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Codependent Poster posted:Yeah that Young Justice book definitely reads like the writer hates the old Young Justice and they hate the new Young Justice and that they really, really hate Cassie Yeah I never read the original YJ but this tie-in definitely feels like it doesn't like YJ. Like you could maybe chalk it up to "well this is supposed to be some wrong world" but even then Robin & co. keep talking about how stupid all their villains/adventures/super-cycles seem in retrospect TwoPair fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Jul 21, 2022 |
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Jurassic League continues to be stupid and awesome.
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https://twitter.com/DCComics/status/1550578938140844033?t=DL_54W_c68pUtb-D6eieOg&s=19 https://twitter.com/DCComics/status/1550598667131830274?t=CSavwAN9bUBxqxTpO9oOSQ&s=19 https://twitter.com/DCComics/status/1550643110585188352?t=hyd5IWgVG8_E4UVeutCDjQ&s=19 New comics coming
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Also a new (well, apparently the one McFarlane's been talking about since like, 2006) Batman/Spawn crossover. I'm sorta excited, I love crossovers. Read War Devil but never read the Miller one.
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Just in time for Comic-Con, I managed to finish the second episode of my Epic Wonder Woman Deep Dive for anyone who's interested  Much of this is about the wacky Silver Agey love-triangle hijinks of the 60s -- WW invented being a furry long before Batman had the notion -- though the latter part goes into detail about the actual moral panic and Comics Code censorship that necessitated these whimsical, family-friendly stories.
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Jul 23, 2022 20:53
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catlord posted:Also a new (well, apparently the one McFarlane's been talking about since like, 2006) Batman/Spawn crossover. I'm sorta excited, I love crossovers. Read War Devil but never read the Miller one. Does anyone care about Spawn anymore?
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Jul 23, 2022 21:09
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Codependent Poster posted:Does anyone care about Spawn anymore? I tried to get back into it after not reading since the 90s and I couldn’t. I have fond memories from back then, but I just couldn’t with the modern book.
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Jul 23, 2022 21:13
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Mr Hootington posted:https://twitter.com/DCComics/status/1550643110585188352?t=hyd5IWgVG8_E4UVeutCDjQ&s=19 Please, for the love of God, don't suck, it's been so long since a good Static story.
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Joker title sounds interesting but I've found Rosenberg off-putting alas. Will probably check out the Riddler book, though, always love a good story with that fella.
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Jul 23, 2022 21:44
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"Mr Hootington" posted:https://twitter.com/DCComics/status/1550643110585188352?t=hyd5IWgVG8_E4UVeutCDjQ&s=19 I know that this is supposed to be serious. But all I see when I look at this solicit is a serious book about heartbreak. Then when you read the story it's like "Virgil has just been dumped by his girlfriend. And now he's got a case of Meta-Blue Balls! If Static doesn't get laid in the next hour, he will explode and take the city with him!" Something really trashy on the inside.
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Jul 23, 2022 22:01
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Jul 23, 2022 22:09
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I'm saying that cover and solicit have the look that it's going to be not just terrible, but infamously terrible. Like Trouble 2: Electric Boogaloo.
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Jul 23, 2022 22:17
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It looks completely normal, like pretty much any YA teen-focused GN you can find in any bookstore or library these days
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Jul 23, 2022 23:22
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Yeah it looks like a very ordinary plot. That blurb makes me think it's just gonna be him hanging out with his friends for the night after a bad break-up where shenanigans ensue. What weird brain worms do you have that lead you to this:The Question IRL posted:I know that this is supposed to be serious. But all I see when I look at this solicit is a serious book about heartbreak.
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Jul 23, 2022 23:47
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dc has been putting out pretty good ya ogns for a while now
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catlord posted:Also a new (well, apparently the one McFarlane's been talking about since like, 2006) Batman/Spawn crossover. I'm sorta excited, I love crossovers. Read War Devil but never read the Miller one. I have both Spawn/Batman comics. The DC one is just Batman:Gothic with numbers filed off and the Image one is just Batman trying to outgrim Spawn. Both are fun trash
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BrianWilly posted:Just to be clear, both Dark Crisis YJ issues definitely read far less like "love letters" and more like they were written by someone who hates Young Justice and every character in it lol Watching them have Bart say how he could talk to Barry but never could talk to Wally is the most baffling thing. I understand that the characters in the world they're in are supposed to be off because it's fake, but Bart has literally no relationship with Barry and a pretty well developed one with Wally.
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Two Tone Shoes posted:Watching them have Bart say how he could talk to Barry but never could talk to Wally is the most baffling thing. I understand that the characters in the world they're in are supposed to be off because it's fake, but Bart has literally no relationship with Barry and a pretty well developed one with Wally. Wally was 'his' Flash for years. (I mean, I know you know and I know that but still, c'mon.)
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The writer also had Cassie wish that Conner was still dead.
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I imagine that was supposed to come across as an intentionally silly, childish spur-of-the-moment grief-induced thought that she would immediately regret, which is something that happens to everyone, but what I can't figure out is what exactly she was mad at him (and the others) about? It can't possibly be the few lines of tame-rear end quips that they were tossing out in that page? It feels like we're supposed to think Cassie has so much unresolved bitterness towards the three boys but in actuality I have no idea what Fitzmartin thinks they've done to her to make her ever wish that they were dead, even as an intrusive thought.
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During the year 3 story arc written by Wolfman, Grayson has to do some continuity fixing and says batman did not let kgbeast die, but informed the police 2 hours later. Unfortunately this was after kgbeast had escaped somehow.
