I mean, first he sends Teth on this quest to recover the pieces of the amulet...then swaps out Isis' bones for Ralph Dibny's. Then he tricks Teth into believing that he failed by using up too much of Isis' power, and then walks off with the mans lady after he blew the hell out of there!
No. He. Friggin'. Di'int.
I mean, we pretty much knew the eventual outcome, but still. Sick burn.
You forgot:
He also faked a trance state so he could make BA think Isi was condemming him from beyond the grave.
It's even funnier that he'll have to say that every time.
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Man, no one is mentioning a big reveal in Green Lantern. We now know who will be one of the Guardians for the Black Lantern Corps. If not, that's a hell of a red herring Johns is putting out there.
I think she's just being used, I don't think she'll be a Black Lantern Guardian.
Oh yeah, ACTION COMICS was awesome this week as well. Between Y, Action, Black Summer, Green Lantern, and the Alex Ross Superpowers thingee, it was a great week for comics.
Probably. I'm pretty sure KIA killed off at least the three or four nobodies that were introduced last issue. That was a pretty funny exchange between him and Taskmaster.
Bobby Drake, Peter Parker, and Johnny Storm discussing Nick Fury's eye patch in Ultimate Spider-Man #118:
My anti-moment so far is the fill-in art on Star Wars: Dark Times. :x
How can they go from Douglas Wheatley's beautiful art on the first arc to this...
Plus there were two different artists so not only was it bad, it also alternated between two different styles from page to page.
Liz as Firestar was a given ever since the last beach bonfire, but doing the reveal as a perfect mirror to said bonfire was pretty cool. Also, everyone randomly turning up outside of Peter's school while he's freaking out trying to keep the whole secret-identity thing going.
So I never understood why they let the inmates wear their costumes in Arkham.
Dude, its Arkham , i think that the staff long ago came to terms with the fact that the asylum doesn't actually keep anybody inside, its really just a hotel that criminals occasional pop into for a quick rest, it just doesn't make any sense to delay them longer than necessary by making them change their clothes.
Edit: and i have just double posted by not realising i was reading the same thread in another tab, my shame knows no bounds.
Well, there's a whole bunch of death and destruction... details in the spoiler
Geiger (or Gamma? Something with at G) who looked like a female Doc Samson - her lower torso is all that's left of her. There's a huge bloodstain on the wall behind it.
Crusader got his hand cut off.
A bunch of the newer trainees, including Ant-Man, are injured or dead but I can't tell for certain from the art.
Baron von Blitzshlag - If he ain't dead, then he's really beat the fuck up. Had a big block 'o metal (as big as he was) smacked into him, and crushing him against a wall.
Pym/Yellowjacket - The panel shows what looks like what's left of a body smoldering with alien energy after he's blasted by the Tacticgon... I don't know, he might actually be dead!
Thor Girl - Probably dead, considering she took a point-blank blast from the Tactigon and it fried off all her hair and made her face all burnt.
Trauma - As much as I hate to say it, I don't know how he could have survived multiple stabbings in the torso with a huge-ass blade.
So I never understood why they let the inmates wear their costumes in Arkham.
Dude, its Arkham , i think that the staff long ago came to terms with the fact that the asylum doesn't actually keep anybody inside, its really just a hotel that criminals occasional pop into for a quick rest, it just doesn't make any sense to delay them longer than necessary by making them change their clothes.
Edit: and i have just double posted by not realising i was reading the same thread in another tab, my shame knows no bounds.
Hey, don't sweat it. I wanted to continue the topic anyway. Now I have an excuse :P
Don't forget that according to the hero with the most knowledge of Insane Asylums in the DC universe (Starman) Arkham isn't a nice place at all. His hospital is much better. And they have sloppy joes for dinner of Wednesdays!
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I've only read Captain America: Chosen and the New Avengers Annual so far, and while both were good, NA was total win for one particular reason:
The OMD/Joe Q "It's Magic" ripping.
Even Strange's speech at the end seemed like a jab
a comparison to an image from issue #58 that gives this particular scene just a little bit extra poignancy
I hadn't noticed that but thank you for breaking my fucking heart
edit: My moment was all of Y. I don't get how some people didn't really like it. I thought every single panel seemed well thought out and put there for a reason.
My GF, whom scoffs at my "funny book" reading, noticed the tear in my eye and as such I've convinced her to read the series. VICTORY!
So I never understood why they let the inmates wear their costumes in Arkham.
Dude, its Arkham , i think that the staff long ago came to terms with the fact that the asylum doesn't actually keep anybody inside, its really just a hotel that criminals occasional pop into for a quick rest, it just doesn't make any sense to delay them longer than necessary by making them change their clothes.
Edit: and i have just double posted by not realising i was reading the same thread in another tab, my shame knows no bounds.
Hey, don't sweat it. I wanted to continue the topic anyway. Now I have an excuse :P
Don't forget that according to the hero with the most knowledge of Insane Asylums in the DC universe (Starman) Arkham isn't a nice place at all. His hospital is much better. And they have sloppy joes for dinner of Wednesdays!
