, of course, but because he's been the main scripter for so long he's been able to steer the ship in mostly sensible directions, and the result is a strip and character of surprising depth when taken as a 30-year ongoing whole! (Probably closer to some of the European single character strips, like Tuomas' favourite Corto Maltese!)
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link
"As the strip occurs in real time, Dredd is currently more than sixty years old. However, his vitality is explained in the context of the stories with allusions to rejuvenation treatments. Recently, characters in the comic have mentioned that Dredd is not as young and fit as he used to be.
Joe is nicknamed "Old Stoneyface", a name he apparently acquired while still a cadet. More recently, he has become known as the "Old Man"; though not confirmed, Joe is likely the oldest Judge still on active street duty."
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link
The idea of a comic book character who ages through the years is very interesting, but it's better fitted for character who have their own monthly comic books, which isn't the case with most European or indie comics. It's a pity so few superhero/action comic publishers have even tried the idea.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Note, though, that "Day By Day With Hopey" started in late 2004, ended in the most recent issue, and takes place over the course of a week...
― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Um, apart from 52, you berk.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― occasional mongrel (kit brash), Saturday, 21 October 2006 03:38 (seventeen years ago) link
(154 points)
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Linus's recitation from the Bible in the 1965Christmas special remains the most moving minute oftelevision ever. It's hard to know what to add tothat. (Justyn)
Indeed.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 23 October 2006 10:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 23 October 2006 10:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ray (Ray), Monday, 23 October 2006 10:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 23 October 2006 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link
(x-post)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link
FINAL DESTINATION 4
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark Co (Markco), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― c('°c) (Leee), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link
(157 points)
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Charles Schulz once said that he woke up every morningwith an inexplicable feeling of dread. He poured thatfeeling into Charlie Brown, a gentle, likable boy whois, for no obvious reason, scorned by his peers and plagued by persistent anxiety and loneliness. "Iwonder if I'm dying," he said to himself during ahospital stay. "I wonder if they'd tell me if I weredying…Maybe I'm already dead….I wonder if they'd tellme." There was something strangely abstract andKafkaesque about Charlie Brown's troubles: he seemedto be a decent ball player and a reasonably goodstudent, but still the 600-to-nothing losses and badgrades came. Of course, some of Chuck's problems were more familiar: Surrounded by friends withall-too-obvious crushes on him (Peppermint Patty,Marcie, even arguably Lucy), he obsesses over a girlhe can't even bring himself to talk to. At some pointSchulz seemed to back off from this theme, perhaps feeling he had revealed too much of himself; it'spossible he never intended to show so much in thefirst place. But it gave Peanuts more lastingresonance than (almost) any other comic strip everpublished. (Justyn Dillingham)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 06:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Linus is also, at least in the early years, shockingly competent, preternaturally gifted, and completely unaffected by and possibly unaware of that, which foils off Charlie Brown's obsessions over his mediocrity. But, again, he's also the one who believes in the Great Pumpkin.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 07:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ray (Ray), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 07:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 08:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 09:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link
All of the Peanuts characters could have swept this poll had we worked together as a team, I think.
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― occasional schroeder (kit brash), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:57 (seventeen years ago) link
she looked more horsey to me though.
― occasional horse (kit brash), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 07:40 (seventeen years ago) link
(159 points)
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A great villain for the Fantastic Four, a haughty European lord and master that everyone can enjoy foiling. But possibly not as foiled as often as he is cajoled - as Justyn says below, he's not that far from a hero, and his sense of honor is an easier way to get around him than brute force. See particularly his final (or is it?) exit in the Ultimate universe.
Best villain in the Marvel Universe. Because he might not be a villain. (okay, he is.) (Pete Baran)
One of the weird, recurring, barely-buried themes of superhero comics is that supervillains are not so verydifferent from the "heroes" who fight them. And it'snot that hard to imagine a slightly humbled Dr Doomworking alongside the Fantastic Four, since most of the Marvel characters, bad or good, tended to beimmature egomaniacs. There was something heroic andtragic in Doom that made Batman's numerous foes seemlike a pack of bumbling eccentrics. (Justyn Dillingham)
greatest moment: Doom invades Stan and Jack's office and threatensthem with the sight of his naked face. (Vic Fluro)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 07:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:10 (seventeen years ago) link
One of my favourite Doom stories is Secret Wars, actually, where Doom is the clear standout character by virtue of his intelligence, willpower and determination: as soon as he encounters the Beyonder his every action is focused on trying to get some of his power.
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 09:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 09:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 09:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 09:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 09:34 (seventeen years ago) link