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BrianWilly posted:I imagine that was supposed to come across as an intentionally silly, childish spur-of-the-moment grief-induced thought that she would immediately regret, which is something that happens to everyone, but what I can't figure out is what exactly she was mad at him (and the others) about? It can't possibly be the few lines of tame-rear end quips that they were tossing out in that page? It feels like we're supposed to think Cassie has so much unresolved bitterness towards the three boys but in actuality I have no idea what Fitzmartin thinks they've done to her to make her ever wish that they were dead, even as an intrusive thought. Also weird was Cissie calling Batman, Superman and Flash the boys' 'fake dads' which feels so out of character one hopes she's some sort of hallucination. Nobody feels very in character in that book.
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Truly the effects of the Dark Crisis are more far reaching and sinister than we thought
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Superman: Space Age is really good. Like a new New Frontier. And there’s a bar named The Seagull next to a Shoe Store.
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Yeah I quite liked it, very keen to see how issue 2 unfolds.
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Detective comics annual #2 is a supremely problematic story.
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Open Marriage Night posted:What happens there? A young Bruce wayne travels to the south with a detective mentor to solve at the time of their arrival 3 murders. During the investigation it is uncovered that the now 4 murdered men are part of a 6 man KKK like group that had wiped out a black shantytown outside of the main city years before. They confront the only remaining alive member and learn that the member who was dead before the murders had a wife who changed her name for some reason. Bruce and the detective go to protect the old lady and find the killer attacking her. It is revealed to be a locale mentally disable and crazy man. During the fight Bruce's mentor dies and Bruce thinks their is still a loose end. He sits down and has a think about it and discovers that one of the kkk members had a secret child with former black maid and that member wiped up the other members to kill everyone in the shantytown. The problem was they missed killing the secret child so that kid grew up and manipulated the mentally ill man to kill the kkk people. Now batman comes back once a year to terrorize this man who he can not prove orchestrated the murders. At no time does Bruce get angry about the shantytown getting destroyed and everyone in it murdered. He also does nothing about the last surviving kkk member who admitted to the murders.
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Mr Hootington posted:A young Bruce wayne travels to the south with a detective mentor to solve at the time of their arrival 3 murders. During the investigation it is uncovered that the now 4 murdered men are part of a 6 man KKK like group that had wiped out a black shantytown outside of the main city years before. They confront the only remaining alive member and learn that the member who was dead before the murders had a wife who changed her name for some reason. Bruce and the detective go to protect the old lady and find the killer attacking her. It is revealed to be a locale mentally disable and crazy man. During the fight Bruce's mentor dies and Bruce thinks their is still a loose end. He sits down and has a think about it and discovers that one of the kkk members had a secret child with former black maid and that member wiped up the other members to kill everyone in the shantytown. The problem was they missed killing the secret child so that kid grew up and manipulated the mentally ill man to kill the kkk people. Now batman comes back once a year to terrorize this man who he can not prove orchestrated the murders. Jesus Wept.
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Mr Hootington posted:A young Bruce wayne travels to the south with a detective mentor to solve at the time of their arrival 3 murders. During the investigation it is uncovered that the now 4 murdered men are part of a 6 man KKK like group that had wiped out a black shantytown outside of the main city years before. They confront the only remaining alive member and learn that the member who was dead before the murders had a wife who changed her name for some reason. Bruce and the detective go to protect the old lady and find the killer attacking her. It is revealed to be a locale mentally disable and crazy man. During the fight Bruce's mentor dies and Bruce thinks their is still a loose end. He sits down and has a think about it and discovers that one of the kkk members had a secret child with former black maid and that member wiped up the other members to kill everyone in the shantytown. The problem was they missed killing the secret child so that kid grew up and manipulated the mentally ill man to kill the kkk people. Now batman comes back once a year to terrorize this man who he can not prove orchestrated the murders. 
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Oh yeah I forgot to add who wrote it.
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Detective Comics was good this week at least. They’re bringing back Barbatos with some gothic horror stuff, and there’s a crime noir Jim Gordon back up. Solid start.
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Mr Hootington posted:Oh yeah I forgot to add who wrote it. :kaibano: also as someone who never read the OG Young Justice but feels bad for the characters who basically got hosed by take your pick of New 52, 5G, writer/editorial indifference etc, I think their Dark Crisis being them getting canceled is pretty funny and doesn't read as particularly spiteful or mean spirited. Bendis's latest crack at it wasn’t even good as kindling, but I am probably a decade or two older than the intended audience
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I'm trying to think of really good "teen-age super-hero team" books and can't think of any from the last 20 years outside of Gillen and McKelvie's Young Avengers.
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Where they all in their 20s?
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Mulva posted:Where they all in their 20s? A key plot point is Kate turning 18 so uh...
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Skwirl posted:I'm trying to think of really good "teen-age super-hero team" books and can't think of any from the last 20 years outside of Gillen and McKelvie's Young Avengers. The original Young Avengers is there, you can make an argument for most of Runaways (the argument against it being they're not really a team), Waid's Legion is in there, New X-Men: Academy X was fun until they all got blown up in a bus
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Despite it being an endemic concept, how many good teen team books were there before 2002? You've got Legion of Superheroes, but by the time the Levitz/Giffen run got really hot I don't think many/any of the main characters were teenagers. Same for X-Men, even before Claremont took over I don't think most of the characters were written as teens and in the Claremont era it was really mostly just Kitty/Colossus (and much later Jubilee) who were teenage. Though you did have New Mutants for pretty much all of the 1980s, with fluctuating levels of 'good' but they were definitely teenagers. Teen Titans only had a few years where it met both the "teen" and "good" criteria, though that expands if you liked Young Justice. Beyond that.. I dunno? Power Pack were mostly pre-teens. Young Heroes in Love? Wolfpack? New Warriors, though I think they were mostly in their twenties?
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