Give me an entire book about managing Haley's Circus and how hard it is to get people excited for the trapeze and the high wire in a world with flying aliens and actual fucking wizards
I don't have enough strong DC opinions to really go line wide. It would basically be all Superman books, Jack Kirby's DC stuff, and like weird stuff like Swamp Thing and Detective Chimp. And I guess a Batman book. People seem to like him.
But I would pitch the hell out of Lois Lane: Investigative Journalist. Just about what that kind of journalism would look like in a world of mad science and rampaging giant robots.
it's super fucked that this book doesn't already exist
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Give me an entire book about managing Haley's Circus and how hard it is to get people excited for the trapeze and the high wire in a world with flying aliens and actual fucking wizards
Eh, the sideshow would probably step up its game.
Every time they hire a giant crocodile man it turns out all he wants to do is rob banks
It's just better business to pay a makeup artist at this point
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Garlic Breadi'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm aRegistered User, Disagreeableregular
It's a shame they already did President Luthor, because now is the time for Lois and Clark to defeat him with journalism
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GustavFriend of GoatsSomewhere in the OzarksRegistered Userregular
I don't have enough strong DC opinions to really go line wide. It would basically be all Superman books, Jack Kirby's DC stuff, and like weird stuff like Swamp Thing and Detective Chimp. And I guess a Batman book. People seem to like him.
But I would pitch the hell out of Lois Lane: Investigative Journalist. Just about what that kind of journalism would look like in a world of mad science and rampaging giant robots.
it's super fucked that this book doesn't already exist
It's one of two superhero adjacent ideas I'd ever want to write. The other would be about Latverian politics that was equal parts The Thick of It and The Prisoner.
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Give me an entire book about managing Haley's Circus and how hard it is to get people excited for the trapeze and the high wire in a world with flying aliens and actual fucking wizards
Eh, the sideshow would probably step up its game.
Every time they hire a giant crocodile man it turns out all he wants to do is rob banks
It's just better business to pay a makeup artist at this point
the circus question was one I also asked while rewatching batman forever
like what role does the circus even play. that wacky shit is your everyday in schumacher gotham, but the elites of society turn out in droves for it
Give me an entire book about managing Haley's Circus and how hard it is to get people excited for the trapeze and the high wire in a world with iphones
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
This talk about circuses reminded me that Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's have shut down their circus forever due to waning interest/sales.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I don't have enough strong DC opinions to really go line wide. It would basically be all Superman books, Jack Kirby's DC stuff, and like weird stuff like Swamp Thing and Detective Chimp. And I guess a Batman book. People seem to like him.
But I would pitch the hell out of Lois Lane: Investigative Journalist. Just about what that kind of journalism would look like in a world of mad science and rampaging giant robots.
it's super fucked that this book doesn't already exist
It's one of two superhero adjacent ideas I'd ever want to write. The other would be about Latverian politics that was equal parts The Thick of It and The Prisoner.
I don't have enough strong DC opinions to really go line wide. It would basically be all Superman books, Jack Kirby's DC stuff, and like weird stuff like Swamp Thing and Detective Chimp. And I guess a Batman book. People seem to like him.
But I would pitch the hell out of Lois Lane: Investigative Journalist. Just about what that kind of journalism would look like in a world of mad science and rampaging giant robots.
it's super fucked that this book doesn't already exist
It's one of two superhero adjacent ideas I'd ever want to write. The other would be about Latverian politics that was equal parts The Thick of It and The Prisoner.
I think there's a lot of untapped story potential in digging into what non-superheroes get up to in those universes
I decided to read Red Hood and the Outlaws (Rebirth era) because I have a big ole soft spot for Jason Todd
and
it's pretty good?
Like, not outstanding and doesn't hold up to the best of Rebirth, but given that everything else I have read by Scott Lobdell hovers somewhere around "rancid dog shit" I am kind of amazed
Jason and Bizzaro in particular are a really fun dynamic I wouldn't have ever expected. And Artemis being the "Wonder Woman" figure of a exiled band of Amazons that pledged themselves to the Egyptian pantheon is a super clever idea and good way to make her distinct from Diana.
I don't have enough strong DC opinions to really go line wide. It would basically be all Superman books, Jack Kirby's DC stuff, and like weird stuff like Swamp Thing and Detective Chimp. And I guess a Batman book. People seem to like him.
