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The DC Thread: How many Crises is Too Many?

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I don't consider Catwoman to be a dark character, really. She's more like a playful swashbuckler type.

    Manhunter, Huntress, or that woman from Checkmate would be dark.

    Also, I wonder which Wonder Woman he's dating.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Wonder Tot

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  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Jimmy Olsen back-up story to finish up in one-shot after back-ups are axed

    And there might be an Atom ongoing for Lemire to write.

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  • jkylefultonjkylefulton Squid...or Kid? NNID - majpellRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Krul said "Green Arrow" would soon see the resolution of the Queen storyarc, then move into "Who is Black Arrow?" "Green Arrow's needed a nemesis for a while, and this will set that up," Krul said.

    Colored Arrow Corps Inc. Krul still has it.

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  • MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Isn't Merlyn basically Black Arrow?

    Why not bring back the Red Dart? At least he'd be a little different. Morrison even introduced a new one in his JLA run.

    Really, Ollie has such a woefully undeveloped Rogues Gallery that it's not even funny. I still can't believe they killed Brick, one of the few really cool things to come out of Winick's run.

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  • NinjabearNinjabear Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Ollie has a rogues gallery?

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  • Caveman PawsCaveman Paws Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Green Arrow's future Rogues Gallery leaked:

    The Human Bullseye

    The Fletcher

    The Bower

    The Shaft

    The Arrow-Head

    The Sheriff of Nottingham

    Kevin Costner

    A Windy Day Man

    Broken Arrow

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Green Arrow's future Rogues Gallery leaked:

    The Human Bullseye

    The Fletcher

    The Bower

    The Shaft

    The Arrow-Head

    The Sheriff of Nottingham

    Kevin Costner

    A Windy Day Man

    Broken Arrow

    This is the best post.

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  • LuxLux Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Even more archers for Ollie to fight. I guess if you're an evil guy, but really good at archery, you can't decide to pick on the super strongmen or the flyers or the people with lasers coming out of their eyes. There are only so few heroes you can be a real menace to.

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  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I guess whichever villain decides to just bring some guns and become a GA villain would actually have an advantage. This is the key flaw in being an archer superhero, exploit it.

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    It's not like he only uses arrows. When trick arrows are allowed, you're technically allowed to use guns so long as they're attached to arrows.

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  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Generation Lost #11
    Nothing regarding Tora's new origin, but it looks like she almost died being beaten up by brainwashed Metal Men, then unleashed an inner power type thing.

    She's Super-Sayan Ice now.

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  • MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Huh, DC's using a new trade dress for all their comics in January.

    Oh, and apparently they hate me:
    Newsarama wrote:
    SHAZAM! #1

    Script by ERIC WALLACE
    Art by CLIFF RICHARDS
    Cover by CLIFF CHIANG
    Blaze, the current ruler of Hell, has an offer for Mary and Billy Batson that may be too good to pass up! Left powerless, will the two former heroes have the strength to deny the devil? Can Freddy Freeman save them? And how does the Titan Osiris fit into it all? Find out here, in this one-shot special written by Eric Wallace (TITANS) with art by Cliff Richards (THE ROAD HOME: BATMAN & ROBIN #1)!
    ONE-SHOT • On sale JANUARY 26 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US
    fffffffuck

    There's also a Steel one-shot which could be neat, but it's written by someone I've never heard of, and a Wonder Girl one-shot by DC Exclusive up-and-comer JT Krul.

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  • Futt BuckerFutt Bucker CTRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    My thought process as I read that:

    Oh nice, new Shazam stuff!
    Eric Wallace? That name seems famil- oh.
    Interest fading... fading... fading... gone.

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited October 2010
    at least Cliff Richards' art is great

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  • TurambarTurambar Independent Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
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  • Ronin356Ronin356 Nowhere MORegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Hardtarget wrote: »
    Post here about the General DC Universe such as the following Crises:

    Crisis on Infinite Earth Questions? Got nuts!
    Zero Hour: Crisis in Time question? Hell I haven't even heard of this one but somebody else has!
    Identity Crisis Question? Post em!
    Infinite Crisis Questions? Post those too!
    Final Crisis question? I have some of those!

    Or use this thread for any other General DC conversation as we don't really have one and I keep putting questions into the current big DC megaevent thread.

    They are killing too many villians and then bringing them back. Death must is a joke in the DC universe.

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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
    edited October 2010
    Right now, I'm trying to figure out ho exactly Lex Luthor is going to outsmart death.

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  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Ronin356 wrote: »
    Death must is a joke in the DC universe.

    Yep.
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  • MastaPMastaP Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    Ronin356 wrote: »
    Death must is a joke in the DC universe.

    Yep.
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    Hey

    Hey

    Black Racer is the BEST Death.

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  • TeaSpoonTeaSpoon Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Wait, I thought the black part in Black Racer referred to the color, not to his race, him being the personification of Death and all.

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  • MastaPMastaP Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    TeaSpoon wrote: »
    Wait, I thought the black part in Black Racer referred to the color, not to his race, him being the personification of Death and all.

    His armor wasn't black until the 80's

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  • LuxLux Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I imagine they wanted to name a death-based character, "Black Racer" and someone decided, hey, we might as well make him black, too.

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  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    TeaSpoon wrote: »
    Wait, I thought the black part in Black Racer referred to the color, not to his race, him being the personification of Death and all.

