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Madkal posted:Looking at the Solicits and things that have stuck out for me: Billy Dee was already Two-Face in the Lego Batman Movie, but he had like one line.
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og sandman readers: has anybody read the original floppies and/or trades and know if there are any coloring differences between those and the 30th anniversary editions that would make one better than the other?
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site posted:og sandman readers: has anybody read the original floppies and/or trades and know if there are any coloring differences between those and the 30th anniversary editions that would make one better than the other? That era of early Vertigo coloring was definitely different (and better) than what is in the trades these days, but I wouldn't sweat it. Alan Moore Swamp Thing is similar,, though the original color job is miles better in that case.
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https://twitter.com/ales_kot/status/1398297885469556739?s=19
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May 28, 2021 19:23
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That's our Garth! *laugh track*
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I mean he isn't wrong. Also, why do they keep trying to get Garth Ennis to write superheroes when he despises then?
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Siegkrow posted:I mean he isn't wrong. From the quote it almost sounds like Garth Ennis is saying “I wasn’t interested in Batman, until I realised I could write him victimising the poor!”
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The Question IRL posted:From the quote it almost sounds like Garth Ennis is saying “I wasn’t interested in Batman, until I realised I could write him victimising the poor!” "But what got me really interested was when I wrote a scene where he got some dust on his chest in the shape of a skull. That really spoke to me for some reason." vvv: I know it's not but it's an easy joke and I'm very unfunny. TwoPair fucked around with this message at 04:05 on May 29, 2021 |
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It's bizarre to me when people act like Punisher is literally the only character Garth Ennis can or has written.
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One thing I appreciated in this week's Nightwing, no loving around with Tim, Dick just straight up calls him Robin while they're suited up. I know it causes issues because of Damian, but good god was Bendis' attempt at solving that problem terrible, and I'm normally a BMB defender.
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What was the last DC character Ennis wrote? A Hitman spinoff...?
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:What was the last DC character Ennis wrote? A Hitman spinoff...? Looks like it's a Sixpack and Dogwelder mini, so yeah. He also did a Dastardly and Muttley for DC, but I don't think it had any DC characters in it.
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Siegkrow posted:I mean he isn't wrong.
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I mean, I wouldn't mind more Hitman extended universe stuff, but beyond that I'm not sure what he has to offer the DC uni currently
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Anyone else read the Man-Bat mini? I oddly enough really liked it.
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Cartridgeblowers posted:Anyone else read the Man-Bat mini? I oddly enough really liked it. Yeah, same. We might have only sold like five copies here, but it was still a good read. 
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Is the newest DC Connect late? My LGS told me to make sure my order was in last week. It turns out he meant last month's, but the website doesn't seem to be updated with May's catalog yet. edit: nevermind, the default link from bing and google was taking me to a page that didn't have all of them. By clicking around the website I found the current catalog. bagrada fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Jun 2, 2021 |
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Cartridgeblowers posted:Anyone else read the Man-Bat mini? I oddly enough really liked it. Yeah, my low expectations going in were handily surpassed. A nice exploration of the character and some good art to boot.
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And the latest Batman filled in the final piece of the puzzle that Swamp Thing and Catwoman had included regarding the current fate of Poison Ivy. There's now two Pams, Poison and Ivy. Poison is the more aggressive and domineering one, her hatred for humanity personified and it currently underground in a jungle of her own making. Ivy is her kinder half and more innocent, and after being freed by Catwoman from the possession a scientist that'd be part of the Peacemaker network seen in Future State, she's now hiding out in Catwoman's neighborhood for protection. Both have avatars in The Green with Ivy serving Poison but their physical forms don't seem to be aware of any of that.Chinston Wurchill posted:Yeah, my low expectations going in were handily surpassed. A nice exploration of the character and some good art to boot. It started off kinda meh, but got better by the end and really stuck the landing. I don't think it needed to be five issues though.
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Suicide squad and teen titans academy are both bad books.
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red x red x reD X RED X RED X R
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I don't get why they're acting like Red X is a thing because as far as I can tell it was never even in the comics. But now it seems like everyone knows Red X and it's a big deal but they don't know who this Red X is and they haven't even come out and said it was Dick beforehand. Like I have no loving idea why all of a sudden Red X is a big deal in the comics. It was never a thing before that I can see. Is it really just because of the Teen Titans cartoon?
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poo poo from the cartoons have made it into comics before. Live Wire, Mr. Freeze's back story, some third thing I'm forgetting. I dunno, the third thing probably is probably minor and only came up a couple times, not some sort of breakout character that's now been in multiple live action films with more on the way or anything. You might be right.
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Red X would've been great as another one of the Bat Family's Matches Malone type identities that they use to do deep cover infiltrations into villain orgs. Not this weird Grey hat thing. That TT and SS crossed over so early for this stuff is just not promising at all.
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I don't know why you're copping an attitude with me wondering why they transplanted the Red X thing into the comics by making it canon when it never happened. Seems like it would be better to write a new story rather than just say "yeah stuff happened like in the cartoons" because it's sloppy. And yeah, sure, I'm sure it'll be just a short time before Red loving X catches up to Harley Quinn in popularity.
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I stuck with Suicide Squad all through nu-52 and bought every iteration of the book. Until now. Future State Suicide Squad was bad and when I saw the regular series would be building up to the future State stuff I dropped the book.
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I keep hoping that some issue of Gage's Batman/Fortnite comic will end with a cliffhanger appearance of Thanos wielding the Infinity Gauntlet but of course it's never gonna happen. It would be so absurd and cool though!
