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[DC] New Earth One announced- Hal Jordan as a smart person?? What a twist!
Tairu
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Green Lantern: Earth One by Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman (the team behind Invisible Republic) are doing what seems to be a more sci-fi as opposed to superhero take on Green Lantern in the newest Earth One book.
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Most of the Earth One books have been luke-warm for me. Batman E1 was pretty good and Wonder Woman E1 was absolutely gorgeous, but each of the Superman E1 books have been duds and Teen Titans was just alright. This one looks cool though so i'll definitely be suckered into picking it up.
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Ferris Galactic is a great nameFor Green Lantern, the story sees Hal Jordan re-envisioned as an astronaut who seeks the thrill of discovery, yet finds himself in an unfulfilling job prospecting asteroids for Ferris Galactic. His fortunes change when he finds a powerful green ring and learns that it came from the Green Lantern Corps, a group that was long ago murdered by killing machines called Manhunters. This sets him on a mission to reinstate the Corps, a nearly impossible task for the fearless Jordan.
Pretty radical take on the Hal Jordan I knowHal Jordan is a smart, capable person with a space and science background who has a lot of untapped potential even before he finds the ring,” Bechko explained. “That means he’s going to approach everything the ring does from the perspective of a scientist, but he’s going to employ it for action and adventure. The result for us as writers is the opportunity to fully embrace the science fiction aspects of the story in a way that would be impossible with a lot of other characters.
Most of the Earth One books have been luke-warm for me. Batman E1 was pretty good and Wonder Woman E1 was absolutely gorgeous, but each of the Superman E1 books have been duds and Teen Titans was just alright. This one looks cool though so i'll definitely be suckered into picking it up.
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After reading good things about them even as I've mainly been isolating myself to the Super books, I read Dark Days: The Forge and The Casting today, and this is something interesting. It reads as though DC is basing an event on Batman's popularity but the real gems are him shedding light on these other parts of the DCU that I don't know if they've really been covered or established anymore (like The Outsiders, and Mr. Terrific appears as well).
A lot of it feels like trying to genuinely put things back in place or at least set them up to be correctly fixed in the alluded to events of someone (The Watchmen) messing with the DCU. Things hinted at in Rebirth or The Button crossover can be seen as a potential outcome here, the books even refer to a coming Dark Crisis, but what is interesting is basing the setup on Hawkman and Nth metal and him becoming immortal. It doesn't come across like DC is putting him at the front of the DCU to be a "major player" in the future the way Marvel events always attempt to. There is a bit of a revelation with Duke, Batman's current trainee, that feels a bit hammy because it includes a plot point for the story advancement more than being a character thing but I guess it's credit to Snyder for not just dropping a new character out of nowhere like a Layla Miller or that inhuman from Civil War II I've already forgotten the name of (Ozymandias?).
It was a good setup, I'm looking forward to see if the event can carry the Rebirth wave of fun forward (they did a good job fixing Superman so I have hope), and maybe, just maybe, we'll get things closer to pre-2011 than we've been in years.
Very 90's, but i'm into it. Silencer looks a lot worse in color.
90s Perfection, right there.
Y'all are crazy. There's like four unarmed human beings in that shot and they're not even wearing masks or improbable outfits. They're just standing around in matching overalls.
What's xtreme about that
Critical Failures - Havenhold Campaign • August St. Cloud (Human Ranger)
Challengers of the X-Treeeme!
Sandman showing up, who is the grandson of Hawkman, it felt a bit like Morrison using him in JLA.
Whatever this is will lead into Doomsday Clock, but as that seems to be Superman focused this is Batman focused to sort of, hopefully, reset things with the whole universe in much cleaner attempt as Infinite Crisis.
And while I'm writing this the past two issues of Superman, 27 & 28, were great, the kind of comics I thought I would never read from the big 2 anymore. Lois & Clark road trip with Jon and show him how great America is, and some of the not good stuff too but it's not beating you over the head with it like Nick Spencer would probably do. Shmaltzy at times, it just totally makes sense for Byrne era Superman to do this and it's done with such care and affection I'm just really glad at the work Tomasi, Gleason & Jurgens have been doing in keeping me interested in comics.
