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Speaking as someone who has never actually read the Killing Joke here's how I would have handled Babs: Maybe have her already retired as Batgirl at the outset with a flashback to her Batgirl days to show how she quit (taking some cues from the Last Batgirl Story that was actually how she retired. That ended with her planning to take a more supporting role anyway, so maybe lay hints she's already been setting up servers and stuff - so the ground for her becoming Oracle was already there. Instead of her being passive after the shooting, she gets her hands on a laptop so she can remotely operate her Oracle setup, so she's the one who finds Joker's hideout ( or maybe found it beforehand and was planning to tell Batman before getting shot. So she's still clearly playing a role in the story. Sure it's fanfic, but dammit so was Azzarello & Timm's version.
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I've heard that part of the reason why they added Batgirl to the TV show back in '66 because they recast Catwoman with Eartha Kitt and they couldn't continue to use her for Batman's heterosexual credentials because it was the 60s and interracial flirtation was a no-no? Granted that does not justify Bruce/Barbara in its more recent form at all (or really back then, either). Yvonmukluk fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Jul 27, 2016 |
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ImpAtom posted:Per the DLC Tim married Barbara Gordon and kept fighting crime so apparently it worked out pretty well for him! I suppose we should have taken that as a sign that DC apparently has to put Barbara Gordon into a poorly written relationship with another member of the Batfamily for cheap drama, because apparently the audience wouldn't care otherwise.
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JT Smiley posted:That was such an odd change that honestly wasn't needed at all, but I guess you could say that about most of Arkham Knight You could say that about a fair few of DC's recent creative decisions.
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I just found out there's a free app on my PS4 that lets me watch Spectacular Spider-Man for free. This is a good day. (Also that weird CG one with NPH as Spider-Man, which is trippy).
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Skwirl posted:What app? Pop. It might only be in the UK, though.
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Well this provides an intriguing look into a Captain Marvel pitch that never got off the ground (no pun intended) and an insight into the inner workings of Marvel Animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IttvJRFgFJo Kinda bummed we never got this.
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Aces High posted:I miss my avatar of Fry eating pancakes You...could buy it back?
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Aces High posted:Really? I thought when your avatar was replaced the old one was gone for good Well if you had the old way one saved somewhere. Or you know, just remake it and rebuy it.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I think the sliding timescale itself never comes up. Comics just always take place in the present because it’s depressing to require Spiderman age into senility because you want to attach a date to the time he teamed up with David Letterman. Comics make no sense. Hey, Spider-Man: Life Story is actually pretty good so far.
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So, the synopses for the rest of the episodes of this season of Spider-Man have dropped. Gotta be honest, nothing leaps out at me except Cloak & Dagger, and that's only because they're bringing in the actors from the live action series.
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bunnyofdoom posted:Why would they help DC tho? You know they just want to add public domain superman and batman to the Avengers Because Mickey enters the public domain before them.
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Kipo & The Age of Wonderbeasts came back and it is great.
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Open Marriage Night posted:What other comics were made irrelevant by their live action or animated adaptations? I don't want to say irrelevant, but honestly the Cloak & Dagger TV show does the origin and the leads' relationship in a much more relevant way. Especially since the original is so rooted in '80s New York.
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Calaveron posted:Considering there was a group of villains that was just the fantastic four it undoubtedly was a homage. Spectacular Spider-Man referenced it first, I think.
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Lobok posted:It would at least be a shared responsibility. Spider-Man isn't the only person who's ever punched Dr. Octopus in the head. I think it's more likely Slott forgot that happened. I seem to recall that one of the events referenced as part of the litany of injuries that put him in that state was that time Joe Fixit knocked him out with a flick of the finger, which I think happened before he died and was resurrected.
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The Question IRL posted:Sorry the Hand's Resurrection ritual will fix whatever caused your death. It does nothing for pre-existing medical conditions. Another reason why the League of Assassins is better. 
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I just learned that Kipo & The Age of Wonderbeasts had the same music supervisor as Into The Spider-Verse, which explains a lot. It was a webcomic first, it still counts. Also it owns bones, go watch it!
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I don't think it's likely that we get another season - it's another Loeb project, and those haven't had a very high survival rate since he was booted. I must admit I didn't really like the core premise of Peter getting taken out of his normal school and put in a science academy. It doesn't sit right with me.
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Huh, they've got the first season of Spectacular Spider-Man on UK Netflix right now. But only the first. Weird.
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So I only just learned that apparently Freakangels got an anime adaption? Got to admit it was the first time I've thought about Freakangels in like 10 years. I'm surprised it would get adapted at all, let alone so much later.
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Disney put the first two episodes of Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur on their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq3geyQP2-4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq9jpTwua2Y
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So Lackadaisy’s started a crowdfunding campaign for a full season: https://www.backerkit.com/c/iron-circus-comics/lackadaisy-bookset-and-plushes?ref=youtube_teaser It’s already made its funding goal.
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OnimaruXLR posted:I dunno if this is something that was specifically mentioned in the pre-release or something, but is Lois Korean in this? Her formalware at Ivo Tower kinda pointed in that direction and now General Lane's character design looks like cartoon Ma Dong-seok I mean this is a prequel show so most of the Titans are pre-teens right now. This is Slade before he becomes the Most Divorced Man in the World.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68OueL-Iv2o Looks promising so far.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I can really understand the writers at marvel wanting to go back to a Peter Parker being pulled between multiple potential love interests, that's an easy source of angst, and it helped keep the action going for Peter's social life in the earlier days. I mean it worked in the Spectacular Spider-Man series, mind you, but that was coming out when the Raimi films were recent and you hadn't had the MCU movies, the Spider-Verse movies, and the PS4 games all reinforcing MJ as the endgame. Lobok posted:No but then the question is why include her? She now has two major and totally opposite developments hanging over her if she shows up and so to use neither it's like, is the point just to tease the audience the whole time? Or just prove a point? It's why I said she's screwed because the last chances we had to have an alive Gwen failed, and then Spider-Gwen became a thing afterward so it's over now.
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Argue posted:You just reminded me that 616 Chat was introduced in one of the quickly canceled Spider comics like a decade ago and hasn't been seen since It was Anya's Spider-Girl series, (also by Tobin) IIRC. The same one that killed off her (Anya's) dad in the first arc. We never did find out what the deal was with her sister.
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The Scott Pilgrim anime is incredible. Everyone should go watch it right now.
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site posted:just another barely disguised claremont fetish Plus the love interest she had right before he took over writing her in the 616 was Iceman, and well...
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Suleman posted:I do wonder if John Byrne as Claremont's artist was a factor at all in the Kitty-Colossus relationship, considering how Heather Hudson in Byrne's Alpha Flight was specifically stated to be 17 years old when she pressured the 30+ year old Mac into marrying her. And Mattie Franklin was clearly written as interested in a (newly-widowed) Peter Parker. Wasn't there also an age gap romance in The Lost Generation, too?
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