I just think that morale must be rock-bottom for Arkham staff all year round, i mean the longest they've manage to hold onto the Joker is what 20 minutes? I just picture the place as full of despondent orderlies who have just totally given up on the idea of actually treating or incarcerating anybody and now just view their job as making sure that criminals have somewhere moderately tidy to escape from.
So I never understood why they let the inmates wear their costumes in Arkham.
Dude, its Arkham , i think that the staff long ago came to terms with the fact that the asylum doesn't actually keep anybody inside, its really just a hotel that criminals occasional pop into for a quick rest, it just doesn't make any sense to delay them longer than necessary by making them change their clothes.
Edit: and i have just double posted by not realising i was reading the same thread in another tab, my shame knows no bounds.
Hey, don't sweat it. I wanted to continue the topic anyway. Now I have an excuse :P
Don't forget that according to the hero with the most knowledge of Insane Asylums in the DC universe (Starman) Arkham isn't a nice place at all. His hospital is much better. And they have sloppy joes for dinner of Wednesdays!
I just think that morale must be rock-bottom for Arkham staff all year round, i mean the longest they've manage to hold onto the Joker is what 20 minutes? I just picture the place as full of despondent orderlies who have just totally given up on the idea of actually treating or incarcerating anybody and now just view their job as making sure that criminals have somewhere moderately tidy to escape from.
Didn't the Joker seduce Harley from being a psychologist or something at Arkham?
I just think that morale must be rock-bottom for Arkham staff all year round, i mean the longest they've manage to hold onto the Joker is what 20 minutes? I just picture the place as full of despondent orderlies who have just totally given up on the idea of actually treating or incarcerating anybody and now just view their job as making sure that criminals have somewhere moderately tidy to escape from.
There should totally be a random despondent orderlie who shows up every now and then. Like that pathetic Hydra guy that became a recurring character in Marvel a while back.
look at this point my list of "I am sure they are not a Skrull" is tiny
Does your list consist of
- C.L.O.C.
- Ghost Rider's motorcycle
?
While we're talking about the New Avengers annual, I've got a question:
Is it just me, or is the Dr. Stange-consorting-with-evil thing out of nowhere? Has he done anything obviously drawing-on-evil-powers, other than what he did during WWH? I mean, it's possible that I just missed or forgot something, but when I was reading that part in the annual, I thought "O...kay. What?". Plus, I felt that his whole speech was just, like, too much exposition. I felt like he listed the problem, the source, got in a little jab at himself ("Haven't I learned anything?"), and then finally arrived to an irreversible conclusion ("Everyone, get the hell out"). Without any input from anyone else, and with no chance for discussion. It didn't feel like a natural evolution of events to me, and more like "The New Avengers shouldn't have a safe house when we're having Skrull sleeper agents pop up all over the place, let's make Strange kick them out".
Also, at first I thought that this might be a good indicator that Strange isn't a Skrull, because what magical stuff he did seemed pretty powerful and not easily faked, but, on the other hand, isn't it just like a Skrull to want to deny the New Avengers a safe house in the coming confrontation?
Also, at first I thought that this might be a good indicator that Strange isn't a Skrull, because what magical stuff he did seemed pretty powerful and not easily faked, but, on the other hand, isn't it just like a Skrull to want to deny the New Avengers a safe house in the coming confrontation?
But of course! Dr. Strange is really Mephisto! And he's helping the Skrulls take over our world. Dun Dun Dun!
It explains why Strange has been acting weird lately and why the Sorcerer Supreme hasn't noticed anything wrong about the events at the end of OMD.
So I never understood why they let the inmates wear their costumes in Arkham.
Dude, its Arkham , i think that the staff long ago came to terms with the fact that the asylum doesn't actually keep anybody inside, its really just a hotel that criminals occasional pop into for a quick rest, it just doesn't make any sense to delay them longer than necessary by making them change their clothes.
Edit: and i have just double posted by not realising i was reading the same thread in another tab, my shame knows no bounds.
Hey, don't sweat it. I wanted to continue the topic anyway. Now I have an excuse :P
Don't forget that according to the hero with the most knowledge of Insane Asylums in the DC universe (Starman) Arkham isn't a nice place at all. His hospital is much better. And they have sloppy joes for dinner of Wednesdays!
I just think that morale must be rock-bottom for Arkham staff all year round, i mean the longest they've manage to hold onto the Joker is what 20 minutes? I just picture the place as full of despondent orderlies who have just totally given up on the idea of actually treating or incarcerating anybody and now just view their job as making sure that criminals have somewhere moderately tidy to escape from.
Didn't the Joker seduce Harley from being a psychologist or something at Arkham?
I remember that happening in that awesome cartoon series they had in the 90's. Did that happen in the comics too?
So I never understood why they let the inmates wear their costumes in Arkham.
Dude, its Arkham , i think that the staff long ago came to terms with the fact that the asylum doesn't actually keep anybody inside, its really just a hotel that criminals occasional pop into for a quick rest, it just doesn't make any sense to delay them longer than necessary by making them change their clothes.
