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Moments of the Week! 08-06-08
Zeromus
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Pretty much all of Final Crisis. It was awesome.
Robin was also pretty great.
But especially the Wonder Woman-Mary Marvel fight, the scene with the Japanese heroes, Anti-Life going live, and the last page. Too bad we have to wait so long for the next issue. And I wish my scanner wasn't broken. 
Robin was also pretty great.
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They just introduced a Nazi Supergirl, so she's already got evil counterparts coming out the wazoo.
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Final Crisis was OK, but the story seems really cliche to me so far. Band of Villains eliminates super heroes one by one in a bid for power. Yeah. Its been done before.
don't worry, that'll be covered in Countdown 2: Count Harder
Are you sure you're not talking about Secret Invasion?
Because Final Crisis seems to have way more than that.
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And who dosen't enjoy bad characters beating the shit out of each other.
Presumably it's because he just doesn't find Superman attractive in that way.
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I'm not reading Secret Invasion, so I have no idea whether the story is cliche or not.
Me too.
Then Wonder Woman goes in alone to Bludhaven and fights against a Mary Marvel whose costume looked like the Mutants from Dark Knight Returns. Then Wonder Woman gets poisoned and turns evil. Also, the badguys hacked the internet. All of it. And apparently that's bad. At least, Oracle seems to think so.
thats how you know she's evil
And what characters sound wrong? I remember thinking Jay Garrick sounded off in the preview.
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No great moments of the week for me; Manhunter was just okay, and the Brit TPB was awesome, but it was all stuff that came out months ago.
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Kanto's old costume is awesome, you shut your filthy mouth.
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weeeelp, there you are then
At the end, the story cuts back to Barry and Wally, who have ran a few weeks into the future. Things obviously got fucked up. The bleed is still visible in the sky, and a patrol of anti-life'd superheroes show up, including Wonder Woman, Catwoman, and two others I didn't recognize. Wonder Woman says "Superheroes. Kill."
It's pretty obvious why SI is trouncing Final Crisis in sales. I like it because, hey, Grant Morrison and it's weird, but it's waaaaaaaay too compressed, and the dialogue isn't as awesome as Bendis, or accurate to how the characters usually talk.
Psh
Final Crisis was awesome
I don't know, that bit about shutting down the internet sounds kind of lame. Does it make sense in the context of the story.
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I guess they get old Sandra Bullock movies across the pond.
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Seriously?
Edit: plugs?
Ugh.
Had it been pretty much any other character I could roll with it. It'd still feel kind of dumb seeing like, Starfire or Owlwoman in fetish scene gear, but it could be wiped away later pretty easily. But Mary Marvel's whole gimmick is that she's the personification of sweetness and light, and this feels like a betrayal of that fundamental characterization. It's like writing a story where Batman dresses in hot pink, only goes out during the day, and decides being a detective's lame, and he's just going to shoot bitches in the head. It feels like it's trying too hard basically.
But whatever, I'm not buying it.
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"And this is his sofa, is it?" said Arthur.
I mean yes it was ridiculous, but they don't shut down the internet and then they all get fucked so
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