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It's called Uluru, not Ayers Rock  Wheat Loaf posted:I'm not sure how the word's commonly pronounced in Australia, but surely "Australian Royal Secret Service" would produce a more suitable acronym? The initial vowel sound of "arse" is a bit drawn out, but that's because the Strine accent exists to murder vowels. Doctor Spaceman fucked around with this message at 11:06 on Sep 16, 2016 |
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It's called Uluru, not Ayers Rock Of course Digger would be bogan enough to insist on still calling it Ayer's Rock in his bullshit Bond fantasy.
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Sep 16, 2016 11:15
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I did see that as the main title on the Wikipedia page when looking up how to spell "Ayers" but meant nothing by sticking to the more familiar name other than it being more familiar. We don't really hear much about our neighbours here in NZ, or I just missed any news of there being a lot of particular contention. Sumimasen. But yeah. The characteristically insensitive character didn't call it that. Not that I'm guessing the British author writing for Americans would have known any better anyway.
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Sep 16, 2016 11:44
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Yeah, I was just being a bit of a jerk. You still get plenty of people calling it Ayers Rock but there's been a trend towards using its original name (I guess Denali / Mount McKinley is a good comparison for Americans?). Some people still don't understand why it's a bit offensive to climb on it. Fits perfectly with the character though, you're right.
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Rebirth is still working! I'm not gonna link to BC's insufferable headline cause company wars are some reductive bullcrap, but getting the big slice of the pie after DCYou just feels nice!   Granted, that's sales to retailers with full returnability. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Sep 16, 2016 |
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Sep 16, 2016 22:15
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I'm really curious how well Doom Patrol sold.
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Sep 16, 2016 22:18
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Roth posted:I'm really curious how well Doom Patrol sold. I hope lots because what a good book. Edit: of course I bought digitally so mine isn't counted. 
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I keep waiting to get tired of some of the Rebirth titles, but so far, it isn't happening. I bought a dozen DC comics this week and I was thinking to myself, eventually some of these are going to wear thin and you'll have to start dropping them. I'm having some trouble understanding what's going on in Deathstroke so I might drop it down to trade-only, but otherwise, everything I'm buying is at least as good as it was when it started, and with some stuff like Green Lanterns and New Superman, it's only gotten better. Superwoman seems like it's going to be really good too.
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Raven #1 preview http://nerdist.com/in-raven-1-the-teen-titan-comes-into-her-own-exclusive-preview/
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The art looks pretty nice. That cover still looks a bit weird to me though.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Raven #1 preview http://nerdist.com/in-raven-1-the-teen-titan-comes-into-her-own-exclusive-preview/ Looks nice. I know they'll probably turn out to be secret devil worshippers or something, but I think it'd be great if this had like, no superheroing and was this weird, light comedy about a daughter of the devil living with her normal extended family.
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Dario the Wop posted:Just like his Superman run, let us forget Lobdell's TT run and move onto bigger and better things. isn't TT currently written by pfiffer and has been for some time now?
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The entire thing was a mess for the most part regardless of who was writing it.
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Alucard Nacirema posted:isn't TT currently written by pfiffer and has been for some time now? Well, not exactly. Pfeifer handled the relaunched book for the most part but these last few issues have been written by Tony Bedard. Lobdell's run was mostly hindered by editorial not making up their mind about what they wanted to do with the title. That is why there's a lot of plot hooks that didn't went anywhere or were poorly developed like the whole thing with Harvest and N.O.W.H.E.R.E., the nature of Kid Flash or that scrapped arc where Red X would've been introduced. I can't sy much about Pfeifer's run but that one was really bad from the get go. Bedard on the other hand has been serviceable.
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The last time Teen Titans was readable was probably a decade ago when Geoff Johns was writing it.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Raven #1 preview http://nerdist.com/in-raven-1-the-teen-titan-comes-into-her-own-exclusive-preview/
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X-O posted:The last time Teen Titans was readable was probably a decade ago when Geoff Johns was writing it. "readable"
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:that scrapped arc where Red X would've been introduced. I can't believe DC editorial saved us from Scott Lobdell writing two wanna-be badasses.
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X-O posted:The last time Teen Titans was readable was probably a decade ago when Geoff Johns was writing it. Ran into an old friend from high school at the bar. Comics came up, and he's like "Remember Geoff Johns Teen Titans? Why can't the comics be like that again?" And I agreed. I loved that run.
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I only liked the first 6 issues of Geoffs Titans run after that it got really weird and confusing for someone not familiar with Titans lore. The beast boy story and the one with dr.light were ok too I guess but from the road to infinite crisis and through OYL I felt like it became a total mess.
