More Comic Book Motivational Posters!

[proteus_lives]

Greetings True Believers!

A ways back I did one of these posts and I thought it went off like gangbusters, so it's time for another one!

Which ones do you like, hate? Bring your own!

I hope everyone had a good Labor Day!

Image-heavy for you dial-uppers.

Enjoy!






WTF? Was this the actual dialogue? Come on...





























One for S_D.























































This one is my favorite of the bunch.



And finally this one because it's FUCKING AWESOME.



Da Legal

Comments

[paultmd]

I don't get what most of these have to do with motivation.

[proteus_lives]

It's called a meme.

[paultmd]

Oh. So they wouldn't work if they were presented in a way that doesn't show a lack of understanding of what a demotivator is?

[proteus_lives]

LOL. Who cares if they're D or M's?

[paultmd]

I guess I'm a bit of a comedy snob. I like a joke to actually have a premise that makes sense and a punchline. Even when you get into absurdist comedy, the absurdity becomes the premise.

But with these the premise is that they're motivational posters. I get that. And the first demotivators were actual parodies of motivational posters. You might have art of Sisyphus rolling a boulder up a hill and something ironic about perseverance as the caption. They played to the premise.

So the premise of these is that they're motivational posters except most of them have nothing to do with motivation.

[biod]

They're motivational posters in format, if not in essence. Sort of like a relaunch where all your favorite characters still exist, they just don't act like themselves, but funnier.

[paultmd]

No, it's more like a relaunch where instead of a comic book it's prose. But still marketed as a comic book with comic book trade dress. But it's not a comic book.

[valtyr]

I just think of them as captioned pictures, as most of them, as you point out, clearly aren't anything to do with motivational posters.

[proteus_lives]

I see your point but it's not something that bugs me because I consider demotivators a sub-meme/genre of the motivational posters.

I'd separate them if I was getting graded but since it's all for the lulz, I roll with it.

[paultmd]

By the way, this was much more calm and reasoned than the last time I ranted on demotivators on the internet... http://www.buzzfeed.com/pault4/first-we-had-motivators-then-demotivators-then-4sss-idl

[proteus_lives]

Goodness. Now we know what you think.

[salinea]

demotivators are serious business!

[proteus_lives]

I'm being bad but I'm going to mangle a line from the movie Tombstone.

"You tell'em I'm coming and the wank is coming with with you hear! All the internet wank is coming with me!"

[glprime]

And that's a Manly point for a Tombstone quote.

[proteus_lives]

Tombstone bleeds Manly.

"I want your blood and I want your soul. And I want them both right now."

[glprime]

"Doc, you're short of bein' dead. What the hell're you doin' here?"
"Wyatt Earp is my friend."
"Hell I got lotsa friends."
"...I don't."

*MANLY TEARS SHED*

[proteus_lives]

Manly Tears always.

"...then we have room service."

Tom Mix wept.

[pyrotwilight]

[biod]

Is this Grant Morrison's fault? Somehow I get the feeling this is Grant Morrison's fault.

[darkblade]

Countdown's fault actually.

[aaron_bourque]

Which was Countdown to Final Crisis.

Which was written by Grant Morrison.

So yes. It's all his fault.

[stubbleupdate]

But it wasn't written by Grant Morrison.

It wasn't even written in a way that tied in with Grant Morrison's Final Crisis

[darkblade]

Paul Dini, Jimmy Palmiotti, Sean McKeever, Tony Bedard, Adam Beechen and Justin Gray's fault actually.

Morrison wrote Final Crisis but he had nothing to do with Countdown, in fact Countdown contradicted Final Crisis.

[pyrotwilight]

And one more for the night.

[thormonger]

The Jokester's untimely demise was an early indication of everything that would be wrong about Countdown To Final Crisis. He had great character potential, especially if the multiverse had been used more.

[pyrotwilight]

Well, I'm not sure we can call it early. He died around issue 30 (can't remember off the top of my head) making it nearly half way into the series since it counted down from 51. By then their were already many complaints.

[janegray]

What a gigantic waste of potential.

[retro_nouveau]

So much motto.

[golden_orange]

Oh, I love motivational posters.

[golden_orange]

Not strictly a comic one, but...

[mrstatham]

I'll be honest, I nearly wet myself at the Batman Knock-Knock one.

[adze]

I've always loved the "Has anyone seen the Joker?" one.

[biod]

Great list Proteus. Is there anyone else that thought "My parents are DEEEEEEAAAAAAD!" with that Manhunter motivational?

[greenmask]

I am not a fan of this.

[biod]

I should have probably mentioned that I found this on my rare perusing of 4chan. If it's offensive I'll take it down.

[greenmask]

Well.. I would personally appreciate it, speaking as a member.

[biod]

There you go. ;)

[greenmask]

Much obliged!

