Guys this is not so much about the new DCU but more about just DC in general
Reading the new DC comics recently has made me really enjoy some of the characters and so on that I never really knew about before. When it comes to Marvel, I know of the series in the last few years that are really great and worth buying, like Immortal Iron Fist, Bendis and Brubaker (and now Waid!) on Daredevil, Incredible Hercules and so on.
And I was wondering, are there any equivalents to those great series from the DC side of things? I'm talking about stuff that I can collect in trade and is reasonably self-contained, that you think I will like. I already have Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Power Girl, Secret Six and Batgirl, as well as some of the Batman stuff (plus All-Star Supes), I just want to expand my DC comics collection somewhat and it seems like you guys might have an idea of what to get. I heard All-New Atom was good?
All-New Atom was good until Rick Remender took over writing duties; he's a good writer but the title was all wrong for him and the tonal shift was jarring as all get out.
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on Earth 2? that kills any interest i may have had in it. i hate the multiverse concept and thought COIE was a great thing. i won't buy or read any of DC's new books that take place on an officially numbered parallel earth. (specifically worded to head off any BUT ALL STAR SUPERMAN and other elsewords / alternative style stories comments)
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i guess someone else will have to confirm, i saw it in a review. i think it's supposed to be in the text at the end of the books that often serve as promotion or updates from DC. regardless, if it is true, it matters to me. i know it doesn't matter to other people.
on Earth 2? that kills any interest i may have had in it. i hate the multiverse concept and thought COIE was a great thing. i won't buy or read any of DC's new books that take place on an officially numbered parallel earth. (specifically worded to head off any BUT ALL STAR SUPERMAN and other elsewords / alternative style stories comments)
We know it has story connections to Birds of Prey and Mister Terrific, both of which are on Earth-1 or Earth-Prime or whatever everything else is on.
i guess someone else will have to confirm, i saw it in a review. i think it's supposed to be in the text at the end of the books that often serve as promotion or updates from DC. regardless, if it is true, it matters to me. i know it doesn't matter to other people.
Yeah, there's nothing in the book itself or in the promotion pages that talks about it at all. We know it has connections to the JSA who are going to be on Earth-2, but that's not the same as Helena herself being there.
i guess someone else will have to confirm, i saw it in a review. i think it's supposed to be in the text at the end of the books that often serve as promotion or updates from DC. regardless, if it is true, it matters to me. i know it doesn't matter to other people.
Yeah, there's nothing in the book itself or in the promotion pages that talks about it at all. We know it has connections to the JSA who are going to be on Earth-2, but that's not the same as Helena herself being there.
ah okay. concerns cautiously retracted for huntress, but i won't be supporting JSA for the same reasons.
Hey she's not wearing the shorts/bare abs outfit she normally does
I guess that's progress
Looking online apparently there is a moment in the book where she dresses in a sexy one piece, but it's while she is in her hotel room so I guess that's cool.
Actually the art for Huntress looks like it is really good, from what I've seen
Hey she's not wearing the shorts/bare abs outfit she normally does
I guess that's progress
Looking online apparently there is a moment in the book where she dresses in a sexy one piece, but it's while she is in her hotel room so I guess that's cool.
Actually the art for Huntress looks like it is really good, from what I've seen
It was sexy! Actually, that's one really nice point in its favour - there's a lot of the book where Helena's wandering around wearing actual suits and dresses like an actual woman who knows she's sexy, not just cheesecake boobs and butt.
For the teddy in question, she's actually hiring a prostitute.
Hey she's not wearing the shorts/bare abs outfit she normally does
I guess that's progress
Looking online apparently there is a moment in the book where she dresses in a sexy one piece, but it's while she is in her hotel room so I guess that's cool.
Actually the art for Huntress looks like it is really good, from what I've seen
It was sexy! Actually, that's one really nice point in its favour - there's a lot of the book where Helena's wandering around wearing actual suits and dresses like an actual woman who knows she's sexy, not just cheesecake boobs and butt.
For the teddy in question, she's actually hiring a prostitute.
S-She hires a prostitute?!? Is that a thing she does these days? Or are there mitigating circumstances?
This made me flash back to Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol, which had a Punisher parody called the Beard Hunter.
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Huntress
She does it to get a lead on the local crime consortium after she finds they're trafficking sex slaves. The most physical thing Helena does to her is knock the girl out with a nerve pinch and put her literally in bed while she deals with some mooks.
She does it to get a lead on the local crime consortium after she finds they're trafficking sex slaves. The most physical thing Helena does to her is knock the girl out with a nerve pinch and put her literally in bed while she deals with some mooks.
She does it to get a lead on the local crime consortium after she finds they're trafficking sex slaves. The most physical thing Helena does to her is knock the girl out with a nerve pinch and put her literally in bed while she deals with some mooks.
Oh
That seems pretty reasonable!
Yeah, she only has random sex with like three people. I hardly even caught it.
The Huntress mini sounds pretty awesome. I may have to check that out digitally or pick up the trade.
The Tie-in to Mr. Terrific, and the essential admission that Mr. Terrific will in fact be part of the lead-in to JSA, unfortunately has me very curious to keep picking that book up, though.
DC, you have so many wonderful minority heroes in this launch, but why are so many of them written like soggy boots?
In JLI #2 Guy and Tora have only been on a few dates. Shenanigans. Shenanigans.
