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Mr Hootington posted:You read all of Countdown? I checked out of it after 3 issues and just picked up the bits that interested me. It was the closest thing to "comics journalism fame" I ever had, and if I had one ultimate wish it would be to do a Frost/Nixon style series of interviews with the major players, because I think it would be an incredible look into how the sausage of 2000s comics were produced.
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Countdown sucked but it gave us some great SuperBoyman Prime. And Monarch. Remember Monarch?
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Jun 19, 2016 19:44
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jimmy olsen hosed that one bug lady
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Jun 19, 2016 19:46
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Edge & Christian posted:I read all of it, made a game attempt of annotating it for most of its run, and more or less went down a rabbit hole of trying to figure out how it got made. That is a lot of work for a lovely comic. Was it your job? FilthyImp posted:Countdown sucked but it gave us some great SuperBoyman Prime. Superboyman prime was the greatest character for 7 or so years.
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Jun 19, 2016 19:48
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Wasn't Countdown the comic that had that splash page with after Lightray being killed with Superman screaming "Who is strong enough...TO KILL A GOD?!" or something like that?
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Jun 19, 2016 19:49
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I always enjoyed the way all the plot points were dropped like a rock for the final three issues and we got a nonsensical end for all the characters effectively retconning the whole series. IIRC Johns even joked about it by including a "Coutdown doesn't matter" message in Booster Gold at the time. A shame really, I enjoyed the Search for Ray Palmer and Arena had potential.
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Jun 19, 2016 19:51
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I think Arena pissed me off the most. DC had brought back the multiverse after about 20 years and then decided to kill off major characters from various Elseworlds stories. RIP in peace New Frontier Wonder Woman  .
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Jun 19, 2016 19:54
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Arena was a good idea if it was Elseworlds. It was not so it is bad.
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Guys, I don't know what you're all talking about, but I have it on pretty good authority that Countdown was actually 52 done right and not just a giant mess. I have to believe that's the final word on the subject.
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Detective No. 27 posted:I think Arena pissed me off the most. DC had brought back the multiverse after about 20 years and then decided to kill off major characters from various Elseworlds stories. RIP in peace New Frontier Wonder Woman Yeah, it was kind of funny. Remember all these cool Elseworld characters? WELL NOW THEY'RE ALL DEAD.
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muscles like this? posted:Yeah, it was kind of funny. Remember all these cool Elseworld characters? WELL NOW THEY'RE ALL DEAD. Yeah but it was worth it. In exchange we got the massive new character sensation known as FORERUNNER aka Fore-chan.
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muscles like this? posted:Yeah, it was kind of funny. Remember all these cool Elseworld characters? WELL NOW THEY'RE ALL DEAD. That was pretty much what they were trying to do with Convergence, too, but with more "and then they kissed, the end" than deaths. Hey, check it out, it's all your favorites from before the reboot! They're going away forever after two issues!
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BrianWilly posted:I was gonna say we've had N52 Raven so we must've had Trigon, but then I have zero idea what N52 Raven's whole deal is so maybe not. Raven is how she always was iirc from Teen Titans. Daughter of Trigon, empath powers and all of that. She was originally a pawn of his before turning or something. Nu52 Teen Titans was a mess essentially
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So as part of DC's promotion for Rebirth, DC made some playlists on Spotify to tie into the #1 issues for a few series. Here's a link to the Batman #1 playlist, from here you can click on the DC account to see the other playlists: https://open.spotify.com/user/official_dc/playlist/5AIn3b1ypYc0EAoXgeut2T The song choices on some of these are just  , like The Coup's The Guillotine for Superman #1, Metallica's Seek & Destroy for Titans #1, Hungarian Fantasy by the USSR State Symphony for Batman #1, Flash #1's is just the Flash TV show's soundtrack and a few soundtracks from Tron and The Last of the Mohicans, etc. There's some fun choices in a lot of these playlists.
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DrProsek posted:So as part of DC's promotion for Rebirth, DC made some playlists on Spotify to tie into the #1 issues for a few series. Here's a link to the Batman #1 playlist, from here you can click on the DC account to see the other playlists: https://open.spotify.com/user/official_dc/playlist/5AIn3b1ypYc0EAoXgeut2T Disappointed Batdance isn't on there. e: Holy poo poo, that Wonder Woman playlist is loving ridiculous. Pony? Are you kidding me right now?? purple death ray fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Jun 19, 2016 |
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X-O posted:Guys, I don't know what you're all talking about, but I have it on pretty good authority that Countdown was actually 52 done right and not just a giant mess. I have to believe that's the final word on the subject. And it gave us the character find of the decade, the awesome and amazing and invincible Forerunner!
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Darth Nat posted:And it gave us the character find of the decade, the awesome and amazing and invincible Forerunner! You just know that someone was really proud of themselves for making her real name a palindrome.