    Ahahahahahaha.

    Next you'll say that Black Panther and Black Lightning are named after their theme.

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I read Infinite Crisis recently, and I don't really know what to think of it. it was pretty cool seeing multiverses and massive fights and loads of characters actally doing stuff rather than just hang around like in most Marvel events. I think I like how massively Cosmic the DC events are to be honest, and the whole Superboy Prime thing was very cool. Lots of people hate that character but I actually thought he made a great villain, basically a boy who had been cooped up too long and couldn't take the pressure. The big fights towards the end between him and Supermen/Green Lanterns were pretty great, something you don't get so much from Marvel as all-out combat between flying bricks is not something they really do.

    So yeah, I guess it was pretty cool.

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  • Silver_MageSilver_Mage Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Have you read the Crisis on Infitite Earths yet? I need to grab that one, and supposively it is great.

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  • Al BaronAl Baron Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    Ronin356 wrote: »
    Death must is a joke in the DC universe.

    Yep.
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  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Gaiman's Death is a classy lassy, but she still lets everyone come back. At least Nekron puts some effort in.

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Gaiman's Death is a classy lassy, but she still lets everyone come back. At least Nekron puts some effort in.

    Nekron's a bitch, Gaimen' death (and all the endless really) are where it's at. I particularly like Destiny, who is pretty aweseome with his cloak and book.

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  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Destiny isn't Gaiman's, he predates his work on DC, he just wove him into the Endless. Destruction is the best, Delirium sucks though.

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Destiny isn't Gaiman's, he predates his work on DC, he just wove him into the Endless. Destruction is the best, Delirium sucks though.

    Huh, didn't know that. I liked all the Endless, they were actually rather cool in that they were cosmic beings of immense power but also very relatable in their family arguments.

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Sure Delirium is like an idealized version of those lameass girls from high school who were really into Invader Zim, but she still has some good moments.

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  • Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Destiny isn't Gaiman's, he predates his work on DC, he just wove him into the Endless. Destruction is the best, Delirium sucks though.

    You suck.

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  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Its actually fascinating how black jeans and having them speak in a modern manner can make anthropomorphic personifications relatable. I'll always remember a series of panels in Sandman where Dream goes through different clothes as he thinks his life over, starting in some flowing robe, ending in him in a black wife beater and jeans looking like a university drop out after a bad acid trip.

    The only reason I disliked Del is because she was too sane for a thing that was all forms off mental illness at once. And indeed, her finest moment is in the garden at the end of Destiny's maze, where she pulls herself together and gives Dream a pep talk in a coherent manner. Thats Madness' best moment, not being mad.

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  • TeaSpoonTeaSpoon Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I like Delirium. At least, I like the concept of her.

    She was born as Delight, the anthropomorphic personification of joy and innocence, until she was driven insane by some unknown event. Or, you could also look at it differently. No one can remain innocent forever, not even the Endless. She grew up and is now stuck between childhood and adulthood. The world stopped being simple and became a mess of complexities and shades of gray, and she's simply unable to cope.

    In other words, she's a teenager. Someday she'll grow up and become something else beginning with D.

    She's already showing signs of this. She pulled herself together when Destiny was bullying Dream. This happened in Brief Lives, in which Dream and Delirium was searching for Destruction, who also represents Change, as destruction is required for new things to grow. In the end, Dream was unable and/or unwilling to change and eventually died.

    Delirium, however, did not, since she is capable of changing herself.

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  • HadjiQuestHadjiQuest Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Have you read the Crisis on Infitite Earths yet? I need to grab that one, and supposively it is great.

    Yes.

    It is the best crossover I have ever read. Absolutely everything about it is fucking grand and awesome, and Perez's art and layouts (if he did those layouts himself) are really amazing and unlike anything seen in today's books, even in Perez's modern work. The cosmic story is just fucking awesome. Every issue has its own confined story, and most of the issues are oversized.

    Every comic fan owes it to themselves to read CoIE. The only bad thing about it is when they remastered the art in the mid 90s, they added this really ugly lens flare effect all over.

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    HadjiQuest wrote: »
    Have you read the Crisis on Infitite Earths yet? I need to grab that one, and supposively it is great.

    Yes.

    It is the best crossover I have ever read. Absolutely everything about it is fucking grand and awesome, and Perez's art and layouts (if he did those layouts himself) are really amazing and unlike anything seen in today's books, even in Perez's modern work. The cosmic story is just fucking awesome. Every issue has its own confined story, and most of the issues are oversized.

    Every comic fan owes it to themselves to read CoIE. The only bad thing about it is when they remastered the art in the mid 90s, they added this really ugly lens flare effect all over.

    Sounds like I might check that out.

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  • jkylefultonjkylefulton Squid...or Kid? NNID - majpellRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Have you read the Crisis on Infitite Earths yet? I need to grab that one, and supposively it is great.

    Great art, but the story is a total mess. Also, you'll be better off reading one of the newer collected volumes than reading the original issues - CoIE was used as a test case for a new coloring/printing process (at the time), and it looked horrid.

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  • wirehead26wirehead26 Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    You kinda have to be a hardcore DC follower to truly get what's going on in CoIE.

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  • jkylefultonjkylefulton Squid...or Kid? NNID - majpellRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Wolfman has lots of characters show up, stand around, and say "Where am I? What's going on?"

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