Borrowing a bit from modern stuff in the news and influenced by the Joker subplot in Dark Knight Returns, and even the movies (they use Jack Napier as Joker's name like in the '89 movie and use a subplot from the Batman & Robin movie to establish Bruce's mindset), you're given a story that just reads like something from 20 years ago in terms of not being decompressed or just some sloppy crappy art that litters the current landscape. Murphy's art even draws Batman in that hulking stature Miller did but while making the style his own.
With this, Mister Miracle being a real nice surprise, and Metal being consistently good, DC's on a genuine upswing that makes me optimistic for Doomsday Clock.
It's the Superman road trip JMS failed to give us.
Brian Bendis is now a DC exclusive writer. The guy hasn't been a good writer for years, and all the genuine good he's done (DD, Ult Spidey, half his Avengers work), has been eclipsed by the bad.
Just please, stay the fuck away from Superman and his family.
Maybe this could be a return to form?
I genuinely wonder if he knows any of the DC history
And as for Rorschach:
In terms of the big events right now Metal has my attention more, but both are leagues better than anything Marvel's done recently.
Bendis has a, shall we say, controversial history with continuity.
also, missing feet
Bendis is doing a new Man of Steel miniseries in the vein of Byrne's classic, with all-star artists. Ok. Fine. Every big name needs to redo his origin or what have you, despite Jurgens doing a nice two issue story covering it all when the Supermen merged.
BUT, he's also taking over Superman and Action Comics following Action Comics #1000, which is just the worst damn thing to happen. Jurgens, Tomasi & Gleason are the reasons Superman is good again, is fun again, and it's just crappy because I don't trust Bendis at all with his writing these days. It makes me think of when Chuck Austen was writing Action Comics and he ran roughshod over Lois and Lana's characterization.
The only way this could have been worse is if he also took over Super Sons, which at least seems to be surviving with Tomasi & Gleason intact.
DC has been so good recently, I don't want this to be a redux of 2013-2015 or Marvel's 2016.
and a collection of writers and artists did some five page short stories. In this sense it worked, compared to just having artists do a page here and there in the same story. Tom King's story was nice and touching, Paul Levitz and Neal Adam had a surprisingly good short of Superman and Luthor playing chess, and seeing a Simonson/Ordway story was a tug at the glory days of post-crisis Superman. The biggest fault for these stories was the lack of some of the more prominent writers. Joe Kelly was nowhere to be found, nor Mark Schultz, Karl Kesel, Joe Casey, Jeph Loeb or JM DeMatteis or Roger Stern, and of course no Byrne which is just silly.
The whole thing ends with a lead in to Bendis' upcoming run, and it is a Bendis story, which is not something of praise. On top of Bendis speak, you have silly jabs at "why's Superman wearing the underwear again?" as well as what will seem to be another retcon to Krypton just because DC is delusional in terms of Bendis' appeal and skill these days and the man should not have the power to come in and start changing things given his body of work in the past five years, he's currently nowhere near what Byrne was in '86. And to cap off an issue that was uplifting and about doing good, being classy and optimistic, it ends with the new made up villain stabbing Superman in the chest because he needs to kill all Kryptonians. I get that Lee is the artist, but you don't have to make the story match the crap coming out of Image in the early 90's. (the story felt like it was a holdover from Chuck Austen's Action Comics run). And while Lee's art was good in the issue proper, his cover is just fugly compared to Rude's or Jurgens' variant.
Now, the real treat was Superman #45, which not only tops off Tomasi and Gleason's fantastic run, but also feels a bit personal with them being taken off the book for Bendis. There's quite a few moments where you can tell Jon is speaking for the two and not believing change is a good thing all the time. And then Lois' moment of acceptance, this is what comics should be bringing more often to the table.
It's a bittersweet time in Superman's comic life.