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54.4 crowns posted:2. So the first New Gods comic I actually bought was ironically "death of the new gods", were there any story lines that followed up the ending. Nah. It was published at the same time as Grant Morrison's Final Crisis, which had it's own death of the New Gods storyline which DOTNG contradicted, and one was more important than the other, so DOTNG may as well be out of continuity. Also, the universe got rebooted anyway. There were New Gods storylines in the New 52 like nothing had happened (check the GL/NG crossover: Godhead, N52 Wonder Woman with Orion as part of her extended family of gods.) Some neat NG things happening right now. There's a new Mister Miracle series starting in a week or two by a crazy good creative team, a current Mike Allred comic about Bug The Forager meeting a pile of other Kirby creations, and a New Gods one-shot this week as part of this https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/07/06/dc-adds-mark-buckingham-steve-rude-paul-levitz-and-phil-hexter-to-jack-kirby-oneshots-on-august/ Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 10:17 on Jul 30, 2017 |
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Autism Sneaks posted:The main continuity is Earth Prime, Earth One is their prestige series where the League, the Titans and the rest are reinterpreted and rooted in the 21st century. Earth Prime is also sometimes called Earth Zero.
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our earth kinda-sorta exists in the dcu too and affects all the rest. according to the cosmology grant morrison dreamt up, anyway, which tbh i'd probably ignore.
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BrianWilly posted:JLA has been pretty clumsy and unremarkable and seems determined to throw as many obscure 90s characters on the page as it can to somehow force you to believe they're important and interesting, but even at its worst it still contains rudimentary necessities of a comic book like "plots" and "characterizations" and that kind of silly stuff. Someone reading the series could come away with fairly clear impressions of the ongoings, like, "Okay, Ray's been butting heads with Batman right now over his attitude, while Vixen has been more understanding of Batman even as she keeps him in check, just like he wanted. Meanwhile Atom and Killer Frost are developing a bit of a chaste romance while they work on each other's problems." The Extremists were the focus of the first arc and Glonth only appeared as a corpse. Those are the only two 90s obscure characters or groups. The S.K.U.L.L. group is an obscure 70s superman terrorist group and every other villain that has appeared is either brand new or created in the 2010's
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54.4 crowns posted:3. What was the latest GL story with Saintwalker...I really miss my Brodee. "Hal Jordan & The GLC" vol. 3 is titled "The Quest For Hope" and has plenty of Walker. Whole series has been pretty good, though I've dropped off the most recent arc so ymmv.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Earth Prime is also sometimes called Earth Zero. And in the past has been New Earth and Earth 1.
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54.4 crowns posted:Oh, man forgot that SA has more then D&D, been looking for a space like this. After the reboot Henshaw forgot he was evil for a while and had a bio body. Then he remembered when preboot Superman and nu52 Superman's memories merged and he decided he wanted to be a cyborg and evil again. 54.4 crowns posted:2. So the first New Gods comic I actually bought was ironically "death of the new gods", were there any story lines that followed up the ending. Death of the New Gods was supposed to tie into Final Crisis but it was based on a really early draft of Final Crisis. Morrison essentially said "yeah, ignore that comic" when Final Crisis started up. If you want more New God things you could grab the classic Kirby comics via the omnibuses that are out, look into 7 Soldiers/Final Crisis, or the newer New Gods stuff Teenage Fansub mentioned. 54.4 crowns posted:Other then that I picked up an Batman Earth 1 Trade at a kiosk was even translated to Norwegian which meant we had actual swear words(which was sorta weird). Unless a comic specifies otherwise, it takes place on Earth-0 (Earth Prime/New Earth). Earth-1 is kind of like Marvel's old Ultimate universe line with modern retellings of the classic heroes, often in graphic novel format vs issue-by-issue. The quality is kind of up and down but if you want to know which ones are worth reading you can ask here. Here's a kind of recent map of the multiverse from Multiversity: http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2014/08/18/the-map-of-the-multiverse (also Multiversity is good) 54.4 crowns posted:Also, Geoff Johns owns. He has some fun stuff. Nuns with Guns fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Jul 30, 2017 |
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Autism Sneaks posted:The main continuity is Earth Prime, Earth One is their prestige series where the League, the Titans and the rest are reinterpreted and rooted in the 21st century. Wait...I thought Earth Prime was this *stomps foot* universe. quote:Our/Superboy-Prime/Ultraa's Earth is Earth-33 now ah
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JLA is a fine generic title that isn't trying to do too much. I wouldn't say it is great or even good but it fills the niche with some old style story telling. I really wish JL3K was still being published as at least that was something different. Justice League United was very meh. I didn't really care for the team nor the story and it seemed at the end that Lemire was trying to write his own special space epic that was more convoluted than anything else. I liked Parker's ideas for United and it's a shame the book got cancelled before he could fully realise the potential of that idea.
