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BrianWilly posted:Man. I like Batman fine, but I will never understand how he sells double or triple the amount of books compared to some other big name heroes. No parents. Continued darkness. Justice League stuff is pretty fun for being zany over the top adventures.
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Teenage Fansub posted:It has all the heroes! I think that's what keeps people hanging on even though Hitch's JL has been just awful.
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Sep 3, 2017 07:09
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It would set an unrealistic expectation for the movie if it was well written and looked interesting.
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Sep 3, 2017 09:15
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BrianWilly posted:Man. I like Batman fine, but I will never understand how he sells double or triple the amount of books compared to some other big name heroes. Batman's had a lot of successful tv and movie adaptations to turn generations of people into fans. Big name creators don't hurt either.
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Sep 3, 2017 10:05
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I kind of missed the "Kill the entire Justice League" conversation but DC should definitely kill Barry Allen. That was 100% a good decision. Maybe it could work with others but it'd probably need a serious long term set up that they only accidentally stumbled into with Wally.
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Sep 3, 2017 18:31
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Two Tone Shoes posted:I kind of missed the "Kill the entire Justice League" conversation but DC should definitely kill Barry Allen. That was 100% a good decision. Maybe it could work with others but it'd probably need a serious long term set up that they only accidentally stumbled into with Wally. You could kill Hal Jordan with a moment's notice and have a good set-up. Probably the same with Batman, though it get's a little complicated because he has a new trainee, and he's specifically doing things Batman can't, Dickbats wouldn't work with Duke as well, but it might work. Wonder Woman and Superman are much harder.
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Sep 4, 2017 02:10
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Edge & Christian posted:Anyway, DC is doing pretty well right now, at least if you're a Batman book. DC's top selling books in July were: I'm kind of surprised to see Flash and Justice League outselling Harley Quinn. Is that not a huge seller for them anymore? I thought her book was selling fairly high?
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Sep 4, 2017 02:14
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Dexie posted:I'm kind of surprised to see Flash and Justice League outselling Harley Quinn. Is that not a huge seller for them anymore? I thought her book was selling fairly high? Justice league has Batman, and aren't those Flash issues a crossover with Batman?
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Sep 4, 2017 02:16
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Two Tone Shoes posted:I kind of missed the "Kill the entire Justice League" conversation but DC should definitely kill Barry Allen. That was 100% a good decision. Maybe it could work with others but it'd probably need a serious long term set up that they only accidentally stumbled into with Wally. There's no way they're killing or replacing any League members in the near future until their big-budget blockbuster featuring all the old boring characters is in the rear-view mirror.
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Sep 4, 2017 02:23
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lotus circle posted:They won't ever replace Bruce as Batman with anyone else permanently. It's why any story where he goes away for a period of time feels hollow, when you know in the back of your head that company politics will demand his return within a year or two if even that. A thought I've mentioned in the past is that I sort of wished that they could have had 2 Batmen wandering around for the longterm post The Return of Bruce Wayne: Dick and Bruce both taking up the identity at the same time, but in different book series. I guess how I mean is one of them is the permanent JLA-level Batman and does the outside Gotham stories, and the other is devoted to mostly Gotham-level stories. You can spin those in whatever way you want and have them be largely independent of one another. Maybe Bruce decides that Dick is a better team-player Batman that the JLA needs and will be the more global Batman and Bruce stays in Gotham. Maybe Bruce decides post-Return that 'Bruce Wayne' needs to stay away from the world and 'dead' for a while longer and devotes himself full time to being Batman to the JLA or for global things and let's Dick/Damian continue doing their B&R thing on their own in Gotham and the rest of the world. In the case, you can probably have an in-built plan so if it gets confusing or unpopular in a few years you can have a storyline in mind to return to the status quo for all the characters for one reason or another. That maybe also frees up the Nightwing identity for a few years, too, so someone else could maybe adopt it in Batfamily (like Tim) to keep that IP active and do something slightly different with it.
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Sep 4, 2017 07:25
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Can we just go back to Dick Grayson as Batman, Damian as his sidekick, and Chris Kent as Nightwing? (no, because Batman has his army of Bruce Waynes foreshadowed in Future's End, brought up in ASB, and an Alfred AI)
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Sep 4, 2017 08:02
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I'll always be biased to 'my' JLA, which was Morrisons one. Kyle and Wally were just better than Hal and Barry, J'onn was awesome and the relationship he had with the league was awesome, the extended members were all cool, like... Plastic Man, Big Barda, Orion, Steel, Zaurel, Huntress, Oracle as everyones mission control, even the short time Connor Hawke was with the league was fun. Which makes me no different than really any modern comic writer who is absolutely biased towards their personal experience.
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Sep 5, 2017 02:00
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X-O posted:Didn't Convergence completely undo the original Crisis and there's now an infinite number of realities again? Then here comes Convergence, which says "all that past stuff you loved is back, in Glass Dome City form!" Except not really because some of those old stories had Plot Development in the dome, and some were plucked out of continuity -- like Hal J Parallax was there, but we know he goes on to redeem himself with his sun trick and then becomes the Spectre so this is a Hal that doesnt get to do all that and oh god my head. But then some heroes go and make sure the original Crisis is still on track but now it's different because modern Man of Steel era Superman and Parallax are taking part in the final battle and why is this so complicated again Really looking forward to the Post-Doomsday Clock reboot that makes everyone hew closer to the Cinematic Universe, but also provides a DC imprint of some kind that lets you enjoy the 'traditional' heroes you sometimes kind of know and tolerate.
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Sep 5, 2017 07:00
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Wait. Didn't Parallax Hal still stick around after Convergence? Or did he go with a group to make it so the original Crisis never happened??? Oh gently caress it, it gave us current Super Dad and Lois which is really all I care about.
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Sep 5, 2017 09:48
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Jiro posted:Wait. Didn't Parallax Hal still stick around after Convergence? Or did he go with a group to make it so the original Crisis never happened??? Yes to both. He went back to the first crisis, and he also showed up in Green Lantern right before Rebirth.
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Sep 5, 2017 13:12
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TwoPair posted:Yes to both. He went back to the first crisis, and he also showed up in Green Lantern right before Rebirth. Although when he showed up on GL, it was revealed he was a time displaced Hal infected with Parallax rather than the crazy Hal from Zero Hour
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Sep 5, 2017 13:30
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Aw poo poo https://twitter.com/geoffjohns/status/905066711652605952
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Sep 5, 2017 15:42
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Batman to his book club: "This is an interesting fiction work but the author's grammar is atrocious"
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Sep 5, 2017 16:36
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TwoPair posted:Batman to his book club: "This is an interesting fiction work but the author's grammar is atrocious" "The pages smelled funny."
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Sep 5, 2017 18:59
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"Hmm. So in another universe a superhero with no powers but wealth and intelligence enacted a plan to bring world peace you say... Alfred, do you think Ace would mind if I got another pet?"
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Sep 5, 2017 19:56
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Bruce's version of Bubastis is fused from all of Damian's pets
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Sep 5, 2017 20:12
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https://twitter.com/maguirekevin/status/905277212336771072 full res 
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Sep 6, 2017 21:11
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Whose the old guy next to Guy Gardner?
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Sep 6, 2017 21:41
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Zoro posted:Whose the old guy next to Guy Gardner? Pretty sure that's Oberon.
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Sep 6, 2017 21:42
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Yeah that's Oberon.
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Sep 6, 2017 21:51
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Sep 6, 2017 21:58
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got both volumes of the Kirby Kamandi omnibus from the library today, unfortunately the library system here doesn't have the 4th world books oh well.
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Sep 6, 2017 22:23
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Proof that Guy is the central figure of the DCU.
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Rhyno posted:Proof that Guy is the central figure of the DCU. I believe if you study the picture you'll find that Captain Atom and/or Animal Man are the center of the DCU. Guy is the slightly off-right of the DCU.
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TwoPair posted:I believe if you study the picture you'll find that Captain Atom and/or Animal Man are the center of the DCU. Guy is the slightly off-right of the DCU. Only Guy Gardner gets to stand straight on. None o' that angled crap for the one true GL.
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Fitting that the focal point of the DC Universe is an alternately bumbling or malevolent brain damaged white man.
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AlmightyBob posted:Why is Lex Luthor Australian in Death of Superman? Lex Luthor got cancer from the kryptonite ring he wore. He faked his death and had his brain transferred into a clone body which he claimed was his legitimate son who was hidden to protect him. At the time Lex Luthor II was pretending to be an upstanding businessman and also banging Supergirl. He eventually got clone cancer, almost died, and then made a deal with the devil to get his old body back.
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Comics are incredible
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 BMan annual variant.Gosh, I'm excited at the prospect of Olivier Coipel on something more than a Metal tie-in. Fingers crossed. edit: Howard Chaykin's Challengers of the Unknown is going up on Comixology. Is it anything interesting? https://www.comixology.com/Challengers-of-the-Unknown-2004-2005/comics-series/104727 Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Sep 8, 2017 |
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AlmightyBob posted:Comics are incredible You have no idea man. That era of Superman comics are loving bonkers.
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Sep 8, 2017 00:55
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Also Supergirl was some other alien robot pretending to be Supergirl who got turned to goo when punched by Doomsday. I'm gonna estimate 90% of the DoS reading audience were like me as a kid and reading the Death of Superman issues or trade in complete isolation and got very confused. It was neat that the JLs at the time were the weirdo JLI populated cast. That's some good screen time for Blue Beetle. edit: Them getting walloped through the house is the earliest impactful comic moment I can still remember. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Sep 8, 2017 |
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Sep 8, 2017 01:07
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AlmightyBob posted:Comics are incredible And when he says Lex was with Supergirl he means Matrix. Who was a shape shifting alien who took the form of Supergirl. Rhyno posted:You have no idea man. That era of Superman comics are loving bonkers. And I still miss them.
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Sep 8, 2017 01:08
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In the collection we bought a few months back there was a near complete run of the Super books from 86-08 and I put them all aside so I can read the entire thing before i put them out for sale.
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I was wondering why Supergirl turned into a loving goo monster when Doomsday hit her hahaha
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