Arkham Asylum was mind blowingly good, especially for people who grew up on TAS.
Getting the actress for Barbara Gordon back as Oracle was a great touch.
wasn't TAS Barbara played by Tara Strong?
and Oracle in the game is the same person that did Ashley from Mass Effect...
That was the New Batman Adventures Batgirl. The original actress in TAS was Melissa Gilbert. The contrast between voices is startling.
It really is . I really don't know why they changed it. One of my many annoyances with that show.
Then they changed her voice actor again in Beyond.
I'm not sure why they changed her VA in Beyond. I did like Angie Harmon's work, though.
....cause they wanted na old actress to play an older character?
It's rare for an actor to pull off an older voice as well as someone in the business who is actually more in the age range they're going for.
That wasn't what I meant. It was only common sense they'd hire older actresses for an older Gordon. Harmon was the second actress to play her in Beyond.
although I must admit the book is a little dark for my tastes
the original concept was more fun and innocent
its sort of like what they are doing with the new, mopey Billy Batson
Man he ain't mopey
he's kind of a punk, yeah, but it is super obvious that he is going to shape up soon. Especially since he just got adopted by a big warm fuzzy foster family and the first thing he did was be a jerk to them and realize that he was, in fact, being a jerk.
I guess they might have him become happy once he gets his powers
that would be alright
but so far it's just been Billy being a whiny little brat
the whole point of Captain Marvel is that he's not jaded and angry and super-serious
if that aspect of the character isn't there, it's not really Shazam
Well, he still hasn't actually become Shazam yet
and the fact that they are telegraphing him going through a redemption arc crazy hard
means that we probably aren't going to get jaded angry Shazam
just because Billy isn't AW SHUCKS GEE WILIKERS from the get go(considering we have had 16 pages of story total) doesn't mean they have totally gone against the concept of the character
I guess they might have him become happy once he gets his powers
that would be alright
but so far it's just been Billy being a whiny little brat
the whole point of Captain Marvel is that he's not jaded and angry and super-serious
if that aspect of the character isn't there, it's not really Shazam
Well, he still hasn't actually become Shazam yet
and the fact that they are telegraphing him going through a redemption arc crazy hard
means that we probably aren't going to get jaded angry Shazam
just because Billy isn't AW SHUCKS GEE WILIKERS from the get go(considering we have had 16 pages of story total) doesn't mean they have totally gone against the concept of the character
I just really don't trust Geoff Johns to write well at all.
I guess they might have him become happy once he gets his powers
that would be alright
but so far it's just been Billy being a whiny little brat
the whole point of Captain Marvel is that he's not jaded and angry and super-serious
if that aspect of the character isn't there, it's not really Shazam
Well, he still hasn't actually become Shazam yet
and the fact that they are telegraphing him going through a redemption arc crazy hard
means that we probably aren't going to get jaded angry Shazam
just because Billy isn't AW SHUCKS GEE WILIKERS from the get go(considering we have had 16 pages of story total) doesn't mean they have totally gone against the concept of the character
I just really don't trust Geoff Johns to write well at all.
His writing on JL has been just awful.
Personally I think the first arc is competent when read as a whole
it was very trade written so it suffered in single issues. Still wasn't fantastic, but not a terrible comic.
Then the two one-offs since they jumped to the present have been pretty awesome, especially the one with Green Arrow.
Really, Johns has been at the top of his game since the reboot. Green Lantern has been quality and managed to freshen up his stagnant story and expose Hal for the jerk he is and Aquaman has been one of the best books of the relaunch. He said before the whole thing started that he had grown aware that he was using gore and shock deaths as a crutch and sought to replace them with stronger characters and humor, and he succeeded as far as I am concerned.
The FCBD issue is the first thing he's written post-New 52 that I thought was complete shit
his JL issues were mediocre at best. The characters showed up and snarked at each other. They felt like caricatures of the actual heroes.
He did that dumb trick where someone holds Wonder Woman's lasso and blatantly speaks their characterization, which is both lazy, awkward, and something he did in Blackest Night.
