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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    I didn't realize that was him, but yeah, Dr 13 was pretty good, yeah

  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    I think there was a greater degree of editorial control exercised with his Wonder Woman, perhaps, but I do think he's essentially always been like this. Joker had some pretty similar things, and while I personally think that Lex Luthor: The Man of Steel is one of the best Superman comics ever written, I know that it doesn't stray too far from this sort of idea either. And his Wonder Woman did draw a lot of criticism for its portrayal of the Amazons, which seems like a note played in the same key as everything else here.

  • DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    Oh, I was writing my Doctor 13 post as Rorshach Kringle was posting his.

    God, I guess EVERYONE now writes to Rorshach Kringle's specifications, even lowly forum posters like me.

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  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    edited December 2018
    Yeah this definitely feels tonally feels in line with Luthor: Man of Steel and JOKER to me. Especially Joker.

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  • valhalla130valhalla130 13 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered User regular
    edited December 2018
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    The only good Demon is this one...

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  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    Gustav wrote: »
    Yeah this definitely feels tonally feels in line with Luthor: Man of Steel and JOKER to me. Especially Joker.

    i guess i gotta read azzarello's joker now

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Hawkman revealed Carter's full origin and the truth behind the mystery of the book and it is one of the best retcons I have ever seen
    Hawkman has been alive since the earliest days of the universe, he was Ktar
    General for the Deathbringers. A cosmic force of entropy and death, he brought countless sacrifices to their temple and flung thousande upon thousands of innocents into their pits to fuel the Deathbringer's ascendance into the universe itself.

    Gradually, over the course of these campaigns of slaughter, he has a crisis of conscience (fueled by a mysterious woman who keep appearing no matter what planet they travel to and questions just how devout of a believer he is) which gradually shakes him to his core.

    Finally, at the temple, he leads a revolt of the prisoners that were brought there and asks them to aid him in bringing it down and sealing the Deathbringers away. But instead of death, he awoke in a purgatory filled with the countless skulls of every life he claimed. He is given an offer by some unseen force, either die and pass on into oblivion or be reborn and live eternal until he has saved enough lives to balance the untold thousands of deaths he is responsible for. Once he does, his reincarnation cycle will end and he will be at peace, but until then he will be continually born and reborn across time and space until the debt is paid.

    I LOVE IT

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Gustav wrote: »
    Yeah this definitely feels tonally feels in line with Luthor: Man of Steel and JOKER to me. Especially Joker.

    i guess i gotta read azzarello's joker now


    Joker features a Riddler that wears a suit coat with no shirt, has a ? Tattoo on his chest and rides around in green souped up street racing cars

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    I love that "man with wings" has the most completely fucking insane backstory

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    I love that "man with wings" has the most completely fucking insane backstory
    It's honestly probably the most straightforward and compelling one he has ever had

    Hawkman is just a clusterfuck and the new book has done a shockingly good job of making it all make sense

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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    His Joker was also a bit more sexual than other Jokers. I can't really remember the comic now but it was definitely a little more than the usual.


    I wanna say that the Joker's a rapist in the story? But I'm pretty sure I am misremembering.

  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    His Joker was also a bit more sexual than other Jokers. I can't really remember the comic now but it was definitely a little more than the usual.


    I wanna say that the Joker's a rapist in the story? But I'm pretty sure I am misremembering.

    The Joker fucks the protagonist's wife for whatever reason, and she's let's say unhappy with having to fuck the Joker.

  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Gustav wrote: »
    Yeah this definitely feels tonally feels in line with Luthor: Man of Steel and JOKER to me. Especially Joker.

    i guess i gotta read azzarello's joker now

    Joker features a Riddler that wears a suit coat with no shirt, has a ? Tattoo on his chest and rides around in green souped up street racing cars

    good

    very good

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  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    Come to think of it JOKER feels like a prototype for Jared Leto Joker. Just retaining the Ledger design.

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  • DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Hawkman revealed Carter's full origin and the truth behind the mystery of the book and it is one of the best retcons I have ever seen
    Hawkman has been alive since the earliest days of the universe, he was Ktar
    General for the Deathbringers. A cosmic force of entropy and death, he brought countless sacrifices to their temple and flung thousande upon thousands of innocents into their pits to fuel the Deathbringer's ascendance into the universe itself.

    Gradually, over the course of these campaigns of slaughter, he has a crisis of conscience (fueled by a mysterious woman who keep appearing no matter what planet they travel to and questions just how devout of a believer he is) which gradually shakes him to his core.

    Finally, at the temple, he leads a revolt of the prisoners that were brought there and asks them to aid him in bringing it down and sealing the Deathbringers away. But instead of death, he awoke in a purgatory filled with the countless skulls of every life he claimed. He is given an offer by some unseen force, either die and pass on into oblivion or be reborn and live eternal until he has saved enough lives to balance the untold thousands of deaths he is responsible for. Once he does, his reincarnation cycle will end and he will be at peace, but until then he will be continually born and reborn across time and space until the debt is paid.