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Earth-33 still goes by "Earth Prime" if I remember the Multiversity handbook right. The main DC universe is Earth Zero.
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54.4 crowns posted:2. So the first New Gods comic I actually bought was ironically "death of the new gods", were there any story lines that followed up the ending. As far as I can remember, In New Gods the Ragnarok style fated end is that Orion will meet Darkseid in glorious battle and they will fall and it will be the end of the 5th Age, and maybe humanity ascends in their place. Since the outline for FC read something like "The New Gods had their reckoning, Orion is dead and Darkseid won!", DotNG made it so thats the ending, more or less. Then FC says the battle was so immense that it could never be related accurately and false accounts have sprung up to explain the absence of the 5th World. Following up on DotNG would be weird, what with the Life Equation giving your purple spiky S&M gear and all the players being dead. Maybe it would be super depressed Superman crying about how he misses his Godbuds.
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The best thing about all of this w/r/t DONG is: Morrison pitched Final Crisis spinning out of what he'd done with them in Seven Soldiers while he was on the 52 team in 2006-2007. It was going to more or less be the story that got printed as Final Crisis. MORRISON: "Back in 2006, I requested a moratorium on the New Gods so that I could build up some foreboding and create anticipation for their return in a new form." The outline for the series, also submitted in 2006-7 was built around the idea that the heroes find Orion dead after having not heard or seen the New Gods in months/years. DC's solution to this was to build up a year long storyline where pretty much everyone is immediately aware that SOMEONE IS KILLING THE NEW GODS and the Justice League and Superman and Batman and Oracle and Wonder Woman and everyone are investigating what's happening to their old pals the New Gods who they see all of the time. Countdown reveals that Darkseid has been killing all of the New Gods and storing their power Highlander-style inside Jimmy Olsen, and at the end of the series Orion appears and rips Darkseid's heart out, killing him. Meanwhile DONG reveals that... the Source, I guess? is killing all of the New Gods including Orion, and Darkseid just barely survives to run off. Final Crisis, written before either of them, just ignores both. People complain about incoherent events/crossovers/cross-title continuity today but 2007-9 DC was truly a golden age of dysfunction.
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Edge & Christian posted:People complain about incoherent events/crossovers/cross-title continuity today but 2007-9 DC was truly a golden age of dysfunction.
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Reminder of this choice quote. Countdown is 52 done right.
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That Jimmy Olsen thing sounds fun
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Al Borland Corp. posted:That Jimmy Olsen thing sounds fun It's really, really not.
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All the reviews I've seen point out that it should have been, he's getting all these powers and it's kinda a big reference to Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen where he'd get superpowers/transform into a monster all the time, but it was just bad and a waste of a fun concept. I've been thinking of getting into some of DC's more cosmic stuff, I figure The Great Darkness Saga should be on my list, and I'd like to read the classic Fourth World stuff but that's all in omnibuses so I'm thinking I'll put those off. Some of Grant Morrison's more grandiose stories? Omega Men is definitely on my list too. I'm intrigued by Godhead, but didn't I hear it was pretty bad?