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Here's Neal Adams acknowledging that the Kamandi Challenge is in the process of happening while posting about the unexploded bomb outside his Manhattan apartment building. http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/09/18/that-second-device-in-manhattan-from-neal-adams-point-of-view/ Good news all 'round! Roth posted:I'm really curious how well Doom Patrol sold. Seems to have done fine according to BC's retailer poll http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/09/18/bleeding-cool-bestseller-list-18th-september-2016-another-clean-sweep-for-dc-comics/ Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Sep 18, 2016 |
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There is a God
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December Solicits http://www.newsarama.com/31093-dc-comics-december-2016-solicitations.html First time the new Black Mask looks kind of cool.  quote:RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #5
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:December Solicits Everyone ctrl+f "SHE-BORG" e: Doug Mahnke is drawing Frankenstein again for an arc in Superman 
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Teenage Fansub posted:Everyone ctrl+f "SHE-BORG" I can't loving believe that in the year of our lord twenty loving sixteen DC thinks that's at all an appropriate name to give a new female derivative superhero. Really hope they get raked over the coals for this in comics press, because, fuckin' seriously. ed: I seriously want to be in the room when editorial was trying to figure out what name to give her, because did nobody point out that "Cyborg" is an inherently genderless name? Worst comes to worst, they could do the machine/upgrade thing and call her "Cyborg 2.0" or "Cyborg mk II". No. She-Borg. Because it's both diminutive and insanely stupid. NieR Occomata fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Sep 19, 2016 |
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Trinity #1 preview http://www.avclub.com/article/dcs-biggest-heroes-reunite-trinity-1-exclusive-242809
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In direct contrast, I really really really hope Trinity is good. I'd like to read a good comic starring the...well, the Trinity. Art looks great.
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X-O posted:The last time Teen Titans was readable was probably a decade ago when Geoff Johns was writing it. Geoff Johns completely hosed the dynamic between Bart, Kon and Tim that Young Justice had built. That and his making his dumb fanfiction when he was a fan canon for Superboy means I really don't think his Teen Titans run was anything special. "Readable" sure, but not good.
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He definitely handled the Teen Titans characters better than he did the Young Justice characters. I have to admit that I really couldn't get into the Young Justice comic that much, so it doesn't bother me as much that those characters aren't as well written since I was reading it for Cyborg, Starfire, Beast Boy, and Raven.
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Onmi posted:Geoff Johns completely hosed the dynamic between Bart, Kon and Tim that Young Justice had built. That and his making his dumb fanfiction when he was a fan canon for Superboy means I really don't think his Teen Titans run was anything special. "Readable" sure, but not good. 99% chance that Young Justice hosed the dynamic before it too. That's how comics work.
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I was made aware of this on twitter, but I really hope this means we get a Whataburger/Wonder Woman teamup comic in the near future.
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Onmi posted:Geoff Johns completely hosed the dynamic between Bart, Kon and Tim that Young Justice had built. That and his making his dumb fanfiction when he was a fan canon for Superboy means I really don't think his Teen Titans run was anything special. "Readable" sure, but not good. As someone who didn't read Young Justice, I respectfully disagree. Lex Luthor mixing his DNA with Superman to make his own Superboy seemed genius. Bart becoming Kid Flash in an attempt to show some maturity, after Wally became the prime example of a sidekick moving up to primetime. And my favorite line from Tim Drake in any comic is from the "You lied to Starfire." "I lie to Batman." exchange. Don't know what happened with Tony Daniel, but the Doom Patrol arc for the One Year Later Teen Titans was pretty drat good. He drew the poo poo out of the new Robin costume. I remember falling in love with the pencils that were released beforehand.
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Didn't someone dig up a letter a young Geoff Johns sent in where he openly headcanoned that Superboy was, in fact, a mixture of Lex and Superman's DNA some thirty years before he actually made it canon when writing it?
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Toxxupation posted:Didn't someone dig up a letter a young Geoff Johns sent in where he openly headcanoned that Superboy was, in fact, a mixture of Lex and Superman's DNA some thirty years before he actually made it canon when writing it? It's been posted a lot, it was printed in an issue of Superboy, some time in the first year of the book I think so 1994 or so. Roughly 10 years before he wrote it into continuity.
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Toxxupation posted:Didn't someone dig up a letter a young Geoff Johns sent in where he openly headcanoned that Superboy was, in fact, a mixture of Lex and Superman's DNA some thirty years before he actually made it canon when writing it? Yep. It's in the top three fan letters next to Ed Brubaker writing to Firestorm about what is and isn't punk, and George R Martin critiquing 60's Fantastic Four.
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Die Laughing posted:Yep. It's in the top three fan letters next to Ed Brubaker writing to Firestorm about what is and isn't punk, and George R Martin critiquing 60's Fantastic Four. I love how the writers responded to Brubaker's letter with "We don't care"
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Toxxupation posted:I was made aware of this on twitter, but I really hope this means we get a Whataburger/Wonder Woman teamup comic in the near future. If KFC can get a Colonel Sanders / Flash team up then anything's possible
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Die Laughing posted:Bart becoming Kid Flash in an attempt to show some maturity, after Wally became the prime example of a sidekick moving up to primetime. That always a bit felt more "I want him to be Kid Flash because Barry Allen never had a sidekick called Impulse" to me. 
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Toxxupation posted:I can't loving believe that in the year of our lord twenty loving sixteen DC thinks that's at all an appropriate name to give a new female derivative superhero. Comics aren't real life dude
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Wheat Loaf posted:That always a bit felt more "I want him to be Kid Flash because Barry Allen never had a sidekick called Impulse" to me. I was sixteen when the book came out, and Bart was my favorite character in it. Embracing the family legacy, and reading some books was a pretty positive message. And besides losing the goggles, I find the Kid Flash costume to be superior. Plus, he got to drive a Batmobile that Tim hid the cost of in the batarang budget.
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