    I LOVE IT
    This is a pretty reasonable scenario, but I have to admit that no matter what they do to rehabilitate the Hawkman backstory, the words "Hawkman backstory" will always make me think of this page:
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  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Gustav wrote: »
    Yeah this definitely feels tonally feels in line with Luthor: Man of Steel and JOKER to me. Especially Joker.

    i guess i gotta read azzarello's joker now


    Joker features a Riddler that wears a suit coat with no shirt, has a ? Tattoo on his chest and rides around in green souped up street racing cars

    God I hate that Riddler so so much

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  • KingofMadCowsKingofMadCows Registered User regular
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    I mean, look at his Joker, his Wonder Woman, this. There is a very clear throughline.

    He also wrote the Killing Joke animated movie.

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Ian Ziering has been cast as Blue Devil in the Swamp Thing DCU series

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    I mean, look at his Joker, his Wonder Woman, this. There is a very clear throughline.

    He also wrote the Killing Joke animated movie.

    That I am completely unsurprised by.

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  • Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    He finally escaped the sharknado

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    I mean, look at his Joker, his Wonder Woman, this. There is a very clear throughline.

    He also wrote the Killing Joke animated movie.

    That movie was written?

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  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    I think expelled like a diseased bowel movement is more what I'd call it

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  • TransporterTransporter Registered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    I mean, look at his Joker, his Wonder Woman, this. There is a very clear throughline.

    He also wrote the Killing Joke animated movie.

    That movie was written?

    I heard it was birthed from Paul Dini’s unrealized ship

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  • TransporterTransporter Registered User regular
    I will never understand Bruce+Barbara

    Especially when the vastly superior Tim+ Cassie Cain as Batman/Woman is RIGHT THERE.

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  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    I think I'm ok with the idea of Barbra being into Bruce. How could you not? But it never happens. Or like in Beyond where it happened, for like a second, and it was bad and ended bad and why did they even do that

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    Bucketman wrote: »
    I think I'm ok with the idea of Barbra being into Bruce. How could you not? But it never happens. Or like in Beyond where it happened, for like a second, and it was bad and ended bad and why did they even do that

    There are so many, many reasons for why someone might not want to be intimate with Bruce.

    He's got a lot of issues!

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  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    I can only understand being attracted to Bruce Wayne if you don't know about all the Batman stuff

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Azzarello's Sgt Rock book is a really great one and colors my impression of all his much worse work

  • Crippl3Crippl3 oh noRegistered User regular
    A friend of mine got me Joker for a birthday present like 6 or 7 years ago, never got around to finishing it, maybe I should just get it over with.

  • Dizzy DDizzy D NetherlandsRegistered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Bucketman wrote: »
    I think I'm ok with the idea of Barbra being into Bruce. How could you not? But it never happens. Or like in Beyond where it happened, for like a second, and it was bad and ended bad and why did they even do that

    There are so many, many reasons for why someone might not want to be intimate with Bruce.

    He's got a lot of issues!

    I totally understand young Barbara being into him (then getting to know both him and Dick better and deciding that Dick is by far the better choice.)

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  • DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    Crippl3 wrote: »
    A friend of mine got me Joker for a birthday present like 6 or 7 years ago, never got around to finishing it, maybe I should just get it over with.
    Quitting while you're ahead is another viable, respectable option.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    The Batman Annual out today is from Tom Taylor and Otto Schmidt and is exactly as good as an Alfred focused story from that creative team sounds.

    I knew Taylor and Alfred would probably make me feel emotions but I thought I was safe and then this final sequence GOT ME
    The issue is focused on Alfred and his relationship with Bruce but also has Batman hunting down a new villain using drones to bomb buildings, while suffering from the flu and having not slept for 2 days. Alfred is worried but obviously lets him go, only for Bruce to collapse in an alley after the big fight. Alfred fights off some would be muggers and rushes to Leslie Thompkins.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    Joel McHale is playing a "Golden Age Starman" in the DCU Stargirl series.

    https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/joel-mchale-starman-dc-universe-stargirl-exclusive-1203087415/

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  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    Crippl3 wrote: »
    A friend of mine got me Joker for a birthday present like 6 or 7 years ago, never got around to finishing it, maybe I should just get it over with.

    i mean you could also give it to your pal, me, aj

    i would definitely appreciate it the most

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  • DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    Crippl3 wrote: »
    A friend of mine got me Joker for a birthday present like 6 or 7 years ago, never got around to finishing it, maybe I should just get it over with.

    i mean you could also give it to your pal, me, aj

    i would definitely appreciate it the most
    I think you already got enough gifts for one day.

  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    Delduwath wrote: »
    Crippl3 wrote: »
    A friend of mine got me Joker for a birthday present like 6 or 7 years ago, never got around to finishing it, maybe I should just get it over with.

    i mean you could also give it to your pal, me, aj

    i would definitely appreciate it the most
    I think you already got enough gifts for one day.

    literally never true

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  • DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    Oh, I stand corrected, then!

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  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    damn straight

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular


    Well

    That issue of Batman is going to be something too look at, jesus

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  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    It's a shame that rad art is being wasted on Professor Pyg

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