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Johns's run looks better and better in hindsight (and added to the full spectrum of terrible runs before and after it) but I still think Superboy's Evil Jeans and Evil Genes was a really really dumb storyline and then it all sort of collided into Identity and Infinite Crisis and never recovered and I honestly don't remember anything else about his run except bringing back All Your Favorites, making Deathstroke hella evil again, and making Ravager crazy and the sort of girl who would stab her own eye out to make her evil daddy love her. So you know, legitimately probably one of the top three Teen Titans runs.
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Wolfman falls apart more thoroughly and further from the end, but from New Teen Titans #1 (newsstand) (or technically the dccp preview story) through New Teen Titans (Baxter) #31 were solid.
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Jul 5, 2018 04:16
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Edge & Christian posted:Johns's run looks better and better in hindsight (and added to the full spectrum of terrible runs before and after it) but I still think Superboy's Evil Jeans and Evil Genes was a really really dumb storyline and then it all sort of collided into Identity and Infinite Crisis and never recovered and I honestly don't remember anything else about his run except bringing back All Your Favorites, making Deathstroke hella evil again, and making Ravager crazy and the sort of girl who would stab her own eye out to make her evil daddy love her. That Doom Patrol arc was nuts.
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Jul 5, 2018 11:51
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I know I'm like a page and half late, but after reading Batman 50, I guess can stop reading Batman for a while.
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Jul 5, 2018 14:50
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Not to harp on Batman #50, but a guy I follow on youtube called Professor Thorgi made a good point on why he was extra dissapointed. He runs a comic shop in New York. He had to do a midnight release and a shortened day on the 4th of July for the book. He knows some of his competitors did full days on the 4th. It was all because DC decided to release the book on the 4th. He theroizes some may have had to cut their holiday festivities short. And all for...that. Interesting angle I didn't consider before.
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Jul 5, 2018 15:28
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:I assume you're talking about this? A bunch of these people have already been revealed as murderers. Phew, case closed! Let's all be proud of the hard sleuthing we did everybody.
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Jul 5, 2018 16:38
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I hope Deathstroke: The Terminator isn't revealed as a murderer. 
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Jul 5, 2018 16:52
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I cant wait for DC to kill Booster Gold and the convention afterward has Didio state, "you thought i was done?"
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Jul 5, 2018 18:15
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Archyduke posted:A bunch of these people have already been revealed as murderers. Phew, case closed! Let's all be proud of the hard sleuthing we did everybody. A bunch of these people have also died and come back from the dead
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Jul 5, 2018 18:27
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Kyle Rayner is a fan favorite, isn't appearing in any movies or TV shows, and there's 5 other humans with an identical power set. The only way you can get more "dead man walking" than that is to be a B-list X-Man.
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Jul 5, 2018 18:28
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TwoPair posted:Kyle Rayner is a fan favorite, isn't appearing in any movies or TV shows, and there's 5 other humans with an identical power set. The only way you can get more "dead man walking" than that is to be a B-list X-Man. Yep. I think it is gonna be kyle, atom, and booster/roy.
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Jul 5, 2018 18:34
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Booster's one of the leads in the story. He's fine.
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Jul 5, 2018 18:39
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Teenage Fansub posted:Booster's one of the leads in the story. He's fine. And batman and catwomen were supposed to be married yesterday
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Jul 5, 2018 18:43
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TwoPair posted:Kyle Rayner is a fan favorite, isn't appearing in any movies or TV shows, and there's 5 other humans with an identical power set. The only way you can get more "dead man walking" than that is to be a B-list X-Man. Don't worry, there's still time for them to introduce a teen version of Booster to join the Teen Titans and then kill him off.
