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DC Comics Thread! Titans out this week!

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Out of that big promo image the characters that aren't revealed as part of any ongoings right now are:
    Etrigan
    Zatanna
    Martian Manhunter
    Vixen
    Bumblebee
    The Marvel Family
    Firestorm
    The Atom
    And whoever that dude on the far left in the yellow shirt is

    Etrigan and Zatanna will probably show up in Hellblazer

    No real clue where the others will be

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  • ArmorocArmoroc Registered User regular
    The Atom (Ray Palmer) was a Batman/Superman supporting character for a bit under Greg Pak. He could possibly be used in one of the team books, but I guess you could say that for any one of those characters too :?

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Armoroc wrote: »
    The Atom (Ray Palmer) was a Batman/Superman supporting character for a bit under Greg Pak. He could possibly be used in one of the team books, but I guess you could say that for any one of those characters too :?
    Well
    Its actually Ryan Choi, one of the stories in Rebirth has him giving Choi the suit via a message telling Ryan that he is stuck in the microverse

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  • Dizzy DDizzy D NetherlandsRegistered User regular
    Still no Legion? Aw...

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Dizzy D wrote: »
    Still no Legion? Aw...
    Rebirth stuff
    There is a woman who is being questioned by the police asking for Superman, she's told he died and says she will wait for him to come back.

    They ask her if she's nuts or joking.

    "No, it's okay. I've seen the future."

    When they picked her up she only had one possession: a Legion flight ring.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    According to Brett Booth and Mark Waid
    Wally will still be The Flash, he won't have a new name to go with the costume

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    legion of superheroes, along with young justice, were my late 90s growing-up comics

    i've

    i've been hurt so many times

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Rebirth is up on Comixology so I bought it

    Pretty much everything is out in the wild already but it was very, very good.

    The only actively stupid New 52-feeling thing in it was
    the scene with Grail that ties into Baby Darkseid and the Darkseid War
    everything else is super well done and feels more like the DC I know and like than anything I've read for a while from them.

    The highlight is
    the scene where Barry remembers Wally and saves him from the Speed Force. It is legitimately super moving and heartwarming.

    The BIG SURPRISE was handled pretty dang well, I think
    Pandora is killed in a visually identical way to Rorschach while screaming at an odf-screen Manhattan who evidently created her to serve as a scape goat for his experiments and how the heroism and hope of the DC Heroes will overcome him in the end.

    The scene with Batman finding the pin doesn't feel as cheesy as I expected and gradually shifts into the 3x3 Watchmen panel style in a very slick way

    And finally the epilogue with the watch on Mars and the "Nothing ever ends." quote was beautifully done.

    Highly, highly recommend checking it out. Its 3 bucks for 80 pages, chances are you'll see something you will dig.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited May 2016
    Here's my favorite sequence. Its a few pages longer than normal in terms of what we typically allow but it is also from an 80 page comic as opposed to a 22 page one.
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    BlankZoe on
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  • UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Here's my favorite sequence. Its a few pages longer than normal in terms of what we typically allow but it is also from an 80 page comic as opposed to a 22 page one.
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    http://youtu.be/-pVT_mvvZLo

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited May 2016
    Fearghaill wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Here's my favorite sequence. Its a few pages longer than normal in terms of what we typically allow but it is also from an 80 page comic as opposed to a 22 page one.
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    http://youtu.be/-pVT_mvvZLo
    The part that really hit home for me was after reading an interview with Johns
    where he says Wally West is his favorite character and that he had his friend smuggle in the first issue of Wally's Flash run while he was grounded as a kid and has been wanting to bring him back for ages

    So the "How could I ever forget you" is from both Johns and Barry, really

    BlankZoe on
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  • Dizzy DDizzy D NetherlandsRegistered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Here's my favorite sequence. Its a few pages longer than normal in terms of what we typically allow but it is also from an 80 page comic as opposed to a 22 page one.
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    And then they make out..



    (Not Sorry)

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Fearghaill wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Here's my favorite sequence. Its a few pages longer than normal in terms of what we typically allow but it is also from an 80 page comic as opposed to a 22 page one.
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    http://youtu.be/-pVT_mvvZLo
    The part that really hit home for me was after reading an interview with Johns
    where he says Wally West is his favorite character and that he had his friend snuggle in the first issue of Wally's Flash run while he was grounded as a kid and has been wanting to bring him back for ages

    So the "How could I ever forget you" is from both Johns and Barry, really

    Heh, snuggle in.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    aw jeez, Geoff

    Reading through Rebirth now, it's actually broken into chapters addressing thematically various things DC has done wrong
    Chapter 2 is actually called Legacy, bringing back legacy heroes erased in New52 (Ryan Choi, Aqualad, Jaime Reyes) teasing some others (Damian's 13th birthday cake, Jessica Cruz expressing skepticism about teaming up with "the Green Lantern that carries a gun", and Wally telling an elderly Johnny Quick to find the Justice Society.

    But it's Chapter 3 that's choking me up so far
    titled "Love", it's all about undoing DCs silly restriction on superheroes having marriages and families. It opens with Green Arrow and Black Canary seeing each other and feeling a connection, like something was missing from their lives, to Dad Clark at a motel with Lois and Jonathan, to Aquaman proposing to Mera on the beach where they first met.

    oh man, the scans Blank posted hit even harder when read in context with the rest of the issue, fuck

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Yeah, with him leaning into his worst tendencies for quite some time it is easy to forget Geoff Johns got his spot in DC Comics by being a pretty goddamn good writer

    And he writes the holy bejeezus out of this issue

    His raw passion for DC and everything it should be shines through in basically every page

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  • UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    oh my god I just realized something. Rebirth warns the reader that it takes place after the events of the last issues of Justice League and Superman, so those should be read first

    the number of the final pre-Rebirth issue of Superman?

