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If Batman is the protagonist then it’s ripping off that punisher zombie series more than anything.
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Jiro posted:And being a giant turtle kaiju. I'm still waiting for them to address this in some way on Supergirl.
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Naomi #2: literally walk away from the first issue's cliffhanger, return just in time to ask the same question but a little differently. Three issues to get one (tentative) answer in a series centered on a brand new character, that's some impressive Bendis-ing. It helps that the art's so pretty.
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Feb 21, 2019 04:27
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I reckon you pretty much get the answer from her dream sequence half way through. Space warriors crash to Earth doing battle, a couple stays behind to raise their child, the woman dies and the man gives the kid up to her adoptive parents and becomes the mechanic. The kid learns what she can do, inherits her mother's costume as seen on later covers and joins Young Justice. Powers may include precognition since she Googled Iron Heights before being told about it. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Feb 21, 2019 |
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Feb 21, 2019 04:47
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The current developments in Justice League with Luthor and Brainiac's team-up give me echoes from the Justice League Unlimited series. It's not bad, but it's kinda amusing. Also lmao at the 6th Dimension.
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Teenage Fansub posted:https://twitter.com/RyanHigginsRyan/status/1097539182795223041 quote:Dan DiDio, publisher of DC Comics, has taken to the stump at ComicsPRO, the comics retailer advocacy group meeting being held in Charlotte, North Carolina for the next few days. Again, it comes from BC, but still.
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Feb 21, 2019 18:32
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I don't find that all that shocking. DC doesn't launch too many ongoings compared to how many Marvel launches every month and then promptly cancels within 12 issues. Honestly I think he has a point that constant new ongoings are really unappealing.
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Feb 21, 2019 20:20
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Probably looked at the sales numbers that came out of the several titles spawning from Metal.
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Xelkelvos posted:The current developments in Justice League with Luthor and Brainiac's team-up give me echoes from the Justice League Unlimited series. It's not bad, but it's kinda amusing. Considering he literally put together the cartoon JL team (sans Wally with Barry instead) this shouldn't come as a surprise. Waid did Sixth Dimension in JLA years ago. It was those weird dudes who talked with cubes.
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Feb 21, 2019 23:09
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Anyone try Next Level? It's got the Omega Men artist on art.
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Feb 22, 2019 11:56
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I decided too try to catch up with Batman recently. I put the book down after the note from Selina because while I knew they'd never pull the trigger on the wedding, it still pissed me off. Can someone help me understand exactly wtf is happening in the last 5 or so issues? It's a dream or whatever but then suddenly crossover with the Flash. I'm not getting it.
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The.crossover is a Heroes in Crisis tie in and isn’t really part of the larger Batman narrative. Tom King’s run is going to issue 102 instead of 100 because of this.
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Right, I figured the Flash crossover didn't have anything to do with the story that was going on just in the issue before. I suppose they pick that back up on 66 and I'll get to understand maybe which parts of the story are dream and which aren't.
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Also Batman is way more pissed about Dick getting shot than Dick is.
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*Ric
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Feb 22, 2019 20:57
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Hellblazer187 posted:Also Batman is way more pissed about Dick getting shot than Dick is. Dick getting shot is entirely something done for Batman and not for Nightwing so yeah, that tracks.
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Feb 22, 2019 22:12
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I'd be surprised if it was King's idea rather than Lobdell, Percy or Esquivel's (or whatever editor was setting up Esquivel's run.)
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Teenage Fansub posted:I'd be surprised if it was King's idea rather than Lobdell, Percy or Esquivel's (or whatever editor was setting up Esquivel's run.)  all the bad ideas come back to king. I agree TFS.
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Thread https://twitter.com/RyanHigginsRyan/status/1099354255238914049?s=19
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That's encouraging.
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Hic6 for those on the sidelines Another flashback to the massacre issue. Through Sanctuary, Wally is reliving moments from Rebirth where everyone's pumped to have him back, but he's saying to himself "sure but what's it worth without my family?" then Sanctuary's AI tells him he isn't alone. It's revealed that Harley was only invited there for the day by Poison Ivy to try it out. She spawns Jokers to maim, but decides the place isn't for her. An alarm goes off, Ivy investigates, while Harley waits on top of a pile of Joker bodies in VR. Wally's chasing after something in a white void (exiting the therapy simulation?) going "Wait. Slow down." We miss the actual killing again. Wally is cradling Roy saying "Why did it... I just didn't want to be alone." Then Booster zaps Wally instead of what we saw before with Harley bonking him dead. The rest of the comic was about the old Teen Titans caveman guy telling his issues to a VR woolly mammoth. So we've deffo got an evil or misguided wish granting therapy AI instead of an actual murderous Wally. e: Adam Strange is suddenly in his silver age costume in Action Comics. I'll miss the JLUnited suit, but I don't hate this. If anyone should look like they just flew in from the 1960's, I suppose it should be Adam Strange. Steve Epting is such a good grab for the series. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 11:48 on Feb 27, 2019 |
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Feb 27, 2019 11:08
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Real men don't get therapy. Real men bottle it all up.
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Feb 27, 2019 11:57
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Comixology are having a DC Event sale. As someone who has only ever read Batman stuff, are there any good ones I should think about picking up?
