tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76301943667238239772024-03-14T00:21:20.648-07:00Words Lines and PicturesA blog about comic books and all things that can be construed as being about comic books.
We can't speak for all comics geeks but we sure will try!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559709230219813047noreply@blogger.comBlogger134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630194366723823977.post-78278242088013006042013-09-19T20:28:00.002-07:002013-09-19T20:28:53.439-07:00My Nerd Cave IdeaSo I don't really have my nerd cave anymore but I sort of used to. I was watching this commercial with that dirty player who happens to be likable that plays in the NFL, Clay Matthews, as opposed to Suh or Harrison from the Lions and Bengals.<br />
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I got rid of my "Nerd Cave" in a few moves towards being an actual grown up who could a) play a video game in a dining room and b) have a big ass flat screen TV that my wife could watch HGTV on without needing me to deactivate my "Non Geek Destructo Ray".<br />
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Now that I don't have a Nerd Cave though, I'm imagining remaking one (when I buy a house) and I think I have the rough workings of a plan. I want to know what yours will be (5 details) but here's mine (media server and big screen TV are obvious).<br />
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1. Location: A tree house<br />
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2. External Logo: A giant block letter "4" in each cardinal directions<br />
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3. Furniture: Gaming table shaped like the letter "A".<br />
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4. Refreshment: Cold Jameson on tap<br />
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5. Other: Some of those display cases where I can display the outfits of my fave dead comics characters or dead wrestlers.<br />
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Bring it!<br />
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If you like this sort of odd stuff I'll be doing more of it here since i think I'm doing heftier topics with my other blog: <a href="http://www.chicagonow.com/nine-panel-layout/">http://www.chicagonow.com/nine-panel-layout/</a><br />
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You ever have those moments where you're just not sure what to put in one of your blogs so it just sort of sits for a bit? Well this is one of those moments and one of those blogs.<br />
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<a href="http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/mpaa-fires-back-at-piracy-study-1200590749/">http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/mpaa-fires-back-at-piracy-study-1200590749/</a><br />
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So basically a study was done by Social Scientists in Europe that confirms a thing that I have been hearing for about the last year from people around the shop. Now our conversations surround the downloading of printed material but I think the conclusions reached matter.<br />
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I get asked how much impact of digital comics has impacted my Brick and Mortar comic cook retail business. My quick and dirty observation is probably about as much as broke customer "moving back home" does.<br /><br />People have been telling me that instead of primarily shifting all of their comics purchases to digital download, they sample things they aren't sure they''d want to own a physical copy of and if they really like it SOMETHING HAPPENS.<br />
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There was a point about a year and a half ago where people told me the thing that would happen was they'd keep buying the series digitally. NOW we've reached a point where people are trying a series online, hearing their friends talk about a series and then coming into the shop to buy the collected versions of that series. <br />
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Apparently there is so much competition for their eyeballs on a screen that they can't wait to have that experience of buying SOMETHING in it's collected form. Now this is not according to my barely scientific research, a slam against digital. It seems like it's more of a move to ensure that if a consumer who may be prone to buying digitally is going to own something, then it had better be considered really good by the community. Community in this case is a group of peers and recommenders.<br /><br />How does this relate to the study mentioned above? Simple, we're not idiots. We all know damn well that everyone who talks to us about their digital comics isn't buying them legally. Some of those folks have got to be using some swank (and at this stage in the game, rather simple) piracy skills to stay abreast of what's going on in comics.<br />
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Currently there are upwards of 150 different monthly comics titles on my shelves. a full 30 of them are Batman or X-Men related and while retailers and fans alike would live for all of these comics to be home runs, retailers and fans alike know good and damn well that this is not going to happen. Of the books on my shelves I'd only count about 25 of them as HOME RUN titles. That leaves a lot of room for doubt in the minds of consumers. Room for doubt and a lack of depth in the pockets is room room for piracy.<br />
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Since not every pirate hangs out with only pirates, the pirates talk about comics with non pirates and they themselves become recommenders. Having a few less places to pirate COULD delay piracy and alter the established trajectory of SEE> TELL>BUY.<br /><br />I guess my ultimate point here is that I think it's plausible. No one wants to give pirates credit for anything positive because they are pirates but everyone uses them for something or another.<br /><br /><br />
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We held a Super Character Draft with the idea being that when we were done we'd pitch a comic to the group. There were 13 participants and 15 rounds.<br />
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Each team must have a supporting character.<br />
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Each team must have 1 real life person who has appeared in a comic book at least once.<br />
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Note: During the draft players were precluded from picking me as I have been in a comic book. Points to you if you happen to own one of those rare works of art.<br />
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The 1st pick was Betsy and here is her team:<br />
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Muhammed Ali<br />
Superman<br />
Power Girl<br />
Judge Dredd<br />
Sif<br />
Alfred<br />
Batwoman<br />
Kamandi<br />
Gene Simmons<br />
Atomic Robo<br />
Guy Gardner<br />
Dracula<br />
Fin Fang Foom<br />
Sinestro<br />
Devil Dinosaur<br />
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The Pitch:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Justice League meets Lost.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sinestro gets a new ring, an iridescent "Time Ring" and uses it to manipulate the timeline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Justice League is tries to stop him, but he uses the ring to send several members (Guy Gardner, Superman, Power Girl) "away."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"Away" is the Land of the Lost, Sleestaks and all. Objects and people from different timelines have been displaced here by Sinestro (including legendary/literary characters like Dracula). A few people/creatures, like Kamandi and Devil Dinosaur, are natives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Currently Fin Fang Foom is the ruler and uses an army of dinosaurs to terrorize the land. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The first cover would be Mohammad Ali punching a Tyrannosaurus Rex. </span></div>
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While this topic has been beaten to death at this point as it relates to "Should DC have hired Card or not", I'm feeling like the real problem with DC hiring Card is that it looks to me like DC is treating Card's detractors the same way it treats diversity in general.<br />
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DC knows that there are only so many members of of it's buying public who are not straight white males but that isn't news. This is comics. MOST comic book readers/buyers are going to be straight white males but given the efforts of publishers and fans even on smaller scales, this is changing and faster than DC seems to be willing to admit.<br />
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DC didn't just hire a famous writer who annoyed people to write Superman. Comic book companies seem to troll Hollywood for leftover plot ideas, leaping from the minds of vain celebs all the time. That could have been Kevin Smith or Michael Bay. People on the Internet and in comic shops would have had all sorts of gripes but everyone would have gotten past it pretty quickly.<br />
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These guys went for OSC and I have to believe someone in a meeting said, "You do know this guys is ON RECORD as a champion anti-gay bigot don't you?" I'd be willing to bet someone then explained that OSC and some other more desired writer shared an agent or something and if they hired OSC, they could get BIG FISH X to come on board for a Batman GN in time for Christmas!"<br />
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Note: Mark the date down so that when the announcement happens, you know I called it.<br />
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The problem with OSC goes beyond bigotry on the part of the politics and finances of the writer. The problem goes to the alleged efforts the publisher has made towards respecting and promoting diversity. it's as if DC has said, "Come on people, it's not like we've been cancelling comics starring minority characters, which we KNOW tend to have a hard time maintaining traction in a market dominated by white male reader dollars."<br />
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DC is hiring people and making business decisions as if each one takes place in a vacuum but for how much longer is this a viable option or way of approaching the quest for sales?<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I'll try and make this simple. With all the publicity Orson Scott Card has gotten for being a bigot and getting to write a Superman story, Challengers Comics decided to give the proceeds of any Card Superman stories sold to the Human Rights</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Campaign.<br /><br />Apparently some folks on Tumblr and FB don't understand how fighting bigotry works and have been giving Patrick a little bit of lip about it (in typical Internet fashion).<br /><br />I happen to think Challengers is on the right path with this and fuck bigotry so therefore Third Coast Comics will also donate 100% of the profits of any copies we sell of Orson Scott Card's Superman to the Human Rights Campaign.<br /><br />Personally this is why we read the exploits of superheroes, right? To be inspired to fight against injustice and inequality wherever we see it.<br /><br />I don't see this as mixing business with politics. I see this as mixing business with human rights.<br /><br />The damn books is gonna blow anyway.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.hrc.org/" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">http://www.hrc.org/</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.thirdcoastcomics.com</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559709230219813047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630194366723823977.post-33316898856462594252012-11-29T14:30:00.003-08:002012-11-29T14:30:28.879-08:00Mission: Be Better FansRecently quite a bit of attention has been given to so comic book industry professionals who have found ways to simultaneously toss a nerd hand grenade and then throw themselves on the same hand grenade.<br />
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I'm finding it all to be sort of tiresome and I'm not posting links. You can find it yourself.<br />