But I would pitch the hell out of Lois Lane: Investigative Journalist. Just about what that kind of journalism would look like in a world of mad science and rampaging giant robots.
it's super fucked that this book doesn't already exist
It's one of two superhero adjacent ideas I'd ever want to write. The other would be about Latverian politics that was equal parts The Thick of It and The Prisoner.
I think there's a lot of untapped story potential in digging into what non-superheroes get up to in those universes
Do you read Astro City? Because so many of it's stories are about the non-superheroes in the superhero universe: the civilians, the support staff, or people with powers using them for other non-superhero things. Then there's also retired hero/retired (reformed) villain stories. And the superhero stories unlike standard superhero stories.
Astro City has been pretty damn fantastic for ages.
I don't have enough strong DC opinions to really go line wide. It would basically be all Superman books, Jack Kirby's DC stuff, and like weird stuff like Swamp Thing and Detective Chimp. And I guess a Batman book. People seem to like him.
But I would pitch the hell out of Lois Lane: Investigative Journalist. Just about what that kind of journalism would look like in a world of mad science and rampaging giant robots.
it's super fucked that this book doesn't already exist
It's one of two superhero adjacent ideas I'd ever want to write. The other would be about Latverian politics that was equal parts The Thick of It and The Prisoner.
I think there's a lot of untapped story potential in digging into what non-superheroes get up to in those universes
Do you read Astro City? Because so many of it's stories are about the non-superheroes in the superhero universe: the civilians, the support staff, or people with powers using them for other non-superhero things. Then there's also retired hero/retired (reformed) villain stories. And the superhero stories unlike standard superhero stories.
Astro City has been pretty damn fantastic for ages.
It's a comic I've always wanted to read, but it's also one that required more of an effort to track down, so I...haven't
I don't have enough strong DC opinions to really go line wide. It would basically be all Superman books, Jack Kirby's DC stuff, and like weird stuff like Swamp Thing and Detective Chimp. And I guess a Batman book. People seem to like him.
But I would pitch the hell out of Lois Lane: Investigative Journalist. Just about what that kind of journalism would look like in a world of mad science and rampaging giant robots.
it's super fucked that this book doesn't already exist
It's one of two superhero adjacent ideas I'd ever want to write. The other would be about Latverian politics that was equal parts The Thick of It and The Prisoner.
I think there's a lot of untapped story potential in digging into what non-superheroes get up to in those universes
Do you read Astro City? Because so many of it's stories are about the non-superheroes in the superhero universe: the civilians, the support staff, or people with powers using them for other non-superhero things. Then there's also retired hero/retired (reformed) villain stories. And the superhero stories unlike standard superhero stories.
Astro City has been pretty damn fantastic for ages.
It's a comic I've always wanted to read, but it's also one that required more of an effort to track down, so I...haven't
I mean, there's much older runs of it, but its currently 44 issues into a Vertigo run starting in 2013 and has yet to disappoint. It's available easily on both Comixolgy day and date like all other DC/Vertigo/Young Animal stuff and in trade-paperback format (DC also re-released/reprinted the older Astro City volume(s) in trades) on Amazon/etc.
After playing Injustice 2, I really want an ongoing of Injustice Harley, because that game's take on the character is better than anything I've seen since the pre-New52 Gotham City Sirens.
Her relationship with Black Canary and Green Arrow is, like, my favorite team pairing I never in a million years would have come up with.
And I love that Batman has taken her on as a partner, 'cuz it's extremely rare that any Harley comic even hints at the fact that she's actually smart and has a fuckin' Ph.D.
Stilts on
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Garlic Breadi'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm aRegistered User, Disagreeableregular
Her relationship with Black Canary and Green Arrow is, like, my favorite team pairing I never in a million years would have come up with.
And I love that Batman has taken her on as a partner, 'cuz it's extremely rare that any Harley comic even hints at the fact that she's actually smart and has a fuckin' Ph.D.
There's one Injustice comic where she yells at Doctor Fate because "some people had to actually work through medical school to get that title"
Then she kicks him out of the room and calls him Mister Fate
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GustavFriend of GoatsSomewhere in the OzarksRegistered Userregular
Her relationship with Black Canary and Green Arrow is, like, my favorite team pairing I never in a million years would have come up with.
And I love that Batman has taken her on as a partner, 'cuz it's extremely rare that any Harley comic even hints at the fact that she's actually smart and has a fuckin' Ph.D.
