this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2024
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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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[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

How does one scream without lungs?

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well this is the only out of context comic panel I actually know, thus far.

[–] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is also the first one I uploaded,so there is a 100% correlation :)

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago

I actually just genuinely know this one. It's in the movie!

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bro forgot to put on his skin after leaving the house

As you do

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

I don't turn around for anything once I've left.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

That single panel gives me goosebumps!
It's like a 1 sentence sci-fi horror story.

(also, why is that one dude on his hands and knees?)

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago

"Dude, not on my shoes!"

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's collapsing and turning away in horror.

[–] WorkIsSlow@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 1 day ago

This makes me feel inspired to share random quotes that never happened

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Ha! That's just Barry. Classic Barry.

[–] Lookorex@lemm.ee 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Ok, I think I'm gonna need some context for this one, I'm actually pretty intrigued

Edit: thanks for the context! It all makes sense now. I've seen the movie a couple times in the past, just never read the graphic novel.

[–] LemmySoloHer@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Here's the scene in the movie adaptation with Billy Crudup playing the guy in the comic here. I 100% recommend reading the Watchmen graphic novel (the only graphic novel on Time's Top 100 Novels of All Time list), but definitely worth seeing this part in motion.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

Man that is fucking wild, the enshitification. Fucking November 14th is still not even over and it's already a best-selling graphic novel and feature film.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As an aside, the one thing the movie did better than the book was Ozymandias' plan and execution.

[–] waddle_dee@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's a bold take that I don't see many people take, who read the comics lol. May I ask why you view that?

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Spoilers yadda yadda

Is it really controversial to say “framing superman as the threat we need to unite the world against to stop nuclear armageddon” is a better plotline than “I’m going to make it look like aliens attacked us, but in the goofiest way possible, with a plot device necessitating the existence of real psychics in a world that hitherto otherwise seemed to only have Dr. Manhattan as a genuine “otherworldly force””? Reading the graphic novels really threw me for a loop when that scheme was explained, lol.

[–] waddle_dee@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You know, I don't think in all my life, since reading Watchmen multiple times, I made the Dr. Manhattan - Superman connection. In hindsight it is a little silly lol. I think, I always just liked the visceral look of the squid, and didn't look much further past that. Thanks for opening my mind!

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Isn’t “The superman is real, and he’s American” a direct quote from the novel? Or at least one of those “additional blurbs” written from the perspective of the first Nightwing, unsure if those were “bonus content” or if there are versions of the novel with just the comics.

[–] waddle_dee@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

I always remember that as Wally correcting a talk show host saying, "I never said the superman is real and he's american. I said G-d is real, and he's american." So, I guess I never associated it with Superman and more or less as, the super man.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

You're the real superhero.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Phillip Glass music makes everything amazing

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sometimes-time-time-tim-etime-ti-metim-etim-time-s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVRuRlak9wo

[–] Celediel 17 points 1 day ago

It's Dr Manhattan's origin in Watchmen, chapter 4.

[–] chryan@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

I believe this is from the Watchmen comic, where Dr Manhattan is attempting to rematerialize from being blasted by his own experiment.

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

best graphic novel I ever read

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

Hahahaha The Watchmen! One of my favorite graphic novels.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago