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    Image of SeeingI SeeingI
    10:34 AM

    In reply to The Collectible Glasses That Haunted Our Childhoods
    I wish I still had my Jabba glass!

    Also I got an awesome, large 7-11 R2 cup with a big straw that I always wanted to turn into a bong. But I sold it on eBay instead.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    09:52 AM

    In reply to The Collectible Glasses That Haunted Our Childhoods
    I just broke a Lord Krug Star Trek 3 glass the other day when my hand slipped and I hit it with a knife. Way to rub it in.

    There really is nothing like a good collectible glass and puny or not I've got the whole collection from the last film because A: they're glass not crummy plastic and B: it's the closest I'll come to licking Zoe Saldana.
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    12:12 PM

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Not if you plan well.
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    09:23 AM

    In reply to The Collectible Glasses That Haunted Our Childhoods
    During my tween years (which they were not called way back then) I drank almost exclusively out of free glasses like these.
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    Image of Allen_Richards Allen_Richards
    07:41 AM

    In reply to The Collectible Glasses That Haunted Our Childhoods
    I had all the Star Trek III glasses as a kid, and systematically, one by one, my mother broke them all....grrrrr....
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    Image of korybing korybing
    07:32 AM

    In reply to The Collectible Glasses That Haunted Our Childhoods
    My favorite cups are a set of Great Muppet Caper collector glasses, with those hilariously awful Batman Forever cups in a close second-place. I will never throw those away.
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    Edited by korybing at 12/09/09 7:32 AM korybing was starred korybing was unstarred
    Image of dicksson dicksson
    09:37 AM

    @korybing: ahhh.... Batman Forever glasses, ribbed for her pleasure.
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    Image of korybing korybing
    10:12 AM

    @dicksson: I refuse to drink chocolate milk out of any other glass. mmmmm, chris o'donnel you are an unforgivably bad actor in this movie but you make my chocolate milk taste oh so delicious yessss.
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    Image of TheGreat&PowerfulTurtle TheGreat&PowerfulTurtle
    10:21 AM

    @dicksson: HATED that movie but that Riddler glass is ridiculously cool.
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    Image of dicksson dicksson
    11:52 AM

    @korybing: Why didn't they make a glass out of Drew Barrymore's character from that movie? Or was she on the back of Two-Face's glass? I lost mine so long ago... which is upsetting. Chocolate milk sounds nice...
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    Image of PVIII PVIII
    07:23 AM

    In reply to The Collectible Glasses That Haunted Our Childhoods
    BK had these pretty slick lenticular cups for Last Action Hero...granted the movie sucked, but I always remember that cup.
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    07:16 AM

    In reply to The Collectible Glasses That Haunted Our Childhoods
    Oh no, we're missing King Kong!
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    Image of whormongr whormongr
    10:11 AM

    @Hamslicer: holy crap, I had a couple of those- also the great muppet caper ones are missing that should be there
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    01:49 PM

    @whormongr: Holy Crap indeed.
    I still have a Simon Bar Sinister glass too.
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    Image of evildead1971 evildead1971
    07:06 AM

    In reply to The Collectible Glasses That Haunted Our Childhoods
    i had this great r2d2 cup from kfc which was used to collect dirty water from our broken water heater...
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    07:12 AM

    @evildead1971: Good times eh?
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    07:03 AM

    In reply to The Collectible Glasses That Haunted Our Childhoods
    The Best Glasses were the first Muppets Movie (!) ones. The glass they used was thick enough to last. My parents still have them some 30 years later.
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    Image of lazyeight lazyeight
    09:28 AM

    @ManchuCandidate: The farther back you go, the thicker the glass was. My bride still has her Looney Toon set intact, despite the best efforts of our now grown daughters.
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    Image of drukus drukus
    12/08/09

    In reply to DC Celebrates 75th Birthday By Starting Over
    Ahh, remember when comics were for kids? Those were the days. I guess I'll let my son read the 'classics' since no one is making comics for him.
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    Image of TrueCrime TrueCrime
    12/08/09

    In reply to DC Celebrates 75th Birthday By Starting Over
    Will Johns' Batman fight Azzarello's Batman in a duel to the death, with guns? Maybe Dini's Batman can mediate, while Frank Miller's Batman bangs Vicki Vale.

    Either suck up and wipe the slate completely clean, or go back to what I thought was the point of Legends of the Dark Knight series when it first started -- writing original, possibly apocryphal, self-contained tales designed less to stick to continuity and more to simply tell a good story.
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    Image of Byronotron Byronotron
    12/07/09

    In reply to DC Celebrates 75th Birthday By Starting Over
    I've been calling this for years. I am actually not horrified by this as Ultimate was great (at first anyways), and a modern retelling of Batman has been asking for it for years.
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    Image of Demonbird Demonbird
    12/07/09

    In reply to DC Celebrates 75th Birthday By Starting Over
    I'd be much more satisfied if they would just go back to their older logo.
    Oh, and stop killing characters. This goes for you too marvel.
    You both ruined it. I now no longer care if you tear my favorite character in half because they come back.
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    Image of Chris Cashel-Cordo Chris Cashel-Cordo
    12/08/09

    @Demonbird: As far as I've read, Blackest Night is supposed to be the end of death as a plot device, or so Johns has said.
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    Image of Demonbird Demonbird
    12/08/09

    @Chris Cashel-Cordo:
    Considering it has been common as dirt for years and years, I doubt it.
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    Image of Nathematics Nathematics
    01:14 AM

    @Demonbird: No it actually makes sense with what SPOILER Nekron's been saying to the Barry Allen Flash, your rebirth was the first and your death will be the last. sounds like like he's saying he's the one that's been letting characters be resurrected cuz he can control death. And now he's not gonna let it happen anymore. Or he'll die.
    But what if HE comes back to life?
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    Image of Demonbird Demonbird
    08:16 AM

    @Nathematics:
    No, I still highly doubt this is the end of character deaths. It's a story element.
    I've heard "The end of such and such in comics" before, and it's only a matter of time, sometimes only months before they are right back to it.

