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MOTW 1-14-2009 HOW TO MURDER THE EARTH

AlgertmanAlgertman Registered User regular
edited January 2009 in Graphic Violence
This is it folks. Final Crisis #6 is my moment of the week.
Batman faces Darkseid and shoots him with the bullet that killed Orion. Darkseid was able to unleash the Omega Sanction on Batman. Batman says "Gotcha" and is hit by the Omega Sanction killing him. The final pages, did by Mahnke, is Superman returning and the last page is Superman holding the corpse of Batman.

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    RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Huh. I'm not sure how I feel about that. Sounds cool though.

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    mattharvestmattharvest Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I do like the use of the
    Orion bullet on Darkseid. Perhaps trite, but better as irony.

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    deadonthestreetdeadonthestreet Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    He'll be fine

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    DarkWarriorDarkWarrior __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    He'll walk it off.

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    TransporterTransporter Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    He was killed by space magic.

    That shit NEVER sticks.

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    Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited January 2009
    Whoever it is that colors Final Crisis really hates black people.

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    Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Well they do use up a whole lot of ink.

    Isn't it Alex Sinclair?

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    jkylefultonjkylefulton Squid...or Kid? NNID - majpellRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Jeez, what a complete and utter train wreck FINAL CRISIS has become. "The Lord of the Rings" of comics, indeed. <eye-rolling emoticon here>

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    MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Keith wrote: »
    Whoever it is that colors Final Crisis really hates black people.

    Who got white-ified this time?

    I've only read a few of my books for this week, but I did have one welcome surprise already. I flipped through the Prometheus one-shot, as gates had promised some maimed and murdered C-listers, and I wanted to see if anyone I liked bought it. Well surprise, as I'm paging through it I see Argus, and I feel my blood pressure go up a little. As anyone who's read the Comic Creators thread might know, I'm kind of fond of Argus for some reason. The dude's been in very few comics, but I just sort of like him.
    Anyways, the big surprise is that he doesn't die! Sure his teammates get fucked up; Anima, who recently got blown up in Titans East gets cut in half, and Gunfire gets his hands chopped off. But hey, Argus came through A-okay!
    I went ahead and bought the book, and it sort of sucked, but I was still excited by the appearance of a sad D-lister remembered only by me, Mark Waid, and Phil Hester.

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    Gabriel_PittGabriel_Pitt (effective against Russian warships) Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Algertman wrote: »
    This is it folks. Final Crisis #6 is my moment of the week.
    Batman faces Darkseid and shoots him with the bullet that killed Orion. Darkseid was able to unleash the Omega Sanction on Batman. Batman says "Gotcha" and is hit by the Omega Sanction killing him. The final pages, did by Mahnke, is Superman returning and the last page is Superman holding the corpse of Batman.
    So what exactly does 'gotcha?' signify?

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    Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited January 2009
    Munch wrote: »
    Keith wrote: »
    Whoever it is that colors Final Crisis really hates black people.

    Who got white-ified this time?

    Shilo Norman.

    Not even like a tan-white. He's almost albino

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    Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited January 2009
    Gabriel_Pitt wrote: »
    Algertman wrote: »
    This is it folks. Final Crisis #6 is my moment of the week.
    Batman faces Darkseid and shoots him with the bullet that killed Orion. Darkseid was able to unleash the Omega Sanction on Batman. Batman says "Gotcha" and is hit by the Omega Sanction killing him. The final pages, did by Mahnke, is Superman returning and the last page is Superman holding the corpse of Batman.
    So what exactly does 'gotcha?' signify?
    That he hit Darkseid with the bullet.

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    MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Keith wrote: »
    That he hit Darkseid with the bullet.

    Nah, it was a paintball.

    Gotcha!

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    KyleWPetersonKyleWPeterson Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    That last page of Final Crisis was amazing...
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    I really just can't get over how much better this story is than Secret Invasion. It's like Bendis wasn't even trying or something.

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    durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Maybe it's because I've only been reading Final Crisis straight up, but 1-5 seemed like completely random assortments of events to me.

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    JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    edited January 2009
    jkylefulton wrote: »
    Jeez, what a complete and utter train wreck FINAL CRISIS has become. "The Lord of the Rings" of comics, indeed. <eye-rolling emoticon here>

    How do you mean? I think it's pulled together beautifully.

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    Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    jacobkosh wrote: »
    jkylefulton wrote: »
    Jeez, what a complete and utter train wreck FINAL CRISIS has become. "The Lord of the Rings" of comics, indeed. <eye-rolling emoticon here>

    How do you mean? I think it's pulled together beautifully.

    Don't mind him. He's honestly offended that anyone likes Morrison.

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    JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    edited January 2009
    Bloods End wrote: »
    jacobkosh wrote: »
    jkylefulton wrote: »
    Jeez, what a complete and utter train wreck FINAL CRISIS has become. "The Lord of the Rings" of comics, indeed. <eye-rolling emoticon here>

    How do you mean? I think it's pulled together beautifully.

    Don't mind him. He's honestly offended that anyone likes Morrison.

    ...yeah. I was looking back through the old FC thread just now and noticed that.

