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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 74 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

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

[–] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 6 points 11 months ago
[–] superkret@feddit.org 38 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 11 months ago

"Dude, not on my shoes!"

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He's collapsing and turning away in horror.

[–] WorkIsSlow@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 7 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Lookorex@lemm.ee 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 40 points 11 months 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 11 points 11 months 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 8 points 11 months 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 6 points 11 months 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 3 points 11 months 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 3 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

You're the real superhero.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Phillip Glass music makes everything amazing

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

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

[–] Celediel@slrpnk.net 17 points 11 months ago

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

[–] chryan@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

best graphic novel I ever read

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bro forgot to put on his skin after leaving the house

As you do

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Ha! That's just Barry. Classic Barry.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago

Hahahaha The Watchmen! One of my favorite graphic novels.

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How does one scream without lungs?

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I have no lungs but I must scream

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago