What's a good place to start if I want to read some Constantine stories? I've only read stiff where he's a side character.
Well, they recently start re-releasing all of Hellblazer in numbered trades, so you could conceivably start at the beginning. It's super eighties, and therefore kind of rough sometimes, but Jamie Delano overall does a solid job as the writer for the first like, forty issues.
If you want to start at something more modern, I think I'd recommend maybe Joyride? It's the start of Andy Diggle's run, and Diggle is pretty solid. Or maybe Red Sepulchre, slightly earlier- that's the start of Mike Carey's run.
I think there's just a large disparity between what some people feel about the extremis trial (or more specifically, body modification). I don't think the authors see it as anything more than a dickhead move where Tony offered something and then took it away.
Also, it's definitely not the traditional concept of body horror since your choices were either A. Anything you want (which ideally would be something you like), or b. What you had before you started (which, even if you hate, is kind of the opposite of body horror as far as I know.)
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I think there's just a large disparity between what some people feel about the extremis trial (or more specifically, body modification). I don't think the authors see it as anything more than a dickhead move where Tony offered something and then took it away.
Also, it's definitely not the traditional concept of body horror since your choices were either A. Anything you want (which ideally would be something you like), or b. What you had before you started (which, even if you hate, is kind of the opposite of body horror as far as I know.)
Being offered the ability to 'fix' yourself and then having that taken away is not the traditional idea of body horror but its no less awful
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I dunno, i don't really have many self image issues but at the very least the Extremis package would be able to up your muscle mass and make you feel more energetic and healthy
Even just being given that much and having it taken away without warning sounds fucking horrifying
I think there's just a large disparity between what some people feel about the extremis trial (or more specifically, body modification). I don't think the authors see it as anything more than a dickhead move where Tony offered something and then took it away.
Also, it's definitely not the traditional concept of body horror since your choices were either A. Anything you want (which ideally would be something you like), or b. What you had before you started (which, even if you hate, is kind of the opposite of body horror as far as I know.)
Being offered the ability to 'fix' yourself and then having that taken away is not the traditional idea of body horror but its no less awful
It's pretty terrible, but I'm pretty sure it was intended as more of an act of not giving a damn rather than an act of outright maliciousness. I think the authors just miscalculated how some people feel about this kind of thing, so rather than being a shitty corporate-style that the authors intended (the kind with unforeseen consequences and is really poor to the end-user), it comes off as something excessively evil in the eye of some people.
The next DC event. They're putting all their ongoings on hold for something like 40 separate miniserieses, with all the characters you know and love oh god readers please come back
I think there's just a large disparity between what some people feel about the extremis trial (or more specifically, body modification). I don't think the authors see it as anything more than a dickhead move where Tony offered something and then took it away.
Also, it's definitely not the traditional concept of body horror since your choices were either A. Anything you want (which ideally would be something you like), or b. What you had before you started (which, even if you hate, is kind of the opposite of body horror as far as I know.)
Being offered the ability to 'fix' yourself and then having that taken away is not the traditional idea of body horror but its no less awful
It's pretty terrible, but I'm pretty sure it was intended as more of an act of not giving a damn rather than an act of outright maliciousness. I think the authors just miscalculated how some people feel about this kind of thing, so rather than being a shitty corporate-style that the authors intended (the kind with unforeseen consequences and is really poor to the end-user), it comes off as something excessively evil in the eye of some people.
Absolutely
the reality is though, that the intent doesn't matter when you're talking about how I feel about the character
I absolutely cannot consider him as anything other than a villain, currently
The next DC event. They're putting all their ongoings on hold for something like 40 separate miniserieses, with all the characters you know and love oh god readers please come back
They just put all their ongoings on hold for Zero Year though.
Not that there was much of interest going on aside from who's gonna be the new Robin.
Stark has a long history of doing that kind of stuff; he decides he's Right, and then it doesn't really matter how everybody else feels about it. Does that make him a capital letter Villain? I dunno, arguably I guess. It makes an awful lot of marvel characters into villains though.
in this particular case there's some issue with personal agency/body autonomy that get to some people, too
it was the smallest on the list but
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The next DC event. They're putting all their ongoings on hold for something like 40 separate miniserieses, with all the characters you know and love oh god readers please come back
They just put all their ongoings on hold for Zero Year though.
Not that there was much of interest going on aside from who's gonna be the new Robin.
No, that's different because their ongoings had tie-in issues. They're literally not publishing their ongoing titles and pushing these minis for two months instead.
The next DC event. They're putting all their ongoings on hold for something like 40 separate miniserieses, with all the characters you know and love oh god readers please come back
They just put all their ongoings on hold for Zero Year though.
