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    LockedOnTargetLockedOnTarget Registered User regular
    Goatmon wrote: »
    Arkham Asylum was mind blowingly good, especially for people who grew up on TAS.

    Getting the actress for Barbara Gordon back as Oracle was a great touch.

    It wasn't the same, not even close.

    Only returning VA people were Bats, Joker, and Harley.

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    KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    Vann Diras wrote: »
    also, changing nightwing's color to red is so stupid

    like legit one of my most hated things about the new DCverse

    why would you change that

    GET IT BECAUSE HE USED TO ROBIN

    god i'm so confused by who is who now

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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    Is Tim Drake still Red Robin

    That is like the dumbest name and costume

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    JoolanderJoolander Registered User regular
    YUMMMMM

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    GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    Joolander wrote: »
    Goatmon wrote: »
    Arkham Asylum was mind blowingly good, especially for people who grew up on TAS.

    Getting the actress for Barbara Gordon back as Oracle was a great touch.

    wasn't TAS Barbara played by Tara Strong?

    and Oracle in the game is the same person that did Ashley from Mass Effect...

    Apparently, so. I did not notice that at all!

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    Harry DresdenHarry Dresden Registered User regular
    Joolander wrote: »
    Goatmon wrote: »
    Arkham Asylum was mind blowingly good, especially for people who grew up on TAS.

    Getting the actress for Barbara Gordon back as Oracle was a great touch.

    wasn't TAS Barbara played by Tara Strong?

    and Oracle in the game is the same person that did Ashley from Mass Effect...

    That was the New Batman Adventures Batgirl. The original actress in TAS was Melissa Gilbert. The contrast between voices is startling.

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    Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    Is Tim Drake still Red Robin

    That is like the dumbest name and costume

    also this
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    i love tim drake bunches but red robin is a dumb superhero name/theme/whatever

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    DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    isn't red robin the name of a fast food chain in the states

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    TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    isn't red robin the name of a fast food chain in the states
    It's a sit down place, they server "gourmet" burgers.

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    TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    Uriel wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    isn't red robin the name of a fast food chain in the states
    It's a sit down place, they server "gourmet" burgers.
    Boy, I could go for some

    Nite
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    Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    i kinda like red robin

    he's robin but alternate version

    so he's red robin

    ...okay it's not amazing

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    PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    It suucks the burgers are sooo drryyyyy

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    JoolanderJoolander Registered User regular
    TrippyJing wrote: »
    Uriel wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    isn't red robin the name of a fast food chain in the states
    It's a sit down place, they server "gourmet" burgers.
    Boy, I could go for some

    Nite
    Wings

    that's it

    who wnats to start a batman themed restauant?

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    Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    okay i read the last page and caught up on what's going on the new 52 and now my brain is coming out my ears

    that shit looks like it would get posted ironically in the webcomics thread

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    there are a few good books in the new 52

    Action Comics, Batman, Animal Man, and Swamp Thing are all worthy reading

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Also Wonder Woman and Aquaman

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    Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    it's about one in every four books

    that's not good enough, basically

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Oh no, it totally isn't. The New 52 as a whole is a miserable failure quality wise

    but there are still some good books underneath the crap

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    UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    Paladin wrote: »
    It suucks the burgers are sooo drryyyyy

    Their burgers are decent. You can fix this problem with ketchup

    And they have bottomless steak fries

    Goddamn I love Red Robin

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    Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    batman may very well be the best batman book i've ever read

    batman and robin is also really good

    uhhhhh flash is good

    i dunno i pretty quickly dropped to only those batman books when it comes to DC after the reboot

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    King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Joolander wrote: »
    Goatmon wrote: »
    Arkham Asylum was mind blowingly good, especially for people who grew up on TAS.

    Getting the actress for Barbara Gordon back as Oracle was a great touch.

    wasn't TAS Barbara played by Tara Strong?

    and Oracle in the game is the same person that did Ashley from Mass Effect...

