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Comic panels taken out of comics so we can make fun of them!! We love the golden age stuff!

Rules:

  1. Comics must come from actual comic books. No AI or Photoshops.

  2. Single panels are preferred.

  3. Comics should be unintentionally funny. Spider-man cracking wise is not what this is about.

  4. Don't be a dick.

  5. I can't believe I've had to add this... NO RACISM.

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Not sure if this breaks rule #3 (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 weeks ago by agamemnonymous to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Pulling anything from The Invisibles is just plain cheating. Anything Grant Morrison wrote, really.

[–] agamemnonymous 6 points 4 weeks ago

That's why I went with a tamer panel.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Dude is one asymmetric pair of glasses from Spider Jerusalem

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Ah. "Scramble the mantras" must be code for big time fucking up peoples' guts, then

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I was thinking the same thing

[–] agamemnonymous 2 points 3 weeks ago

big time fucking up peoples' guts

At first I thought this was a sex thing, then I started reading and thought it would be a violence thing. Then I kept reading, and I became enlightened.

[–] agamemnonymous 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you for this. I saw a picture of Spider Jerusalem on a counter culture flyer over a decade ago and couldn't find the source (I wanted those sweet glasses). When I read Invisibles I assumed I found it and it must've been Mob from some promo or alt art.

It was definitely Spider Jerusalem, I found the glasses, and now I get to read Transmetropolitan.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Enjoy! It's really good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Even closer than that to being King Mob from The Invisibles.

Edit: based on what other people have posted, it is King Mob. I'll see myself out.

[–] delver 8 points 3 weeks ago

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe it depends on whether Grant Morrison intended this to be funny..?

..or would it depend on whether King Mob thought this was funny? 😱 Fuck, you're giving me Invisibles PTSD Flashbacks

[–] agamemnonymous 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In context, it is a straightforward, accurate explanation. Mob is just filling him in on simple facts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"simple facts"

[–] agamemnonymous 2 points 3 weeks ago

Strange, but simple

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

"You mean the revolver, sir?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, getting shot in the throat has a way of doing that.

[–] agamemnonymous 3 points 3 weeks ago

I suppose in a sense our life is a trance, traveling forward through time, and the coordinated nervous rhythms of our vital organs are "mantras" that maintain it.