Asphalt Engine posted:

Some days, the only reason I keep reading comics is because Superman and Lois Lane are deeply and truly in love. I really do believe that if some comic guy tries to pull an OMIT and retcon the two of them into singledom. I'll probably just stop reading then and there.

Story's from the Superman 80-Page Giant #2, I believe.

KittenofDoom posted:

I'm not arguing against flying people in leotards, I'm saying that selectively ignoring physics and reality to write your way out of a knot is lazy and contrived. It's like having Batman pull an Bat-Anti-Bullet spray out of his utility belt to avoid being shot in the face.

There ought to be a word for it. Kal-Ex Machina?

Magic Love Hose posted:

I'm not the world's biggest fan of Geoff Johns, but I have to admit: this might be the best thing he's ever written.

RedMagus posted:

It's the last line that really hits me hard: "you did good kid"

Man I need to goto the comic store and pick up the last few issues now. I've avoided most comics since the 90s because I felt they no longer had good writing. I was wrong.

Rhyno posted:

Show me a recent die-cut cover smarty pants!










No don't, I can't handle the idea of those coming back.

KittenofDoom posted:

Have they explained why the two scientist dudes didn't warn people anyways?

It shouldn't have been too hard for an interstellar civilization to load up a few busloads of people, right?

Gavok posted:

From Starman, though I can't remember the issue number. Solomon Grundy joined the cast and was strangely a lovable lug instead of a maliciously and violent monster. He gets along with the cast, but when in a hospital bed, he overhears Ted Knight discuss the time years ago Grundy killed his good friend. Horrified by these past actions, Grundy runs away and later reappears to save Jack Knight from a crumbling building.

TwoPair posted:

You're gonna have to significantly lower that timeframe, because the last decade still has things like Grounded, Identity Crisis, and Countdown. Injustice wishes it could touch that level of terrible.

Hellbunny posted:

As fantastic as these are (and that entire ...run? paperback? Collection?)they show pretty clearly supermans weakness: He's far to liberal for his own good. The fact that he reasons with dictator rather than overthrows them is pretty weird.

Uthor posted:

I always found this guy kinda sad.





Sandman 23

Atmus posted:

It's probably another copy of Vlad Teppes or some such.

Endless Mike posted:

I want to except for the whole DC trade department is terrible and it's going out of print.

gfanikf posted:

Fried Chicken posted:

http://imgur.com/gallery/tV19B

gallery of images about Mr Fantastic and a guy dying from cancer

Spaceman Bill posted:

That's like the exact opposite of the final arc of Batman, Inc.

Kammat posted:

Here ya go. from Sandman #54

StumblyWumbly posted:

That was a Neal Adams Crazy story about Batman deciding to fight mortgage lenders or some poo poo. It was awesome. Most of the other stuff was more conventional but good, fun Batman.

Kellsterik posted:

Showed this panel to one of my friends as an example of a great depiction of Superman, he couldn't see it as anything but incredibly patronizing to have the Man of Steel be like "yep, all three of us are definitely on the same level here!"

Archyduke posted:

I think the panel is kind of mawkish too. It has nothing to do with the sentiment or the idea of Superman honoring the dignity and humanity of people without super-powers. That's like half the premise of Morrison's Action Comics, which I liked a lot. If the writer and penciler didn't want to be patronizing, they wouldn't have drawn the cop as a chubby, wall-eyed dude reaching for his gun for no clear reason, and they wouldn't have written him with the kind of "aw, geez, aw, Myrtle" dialect that suggests the writer's closest impression of blue-collar speech is reruns of the Honeymooners.

The panel itself isn't about the cop having value or dignity that Superman recognizes. It's about Superman talking down to a dope. If the writer was interested in a moment of compassion and empathy, the cop wouldn't have just been a prop. He wouldn't need Superman's loving validation.

(now I feel like Lex Luthor..)

Archyduke posted:

Because Superman's not real, and the cop isn't real either. A writer and an artist decided that the cop would look like that and say what he said, and they decided that Superman would respond in the way he did. If you're implying that Superman can't be written poorly, or with a sort of superior smugness that undercuts the astonishing humanism of Superman at his best, I have some bad news for you about J. Michael Straszcynski.

Lurdiak posted:

Is that what you're seeing in this thread? Because I'm seeing like, 5 posts saying the panel isn't particularly touching after the topic of being unable to convince a non-Superman fan of its value was brought up, and many more posts of people reacting like their lineage and religion had been attacked, complete with calling people who disagree with them about comics "assholes" or "dead inside".



So, on-topic, Juston Seyfert is a kid who essentially has a pet Sentinel. He joined Avengers Academy and the Sentinel has made a lot of the mutant students and visitors very uncomfortable, especially since it sometimes yells about exterminating mutants, despite never acting violently and Juston's assurances that he's been reprogrammed. Despite the mistrust, Juston sticks by his friend.



One day, Phoenix-powered Emma Frost comes a-calling, seeking to eradicate the Sentinel as part of her mission to destroy every single Sentinel in the entire world. Considering her power level and the fact that we're talking about a genocidal robot, the Academy teachers tell Juston to let her do it, but Juston breaks down in tears and cries about how he loves the Sentinel. Just as Emma is about to nuke the thing, X-23, who knows what it's like to be treated as a disposable killing machine, jumps her while talking about free will, prompting the entire academy to dogpile Emma, telling her she has no right, etc.

They're still no match for a Phoenix host. She blasts the Sentinel, damaging it badly and hurting Juston, who was piloting it from the inside. The Sentinel realizes that Juston will continue to endanger himself to protect it from this overpowered enemy.








As Juston breaks down in tears, Hank Pym tries to explain to Emma that being able to override its prime directive proves it was more than a machine, but she doesn't give a gently caress. X-23 promises to kill Emma the next time she sees her (which I unfortunately doubt will come to pass), and Emma flies off.

As the students and faculty try to cheer Juston up, Quicksilver calls them a bunch of over-dramatic nerds from off-panel.

DarkCrawler posted:

But...he survived?

Die Laughing posted:

Robert Redford was the best Death in the Twilight Zone episode Nothing in the Dark.

Was Neil Gaiman's Death worth a read? A kindly reaper is something most people want to believe in, I think.

Phy posted:

The first one or the second one?

Jerusalem posted:

Oh you've seen the unrated cut of Good Will Hunting too?

Rhyno posted:

You know, the only good part of the Jay & Silent Bob film is that scene.


"It's Hunting season."

Calaveron posted:

Goons, this will blow your loving minds:
All the dogs, cats, birds, and horses from your favorite childhood movies? All dead.

Skwirl posted:

But no one figured out who Batman is based on this information?

Jiro posted:

Some of us don't have the money to keep up with all the books.

El Gallinero Gros posted:

Astro City-esque, and I mean that in the best way. Goddamn.

Endless Mike posted:

Superman can't solve all of Batman's problems because he's busy dealing with things that actually require a Superman to solve. He can't actually be everywhere at once, and street crime is not something he's going to be dealing with often.