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This week's Batman '66 is titled The Short Halloween. It is quite lovely.
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Anyone that didn't buy Batgirl #35 want my copy? Free shipping. I'm sorry, but I loving hated it.
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Oct 29, 2014 19:52
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Anyone that didn't buy Batgirl #35 want my copy? Free shipping. Donate it to a children's hospital or a youth center.
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Oct 29, 2014 21:11
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Madkal posted:Donate it to a children's hospital or a youth center. Child abuse is not the answer.
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Oct 29, 2014 21:13
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Madkal posted:Donate it to a children's hospital or a youth center. You're a horrible person.
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Oct 29, 2014 22:01
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How do you manage to be more repulsed at Batgirl #35 than the previous 34 issues?
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Oct 30, 2014 02:31
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Because I didn't get the urge to wipe my rear end with any of those thirty-four issues?
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Oct 30, 2014 04:40
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On Eternal, someone remembered that we were dealing with the loving Spectre, neat. But now the whole subplot feels like a colossal waste of time, if the endgoal was just to destroy Arkham there were plenty of other options to do that without forcing a magical angle into the story. Besides, whoever thought that turning Blackfire into a demon was good idea, totally missed the whole point of his character. The Harley Quinn annual has just driven home the fact she really is DC's Deadpool, way too wacky for my taste but I really enjoyed Stejpan Sejic drawing for DC. A good time waster and a relationship between Harley and Ivy is all but confirmed now.
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Oct 30, 2014 06:39
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Because I didn't get the urge to wipe my rear end with any of those thirty-four issues?
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Oct 30, 2014 11:25
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I find it hard to believe believe that no matter how much you hate the dialogue in Batgirl it's that much more offensive than anything else which DC is publishing right now.
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Oct 30, 2014 23:32
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I find it hard to believe that opinions exist and that sometimes people express them using hyperbole.
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Oct 30, 2014 23:35
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I find it hard to believe that opinions exist and that sometimes people express them using hyperbole. Don't poo poo on something that hard if you're not willing to back it up
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Oct 30, 2014 23:37
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I find it hard to believe that opinions exist and that sometimes people express them using hyperbole. You still haven't elaborated on what you found mildly upsetting about it.
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Oct 30, 2014 23:41
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THIS BOOK IS LITERALLY THE WORST poo poo EVER What didn't you like about it? I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU ARE ATTACKING ME
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Oct 30, 2014 23:43
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I already had a problem that they bent over backwards to use Barbara Gordon as Batgirl when the New 52 was launched, but I thought Simone made the most out of it and stayed fairly true to the character while telling a good story. But then again, I seem to be in the minority of how much I enjoyed her run on Batgirl and especially the "Death of the Family" storyline as a whole. Now with this bizarre and unnecessary relaunch, they could have easily used Cassandra Cain or Stephanie Brown, or even an entirely new character, but decided to completely change Barbara's personality as well as jettison just about everything that's happened in issues 1-34. Suddenly she's the hard partying type that gets blackout drunk and apparently has sex with some guy she barely knows? It's as though they're bending over backwards just to use Barbara once again when they have so many other options available to them. By the way, I never said, "This book sucks and that is a fact" I said, "I loving hated it." If you're enjoying it, wonderful.
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Oct 31, 2014 00:07
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I already had a problem that they bent over backwards to use Barbara Gordon as Batgirl when the New 52 was launched, but I thought Simone made the most out of it and stayed fairly true to the character while telling a good story. But then again, I seem to be in the minority of how much I enjoyed her run on Batgirl and especially the "Death of the Family" storyline as a whole. Now with this bizarre and unnecessary relaunch, they could have easily used Cassandra Cain or Stephanie Brown, or even an entirely new character, but decided to completely change Barbara's personality as well as jettison just about everything that's happened in issues 1-34. Suddenly she's the hard partying type that gets blackout drunk and apparently has sex with some guy she barely knows? It's as though they're bending over backwards just to use Barbara once again when they have so many other options available to them.
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Oct 31, 2014 00:26
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Senor Candle posted:I've seen a couple people complain about that. Unless I'm remembering wrong, she didn't actually sleep with him. Not that it would have been a bad thing if she did. I'm not sure why you would call this an "unnecessary relaunch". The New 52 was an unnecessary relaunch and I find this to be far more interesting that Barbara being the One True Batgirl. I'm not saying it's a bad thing on her part if she did, it's more the guy being an rear end in a top hat if he went ahead and did anything when she was obviously drunk enough to not remember a thing the next day. It also seemed out of character for Barbara, who had previously been someone responsible and in control almost to a fault. And the fact that the New 52 was an unnecessary relaunch makes this one even more so.
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Oct 31, 2014 00:35
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They have Babs' roommate explicitly say he slept on the couch after putting her to bed, I'm pretty sure.
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Oct 31, 2014 01:00
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I was more concerned with characters talking in hashtags and a plot that revolved around cell phone hacking and revenge porn sites than I was about Babs getting drunk and hooking up with a guy. I think I saw one of the creators on Twitter saying they understood the fans' complaints and not to worry, so maybe things even out. I'm not going to stop reading after one issue, personally.
