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I feel like Seanny One Ball would have enjoyed my "Lock Jaw Reads Jimmy Olsen Comics" thread..... too bad most of the images in there are broken now.....
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I think I sort of hate most things DC is doing right now....Have read all of Bendis's Action, Supes, Naomi, Young Justice and feel like almost nothing has happened in any of them. Read the first two issues of Event Leviathan and feel the same.
Tried reading Grant Morrison's Green Lantern and hated almost everything about it. Really 'over' Scott Snyder and how he constantly drops new concepts into a plot and then abandons them and moves onto something else so nothing feels like it has weight to it.... |
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Am behind on everything........
Have not been enjoying Bendis stuff on Superman/Action Comics either..... Trying to find a way to "break it off" with my local comic book shop and tell them I don't want to buy anything anymore. (Was planning on giving Bendis until the end of Doomsday Clock, but then that is taking forever....) |
I feel like I will still give Event Leviathan one more issue and will give Bendis' Legion of Super Heroes a chance in Sept/October (whenever it shows up) despite being disappointed with him thus far...
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Scott Snyder I came to this realization after reading all his Bats, all his Justice League, all his minis (Batman who laughs, METAL, etc) that I was looking back and at the time thought 'wow this seems like big, important stuff that will reshape ___insert character___" but then I looked back and it's like nothing happened, none of it ever got weight or mattered.
That's how I feel like this giant "Year of the Villain" story will turn out, it will just never get a real 'end' and will morph onto whatever his next big ultra-cosmic-so-colossal-DCU event" is. |
...thinking now about Scott Snyder debuted both The Signal (Duke Thomas) and Blue Bird (Harper Row) as Robin-esque replacements at different points in his run on Batman and now both are non-existent at DC.
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Signal is in The Outsiders I think. Harper Row retired after the weekly Batman and Robin Eternal
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Kevin Conroy confirmed to be playing an old Bruce Wayne from the future in Crisis on Infinite Earths.
I should really finish the last seasons of Flash and Arrow so I am ready..... |
Crisis on Infinite Earths, Part 1 will air on Supergirl on Sunday, December 8 at 8 pm ET/PT.
Crisis on Infinite Earths, Part 2 will air on Batwoman on Monday, December 9 at 8 pm ET/PT. Crisis on Infinite Earths, Part 3 will air on The Flash on Tuesday, December 10 at 8 pm ET/PT. Crisis on Infinite Earths, Part 4 will air on Arrow on Tuesday, January 14 at 8 pm ET/PT. Crisis on Infinite Earths, Part 5 will on DC's Legends of Tomorrow on Tuesday, January 14 at 9 pm ET/PT. Risky business methinks,putting a break in the middle of their crossover.... Also dumb. |
CW reportedly developing another DC TV Show.... no word yet on what it is....
Also reportedly saying that they hope Flash/Supergirl/Legends of Tomorrow will continue for years to come despite Arrow coming to an end. |
Legends has to be on its last leg
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I figured Arrow was ending during the crossover. Am I wrong on that?
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Yes it does end, but apparently it’s not the last episode in the crossover.
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Arrow never did much for me.
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Arrow peaked high but sank so so so very low
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Yesterday watched a bunch of Arrow episodes to try and catch up.... Thought the season started great with him in prison... But now it is back to fluctuating and being wildly inconsistent....
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its the inconsistencies within its own internal logic that made me check out from the show
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I'm not saying it was bad or anything, just had no interest in those characters. I don't know much about DC characters. Always a Marvel guy.
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The worst one was
"As mayor im banning all guns" And yet 3 member of the team use guns to perform vigilante justice since (also mayors cant do that but it isnt the issue; if you say that in this show mayors can do that its fine but you're still a hypocrite [also lets gloss over the fact that if you're a vigilante their is an overt implication that law enforcement has failed) |
I’m almost done Arrow, and the Emiko storyline went downhill fast. It was never that great, but it got much worse, and doesn’t make sense.
I do prefer Mia Smoak, and you can talk me into a spin-off about her. Not that it would be good, but I can at least see it. Stephen Amell is still bringing it. Also The Flash was overall very subpar this year. It feels like everyone wants to go do something else. I don’t know much they have left either. |
Krypton has been cancelled after 2 seasons. And the potential Lobo spin-off is also dead.
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Krypton was crap
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Should've never been green lit
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Since I don't read much Marvel - was most of Bendis's stuff at Marvel really talk heavy and felt like nothing fucking happened the majority of the time???
Read the first 3 (of 6) issues of EVENT LEVIATHAN and absolutely nothing has fucking happened. How is this supposed to be some big event series?! |
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https://longboxgraveyard.files.wordp...ng?w=604&h=567 good opinion article here - makes the point that bendis tells very good stories, but very bad comic book stories; that his work is more 'explosion at the word balloon factory' than melding words and images together to tell a story can't say the author is wrong |
Thanks, that was a good article and seems pretty spot on w/ my Bendis experience thus far.
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DC appears to kill-off (?) a major character in Batman 77 this week...
SPOILER: show Guessing this won't last |
Tom Welling going to be in Crisis on Infinite Earths :cool:
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A black Batman would respond to the bat signal, get arrested immediately and be thrown in jail after a spectacular custodial beating that robbed him of all belief in justice.
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Black Robin seems better. Cause blacks be robbin'. HAHA
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Tim Burton's Robin was gonna be black. Marlon Wayans did the suit fitting and everything. He got paid fully for the role, too.
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Billy Dee Williams was Harvey Dent and they allowed that but never progressed to the Two Face stage. Maybe the world wasn't ready for a black hero saving Gotham from a black villain
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Actually they just cut Robin's origin from Batman. Joker was gonna kill Dick's parents during a chase but he wouldn't be Robin until 'Returns. We know of course of that went in 'Forever.
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Jeffrey Wright in talks to play Jim Gordon while Jonah Hill is negotiating for an unknown role for Matt Reeves upcoming Batman movie.
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Oh, come the fuck on.
Jim Gordon is a wrinkly, old, white man. Period. |
Jeffrey Wright is one of the best actors in the world so even if it turns out that he wants to be Catwoman I say let him do whatever the fuck he wants.
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Agree with Mr lone testicle. Wright is criminally underrated. He's a great casting choice no matter what role he's given.
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I would like Jeffrey Wright to play Catwoman and Jonah Hill to play Bane, personally.
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You've never forgiven Eartha Kitt have you?
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Your mum is a luscious fox |
Mark Wahlberg for Lucius Fox
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50 Cent should be Black Batman
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jim gordon's defining characteristics are all moral/intangible, not cultural or racial for real, what part of jim gordon is made lesser as a result of this change why does this bother you |
Question works both ways. Race being irrelevant to his character (true), the tie breaker of sorts is has been a white character.
So race being unimportant, why should he be anything other than what he's been? |
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Cultural appropriation is gross...or isnt it...?
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no, it's always gross. this is not cultural appropriation.
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Then again, it's DC so I don't think I care enough to go write a letter to the president just yet. |
Was it controversial when Mamoa was cast as Aquaman? Honestly don't recall.
I could give a shit about the ethnicity of the actor. I like the actor. I like the director. So even tho it's outta left field, i have faith this will be just fine and it'll bed much ado about nothing in the end. |
There was controversy from super-nerds like me who were all "He doesn't look like Aquaman!"
But now I think Aquaman is one of the best super-hero movies |
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Yeah, first they gave him the long hair and beard (still blonde), and now he has got himself some Mamoa-esque tattoos
https://static2.srcdn.com/wordpress/...oa-Tattoos.jpg Way behind in reading everything |
to be fair they gave aquaman that look (sans tatts) for like the entirety of the 1990s, so when momoa was announced i very much didn't think that he didn't look like aquaman; i just assumed they were going for the grittier '90s look
happy that they gave him a more colourful/comics-accurate costume for his solo film though |
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I was more offended by the mustache-less Jim Gordon in Gotham. As long as Jeffrey Wright has a moustache, it is all good.
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"Cultural appropriation" is such a stupid term. The notion of it offends me.
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that's dope!
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Despite some issues with characters and plots CW is still doing more for DC tv than the movie guys did.
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Now all they are missing is Dean Cain's Superman and Helen Slater as SuperWoman
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The big one is Lynda Carter being WW again.
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Maybe the KingDom Come one as Well?
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Don't ever joke about Dean Cain.
He was there for me when I was a boy. I'm too afraid to rewatch it now though. I can only imagine... |
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Easily the best Supes suit on screen.
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Will routh also be referenced as the Christopher Reeve Superman even if he is kingdom come superman? Theoretically they can be the same guy right?
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I still think Supeman returns got a bump rap because people just didn't get ti
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Routh is likely playing an otherwise new take on Supes based on KC Superman that isn't the 'Returns/Reeves version of the character. It's probably because of that detail that they didn't go that way considering the implications that could follow (if 'Returns universe is meta-canon, why not the scores of other DC movie universes?).
It appears the only returning characters retaining their own canon are on the TV show level, like Smallville and Birds of Prey of all things. They probably feel silly for wasting that "Save Me" theme swerve from last year's crossover. |
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Those are cool.
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In the sense that they are far from hot, yes.
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Bendis gonna have Superman's secret identity exposed to the world..... again.... Feel like they literally just fixed that mess....
Don't like Bendis or what he has been doing at all..... |
He killed off the Super Sons duo, which was a delight. He appears to force 'big things' to kind of justify his acquisition and I'm not so sure any of his status quo changes will last 5yrs in such a reboot happy environment, including Clark 'coming out'. He repurposed Riri Williams as Teen Lantern.
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Funny you mention that....
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/10...dc-comics-5gt/ https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/10...-dc-comics-5g/ |
Scott Snyder's last issue of JUSTICE LEAGUE will be in January. Snyder has hinted he will write a JSA book set in the 1940s afterwards. Also - Damian is solicited for Legion of Superheroes issue 3 as joining Jonathan Kent in the future for a story.
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I am curious to see if Bendis will be the one to write upcoming CRISIS event in 2020 that will tie in all timelines and relaunch DC into the big 5G phase.
The big rumored leads of 5G will be SPOILER: show |
5G sort of sounds like it could be the boldest overhaul of DC since the original Crisis on Infinite Earths
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6 years, tops.
I do appreciate a ballsy attempt to move time forward, which is in line with the fact that these heroes are symbols that can be adopted. |
CW developing a "Superman & Lois" show now.....
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TAKE THAT DEAN CAIN AND TERI HATCHER!
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DC rumored to take a two month break from regularly monthly titles in Aug 2020 for a 'Convergence' like event ahead of the next big CRISIS that will lead to 5G stuff I mentioned earlier...
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Per bleedingcool.com DC also shuffling around all group editors...Bats and Supes 'group editors' that oversee all continuity for both books getting re-shuffled first...
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Might have a reason to join
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The Justice Society of America will reportedly have a role in the Black Adam movie......
I honestly hope it is a small role, because they deserve their own movie more than Black Adam does.... |
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