tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post2688772015951642493..comments2024-03-29T01:07:22.708+11:00Comments on The Adventurers Guild: Questprobe: The EndThe Tricksterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01419316208187255801noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-15710828577300033082022-02-06T03:17:58.820+11:002022-02-06T03:17:58.820+11:00This summarizes a lot of why I like webcomics and ...This summarizes a lot of why I like webcomics and yet almost never read print comics: They are only accessible to people who have been reading them for decades as they are 90% composed of crossovers and such. After watching Guardians of the Galaxy I tried to read the comic books, and effing Iron Man is in them? And issue 2 isn't the sequel to issue 1? You have to go to some entirely other series for that? <br /><br />Listen, you write a book, start at issue one, go to issue two, and crossovers should be rare things, not the main way of telling the story. No wonder they are dying. Canageekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03770924810559440307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-36954188301684842102016-09-16T14:59:54.259+10:002016-09-16T14:59:54.259+10:00You are right! I don't think I knew that at th...You are right! I don't think I knew that at the time. Joe Pranevichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12997014242774219758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-72178659451256618052016-09-16T07:34:32.590+10:002016-09-16T07:34:32.590+10:00The reason "Holly" is handling things so...The reason "Holly" is handling things so well is because she's actually the supervillain Erishkigal in disguise.Thanos6https://www.blogger.com/profile/00026095574900941311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-7024264649715656962016-01-25T18:26:15.776+11:002016-01-25T18:26:15.776+11:00Yeah, I don't know much about Amazo myself sin...Yeah, I don't know much about Amazo myself since he was only in the show for two episodes (?) and he is basically a robot constructed of living metal that Lex Luthor tricks into attacking the Justice League. Something about them killing his creator (who died in cancer). So he copies all of the Justice League during the fight, but somehow they are able to tell him the truth so he leaves Earth. Next episode he appears is in Justice League Unlimited where he is after Lex Luthor so all of the Justice League tries to save Lex and then Amazo joined the League. Long time ago since I watched it. Also Amazo looks like a Starman from Earthbound.<br /><br />And talking about how derivative the comic industry is in itself, I think it appeared to me after watching Justice League unlimited followed by X-men: Evolution and pretty much the same powers came up again and again and I couldn't stop thinking "who came up with it first".Niklashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12994906056143612738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-45277982051458411752016-01-25T17:22:13.316+11:002016-01-25T17:22:13.316+11:00I was more referring to placing such a huge resear...I was more referring to placing such a huge research project whilst also amidst playing through and blogging about a (series of) games. It's the equivalent of trying to play through and blog about every Star Wars game whilst analyzing every related novel. Well, maybe not quite as bad. (Still wouldn't do it.)Aperamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13669724908141286435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-79292458910875252902016-01-25T16:46:40.032+11:002016-01-25T16:46:40.032+11:00I worked it out: I've read somewhere around 29...I worked it out: I've read somewhere around 290 comics this way, including the various annuals and such. In a few cases, they were only half-length comics because a regular anthology story would have appeared in the second half, but I think you get the idea. (And those are all gone by 1965 anyway as every page was squeezed for the various super-heroes.)Joe Pranevichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12997014242774219758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-12679068123471965962016-01-25T16:39:50.681+11:002016-01-25T16:39:50.681+11:00I'm not aware of that DC comic, but I DID like...I'm not aware of that DC comic, but I DID like here that they put a lampshade on how the Chief's power isn't so different from Rogue's. (Just like in the Spider-Man comic where they kept pointing out that he looked too much like Mysterio. There's a certain humor in that I suppose, Marvel pointing out how derivative it itself is.)Joe Pranevichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12997014242774219758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-37423496067931342542016-01-25T16:38:26.642+11:002016-01-25T16:38:26.642+11:00I don't think it was the original intent. My g...I don't think it was the original intent. My guess is that the original goal of the games was to train "cadets" to using robot-duplicates of the various Questprobe heroes. So each of the games is essentially "you" training in a simulator to use the specific hero.<br /><br />The last game might have involved you switching between all the heroes that you had unlocked (using the password system) to beat the game. That would be the only "real" game. I had a whole thing written up about this theory, but with this post being 5,000 words already, I trimmed out my fan-service theories. Joe Pranevichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12997014242774219758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-75125094956279563842016-01-25T16:34:46.441+11:002016-01-25T16:34:46.441+11:00So, about that. When my son goes to bed, I get a w...So, about that. When my son goes to bed, I get a window of time where he's falling asleep and I stay in his room but I'm not reading to him or pretty much anything else. I've been using this time to read comics (on a Marvel Unlimited subscription).