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TwoPair posted:Kyle Rayner is a fan favorite, isn't appearing in any movies or TV shows, and there's 5 other humans with an identical power set. The only way you can get more "dead man walking" than that is to be a B-list X-Man. also, it wouldn't be the first time Tom King had bad poo poo happen to him
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Calvin Coolposts posted:Did anyone else read the Teen Titans Special that came out last week? I just did, and I hated it! Damian apparently shoots Black Mask and a bunch of random mooks in the head, completely undoing basically all of his character development since, uh, he's been a character. Oh, and Kid Flash gets called "politically correct flash" which just felt kinda gross to me. I might give the next issue a chance just to see if the Black Mask thing is a fake out or not, but I don't think it is, and that's really disappointing. Yes it was really stupid. For one thing murdering Black Mask like that would be a stupid move. And two it pretty much invalidates Damian's entire character development. My hope is that he kneecapped him or something. Black Mask is a fairly notable villain and I was actually decently fond of him for a while, its a shame that pretty much everything he has been in recently has just been to punk him. The guy that took over Gotham's underworld several times.
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Jul 5, 2018 21:29
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Weird to hear it starting all brutal like, since we were introduced to the run with this: Which got me hopeful for a pretty bright and breezy comic. edit: BMB interview including info on Lois and Jon returning and some art. http://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-brian-michael-bendis-on-writing-a-hero-for-todays-world-in-superman-1-and-action-comics-1001/ quote:So let’s talk about some of the things in the comic. Before we even get to Superman and Action, you’ve already destroyed the Fortress of Solitude, you’ve destroyed Kandor (an entire Kryptonian city). You’ve taken his wife and son off the board. I want to know, were the major changes needed to make room for the story that you want to tell? I guess I’m asking are you removing all of the trappings so you can focus on the character, or is really more that these are the central pieces of the story that you want to focus on? Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Jul 5, 2018 |
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Jul 5, 2018 21:42
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Teenage Fansub posted:Booster's one of the leads in the story. He's fine. Booster is going to be one of the victims, one of the investigators, and turn out to be the murderer as well. Time travel’s a bitch.
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Jul 5, 2018 22:30
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Man ya know I was just like "My boy Kyle never gets involved in earth events, he never sees his friends, he's been exiled to space for so long basically." I know we joke about Monkey Paws, but if he comes back to earth to die in Identity Crisis 2, then that middle finger is squarely erect at me. Well maybe this time he can job to Deathstroke again in the dumbest way loving possible.
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Jul 6, 2018 07:15
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Teenage Fansub posted:Weird to hear it starting all brutal like, since we were introduced to the run with this: An oceanic fortress? That's where Aquaman keeps his poo poo. Superman wouldn't want to live down there, Aquaman would be constantly finding excuses to hang out. "Oh hi neighbour, can I borrow a cup of sugar? Oh while I'm here, do you want to come over and watch the game later?"
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frameset posted:An oceanic fortress? That's where Aquaman keeps his poo poo. Superman wouldn't want to live down there, Aquaman would be constantly finding excuses to hang out. Sounds like a pretty good sitcom premise to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MixXnzefsBA
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Considering they're going hard on the Identity Crisis comparisons my bet's going to be on Ray Palmer (since Ryan's around anyhow) and one of the OG Titans who DC is doing their best to show us how much they hate them, so probably Roy.
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Jul 6, 2018 08:51
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I can't wait to be even less impressed by Tom King as I am now 
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Teenage Fansub posted:Weird to hear it starting all brutal like, since we were introduced to the run with this: Gee, Brian, I wonder why people would assume you'd drag out Lois and Jon's absence. You've got such a great track record for lightning-quick pacing in your work! 
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Jul 6, 2018 14:17
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Pretty good article explaining the disappointment with BMB and his supes. https://screenrant.com/new-superman-comic-bendis-problems/
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Jul 6, 2018 14:45
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Gaz-L posted:Gee, Brian, I wonder why people would assume you'd drag out Lois and Jon's absence. You've got such a great track record for lightning-quick pacing in your work! "Ugh Bendis is killing off Jon and/or Lois" "Okay he's not killing them off but he's writing them out of the book and going to drag out the mystery of where they went forever" "Okay we know where they went but they're going to be off in space forever" "Okay they're not going to be off in space forever BUT YOU COULD HAVE DONE THAT, YOU HACK" I look forward to "send them back into space lol you loving hack" Mr Hootington posted:Pretty good article explaining the disappointment with BMB and his supes.https://screenrant.com/new-superman-comic-bendis-problems/ Page 1: Bruce, I can't marry you. It's all a plot masterminded by Bane. Page 2: Thank you for your forthrightness. I am going to spend the next twelve issues contemplating killing Bane, but I will choose not to because of your eyes. Page 3-44: Eye poetry Also according to solicits/interviews Earth is going to get pulled into the Phantom Zone so I assume this is not the last we've seen of Rogol Zaar for whatever that's worth. Still not pacing especially with the realities of advance solicitations, but the article implies Bendis is done with the character and 'writing him out' the same way he wrote out Jon and Lois.
