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Yeah, I've really liked reading the golden age collections. Amusingly enough, I reread that story just a couple days ago too.
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Roth posted:I really doubt I'm going to get very far but so far: Good luck. I didn't hit consistently good batman issues until 1979
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Apr 2, 2021 08:09
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Skipping huge swaths of Golden Age stuff is definitely a good idea.
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Apr 2, 2021 12:52
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Skipping huge swaths of Golden Age stuff is definitely a good idea. And silver age, honestly. And bronze. And modern. Most comics suck, just like most of everything. I can't imagine torturing myself by trying to read all the lovely ones.
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Apr 2, 2021 16:08
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Vince MechMahon posted:And silver age, honestly. And bronze. And modern. Most comics suck, just like most of everything. I can't imagine torturing myself by trying to read all the lovely ones. It's curated a bit to highlight the more interesting stuff.
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Apr 3, 2021 05:41
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I used that reading order to do my "hey, I gave up on DC around Infinite Crisis, I should go back and do Identity Crisis->present and see what I've missed" thing and even that took like two years on and off; I cannot fathom how long doing the entire history would take you presuming you have things to do in life other than just read comics between getting up and going back to sleep.
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Apr 5, 2021 21:19
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CarlCX posted:I used that reading order to do my "hey, I gave up on DC around Infinite Crisis, I should go back and do Identity Crisis->present and see what I've missed" thing and even that took like two years on and off; I cannot fathom how long doing the entire history would take you presuming you have things to do in life other than just read comics between getting up and going back to sleep. Probably a long time. I'm just reading in bed until I sleep. It had me read a 90s Elseworld story about the JSA called The Golden Age by James Robinson and I don't think I liked it or even really got what it was going for.
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Apr 5, 2021 22:07
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Roth posted:Probably a long time. I'm just reading in bed until I sleep. A bunch of it is brought up in his starman which should be read.
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Apr 5, 2021 23:41
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Golden Age is one of those books that I really liked, but it mostly is as popular because of when it came out. At that point the Johns JSA run was still Yeats) years off so anything with those characters was a pretty novel treat. I just read the reissued version a few months ago, and it was fine.
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Apr 6, 2021 17:47
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the Johns run also started with like six Geoffless issues written by Robinson as basically a direct Starman spinoff so the JSA was pretty much his baby for a decent chunk of time there.
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Apr 6, 2021 18:36
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Golden Age is one of those books that I really liked, but it mostly is as popular because of when it came out. At that point the Johns JSA run was still Yeats) years off so anything with those characters was a pretty novel treat. I still need to read Golden Age. Wizard Magazine made it sound like it was super amazing.
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Apr 7, 2021 03:14
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I was not expecting Space Politics for the new Green Lantern series, but color me interested, especially as the other colored lanterns are showing up as well as the various Earth ones.
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Apr 7, 2021 06:08
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What's the current status of the Blue Lanterns in the ol' DCU?
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Apr 7, 2021 11:04
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Well. The last we saw of them a couple years ago, their Central Power Battery was still broken. Kyle Rayner tried to restart it with his White Lantern power, but something went wrong and it didn't work; it's kinda suggested that Dr. Manhattan (yes, really) had interfered in the process, though this was never confirmed and the plot was never picked up. With the universe being mostly fixed now, they might actually just be back, though we haven't seen them yet.
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Apr 7, 2021 13:14
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Adnor posted:https://twitter.com/kthorjensen/status/1376924197687975937 Wonder if they're gonna retcon Deathstroke being a pedophile rapist since he's supossed to be the big bad of the next Affleck Batman movie.
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Apr 7, 2021 21:21
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Apr 7, 2021 21:31
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They'll retcon Tara's backstory before they openly admit and condem Deathstroke's own abuse
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Apr 7, 2021 21:33
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Vincent posted:Wonder if they're gonna retcon Deathstroke being a pedophile rapist since he's supossed to be the big bad of the next Affleck Batman movie. ... Did you just come out of a cryogenic chamber you were sealed in 3 years ago? Batfleck is deader than disco. He's gonna have a cameo in Flash and that is it for Ben. Also isn't that page openly acknowledging and condemning it? Quietly retconning the sexual part of their relationship is honestly much more cowardly than allowing that in a book.
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Apr 7, 2021 22:18
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Vince MechMahon posted:... Did you just come out of a cryogenic chamber you were sealed in 3 years ago? Batfleck is deader than disco. He's gonna have a cameo in Flash and that is it for Ben. I meant retconning that he isnt a pedophile rapist.
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Apr 7, 2021 22:34
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Vincent posted:Regarding DC Movies, yes. I haven't heard or looked for anything about them in about 3 years, yah. Oh yeah I got that part. My second paragraph was for the posts above yours, who may not have though. I was just too lazy to edit in the quote. Anyway, the next Batman is gonna be with Robert Pattinson and is a full reboot. The Riddler is the villain.
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Apr 7, 2021 22:35
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Vincent posted:Regarding DC Movies, yes. I haven't heard or looked for anything about them in about 3 years, yah. Batfleck has been dead since forever ago. It Robert Pattinson as Batmen Colin Farrell as Penguin, Paul Dano as Riddler and Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman. Typing it out that seems like too many villains. Did anyone really care about the last 20 or whatever minutes of Dark Knight when Joker had been arrested but now Harvey is Two Face? Especially since Harvey was dead at the end of it?
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Apr 7, 2021 22:43
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...Harvey Dent is a really big part of the story so, yes.
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Apr 7, 2021 22:46
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Only time I've liked that actor tbh
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Apr 7, 2021 22:52
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Skwirl posted:Batfleck has been dead since forever ago. It Robert Pattinson as Batmen Colin Farrell as Penguin, Paul Dano as Riddler and Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman. Penguin and Riddler are probably the B and A villains for the movie and Catwoman is probably to be more of a partner to the whole thing.
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I bet penguin is only in it for like ten minutes in two scenes. I would bet (very, very little) money that the court of owls are the actual villains, and Riddler isn't actually evil. That's based on nothing but a feeling.
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Apr 7, 2021 23:27
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Roth posted:Only time I've liked that actor tbh I, Frankenstein is criminally underrated.
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Apr 8, 2021 00:37
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BrianWilly posted:...Harvey Dent is a really big part of the story so, yes. Harvey Dent was a huge part of the story, Harvey Dent as Two Face felt like an uneeded addendum.
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Apr 8, 2021 00:57
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Roth posted:Only time I've liked that actor tbh He's good in Thank You For Smoking.
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Apr 8, 2021 00:58
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Vince MechMahon posted:I bet penguin is only in it for like ten minutes in two scenes. I would bet (very, very little) money that the court of owls are the actual villains, and Riddler isn't actually evil. That's based on nothing but a feeling. What's come out about the movie so far, last I checked, is that The Riddler is being made into a Zodiac Killer type of character
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ugh, I really shouldn't have glanced at Suicide Squad, but I wanted to see what rationale there was for Conner Kent being there and as far as I can tell it's just "Waller loving kidnapped him and no one cared I guess." I just don't understand what compels DC and its writers to...like, keep on indulging in this ongoing concept of this lovely corrupt Suicide Squad with lovely people doing lovely things that has no redeemable qualities whatsoever but just has to exist because there may have been a good book about it thirty years ago, there was a lovely movie a few years ago, and there might possibly be a funny movie that lampoons the whole concept soon. The very fact that this lovely grimdark squad continues exist in the DC world is a blight on its characters and I'd be much happier if I could just excise it from my knowledge of this universe. Alright that was my  moment.
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The Suicide Squad is best when it's subverting powers corrupt powers, including Waller, not obeying them. Obviously, the new cast is meant to tie into the movie but also try and fulfil the Future State plot which was...not great.
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Apr 8, 2021 01:45
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I mean hell there was a good Suicide Squad book about that not like three months ago
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Apr 8, 2021 02:09
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Xelkelvos posted:What's come out about the movie so far, last I checked, is that The Riddler is being made into a Zodiac Killer type of character Yeah but I bet the twist is he's killing owls.
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Apr 8, 2021 02:22
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Blockhouse posted:I mean hell there was a good Suicide Squad book about that not like three months ago Yea Taylor's run was really solid because it did something new, introduced new characters that we probably won't ever see again, and tried something new. This new run seems to be reverting back and as mentioned, trying to link to a Future State storyline that sucked.
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Apr 8, 2021 04:06
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Going from Just Hal Jordan to All The Earth Lanterns is a real treat. Good call, DC, don't screw this up! (same goes for the continuing restoration of the Flash Family)
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We had Connor back in costume for way longer than I thought we would. It was only a matter of time before T-Shirt Connor was back, but dumping him in Suicide Squad out of the way just feels like a double blow. Just give Kessel and Grummet another run with the character. I don't care if it's continuity or not, I loved that version of the character. Johns totally ruined him.
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Apr 8, 2021 11:47
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Once you give a young man Evil Genes, it's only natural that he will wear Evil Jeans.
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The Kesel/Grummett Superboy series was what got me into DC after a childhood spent as a Marvel Zombie. Even though I enjoyed Johns’ Teen Titans at the time, it never sat right with me the way he turned Superboy into a moody Friday Night Lights character complete with daddy issues.
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Splint Chesthair posted:The Kesel/Grummett Superboy series was what got me into DC after a childhood spent as a Marvel Zombie. Even though I enjoyed Johns’ Teen Titans at the time, it never sat right with me the way he turned Superboy into a moody Friday Night Lights character complete with daddy issues. His Titans run is spectacularly joyless in hindsight, especially with the original TT cartoon being around for comparison or coming after PAD's Young Justice. Or even coming up with things like an a Hawk and Dove where both are women and not doing a thing with them and then just killing that Hawk off later.
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BrianWilly posted:I just don't understand what compels DC and its writers to...like, keep on indulging in this ongoing concept of this lovely corrupt Suicide Squad with lovely people doing lovely things that has no redeemable qualities whatsoever but just has to exist because there may have been a good book about it thirty years ago, there was a lovely movie a few years ago, and there might possibly be a funny movie that lampoons the whole concept soon. The very fact that this lovely grimdark squad continues exist in the DC world is a blight on its characters and I'd be much happier if I could just excise it from my knowledge of this universe. There's a movie coming out. I think that's the entire rationale.
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