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Lock Jaw 07-18-2012 01:26 AM

So, now apparently in The New 52, Tim Drake was never Robin, but always Red Robin. Pretty sure there have been references to him being Robin though.

Nowhere Man 07-18-2012 02:30 AM

Fuck that. Tim Drake was hands-down the best Robin, and they're completely taking that away from him?

Between this and them removing Wally West, yeah, fuck Dan Didio and the New 52.

Kalyx triaD 07-18-2012 10:28 AM

Ugh.

Shadow 07-18-2012 05:24 PM

At least I got my Timmy in Young Justice.

Take that away from me Didio and there will be words.

The Destroyer 07-18-2012 05:37 PM

Wonder how the timeline of that works now. Jason Todd gets beaten to death then Damien appears?

It kind of makes sense in a way, very hard to fit so many Robins into as short a period as the current books seem to be set from the "beginning". Otherwise pretty stupid.

Kalyx triaD 07-18-2012 05:39 PM

Like Little League, Young Justice is doing a service for DC. Hell, all of their movie/cartoon stuff is doing a service. Why? Because that DCnU shit hasn't gone mainstream yet. Man of Steel may be the start, though I believe a lot of that was decided before the big reboot (no trunks, edgier tone).

Once the DCnU starts bleeding into the 'toons and movies, it will be the end of all things. Good thing most mainstream media tend to be 5, up to 10 years behind what's going on in the comics.

blake639raw 07-18-2012 07:09 PM

But in the latest issue of Batman & Robin, it mentions that Drake was a former Robin.

Lock Jaw 07-18-2012 07:42 PM

Dunno. This info about him not being Robin came from the writer of Teen Titans at some Q&A panel at Comic-Con or something. So probably to be taken with a grain of salt.

Kalyx triaD 07-18-2012 07:50 PM

What a mess.

Lock Jaw 07-18-2012 08:56 PM

This doesn't have to do with DC Comics but...

Just read the first five issues of Brian K. Vaughan's new series "Saga". Incredibly messed up stuff, but I'm loving it.

Nowhere Man 07-18-2012 11:22 PM

Saga is goddamn incredible.

Kalyx triaD 07-20-2012 08:00 PM

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7...i1io1_1280.jpg

Also:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7...i1io1_1280.jpg

Kalyx triaD 07-21-2012 07:55 PM

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Optimus Bone 69 07-21-2012 08:09 PM

a year of waiting not good not good at all

Kalyx triaD 07-21-2012 09:28 PM

With Jor-El speaking:

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Lock Jaw 07-22-2012 12:32 AM

Yyyyeahhh Superman. Really hoping it doesn't suck. I know that the costume sucks, but if the movie is good enough, I might be able to look past that.

Nowhere Man 07-22-2012 03:39 AM

I'm sold. Between that and the leaked footage I saw out of Comic-Con, sign me up.

Then again, as a fanatical Superman fan, I was already gonna see it anyway. Now though, I'm legitimately excited for it rather than just obligated.

Kalyx triaD 07-22-2012 03:47 AM

Link me that leaked footage, bastard.

Kalyx triaD 07-22-2012 03:48 AM

Justice League hinges on this movie's success.

Shadow 07-22-2012 11:31 AM

No Justice League hinges on weather or not DC/Time Warner realizes that to make a good team-up movie, you have to establish the other stars

Kalyx triaD 07-22-2012 02:24 PM

You establish the others stars with good movies. And just as he is fictionally, Superman is financially the key here.

Nowhere Man 07-23-2012 01:35 AM

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So, um......yeah.



Also, I should point out that at the MoS panel at Comic-Con, Snyder pretty much said that he's not interested in doing a Justice League movie. And I'm perfectly fine with that-- WB and DC should be more concerned with making the Superman franchise and anything else they're doing as good as they can possibly be on their own feet, instead of just trying to copy Marvel.

Kalyx triaD 07-23-2012 02:01 AM

I wouldn't call it copying Marvel, any more than Avengers was copying the Justice Society. It's a natural progression of a superhero movie-verse, that it's larger than each hero thinks upon their origin.

Krimzon7 07-23-2012 04:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kalyx triaD (Post 3927510)
Justice League hinges on this movie's success.

This, and yes. and GL should have a black guy for a JL team up. Just saying

Kalyx triaD 07-24-2012 10:59 AM

Looking at their plans for the doomed JL movie they attempted, GL Jon Stewart seems like a good guess.

Kalyx triaD 07-24-2012 11:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Christopher Nolan
Alfred. Gordon. Lucius. Bruce . . . Wayne. Names that have come to mean so much to me. Today, I’m three weeks from saying a final good-bye to these characters and their world. It’s my son’s ninth birthday. He was born as the Tumbler was being glued together in my garage from random parts of model kits. Much time, many changes. A shift from sets where some gunplay or a helicopter were extraordinary events to working days where crowds of extras, building demolitions, or mayhem thousands of feet in the air have become familiar.

People ask if we’d always planned a trilogy. This is like being asked whether you had planned on growing up, getting married, having kids. The answer is complicated. When David and I first started cracking open Bruce’s story, we flirted with what might come after, then backed away, not wanting to look too deep into the future. I didn’t want to know everything that Bruce couldn’t; I wanted to live it with him. I told David and Jonah to put everything they knew into each film as we made it. The entire cast and crew put all they had into the first film. Nothing held back. Nothing saved for next time. They built an entire city. Then Christian and Michael and Gary and Morgan and Liam and Cillian started living in it. Christian bit off a big chunk of Bruce Wayne’s life and made it utterly compelling. He took us into a pop icon’s mind and never let us notice for an instant the fanciful nature of Bruce’s methods.