[biod]

Out of curiosity, was it just the last (black) word, or the entire speech of profanity?

[greenmask]

"Xena? Wonder Woman fucked that bitch"

I got that far and was side-eyeing so hard I read no further, gotta say.

now I'm curious

[pervymax]

can you provide a link, perhaps directly to me?

[eyz]

Some of these were actually pretty funny :P
(...for once!)

[greenmask]

Well darn Popeye

Darn

Why thank you, google

[blackruzsa]

Just droppin' these off here....









(The last one... I don't even....)

Re: Why thank you, google

[biod]

http://www.lolsauce.com/RandomBS/Dynamic%20Entry.jpeg

Re: Why thank you, google

[blackruzsa]

That is too adorable~

Re: Why thank you, google

[glimmung]

For the greater good!

Re: Why thank you, google

[proteus_lives]

"The Greater Good".

Re: Why thank you, google

[biod]

Aun'va commands it!

Re: Why thank you, google

[zenbro]

The last one is a dream come true most interesting.

[jelly_ace]

Regarding the Batman-and-Superman-as-an-old-married-couple one: the issue that that one came from, they had a kid together. So, double the lulz.

[wizardru]

The Marvel Adventures one makes me vaguely sad.

[amaniwolf]

Word...i miss those fun Marvel Adventure days.

[akodo_rokku]

Were those books recently cancelled? AFAIK MA Superheroes and Spider-Man are still coming out as of like, last week.

[skalja]

There was a reboot, and the current MA Superheroes lineup has nothing to do with the Marvel Adventures Avengers lineup.

[proteus_lives]

The current MA superheroes aren't bad at all but at the same time, the lack a bit of the magic that MA Avengers had.

[akodo_rokku]

Fair enough, but MA Spidey continues to be MA Spidey. Which is great.

[valtyr]

I WANT GIANT GIRL BACK. >:[

[proteus_lives]

Ditto.

I also want Thor/Storm, adorable team-rascal Spidey, momma's boy Cage, Cap/Tigra, puppy-Hulk, grumpy uncle Logan, cheesy-Hawkeye and Jan/Hank nerd-love.

Oh, what fun it was. Too good for this world.

Nice

[mr_cyn1cal]

It's really cool to see those - seeing as several of them are mine.

(for the record, those would be Bad Moves, Batman and Superman, Manners, Code Against Killing, Badass, LARP, Hal Jordan, Jimmy Olsen, Plans, Marvel Adventures, all three of the "Motivation" ones, SHAZAM!, OH SHIT! Moments, Songs, Regrets, Thor and Underdogs)>

If you have any comments or questions on those, let me know. There's even more (plus content!) at my blog! http://pacioccosmind.blogspot.com/

Re: Nice

[proteus_lives]

I tip my hat to you sir!

Your blog is aces.

[frutepye]

what issue is the superman/batman one from?

Thanks. I have the old one faved and go back and look every so often.

[mr_cyn1cal]

Superman/Batman Annual #2 or 3, I believe.

[ar_feiniel]

"Has anyone seen the Joker?"

haha, that was my favorite. I love these things.

[randyripoff]

These are quite fun.

[miramira]

I want to LOL, but I just keep staring at that Raid one and thinking "spiders aren't bugs."

[auggie18]

As soon as I saw that this was a more of a "just for fun" post, I waited to see how long it would be until somebody posted something negative about it.


Boy, that didn't take long.


Whatever, I thought it was funny. Totally digging the Atom/Joker one and the one with the merciless baby girl.

[proteus_lives]

Isn't that little girl just great? My faves are the Cap motivational one, Batman knock-knock and the Underdogs one.

As for the negative stuff, meh, it's the interwebz and you gotta roll with it.
Remember what Supes always says:

[icon_uk]

Probably making my first choices a little obvious...

A few I've made...

[glprime]

(Yeah, that's me. Couldn't keep from smiling a bit. I don't grow the goatee out that long anymore. My eyes are still that red.)

And a few more...

[glprime]

NOT by me

[glprime]

Re: And a few more...

[proteus_lives]

Thanks! I enjoyed those.

[rdfox]

...so, wait, Black Widow was taking a bath *in her costume*?

[aaron_bourque]

She can get dressed and undressed very quickly.

Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; I would make a comment about having a lot of practice, but that seems tasteless.

[rdfox]

I meant more how her *suit* is dripping water from her chest, like *it* was in the tub, too.

[icon_uk]

It's a wetsuit!

Rimshot please!

[strikeslip]

For the batman is riding superman one? I kept getting the itch feeling that it was supposed to have a .....different image.

God, my mind had to go there, didn't it. -_-

Anyway, I enjoyed this post.

[pyrotwilight]

Mwahaha. Gotta love the askpg tumblr

[aaron_bourque]

Argh.

It does hurts.

[bluestar86]

The Marvel Adventures one makes me sad.