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It's not hard to believe that many words originated from comics. Characters like Superman or the Joker gave birth to terms like "superhero" and "supervillain". Terminology like "Doomsday weapon" multiverse", or "sidekick" may not have stemmed from superhero stories but comics are directly responsible for making phrases like this the norm.


But there are a couple of idioms that we all know that you'd never suspect arose from publishers like Marvel and DC. The usage of words like "brainiac"," and "atomic bomb" are all owed to the superhero medium. Not only that, some expressions were uttered for the first time in comic strips. Certain phrases like "canon" or "retcon" don't directly appear in comics but were popularised by people who discuss such stories.

It may sound unbelievable that slang we use on a daily basis came from tales of grown men in tights beating the crap out of monsters, robots, and aliens, but considering thousands of comics have been published annually for nearly a century, a couple of sayings and colloquialisms here and there were bound to seep into the common tongue…….


whatculture.com

10 Words Popularised By Comics

Did we ever call people "Braniac" before DC's infamous Superman villain first appeared?
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Thoughts on Romita Jr coming back to Spider-Man? Are they making this a jump-on point for non-readers?
 
bonnjer said:
Thoughts on Romita Jr coming back to Spider-Man? Are they making this a jump-on point for non-readers?
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Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I've never been a huge JRjr fan. Everyone he draws has the same gigantic blocky nose.
 
Sun Wukong said:
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I've never been a huge JRjr fan. Everyone he draws has the same gigantic blocky nose.
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Not unpopular at all. He's another that's way beyond his prime and his artwork shows it. He's getting work on name only in my honest opinion.
 
Aw come on, DC, get your shirt together.
 
He was basically brought in to axe a bunch of jobs after AT&T mandated cuts to...well, just about everything they purchased. He did that and now is moving on, I guess.
 
This should not be too hard, I thought, as long as I stay disciplined. All I have to do is read 27,000 comic books, then write about them. I had just signed a contract to write All of the Marvels, a book about reading every superhero story Marvel has published since 1961 as one single gigantic narrative.

The Marvel story is omnipresent – its characters are everywhere, in movies, on television, even gracing shampoo bottles and bags of salad – yet also unknowable. It purports to be one big story: any episode can refer to, and be compatible with, any earlier one.

But not even the people telling the story have read the whole thing. That’s not how it was meant to be experienced.

I did not, however, read six decades of stories in order. That would have been unbearable – and it is one of the two mistakes Marvel-curious readers often make. It is a surefire route to boredom and frustration as the fun lies in following your whims.

The other error is trying to cherrypick the greatest hits, the pivotal single issues. Taken in isolation, these are peaks without mountain ranges. Their dramatic power comes from their context.

Instead, I would go grazing, looking at whatever seemed most fun that day: the plot-dense 1980s Spider-Woman, then the monstrously huge dragon Fin Fang Foom, followed by a bunch of 1970s romance comics that gave veteran cartoonists (who had been drafted into the superhero game) a chance to get back to their roots, specifically, drawing young women wearing very fashionable clothes and crying……..

And I had an absolutely great time. The best of Marvel’s comics, old and new, were as astonishing, thrilling and imaginative as popular entertainment gets. There was also plenty of sophomoric, retrograde stuff, rushed out to serve an audience of credulous kids or bloodthirsty nostalgics.

I was often aware that I was gorging on something that had only been made for snacking, indulging the worst part of the collector’s impulse: the part that strives for completeness (just like the Beyonder in Secret Wars II!) rather than enjoyment.

Fortunately, by the time I had by the time I’d waded in too far, a useful transformation had come over me. I realised that I was able to find something to enjoy in just about any issue: examples of a certain creator’s unique use of language or weird cultural references that could have appeared at no other moment.

That may have been Stockholm syndrome, I admit. But when someone recently asked me if I had actually read every issue of NFL SuperPro, a mercifully short-lived series about a super-powered American football player, I said: “Of course! And #10 includes both a parody of the mythopoetic men’s movement of the early 1990s and a character whose power is literally to throw money at problems – coins come flying out of his hands.”…….



www.theguardian.com

I read all 27,000 Marvel comics and had a great time. Here’s what I learned

Did Dark Reign foresee Trump? Was Iron Man about US military might? Who was Unbeatable Squirrel Girl – and was her superpower really non-violent conflict resolution? Only one man knows …
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Is April supposed to be like "all new comics" month or something? Cap and Spidey starting fresh.
 
bonnjer said:
Is April supposed to be like "all new comics" month or something? Cap and Spidey starting fresh.
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The article didn't say it but I bet that the Cap stuff will be two, twelve-issue series but I could be wrong.

I don't know about Spidey. There's a bunch of first issues this week. I think that She-Hulk and Silk are intended to be long running series but I don't know about the Wolverine, Black Knight, Ben Reilly, and Silver Surfer releases.
 
bonnjer said:
Is April supposed to be like "all new comics" month or something? Cap and Spidey starting fresh.
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They're only relaunching Spidey due to the addition of Romita, Jr. as the main aritst. Decision makes absolutely no sense and is definitely just a Marvel move.
 
Eeyore said:
The article didn't say it but I bet that the Cap stuff will be two, twelve-issue series but I could be wrong.

I don't know about Spidey. There's a bunch of first issues this week. I think that She-Hulk and Silk are intended to be long running series but I don't know about the Wolverine, Black Knight, Ben Reilly, and Silver Surfer releases.
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Marvel is infamous for not saying when a series is limited or not. They've been doing that since forever. One example was the Rogue and Gambit series people were crazy about after they got married (Mr. and Mrs. X). Marvel and the creative team knew it was going to be a 12-issue maxi series. The public didn't know until solicitations came out.

They just relaunched The Marauders series for no reason other than a new creative team. So forking annoying.

They just need to leave She-Hulk alone.
 

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