I haven't read any of his non-JL/Shazam works yet, but what I have read is barely passable.
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I like the emotional Spectrum idea. Wasn't aware there was so much hate for it.
Its poorly executed.
The red lanterns are rage for example. So they could have been portrayed as good guys who were pushed to far. Not heroes but vigilantes.
But they're bad guys because it's easier .
Like I said Sinestro corp was a brilliant idea but it ultimately lead to just awful awful stories
.
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I like the emotional Spectrum idea. Wasn't aware there was so much hate for it.
Its poorly executed.
The red lanterns are rage for example. So they could have been portrayed as good guys who were pushed to far. Not heroes but vigilantes.
But they're bad guys because it's easier .
Like I said Sinestro corp was a brilliant idea but it ultimately lead to just awful awful stories
.
Red Lanterns are bad guys? What? They've almost always been written as vigilantes.
I like the emotional Spectrum idea. Wasn't aware there was so much hate for it.
Its poorly executed.
The red lanterns are rage for example. So they could have been portrayed as good guys who were pushed to far. Not heroes but vigilantes.
But they're bad guys because it's easier .
Like I said Sinestro corp was a brilliant idea but it ultimately lead to just awful awful stories
.
Red Lanterns are bad guys? What? They've almost always been written as vigilantes.
Have they?
I quit picking up comics shortly after They announced the Rainbow Lanterns. I assumed from pics like this
that Red Lanterns aren't remotely good.
Of course that could be all the sharp teeth and blood vomit. I'm still catching up on all this though. Lex Luthor geting a Power ring gave me a headache and I took a break.
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@King Riptor, what do you have against blood vomit?
Its a perfectly natural act.
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I like the emotional Spectrum idea. Wasn't aware there was so much hate for it.
Its poorly executed.
The red lanterns are rage for example. So they could have been portrayed as good guys who were pushed to far. Not heroes but vigilantes.
But they're bad guys because it's easier .
Like I said Sinestro corp was a brilliant idea but it ultimately lead to just awful awful stories
.
Red Lanterns are bad guys? What? They've almost always been written as vigilantes.
Have they?
I quit picking up comics shortly after They announced the Rainbow Lanterns. I assumed from pics like this
that Red Lanterns aren't remotely good.
Of course that could be all the sharp teeth and blood vomit. I'm still catching up on all this though. Lex Luthor geting a Power ring gave me a headache and I took a break.
You mean that time Luthor got deputized as an orange lantern?
He was pretty much the perfect example of greed, though.
I like the emotional Spectrum idea. Wasn't aware there was so much hate for it.
Its poorly executed.
The red lanterns are rage for example. So they could have been portrayed as good guys who were pushed to far. Not heroes but vigilantes.
But they're bad guys because it's easier .
Like I said Sinestro corp was a brilliant idea but it ultimately lead to just awful awful stories
.
But it didn't. It led to quite a few fun stories and almost every Corps is different enough from the GLC to not be just a clone with a different color.
I guess they might have him become happy once he gets his powers
that would be alright
but so far it's just been Billy being a whiny little brat
the whole point of Captain Marvel is that he's not jaded and angry and super-serious
if that aspect of the character isn't there, it's not really Shazam
Well, he still hasn't actually become Shazam yet
and the fact that they are telegraphing him going through a redemption arc crazy hard
means that we probably aren't going to get jaded angry Shazam
just because Billy isn't AW SHUCKS GEE WILIKERS from the get go(considering we have had 16 pages of story total) doesn't mean they have totally gone against the concept of the character
it kind of does though
the whole reason the wizard chose him originally was because he was a good kid
if the wizard chooses this version of Billy, he might as well choose any random kid on the street
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....cause they wanted na old actress to play an older character?
It's rare for an actor to pull off an older voice as well as someone in the business who is actually more in the age range they're going for.
That wasn't what I meant. It was only common sense they'd hire older actresses for an older Gordon. Harmon was the second actress to play her in Beyond.
That new Dial H comic
the china mieville one? is that out yet?
what's wrong with it? i was expecting it to be pretty good
it wasn't great
I think the protagonist was sort of weak
but the wacky variety of superheroes looks like it will be fun.