Edit: and i have just double posted by not realising i was reading the same thread in another tab, my shame knows no bounds.
Hey, don't sweat it. I wanted to continue the topic anyway. Now I have an excuse :P
Don't forget that according to the hero with the most knowledge of Insane Asylums in the DC universe (Starman) Arkham isn't a nice place at all. His hospital is much better. And they have sloppy joes for dinner of Wednesdays!
I just think that morale must be rock-bottom for Arkham staff all year round, i mean the longest they've manage to hold onto the Joker is what 20 minutes? I just picture the place as full of despondent orderlies who have just totally given up on the idea of actually treating or incarcerating anybody and now just view their job as making sure that criminals have somewhere moderately tidy to escape from.
Didn't the Joker seduce Harley from being a psychologist or something at Arkham?
I remember that happening in that awesome cartoon series they had in the 90's. Did that happen in the comics too?
Yeah, Harley actually originated in the cartoon and they brought her into the comic-verse because she was so popular.
He looked alright to me. Almost like normal fishlips bt with a cape and no shoulder pads. The cover for the next issue makes him look much worse, but the last splashpage looked fine to me. Not overly great, but not bad in the least. Age of Apocalypse is still my favourite depiction of him though.
On an unrelated note, Forerunner fucks some Thangarrian for 2 days straight in Countdown to Adventure. Good times.
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Oh yeah, ACTION COMICS was awesome this week as well. Between Y, Action, Black Summer, Green Lantern, and the Alex Ross Superpowers thingee, it was a great week for comics.
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My anti-moment so far is the fill-in art on Star Wars: Dark Times. :x
How can they go from Douglas Wheatley's beautiful art on the first arc to this...
Plus there were two different artists so not only was it bad, it also alternated between two different styles from page to page.
I approve
New Avengers Annual, right at the end...
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How very skrully
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oh man
Well
I think I'd be looking for a secure place as well.
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Y was fucking awesome.
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a comparison to an image from issue #58 that gives this particular scene just a little bit extra poignancy
Dude, its Arkham , i think that the staff long ago came to terms with the fact that the asylum doesn't actually keep anybody inside, its really just a hotel that criminals occasional pop into for a quick rest, it just doesn't make any sense to delay them longer than necessary by making them change their clothes.
Edit: and i have just double posted by not realising i was reading the same thread in another tab, my shame knows no bounds.
Well, there's a whole bunch of death and destruction... details in the spoiler
Crusader got his hand cut off.
A bunch of the newer trainees, including Ant-Man, are injured or dead but I can't tell for certain from the art.
Baron von Blitzshlag - If he ain't dead, then he's really beat the fuck up. Had a big block 'o metal (as big as he was) smacked into him, and crushing him against a wall.
Pym/Yellowjacket - The panel shows what looks like what's left of a body smoldering with alien energy after he's blasted by the Tacticgon... I don't know, he might actually be dead!
Thor Girl - Probably dead, considering she took a point-blank blast from the Tactigon and it fried off all her hair and made her face all burnt.
Trauma - As much as I hate to say it, I don't know how he could have survived multiple stabbings in the torso with a huge-ass blade.
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Or a simulation
Or a dream I had while in a simulation....
Don't forget that according to the hero with the most knowledge of Insane Asylums in the DC universe (Starman) Arkham isn't a nice place at all. His hospital is much better. And they have sloppy joes for dinner of Wednesdays!
Even Strange's speech at the end seemed like a jab
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I hadn't noticed that but thank you for breaking my fucking heart
edit: My moment was all of Y. I don't get how some people didn't really like it. I thought every single panel seemed well thought out and put there for a reason.
My GF, whom scoffs at my "funny book" reading, noticed the tear in my eye and as such I've convinced her to read the series. VICTORY!
Captain AMerica was perfect as usual
I just think that morale must be rock-bottom for Arkham staff all year round, i mean the longest they've manage to hold onto the Joker is what 20 minutes? I just picture the place as full of despondent orderlies who have just totally given up on the idea of actually treating or incarcerating anybody and now just view their job as making sure that criminals have somewhere moderately tidy to escape from.
Didn't the Joker seduce Harley from being a psychologist or something at Arkham?
Does your list consist of
- C.L.O.C.
- Ghost Rider's motorcycle
?
While we're talking about the New Avengers annual, I've got a question:
Also, at first I thought that this might be a good indicator that Strange isn't a Skrull, because what magical stuff he did seemed pretty powerful and not easily faked, but, on the other hand, isn't it just like a Skrull to want to deny the New Avengers a safe house in the coming confrontation?
It explains why Strange has been acting weird lately and why the Sorcerer Supreme hasn't noticed anything wrong about the events at the end of OMD.
I remember that happening in that awesome cartoon series they had in the 90's. Did that happen in the comics too?
UXM 90 felt rushed.
Yeah, Harley actually originated in the cartoon and they brought her into the comic-verse because she was so popular.
On an unrelated note, Forerunner fucks some Thangarrian for 2 days straight in Countdown to Adventure. Good times.