There's one Injustice comic where she yells at Doctor Fate because "some people had to actually work through medical school to get that title"
Then she kicks him out of the room and calls him Mister Fate
Her relationship with Black Canary and Green Arrow is, like, my favorite team pairing I never in a million years would have come up with.
And I love that Batman has taken her on as a partner, 'cuz it's extremely rare that any Harley comic even hints at the fact that she's actually smart and has a fuckin' Ph.D.
There's one Injustice comic where she yells at Doctor Fate because "some people had to actually work through medical school to get that title"
Then she kicks him out of the room and calls him Mister Fate
That's pretty fucking good.
The Injustice comic is really good. Harley especially, and I haven't paid attention to her books since they turned her into Deadpool
The start of it is gross, since it has the whole "Superman kills his wife and unborn child" thing from the game, but the writer of the majority of it (Tom Taylor) has said in multiple interviews that Superman is his favorite character and it shows with how he writes other characters reacting to this Superman
Her relationship with Black Canary and Green Arrow is, like, my favorite team pairing I never in a million years would have come up with.
And I love that Batman has taken her on as a partner, 'cuz it's extremely rare that any Harley comic even hints at the fact that she's actually smart and has a fuckin' Ph.D.
There's one Injustice comic where she yells at Doctor Fate because "some people had to actually work through medical school to get that title"
Then she kicks him out of the room and calls him Mister Fate
That's pretty fucking good.
The Injustice comic is really good. Harley especially, and I haven't paid attention to her books since they turned her into Deadpool
The start of it is gross, since it has the whole "Superman kills his wife and unborn child" thing from the game, but the writer of the majority of it (Tom Taylor) has said in multiple interviews that Superman is his favorite character and it shows with how he writes other characters reacting to this Superman
I think Taylor did a pretty good job writing Injustice-Superman himself before Joker gave him that one bad day as this story shows.
Garlic Breadi'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm aRegistered User, Disagreeableregular
I've been reading the comics for the past couple of weeks and I'm up to the "Ground Zero" series. It's very Harley centric, but it explores her character in a great way that should be how she's regularly portrayed.
She starts out finally free from the Joker, and then later "free" of Batman's insurgency (he benches her), so she starts to make her own successes before another world's Joker shows up and she ruins it. The whole time she narrates that she knows what she's doing (in a psychiatric way) and that it's wrong (once he shows up) but she can't help herself, and her old friends like Ivy won't support her because it's a losing battle, while her new henchmen tell her she can beat her demons.
It's not expertly written, but it's still a powerful sentiment that people need to know about and isn't frequently told in comics
I'm typically not a fan of Heroic Harley, mostly because the work usually isn't put in to redeem her for all of the ghastly shit she did with Joker
but I love Injustice Harley because they do put in that work and her redemption took place over the course of years and you see her relationships with Dinah, Ollie and Bruce deepen along the way.
She has earned her spot as a hero and it is fantastic
There was a moment in this week's IJ2 issue where she just has no time for Ra's Al Ghul's bullshit and immediately defangs all of his threats and boasting in front of everybody and when he goes off on her because of it she admits that she never actually expected Joker to blow up Metropolis. "I wanted him to stop us. He's Superman, you know? He always saves the day."
Great stuff
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Garlic Breadi'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm aRegistered User, Disagreeableregular
I wish 2 did a recap of the first game's story instead of just dumping you in it. Especially since it's using alternate versions of characters everyone knows
I haven't finished it yet, but so far it doesn't explain Green Arrow's "a world away" comment (which could be seen as "Yeah we traveled far" instead of "this is literally not my universe")
I wish 2 did a recap of the first game's story instead of just dumping you in it. Especially since it's using alternate versions of characters everyone knows
I haven't finished it yet, but so far it doesn't explain Green Arrow's "a world away" comment (which could be seen as "Yeah we traveled far" instead of "this is literally not my universe")
I think they did that a little intentionally
keeping shit vague rather than going "Oh yeah this Oliver is from another Earth. No, not the one we went to last game, a different one" is probably better for the casual player
that looks more like that one blazblue guy who wears a hat and suit like that, not enough belts for a nomura character design
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
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I-I think it looks cool, guys.
And it even has a Kefka face!