And Detective Comics #2 Daniel kept his classy ways by having
James Gordon's face be taken off and replaced with pieces of other people's faces.
how are they going to fix all this when everything is done
ummm are you sure that is gordon,
1> he didnt get to the place until after batman entered (unless being drugged whacked on the back of the head let him go unconscious, which wasnt mentioned but could be possible
2> additionally the guy they tossed there is wearing gloves. makes me suspect it is someone else who is currently faceless, although isnt gordon shorter than a 6'4" maniacal clown?
This was an interesting week for me. First of all, I'm very, very conflicted on Animal Man and Swamp Thing. It's very clear that these are good, interesting stories, and I really want to keep reading them to see where it all goes. On the other hand - and this will probably cause some ridicule - I'm not sure I want to read comics that have graphic images like
rotting animal corpses resurrected from the dead, monstrous creatures flaying skin from humans, hideous avatars of pestilence all walkin' around, and so on
. I don't know, maybe I'm just being overly soft. And, it's not like all that stuff is thematically inappropriate (although maybe the graphicness of it is). I just... when I finished reading those two comics, the first thought in my head was "I'm not sure I want to read these anymore". It wasn't like I was disgusted or morally outraged or whatever by these images; I just don't want to look at them. This makes me very upset, because (1) I want to read the stories, even if I don't want to look at the images, and (2) I want to support these books. Also, because I feel like I'm somehow being unfair or unreasonable.
This is why I stopped reading Scalped. I caught up in trades, but I don't care how good a book is if I feel like shit after reading it. I hate the horror genre, whereas that book involves material I am deep into. So I figure I'll read the trades and see how that goes.
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She does it to get a lead on the local crime consortium after she finds they're trafficking sex slaves. The most physical thing Helena does to her is knock the girl out with a nerve pinch and put her literally in bed while she deals with some mooks.
Oh
That seems pretty reasonable!
Yeah, she only has random sex with like three people. I hardly even caught it.
Also, next issue we find out they were robot foot soldiers.
Here's how you can tell, most of the time, if the sexiness in a book is cheap and dumb: Are they posed in an absurd over-the-top way? Does it break the fourth wall in yelling "look at how hot this drawing is?" Huntress does neither of these.
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Reading the new DC comics recently has made me really enjoy some of the characters and so on that I never really knew about before. When it comes to Marvel, I know of the series in the last few years that are really great and worth buying, like Immortal Iron Fist, Bendis and Brubaker (and now Waid!) on Daredevil, Incredible Hercules and so on.
And I was wondering, are there any equivalents to those great series from the DC side of things? I'm talking about stuff that I can collect in trade and is reasonably self-contained, that you think I will like. I already have Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Power Girl, Secret Six and Batgirl, as well as some of the Batman stuff (plus All-Star Supes), I just want to expand my DC comics collection somewhat and it seems like you guys might have an idea of what to get. I heard All-New Atom was good?
Yes. Please. More Huntress.
Spoiler'd just in case?
Batwing continues to be a great world building exercise, if nothing else.
I simply cannot understand the JLI hate: it's got a very 90s team book feel to it in a good way.
And animal man, swamp thing and omac were great.
And yeah, Men of War is looking mighty good too.
so good
I want to be Helena when I grow up now : D
I guess that's progress
Nobody here is, but other places have not held it in high regard.
Also, Rock may be more important to the DCnU than previously realized.
It was still gorgeous, though
Looking online apparently there is a moment in the book where she dresses in a sexy one piece, but it's while she is in her hotel room so I guess that's cool.
Actually the art for Huntress looks like it is really good, from what I've seen
STOP IT STOP IT STOP IIIIIIT
It was sexy! Actually, that's one really nice point in its favour - there's a lot of the book where Helena's wandering around wearing actual suits and dresses like an actual woman who knows she's sexy, not just cheesecake boobs and butt.
Book wildly successful, highlights include characterization of Bearded Wonder Woman, Martin Beardhunter
This made me flash back to Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol, which had a Punisher parody called the Beard Hunter.
Oh
That seems pretty reasonable!
The Tie-in to Mr. Terrific, and the essential admission that Mr. Terrific will in fact be part of the lead-in to JSA, unfortunately has me very curious to keep picking that book up, though.
DC, you have so many wonderful minority heroes in this launch, but why are so many of them written like soggy boots?
1> he didnt get to the place until after batman entered (unless being drugged whacked on the back of the head let him go unconscious, which wasnt mentioned but could be possible
2> additionally the guy they tossed there is wearing gloves. makes me suspect it is someone else who is currently faceless, although isnt gordon shorter than a 6'4" maniacal clown?
This is why I stopped reading Scalped. I caught up in trades, but I don't care how good a book is if I feel like shit after reading it. I hate the horror genre, whereas that book involves material I am deep into. So I figure I'll read the trades and see how that goes.
She doesn't?
For real, though, this is how to handle a female character. Sexy, but not SEX.
yet
Plus, Batman Begins taught me that blowing things up doesn't kill people
They were safely blown into a pillow and mattress factory.
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Here's how you can tell, most of the time, if the sexiness in a book is cheap and dumb: Are they posed in an absurd over-the-top way? Does it break the fourth wall in yelling "look at how hot this drawing is?" Huntress does neither of these.