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Little weird to just see them go "The Titans are super racist" for like 30 pages but what else are you gonna do with that setup. A lot of weird retconning to make them more racist on top of it when it's not like you need help to point out racism in older comics.
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So I watched the ComicPOP Back Issues episode about Dark Nights Metal wherein Sal refers to the Dark Batmen as basically action figures with cool designs, and you know what? The actual real action figures ARE cool designs and I’ve been collecting them all. Are there actual comic book backstories for them, and are they collected anywhere?
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Xenomrph posted:So I watched the ComicPOP Back Issues episode about Dark Nights Metal wherein Sal refers to the Dark Batmen as basically action figures with cool designs, and you know what? The actual real action figures ARE cool designs and I’ve been collecting them all. Are there actual comic book backstories for them, and are they collected anywhere? Dark Nights Metal. Look up a reading order because the trades collect them a little weirdly IIRC. Long story short, they're all from different, horrible alternate universes where Batman steals the powers of a different Justice League member. Plus one is a jokerized Batman. Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Jan 27, 2021 |
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Jan 27, 2021 20:24
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Skwirl posted:Dark Nights Metal. Look up a reading order because the trades collect them a little weirdly IIRC. The Wild Hunt would all be great JLA villains so it is a huge bummer that Joker Batman is the one who stuck around. Honestly, just read the trade that collects the one shots about them and skip everything else.
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Jan 27, 2021 21:09
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At some point it occurred to me that the spikes on the Batman Who Laughs’ crown must be hollow so there’s space left for him to put his nose and now I can’t stop thinking about that every time he shows up
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Jan 27, 2021 21:19
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Lord_Hambrose posted:The Wild Hunt would all be great JLA villains so it is a huge bummer that Joker Batman is the one who stuck around. Do you know which trade it is?
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Jan 27, 2021 22:51
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Xenomrph posted:Do you know which trade it is? Dark Knights Metal Dark Knights Rising
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Jan 27, 2021 22:54
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Dark Knights Metal Dark Knights Rising Thank you kind sir! I just ordered it on Amazon, if I don’t love it I’m holding you personally responsible. 
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Jan 28, 2021 02:06
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Nobody said they were good.
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Jan 28, 2021 02:17
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Too fuckin’ bad, Lord_Hambrose’s neck is now on the line.  Just think, if you’d told me which trade to buy, it could have been you under Damocles’ sword! You dodged a bullet! Skwirl was smart enough to give a vague answer, too! 
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Jan 28, 2021 02:53
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Well if you like toys and you like big dumb comics being fully aware that they are big dumb comics then you should be good to go with metal.
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Jan 28, 2021 02:57
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Xenomrph posted:Too fuckin’ bad, Lord_Hambrose’s neck is now on the line. Based on what I remember from you talking about Aliens comics from probably a couple years ago, you'll be fine.
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Jan 28, 2021 03:02
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Skwirl posted:Based on what I remember from you talking about Aliens comics from probably a couple years ago, you'll be fine. Whoa hey there are some trash Aliens comics, but there are also cool and good Aliens comics
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Jan 28, 2021 03:46
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Xenomrph posted:Whoa hey there are some trash Aliens comics, but there are also cool and good Aliens comics I didn't say you liked them all i just remember you liking some of the more insane ones.
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Jan 28, 2021 03:51
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Guilty as charged!
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Jan 28, 2021 03:52
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Xenomrph posted:Thank you kind sir! 
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Jan 28, 2021 04:02
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Skwirl posted:I didn't say you liked them all i just remember you liking some of the more insane ones. If there is one thing I've learned after two decades on this forum, it's that Dark Knights Metal is right up Xenomrph's alley.
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Jan 29, 2021 01:46
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I will take that as a compliment! 
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Jan 29, 2021 04:00
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Xenomrph posted:I will take that as a compliment! I look forward to your review. I think you'll like it
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Jan 29, 2021 07:34
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Madkal posted:I look forward to your review. I think you'll like it I tend to like the same things as xeno, and the dark bats origin stories were my favorite part of metal. Death metal....im very eh on. But the only thing from DC i loved lately was harleen, and mostly bc it got my fiancee to read her first comics.
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I just read Death Metal: Secret origin, which is basically about Superboy Prime and, well, it is what I wanted. Poor dude had been the entire DCU's laughingstock for decades, and a way for the editors to make fun of fanboys. Giving him a chance to live his own life for once? That's enough for me. I'm okay if he never shows up again.
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Siegkrow posted:I just read Death Metal: Secret origin, which is basically about Superboy Prime and, well, it is what I wanted. Poor dude had been the entire DCU's laughingstock for decades, and a way for the editors to make fun of fanboys. Giving him a chance to live his own life for once? That's enough for me. I'm okay if he never shows up again. He definitely will show up again, but I hope they keep what was done to give him a good end and not undo it or make him another punching bag.
