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MOTW 7/27/11: It Means A Safe Place For Goats!
TexiKen
Dammit!That fish really got me!Registered User regular
Dammit!That fish really got me!Registered User regular
Detective #880, it sucks that the last issue is next month, because I can't say enough good things about the story.
Barbara Gordon (not Oracle, Jim's ex-wife) got infected with Joker Toxin, everyone's freaking out, and Dick finds Joker:
it was James who poisoned his own mother, and the last page is him right behind Babs choking her.
X-Men Schism #2, I think it lost me this issue, but I'll put that in the X-Men thread (it basically boils down to more super smart kids, only jacked up to an insane degree). But here seems to be the first split between Cyclops and Wolverine:
Quire arrives on Utopia requesting Asylum. And then Steve Rogers calls Scott looking for him:
Barbara Gordon (not Oracle, Jim's ex-wife) got infected with Joker Toxin, everyone's freaking out, and Dick finds Joker:
it was James who poisoned his own mother, and the last page is him right behind Babs choking her.
X-Men Schism #2, I think it lost me this issue, but I'll put that in the X-Men thread (it basically boils down to more super smart kids, only jacked up to an insane degree). But here seems to be the first split between Cyclops and Wolverine:
Quire arrives on Utopia requesting Asylum. And then Steve Rogers calls Scott looking for him:
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I normally love his art but man, that is a terrible cyclops
Give Quire some red hair and freckles and he'd pass as kin to Alfred E. Neuman.
I half expect him to throw out his catch phrase in a future issue.
Once again, no scans, just the spoiler.
Sort of over the top with the gore, but it explains Flashpoint Krypto's fate a bit more. Also, they imply that Supergirl's rocket was faulty, and that she completely burnt up on entry.
Action Comics 903 almost immediately lost a lot of that momentum, but regained some of it in a very literal sense
So. Fucking. Awesome.
It also has cameos from almost every team in the DCU, but unfortunately a lot of them make literally 0 sense in continuity. And shamefully Cornell tries to make Superman so awesome for the rest of the book that the plotting makes no sense either, and boils down to nothing but "I'm Superman so I already know your plan."
That is horrifying. Are they trying to outdo Ultimatum for stupid and disgusting comics?
Also, it's used primarily to push Kal into turning against his captors. So he can release freaky dude whose name I can't recall at the moment.
Not that you wouldn't be able to tell with the treatment of Kal and all the messed up experiments they have been doing in that place.
It is a wild animal that has been experimented on and likely tortured
That is you reading into it outside of what happens in the story.
It is a story about Superman being a government test subject, Krypto being a abused savage dog lines up with that and is not pointless at all.
Other than that, I thought it was very good, a big step up from the first issue, the way the whole issue focuses around
If only they keep up more of that, and less of Zero, I think I could end up calling this mini one of the two best coming out Flashpoint. Because Zero is rather Cliched, so having him as the veiwpoint character takes away from the more interesting moments, like the
that is your taste, which is fine
but it isn't pointless and had nothing to do with the silver age
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
They never said Krypto was going away forever. It is just fans whining because he hasn't been in the first two issues of a brand new universe
Hell Johns even said he needed to check on the status of Krypto cause he wanted to use him in the Dex-Starr Valentine's Special
I wouldn't mind seeing that. Did he mention any other DC-animals for the Special?
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Seriously, the context of it being a temporarily alternate universe takes a lot of the potential disgust away. It's not like Krypto is an evil dog and murders children. He was clearly being manipulated by Subject Zero.
Sorry, those cats are normal, non super, earth cats. Suppose one of them could be a green lantern. Or some other color.
"Son of a bitch is gonna go break his girl outta jail."
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Flashpoint just seems to be at the point where yes, everything is bad compared to normal, but they are pushing it up to such a degree with the darkness that it's not making me really care. Hell, let Krypto kill everyone, they all seem to be jerks anyway. Compared to something like Age of Apocalypse, that world seems less messed up than here, even counting that Generation Next mini. I think Cyborg is the only genuine good guy so far in the book outside of Barry. And maybe that Alexandra girl from Booster Gold? I fully expect Captain Thunder to have some hidden sadistic streak in him in Flashpoint #4 just to let us know this isn't our Captain Marvel.
Tell me more. I'm super-excited about it, but an interview I read recently suggests that the paperback will have a lot of material that they couldn't fit into the hardcover, so I'm thinking I'll wait for that. How's the book in general, though?
I ripped through it in two days which was a bit much Morrison all at once. It was overall good, but the mix of analysis and memoir is odd, sometimes. On the other hand, he drills down on things like his dad's anti-war zines vs. Mom's sci fi with real emotional effectiveness.
Stuff like like the opening close read of superman's first appearance are really, really good. I think the bits about his epiphanies while parachuting on ayahuasca or the like will not be to every taste.
My only negative comment would be a general sense of "oh, I've read flex, read ASS, read a few interviews on each ... Lotta familiar stuff here."
I cannot wait to "know this guy", bring on FI: Monkey King. But at the same time, screw you Iron Man 2.0! Making me want an Immortal Weapons ongoing all over again.
Ooh, and Venom #5 was great, very little action but some really great character building.
Edit: I LIE! I should have waited 'til I read Secret Warriors 28. Cos that is totally my MOTW.
"They should raise it higher". Fuck yeah, Nick Fury.
However, the more I see of Danny Rand the more I want to read more. Any good collections out there?
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Read it.
Love it.