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About the nicest thing you can say about Forerunner is that between seeming like she was imported from another pop genre, and her vague but broad toolkit of superpowers, she's the most Golden Age character created in a long time.
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Detective No. 27 posted:I think Arena pissed me off the most. DC had brought back the multiverse after about 20 years and then decided to kill off major characters from various Elseworlds stories. RIP in peace New Frontier Wonder Woman They did WHAT!?
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Superstring posted:They did WHAT!? Don't worry she doesn't exist anymore.
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Jun 19, 2016 21:51
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Here's an interesting oral history of Countdown from 2012 which follows it from start to finish.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Here's an interesting oral history of Countdown from 2012 which follows it from start to finish.
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Issue #52 of Countdown sold more than issue #1. How many other titles can claim that 
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There actually wasn't a 52nd issue because they were planning on doing 51-0 but then they never published the 0 issue so it was a 51 issue series counting down to nothing.
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Edge & Christian posted:Hey, that's me! And I still need to fix our old site. Haha! What a coincidence! 
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September Solicits got out earlyquote:RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #2 I'm loving this  And Artemis looks quite badass in the cover. EDIT: http://www.comicbookresources.com/a...breaking_banner Full solicits are out quote:RED HOOD/ARSENAL VOL. 2: DANCING WITH THE DEVIL’S DAUGHTER TP Pretty drat nice! I hope they change the cover though. Dark_Tzitzimine fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Jun 20, 2016 |
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quote:“FAMILY DINNER”! The rookie Green Lanterns try to reconcile some of their differences, when Simon Baz makes a terrifying offer to Jessica by inviting her over for dinner with his family. Can the two survive this with the mysterious Guardian tracking the duo? Well poo poo, maybe I need to give this book another chance.
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Solicits are really weird now with the biweekly publishing.
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That sounds like the perfect issue for a good buddy cop/team up book but Green Lanterns feels like Jessica and Simon have the same personality except Simon's somewhat more opposed to teaming up/wants to spend a few seconds arguing with Jessica before proceeding with the teamup. Also the artwork (or at least the poses) for Jessica is awful. burnishedfume fucked around with this message at 06:01 on Jun 21, 2016 |
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Rebirth sale on New 52 Detective Comics and Action Comics. I've read through Action, but haven't touched Detective. Any of the arcs worth getting at that price?
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It's pretty clear that Simon and Jess are going to end up as a couple. Detective No. 27 posted:Rebirth sale on New 52 Detective Comics and Action Comics. I've read through Action, but haven't touched Detective. Any of the arcs worth getting at that price? Detective is terrible for the first solid year or however long Tony Daniel was writing it.
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Rhyno posted:It's pretty clear that Simon and Jess are going to end up as a couple. Probably, and that's honestly the dumbest thing the book could do. I'm interested enough in their character concepts to check out the book, but I'm not sure I care enough about the characters themselves to keep reading the book much less care enough about them hooking up.
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But see he can encourage her to get out of her shell and navigate public spaces via his magic therapy inducing dick and-oh wow would you look at that I'm bleeding from my eyes. Huh.
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God Almighty DC, stop trying to make Joker's Daughter a thing.
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I don't get any romantic vibes from Simon and Jessica at all. But then, I'm also not a big fan/proponent of the whole silly romcom "They seem to hate each other, so they must really like each other" motif.
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So this Batman crossover thing? Am I being cynical or is this just a band-aid to hide the fact that going bi-weekly is already not quite working out for them schedule-wise?
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Detective No. 27 posted:Solicits are really weird now with the biweekly publishing. I really don't like seeing "Batman #7: The Storyline You Just Started In Last Week's Issue #1: Epilogue" Solicits are twice as dangerous now 
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Detective No. 27 posted:Rebirth sale on New 52 Detective Comics and Action Comics. I've read through Action, but haven't touched Detective. Any of the arcs worth getting at that price? At the very least, there's a quick two-parter I quite liked from a few months back showing Bat-Gordon cooperating with the Justice League and acting as the humanizing element in that world; if you're into that sort of thing plus the requisite 'detective out what's going on' beats, I'd recommend it.
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Woof. Check out next week. ART OPS #9 DARK KNIGHT III MASTER RACE #5 DEATHSTROKE ANNUAL #2 GRAYSON ANNUAL #3 LEGEND OF WONDER WOMAN #7 SUICIDERS KING OF HELLA #4 TEEN TITANS ANNUAL #2 I know it's a regular thing to do Annuals instead of issues in the 5th week of a month, but now's probably not the best time to put on the brakes. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 10:19 on Jun 21, 2016 |
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Shameless posted:So this Batman crossover thing? Am I being cynical or is this just a band-aid to hide the fact that going bi-weekly is already not quite working out for them schedule-wise? I don't know, but it's definitely a good way to get me to stop reading Batman comics.
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