I think the problem is that people seem determined to take Wonder Woman very seriously, and none of those names really work for that.
I think that's a big part of why people generally don't connect with, or find her interesting. For most of the modern age, she's been played very stoic and stern. There's not much humor to her, so there's not much humanity to her. Gail Simone tried to do a more human take on Wonder Woman, but her run really got bogged down with all the Genocide stuff, and ultimately didn't really go anywhere.
I'm sure I've said it before, but I'd like to see a Wonder Woman in the vein of Pak and Van Lente's Hercules. Something with a lot of heart, humor, and craziness, that still has real, emotional resonance.
I think that would be great. A fun, adventurous Wonder Woman that embraces the superhero silliness could be great, and really revitalise the character
Arkham games were huge sellers, I can see them helping a lot with filling out the rogue's gallery for a lot of folk. (The games being great probably helped too )
I think the problem is that people seem determined to take Wonder Woman very seriously, and none of those names really work for that.
I think that's a big part of why people generally don't connect with, or find her interesting. For most of the modern age, she's been played very stoic and stern. There's not much humor to her, so there's not much humanity to her. Gail Simone tried to do a more human take on Wonder Woman, but her run really got bogged down with all the Genocide stuff, and ultimately didn't really go anywhere.
I'm sure I've said it before, but I'd like to see a Wonder Woman in the vein of Pak and Van Lente's Hercules. Something with a lot of heart, humor, and craziness, that still has real, emotional resonance.
I think that would be great. A fun, adventurous Wonder Woman that embraces the superhero silliness could be great, and really revitalise the character
That's fairly close to how Johns has been playing her in Justice League.
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Written by PETER J. TOMASI
Backup story written by JUSTIN GRAY and JIMMY PALMIOTTI
Art by HOWARD CHAYKIN
Backup story art by STAZ JOHNSON
Cover by ALBERTO PONTICELLI and WAYNE FAUCHER
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• Jeb Stuart breaks the Haunted Tank out of ARGUS’s Black Room!
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Dan Jurgens is writing and drawing Firestorm now, probably for an arc before it gets canned.
Gene Ha is drawing Fables for an issue, that's nice.
I've started to lose interest in Animal Man and Swamp Thing. The rot story has gone on for too long now, I kind of want to see something more from Animal Man than always being on the run or in the Red, and Swamp Thing needs to bring something more beyond some creepy images every now and then. I'm pretty much down to only having a real interest about Batman, B&R, and Inc.
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BATMAN #13
Written by SCOTT SNYDER
Backup story written by SCOTT SNYDER and JAMES TYNION IV
Art by GREG CAPULLO and JONATHAN GLAPION
Backup story art by ANDY CLARKE
Cover by GREG CAPULLO
Variant cover by AARON KUDER
• The Joker returns in “DEATH OF THE FAMILY”!
• He crippled Batgirl. He killed Robin. What will The Joker do now that he’s returned to Gotham City?
• What must Batman do to protect his secret identity and that of those who fight alongside him?
Something else that will later be undone as part of a sales-boosting event?
Well I had given up on Gi Combat because it was just meh or stupid
I was ok with the war time forgot it's the way the soliders keep asking WTF with each other that annoyed me the man with no face on the other day is just violence for violence sending a guy who was in the bad areas of Afghanistan to shoot up some Mexican drug gang was really stupid and bad writing
But with the Ghost Tank I guess I will pick it back up
BATMAN #13
Written by SCOTT SNYDER
Backup story written by SCOTT SNYDER and JAMES TYNION IV
Art by GREG CAPULLO and JONATHAN GLAPION
Backup story art by ANDY CLARKE
Cover by GREG CAPULLO
Variant cover by AARON KUDER
• The Joker returns in “DEATH OF THE FAMILY”!
• He crippled Batgirl. He killed Robin. What will The Joker do now that he’s returned to Gotham City?
• What must Batman do to protect his secret identity and that of those who fight alongside him?
Something else that will later be undone as part of a sales-boosting event?
Oh! I know! Maybe he will cripple Bruce, forcing characters to evolve and move forward, rather than orbit the same place forever.
Nope.
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Am I the only one who likes status quo? With Bruce Wayne being Batman? and with nothing ever really changing in comics? Every year they do these crossover events that are supposed to shake up the world, and when they actually do, it usually sucks.
Personally, I like it when the stories can evolve in a way that makes sense. I like heroes passing on their mantles to a younger generation, too. There's something about history and legacy that is appealing to me.
I only pulled that book for Robinson & Tan. I like giffen, and I normally keep pulling titles when he takes over, but I really don't care about he-man at all.
I am torn.
I wonder if this is because Giffen had to write... something in order to get paid/stay at DC after being pushed off Superman. Just like how Jurgens is getting Firestorm. These are probably just short term assignments until they can find something more permanent for them.
Such a bummer. I wanted my weird, epic story-binding He-Man book.
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I don't know if this belongs here, but here we go...
I'm confused. I know there are several versions of the Legion of Superheroes, and I am confused about which Legion is which. I have a graphic novel called Foundations. Then I have the first 15 or so issues of the Legion reboot where the future hates kids and they're fighting the powa. That one had some good ideas, but I hated the characterization of some of the heroes. There was Legionnaires. Then there was another series that started with a number one and I assume had to be the one prior to the current series. Now the current one is picking up where the previous series left off, or where the original series did? Where do all these fit in the timeline and which is "real" at this point (other than the current series?)
I knwo the current series is supposed to be continuing from a prev continuity, but I am unsure which one, or if they've all been merged at this point.
Before anything else, I'm going to recommend checking out the book Teenagers From The Future: Essays on the Legion of Super-Heroes. Only $5 for the Kindle version gets you essays from guys like Matt Fraction and Chris Sims all about what makes the Legion so interesting.