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Xelkelvos posted:He definitely will show up again, but I hope they keep what was done to give him a good end and not undo it or make him another punching bag.
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Swamp Thing, Wonder Woman, Outsiders, Arkham Nights were all good. Harley Quinn was fine. The Metropolis stuff was meh though. Same with Batman. Far Sector is hitting its climax though and Truth and Justice is onto its next arc with Superman/Clark Kent dealing with racial injustice in incarceration including Clark doing his own chud safari in Metropolis. 
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Feb 2, 2021 22:00
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Far Sector is exactly what I want from a GL comic, it's a cop story but also weird and alien without needing LSD like Morrison's recent run.
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Feb 2, 2021 22:35
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Punch her.
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BrianWilly posted:Punch her. Superman goes after Q cause he thinks it's a super villain mind controlling normal people and is shocked at what he discovers.
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Friends, I need some help settling a discussion I'm having with a friend. Is "bastich" (as in Lobo: Portrait of a Bastich) pronounced: [bæˈstiːʃ] (beh-steesh) OR [bæˈstɪtʃ] (beh-stitch)
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Vince MechMahon posted:Superman goes after Q cause he thinks it's a super villain mind controlling normal people and is shocked at what he discovers. Clark Kent then writes an impassioned opinion piece about how some were tricked or misled due to desperation for a solution to their problems or funneled in due to their own hate and biases and launders his discovery of the identity of Q through his own wife's story and investigation.
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Xelkelvos posted:Swamp Thing, Wonder Woman, Outsiders, Arkham Nights were all good. Harley Quinn was fine. The Metropolis stuff was meh though. Same with Batman. Is the punchline "Why did you list the same thing three times?".
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JordanKai posted:Friends, I need some help settling a discussion I'm having with a friend. Is "bastich" (as in Lobo: Portrait of a Bastich) pronounced:
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JordanKai posted:Friends, I need some help settling a discussion I'm having with a friend. Is "bastich" (as in Lobo: Portrait of a Bastich) pronounced: I always pronounced it "bust-itch"
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Edge & Christian posted:It's supposed to be a portmanteau of "bastard" and "bitch" so I assumed it was "baa-stich" I hate that! But he gave the same explanation so it must be true. 
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Baa-stitch. Bastard and stitch combined.
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JordanKai posted:I hate that! But he gave the same explanation so it must be true. I'm pretty sure that Brad Garrett somehow got away with pronouncing it like that on the DCAU shows.
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I always went with 'bast-itch' personally, I felt with the right inflection it fit the mouth feel of 'bastard' very well.
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I read all of Dark Knights Metal, switching between 4 trades as I went because money>>>>>putting the story together coherently, and kinda hated it. It's everything I assumed current comics were when I started reading again. I see what Snyder was going for and how he...set it up but man he disappeared up his rear end at times with this. The Batmen were literal nothing characters. Just goons with the most generic and predicable backstories. I thought The Batman That Laughs (God I hate that name) was gonna be some huge secret surprise but nope he's exactly what II thought he was down to the origin. The big baddie didn't even do poo poo. What a wet fart. The worst Power Ranger villians have more presence. Everything about the metals was asinine and overthought. The finale was utter trash and deus ex machinas out the rear end every issue and somehow the villian are just SO smart until the very end when they somehow didn't think the one thing I waiting the whole series to happen finally happened. Just ugh all around. Are all crisis focused one character like this? It might as well have been called "Batmen Of Infinite Earths:Batman is the key to life". RBX fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Feb 3, 2021 |
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RBX posted:I read all of Dark Knights Metal, switching between 4 trades as I went because money>>>>>putting the story together coherently, and kinda hated it. It's everything I assumed current comics were when I started reading again. I see what Snyder was going for and how he...set it up but man he disappeared up his rear end at times with this. The Batmen were literal nothing characters. Just goons with the most generic and predicable backstories. Just wait till you try Death Metal. It's arguably worse.
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the evil batmen were cool. decent issues, nice to look at (cool, expensive figurines). the joker fight at the end was nice too. that's about it. rest was typical crossover tripe dark multiverse is a fun concept though Quotey fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Feb 3, 2021 |
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Dark Knights Metal Dark Knights Rising I’m reading this and it’s pretty neat! I’m up to the Green Lantern one and I’m digging it. Congratulations, you get to live! My one question at this point is, is Earth 0 the “main” Earth? I’m seeing these evil Batmen show up and wreck characters’ poo poo and I don’t know if they’re the “main” versions of these characters or just some randos that the Batmen are murdering in their journeys through the multiverse or whatever.
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