<br /><br />As of right now, I've read EVERY "silver age" Marvel comic from Fantastic Four #1 in November 1961 to where I am currently, October 1965. I have no idea how many comics, but I have a big spreadsheet so I'll count them up eventually. To be clear, I AM including the WW2-based Howling Commando comics because they launched after Fantastic Four #1 and include characters that matter to the universe (Nick Fury being the big one), but NOT any of the Western or Romance-themed comics, even though I know that eventually some of them will be brought "in-universe". I have limits.<br /><br />Reading them this way has been... fantastic. You can really watch the world building that Stan Lee and his artists are doing, how they hang each new series on the ones that came before. Time and time again, they knock it out of the park. In this period, they introduce the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor, the Avengers, Spider-Man, Ant-Man & the Wasp, Doctor Strange, silver-age Namor, Nick Fury in both WW2 and SHIELD, the X-Men, the Hulk, and Daredevil. Every book pretty much worked. There are some clunkers, some villains that don't quite work out, and especially in the beginning far too many alien invasion plotlines, but it s shocking just how much of the current Marvel universe was set up in the first couple of years.<br /><br />Unfortunately, my ability to read them all in order is coming to an end. Octover 1965 is where Marvel Unlimited starts to have gaps. Most of the major series are accounted for, but not the one-off books. I'll still read what I can, but it's a bit less fun now that I know there will be books every month I'm not reading.<br /><br />Incidentally, I think that in the whole Questprobe project there was only ONE book on Marvel Unlimited, one of the Quasar ones. That's the one nicer screenshot above; all of the rest of them I had to scan from physical copies that I mail-ordered from some comics warehouse in Texas. (To save on shipping, I worked with a smaller company that would box them all together and ship them as one. Amazon wanted to charge several dollars PER ISSUE and it would have made the prices too high. Thank you, Internet!)Joe Pranevichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12997014242774219758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-23973872687942601842016-01-25T15:42:07.104+11:002016-01-25T15:42:07.104+11:00I wonder, if the Chief Examiner needs just raw pow...I wonder, if the Chief Examiner needs just raw power, why not use also super villains? I am sure it could use the super-intelligence of Doctor Doom.Ilmari Jauhiainenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01655841880034965950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-7128470341818495862016-01-25T15:24:27.833+11:002016-01-25T15:24:27.833+11:00I am guessing reading so many comics. This story i...I am guessing reading so many comics. This story is a prime example of a thing I don't like in superhero comics. A decent story begins in one title and you want to find out how it ends - but the story doesn't continue in the next issue of the same magazine, but in a completely different one, with heroes you haven't even heard of. Kudos for making some sense out of the story!Ilmari Jauhiainenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01655841880034965950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-38033919837444684002016-01-25T13:54:31.396+11:002016-01-25T13:54:31.396+11:00Never do what again, exactly? The multi-part serie...Never do what again, exactly? The multi-part series or reading so many comics...Joe Pranevichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12997014242774219758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-43617661160186081952016-01-25T12:41:15.619+11:002016-01-25T12:41:15.619+11:00Bravo. Never do this again! Your sanity will thank...Bravo. Never do this again! Your sanity will thank you. :)<br /><br />Aperamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13669724908141286435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-65306591939835086902016-01-25T11:41:02.875+11:002016-01-25T11:41:02.875+11:00This is probably the first time anyone has ever co...This is probably the first time anyone has ever compared Scott Adams to Geoffrey Chaucer. :)Joe Pranevichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12997014242774219758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-40313137658802233002016-01-25T03:33:01.355+11:002016-01-25T03:33:01.355+11:00Very interesting history. I feel the need to poin...Very interesting history. I feel the need to point out that you commented on one panel that Kayla's power was to create a shirt, but if you look at Holly's outfit in the previous panel, you can see she used to have a white skirt that was given to Kayla.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-38091920143733278642016-01-24T23:50:20.658+11:002016-01-24T23:50:20.658+11:00Reading through how the chief executioner scanned ...Reading through how the chief executioner scanned the superheroes power to use reminds me about DC:s Amazo (I think that is his name anyway). Of course I only know him from the Justice League cartoon, but it appears something similar. So had it worked like that and then ended like The Iron Giant we would probably have the best adaption of Questrobe ever.Niklashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12994906056143612738noreply@blogger.com