    Hell, the event is probably going to end with resurrection.
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    Image of Cory Gross Cory Gross
    12/07/09

    In reply to DC Celebrates 75th Birthday By Starting Over
    Why is there even such a thing as "continuity" anymore? So many of these heroes, the DC ones especially, have basically transcended to the level of a Robin Hood, King Arthur or Lone Ranger... They don't need a continuity: they just sort of *are*

    Maybe what they really need to do is scrap the whole concept of a monthly series grounded in continuity and just go for one-off minis, trades, graphic novels, etc. that just give then worthwhile stories by decent creative teams.

    In the last several months since rediscovering my love for DC (mostly thanks to whiney Marvel fans whose complaints about the Disney buyout reminded me that DC always was better), I've had a grand time enjoying my All-Star Superman, Justice, Plastic Man, Jonah Hex and even Lobo trades. Meanwhile, I like Green Lantern but I'm afraid to try those trades out, since I know that to get from Emerald Dawn to the Sinestro Corps War I have to mire myself in Zero Hour and crap.

    Maybe it's just that phase of my comic-buying habits talking, but what is the point of a monthly anymore? Why is there such a thing as "continuity" except as a loose framework onto which recurring characters can hang? You know they're not really going anywhere - unless its a definitive part of the story, like King Arthur and Jonah Hex - so why bother with continuity?
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    Image of korybing korybing
    12/08/09

    @Cory Gross: One of the main reasons I've never gotten into DC is the daunting continuity (Marvel has this problem too, but I never had much interest in Marvel outside of X-Men). I love Batman, but all of the Batman books I have are self-contained one-offs or mini-series. I don't know if they should kill continuity altogether, since there's a pretty big chunk of comic readers who like the continuity, but I wouldn't mind seeing more self-contained stories that weren't buried under decades of continuity.

    If DC can avoid the problem the Ultimate Marvel universe ran into (tripping over it's own continuity quagmire over time) I think this could be a good deal for newer readers, or readers like me who enjoy reading superhero stories but feel like they shouldn't have to read the book with Wikipedia open next to them so they can understand what all is going on.
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    Edited by korybing at 12/08/09 7:30 AM korybing was starred korybing was unstarred
    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/07/09

    In reply to DC Celebrates 75th Birthday By Starting Over
    I've never been much of a fan of comic books, but I'm curious to know what was the first comic book reboot ever, and what was the reaction among comic book fans.

    May I suggest an io9 article on the *history* of reboots, in comic boots, movies, and TV?

    #earthone #comics #reboots #tips
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    Image of Dunny0 Dunny0
    12/07/09

    @Roklimber: Oh, this does sound like an interesting article idea.
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    Image of DocSeuss DocSeuss
    12/08/09

    @Roklimber: Do you mean on the history of reboots in general? For instance, one might argue that soft rebooting started with Miller's Daredevil or Claremont's X-Men, or they might argue that the first real comic book reboot was all due to Crisis on Infinite Earths... and so forth.

    Alternatively, they might go with the modern, millenium-era reboot and say that it began with Batman Begins or something.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/08/09

    @DocSeuss:

    I mean all of that.

    As I said, I was never into comic books, so the specifics of what you mentioned make little sense to me (out of my own ignorance about the subject), but I'm still interested in what people's reactions were to all these different reboots and, in particular, to the very first one.

    After all, it must have been a revolutionary idea, no? I suppose a lot of fans didn't like it much at first, but eventually got used to it.
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    Image of DocSeuss DocSeuss
    12/08/09

    @Roklimber: I wonder, would a remake count as a reboot? In essence, they're telling the same story, albeit on a stricter level.

    Hm. An interesting subject.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/08/09

    @DocSeuss:

    "would a remake count as a reboot?"

    Personally, I don't think so.

    A reboot, as I understand it, is a complete start-over, from a blank slate, where only the absolute most important aspects of the story and/or characters are kept unchanged. Everything else can be changed.

    A remake is not as radical, I think.

    In any case, my interest as expressed in previous posts extends beyond comic books. I'd like to see an io9 article that presents some of the history behind reboots in comics, TV, and movies.
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    Image of DocSeuss DocSeuss
    12/08/09

    @Roklimber: Yeah. As you'll notice, I didn't really touch on what media that involved in my second statement.

    I think the concept of reboots stems from comics, and has gradually extended into other kinds of media. The only major film reboots I can think of were Batman and Hulk, oddly enough. Oh, and Star Trek, but whatever.
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    Edited by DocSeuss at 12/08/09 2:04 AM DocSeuss was starred DocSeuss was unstarred
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