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Out of Context Comics

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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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[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 86 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't think it's too out-of-context. WW is just an extended bondage fantasy.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I feel like that is a comic nerd specific context.

Or maybe we've just agreed, as a society, not to bring it up, like that time Batman lynched a homeless guy and laughed.

[–] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

It should be noted that Batman's no killing rule is a later addition to the character, so early comics are cheating a bit.

I think it says a lot about the original character concept and his position as a millionaire/billionaire regardless.

[–] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Huh, that is very interesting

Also fwiw, by the end of year of writing, the batman writers settled on his "no killing" rule.

[–] doctortran@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I see you're just going to deliberately leave out the context.

That wasn't a homeless person, it was a patient at the asylum. Hugo Strange had injected him and 4 others with grown hormone that turned them into mindless, rage filled monsters, and there was no cure. It's needlessly violent and careless but that is in no way "Batman lynching a homeless man"

I don't know what it is with people on Lemmy trying to dishonesty reframe the legacy of that character just because he's wealthy. It's so petty and pointless.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

1: Guess where 40's asylums got a lot of their patients. Guess what happened to most of them if they did get released.

2: There was a cure, Batman himself made it in the comic.

3: Do you think being a victim of a medical experiment makes it better?

Nice "real context," simp.

[–] colderr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, it's even worse in full context.

[–] doctortran@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bullshit. The full context makes it significantly better because it reveals that isn't just some random homeless man.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If Wonder Woman doing over-the-top BDSM qualifies, then there are some even more prime examples on /r/outofcontextcomics I see that I think I'll submit.

[–] doctortran@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

I mean, going to the original run of WW is almost cheating. Those were written with the explicit intent of depicting bondage, and more importantly, Wonder Woman breaking the bonds. Marston knew exactly what he was doing and how it would look.

[–] doctortran@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Under the original run by Marston, yes. And it wasn't a "fantasy", so much as it was an attempt at depicting a strong female character by routinely depicting her bond and then breaking those bonds.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Well, it was also a fantasy. Marston was into BDSM femdom (he wrote erotic novels before WW) and was in a polycule with two women.

[–] bamfic@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

The guy who wrote and drew WW was a known kinkster.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When I was 6 or so I had a Wonder Woman comic, or maybe it was a record that went along with the comic, whatever. Wonder Woman was tied up and my tiny pee pee went rock hard. And here I am today.

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] M137@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fuck you for posting that, no one deserving of life deserves the deep horror that this implies.

Fuck you.

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Dude you ok?

[–] SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Someone’s about to be sentenced to snu snu

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Zoidberg takes notes: "Safest..."

I just realized Wonder Woman is actually Nancy's Aunt Fritzi. Whoa.