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OscarDiggs posted:Comixology are having a DC Event sale. As someone who has only ever read Batman stuff, are there any good ones I should think about picking up? Pick up all four volumes of 52. It's a story about DC characters where Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman are largely absent, and it'll probably give you an interest in more than a few characters to check out.
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Cassa posted:Real men don't get therapy. Real men bottle it all up. Dad? I didn't know you posted here! 
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OscarDiggs posted:Comixology are having a DC Event sale. As someone who has only ever read Batman stuff, are there any good ones I should think about picking up? Do you want to skip Batman stuff? Cause No Man's Land is good. Metal is useful if you want to jump into the current Scott Snyder Justice League (Road to... and the main collection are the ones to pick. If you've read his Batman run, that helps.) Cosmic Odyssey to see Hellboy's Mike Mignola draw New Gods type stuff. Hawkworld is apparently a classic. Haven't gotten to read it yet. I like Crisis on Infinite Earths for the ambition of telling a story with basically every hero of the time and as a springboard to learn about pre-Crisis DC. I find Final Crisis and Multiversity (which can be seen as a sequel to FC) really neat, but they may be intimidating. Darkseid War is the one shining moment for Geoff Johns' Justice League run. There's fun stuff like Batman inheriting Metron's powers and floating around in a chair the whole time. It would make a good follow up to COIE since the guy fighting Darkseid is the big baddie from that. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Feb 27, 2019 |
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Feb 27, 2019 18:20
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Batman in Metron's chair has to be a response to the whole "Batman doesn't sit" thing, right?
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OscarDiggs posted:Comixology are having a DC Event sale. As someone who has only ever read Batman stuff, are there any good ones I should think about picking up? If Kingdom Come is on there definitely pick that up.
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Re: Detective Comics #999 Does anyone like it was all a dream endings? That just deflates the whole thing. I still enjoyed some stuff, especially the Mister Miracle death trap escape issue, and I guess it's cool that Leslie is alive, but the drama of that being for nothing leaves a bad taste.
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Roth posted:Pick up all four volumes of 52. It's a story about DC characters where Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman are largely absent, and it'll probably give you an interest in more than a few characters to check out. Teenage Fansub posted:Do you want to skip Batman stuff? Cause No Man's Land is good. Madkal posted:If Kingdom Come is on there definitely pick that up. Thanks all.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Re: Detective Comics #999 I feel like it was meant to exist to spin the comic's wheels for some unspecified number of issues until #1000. Meanwhile, Shazam! is still pretty good. A little predictable, but the worldbuilding is nice which I guess is what Johns excels in.
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Yeah, Shazam is turning out to be a really great read. The whole powers split amongst Billy's foster family thing felt a bit, like, "ehh sure? do whatever" when it first came about, but it's turning out to be a fantastic setup for this series. Honestly though, at this point I think they should just give in and rename him Captain Thunder or whatever. Shazam is just not an easy name fit for the character, much less the group, and it's had years and years to settle in at this point.
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Agreed and I don't get why Johns wants to do it that way. Next to none of the characters fans want it to be that way.
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HiC was so bad. I mean, it has been bad before, but this one was just filler. Most of the one-off therapy sessions of minor characters haven't been bad and if they had been released in one-shot tie-ins, they could have worked, but as part of the main event, they just feel like filler to make the whole series longer. Also, now Gerads has been dragged into this mess too, his art looks worse than in Mister Miracle.
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I actually thought this was the first really good issue of HiC. No Identity Crisis-style superhero murder mystery, just superheroes in therapy. Loved the Gnarrk segments, and this is the first time Harley has seemed human rather than being a manic caricature. The page with Harley and Ivy talking as they hold hands was really good.
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Android Blues posted:I actually thought this was the first really good issue of HiC. No Identity Crisis-style superhero murder mystery, just superheroes in therapy. Loved the Gnarrk segments, and this is the first time Harley has seemed human rather than being a manic caricature. The page with Harley and Ivy talking as they hold hands was really good. Agreed, honestly. It was nice to take a break from the terrible mystery plot and drill down on the character-driven introspection bits, because frankly I think that's what King is better at; The Vision wasn't amazing because of its plot, after all. That by no means makes HiC a good book, but viewed separately from HiC as a whole - admittedly a tall order - this was a fun little issue IMHO.
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radlum posted:HiC was so bad. I mean, it has been bad before, but this one was just filler. Most of the one-off therapy sessions of minor characters haven't been bad and if they had been released in one-shot tie-ins, they could have worked, but as part of the main event, they just feel like filler to make the whole series longer. Also, now Gerads has been dragged into this mess too, his art looks worse than in Mister Miracle. I was with you on this post until the bolded part. Gerard's owned on Mr. Miracle.
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Am I way too late for the, "Lois Lane book in 2019 with 0 women on it, LMAO" take or nah?
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I hear ya, but Greg Rucka does write some pretty bangin' lady-character-fronted comics. It would've been cool to bring back Nicola Scott with the Black Magick artstyle if it'll be a noiry investigative thing. Quick Google searched example: 
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Detective Comics #999 was really a let down after the previous issues. It is something that has been brought up over and over again with the character, and even though touching final page doesn't really redeem the issue at all. How many times do we have to be told "Bruce is obsessed and will constantly push himself"? It just feels like a warm over with not much adding to the character, and the plot not really making much sense either.
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