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Oct 31, 2014 01:07
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Gaz-L posted:They have Babs' roommate explicitly say he slept on the couch after putting her to bed, I'm pretty sure. And after that it's revealed that he didn't sleep with Babs he slept with the roommate! Wow, reading comprehension be damned. I wasn't a huge fan of the book, but that's more because I don't like hipsterish poo poo, and the book came off as trying too hard to be hipster, but I liked the art a lot.
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Oct 31, 2014 06:54
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Shawn posted:And after that it's revealed that he didn't sleep with Babs he slept with the roommate! Wow, reading comprehension be damned. I must have tuned out by that point. Dunbar posted:I was more concerned with characters talking in hashtags and a plot that revolved around cell phone hacking and revenge porn sites... That certainly didn't help, either.
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Oct 31, 2014 11:17
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As I understand it one of the creators of the book works as a DJ, so would lend the series an authentic tone as to what the youth of today act like. In this regard that's a good thing when it comes to attracting new readers. I'm still not going to read it because I just can't stand Barbara Gordon, but fair play to them for rolling the character in a new direction.
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Oct 31, 2014 12:24
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I don't think the youth of today read DC comics.
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Oct 31, 2014 13:17
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The Question IRL posted:As I understand it one of the creators of the book works as a DJ, so would lend the series an authentic tone as to what the youth of today act like. YAY I too hate Babs. Wish this was Stephanie. But I'll read the book for a few issues. At least it's not goddamn Gail.
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Oct 31, 2014 15:05
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sleepingbuddha posted:I don't think the youth of today read DC comics. Their target audience is 45 year old men, straight from them, so you're probably right.
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Oct 31, 2014 16:45
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TheJoker138 posted:Their target audience is 45 year old men, straight from them, so you're probably right. To be fair, this new wave of Bat-titles seems to be explicitly veering away from that. You cannot tell me Gotham Academy is aimed at middle-age dudes. And some of the dialogue in Batgirl made ME feel old, and I'm not even 30.
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Oct 31, 2014 18:13
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I somehow managed to get the first trade of the Cassandra Cain Batgirl series for £5. It's so good, you guys. I'm never get any of the others that cheap ever again, am I?
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Oct 31, 2014 19:35
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Yvonmukluk posted:I somehow managed to get the first trade of the Cassandra Cain Batgirl series for £5. It's so good, you guys. Don't even bother with Stephanie's run though, the lowest amount I've seen for the first volume of her solo was 40 bucks.
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Oct 31, 2014 19:44
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Snyder confirms Eternal Year 2 gently caress 
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Oct 31, 2014 19:49
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:Snyder confirms Eternal Year 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfbK_dbsCu0
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Oct 31, 2014 20:54
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:Snyder confirms Eternal Year 2 It's in the title! lotus circle posted:Don't even bother with Stephanie's run though, the lowest amount I've seen for the first volume of her solo was 40 bucks. redbackground fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Oct 31, 2014 |
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Oct 31, 2014 20:55
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The longer Snyder stays around, especially with Marc Doyle leaving the line soon, the longer the Bat books have of sustaining a high quality level.
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Oct 31, 2014 20:58
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Yvonmukluk posted:I somehow managed to get the first trade of the Cassandra Cain Batgirl series for £5. It's so good, you guys. I got the third trade for half cover about a month ago. Had the first two for like six years or so. It was a nice little blast from the past.
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Oct 31, 2014 21:40
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I thought people generally liked Eternal?
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Oct 31, 2014 22:22
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DarkTitsAnime is not people.
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Oct 31, 2014 22:23
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Waterhaul posted:The longer Snyder stays around, especially with Marc Doyle leaving the line soon, the longer the Bat books have of sustaining a high quality level. That aside, I'd love to see Snyder write Wonder Woman after the inevitable awful Finch run ends.
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Nov 1, 2014 01:17
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Hakkesshu posted:I thought people generally liked Eternal?
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Nov 1, 2014 03:16
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lotus circle posted:Nope. I managed to get the first two trades of her solo from a used bookstore for 11 bucks a piece. The next two trades cost me more than double the cover cost. I think I also got the last of Steph's series for like 10 quid at the same place. Also one of the Red Robin trades for the same price, too. It seemed like the Batfamily had some really awesome books going on before the reboot.
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Nov 1, 2014 04:55
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Reborn era (from the end of Final Crisis/Battle for the Cowl to Flashpoint) was basically one of the best eras for Batbooks in a decade. Bruce dying for like a year or so was probably the best thing to happen to the Batline in a long time, ironically enough.
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lotus circle posted:Reborn era (from the end of Final Crisis/Battle for the Cowl to Flashpoint) was basically one of the best eras for Batbooks in a decade. Bruce dying for like a year or so was probably the best thing to happen to the Batline in a long time, ironically enough. The combination of Tim Drake moving out from under Bruce's wing, Bruce dying, and Incorporated really broadened the focus of the Batfamily.
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