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One minute we're all having a good time bitching about the quality of our comics and the next we're making each other prove their loyalty to the genre itself.<br />
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One minute we're pissed that Magneto is breaking up threesomes and the next, we're mad that some little know film maker said a few years ago that he'd love to have sex with some fictional characters but not others, in a way that makes me pretty sure I never want to see his search history or look in that box in his closet behind his old luggage.<br />
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I'm pretty sure there was a time when these things didn't happen in public but I can't tell you when that was.<br />
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I'm not really one to want to take a bullet for jack asses in our business but I will say it might be time for us all to help kill this before it grows.<br /><br />Can we become better fans?<br />
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I own a comic book retail shop and when I hear someone in the shop making juvenile comments about characters (or worse, actual people), I pretty much let them know that we're really not in the mood for it.<br />
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There's a certain level of discourse I can deal with and believe me the bar is NOT very high but I don't need to constantly hear jokes about Power Girl's boobs or Batwoman's sexual orientation.<br />
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If you have friends who read comics and all they want to talk about is having their way with Thor, feel free to change the conversation to something like the current market value of Avengers Mansion or whether or not Nightwing is the sort of guy who'd get to a crime scene in a hybrid.<br />
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I already have standard responses for when someone tells me DC hates women or that the comics industry hates Black characters and people.<br />
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I do realize for us to all be consistent, we'll have to cut our fanfic consumption WAY down. You fans of Sherlock are SCREWED if you want things to get better.<br />
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Make no mistake, I like when we fans can think outside the box. I like when we deconstruct our favorite hobbies and cobble them back together in our own image. Ask me how often I recreate wrestling stables of the past with current wrestlers! We love to engage in dumb navel gazing nerd pursuits. It just seems that now we've hit a point where the things we'd have just said to our friends when drunk in the back yard are coming out of our mouths sober and on the Internet.<br />
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Can all of you help all of us be better fans? When you see a chick cosplaying Zatanna, Phoenix, Black Cat, American Maid, Batwoman, Maria Hill, Spider-Woman, Harley Quinn, Misty Knight, She Hulk, Firestar, or Dawnstar, just respond like you do when you see that dude cosplaying Fat Punisher or Fat Superman, Fat Shazam or Granny Goodness:<br />
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<i>"Hey, nice job." </i> - Meaning it<br />
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<i>"Hey, nice job."</i> - Totally faking it<br />
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<i>"Scuse me Bro, can I check and see if there's a decent copy of Legion of Super-Heroes #294 in that box behind you?" </i> - Meaning that shit because that's really what we're all at the show for.<br />
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At the next C2E2, I'm gonna post up somewhere and thank all of you geeks just for showing up. I won't even talk mad shit about that giant ass statue of Lorne Greene as Adama that you are wheeling out of the show or call too much attention to the fact that you stood in line for 2 hours and paid a lot of money to see "Celebrity X" when for the price of a martini you could have waited and met them at the bar.<br />
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I used to think that we needed to do all we could to make sure we even had a generation of comic book fans after us. Now I'm a bit more concerned about whether or not we can have decent conversations with the ones we still have right now!<br />
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Lets be better fans so I don't have to see people openly declaring that NOW they can't BARE to pay actual money for Guardians of the Galaxy while at the same time asking me if there will ever be a hard cover for All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder...<br />
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Yes...I'm leaving that right there....<br />
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Me and you...better fans...for our FUTURE!<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br />
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The most common comment is that everyone LOVED Starman. My most common follow-up is Get over it.<br />
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I really thing James Robinson is an amazing writer that I'd love to see work with a small core cast and get the space to tell sprawling stories about everything from Legacy to Regret to Acceptance of the roles of heroes.<br />
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Please, Mr Robinson, take me through the 12 steps of becoming a super person!<br />
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Full disclosure: I couldn't get through his JLA run. I felt it was wordier than a latter day Chris Claremont Comic and that penciller Mark Bagley was not the best fit.<br />
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Not trying to bitch about it but I will do another post about what I;d have LOVED to see in that run.<br />
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Multiverse - It's a concept that's been around as long as any of you have been reading books aimed at nerds. There are many universes. The writers focus on one and sometimes bounce you over to another where shit is just different. Like the Star Trek Mirror Universe or the Cosby Show after Lisa Bonet slept with Mickey Rourke.<br />
