MOTW 10-12-11: You're saying you can go MORE naked

TexiKen

X-Men Regenesis, some of the better team building moments, like Dazzler and Cyclops:

Generation Hope #12, Rockslide's best moment, everything else is downhill from here:

Batman & Robin #2, the third best canine companion in comics shows up, and Damian needs to chill the hell out:

And finally, Uncanny X-Force #16 shows why proper diet is necessary:

Fantomex was eaten, so that's where the murgle came from (and it's like cutting yourself out of a whale in another page)

Furu

Man there were a lot of good X-books this week

Arivia

Is that a Mystique variant in Generation Hope?

Automaticzen

Arivia wrote:

Is that a Mystique variant in Generation Hope?

That Hypersonic. She flies really fast.

admanb

I hope my store has Regenesis. I totes forgot to order it.

Dr. Chaos

Wait...what happened to Damien?

He was turning into a well adjusted crazy person under Dick's mentorship like the rest of the bat family and now he's running around killing small animals like a future serial killer in the making?

Arivia

Okay, so my MOTW is Batman's comment to Batwoman about sidekicks in the big bat-splash.

HadjiQuest

Arivia wrote:

Okay, so my MOTW is Batman's comment to Batwoman about sidekicks in the big bat-splash.

That was so awesome.

Furu

yeah that damian page is the opposite of a MOTW

Arivia

Automaticzen wrote:

Arivia wrote:

Is that a Mystique variant in Generation Hope?

That Hypersonic. She flies really fast.

But she looks like her and they made the same joke about no clothes!

Furu

Arivia wrote:

Automaticzen wrote:

Arivia wrote:

Is that a Mystique variant in Generation Hope?

That Hypersonic. She flies really fast.

But she looks like her and they made the same joke about no clothes!

Her name is Transonic and that's a very basic shapeshifting joke as old as the concept

plus they're nothing alike other than being blue

Arivia

Boo. Okay.

Doctor Detroit

Furu wrote:

Arivia wrote:

Automaticzen wrote:

Arivia wrote:

Is that a Mystique variant in Generation Hope?

That Hypersonic. She flies really fast.

But she looks like her and they made the same joke about no clothes!

Her name is Transonic and that's a very basic shapeshifting joke as old as the concept

plus they're nothing alike other than being blue. And having red hair. And the gun.

Fixed that for you. Regenesis did a pretty horrible job of identifying characters.

Anyways, my MOTW: "Ha! Bobby dated a crazy chick."

Turambar

Dr. Chaos wrote:

Wait...what happened to Damien?

He was turning into a well adjusted crazy person under Dick's mentorship like the rest of the bat family and now he's running around killing small animals like a future serial killer in the making?

Isn't he already a serial-killer?

Solar

Turambar wrote:

Dr. Chaos wrote:

Wait...what happened to Damien?

He was turning into a well adjusted crazy person under Dick's mentorship like the rest of the bat family and now he's running around killing small animals like a future serial killer in the making?

Isn't he already a serial-killer?

He's already an assassin

They are not really the same

Though I guess you could argue that they are, thinking about it

BlankZoe

Yeah an assassin is technically just a serial killer who is professional about it

Solar

How many people has Damien killed?

I mean he was raised by Assassins and all that

But he's ten years old

There is only so much assassinating he could have done

Delduwath

Blankzilla wrote:

Yeah an assassin is technically just a serial killer who is professional about it

To quote the Team Fortress 2 "Meet the Sniper" video:

Sniper [speaking into a phone] wrote:

Dad? Dad, I'm a- Ye- Not a "crazed gunman", dad, I'm an assassin! ...Well, the difference bein' one is a job and the other's mental sickness!

Wildcat

Depends how vicious his lunchroom was I suppose.

farbekrieg

Solar wrote:

How many people has Damien killed?

I mean he was raised by Assassins and all that

But he's ten years old

There is only so much assassinating he could have done

it isnt about the numbers of people killed, rather in those formative years something broke in damien where he wants to kill... he is kind of a parallel for james jordon jr, that despite any amount of training, explanation, surrogate loving family, fatherly advice or other, he is going to grow up to be a sociopath (as opposed to psychopath, splitting hairs really).. and bruces own opinion that allowing him to be robin isnt really helping the problem. but batman doesnt believe in lost causes

Turambar

Doesn't he cut off a guy's head in Batman and Son?

farbekrieg

Arivia wrote:

Okay, so my MOTW is Batman's comment to Batwoman about sidekicks in the big bat-splash.

picture of said thingy

edited to put in spoilers

TexiKen

Assassins can stop killing anytime and probably wouldn't kill an animal just for the hell of it, a serial killer kills because they feel compelled to. I've been watching Korean movies, this is all accurate stuff.

And lets not forget, Damian could have (and should have) killed Zsasz back in Streets of Gotham but didn't, a dude who deserved that fate.

WiseManTobes

Will get some scans later, but gonna be as hard as last week to not post the entire issue and just pick one page.

Spider-Island, ASM 671, oh man!

Spider-sense + Kung Fu.

Morbius the secret scientist.

Kaine normallized and re-spidey-powered!