    # 52

    Well played, DiDio

    Well played.

  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    Fearghaill wrote: »
    oh my god I just realized something. Rebirth warns the reader that it takes place after the events of the last issues of Justice League and Superman, so those should be read first

    the number of the final pre-Rebirth issue of Superman?

    # 52

    Well played, DiDio

    Well played.
    That's a line-wide thing that they're doing, actually.

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  • UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    Sorce wrote: »
    Fearghaill wrote: »
    oh my god I just realized something. Rebirth warns the reader that it takes place after the events of the last issues of Justice League and Superman, so those should be read first

    the number of the final pre-Rebirth issue of Superman?

    # 52

    Well played, DiDio

    Well played.
    That's a line-wide thing that they're doing, actually.

    well, the flagship titles at least. It makes me more willing to accept that this might not be just a response to criticism of the New 52 (at the very least it might have been a backup plan if the reboot flopped). New 52 being 52 issues long could be a coincidence, but it lines up so well that I am willing to consider the possibility that this was planned 4-5 years in advance.

  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Is this seriously a good week for DC and a bad one for Marvel? What is happening

  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Batman, Green Arrow, Green Lanterns, and Superman all relaunch next week

    The solicit sure makes it sound like the Batman one is off on the right-est foot imaginable
    Calendar Man is the main villain!

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    I'm gonna check out Superman and Batman for sure

    GL is Humphries so pass and GA is the same current writer of GA which has had middling response

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Will Batman, Inc return

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Will Batman, Inc return
    No but Detective Comics is a Bat-Family title starring Batman, Tim Drake, Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown, Batwoman and, surprise New member, Clayface.

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  • UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    Will Batman, Inc return

    Not exactly, but Detective Comics is going to be about Batman and Batwoman (who are being billed as series costars) gathering all of the younger Bat-affiliated heroes in Gotham to train them. The cover they showed has Batman, Batwoman, Stephanie Brown as Spoiler, Cass Cain, and Tim Drake on it, and Azrael has been mentioned in one of the press releases.

  • UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    so ghosted, dang

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    B)

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Will Batman, Inc return
    No but Detective Comics is a Bat-Family title starring Batman, Tim Drake, Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown, Batwoman and, surprise New member, Clayface.

    Clayface as a hero, huh

    Well now I gotta look into that

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    where's detective edward nigma

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    where's detective edward nigma
    He forgot how to detect good
    Thanks Doctor Manhattan

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  • UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    where's detective edward nigma

    honestly it wouldn't surprise me if that came back too, the way Rebirth appears to be a conscious effort to make things right

  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    I think what proves to me that Batman has the best stable of villains in comics is all his villains are also great as heroes

    Except for like, the Joker, basically all of the major Batman villains have had turns as heroes

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    @Fearghaill how did you like the final scenes of Rebirth? Like everything from that Batman scene onward

    I thought it was slick as hell

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Fearghaill wrote: »
    where's detective edward nigma

    honestly it wouldn't surprise me if that came back too, the way Rebirth appears to be a conscious effort to make things right

    i fractured my fingers crossing them so hard

  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    I'm gonna check out Superman and Batman for sure

    GL is Humphries so pass and GA is the same current writer of GA which has had middling response

    Yeah but Green Arrow has Black Canary and the return of Ollie's goatee.

  • DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    I've been out of the DC game for a couple of years, and haven't kept up at all with what was going on in there, but you folks are making me really interested in Rebirth. I'm curious: how much will I get out of this comic? Meaning, will the emotional payoff still be good if I don't know who half the New 52 characters are or what they've been up to of late?

    I mean, I'm gonna get the comic anyway, and I don't need four years of continuity to grin like an idiot at those Flash scenes that were posted earlier. Just idle curiosity, I guess.

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Delduwath wrote: »
    I've been out of the DC game for a couple of years, and haven't kept up at all with what was going on in there, but you folks are making me really interested in Rebirth. I'm curious: how much will I get out of this comic? Meaning, will the emotional payoff still be good if I don't know who half the New 52 characters are or what they've been up to of late?

    I mean, I'm gonna get the comic anyway, and I don't need four years of continuity to grin like an idiot at those Flash scenes that were posted earlier. Just idle curiosity, I guess.
    It will be 90% understandable and enjoyable if you know the New 52 was not good and was very dark

    There's a couple of scenes that directly reference recent storylines in unclear ways but the book itself is wholly enjoyable

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  • FCDFCD Registered User regular
    legion of superheroes, along with young justice, were my late 90s growing-up comics

    i've

    i've been hurt so many times

    Back in the day, the post-Zero Hour Legion was my jam. I'm right there with ya.

    Gridman! Baby DAN DAN! Baby DAN DAN!
  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    Rebirth:
    I like how they explained the two Wally Wests are actually cousins named after the same great grandfather and not doppelgangers. It gives the newer Wally more room as a character and clears up any weirdness there might be between them.

  • UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    Keith wrote: »
    Rebirth:
    I like how they explained the two Wally Wests are actually cousins named after the same great grandfather and not doppelgangers. It gives the newer Wally more room as a character and clears up any weirdness there might be between them.

    yeah, that was handled really well. as for Blank's question about the last few scenes
    I feel like I'm missing something from having not read Flashpoint, or at least I assume that's where the letter from his father came from? The significance of the letter was lost on me, and if that helps explain why the Comedian's pin was in the Batcave then that scene would probably work better. Wally's narration during that still totally worked for me though as far as setting the new DC mission statement, and then the epilogue on Mars was well done.

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