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X-O posted:That Booster arc is wretched. People were already joking about his tendency for character assassination before that and then he poo poo that out on the page. It probably helped it that it was the first time I'd read a comic with booster in, so all I knew was that he was a time travel guy.
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frameset posted:It probably helped it that it was the first time I'd read a comic with booster in, so all I knew was that he was a time travel guy. That would do it. The arc was very bad if you knew anything about booster before that arc.
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Mr Hootington posted:That would do it. The arc was very bad if you knew anything about booster before that arc. I only knew him from that episode of Justice League Unlimited and even I thought it seemed like character assassination.
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What I disliked about that arc was not so much the Booster characterisation (it's off but okay, if your inciting incident needs him to be an idiot and you feel like you can tell an interesting story out of that, sure) but then that the alternate timeline is such bog-standard "what if no Batman?" AU fare. Gotham is paralyzed by criminals and supervillains, there's an amoral Batman replacement who lives on the edge and shoots people with guns, and the rest of the DC universe is rendered powerless to help. I feel like by the time the comic rolls out Dick Grayson as The Gun Batman you're already yawning.
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Extremely glad that the best DC book this week is the kids John Constantine book by Ryan North. That line of books has been solid, but a Hellblazer kids book is pretty inspired.
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Best alt Batman with guns is still McDuffie's Paladin who was basically "What if batman but inspired by westerns instead of Zorro"
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Xelkelvos posted:Best alt Batman with guns is still McDuffie's Paladin who was basically "What if batman but inspired by westerns instead of Zorro" ...Zorro IS a western.
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Gaz-L posted:...Zorro IS a western. Cowboy Western, not swashbuckling "Western" Edit: the Green Arrow Anniversary special has some neat stuff in it including a tribute to Denny O'Neil
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Extremely glad that the best DC book this week is the kids John Constantine book by Ryan North. That line of books has been solid, but a Hellblazer kids book is pretty inspired. Wait, what? gently caress, now I have to go back to the comic book store.
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https://twitter.com/Bruno_Redondo_F/status/1410705791078785024 Bruno Redondo posted the new design for Batgirl, I like it, it's a more traditional take on the Batgirl of Burnside design. The thing about the cape becoming wings is dumb, but it's cool so I like it lol
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Adnor posted:https://twitter.com/Bruno_Redondo_F/status/1410705791078785024 I like it. It's basically the Burnside costume which was perfect, and a few small tweaks.
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frameset posted:It probably helped it that it was the first time I'd read a comic with booster in, so all I knew was that he was a time travel guy. A lot of King's support seems to come from people who read his comics and go "Well actually I've never read anything before with this character he turned into a War Criminal/Mass Murderer/Broken monster." The dude can NOT write a character. He can only write a Tom King stories and the characters in them are props. Heroes In Crisis was too bad to be worth the squeeze and Wally was almost certainly the most popular character he straight up hosed up. He'd done almost as bad with Booster but that was one arc in Batman for Batman fans who don't care about Booster and Wally fans had years of practicing being loudly and violently offended by DC in preparation for HiC.
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Codependent Poster posted:I like it. It's basically the Burnside costume which was perfect, and a few small tweaks. A friend commented it's like they've decided Barbara is closer to thirty than twenty so they designed the costume around that and I think it works.
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When I turned 30 I definitely started thinking more seriously about crafting myself wings out of intelligent memory fabric.
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Two Tone Shoes posted:The dude can NOT write a character. He can only write a Tom King stories and the characters in them are props. On Heroes in Crisis Tom King posted:As I've said many times before, I don't pick the characters for my story; I give my plot to the editors and then the editors pick the characters for me. So I told them in the beginning, "this is what it's going to be — it's going to be about one hero who's made a mistake and it's going to be about the two heroes that get framed for that mistake." And they said, "okay, it's Booster, Harley, and Wally, those are the three characters." On Strange Adventures Tom King posted:Mitch and I were going back and forth over what kind of story we wanted to tell," recalled King. "It was at the height of the Mueller investigation was going on, and I said 'I want to write a story about people lying to you.' Because I feel like a lot of people in government are lying to us and I want to write about the differences between lies and truth, and the seeking of truth. When we were looking for how to tell the story, Mitch came up with Adam Strange. Or this entire interview about The Vision which boils down to "I kept pitching Winter Soldier ideas, they asked me to do the Vision, I wondered what would happen if Vision got married, eventually I found out he'd already been married so I worked that into my pitch and eventually figured out how else to factor the Vision's established character into the story I had written."
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Edge & Christian posted:He's remarkably frank about that being his process. Hsudidjs9bs HE WAS A GOD DAMNED CIA SPOOK IN AFGAHNISTAN HE WAS ONE OF THOSE THAT LIED HE MOST CERTAINLY PARTICPATED IN THE HEROIN TRADE THEY ARE RUNNING AGEUYDUDH
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Adnor posted:https://twitter.com/Bruno_Redondo_F/status/1410705791078785024 The cape becoming wings with a charge is dumb, but it's straight outta Batman Begins so I guess it's neat they brought back that technobabble. Also I get the feeling that X'd out part is gonna get ignored by too many artists
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I appreciate the compromise that's been reached the last few years that Babs' spinal injury is an ongoing issue for her, which both gives that aspect weight and does a bit for disability visibility.
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Xelkelvos posted:
Is that Constantine?
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Skwirl posted:Is that Constantine? Yup
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Xelkelvos posted:
Constantine, having a normal one.
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BrianWilly posted:I was mostly optimistic about Green Lanterns but the fact that they may have killed Isamot Kol and Vath Sarn offscreen immediately puts it in my poop bin. Oh that sucks. Those were good auxiliary GL characters.
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Mr Hootington posted:Oh that sucks. Those were good auxiliary GL characters. I do not think that is the case as it also said that Hal’s child bride is also killed. I am going to assume they are being collected by someone. I am going to assume it’s a guardians scheme since they are the worst
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Argue posted:So, between the surprise appearance of the Batman Who Laughs as the mastermind and the flashback to Bruce and Selina's failed engagement... am I supposed to understand that Batman/Fortnite (and consequently, Batman meeting GI Joe) is canon to current continuity I believe that’s what they want. My best guess is that DC was contracted to make the crossover count to make it less of some cross promotional cash grab. Will you ever find a non Fortinite comic reference this series? Of course not, but I’m obligated to say that Christos Gage is a good dude, and deserves his moment in the sun.
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Argue posted:So, between the surprise appearance of the Batman Who Laughs as the mastermind and the flashback to Bruce and Selina's failed engagement... am I supposed to understand that Batman/Fortnite (and consequently, Batman meeting GI Joe) is canon to current continuity Welcome to the metaverse.
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Blockhouse posted:The Marvel Fortnite comic was also canon so this isn't surprising. They'll never do this but it would have been extremely amazing if an issue of Batman/Fortnite ended with a Thanos reveal.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/TomKingTK/status/1413605123381731328 Who ordered that?
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Codependent Poster posted:oh boy I can't wait for Tom King to make the JLI a bunch of miserable mass murderers with PTSD How do you get that from a title that had a run as Vertigo book written by Pete Mulligan. Honestly I think King does better with lesser known properties but if you think him writing Human Target will lead to him making a Blue Beetle a mass murderer or whatnot I think your beef might be with the writer despite what he writes.
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Madkal posted:How do you get that from a title that had a run as Vertigo book written by Pete Mulligan. Look at the arms on the left
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Codependent Poster posted:Look at the arms on the left Ah I see it now. In that case I look forward to complete misery porn and mass genocides this book will be about.
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