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Jul 6, 2018 15:06
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This looks cool. https://twitter.com/mingdoyle/status/1015019265135665152?s=19
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I saw that and it looks really cool. It’s written from Batman’s perspective. Batman wrote an anatomy textbook.
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Jul 6, 2018 19:24
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Ooh I hope he drew a lot of dongs! Do this guy, Batman!
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Jul 6, 2018 19:55
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That's the guy that offers to eat out Miss Martian and then is killed by Jericho
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Jul 6, 2018 20:01
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I hope he made Alfred draw the pictures. edit: DC's new matte paper looks like a huge improvement.  That's from the Wallmart thing, but apparently Catwoman used it last week. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Jul 6, 2018 |
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I've got to stop doing this, but I wanted to read the full Infinite Crisis story so I bought the recent omnibus and my lord it is way too big to sit and read comfortably. Easily the size of that Kirby omnibus and probably a little bigger if anything. So now I've got to ask, how much of this is actually necessary reading and how much can be skimmed/skipped? It looks like besides the main Infinite Crisis story, it has six 6 issue miniseries and then a bunch of scattered issues from assorted characters like Superman and Wonder Woman. Anything in there I can gloss over to save myself carrying this thing around?
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Jul 7, 2018 13:43
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You can skip all of it.
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Jul 7, 2018 13:50
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Rhyno posted:You can skip all of it. OMAC project is pretty awesome
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Jul 7, 2018 13:54
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Teenage Fansub posted:I hope he made Alfred draw the pictures. No it's a random intern at Wayne Enterprises. "Mr. Wayne, can you tell me why you want me to draw a cross section of Superman's head?" "Nope!  "
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Villians United is pretty cool. You can read that. Ditto for Omac. Otherwise....meh. I don't hate Infinite crisis as much as others here but it is very much a meh story for me.
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Dunbar posted:I've got to stop doing this, but I wanted to read the full Infinite Crisis story so I bought the recent omnibus and my lord it is way too big to sit and read comfortably. Easily the size of that Kirby omnibus and probably a little bigger if anything. So now I've got to ask, how much of this is actually necessary reading and how much can be skimmed/skipped? It looks like besides the main Infinite Crisis story, it has six 6 issue miniseries and then a bunch of scattered issues from assorted characters like Superman and Wonder Woman. Anything in there I can gloss over to save myself carrying this thing around? The minis and one shots are all enjoyable. Countdown to IC is very good and necessary. The issues of jla, ww, and supes can be skipped.
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Theoretically, if you want to become a better Green Lantern, you just need to suffer a frontal lobe injury. Or get a frontal lobe lobotomy. People who suffer injuries to the frontal lobe are known for losing the ability to feel fear. It doesn't affect their cognitive processes in their intellect or social graces, they just no longer recognize fear and thus no longer feel shame or social pressure. So you can still be an effective cop and you would be immune to fear and be the most powerful Green Lantern.
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Jul 7, 2018 19:40
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Well, in the most ideal canons, the power of a GL isn't simply measured by the inability to feel fear but the ability to feel fear and still overcome it. That's how you overcome the yellow weakness of the ring. If it's simply a case of you being physiologically-incapable of feeling fear, your constructs might end up still not being able to affect yellow. ...I mean, that's how it should work. A dozen writers can retcon or reinterpret that a dozen ways, though.
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Mr Hootington posted:The minis and one shots are all enjoyable. Countdown to IC is very good and necessary. The issues of jla, ww, and supes can be skipped. e: oops meant to edit not repost. OH WEL
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