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Abroham Lincoln posted:Update: he is no longer Robin and is now Red Robin again. The Batfamily is gonna have to have an intervention where they force him to stick to a codename.
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I'm catching up on Tynion's Batman, and really loving it so far. The vision of an ideal future Bruce has, where he's turned Gotham into a utopia and his villains are now Flash-style goofballs, is really fun and compelling even if it's brief. I love the idea that Batman would prefer to be like Flash or Superman, to embody hope, if he wasn't continually getting dealt such an awful hand by the nightmare he lives in.
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Android Blues posted:I'm catching up on Tynion's Batman, and really loving it so far. The vision of an ideal future Bruce has, where he's turned Gotham into a utopia and his villains are now Flash-style goofballs, is really fun and compelling even if it's brief. I love the idea that Batman would prefer to be like Flash or Superman, to embody hope, if he wasn't continually getting dealt such an awful hand by the nightmare he lives in. I liked that scene too and I wish Tynion had wanted to/been allowed to write that series instead of what becomes a pretty boring, to me, Joker event.
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Abroham Lincoln posted:Update: he is no longer Robin and is now Red Robin again. Bendis is just turning him into the Kitty Pryde of the DC universe.
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Sep 16, 2020 16:45
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They should just give Bendis Red Hood.
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Sep 16, 2020 17:05
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Abroham Lincoln posted:Update: he is no longer Robin and is now Red Robin again.
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Sep 16, 2020 17:17
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He will eventually change his real name to Drake Mallard and his superhero name will be Darkwing Duck.
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How Wonderful! posted:I liked that scene too and I wish Tynion had wanted to/been allowed to write that series instead of what becomes a pretty boring, to me, Joker event. I'm not normally one to enjoy "the Joker is attacking the city and the stakes have never been higher!" but this is really singing for me. Despite how dubious she looked, I'm enjoying Harley vs. Punchline and the specific use of Punchline to skewer the idea that the Joker is reflecting a twisted society, an agent of a nihilistic philosophy, etc. Tynion doesn't position the Joker as cool or alluring, but as a banal, nightmarish monomaniac whose sole proficiency is in crafting plots to ruin Batman's life. It feels like a take on a story like (for instance) Death of the Family, but without being enamoured with the antagonist and his point of view. This Joker isn't Batman's worthiest adversary, or his dark mirror, or a representative of any ideology: he's just mundane petty cruelty, a murderous bully. Harley outright says that she thinks the Joker's not a smart guy, and the narrative seems to be on her side with that. Alfred points out that the reason the Joker is able to kill so many people is not because of some unique proficiency he has, but because he doesn't care about people, and it's Batman's job to care. I loved, "Batman is a naive, optimistic child's dream - and you must hold onto it", as well. I feel like there's a core of humanist optimism in this (often very dark) story that hasn't been present in a lot of its contemporaries. But I've always enjoyed Tynion's Batman work, so I might just be the target audience.
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I will be interested if Tynion can stick the landing. He has characters saying the right thing (Joker doing a meta piece about how this is just another story giving the fans what they want by doing the same thing over and over again; Harley chewing Batman out about how letting the Joker live will just mean that the same thing will happen over and over again) and if Tynion just has this end the same way every other Batman vs the Joker story goes I think I will be done with anything ever having the Joker (I know some goons were done with the character ages ago).
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This one feels much more straightforward compared to when Snyder did his big Joker fight and where he, iirc, pushed the idea that they were growing more similar and closer to being exactly like the other, Tynion is trying to drive the opposite and push Batman towards a less edgy and more hopeful perspective.
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radlum posted:Alfred is alive again? Nah, Bruce gets poisoned with hallucinogens and has a vision of Alfred telling him what's up after he doses with an (equally hallucinogenic) remedy made by Poison Ivy. I really enjoyed that segment in particular. It's poignant, but very hopeful, and it's clear-headed about good and evil when Batman writers often prefer to be hard-boiled and ambiguous.
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Sep 18, 2020 04:30
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DC Universe announced it's going comics only in January with a 6 month delay instead of a year.
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AlmightyBob posted:DC Universe announced it's going comics only in January with a 6 month delay instead of a year. About time, too.
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this is rumored to be a reworked version of some of the mostly-new legacy character stuff that was originally planned for 5G, most likely as a Batman Beyond-type alternate future rather than in continuity https://twitter.com/thedcnation/status/1306981160405200897
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Sep 18, 2020 19:08
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Hopefully that means HBOMax gets the rest of the DC stuff they didn't have yet.
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Sep 18, 2020 19:25
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Skwirl posted:Hopefully that means HBOMax gets the rest of the DC stuff they didn't have yet. as far as DC Universe originals go, yes, that's official as of today. Back catalog stuff is less clear, unfortunately.
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Sep 18, 2020 19:28
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Did Titans get renewed?
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Sep 18, 2020 19:38
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Yeah Titans and Harley Quinn both go HBO Max exclusive going forward with their next season. I imagine it means they'll add Titans back catalog shortly.
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Barry Convex posted:as far as DC Universe originals go, yes, that's official as of today. Back catalog stuff is less clear, unfortunately. Back catalog is what I want dammit. Still need to do a complete chronological binge of the Diniverse.
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Skwirl posted:Back catalog is what I want dammit. Still need to do a complete chronological binge of the Diniverse. It will almost certainly go up as soon as DCU is comics only. They even have a DC portal on the site.
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I’m laughing at the idea of removing features from a service and then adding the word “Infinite” to the name. I get that DC had no say in the matter of content, but why not give the comics-only service a new name or just leave it alone?
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Yeah Titans and Harley Quinn both go HBO Max exclusive going forward with their next season. I imagine it means they'll add Titans back catalog shortly. yeah Titans S1-2 were confirmed today
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They should have never had anything but comics in dc universe I have no idea why they thought it was a good idea to split videos over multiple platforms
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Sep 18, 2020 22:32
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AlmightyBob posted:They should have never had anything but comics in dc universe I have no idea why they thought it was a good idea to split videos over multiple platforms Supposedly it was a major reason as to why Didio was poo poo canned, he had a lot input and influence on the service.
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AlmightyBob posted:They should have never had anything but comics in dc universe I have no idea why they thought it was a good idea to split videos over multiple platforms The 'curated comics' content notion did them no favors, too, which could very well also be Didio's influence as Rhyno says. Marvel fell off the wagon for just putting everything and anything on their service of late, but they started that way and DC should have done the same. You published Sovereign Seven, DC! Own it! Put that up digitally.
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Barry Convex posted:this is rumored to be a reworked version of some of the mostly-new legacy character stuff that was originally planned for 5G, most likely as a Batman Beyond-type alternate future rather than in continuity Alt. Future continuity seems like it has potential for some good stuff. Batman Beyond exists right now and it's okay. Nothing super must read, but it's not terrible and it fits a lot better than some of the other Beyond series like the one where Babs and Bruce actually hook up
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There’s a story for Future State in Detective Comics #1027. A Batman in his first year experiences a time flux (a picture of his parents changes from being from 1985 to 1915), and is picked up by a time traveling Kamandi at the behest of an old Booster Gold.
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AlmightyBob posted:They should have never had anything but comics in dc universe I have no idea why they thought it was a good idea to split videos over multiple platforms While it was kinda dumb to do that for such a niche thing, it was prob thought of at a time before AT&T owned Warner and HBO Max happened, when they had multiple different small services (Boomerang, Filmstruck)
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Open Marriage Night posted:There’s a story for Future State in Detective Comics #1027. A Batman in his first year experiences a time flux (a picture of his parents changes from being from 1985 to 1915), and is picked up by a time traveling Kamandi at the behest of an old Booster Gold. You're forgetting that Kamandi continues the long tradition of Bad Future Badasses With Robot Arms, only this time the robot arm is Skeets
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AlmightyBob posted:They should have never had anything but comics in dc universe I have no idea why they thought it was a good idea to split videos over multiple platforms it comes down to the timing. DC Universe was announced in April 2017, about a year and a half before the announcement of what would become HBO Max, and launched about one month before that announcement. in between, the AT&T merger went into effect in June 2018 so basically, DC Universe was a holdover from the previous Warner regime, and by the time HBO Max was a thing, it was presumably too close to launch and too much money had been spent on it for WB to just kill the service and shelve all the original programming another year and a half until HBO Max launch (though let's be real here, even without HBO Max, it never made much business sense in the first place, the audience for a streaming service exclusively for DC Comics IP was always going to be pretty niche) Barry Convex fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Sep 20, 2020 |
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I never subbed to the DCU app for the sole reason that it wasn't available on PS4, and that's what I use for every single one of my other streaming apps. Several of my friends never subbed to it for the same reason. I would suspect that the service would have been more of a success if they had actually gotten DCU onto the PS4. Did they ever explain why it never got a PS4 app?
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I think there's something strange about being a video app on PS4, because things like the UFC have apps on Xbox, Smart TVs, you name it, but have always been super tight lipped about coming to PS4.
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I've seen people talk about getting approved by Sony is a much more arduous process than for X Box and some people decide it's just not worth it.
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That's what I've heard too, Sony is really paranoid about software exposure after PSN got hacked 10 years ago.
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Tom Taylor says read Suicide Squad quick as you can because Spoilers.
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Dawgstar posted:Tom Taylor says read Suicide Squad quick as you can because Spoilers. Always look at Tom Taylor’s precious books.
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Jeff Loveness wrote a nice issues of Shazam. Re: Suicide Squad - Remember Lex's gift to Black Mask and how I suggested he should've used it to impersonate Bruce? Well, he did something similar and I have to applaud it. Edit: There's a version of a virus truther in DCeased, lol. Nice. Xelkelvos fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Sep 22, 2020 |
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bobkatt013 posted:Always look at Tom Taylor’s precious books. Facts.
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I know there aren't a whole lot of Wally West or even The Flash fans around these parts, but anyone who does like Wally should probably pick up Speed Metal.
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