And a moment that has me filled with both glee and sadness, depending on it's future callbacks

Mary Jane has her spider powers finally, and is swinging around being all, "ya I kick ass", when she hears a scream for help, then another, and knows her only choice is to go help, making her realize Spidey never had the choice either, and now she finally understands! (really touching moment, that the fanboy in me can build hope upon)

In Conclusion, if you aren't reading Spider-Island, you are really depriving yourself of a lot of fun!

Solar

You know

That actually sounds really great

Like, the kind of great that might actually get me to read Slott's Spider-Man

Magna Inferno

Ultimate X-Men 2: Spencer writes a great bobby / johnny

Another great Johnny momement

Green Lantern 2: Sinestro teaches Hal a lesson

Drakeon

Is it wrong to wish Sinestro would stay the GL over in the GL book and not Hal? Because hes infinitely more entertaining.

TexiKen

No, as long as he keeps his nazi-isms to a minimum, Sinestro is a compelling GL to read about.

Solar

Was he actually touched for a moment there when that guy thanked him?

Sinestro developing a bit of compassion for those he protects would be a pretty cool story, I think

BlankZoe

It was a brief flash of compassion, yeah.

I really like Sinestro and him totally outclassing Hal, who saved one lady and then wasted time flirting with her prior to Sinestro saving everyone, was fantastic.

Garlic Bread

Blankzilla wrote:

It was a brief flash of compassion, yeah.

I really like Sinestro and him totally outclassing Hal, who saved one lady and then wasted time flirting with her prior to Sinestro saving everyone, was fantastic.

It's a nice parallel to what Sinestro did with Korugar vs what Hal does for Earth (and supports the argument he was having with Hal)

Hal is a superhero that saves people in danger. Sinestro fixes the problem so that the danger isn't there

Futt Bucker

Those Ultimate X-Men scans are really awesome. I'll have to pick it up when the trade comes out.

Green Lantern was excellent. I love how Johns writes Sinestro.

Munch

I still have a hard time accepting that a guy, who fans used to refer to as Space Hitler, is not having his teeth punched out by every superhero on Earth.

Or did they all forget how he led Superboy Prime, Cyborg Superman, and the Anti-Monitor in an attack on Earth?

I'm all about villains having redemptive story arcs, but this is like the Joker deciding to become a superhero. You'd think the massive body-count to his name would preclude him from heroics.

The Lovely Bastard

damn that dazzler scan better mean more dazzler all the time

Fencingsax

Munch wrote:

I still have a hard time accepting that a guy, who fans used to refer to as Space Hitler, is not having his teeth punched out by every superhero on Earth.

Or did they all forget how he led Superboy Prime, Cyborg Superman, and the Anti-Monitor in an attack on Earth?

I'm all about villains having redemptive story arcs, but this is like the Joker deciding to become a superhero. You'd think the massive body-count to his name would preclude him from heroics.

I think people are quite realistic about how the Lanterns in general work, vis a vis Guardians are amoral idiots.

Garlic Bread

Munch wrote: »

I still have a hard time accepting that a guy, who fans used to refer to as Space Hitler, is not having his teeth punched out by every superhero on Earth.

Or did they all forget how he led Superboy Prime, Cyborg Superman, and the Anti-Monitor in an attack on Earth?

I'm all about villains having redemptive story arcs, but this is like the Joker deciding to become a superhero. You'd think the massive body-count to his name would preclude him from heroics.

To be far, you know

Hal Jordan

Munch

Point.

Rans

Keith wrote:

Munch wrote: »

I still have a hard time accepting that a guy, who fans used to refer to as Space Hitler, is not having his teeth punched out by every superhero on Earth.

Or did they all forget how he led Superboy Prime, Cyborg Superman, and the Anti-Monitor in an attack on Earth?

I'm all about villains having redemptive story arcs, but this is like the Joker deciding to become a superhero. You'd think the massive body-count to his name would preclude him from heroics.

To be far, you know

Hal Jordan

Yeah there's that, and to answer your question Munch, it's still up in the air how much of all that they forgot. Or didn't forget. Or happened slightly differently. Or something.

TexiKen

Plus there was no JSA to really take offense to space hitler these days, these kids don't know their history.

HadjiQuest

Rans wrote:

Keith wrote:

Munch wrote: »

I still have a hard time accepting that a guy, who fans used to refer to as Space Hitler, is not having his teeth punched out by every superhero on Earth.

Or did they all forget how he led Superboy Prime, Cyborg Superman, and the Anti-Monitor in an attack on Earth?

I'm all about villains having redemptive story arcs, but this is like the Joker deciding to become a superhero. You'd think the massive body-count to his name would preclude him from heroics.

To be far, you know

Hal Jordan

Yeah there's that, and to answer your question Munch, it's still up in the air how much of all that they forgot. Or didn't forget. Or happened slightly differently. Or something.

Yep. ATM, the Anti-Monitor and Superboy Prime definitely do not exist in this reality. And Cyborg Superman may not as well.

Maybe in the DCnU, the Sinestro Corps War was just an extremely spirited debate.

BlankZoe

I mean, SCW is easily fit into the reboot

the Sinestro Corps amassed an army

assaulted Earth

was thwarted by GLs and also the Earth heroes

bam