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Swamp thing's space adventures started after he reforested Gotham and the army zapped him with some gizmo that Luthor designed
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Yeah, aliens weren't involved.
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May 12, 2016 02:46
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Refreshing my memory, mea culpa. Alan Moore finished his run (with the space stuff caused by Luthor) before Invasion! began. What the aliens did was send Swampy slowly backwards in time, and Rick Veitch was writing by then. It's a shame, Veitch first exhibited a voluminous knowledge of the DCU's past, with tons of surprising guest stars, but then he slowly started hinting at religious ideas, with the idea being that Swamp Thing himself was many holy pieces of wood or trees in religious iconography. Following his storyline, DC was going to hand the book off to Jamie Delano and Neil Gaiman to tag team, each doing half the year. But Veitch's scripts came in with Swamp Thing becoming The Holy Cross Jesus was hung on and the editors were so inflamed that they fired Veitch from the book on the spot. Delano and Gaiman, in quiet protest, refuse to take the job after all (and were already too valuable to DC at the time) so the book got handed off to Doug Wheeler to finish that storyline and then start his own. Gaiman at that point had already written the Annual as his "test run" that year as well, and the stories from it (a decent one involving the return of Brother Power to the DCU, and a filler one involving The Floronic Man) aren't bad stories. Wheeler himself seemed to do a pretty good job of things, cleaning up the story arc he had dropped in his lap, and eventually doing a major arc tying into an old Batman Annual Swamp Thing was involved in (no, not the time he seiged Gotham)
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May 12, 2016 03:28
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Wasn't the Swamp Thing tie in to INVASION! the Pogo alien issue?
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May 12, 2016 03:30
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Choco1980 posted:Swamp Thing becoming The Holy Cross Jesus was hung on Well here's something I never knew I wanted so bad.
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May 12, 2016 03:33
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No, but the lil alligator dude that got ripped to shreds by real gators in that story walks by his side as he trudges through hell in the epilogue story I mentioned (as does Abin Sur) in an effort to rescue his infant daughter.  Kel Gand, father of Mon-El, and the only Daxamite to fall in the Invasion leads them to the very gates between Hell and Purgatory before he balks as there are several in the Dominators faction inside making a new afterlife for themselves, including the Spider Guild who end up owning a whole wing of their own. The other neat thing is in purgatory we see the massive army of Durlans (think Chameleon Boy) in their own personal hell after dying to Earth--they end up being building blocks making empty buildings...being trapped in boring cubes for eternity unable to commune is apparently the worst thing that could befall them.
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May 12, 2016 03:41
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Anyone have the "There's the door, spaceman" scene from New Frontier?
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May 15, 2016 01:31
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This one? 
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May 15, 2016 04:50
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Captain Bravo posted:This one? Yes, but there's a few more pages setting the whole thing up. I was hoping for the entire scene. Thanks, though!
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May 15, 2016 04:57
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I live his WW. Because she's a slightly less imposing Barda, and she doesn't take any poo poo. Makes Supes look like a guy in his jammies in that scene.
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May 15, 2016 07:40
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Uthor posted:Yes, but there's a few more pages setting the whole thing up. I was hoping for the entire scene. Thanks, though! Sorry, that's all I've got. Maybe someone else saved the entire scene? 
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May 15, 2016 10:05
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Captain Bravo posted:Sorry, that's all I've got. Maybe someone else saved the entire scene? Well, I do have the clip from the movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ3IvqsJaVo
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May 15, 2016 14:03
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Requested in the Touching and Inspiring Panels thread, but probably more appropriate here given the last page. John Henry in DC: The New Frontier #3  (Full sequence in linked album)
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May 15, 2016 15:43
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FilthyImp posted:I live his WW. Because she's a slightly less imposing Barda, and she doesn't take any poo poo. Making Wonder Woman taller than Superman really was a subtle but brilliant idea. It shows that Superman may be regarded as the alpha dog of the pack, but that there are others who are at least for the most part on his level or at least not at all afraid to stand up to him.
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May 16, 2016 22:46
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Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Five #22 At the end of Year One, Alfred took one of those super pills and beat the everloving poo poo out of Superman before leaving with a broken Batman. Now we're reaching the end of the series and it's sadly time to tie up loose ends. Alfred proves to be the loving man.      
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May 18, 2016 05:51
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I'm presuming Supes fries him on the next page but God what a boss way to go down.
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TwoPair posted:I'm presuming Supes fries him on the next page but God what a boss way to go down. They actually show restraint and end the scene like that.
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May 18, 2016 13:39
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Does the shape of superman's insignia fluctuate with his mood or something?
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I love Alfred.  And seeing how childishly angry AssholeSupes gets when "I'm goddamn Superman" doesn't get what he wants is wonderful.
