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

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

[–] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

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

[–] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 points 2 days ago
[–] superkret@feddit.org 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 days ago

"Dude, not on my shoes!"

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He's collapsing and turning away in horror.

[–] WorkIsSlow@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Lookorex@lemm.ee 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 38 points 2 days 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.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days 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 7 points 2 days 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 5 points 2 days 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 4 points 2 days 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.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

You're the real superhero.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Phillip Glass music makes everything amazing

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

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

[–] Celediel@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 days ago

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

[–] chryan@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days 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 2 days ago

best graphic novel I ever read

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bro forgot to put on his skin after leaving the house

As you do

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

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

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How does one scream without lungs?

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

I have no lungs but I must scream

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Ha! That's just Barry. Classic Barry.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago

Hahahaha The Watchmen! One of my favorite graphic novels.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago