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Great, now take it, tone down the colour, and add a gray filter over the image! Go!

I'm sorry, that was negative.

I like what I see. I like the cape thing.

On the subject of Justice Leaguers sporting their new looks, apparently in the comics Aquaman is going to have a new costume in the post-Convergence continuity......

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/...4148952746.png

.....and none of the designers managed to notice that the symbol on his belt looks like a golden vag being penetrated by a big green dick. Amazing.

I didn't notice until you pointed it out. Was too busy looking at how generally terrible that costume is.

Too bad, because Aquaman was one of the ones who managed to avoid a bad costume redesign at the outset of the whole New 52 fiasco.

Gotta get him in line for his upcoming movie portrayal.

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Originally Posted by Nowhere Man (Post 4631800)

I'd say that's intentional. Comic book artists love that kinda shit.

http://cdn1-www.superherohype.com/as...BMWAAEp4OJ.jpg

In this mag the producer confirms CBS doesn't want a crossover between Supergirl and the CW-verse.

Frankly, neither do I. Not because I think Supergirl looks bad, but because if Superman existed in the CW-verse, I feel like it would have been mentioned once or twice.

Six Shows....

Arrow
Flash
Legends of Tomorrow
Supergirl

What are the other two...

Oh, ok....

Some upcoming show called "Blindspot", and "The Mysteries of Laura"

He also something called Mysteries of Laura and Blindspot. They probably counted those.

Edit: We Googled

I would want a Supergirl crossover, and my reasoning would be just because...

It would be "cool"

BTW,

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Originally Posted by Lock Jaw (Post 3592879)

So, next month DC Comics launches 52 new #1s! So make your picks now in the... DC Cancellation Pool! PM me ten picks of which books you think will be canceled first! Winner gets nothing!

I will make my picks publicly now so there is no accusations of me changing my own picks:

<s>1) Hawk and Dove</s>
<s>2) O.M.A.C.</s>
<s>3) Blackhawks</s>
<s>4) I, Vampire</s>
<s>5) Voodoo</s>
<s>6) Batwing</s>
<s>7) Suicide Squad</s>
<s>8) Legion Lost</s>
<s>9) Men of War</s>
<s>10) Red Hood and the Outlaws</s>

I totally won this!

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Originally Posted by Nowhere Man (Post 4631800)

If he bends over he is going to impale himself on his own belt

awful

His costume before was fine and didn't need to be 're-vamped'.

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Originally Posted by Lock Jaw (Post 4633838)

Frankly, neither do I. Not because I think Supergirl looks bad, but because if Superman existed in the CW-verse, I feel like it would have been mentioned once or twice.

I believe in season 1 of Arrow they joked that alians didn't exsit so I'd say Superman doesn't exist.

Well, they did just open up the multiverse in Flash, so I guess they can do crossovers by having Barry show up in the parallel universe with Supergirl in it.

On the subject of DC's multiverse, I just finished up reading The Multiversity, and got caught up with Convergence. The fact that they're running two big multiverse stories back-to-back like that is more signs that the higher-ups at DC have no idea what the hell they're doing (though to be fair, Multiversity was supposed to come out during the launch of the New 52 and was plagued by delays). And there is a huge gap in quality between the two stories.

Multiversity is absolutely insane, and I love it. I'm admittedly a sucker for Grant Morrison's crazy, meta, "comics about comics" kind of stories as it is, but this series is Grant Morrison times Grant Morrison. There's a ton of follow-ups from previous stories like Final Crisis and Superman Beyond, ideas lifted from Seven Soldiers and even going back to stuff like The Invisibles, but it's also engaging enough that you don't need to have done your homework to get what's going on. While the first and final issues about the House of Heroes and all that are fun, they really pale in comparison to the stuff in between-- Morrison and Quitely using the Charlton comics characters to do their own spin on Watchmen was amazing, and 'Thunderworld Adventures' made me wonder out loud why Morrison's never written Captain Marvel before. And 'Ultra Comics #1' seriously screwed with my head. It's all very crazy and head-trippy and almost obnoxiously meta, but it's also probably the best stuff that DC's put out since the reboot.