Okay, so there have been four different versions of the Legion. You have the original Legion, which maintained its own continuity from 1958 all the way to 1994. The second Legion (the "Reboot Legion") lasted from 1994 to 2004, the third Legion (the "Threeboot Legion") only lasted from 2004 to 2007, and the fourth Legion (the "Deboot* Legion") has been going from 2007 to the present.
The Legion: Foundations is a book that collects adventures from the second version of the Legion that came into being after the 1994 Zero Hour reboot. Legionnaires is a bit more tricky since there were books with that title in both the original and the second Legion. The current Legion stories are just continuations of the fourth Legion that started in 2007.
Probably the easiest way to tell the Legions apart is to look at Brainiac 5, who shows up in all of them. Does he have silver things on his face? You're looking at the Reboot Legion. Does he have short hair? You're looking at the Threeboot Legion. Does he have long hair? You're looking at the Deboot Legion.
*"Deboot" is used to refer to the new continuity being made to closely resemble the original Legion's continuity, but not exactly.
geez, give the guy a raygun or something
that sure looks like a normal pistol, which won't do a goddamn thing to almost anything a green lantern is likely to fight
So, Johns re-iterated that Aquaman is gonna shake-up the League as an organization in the end of the Graves storyline, and will make some people leave the team.
I'm betting he kills Graves.
Billy Batson will be meeting the Wizard in Justice League 0 and will join the League following the Cheetah 2-parter.
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I think that would be great. A fun, adventurous Wonder Woman that embraces the superhero silliness could be great, and really revitalise the character
That's fairly close to how Johns has been playing her in Justice League.
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Gene Ha is drawing Fables for an issue, that's nice.
I've started to lose interest in Animal Man and Swamp Thing. The rot story has gone on for too long now, I kind of want to see something more from Animal Man than always being on the run or in the Red, and Swamp Thing needs to bring something more beyond some creepy images every now and then. I'm pretty much down to only having a real interest about Batman, B&R, and Inc.
Something else that will later be undone as part of a sales-boosting event?
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some angel and the ape
now, dc, give me some detective chimp
who is the ideal creative team in this scenario
Oh! I know! Maybe he will cripple Bruce, forcing characters to evolve and move forward, rather than orbit the same place forever.
Nope.
Have you been reading the new Batman Beyond and Justice League Beyond books? Pure freaking gold.
Yes
But I think it's the justice league of the future where they are being rather awkward with
seriously
one goddamn issue
this is ridiculous
And Phillip Tan needed two inkers who had to split the pages between them.
The thing feels like a last minute put together for some joint licensing thing, IDW needs to teach them how to make it work.
I only pulled that book for Robinson & Tan. I like giffen, and I normally keep pulling titles when he takes over, but I really don't care about he-man at all.
I am torn.
I wonder if this is because Giffen had to write... something in order to get paid/stay at DC after being pushed off Superman. Just like how Jurgens is getting Firestorm. These are probably just short term assignments until they can find something more permanent for them.
Such a bummer. I wanted my weird, epic story-binding He-Man book.
I'm confused. I know there are several versions of the Legion of Superheroes, and I am confused about which Legion is which. I have a graphic novel called Foundations. Then I have the first 15 or so issues of the Legion reboot where the future hates kids and they're fighting the powa. That one had some good ideas, but I hated the characterization of some of the heroes. There was Legionnaires. Then there was another series that started with a number one and I assume had to be the one prior to the current series. Now the current one is picking up where the previous series left off, or where the original series did? Where do all these fit in the timeline and which is "real" at this point (other than the current series?)
I knwo the current series is supposed to be continuing from a prev continuity, but I am unsure which one, or if they've all been merged at this point.
Okay, so there have been four different versions of the Legion. You have the original Legion, which maintained its own continuity from 1958 all the way to 1994. The second Legion (the "Reboot Legion") lasted from 1994 to 2004, the third Legion (the "Threeboot Legion") only lasted from 2004 to 2007, and the fourth Legion (the "Deboot* Legion") has been going from 2007 to the present.
The Legion: Foundations is a book that collects adventures from the second version of the Legion that came into being after the 1994 Zero Hour reboot. Legionnaires is a bit more tricky since there were books with that title in both the original and the second Legion. The current Legion stories are just continuations of the fourth Legion that started in 2007.
Probably the easiest way to tell the Legions apart is to look at Brainiac 5, who shows up in all of them. Does he have silver things on his face? You're looking at the Reboot Legion. Does he have short hair? You're looking at the Threeboot Legion. Does he have long hair? You're looking at the Deboot Legion.
*"Deboot" is used to refer to the new continuity being made to closely resemble the original Legion's continuity, but not exactly.
Unless we're talking some kind of prequel.
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There's more info over in the Vertigo thread if you're curious.
Shazam will be joining the Justice League in 2013, and Black Adam will be playing a role in the coming months.
Aquaman is sick of the Justice League acting like a bunch of individuals and not an actual team and is gonna call them out on it
The new GL keeps a gun handy in case his ring runs out of juice, apparently
which I would say is a stupid excuse but uh
that does happen a fair amount
also i can't see it not feeling out of place in a story
that sure looks like a normal pistol, which won't do a goddamn thing to almost anything a green lantern is likely to fight
And the big problem with your ring running out of power would be getting stranded in the middle of outer space.
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I'm betting he kills Graves.
Billy Batson will be meeting the Wizard in Justice League 0 and will join the League following the Cheetah 2-parter.
those are quite possibly the least enthusiastic critical quotes I've ever seen
also Batman: Earth One vol. 2 is already being worked on
so expect it in, what, 4 years?