I never thought we’d do a second—how many good sequels are there? Why roll those dice? But once I knew where it would take Bruce, and when I started to see glimpses of the antagonist, it became essential. We re-assembled the team and went back to Gotham. It had changed in three years. Bigger. More real. More modern. And a new force of chaos was coming to the fore. The ultimate scary clown, as brought to terrifying life by Heath. We’d held nothing back, but there were things we hadn’t been able to do the first time out—a Batsuit with a flexible neck, shooting on Imax. And things we’d chickened out on—destroying the Batmobile, burning up the villain’s blood money to show a complete disregard for conventional motivation. We took the supposed security of a sequel as license to throw caution to the wind and headed for the darkest corners of Gotham.

I never thought we’d do a third—are there any great second sequels? But I kept wondering about the end of Bruce’s journey, and once David and I discovered it, I had to see it for myself. We had come back to what we had barely dared whisper about in those first days in my garage. We had been making a trilogy. I called everyone back together for another tour of Gotham. Four years later, it was still there. It even seemed a little cleaner, a little more polished. Wayne Manor had been rebuilt. Familiar faces were back—a little older, a little wiser . . . but not all was as it seemed.

Gotham was rotting away at its foundations. A new evil bubbling up from beneath. Bruce had thought Batman was not needed anymore, but Bruce was wrong, just as I had been wrong. The Batman had to come back. I suppose he always will.

Michael, Morgan, Gary, Cillian, Liam, Heath, Christian . . . Bale. Names that have come to mean so much to me. My time in Gotham, looking after one of the greatest and most enduring figures in pop culture, has been the most challenging and rewarding experience a filmmaker could hope for. I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he’ll miss me, but he’s never been particularly sentimental.


Damian Rey 07-25-2012 09:19 PM

So...been thinking of investing in a monthly comic book read, something I have never done. Is the New 52 Batman line worth it? Im a huge Bats fan, but if theyre still running with the whole RIP, battle for the cowl stuff, no thanks. Can someone give me some in depth advice?

DaveBrawl 07-25-2012 10:06 PM

They just finished up a crossover with all the titles called "Night of the Owls" so now would probably be a good time to jump on. They aren't running with anything like RIP or any of that everything seems to be pretty much the status quo since the new 52 started. It's been a pretty good book, nothing groundbreaking but still good.

Lock Jaw 07-25-2012 10:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kalyx triaD (Post 3911575)

This is probably a good place to start. Staring with Batman #13.

In general, Batman has been good. Not as good as it was prior to The New 52 (after the RIP/Battle for Cowl stuff).

Damian Rey 07-25-2012 10:56 PM

Awesome. Ill def look into it.

Kalyx triaD 07-26-2012 11:46 PM

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Kalyx triaD 08-01-2012 10:06 PM

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parkmania 08-02-2012 04:32 AM

Lobo creator and comic and animation writer Roger Slifer was moved to Barlow Respiratory Hospital, a long term acute care hospital, last Friday, according to a Facebook post by his cousin Emma Slifer. Barlowe is expert in weaning patients off ventilators; Slifer has been on a ventilator since the hit and run accident that critically injured him in June (see "Lobo Creator in Critical Condition"). He remains in a coma, although seizures that had plagued him until recently have abated, according to the post. Some other improvements have also been noted.



Police are searching for the hit and run driver, and artist Tone Rodriguez has created a drawing of Lobo to assist in the search and in helping Slifer cover his expenses, which is now being auctioned on eBay by Hero Initiative.

Damian Rey 08-03-2012 03:47 PM

LGonna subscribe to atleast one monthley today. Read Batman and Robin volume 1 the other day, and I like Bruce and Damian's dynamic, so I may run with that AND the singular Batman title that have. The deals arent bad, $35 up front at most for 12 issues at 40 pages per. Excitement :)

Lock Jaw 08-03-2012 04:19 PM

Batman and Robin volume 1 was Dick Grayson and Damian though.

I have found that Bruce and Damian don't seem to have as much chemistry. Not as interested in Damian as before. I am pretty behind on Batman and Robin, though, so it could maybe have gotten better.

Damian Rey 08-03-2012 05:24 PM

The volune I read was labled New 52 and was Bruce and Damian. I liked it alot. It focuses on Bruce learning how to be a dad rather than a leader/boss. Damian being a difficult, blunt,sarcastic, unholy killing machine is cool. I like him thus far.

Lock Jaw 08-03-2012 05:38 PM

Ohhhh you mean you read the volume one TPB of the current series. Gotcha.

Damian Rey 08-03-2012 06:29 PM

Well, just got done subscribing to the monthly "Batman" title. 12 issues, $30. Pretty excited. If I get last month's issue, I start off with the "Night of Owls" epilogue and intro into the new storyline. If not, I believe I get the Joker's return. I can pick up a copy of July's issue if need be. I am admittedly amped right now.

Kalyx triaD 08-03-2012 08:34 PM

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8...i1io1_1280.jpg

Damian Rey 08-06-2012 10:59 AM

Read the "Night of Owls" graphic novel yesterday to catch up with whats going on in the Batman run. Pretty interesting stuff. Enjoyed it. Gonna read the volume 1 graphic novel of detective comics to catch up with the Dollmaker/Joker storyline today.


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