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DC has one of those again. There are 52 Universes in their Multiverse (so far) and Earth 2 is...the 2nd one...yeah...<br />
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Now, on this Earth, in this Universe, SUPERMAN, BATMAN, and WONDER WOMAN are DEAD!!!!<br />
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They died defending Earth and that left Earth with a void of heroes and SO Robinson is reintroducing characters from DC's past as modern day heroes who develop sans a Holy Trinity of Heroes!!!!<br />
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Here's why you should pay attention:<br />
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In a "normal" Multiversal situation the differences are generally rather subtle. Superman has salt and pepper grey and Batman has a dog named Ace.<br />
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In THIS Earth 2, Their new version of Terry Sloane (Mr Terrific) has adopted an Ozymandias like role of "I know what's best for you and yeah you may have to die" which is a perfect background for this title.<br />
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Think the Other Universe in Fringe!!!<br />
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I LOVE` this book and you should budget for it!<br />
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I don't really expect to keep this up but I'm gonna try and lets see how long it lasts.<br />
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The Internet has proven to be a place where fans can just rip everything endlessly but I'm feeling mad positive about my comics these days so I'm gonna try and give all of you my opinion of books that MIGHT be on your shelves and why you may want to give them a shot.<br />
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I'll start with books that came in recently and then in an update, I'll try and get to this week's books:<br />
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OK so yeah, the scuttlebutt is correct, THIS NEW`DC version of the Phantom Stranger is Judas, who is being made to atone for his crime by doing deeds in the service of what we can only assume to be some sort of "Lords of Order".<br />
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I have to tell you that the book was good anytime character were not actually speaking. I was wondering about what I could only see as foreshadowing of some possible story elements! That's a good thing. Then...dialog.<br />
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The dialog was distractedly bad BUT I'll give DC mad props for introducing the Spectre to the New 52 without attaching him to Earth 2 (which I LOVE). Go read it...just not too closely.<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.thirdcoastcomics.com</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559709230219813047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630194366723823977.post-38352316147950853052012-02-10T12:53:00.000-08:002012-02-10T13:35:56.107-08:00World's Finest Ways to Make Sure Fans are Never HappyI'm gonna keep this short and sweet.<br /><br />Well...I'm gonna keep this short and sweet for me...<br /><br />DC's just released an image for World's Fines, starring Power Girl and Huntress, which is a lynchpin of DC's "Second Wave" of comics in their New 52 relaunch.<br /><br />Here: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=36931<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3lYhYZL-Duw/TzWIzFA4mLI/AAAAAAAAAhA/0gpET9mZWHo/s1600/WF1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3lYhYZL-Duw/TzWIzFA4mLI/AAAAAAAAAhA/0gpET9mZWHo/s400/WF1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5707618513862564018" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Fans have been clamoring for a return of fan fave Power Girl since the relaunch happened in September but now the internet is abuzz with "WTF" comments about the new look of Power Girl.<br /><br />I can explain the look in a few different ways:<br /><br />1) This look is VINTAGE George Perez. Perez is generally a product of the 70's and 80's in comics and in my mind he's a legend but if you hire a legend, you'll get what that legend does.<br /><br />2) DC may be a bit self conscious about it's image as it relates to the ladies after last summer's kerfuffle about how they clearly don't like the ladies as evidenced by them working everywhere but DC, Catwoman's libido and whatever the shit was happening in Red Hood and the Outlaws #1 Featuring Starfire as played by Torrie Spelling.<br /><br />Now Power Girl is back and it's possible that fandom has crawled so far up DC's crack that it has run away from the one thing that it had working for it.<br /><br />History.<br /><br />Power Girl is sort of a breakout character of DC's last decade and while many casual fans didn't understand the "boob window", it was as much a part of her look as Batman's arm thingies or Superman's red undies. It was sort of like that rope around Captain Marvel's neck.<br /><br />No one knows why it's there but they miss it when it's gone.<br /><br />I don't really want to bash this outfit too much but I do know that the most important thing about Power Girl in this story is that she and Huntress are trying to find their way back to their own dimension and she doesn't need a new and totally foreign look to do that.<br /><br />This outfit is a space suit with a cape and that "P" symbol screams 1985 to me. I'm a huge Legion of Super Heroes fan and I bet this suit would look GREAT on Phantom Girl. In fact, it's the sort of thing that folks will wear in the year 3012 when capes and monogram clothing are as much a part of our lives as zippers and cell phones.<br /><br />DC needed to bring Power Girl back but they didn't need to scrap the old look so completely. Especially if they were allowing Perez to add those HR Geiger inspired bracelets and boots.<br /><br />I don't know. I like the new 52 and I expect good things from this book but DC needs to stop battling itself when the internet screams "YOU HATE US" and stick to what works best for it, which is great characters being done by great creators.