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When Harley Quinn made the leap into continuity it was in a sort of prestige-y one-shot that gives us her origin and sets up her dynamic with the Joker. It kind of refamiliarizes the reader with who she was in the cartoons, and then demonstrates how she'll be different in the comics. It tells a nice complete story that's still open-ended, and gives us nice snippets of how she interacts with the characters most central to her story on the show-- Batman, the Joker, Poison Ivy. So it's not a perfect comic but if you were a fan of the cartoon and wanted to see how Harley Quinn got incorporated into DC it would be easy to pick up and understand, if you had no idea who the character was you could pick it up and understand, if you were a die-hard DC fan you could pick it up and understand, and get a perfectly readable done-in-one action caper to boot. I watched the Batman cartoon very infrequently as a kid but I was familiar with the gist of the character and I remember reading this one-shot and feeling not especially excited but certainly like I understood who she was and what her deal is. Like-- the one-shot exists obviously because DC thought that fans would like seeing Harley Quinn in the comics and more importantly perhaps that fans would pay money for comics with Harley Quinn in them. But the comic doesn't take it for granted that Harley Quinn is fascinating and cool. It works to make her interesting and fun, and that work pays off. As it turns out this was a wise gamble-- obviously she's a super popular character. Would she still be popular if her comics roll-out was handled more clumsily? That I don't know, but as it is I feel like she was incorporated fairly seamlessly. No big mystery, no big to do, just an introductory issue and then having her just show up and do her thing. Compare that with the Red X stuff. He's just there, the comics act as if we all know about him (and that we all just understand and accept who and what he is in the comics-continuity history of the Titans) and are excited to see him. What's his relationship to Robin? What's his past with Beast Boy? gently caress if I know, I never watched the cartoon and these comics seem to have no interest in filling me in. He shows up and flips around and says his little jokes and I guess that's supposed to be a delicious treat. But it isn't-- it's execrably poor story-telling. I should also note that The New Adventures of Batman aired its final new episode in January 1999 and Batman: Harley Quinn hit the stands in August of that year. Teen Titans ended in 2006. If there was a time to elegantly fold this guy into continuity with no prologue and no scaffolding whatsoever, it probably should have been 15 years ago. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Jun 2, 2021 |
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it's even more baffling because - spoilers for a cartoon from the mid-00's I guess? - Red X isn't anyone. His identity in the cartoon is never followed up on, never even vaguely hinted at who he could be. That was, like, the entire draw of the character beyond the cool design. There's no satisfying answer to this mystery even if you were invested in the Teen Titans cartoon.
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I remember him being Robin. Was I Mandela'd?
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I think in the show Red X was Robin working with Deathstroke and gave up the identity once he re-joined the Titans. Then someone mysterious got the suit who sounded exactly like Robin shows up and they fight a few times. Then the show got cancelled and the much better Go version came out.
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Yeah he was Robin exactly one time, in the identity's first appearance, and then some mystery person the rest of the time.
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uhh clearly he's robin's brother, haven't y'all seen speed racer
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site posted:uhh clearly he's robin's brother, haven't y'all seen speed racer Which Robin?
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The missing link...
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Beast Boy thinking Red X is Jason Todd was actually a running joke from the series so I mean...
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How Wonderful! posted:When Harley Quinn made the leap into continuity it was in a sort of prestige-y one-shot that gives us her origin and sets up her dynamic with the Joker. It kind of refamiliarizes the reader with who she was in the cartoons, and then demonstrates how she'll be different in the comics. It tells a nice complete story that's still open-ended, and gives us nice snippets of how she interacts with the characters most central to her story on the show-- Batman, the Joker, Poison Ivy. So it's not a perfect comic but if you were a fan of the cartoon and wanted to see how Harley Quinn got incorporated into DC it would be easy to pick up and understand, if you had no idea who the character was you could pick it up and understand, if you were a die-hard DC fan you could pick it up and understand, and get a perfectly readable done-in-one action caper to boot. I watched the Batman cartoon very infrequently as a kid but I was familiar with the gist of the character and I remember reading this one-shot and feeling not especially excited but certainly like I understood who she was and what her deal is. Plus the Harley one-shot was nicely placed because No-Man's Land was running through the Bat-titles, giving a nice shake-up to the line so introducing her just feels like one other thing that was going on as part of the even, like introducing the new Batgirl.
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Abroham Lincoln posted:Beast Boy thinking Red X is Jason Todd was actually a running joke from the series so I mean... No it wasn't. There was a short released years after the show where Beast Boy guesses it's Jason Todd, and then they keep unmasking him to increasingly ridiculous results. In the show itself they never ponder who it is beyond that he's somebody smart enough to steal the suit, and dumb enough to actually use it.
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Blockhouse posted:it's even more baffling because - spoilers for a cartoon from the mid-00's I guess? - Red X isn't anyone. His identity in the cartoon is never followed up on, never even vaguely hinted at who he could be. That was, like, the entire draw of the character beyond the cool design. There's no satisfying answer to this mystery even if you were invested in the Teen Titans cartoon. I believe that is the attempted appeal though. "Who the hell is Red X?" is one of the only real plot threads that got left hanging when the show ended, and clearly the writer is trying to use that as a hook to appeal to a now-grown-up base of people who were fans of the old show. What fails in this attempted move from cartoon to comic is that Moving characters from a smaller medium into a bigger universe like Harley Quinn is fine, or adapting stories like revising Mr. Freeze's origin, but trying to resolve plot threads across universes? Don't be crazy. Or at least, y'know, be a much better writer than Tim Sheridan. TwoPair fucked around with this message at 07:46 on Jun 3, 2021 |
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