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    jkylefultonjkylefulton Squid...or Kid? NNID - majpellRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Offended? That's a strong word. Morrison has written some terrific comics (I'd put ALL-STAR SUPERMAN #6 up as one of the best comics I've ever read, in 22 years of reading the things), but for some stuff, it's just off. Read some of the dialogue in FINAL CRISIS - it doesn't sound remotely like the typical 'voice' of those characters. It just doesn't.

    I mean, "Oh god, what's happening to the sky? LOOK WHAT THEY'VE DONE TO THE SKY." Really? FC is just a mish-mash of spaghetti - hell, maybe it's intentional, maybe Morrison is commenting on the nature of these sorts of crossovers.

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    So what was the point of Batman R.I.P. again

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    Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited January 2009
    Balefuego wrote: »
    So what was the point of Batman R.I.P. again

    $$$

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    muninnmuninn Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    jkylefulton wrote: »
    Offended? That's a strong word. Morrison has written some terrific comics (I'd put ALL-STAR SUPERMAN #6 up as one of the best comics I've ever read, in 22 years of reading the things), but for some stuff, it's just off. Read some of the dialogue in FINAL CRISIS - it doesn't sound remotely like the typical 'voice' of those characters. It just doesn't.

    I mean, "Oh god, what's happening to the sky? LOOK WHAT THEY'VE DONE TO THE SKY." Really? FC is just a mish-mash of spaghetti - hell, maybe it's intentional, maybe Morrison is commenting on the nature of these sorts of crossovers.

    I have read the words you have written, but they seem to contain no meaning.

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    LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Balefuego wrote: »
    So what was the point of Batman R.I.P. again

    See my semi-rant in the Batman thread:
    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=66821&page=43

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    ZeromusZeromus Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    God, all sorts of retarded in this thread.

    But yeah, Final Crisis:
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    :(

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    LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I would have to say that my MotW was Green Lantern Corps #32
    The Star Sapphire showed Rayner and Soranik who each of their hearts desire. It was pretty obvious who it would be, but it was still awesome.

    Also, this is another step towards making Kyle into a Blue Lantern. He's gonna need to quit the corps if he wants to start a relationship with Natu. It makes sense to me that he would become a blue so that he can hook up with her. Third Law of OA and all.

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    JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    edited January 2009
    Balefuego wrote: »
    So what was the point of Batman R.I.P. again

    How does this make RIP pointless? Morrison never said Batman would die - in fact, he said the whole point was to try and move past the stalled post-DKR take on Batman and create a more mentally healthy, holistic version that encompassed his entire history. We can rate how successful he has/hasn't been, but saying it's pointless because he gets zapped in one issue of a tangentially-related crossover is really spurious.

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    jacobkosh wrote: »
    Balefuego wrote: »
    So what was the point of Batman R.I.P. again

    How does this make RIP pointless? Morrison never said Batman would die - in fact, he said the whole point was to try and move past the stalled post-DKR take on Batman and create a more mentally healthy, holistic version that encompassed his entire history. We can rate how successful he has/hasn't been, but saying it's pointless because he gets zapped in one issue of a tangentially-related crossover is really spurious.

    Ok if that was the point of RIP then again what does it matter if he dies before any stories get told with this new and improved Bruce Wayne

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    Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I guess reading stories for their own merit is lame now, right?

    Fuck this "It's the journey not the destination" nonsense.

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    well I didnt like RIP as a story either!


    the fact that it dosent end with any sort of payoff is probably one of the biggest reasons!

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    LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I think you're missing the point. There is no journey. That's what Bale and I are saying.

    If they are going to all the effort to rebuild Batman and break him away from the whole traumatized childhood or whatever they are trying to do...they should, you know, do that for a while.

    Sure, you can read RIP for its own merit. Heck, I even enjoyed RIP. I thought it was a good story and the Joker in it was particularly satisfying.

    But now that we know that Batman is a deeper, more rounded character... it would make sense to me to use that information before killing him off. You're talking as if we aren't into the journey, but into some big payoff. I think we are the exact opposite. We want the journey. But instead we were given a premature conclusion that was completely unrelated to the recent events in the Batman monthly books.

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    ZeromusZeromus Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Hah, oh dear, the rage continues.

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I'm not raging.

    I'm not even reading FC, and I dropped the entire Batman line after RIP.

    I'm not angry about anything, just making discussion in this comic book discussion internet forum.

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    ZeromusZeromus Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    That wasn't directed to you, my friend, but rather what is generally happening on these boards right now. No worries!

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    Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    It's not nearly as big a deal as Final Crisis, but the last page of Captain Britain and MI:13 was pretty epic.
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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Does... does he live on the moon?

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    deadonthestreetdeadonthestreet Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Well the Inhumans just moved off so there is plenty of space

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    MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Does... does he live on the moon?

    If you read Dr. McNinja, you'd already know this to be the case.

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    Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Bloods End wrote: »
    Huh.

    Interesting
    Darkseid makes sure to state that he is using the Omega Sanction, rather than the Omega Beams. The death that is life. Isn't that the living death that Shilo Norman was sentenced to in 7even Soldiers?

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    Dr. FrenchensteinDr. Frenchenstein Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Munch wrote: »
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Does... does he live on the moon?

    If you read Dr. McNinja, you'd already know this to be the case.

    oh man, how awesome would a Dr. McNinja cameo be. just in the background or something.

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    Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited January 2009
    GLC was great.

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