Convergence, on the other hand, meh. It's a lot more straightforward-- Brainiac gathers up cities from parallel universes and makes them fight to survive-- but since the main plot focuses mostly on the heroes from Earth-2, I couldn't really get into it because I absolutely do not give a shit about Earth-2. The tie-in comics are rather great, since you get to see Pre-Flashpoint (and even Pre-Crisis) versions of all your favorite characters again, but since they've already announced that the post-Convergence continuity is sticking with the New 52, it feels almost like an insult. "Oh, you like your old versions of Superman and Batman? Wanna see them again? Well, too bad! They're getting put away for good, and we're going back to the version you hate, only even dumber this time!"

It's a shame that the really interesting and fun multiverse-based story is the one that doesn't have any actual bearing on the main DCU, but the boring and contrived one does.

I've pretty much given up on DC Comics... I'm sure there's good stuff that has been put out, but I dunno... I just don't feel it anymore.... Just not invested in their universe at all...

I t hink both companies are trying to hard to cater to their fanbase to the point that they are making all their titles irrelevant. They need to go back a few steps for a bit and not worry about renumbering every few years or wiping the slate clean every 5-10. They need to start sticking to single issue storylines with the occasional multi and keep continuity a little less strict. When i was a young kid I picked up a comic because the cover interested me not because of the issue number or at times who was even in it.

Things got so messed up in the 90's and now the kids that were buying them in the 90's are repeating the same damn mistakes thst were made back then.
JAne Foster as Thor... good
Just about every supporting cast member ever as a Hulk.. Bad
Couple of X-titles good.... 15 bad
They need to stop mass publishing their top tier heroes and just give us quality

In keeping with the 'everyone has a stupid costume now' trend, apparently Lex Luthor has gone all cyberpunk:

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/...9555651173.jpg

Not as bad as big-green-penis-pants Aquaman, but jeez. I refuse to believe the smartest man in the world deliberately chooses to dress himself like that.

Remove the glasses and I can work with that.

I mean, I guess it makes sense as his 'superhero' costume if they're still doing that thing where he's basically taken over the Justice League. I just have trouble taking seriously any version of Lex where he's not in his business suit.

Looks kind of like Static with the brown coat and flying disc....

Okay, so Convergence just ended. Overall, it's not a great series--the villains are boring and there's more telling than showing in terms of how big and important things are supposed to be-- but the effect it had on the DC cosmos is kinda cool. So after a bunch of really confusing nonsense with Brainiac and some really dull villains named Telos and Deimos, Post-Crisis Superman and Parallax decide to travel back to the original Crisis On Infinite Earths and help their Pre-Crisis counterparts stop the collapse of the original Multiverse. According to the story, this "stabilizes" reality and puts a new, "evolved" Multiverse in place (the same one from Grant Morrison's Multiversity).

What it means out of character is A) No more 'Crisis' events to reinvent reality over and over, and B) Writers can pick and choose from any incarnation of DC they want. Right now the "New 52/DC You" universe is still the primary one, but if, say, someone wants to use Silver Age Batman for a story, they can just go ahead and do it without any gimmicks or weird qualifiers, because Silver Age DC still exists out there in the new multiverse.

I'm not thrilled that they're keeping the New 52 universe around (especially since some of the new "DC You" status quo looks absolutely wretched), but if it means they're going to focus on establishing the new setting and letting it settle into its own groove instead of just resetting and rebooting every couple of years, then I can get behind that.

Been meaning to at least check out some of the tie-in books to that.... just to read some of my fav pre-Flashpoint characters again...

The tie-ins are far and away the best part about the whole arc.

So basically.... people can write Elseworlds stories based on previous universes?

James Wan is directing Aquaman. And un-comic related; Robotech as well.

It's Bruce Timm and it is something new so I'm good with it so far through 1 episode.

Link the Harley episode, homey.

Deliciously twisted.

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Originally Posted by slik (Post 4634913)

If he bends over he is going to impale himself on his own belt

awful

His costume before was fine and didn't need to be 're-vamped'.

UGH who did he beat for that world title belt?