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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Eh, the sideshow would probably step up its game.
it's super fucked that this book doesn't already exist
Every time they hire a giant crocodile man it turns out all he wants to do is rob banks
It's just better business to pay a makeup artist at this point
It's one of two superhero adjacent ideas I'd ever want to write. The other would be about Latverian politics that was equal parts The Thick of It and The Prisoner.
the circus question was one I also asked while rewatching batman forever
like what role does the circus even play. that wacky shit is your everyday in schumacher gotham, but the elites of society turn out in droves for it
is the circus like... GC fashion week?
Oh my God, I would devour both of these
I think there's a lot of untapped story potential in digging into what non-superheroes get up to in those universes
and
it's pretty good?
Like, not outstanding and doesn't hold up to the best of Rebirth, but given that everything else I have read by Scott Lobdell hovers somewhere around "rancid dog shit" I am kind of amazed
Jason and Bizzaro in particular are a really fun dynamic I wouldn't have ever expected. And Artemis being the "Wonder Woman" figure of a exiled band of Amazons that pledged themselves to the Egyptian pantheon is a super clever idea and good way to make her distinct from Diana.
Huh!
Do you read Astro City? Because so many of it's stories are about the non-superheroes in the superhero universe: the civilians, the support staff, or people with powers using them for other non-superhero things. Then there's also retired hero/retired (reformed) villain stories. And the superhero stories unlike standard superhero stories.
Astro City has been pretty damn fantastic for ages.
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It's a comic I've always wanted to read, but it's also one that required more of an effort to track down, so I...haven't
I mean, there's much older runs of it, but its currently 44 issues into a Vertigo run starting in 2013 and has yet to disappoint. It's available easily on both Comixolgy day and date like all other DC/Vertigo/Young Animal stuff and in trade-paperback format (DC also re-released/reprinted the older Astro City volume(s) in trades) on Amazon/etc.
// Switch: SW-5306-0651-6424 //
Her relationship with Black Canary and Green Arrow is, like, my favorite team pairing I never in a million years would have come up with.
And I love that Batman has taken her on as a partner, 'cuz it's extremely rare that any Harley comic even hints at the fact that she's actually smart and has a fuckin' Ph.D.
There's one Injustice comic where she yells at Doctor Fate because "some people had to actually work through medical school to get that title"
Then she kicks him out of the room and calls him Mister Fate
That's pretty fucking good.
The Injustice comic is really good. Harley especially, and I haven't paid attention to her books since they turned her into Deadpool
The start of it is gross, since it has the whole "Superman kills his wife and unborn child" thing from the game, but the writer of the majority of it (Tom Taylor) has said in multiple interviews that Superman is his favorite character and it shows with how he writes other characters reacting to this Superman
Conroy and Newbern also act the hell out of it
I think Taylor did a pretty good job writing Injustice-Superman himself before Joker gave him that one bad day as this story shows.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
She starts out finally free from the Joker, and then later "free" of Batman's insurgency (he benches her), so she starts to make her own successes before another world's Joker shows up and she ruins it. The whole time she narrates that she knows what she's doing (in a psychiatric way) and that it's wrong (once he shows up) but she can't help herself, and her old friends like Ivy won't support her because it's a losing battle, while her new henchmen tell her she can beat her demons.
It's not expertly written, but it's still a powerful sentiment that people need to know about and isn't frequently told in comics
though i think its quality is heightened by how it reacts to the fallout of the first
but I love Injustice Harley because they do put in that work and her redemption took place over the course of years and you see her relationships with Dinah, Ollie and Bruce deepen along the way.
She has earned her spot as a hero and it is fantastic
There was a moment in this week's IJ2 issue where she just has no time for Ra's Al Ghul's bullshit and immediately defangs all of his threats and boasting in front of everybody and when he goes off on her because of it she admits that she never actually expected Joker to blow up Metropolis. "I wanted him to stop us. He's Superman, you know? He always saves the day."
Great stuff
I haven't finished it yet, but so far it doesn't explain Green Arrow's "a world away" comment (which could be seen as "Yeah we traveled far" instead of "this is literally not my universe")
keeping shit vague rather than going "Oh yeah this Oliver is from another Earth. No, not the one we went to last game, a different one" is probably better for the casual player
i love the stupid little headpiece injustice 2 superman wears
it makes him look like such a dick, which is fitting
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
They're meant to be some sort of exoskeleton that transforms into a wheelchair.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
I-I think it looks cool, guys.
And it even has a Kefka face!
That just raises further questions.
I would--no joke--love to see someone write a miniseries based off the ridiculous, edgelord-y designs Nomura has done for DC characters.
Do, like, I dunno, three or four issues or something.