It was not enjoyable at all to me
I shan't be reading more of it!
which I mean
is fine, I guess
it just isn't something I really wanna read nor would like to see with Dial H for Hero because that concept is fun and wacky as hell
although I must admit the book is a little dark for my tastes
the original concept was more fun and innocent
its sort of like what they are doing with the new, mopey Billy Batson
he's kind of a punk, yeah, but it is super obvious that he is going to shape up soon. Especially since he just got adopted by a big warm fuzzy foster family and the first thing he did was be a jerk to them and realize that he was, in fact, being a jerk.
that would be alright
but so far it's just been Billy being a whiny little brat
the whole point of Captain Marvel is that he's not jaded and angry and super-serious
if that aspect of the character isn't there, it's not really Shazam
and the fact that they are telegraphing him going through a redemption arc crazy hard
means that we probably aren't going to get jaded angry Shazam
just because Billy isn't AW SHUCKS GEE WILIKERS from the get go(considering we have had 16 pages of story total) doesn't mean they have totally gone against the concept of the character
I read what they did to the Marvel Family over the last few years.
I don't think DC as it is now gives a shit about that aspect of the character
His writing on JL has been just awful.
it was very trade written so it suffered in single issues. Still wasn't fantastic, but not a terrible comic.
Then the two one-offs since they jumped to the present have been pretty awesome, especially the one with Green Arrow.
Really, Johns has been at the top of his game since the reboot. Green Lantern has been quality and managed to freshen up his stagnant story and expose Hal for the jerk he is and Aquaman has been one of the best books of the relaunch. He said before the whole thing started that he had grown aware that he was using gore and shock deaths as a crutch and sought to replace them with stronger characters and humor, and he succeeded as far as I am concerned.
The FCBD issue is the first thing he's written post-New 52 that I thought was complete shit
his JL issues were mediocre at best. The characters showed up and snarked at each other. They felt like caricatures of the actual heroes.
He did that dumb trick where someone holds Wonder Woman's lasso and blatantly speaks their characterization, which is both lazy, awkward, and something he did in Blackest Night.
I haven't read any of his non-JL/Shazam works yet, but what I have read is barely passable.
SteamID: Baroque And Roll
I read the first trade and enjoyed it, but heard it really starts to drag its heels 3 or so arcs in and is fizzling towards an end.
Last issue is this month.
SteamID: Baroque And Roll
I also read the first issue or two, I forget, of the spin-off and liked it.
I can't stand Indestructable. Hate that character, Max Carnage.
SteamID: Baroque And Roll
really bad.
SteamID: Baroque And Roll
The red lanterns are rage for example. So they could have been portrayed as good guys who were pushed to far. Not heroes but vigilantes.
But they're bad guys because it's easier .
Like I said Sinestro corp was a brilliant idea but it ultimately lead to just awful awful stories
.
Red Lanterns are bad guys? What? They've almost always been written as vigilantes.
Have they?
I quit picking up comics shortly after They announced the Rainbow Lanterns. I assumed from pics like this
that Red Lanterns aren't remotely good.
Of course that could be all the sharp teeth and blood vomit. I'm still catching up on all this though. Lex Luthor geting a Power ring gave me a headache and I took a break.
Its a perfectly natural act.
You mean that time Luthor got deputized as an orange lantern?
He was pretty much the perfect example of greed, though.
But it didn't. It led to quite a few fun stories and almost every Corps is different enough from the GLC to not be just a clone with a different color.
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it kind of does though
the whole reason the wizard chose him originally was because he was a good kid
if the wizard chooses this version of Billy, he might as well choose any random kid on the street
Reminded me of a weird cross between old EC comics and some offbeat Vertigo shit.
I read enough standard cape stuff as is.
Basically Kids fin d the dial. It turns them into random heroes and they beat up whatever villian is menacing them.
Then a new mini showed the dial ruin peoples lives because I guess that was the thing to do in comics at the time .
don't know how I messed that up
In other news, Marion Cotillard is not playing Talia al Ghul