    That was the New Batman Adventures Batgirl. The original actress in TAS was Melissa Gilbert. The contrast between voices is startling.

    It really is . I really don't know why they changed it. One of my many annoyances with that show.

    Then they changed her voice actor again in Beyond.

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    oh man how did I forget Flash

    that is a good book

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    King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Paladin wrote: »
    It suucks the burgers are sooo drryyyyy

    Their burgers are decent. You can fix this problem with ketchup

    And they have bottomless steak fries

    Goddamn I love Red Robin

    Also get the Burger Medium. Amazingly the Dry issue vanishes.

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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    the flash won't be good until they bring wally back from the twilight zone or wherever he is

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    No, it's still a good book without Wally.

    Shockingly, giving Barry an actual personality makes the book much more enjoyable.

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    Paladin wrote: »
    It suucks the burgers are sooo drryyyyy

    Their burgers are decent. You can fix this problem with ketchup

    And they have bottomless steak fries

    Goddamn I love Red Robin

    this is something I will agree with Vow about

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    Harry DresdenHarry Dresden Registered User regular
    edited May 2012
    Joolander wrote: »
    Goatmon wrote: »
    Arkham Asylum was mind blowingly good, especially for people who grew up on TAS.

    Getting the actress for Barbara Gordon back as Oracle was a great touch.

    wasn't TAS Barbara played by Tara Strong?

    and Oracle in the game is the same person that did Ashley from Mass Effect...

    That was the New Batman Adventures Batgirl. The original actress in TAS was Melissa Gilbert. The contrast between voices is startling.

    It really is . I really don't know why they changed it. One of my many annoyances with that show.

    Then they changed her voice actor again in Beyond.

    I'm not sure why they changed her VA in Beyond. I did like Angie Harmon's work, though.

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    DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    Joolander wrote: »
    TrippyJing wrote: »
    Uriel wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    isn't red robin the name of a fast food chain in the states
    It's a sit down place, they server "gourmet" burgers.
    Boy, I could go for some

    Nite
    Wings

    that's it

    who wnats to start a batman themed restauant?

    Alfred's

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    Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    No, it's still a good book without Wally.

    Shockingly, giving Barry an actual personality makes the book much more enjoyable.

    they should try it with wonder woman!

    also manapul's a fucking genius

    really the problems with the new 52 are entirely an issue of quality control

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    No, it's still a good book without Wally.

    Shockingly, giving Barry an actual personality makes the book much more enjoyable.

    they should try it with wonder woman!

    also manapul's a fucking genius

    really the problems with the new 52 are entirely an issue of quality control
    Except she has one in her new series? Along with a super awesome supporting cast?

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    Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    No, it's still a good book without Wally.

    Shockingly, giving Barry an actual personality makes the book much more enjoyable.

    they should try it with wonder woman!

    also manapul's a fucking genius

    really the problems with the new 52 are entirely an issue of quality control
    Except she has one in her new series? Along with a super awesome supporting cast?

    i'm not as sold on this as you but it's definitely a good series regardless

    but i find it hard to care about the greek gods at this point no matter how gangster Azzarello makes them

    like there's heaps more class but it still feels like the same basic shit WW's been doing for years now

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    FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Didn't the author make the amazons rapist-murderers that sold their sons into slavery?

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Didn't the author make the amazons rapist-murderers that sold their sons into slavery?
    He made the Amazons flawed, yeah. They are a race of warrior women who are pretty goddamn brutal and do some terrible things, which makes Diana leaving them and setting a moral standard for herself even more impactful as opposed to her coming from a race of perfect, peaceful warrior women who are also super advanced with sci fi knowledge?

    and not slavery, they are free to leave Hephaestus' service whenever they want, but he is a kind caretaker and they choose to remain with him.

