I can't find it now but one of the best Quietly sequences is a four panel scene of Batman (Dick Grayson) and Robin (Damian) fighting some crooks with a garbage can. Except... he draws the moments between the punches and actiony bits. The action is all implied by where the characters are in the scene. It's very simple, nothing complicated. The bread and butter of superhero comics but it is done really well.
I think this is the one you're talking about:
Are these guys supposed to specifically be call backs to the mutant gang from Dark Knight Returns?
My shop likes to pull titles they think I might like, the dude working Wednesdays is nice and we chat about books a bit so he knows the writers and artists I dig, and they put in the Sinestro Year of the Villain one-shot from last week since I like Mark Russell a lot. I decided to get it, per the guy's recommendation, and it was a good call cause it was a rad little done-in-one.
It has Sinestro being tasked by Luthor to stop a potential threat to the LoD's plans, a race of towering Paragons from another universe who instantly heal from any wound and are wiping out Luthor's defense outposts.
Eventually Sinestro discovers
They are, essentially, a giant armored suit for a core brain, filled with aj entire civilization of creatures that live their entire lives in .8 milliseconds and spend most of that time in service of repairing the Paragon whom they revere as a god-emperor.
Sinestro sends microscopic ring construct duplicates of himself inside the Paragons to try and disrupt the civilization to middling results. Until one duplicate proposes a different solution, and then during the next assault the Paragons don't heal and are quickly routed.
Mark Russell is probably my favorite comic writer right now
Eh, if the above is any example,
"haha, see, the villain defeated and/or enslaved a population by getting them to think and act just like modern humans, aren't humans stupid and silly, except for me (because pointing this out makes me so very wise and clever)" is, IMO, not really particularly wise, clever or all that new.
tl;dr Jonathan Swift he ain't.
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GustavFriend of GoatsSomewhere in the OzarksRegistered Userregular
"Society gets fucked by giving people freedom and letting them protest against war.
The solution is a dictator."?
Not at all?
The message is that individual identity and independent thought thrives when people are able to have time for themselves and their own desires which makes taking those things away a terrifyingly easy way to manipulate people into giving up their sense of identity for the idea of working for a greater cause
Sinestro is NOT the hero, it is explictly a Year of the VILLAIN one-shot, what he does is fucking monstrous
he destroys their society by guving them freedom. Its hippies and antiwar protestors that are depicted as destroying the Paragons.
Setting up himself as dictator is how he controls the last one. But the rest were destroyed by freedom and the left.
The message seems to be that introspection is bad.
The rest were destroyed by Sinestro. The remaining one is only still alive because Sinestro set himself up as a dictator so the Microns would serve his will and repair the Paragon.
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that story is very dope but i just can't take that luthor look seriously
I don't like the return to Sinestro's older costume. The design of his shirt makes him look like a court jester. The various costumes he had as a Green or Yellow Lantern were all better.
Because he has been twiiiiisted by the Batman Who Laughs
It just
It bums me out
He had his own book in Rebirth and it was fine but short lived and in this big resurgence of teen DC heroes somehow he hasn't been pulled for Young Justice or Teen Titans or even Titans when that was a thing
He is one of their most underused, interesting characters and this is what they're going with
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
A very, VERY sparsely used concept. Like Superboy Prime. You know, a villian who’s appearance every decade or so makes you go HOLY SHIT OH NO.
But it is very apparent he’s hitting whatever algorithm DC uses real hard and now it’s just dumb.
Ah, so you want a Superboy Prime Who Laughs.
Superboy Prime would end up being impossible to corrupt because he developed an immunity after many, many hours raging about how lame Batman Who Laughs was on the Internet.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
A very, VERY sparsely used concept. Like Superboy Prime. You know, a villian who’s appearance every decade or so makes you go HOLY SHIT OH NO.
But it is very apparent he’s hitting whatever algorithm DC uses real hard and now it’s just dumb.
Ah, so you want a Superboy Prime Who Laughs.
Superboy Prime would end up being impossible to corrupt because he developed an immunity after many, many hours raging about how lame Batman Who Laughs was on the Internet.
Ah so the Superboy Prime Who Laughs just spams the LUL emote in twitchchat.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I'm not sure I see the difference between Superboy Prime and Superboy Prime Who Laughs, then.
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one shops at Hot Topic, the other is on merchandise there
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Are these guys supposed to specifically be call backs to the mutant gang from Dark Knight Returns?
It has Sinestro being tasked by Luthor to stop a potential threat to the LoD's plans, a race of towering Paragons from another universe who instantly heal from any wound and are wiping out Luthor's defense outposts.
Eventually Sinestro discovers
Sinestro sends microscopic ring construct duplicates of himself inside the Paragons to try and disrupt the civilization to middling results. Until one duplicate proposes a different solution, and then during the next assault the Paragons don't heal and are quickly routed.
Sinestro then reveals his plan:
Eh, if the above is any example,
tl;dr Jonathan Swift he ain't.
The issue is not intended to be funny, outside of a few lines
It's not Swift-like satire, it's using almost word-to-word things from the real world to undercut how fucked they are
He ain't subtle but as someone who works at a call center, Russell can fuckin cut deep when he wants to
It is also something that literally actually happens
I'm already drowning in that shit, I don't need more buckets of it poured on my head
peace out, I guess
The solution is a dictator."?
Sinestro is NOT the hero, it is explictly a Year of the VILLAIN one-shot, what he does is fucking monstrous
Setting up himself as dictator is how he controls the last one. But the rest were destroyed by freedom and the left.
The message seems to be that introspection is bad.
They were enslaving the Microns and wiping out entire planets in their pursuit of destroying Luthor's forces
So their being wiped out by individuality is good.
It is Sinestro weaponizing his plan and taking it back from them that makes him worse than the Paragons
I don't like the return to Sinestro's older costume. The design of his shirt makes him look like a court jester. The various costumes he had as a Green or Yellow Lantern were all better.
And, sadly, I am a genius and was right:
It just
It bums me out
He had his own book in Rebirth and it was fine but short lived and in this big resurgence of teen DC heroes somehow he hasn't been pulled for Young Justice or Teen Titans or even Titans when that was a thing
He is one of their most underused, interesting characters and this is what they're going with
A very, VERY sparsely used concept. Like Superboy Prime. You know, a villian who’s appearance every decade or so makes you go HOLY SHIT OH NO.
But it is very apparent he’s hitting whatever algorithm DC uses real hard and now it’s just dumb.
Ah, so you want a Superboy Prime Who Laughs.
I'm not super up on Captain Marvel, but Black Adam is not chaotic evil.
Superboy Prime would end up being impossible to corrupt because he developed an immunity after many, many hours raging about how lame Batman Who Laughs was on the Internet.
Ah so the Superboy Prime Who Laughs just spams the LUL emote in twitchchat.
That would be the third act twist to subvert expectations.