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Godhead's fine. For Grant Stuff, you should deffo read Seven Soldiers. It's his very best thing and the start of the train leading to Multiversity. I dunno when I'd get the time, but I'm morbidly curious enough to try and read Countdown. e: Haven't watched, but here's a 360 degree video of Jim Lee, Greg Capullo, Amanda Conner, Tony Daniel, Andy Kubert, John Romita talking and sketching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSTEPv6fEKw Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Jul 31, 2017 |
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catlord posted:I've been thinking of getting into some of DC's more cosmic stuff, I figure The Great Darkness Saga should be on my list, and I'd like to read the classic Fourth World stuff but that's all in omnibuses so I'm thinking I'll put those off. Some of Grant Morrison's more grandiose stories? Omega Men is definitely on my list too. I'm intrigued by Godhead, but didn't I hear it was pretty bad? Most of Grant Morrison's JLA goes in for the cosmic stuff but I'd particularly recommend "Rock of Ages", "Crisis Times Five" and "World War III" for that.
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so Reginald Hudlin continues to be the loving worst. https://www.newsarama.com/35770-dwayne-mcduffie-s-widow-sues-milestone-media-over-being-cut-out-of-revival.html quote:Milestone Media is being sued by Charlotte McDuffie, the widow of the late co-founder Dwayne McDuffie. According to Los Angeles county court filings obtained by Variety, the widow is suing the company and its officers for "Breach of Fiduciary Duty," "Aiding and Abetting Breach of Fiduciary Duty," "Intentional Interference with Prospective Economic Relations," "Fraudulent Conveyance," "Civil Conspiracy To Commit Fraudulent Conveyance," and "Accounting." I feel like DC has some cause and responsibility to flex some authority here, and that they act in support of McDuffie's relatives. This is appalling.
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If anyone associated with House Party ended up being a bad dude, there's something wrong with the world.
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Everything with plastic man in injustice has been goddamn amazing.
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frodnonnag posted:Everything with plastic man in injustice has been goddamn amazing. Yes. By far my favorite thing in a good comic that should be terrible but instead is awesome.
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I haven't read this week's yet, but last week's Injustice with them going to recruit Plastic Man was fantastic. Any page would have been perfect in the Funny Panels thread.
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X-O posted:I haven't read this week's yet, but last week's Injustice with them going to recruit Plastic Man was fantastic. Any page would have been perfect in the Funny Panels thread. I won't spoil the goddamn amazing father-son moment in this week's then.
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TFRazorsaw posted:so Reginald Hudlin continues to be the loving worst. my guess is that given this business partnership has done nothing in two years DC is going to pull out and completely distance themselves from Milestone the bad PR from sticking their necks out for this would not be worth whatever they could gain, and like I have no idea what they actually could since nothing has happened
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Blockhouse posted:my guess is that given this business partnership has done nothing in two years DC is going to pull out and completely distance themselves from Milestone DC really wants a Static film at some point so they'll probably keep it alive just for that.
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Blockhouse posted:oh, wait Yessssssssss
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Blockhouse posted:oh, wait Who is between speedy and blue beetle?
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Traci Thirteen
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The character's just called Thirteen and apparently isn't Traci.
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Not a fan of the twig limbs and everyone looking starved
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Blockhouse posted:Traci Thirteen Oh! A good underused character. Same with her dad. Aphrodite posted:The character's just called Thirteen and apparently isn't Traci. Spoke too soon. Stupid WB Too bad there isn't Cyborg, Raven, Kid Devil, or Offspring. Mr Hootington fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Aug 2, 2017 |
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pretty sure it's absolutely traci? I have no idea where aphrodite got that e: quote:Although few details were offered about the new addition during this afternoon’s Young Justice Q&A at Comic-Con International in San Diego, afterward series co-creator Brandon Vietti confirmed the character’s identity to CBR.
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Traci 13 is a supporting character on Superwoman currently, she's the girlfriend of Natasha Irons.
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A number of articles from July 21st call her a new character for the show. But they were all reporting on the panel itself, so I guess CBR got him to confirm it to them after?
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Mr Hootington posted:Oh! A good underused character. Same with her dad. Yeah I was kinda hoping at least Cyborg and Raven would show up, especially since the show uses a modernized form of the Silver Age JLA and thus, no stupid Cyborg in the League.
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They might have just not announced them yet. That could just be the team at the start/near the beginning, and other characters get introduced later on.
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