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    Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Didn't the author make the amazons rapist-murderers that sold their sons into slavery?
    He made the Amazons flawed, yeah. They are a race of warrior women who are pretty goddamn brutal and do some terrible things, which makes Diana leaving them and setting a moral standard for herself even more impactful as opposed to her coming from a race of perfect, peaceful warrior women who are also super advanced with sci fi knowledge?

    and not slavery, they are free to leave Hephaestus' service whenever they want, but he is a kind caretaker and they choose to remain with him.

    also the sex was consensual, only the murder wasn't

    regardless i find the idea of paradise island as a utopia, a hidden place free from man which sends out WW as an emissary to the broken world, to be more mythologically compelling than Azzarello's take

    but they could both work. really i'd like for paradise island to not be in the comics at all for at least a couple of years.

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    Harry DresdenHarry Dresden Registered User regular
    edited May 2012
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    No, it's still a good book without Wally.

    Shockingly, giving Barry an actual personality makes the book much more enjoyable.

    they should try it with wonder woman!

    also manapul's a fucking genius

    really the problems with the new 52 are entirely an issue of quality control
    Except she has one in her new series? Along with a super awesome supporting cast?

    i'm not as sold on this as you but it's definitely a good series regardless

    but i find it hard to care about the greek gods at this point no matter how gangster Azzarello makes them

    like there's heaps more class but it still feels like the same basic shit WW's been doing for years now

    The Greek gods are entwined in Wonder Woman's mythos. Without them is like taking Gotham out of Batman. She needs to have them around. Another reason is it distinguishes her from Batman & Superman. The best version of them was in Rucka's run.

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    Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    No, it's still a good book without Wally.

    Shockingly, giving Barry an actual personality makes the book much more enjoyable.

    they should try it with wonder woman!

    also manapul's a fucking genius

    really the problems with the new 52 are entirely an issue of quality control
    Except she has one in her new series? Along with a super awesome supporting cast?

    i'm not as sold on this as you but it's definitely a good series regardless

    but i find it hard to care about the greek gods at this point no matter how gangster Azzarello makes them

    like there's heaps more class but it still feels like the same basic shit WW's been doing for years now

    The Greek gods are entwined in Wonder Woman's mythos. Without them is like taking Gotham out of Batman. She needs to have them around. Another reason is it distinguishes her from Batman & Superman. The best version of them was in Rucka's run.

    nope

    gotham is a setting, the greek gods supporting characters

    they need to exist but they don't need to be the villains of every comic

    also what's cool about wonder woman is that she has no defined setting and isn't an american so she can just go everywhere in the world

    while using themyscira as a home base, a la the batcave or the fortress of solitude

    which is why it should be utopian because it has to be a place of safety and it should be a huge deal when that gets breached

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Except the whole point of her character is that she leaves Themyscira

    so having it be her homebase kind of ruins that

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    Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    perhaps she doesn't live there - although you have to wonder where she does live - but themyscira is too good a setting to not have it in the comics at all

    i figure she returns every so often to visit her mum and do amazon stuff

    abut also i think we have very different conceptions of what it is to be wonder woman

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    Harry DresdenHarry Dresden Registered User regular
    edited May 2012
    perhaps she doesn't live there - although you have to wonder where she does live - but themyscira is too good a setting to not have it in the comics at all

    Prior to Simone's run she used to live in a Themysciran embassy.
    i figure she returns every so often to visit her mum and do amazon stuff

    That's exactly what she does.
    abut also i think we have very different conceptions of what it is to be wonder woman

    Because DC has been terrible at keeping her consistent. Except for a few things which keep coming up again and again which only fuck up the mythos like Diana being obsessed with discovering "who she really is" (repeatedly), the Amazons being turned into villains (making them flawed is good but they go overboard too much IMO) and destroying Themyscira/the Amazons. She has a great mythos, except they keep fucking up whenever writers make good status quo's and don't keep the supporting cast consistent.

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    MetroidZoidMetroidZoid Registered User regular
    edited May 2012
    KalTorak wrote: »
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