<br /><br />Soon, this costume will, like many of the Jim Lee redesigned outfits of other New DC characters, look pretty dated.<br /><br />Power Girl's outfit here is so off the mark that I'm shocked she doesn't have a high collar.<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.thirdcoastcomics.com</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559709230219813047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630194366723823977.post-69464037872903484602011-10-13T12:10:00.001-07:002011-10-13T12:59:44.464-07:00What DC missed: KIDS!!!!!So we're all done with the 1st Month of the new 52 (and we're like 2 weeks past that) and it hit me that what was really missed was a chance to take on the one challenge DC said they really wanted to address, NEW READERS!<br /><br />Now I know DC meant folks maybe younger than me who missed out on comics but why not go WAY younger and commit to 10 comics that are all ages that start fresh and are told in the "One and Done" format.<br /><br />What do they have to lose really? They just committed to 52 books and I know they will have to axe 10 of those if they want to keep the quality up so here's what I propose:<br /><br />10: Batman: The Brave and the Bold - It's a team up book and the book exists now and already works and you can just throw in kids versions of character that appear in the New 52 pretty much as they appear. In the 1st 3 issues, Batman can team up with Blue Beetle, Sinestro, and even Animal Man.<br /><br /><br />9: Young Justice: I don't care if ewe have the Teen Titans or not BUT, since the cartoon is still on, lets keep that book going. Young Heroes and Sidekicks having adventures!<br /><br />8: Wonder Woman: When was the last time there was a Wonder Woman comic on the stands that a little girl in a comic shop could actually read? No offense to the great job that Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang are doing on the main WW book but a horse got his head chopped off all bloody like. Not for kids...<br /><br />7: Legion of Superheros: Yeah I know the show got canceled a few years ago BUT this gives you lots of diversity and can be told in a "There's hope for the future" sort of way. Also it's KIDS HAVING ADVENTURES...IN THE FUTURE!!!!<br /><br />6: The Power of SHAZAM: What the shit is the reason for not having at the very least a kids focused book about the adventures of Billy Batson, a kid given the powers he'd need to solve problems by the gods themselves!!!<br /><br /><br />5: Young Frankenstein and the Agents of Shade: Yeah I just bastardized the title of the main book but whatever. Make Frankenstein a kid monster and send him on missions with kid vampires, ghosts, wolf men and whatever!!! DO IT!<br /><br />4: Tiny Titans: Well if this book gets canceled MFers would lose their shit. The soccer moms in the area of my store would do horrible things to their ex husbands. Can't let that happen.<br /><br />3: Justice League of America: Ok so JLU is off the air and I'm mostly over it but kids should have a Justice League comic to read that isn't as campy as the Superfriends and isn't going to be as prone to darkness for the sake of darkness like Identity Crisis. How about a JLA book that tells the sorts of stories from the 1st 200 issues of the original DC JLA comic?<br /><br />2: Superman: Because what kid doesn't like Superman! This also gives DC the ability to do what the Brave and the Bold comic does with guest stars. I'm really interested in Mr. Miracle, Orion and some of the other Jack Kirby creations.<br /><br /><br />1: Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew: Look, you may think it's silly but trust me. Put this book in the hands of a 6 year old and you'll have his families cash for life.<br /><br />here: read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Carrot_and_His_Amazing_Zoo_Crew!<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DIOWlqIG414/TpdDARMD6dI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/INIuzg8m5KY/s1600/carrot02.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 263px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DIOWlqIG414/TpdDARMD6dI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/INIuzg8m5KY/s400/carrot02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663068728334739922" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.thirdcoastcomics.com</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559709230219813047noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630194366723823977.post-32801949105706347342011-08-03T14:12:00.000-07:002011-08-03T15:38:15.007-07:00THIS IS THE SPIDERMAN OF COLOR: Now go away!Ok look, most of you are not reading OR BUYING Spider-Man comics these days and you haven't been for some time so after reading the stupid comments from the general public and the poorly written stories from the media in general, I'd like to explain things to you in the most basic form possible.<br /><br />I lack sock puppets so here goes this.<br /><br />The Contents of Comic Books are not real. They are just stuff written on stuff to talk about stuff.<br /><br />Some cool people like stuff.<br /><br /><br />Marvel Comics is a company in the business of making comic books. I have already spoken as to the nature of where comic books fit into things that are real but I'll elaborate for the racists who are probably reading this, not knowing they've pissed me off.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Things that count in science (and are not theoretical):</span></span><br /><br />People: Einstein, Newton and Hawking for example<br /><br />Places: CERN, Pangea, Easter Island and Madame Currie's Lab.<br /><br />Things: Bricks, Dolphins, Ice Cream, Sushi, Lesbians and the paper that makes comic books.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Things that science nerds like but may or not be real/possible:</span></span><br /><br />Alternate Universes, Dark Matter and Time Travel, the contents of comic books (depending on your level of socialization)<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Things that science would tell you are real:</span></span><br /><br />Matter, