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The Nu DCU - TODAY WE MOURN OMAC... ALSO, SOME NEWS (pg. 59)
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He also references a 2009 Stephen King novel.
Speaking of Action #7 why the hell was there so much focus on the bartender?
It's been kinda hinted that he is Mister Mxyzptlk.
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First thing I noticed was Batman holding a Three-eyed skull. I'm guessing that's connected to the skull badge with 3 eyes from JLA #7 we've all been wondering about?
Maybe they want Despero to be a badass in the DCnU?
P.S. I can't help but laugh every time I see Howard Chaykin's name, because in Russian, "Chaykin" means "seagull's".
Altogether, it's pretty weak. Composition-wise. The face in the left side is dominating the image but the composition is still trying make Superman the focus, and it doesn't work.
Then there's that whole thing with Wonderwoman spinning her lasso behind her, which...no.
Maybe I'm funny, but I don't think of people with guns when it comes to mainstream DC.
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Oh, I wouldn't call it bland. It's aggressively terrible. The composition is terribly boring, Superman's back is broken about where his ribcage starts and both of his shoulders are dilocated, Wonder Woman's lasso looks ridiculous, Batman's cape is stretched so tightly it's obvious he's been pinned to the floor by it, SUperman's suit has folds despite being some kind of armour, oh, and everyone knows that lots of unnecessary lines and horrible pen scratches make something good, right?
Yeah, i think that cover would qualify as "awful." "Abominable" might even be appropriate.
was super dumb
Morrison is terrible about writing things with
We need to shut off the internet! All of it!
Watching from the sideline it kind of feels like the bloom is off the rose in terms of Morrison and Superman, with the fill-ins and confusing storylines.
It's still Grade A quality Morrison world building.
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Making Darkseid's internet invasion seem dumb, when with the right framing it would make total sense. The rest of it follows that logic.
And then to counterpoint it, David Uzumeri takes the position that JL has good characterization. It's shorter than Sims article and feels a bit like it was someone on the staff who had to write a positive thing about it less DC get upset with CA. The main point of his argument is that Johns is character first instead of theme first with this book, although when he starts to list it, it's the themes that stand out the most (alien invasion, no one trusts the heroes, father issues, etc). It doesn't focus on the story given but rather on the potential of future stories, which doesn't seem like a fair thing to judge a comic by, as though nothing but positive encouragement is allowed.
It was more complex than that. Had you read the explanation on McDaniel's blog? According to him editorially was paying very close attention to everything and didn't do a damn thing about it. He was very vague on why Rozum was late, as well. Though Rozum should have left, at least temporarily, if he was too busy. Then he plotted the first few issues behind Rozum's back with the editor after they had a falling out which lead to him scripting the issues. All without telling Rozum shit. Any writer would be pissed at that. Then he kept adding new stuff while Rozum was on time with his scripts. It didn't help that the editor played favorites with McDaniel during the whole process.
I presumed it wasn't literal. That whichever planet he started on he sprang from their version of the internet.
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He straight up says "I am the internet."
Superman's armor does fold! We just saw it's super-cloth in Action #7!
On Morrison: Honestly Action so far has been pretty great. As someone new to Superman, the Kubert issues were really good for issuing a call about the wonder and majesty that is Superman. There's been something kind of confusing in every one, but that's kind of Morrison's sprawling style and that's cool.
You know, I'm not sure the fill-ins were fill-ins. If it wasn't for that recursion to Clark's sense of wonder, his choice in #7 would make no sense at all.
I did think Batman running off to save Superman was really goofy.
The only issue I had was Bruce sprinting through Washington without the cowl on like no one could see, but that was pretty obviously Lee forcing a good image.
So bad I have to laugh. Glad I gave up on AC's when I did.
I'd definitely call Johns' a writer who does theme's first, characters second. Except when he was writing pre-Green Lantern.
Oh jeeze, even if he did mean it literally it was far from bad.
There can be something bad about a comic and have it still be good.
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Yeah. I guess the idea was supposed to be Batman realizes he needed a big gesture to get GL to do what he asked but it felt pretty weird.
Then when he jumps back out of the portal Cyborg opened he just has the thing again. What does he carry extra?
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For some reason, I assumed it was because he wanted a Parademon to come by and drag him away to the tower like it would a normal citizen. If the parademon saw a guy in a mask and a cape, he'd register it as "one of those guys we'd been fighting" and attack, instead of carrying him off with no extra precautions. Thus why Batman removed the symbol on his chest too.
GL being there was just a consequence of the immediate surroundings, I thought. Get in the grand gesture as icing.
Not really sure why I thought it was all that, since nothing explicitly spells that out, but that was how I read it the first time.
Hang on, Batman never explicitly stated why he unmasked himself to the Justice League? o_O
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Man, that fills in so many blanks.
Thank you. I got that he was trying to pep Hal by showing him they all needed to step up, and that they all had more in common than they think, but I totally did not get the bat symbol thing at all.
Justice League was really flawed, by Sims went so far as to call it everything wrong with comics? No way, José.
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But that would mean spending money on JLA.
Oh hey, OMAC was pretty good this week.
I'm not sure how I feel about putting characters from Kamandi, into the present day, though. Like, this book's already using a bunch of the tertiary New Gods stuff. And while it's fun, I think I'd rather have someone more creative than Dan Didio re-introducing and re-interpreting all of Kirby's old stuff.
Still, taken by itself, it was a fun comic. I appreciated Kevin Kho's resigned attitude, regarding the weird crap that's constantly thrown at him.
"Talking animals. Sure. Why not?"
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