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May 18, 2016 14:50
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"Alfred, please give me some fucks." "I'm sorry, sir, but I've developed a dreadful allergy to them. I can't bear to even see much less touch one to give it. I fear I shan't ever give a gently caress again. Tea, sir?"
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May 18, 2016 16:53
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Malachite_Dragon posted:I love Alfred. That's at least one thing that works equally well in the game too. It's why the final boss fight in story mode is satisfying, because the mainline DCU Superman kicks his rear end.
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May 18, 2016 18:24
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Malachite_Dragon posted:I love Alfred. Still does not compare to his childishly posting on Twitter
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May 18, 2016 18:41
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Gaz-L posted:That's at least one thing that works equally well in the game too. It's why the final boss fight in story mode is satisfying, because the mainline DCU Superman kicks his rear end. Y'know, I have the game but I never got around to playing it since I'm not usually much for fighty games. I might have to dig it out now, though
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May 18, 2016 19:48
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Y'know, I have the game but I never got around to playing it since I'm not usually much for fighty games. I might have to dig it out now, though After playing through story mode, play through arcade mode as Batman. His ending is the perfect epilogue.
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May 18, 2016 20:12
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Cool panels and all, but all I can see are 'Supes 90's bikini bottoms 
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May 19, 2016 00:31
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Y'know, I have the game but I never got around to playing it since I'm not usually much for fighty games. I might have to dig it out now, though Same. A friend bought it for me as a gift and I feel guilty I never played it yet. I hear the Star labs mode is fun too, with interesting stuff to it. (Including a 1 vs 3 fight early on that is almost definitely supposed to be the "Supes on Joker Gas" prologue considering the lineup)
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May 19, 2016 00:35
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Gavok posted:Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Five #22 welp, thread's over, Alfred "No Vaseline" Pennyworth wins
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May 19, 2016 05:49
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Gaz-L posted:That's at least one thing that works equally well in the game too. It's why the final boss fight in story mode is satisfying, because the mainline DCU Superman kicks his rear end. That was so lame. The answer to "How do we defeat a Superman gone bad who has the entire earth in the palm of his hand" should not be "Non-bad Superman fixes everything"
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May 19, 2016 08:19
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Lurdiak posted:That was so lame. The answer to "How do we defeat a Superman gone bad who has the entire earth in the palm of his hand" should not be "Non-bad Superman fixes everything" Isn't that the answer to the question in comics like nine times out of ten though?
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DarkCrawler posted:Isn't that the answer to the question in comics like nine times out of ten though? It's almost like Superman is more interesting as a villain.
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May 19, 2016 09:20
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Let's please not have another slapfight about Supes being boring or not. We all know it depends on the writer.
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May 19, 2016 09:23
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Lurdiak posted:That was so lame. The answer to "How do we defeat a Superman gone bad who has the entire earth in the palm of his hand" should not be "Non-bad Superman fixes everything" I liked it because it's more than "Superman solves our Superman problems." It's a betrayed, weary and hopeless Batman having to regain his sense of trust in the very concept of Superman. Besides, they did have him dead to rights before that, but Shazam had to go and screw it up.
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May 19, 2016 23:37
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Not sure of the exact issue: I would guess Excalibur #66 or 67:
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Gavok posted:I liked it because it's more than "Superman solves our Superman problems." It's a betrayed, weary and hopeless Batman having to regain his sense of trust in the very concept of Superman. Billy did not deserve to get his brain microwaved. 
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May 19, 2016 23:58
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Wheat Loaf posted:Not sure of the exact issue: I would guess Excalibur #66 or 67: That loving "meanwhile..." is slaying me.
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Travis343 posted:That loving "meanwhile..." is slaying me. I can hear Ted Knight's voice.
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Gavok posted:I liked it because it's more than "Superman solves our Superman problems." It's a betrayed, weary and hopeless Batman having to regain his sense of trust in the very concept of Superman. I just am still sore that, instead of being a story about a group of mismatched heroes and villains leading a rebellion against Superman's army while led by Batman, the game turned out to be about the Proper DC Heroes going to a world where things are different and Setting Things Right.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Let's please not have another slapfight about Supes being boring or not. We all know it depends on the writer. Amen to that. Let's have an argument over why Batman would be a much more interesting villain.
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May 20, 2016 21:07
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When Injustice 2 inevitably comes out, it had BETTER be about a Dr. Doom style evil Batman who took over his own world breaking Evil Superman out of his Superjail to form the World's Crudest Team.
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Lurdiak posted:I just am still sore that, instead of being a story about a group of mismatched heroes and villains leading a rebellion against Superman's army while led by Batman, the game turned out to be about the Proper DC Heroes going to a world where things are different and Setting Things Right. I know exactly where you're coming from and that was an immediate letdown, but over time I was more accepting of it because at the end of the day, the moral is "DC heroes aren't supposed to be this way" and it's refreshing to see that out of some kind of DC media these days.
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