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mooreandrew58 posted...

Difference is I have no way of knowing if you are lying.

Yes, but your ability or inability to confirm doesn't actually alter the truth.

Nor does it really change the fact that I was basically pointing out that someone owning more comic books than someone else doesn't necessarily make them inherently correct. My best friend owns fewer comics than I do, but there are certainly some areas of the hobby where I'd assume he knows more than I do.



mooreandrew58 posted...

And he talks about marvel shit constantly

So do I - just ask anyone in the Geek topics.

For that matter, it's the main reason why I'm in this topic posting at all - I'm very inclined to jump into discussions involving comics or comic-related stuff.

I've been buying and reading comics longer than most PotDers have been alive.



mooreandrew58 posted...

He's the kind of guy who can site exactly which issue of a comic someone like blank panther fisrt appears in.

That's not actually that hard. Black Panther showed up a couple issues after the Silver Surfer and Galactus, and their first appearance is easy to remember because it was the capper to the 50th issue of Fantastic Four. So Black Panther is #52.

It's more impressive to be able to pin down when and where more obscure characters got their start. Or what issue they joined or left a specific team. Especially if it was in a title you weren't personally invested in, or from a time period before or after you were collecting. For example, I can pin down events, appearances, and significant moments in the X-Men franchise a hell of a lot more accurately than I can Spider-Man, because I was never a huge Spider-Man fan (which is why Wave is the official Spider-Man expert in the Geek topics).

Regardless, being able to site dates and issue numbers aren't necessarily all that impressive or useful in general, because it's mostly meaningless trivia data. What actually matters in the average comic discussion is being able to actually describe the events of any given issue and how it fits into the overarching storyline of the title. For example, being able to point out that the Days of Future Past storyline in X-Men was the beginning of the "dark future" subplot, introduced characters like Rachel Summers and Senator Kelly, and was the first appearance of Mystique's new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants is much more useful than just knowing it happened in issues 141 and 142, or that those were the last issues John Byrne drew on the book because he couldn't stand working with Chris Claremont any more.



mooreandrew58 posted...

And has any comics outright stated hes a god?

Depends. He's been explicitly described as a god in cases where he held godlike power, both in Infinity Gauntlet and The Infinity Revelation (where he flat out destroys and recreates the entire universe in a way that even the Living Tribunal can't understand or accomplish, one of the most godlike things that have ever happened in Marvel), as well as when he had the Cosmic Cube in The Avengers. He's actually listed as a god in the Marvel wiki because of that.

He wasn't born a god, though. He started out "merely" a Deviant Eternal, then augmented himself with various technology and bio-engineering that left him stronger than most Asgardians. He kept questing for full godhood mainly because he believed Death would never love him as a mere mortal. And he's technically immortal at this point, even though he hates it.


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