Not that there was much of interest going on aside from who's gonna be the new Robin.
No, that's different because their ongoings had tie-in issues. They're literally not publishing their ongoing titles and pushing these minis for two months instead.
I would 100% rather have Damian Wayne back versus letting any pathos percolating
His death was duuuuuumb
I thought Batman Inc. was significantly better than the average New 52 story. And like they stretched it out a bit too much with the dumb steps of grief bit but the one issue with zero dialogue right after he died was really, really good.
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I liked that they redid the art for the Absolute edition to remove any traces of the New 52
I would 100% rather have Damian Wayne back versus letting any pathos percolating
His death was duuuuuumb
I thought Batman Inc. was significantly better than the average New 52 story. And like they stretched it out a bit too much with the dumb steps of grief bit but the one issue with zero dialogue right after he died was really, really good.
Well Batman Inc. Wasn't a New 52 story, it was an old DCU story that they shoved into the New 52 even though it made no sense.
Personally I didn't like it very much. I really liked the first series where it was just Batman travelling around the world deputizing various Batmen but once it got into the whole megaplot with Tahlia and shit I lost all interest
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Well, they recently start re-releasing all of Hellblazer in numbered trades, so you could conceivably start at the beginning. It's super eighties, and therefore kind of rough sometimes, but Jamie Delano overall does a solid job as the writer for the first like, forty issues.
If you want to start at something more modern, I think I'd recommend maybe Joyride? It's the start of Andy Diggle's run, and Diggle is pretty solid. Or maybe Red Sepulchre, slightly earlier- that's the start of Mike Carey's run.
I want to be hopeful, but I fear they are presenting us nice things just to smash them to pieces.
Pretty much any teen, if you ask me.
DC's brilliant plan to remind readers how awesome their characters were before the reboot.
More just tease you by giving you what you want, but only for a miniseries and then they're gone again
My one greatest wish would be to have pre-Flashpoint Mr. Freeze show up and murder New 52 Mr. Freeze and take his place, though.
Back to the Waffle Dimension for Steph and company. Blargh
Also, it's definitely not the traditional concept of body horror since your choices were either A. Anything you want (which ideally would be something you like), or b. What you had before you started (which, even if you hate, is kind of the opposite of body horror as far as I know.)
Ah yes, the Stark Method
Being offered the ability to 'fix' yourself and then having that taken away is not the traditional idea of body horror but its no less awful
Even just being given that much and having it taken away without warning sounds fucking horrifying
It's pretty terrible, but I'm pretty sure it was intended as more of an act of not giving a damn rather than an act of outright maliciousness. I think the authors just miscalculated how some people feel about this kind of thing, so rather than being a shitty corporate-style that the authors intended (the kind with unforeseen consequences and is really poor to the end-user), it comes off as something excessively evil in the eye of some people.
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
The next DC event. They're putting all their ongoings on hold for something like 40 separate miniserieses, with all the characters you know and love oh god readers please come back
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Absolutely
the reality is though, that the intent doesn't matter when you're talking about how I feel about the character
I absolutely cannot consider him as anything other than a villain, currently
They just put all their ongoings on hold for Zero Year though.
Not that there was much of interest going on aside from who's gonna be the new Robin.
in this particular case there's some issue with personal agency/body autonomy that get to some people, too
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
No, that's different because their ongoings had tie-in issues. They're literally not publishing their ongoing titles and pushing these minis for two months instead.
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Oh.
The only differences are morality, and Tony has a black goatee
I want you to imagine that you have body dysmorphia
That, through a fluke of genetics/engineering/god, you were placed in the wrong body
You have never felt at home in your own skin your whole life
and then someone says you can click a button and all your problems will be solved
You will be the ideal of what you have always wanted to be
And then, after a month, you change back, with no warning, and are told to pay a fee you can in no way afford to get it back
I told him to avoid Living Weapon and just go reread IIF instead.
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I'm just hoping they last long enough to do a season long adaption of Dangerous Habits
Obviously.
His death was duuuuuumb
Usually surgery/body modification doesn't actually solve body dismorphic disorder.
I thought Batman Inc. was significantly better than the average New 52 story. And like they stretched it out a bit too much with the dumb steps of grief bit but the one issue with zero dialogue right after he died was really, really good.
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See, I'd feel depression, despair, and loss.
Not so much horror.
I associate that with more...Junji Ito-ish stuff.
Personally I didn't like it very much. I really liked the first series where it was just Batman travelling around the world deputizing various Batmen but once it got into the whole megaplot with Tahlia and shit I lost all interest
And I fuckin loved Morrison's Batman and Robin