TwoPair posted:Wait what? I never heard about this. Holy poo poo that is nuts. http://batman.wikibruce.com/Timeline posted:Participants who submitted a phone number with their tip are called by someone who sounds like Man 2 in the December 1 sting operation, threatening them if they "squeal." At the end of the message, document number LC6551 is mentioned. A rough transcript follows. No dad, a cop didn't threaten you, it was this internet thing! Trust me!
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quote:We Are Robin shows how Batman has so many Robins. It’s how Batman has affected the youth of Gotham, the very existence of Robin is now being crowd sourced. Rather Brat Pack… I love that now convergence finally gets to erase the really dumb "10 years of Robins" now and this is when they choose to address it. They choose to address it after it shouldn't matter. Or am I just confusing this with a new concept
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Flameingblack posted:I love that now convergence finally gets to erase the really dumb "10 years of Robins" now and this is when they choose to address it. They choose to address it after it shouldn't matter. Or am I just confusing this with a new concept We aren't getting any continuity shifts out of Convergence that we know of. e: Emphasis on the 'that we know of.' We don't have any solicits for July yet. Maybe Renee Montoya Question jumps out of Convergence into Justice League United. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 08:53 on Feb 15, 2015 |
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Teenage Fansub posted:We aren't getting any continuity shifts out of Convergence that we know of.
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Flameingblack posted:I love that now convergence finally gets to erase the really dumb "10 years of Robins" now and this is when they choose to address it. They choose to address it after it shouldn't matter. Or am I just confusing this with a new concept
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lotus circle posted:If Gotham Academy is "Harry Potter but in Gotham City", then We Are Robin is looking to be "The Goonies but in Gotham City" from what I gather. "Robins never say die, we just die"
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lotus circle posted:We Are Robin seems to be about the idea of Robin as a symbol of heroism and goodwill to young teens in Gotham, the same way Batman is a symbol against corruption and crime. If Gotham Academy is "Harry Potter but in Gotham City", then We Are Robin is looking to be "The Goonies but in Gotham City" from what I gather. Finally, the time is right for my Robynz pitch, where Robin becomes an urban legend type character that inspires several hip Urban teens to band together under his inspirational banner, to rid their community of street level crimes. Ricky is the experienced team leader who loves dancing and gymnastics. Battle Style: HipHopoeira. JZone is the brash one who skateboards. Battle style: Red berzerker TimmyD is the smartmouth gamer nerd. Battle style: tactical espionage action. Damien 'Diablo' Diaz is the Hispanic latchkey kiddo, barely in 6th grade but always looking to impress JZone. Battle style: bratitude And then you have the Twynz, Cass and Steff, the tech-savvy GrrrlPower feminists who keep the crew together. Robynz. We don't die. We multiply. FilthyImp fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Feb 16, 2015 |
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Not going to bother giving Rich traffic, but apparently a recent retailer convention revealed that Geoff Johns is only going to be writing one comic from this point forward. How the times change.
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FilthyImp posted:Finally, the time is right for my Robynz pitch, where Robin becomes an urban legend type character that inspires several hip Urban teens to band together under his inspirational banner, to rid their community of street level crimes. Gotham City Impostors is so loving canon now.
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Semper Fudge posted:Not going to bother giving Rich traffic, but apparently a recent retailer convention revealed that Geoff Johns is only going to be writing one comic from this point forward. Oh. No.
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I would hope his hint at working on something with Gary Frank would be something other than Batman Earth One. "At the DC retailer roadshow at Orlando on Friday, a retailer asked about this and was told that Justice League will be his only monthly comic book going forward" could just mean transitioning into July. I hope so. He's much better writing for a character than a team. e: Read Multiversity:   http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=26095 Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Feb 15, 2015 |
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Feb 15, 2015 23:25
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I hope in the future Jim Lee will be remembered for three things: X-Men, the Hush storyline and drawing Hitler taking a dump while reading a comic with Superman punching him on the cover.
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Mortal Kombat X keeps being pretty good. And Kotal Kahn is becoming my favorite new character. Still (and I know is kind of a silly thing to get upset by), I'm incredibly dissapointed at Netherrealm for taking the Matyinctec route with him. As I mentioned before, the guys obviously did their research while designing him. So it baffles me the decision of making him the Mayan god of sacrifice (and of Mayans in the middle of the loving Amazon to boot)  The only thing they needed to do was to change Mayans for Aztecs and Buluc for Huitzilopochtli. Why Netherrealm, why?
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Nah, that's a rational thing to get upset about. It's actually kind of racist to mix and match cultures like that, which also happens with Asia a lot.
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WickedHate posted:Nah, that's a rational thing to get upset about. It's actually kind of racist to mix and match cultures like that, which also happens with Asia a lot. Whoaaaa Chinese ninja warrior With your heart so cold Sub-Zeroooo
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Superstring posted:Whoaaaa Chinese ninja warrior Well, they tried to improve things over the time (making the brothers sons of a chinese family, the change of names and so on). Maybe for the next reboot they will also improve Kotal 
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:As I mentioned before, the guys obviously did their research while designing him. So it baffles me the decision of making him the Mayan god of sacrifice (and of Mayans in the middle of the loving Amazon to boot) All that research of looking at Tekken long enough to steal Ogre's design. No seriously, fight games research goes as far as "What did I see in other fight game that looked cool" then pulling a few photos for reference of what they're based on from GIS and then drawing. Fight Games character design is incestuous to the point of in jokes making fun of this have become full fledge characters who were then ripped offed or parodied in another fighting game.
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Remember when they literally called a character Ken Masters internally?
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ImpAtom posted:Remember when they literally called a character Ken Masters internally? Remember SNK(?) ripped off Ryu and he sucked thus Capcom created Dan as a joke.
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:All that research of looking at Tekken long enough to steal Ogre's design. No seriously, fight games research goes as far as "What did I see in other fight game that looked cool" then pulling a few photos for reference of what they're based on from GIS and then drawing. I find that hard to believe when Kotal shares so many elements with Huitzilopochtli: blue skinned, Sun deity, feeds on human hearts, incredibly protecting of his people/family, the Macahuitl is a weapin only found within the Aztecs. There's also the fact that Ogre it is a mix and match of Mesoamerican/south american elements while Kotal's overall design retains a lot of influence from Aztec elements (the helmet, the bones, the marks on his chest). I might be giving them way too much credit but they got so many things right to be pure coincidence.
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:I might be giving them way too much credit but they got so many things right to be pure coincidence. ImpAtom posted:Remember when they literally called a character Ken Masters internally? You 100% are. Like all that 'research' can be done with a 2 minute look on GIS for "Aztec Warrior". Have you never seen a Netherrealm game before? They've made a legacy of making bad metal cover versions of other fighting game characters and big tittied palette swaps of the same model. ZenMasterBullshit fucked around with this message at 07:23 on Feb 16, 2015 |
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:You 100% are. Like all that 'research' can be done with a 2 minute look on GIS for "Aztec Warrior". To be fair with the "Ken Masters" thing, that was an internal joke. And well, I wonder what kind of Google search they did to get Buluc Chabtan, it is a pretty obscure deity. I'm an archeologist and I didn't knew of him.
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:To be fair with the "Ken Masters" thing, that was an internal joke. A) It's less an internal joke and more a sad admission of artistic bankruptcy what with the character looking just like Ken Masters. B) Wikipedia-> List of Maya Gods -> CTRL-F "War" or "Violence". You just not thinking lazy enough. EDIT: ZenMasterBullshit fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Feb 16, 2015 |
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ImpAtom posted:Remember when they literally called a character Ken Masters internally? It was Ben Masters if I recall. A gaming magazine took a screenshot of that and was all like STREET FIGHTER CROSSOVER CONFIRMED! and Netherrealms was enraged.
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Remember SNK(?) ripped off Ryu and he sucked thus Capcom created Dan as a joke. Actually the same guy designed both characters which is why they look so much alike. Also Ryo Sakazaki is way cooler than Ryu 
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Hakkesshu posted:Actually the same guy designed both characters which is why they look so much alike. Also Ryo Sakazaki is way cooler than Ryu Ryu doesn't have much personality in the games, which makes him stand out among so many colorful characters. He still acts like a generic honorable martial arts guy.
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Hakkesshu posted:Actually the same guy designed both characters which is why they look so much alike. Also Ryo Sakazaki is way cooler than Ryu Also, while Ryo was Ryu but orange they played nothing alike each other, so when Capcom made Dan SNK retaliated by putting Yuri, who had an identical moveset to Ryu, in AoF2.
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Yuri Sakazaki, another fine character who is much cooler than Ryu! She even got the Raging Demon at some point.
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I've got to admit, it's a risky move for DC replace all of their New 52 titles with Mortal Kombat books come July, but I guess anything's worth a shot.
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Edge & Christian posted:I've got to admit, it's a risky move for DC replace all of their New 52 titles with Mortal Kombat books come July, but I guess anything's worth a shot. Braniac found the DC vs MK universe and decided that was the prime continuity.
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Thanks for reminding me! Tom King gave a small interview to EW about Convergence quote:It’s an idea that’s always been integral to the DC Universe, and one of the strongest differentiators between the publisher and its chief competitor, Marvel: legacy. DC heroes are more often than not about upholding a mantle that’s passed on from hero to hero—the Green Lantern Corps, the family of characters that form around Batman and Superman, all the people who have taken on the role of The Flash—the heroes of the DC Universe are bigger than the people who wear their masks. But they’re also part of a family, which is something that resonates strongly with King. The interview also includes this awesome spread about the multiple deaths of Superman 
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The fourth one back is All Star and he doesn't die in that one.
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He dies in the same way Jesus dies, transcending flesh and mortality. King has a really strong understanding of what DC Comics hasn't been in ten years.
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Rhyno posted:The fourth one back is All Star and he doesn't die in that one. The first one is Death of Superman and he doesn't die in that one either.
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Gaz-L posted:What're the ones with Power Girl and Batman Beyond? Power Girl is the death of Superman of Earth-2/Golden Age Superman.
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The Power Girl one is from Infinite Crisis (when Golden Age Superman is killed by Superboy-Prime). Not sure about the other, though.
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The one that looks like Batman Beyond might just be Flashpoint Batman? Superman never died in Beyond.
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lotus circle posted:The one that looks like Batman Beyond might just be Flashpoint Batman? Superman never died in Beyond. I'm stumped. : / Someone tweet EVS. redbackground fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Feb 16, 2015 |
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