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these were the rejected ones

A horror movie that would be so important for making change in society

If you want an Amy retrospective you will pretty much get a new wave retrospective, because they are very interlinked (and a bunch of Amy's later characterization comes from some very specific new wave stories).

(Brocton Bay #1, with the early deformed dynamite and the first appareance of Lung the oriental dragon)

So, in the late 50s Wildbow comics found itself in a very messy legal situation because DC was suing every superman shaped character and WB Comics had 5 very superman shaped characters, so during it Wildbow kind of started throwing shit at the wall to see what would stick. And thats how we got the Brocktom Bay Brigade in the 60s, the first in a new wave of heroes (Yeah, thats why they got that name later).

Their backstory was simple, 4 adventurer's travel too deep into a cave in the amazon forest were they find a shinning meteorite, now they have superpowers. Now they have to defend their hometown from eeeeeevil.

They are Manpower, Lady photon, Brandish and The Dynamite (Fun fact, flashbangs were created by the british years later).

You would be forgiven if you thought it was a fantastic four ripoff, because it kind of was but in my opinion it's vibes were more doom patrol than ff.

But more importantly, they were fundamental pillars for the WBU. A lot of iconic things you think about when i saw Wildbow come from their original series.

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So, apparently some of you aren't aware???

Wildbow comics is fucking old, but i might as well start easy and tell you the lore of pre Apollyon Wars Taylor.

(Actual first appareance of Taylor Hebert and the homage i did for badly drawn worm)

Around the 60s Wildbow comics finally won a whole shitshow of a lawsuit against DC comics, that at the time was suing whatever superman shaped characters they could find, and Wildbow had several superman ripoffs, so, in the meantime they tried to create new more original characters, one of them was Aegis, the human shield.

He was hip teenager that had to deal with both teenager problems and superhero problems yadda yadda, and one of those troubles was falling in love with the creepy supervillain.

Taylor Hebert was created as both a supervillain and a love interest of Aegis, as well as a clear parody of spiderman, having a similar background as bullied teens that got bug powers, but while Peter got bitten by a radioactive spider, Taylor got cursed by the Skittering Scarab medallion (wich was a blue beetle rip off instead).

This silver age Taylor didn't go by skitter (and she wouldn't be called that until the Apollyon Wars reboot) but instead she was bug girl, and she had more vaguely insect powers (stenght, agility, endurance etc)

So on 4chan there would be these reaction images that would be iterated. Like you would have This is Bait, for things which are clearly bait:

And given the general trend of hyperbole and semantic bleaching mean you need larger and larger reactions over time. So the above finds itself as any of:

You'll need to teach people not to feed the trolls, and you become annoyed as newer posters either fall for it or just ignore decide to argue for the hell of it:

(And of course, sometimes the reactions are trolls too; you really got mad that I took OP seriously, huh, and now you gotta tell me how dumb I'm being? Curious, Curious...) You might, annoyed that today's troll isn't even trying hard, suggest they too deserve a lazy reaction:

Now, I'm not accusing you of anything here, just illustrating the trend over time so I can make analogy to my real point. Take the evolution over time of the above, and apply it to this famous response: