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The show kind of can't though. If you argue that super-spies are inherently bad, then the whole premise crumbles. Just like you can't examine Batman as a rich white dude spending his nights punching poor black kids too closely.
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My point was that if you take any part of superhero comics to a realistic end, they fall apart. You can't expect SHIELD to be the exception.
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Rough Lobster posted:Yeah which of Batman's villains were black again? Thug #3 and Hoodlum F And yes, point taken, my hyperbole could've been better thought out.
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Oct 10, 2014 03:01
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Uh, didn't Busiek explicitly say that DC Earth is bigger in Avengers/JLA? And the DCU has it's own fair share of fake countries. Corto Maltese and Khandaq, anyone?
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Oct 28, 2014 22:42
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To be fair, if anyone could turn Darkseid's head, it'd be Dark Phoenix.
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On the other hand, I assume the next page has Zatanna go "Um, Harley? You're a psychiatrist, not a vet."
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I believe Jeph Loeb claimed that in some "she's been super-exposed to yellow sun rays for her whole life" thing when he reintroduced her. And I recall a page of Diana kicking Power Girl's butt while criticising her for not learning to actually fight and relying on her Kryptonian powers. Is that from the same issue?
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redbackground posted:...go on. And they flee, terrified for their lives because the succubus is a rotting corpse of a woman dragged from hell to wreak bloody revenge?
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Uthor posted:One thing I'm not digging about this series is all the emphasis on how poor she is. In this issue, her computer is busted and she can't fix it because she can't get ahold of a spare hard drive. Really? You don't know anyone that might be able to help you out? Didn't Bruce just lose all of his money in one of the main Bat-books?
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Yeah, I mean, I kinda know that the New52 set-up has Barbara and Dinah hating each other for some reason (because girls can't be FRIENDS, lol  ). They just barely got along out of necessity in the early issues of the relaunch Birds of Prey. The eidetic memory thing has been part of the character for ages, it's just that no-one really used it for more than a convenient excuse for her to be able to spout exposition until now.
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We're not doing that anymore. Soonmot posted:Nope. I'm glad Academy and this new Batgirl are there, but they really are not anything I can drum up enthusiasm for outside of bringing in new fans. I am a bit miffed that, without the anime poo poo and if the hipster poo poo was toned down a bit, there's no reason this couldn't have been a Stephanie Brown Batgirl, but that's more of a problem I have with the overall nu52. I was just kind of hopeful that with Wonder Woman and Red Lanterns ending, these new bat books would keep me reading some non-Vertigo DC. Honestly, considering it's a bit of a shift for Barbara too, you could pretty easily sub in Steph and her mother for Babs and Jim, and I'm not sure much would be lost, and they could've kept Oracle, thus getting two marketable characters for the price of one I wonder how open they're going to be to revisiting some of these ditched legacy things if the tie-ins to Convergence do well.
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:Cpt. Marvel's mask is so bitchin Eh, I think it looks pretty silly, but I hate Captain Britain's stupid helmet and boots too, and everyone loves those. (The rest of the costume is awesome, and I think there's a reason McKelvie's original design doesn't have the mask. He's really good at this sort of thing, so don't mess with it.) Gaz-L fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Nov 18, 2014 |
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Lurdiak posted:Velocidad can't run across water at all, and appears to have the body of a 24 year old at age 15. Not the coolest power in the world. Dr Dinosaur Sr?
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Jerusalem posted:They can't afford a cork board with "Uncle Ben" push-pinned into it? Do you think Perlmutter's made of money? My god, if they have the Uncle Ben board, he might have to buy 19 pounds of caviar instead of 20 next time the rest of the Disney executives come over!
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Colleen Coover is good at drawings.
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Also, isn't the Executioner just a regular dude from the 9 realms, not an actual god?
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Opopanax posted:Well there're two words I didn't expect to see today Django gets his own cool moment in the opening of the issue, too. He basically pulls a fake hitch-hiker routine on Diego because he knows his current marks will see the rich Spaniard as an easy target.
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Ugh. The Wonder Woman one is awful, AND an uninspired choice.
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The dude on Arrow would be a much better Ra's if he did the cool muttonchop/'stache thing comics Ra's has.
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hiddenriverninja posted:I remember Stan Lee's DC sucking. A lot. I still like his Flash concept, actually. Neat visual design (by Kevin Maguire) with an origin only slightly dumber that Jay Garrick and Barry Allen's ones.
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bobkatt013 posted:You mean she was at the University of Chicago Yeah, I think Dan3k got mixed up with Barbara Gordon or something? 
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smashpro1 posted:"It's in space, that makes it a SWORD job." This is why Lockheed drinks.
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We had this discussion not too long ago. The trouble with the reverse outcome is there's no tension in 'Superman vs regular human, human goes smoosh'.
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Sigma-X posted:Everything else seems comical, the "embarass the gently caress out of him" part is the only part that seems reasonable. "Give him a bat to even the odds" and "injure him exactly enough to subdue him without causing any serious injuries" are the bullshit manuevers there. Except no-one would think it if Gordon was replaced by a man in bat-pajamas. Everyone forgets that Year One is a Gordon story masquerading as a Batman origin. Of course he gets the superhero moment.
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TwoPair posted:I thought it was cool
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Fuego Fish posted:The Parker Luck, judging by how many times they're getting chumped in this crossover. What, you mean your Big Bad shouldn't be getting fooled by his supposed concubine going "Oooh, I have a tummyache!"?
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Probably why Bendis loves/loved USM so much, he can be the guy that writes Spidey, but without most of those rules. Hell, he somehow managed to make 'Gwen Stacy dates Peter Parker' seem out of character.
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Endless Mike posted:Honestly, that would be better with the original text. How dare you boil the Hostess Fruit Pie down to being a mere weapon?
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Gavok posted:Didn't they also have a woman who literally wore nothing but two clouds? No, that's just who Strange spends Friday nights with when he tells Clea he's playing bridge with the boys.
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Gavok posted:I haven't seen an angry baby punch someone that hard since Bryan Danielson fought Takeshi Morishima. Not when Kurt Angle went at it with Samoa Joe? (I don't even know who the angry baby would be in this pair, actually)
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Sit down, son, ol' Hornhead has his DRIVIN' cane. (Good thing there was a convertible nearby.)
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The most recent arc in Green Arrow is heavily inspired by the show (including being written by writers from the show, one of whom wrote for the GA/BC book that you mentioned) so maybe start there? Green Arrow: Year One is also a pretty good version of the origin, with a villain a TV viewer will recognise.
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10 Beers posted:Is the most recent version just called Green Arrow? Yes, the arc I'm talking about started in #35, though a lot of good things have been said about the run from #17-#34 also.
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And the run from #35 introduces Felicity and Mia/Thea.
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e X posted:There used to be a saying: "Only three characters will ever stay dead in comics, Uncle Ben, Bucky Barns and Jason Todd" I vote we change it to "Only two characters SHOULD stay dead in comics, Uncle Ben and Jason Todd"
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David D. Davidson posted:Thomas did in Flashpoint, but that was an alternate universe where Bruce died instead of him. Martha was also in Flashpoint, remember?
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ConfusedUs posted:Bucky's return was also very well done. The Winter Soldier is the character DC wish the Red Hood was. (Or that they think he IS, given that he's had an ongoing title until the present day?)
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The Hour of the Dragon is fuckin' great. There's a whole part where Conan gets press-ganged by pirates and is all "Dude, I'm the King of Aquilonia, I'll BUY the boat if you take me where I'm going"... then remembers the wizard and some other guys stole his throne plus these pirates don't know he's king of anything anyway. So he decides these guys are dicks for having a bunch of dudes, including guys that used to be on Conan and Belit's crew when he was a pirate, as slaves, so leads a bloody uprising and just takes the ship. (Please forgive me if I messed any part of that up, but I've only read the old-school Roy Thomas/Gil Kane/John Buscema adaptation) And then he gets hit on by a thousand-year old vampire princess, and it's basically a footnote to the quest he's really on to get the Magical Whatsit of MacGuffin. Gaz-L fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Mar 15, 2015 |
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tribbledirigible posted:This could easily be some random Thursday. Wouldn't it be any other day? I feel like he takes Thursdays off. Y'know, just a day for himself.
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