Has DC announced if there is any kind of standardization to to length of story arcs? Is each book just doing their own thing? I just noticed that Aquaman #5 is the final part of a story and realized I hadn't really been paying attention to parts like that.
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I thinl each book is doing its own thing. Like Deathstroke seems to be wrapping up its arc with issue 7.
So... rereading Batwoman, and I'm not sure how I feel. With what happened to Bette, I'm feeling kind of let down with where the book's going. It feels like either editorial or Williams' writing partner doesn't think Kate has enough motivation to be Batwoman.
I dunno, it was handled well, and was powerful
, I'm sitting here with my stomach in knots and shaking a little. But, I'm not sure if I want to go on if the inevitable occurs.
I dunno, it was handled well, and was powerful
especially when her being nearly killed (and her final fate is unknown) was interspersed with Maggie and Kate making love
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I was trying to decide if I liked the art in Captain Atom and then I hit this page:
I thought it looked cool. I can't pinpoint what it reminds me of, though.
Alan Moore. This looks like it could be ripped right out of WATCHMEN or MIRACLEMAN.
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DC are cancelling six titles - Blackhawks, Hawk and Dove, Men of War, Mister Terrific, OMAC and Static Shock - and replacing them with six new titles = Batman Incorporated, Earth 2, G.I. Combat, Dial H, The Ravagers and Worlds' Finest.
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I was actually enjoying Mr Terrific, but I think I was the only one.
Earth 2?
Glad to have Batman Inc back.
I agree with Houde that Mister Terrific was pretty good. Nothing ground breaking but enjoyable.
Hawk & Dove, OMAC, and Static Shock were beyond terrible. Blackhawks and Men of War made no impression on me.
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Never tried OMAC or Static Shock, but Hawk & Dove I had high hopes for, and may have been good, if Liefeld didn't ruin it with his ****ty excuse of drawing.
Though not all the blame is on him, I mean, Condor and Swan! was a horrible choice for antagonists, representing other gods of order and chaos. The premise was there, but the execution was horrendous.
Surprised that Legion Lost isn't on the list.
Though not all the blame is on him, I mean, Condor and Swan! was a horrible choice for antagonists, representing other gods of order and chaos. The premise was there, but the execution was horrendous.
Surprised that Legion Lost isn't on the list.
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CHINA MIEVILLE!
Win. I'm willing to lose all those other books for a Mieville comic. I really liked Men of War though.
Win. I'm willing to lose all those other books for a Mieville comic. I really liked Men of War though.
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Which China Mieville books do you recommend?
Zombipanda
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Hm. King Rat is a good place to start. I read Perdido Street Station first, and quite liked it. I haven't read anything from him that really has a barrier to entry but King Rat was really his breakout and Perdido really had a dense and interesting mythology around it.
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Rasafrackincrappinbook....
I don't get anything they canceled. I'll probably get Earth 2 and Dial H. I've never heard of China Mieville but Astro-monkey up there is excited and thats good enough for me. That and Karen Berger is editing it.
Zombipanda
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China Mieville does a lot of interesting urban fantasy stuff. He's the kind of guy that "Liberals Are Killing Comics" dude would loathe.
He's written a few novels and does a pretty good job of keeping them diverse by mixing other styles in with the urban fantasy.
He's also had two pitches turned down. One was an Iron Man spin-off and had an employee at a shuttered Stark plant becoming a socialist "Scrap Iron Man" who fought for social justice and, with a team of technicians, was trying to take down Tony Stark. It struck me as, uuuhhhh, very eighties, and kind of up its own ass. There was also a Swamp Thing pitch that got scrapped with the DC relaunch but it was supposed to be "very political" and have Swamp Things with grafted machine guns.
He's written a few novels and does a pretty good job of keeping them diverse by mixing other styles in with the urban fantasy.
He's also had two pitches turned down. One was an Iron Man spin-off and had an employee at a shuttered Stark plant becoming a socialist "Scrap Iron Man" who fought for social justice and, with a team of technicians, was trying to take down Tony Stark. It struck me as, uuuhhhh, very eighties, and kind of up its own ass. There was also a Swamp Thing pitch that got scrapped with the DC relaunch but it was supposed to be "very political" and have Swamp Things with grafted machine guns.
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Those both seem to be profoundly stupid ideas.
Zombipanda
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The former sounds less profoundly stupid and more profoundly dated. The latter.... Well, there's not nearly as much to go on, but I'd say there were distinct political elements in Moore's run, so it doesn't strike me as antithetical to the character.
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Oh I'm fine with politics in my Swamp Thing. I can't see doing the character properly without them. I just think Swamp Things with grafted machine guns sounds really, really dumb. Are we talking random plant elementals, which would need to be mindless to not turn to Swamp Things side... which doesn't work because he control plants. So they'd need to have a mind, be able to resist STs control, but still be cool with firing off a gun. Probably some kind of solider transferred into a Plant Elemental, and that doesn't work because no one would ever volunteer for that, and even if they did would turn as soon as they realized that they're never having proper sex again, regardless of what their tubers might do.
I really don't see a way for that to work.
Having said that, Dial H! Yay! I've heard really good things about the last revival.
They are relaunching Justice Society and calling it Earth 2? I'm confused.
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Earth 2 will be set on Earth 2 and focus on, at least initially, the JSA. It will likely be set in the 30s/40s. Like Earth 2 used to be Pre-Crisis. It'll be the first new series not taking place in the main universe.
Gotcha. I will check that out; sounds interesting.
Also,
Rob Liefeld to write Deathstroke, Savage Hawkman, & Grifter.
That does not sound interesting and I will not check them out.
