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Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Pretty glad that I don't read any DC comics anymore. I've dropped off on reading a lot, actually, but I'm at the point where the real world is lovely enough that I don't want to read misery porn anymore. Those pages posted were gross as gently caress.

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Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Xelkelvos posted:

Can we agree that Tom King is bad now?

At this point it just seems like all his comics are saying "boy life sure sucks" in increasingly similar ways.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Generally when I worry about people I don't graphically think of them getting their brains blown out or decapitated by a laser or burned at the stake.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Superman is the last hero that I would have imagining multiple death scenarios in graphic detail.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Kyle and Donna are on a team? Do they bring up their romance?

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

I can't wait to read Batman Detective!

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

More HIC spoiler pages.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Rich and Bleeding Cool suck but from what I've seen they tend to be mostly correct with rumors.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Can't wait to see Adam Strange talk about his PTSD in nine panel pages over the course of 12 issues while horrible things happen all around him

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Tim will now be known as the Brown Bomber.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Tom King is the worst

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

McCloud posted:

I'll be very happy when this all wraps up, Kings batman has had some highs, but they don't compensate for the really low lows

But Kite Man! Hell yeah! That's so awesome!

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Edge & Christian posted:

The Bat and the Cat can't trust each other anymore.
The Bat and the Cat can't be happy together.
The Bat and the Cat don't love each other anymore.
[The Bat and the Cat are also The Knight and The Lion]
Maybe the Bat and the Cat love each other?
Maybe the Bat and the Cat can be happy together?
Maybe the Bat and the Cat can trust each other anymore?
The Bat is tired of lying.
The Cat is tired of lying.
The Bat is lying.
The Cat is lying.
Is the Bat lying?
Is the Cat lying?
TO BE CONTINUED
$3.99 please.

That Bat and Cat poo poo is infuriating and cringey as gently caress to read.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

From here on out, all Robins will now just use their last name as code names.

Gray Son
Drake
Wayne
Brown
Todd

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Xelkelvos posted:

You joke, but the newest Young Justice has an Earth-3 Robin that goes by the name Drake because it's a bird and the cahracter is an rear end in a top hat.

That is also gonna be what Tim goes by going forward, along with the new ugly costume.

Because nothing like using your actual last name for a code name to preserve your identity.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

There is no Dick Bats, there is only Ric Grayson, the Gray Son.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Professor Dog posted:

Does anyone else find the character of the Batman who Laughs to be the cringiest poo poo ever?

Yeah.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Making someone else Batman besides Dick is just dumb.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003


Why are they hiding their identies from their dog?

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Oh hey Tom King is doing Strange Adventures, a 12-issue series about Adam Strange. I wonder if it's going to be about PTSD and have miserable things continually happen!

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

"Okay people are finally sick of the Joker and Harley because they realize it's a super hosed up and toxic relationship and not one that should be glamorized.

So let's give them a NEW Harley Quinn!"

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

catlord posted:

Well, maybe DC will stop trying to kill or wipe my favourite characters from existence now. Frankly I don't get why he was around for so long, it seems like so many stupid loving ideas came directly from him.

At the very least, Dick Grayson can breathe a sigh of relief.

There is no Dick, only Ric

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Roth posted:

Wasn't Dan DiDio the main reason Mark Waid swore off DC?

I think there were a lot of things that pissed Waid off.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

X-O posted:

That one seems like less of a hard sell because there's 30 other Batman related books where the "real" Batman can fight the Batman Who Laughs or any of the Jokers 3.

Yeah but they could have done that years ago and keep DickBats with OG Batman but they didn't do that for some reason.

Not keeping DickBats around was a crime.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Madkal posted:

I think it is more a trend of modern writers (hello Snyder) trying to make Joker super edgy. Sure he poisoned people in the past, but now he is racking up kill counts in the dozens. Sure he used Joker gassed a lot of people but now he is using their body parts to spell his name or some such bullshit.

I keep saying this, but the Joker isn't the Joker if there isn't the possibility that he won't kill someone.

Like, sometimes the flower that squirts water should just be water and not acid. Or he should find it just as funny to knock some ice cream out of a kid's hand as to murder his family. It's so much more interesting when he's just as apt to pull a harmless prank as he is to kill someone.

Like in Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? when he tells a kid he doesn't randomly kill people, but only when it's funny.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Open Marriage Night posted:

Funny we’re having this discussion the same week that Flash appears in Green Lantern. Weird rear end issue that harkens back to when Hal worked for a toy company. And I like the touch that Hal and Barry call each other by their full first names.

Halagar and Baragar?

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

quote:

It’s called Rorschach not because of the character Rorschach, but because what you see in these characters tells you more about yourself than about them.

Oh gently caress off Tom King.

Death Knights is also terrible. The Batman Who Laughs is the loving worst and continuing to use that character in any way is the fastest way to get me to roll my eyes at the whole thing.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Doctor Manhattan warped reality and made all these changes!

Also lol he got wrecked by this other villain off panel

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Yeah, what they did to Firestorm's girlfriend was super gross.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Green Lantern Corps was good when Tomassi wrote it. I remember when Soranik Natu was an interesting character and not evil just because she's Sinestro's daughter.

And actually being used.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Skwirl posted:

You're not my dad.

Linked because it's mildly :nws:

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_slzL0vHRjtY/SwKvQQABQeI/AAAAAAAABbA/OU6H6_hc0YI/s1600/tumblr_krudevvwU41qzm6hao1_1280.jpg

That's Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne, Ant-Man and the Wasp.

I still don't know what "your turn" is supposed to mean. And I don't think I want to know.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Darth Nat posted:

I still can't get over Three Jokers seeming like one of those ideas I would have at 3am and think that it's brilliant at the time, only for me to wake up later and wonder what on earth I was thinking.

I feel like a really refreshing Joker story at this point would be one where he just wants to rob a bank or something, not take over Gotham or murder millions or cut off his own face or be an unstoppable force of chaos or any of that stuff.

Yeah I just want a Christmas with the Joker story with him. Where there are elaborate death traps and clues to send him all around, and when the Joker has the upper hand he gets Batman to get a pie to the face.

I guess I really just want the animated series version.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Yeah it's nice to see Steph and Cass both in the Batgirl outfits. And Nightwing back with hopefully no more Ric poo poo.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

I am firmly against anything that prevents the return of DickBats.

I want DickBats back.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

But don't you see? The Batman Who Laughs is so awesome that he can kill Dr. Manhattan! Isn't he the coolest character ever???

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Kinda worried about DC's future. I can't imagine floppies will be around much longer.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

I wonder if DC will start releasing people from exclusive contracts. I don't think it's gonna survive much longer in its current form and will just sort of turn into an IP farm.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

I'm getting the feeling that you're not gonna see people leave for DC.

How long before Bendis is back at Marvel?

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Three Jokers was pretty lame. It also just goes to show how messy DC's continuity really is. It doesn't even feel connected to what's going on in Batman with Joker War.

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Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Turns out the World's Greatest Detective couldn't figure out that the Jokers he constantly ran into were different people until a magic chair told him.

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