I just don't understand why Starro has Grundy, Chemo, and Grodd. He said that the weaker the mind the easier to control, but Grodd has a super powerful mind.
I just sort of handwaved it away by assuming that the gorilla was another of the many gorilla characters to exist in the DCU; Monsieur Mallah, the Gorilla Boss of Gotham, one of the Primate Patrol, or the Mod Gorilla Boss. Or maybe just a regular gorilla that Booster thought was a supervillain gorilla.
He'll be getting a letter from PETA about that later.
Alright, serious reply. I think a character's death has more impact when it happens in a book where the character's been appearing for a while. It gives readers a chance to care about them, and what happens to them. If Dubbilex had been popping up in Superman stories for the past year or so, his death would bother me less. As is, it feels like they pulled him from limbo just to kill him, making him less of a character to be mourned, and more of a plot point to be absorbed and eventually forgotten.
If someone wanted to kill Robotman, I'd hope it would be in an ongoing Doom Patrol book, where Cliff Steele is a recurring character, and not in a random fifth week event. If Starfire died, it would probably resonate best in a Titans book, rather than say, Green Lantern. I'll give Robinson points for killing Dubbilex in a Jimmy Olsen book though, so at least he's dying in the right franchise.
I understand I'm probably an abnormality among comic fans though. I hold way too much of the mythology sacred, probably too much so for my own good, so I take umbrage at things a lot of things other readers don't balk at. I view killing a character as removing a piece of that mythology, forcing later writers to either never use the character, effectively removing them forever, or to cheapen the character by resurrecting them. Both aren't options I like.
Personally, I was a fan of Joe Quesada's Dead Means Dead edict. I may not have completely agreed with the strictness of it, since I think a shitty death should be able to be undone, but I liked his rationale. He felt that, by forcing writers to accept and acknowledge that a character would be dead forever if they wrote their death, it would make writers really stop and think about what they were taking off the table. Hopefully forcing them to write stories that didn't hinge on cheap dramatic shortcuts like killing B-listers, or writing character deaths that were really worthy of being a character's final send off.
Like I said though, I'm just sort of weird in that way.
i'm in absolute agreement with you. i wish DC had a Dead Means Dead policy. Instead they've gone the reverse route and I hate almost everything about DC these days.
Man, the reveal at the end of Legions of 3 Worlds was great
I love that Sodom Yat has the hair cut he has at the end of the original prophecy, nice bit of detail there.
haircut and the uniform is the same too. the last "Guardian of the Universe" works too because he likely still has ION within him and Kyle's Ion series was subtitled "Guardian of the Universe"
if the GLs keep having an important role in L3W i may have to buy it
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Anti-moment of the week, Punisher Max
It was a cop-out, which is annoying. But I probably shouldn't complain about it, because if he had really killed the little girl, and not then killed himself and ended the series, I probably wouldn't bother reading anymore.
Although, this does give room for some potential character exploration if Frank acknowledges that it still could have happened. We'll see!
It was a cop-out, which is annoying. But I probably shouldn't complain about it, because if he had really killed the little girl, and not then killed himself and ended the series, I probably wouldn't bother reading anymore.
Although, this does give room for some potential character exploration if Frank acknowledges that it still could have happened. We'll see!
Her showing him the bullet was a little weird too, though I guess you could explain it as subconsciously he knew he didn't kill her or something.
It was a little meh, but that last page did make me want to read the next issue. Always down with watching Frank dish out some righteous vengeance.
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It was a cop-out, which is annoying. But I probably shouldn't complain about it, because if he had really killed the little girl, and not then killed himself and ended the series, I probably wouldn't bother reading anymore.
Although, this does give room for some potential character exploration if Frank acknowledges that it still could have happened. We'll see!
Her showing him the bullet was a little weird too, though I guess you could explain it as subconsciously he knew he didn't kill her or something.
It was a little meh, but that last page did make me want to read the next issue. Always down with watching Frank dish out some righteous vengeance.
Yeah, it didn't put me off the book, it was just annoying. Which is exactly why I didn't want them to bring this up. Because if they don't pull the whole "JUST KIDDING! FOOLED YOU!" then they'd have to have him kill a kid and then keep being the Punisher. And that's stupid. He'd eat a bullet.
So don't get me wrong, I'm glad that was the outcome, and I'm glad it's resolved (it seems) so quickly, but it was a dumb thing to throw in when you're only doing one arc.
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Or maybe I should say a Gore-illa.
I just sort of handwaved it away by assuming that the gorilla was another of the many gorilla characters to exist in the DCU; Monsieur Mallah, the Gorilla Boss of Gotham, one of the Primate Patrol, or the Mod Gorilla Boss. Or maybe just a regular gorilla that Booster thought was a supervillain gorilla.
He'll be getting a letter from PETA about that later.
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i'm in absolute agreement with you. i wish DC had a Dead Means Dead policy. Instead they've gone the reverse route and I hate almost everything about DC these days.
if the GLs keep having an important role in L3W i may have to buy it
Although, this does give room for some potential character exploration if Frank acknowledges that it still could have happened. We'll see!
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It was a little meh, but that last page did make me want to read the next issue. Always down with watching Frank dish out some righteous vengeance.
"And this is his sofa, is it?" said Arthur.
So don't get me wrong, I'm glad that was the outcome, and I'm glad it's resolved (it seems) so quickly, but it was a dumb thing to throw in when you're only doing one arc.
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He hasn't yet. He's gonna be in Batman: Cacophony, the 3 issue miniseries by Kevin Smith that starts next month.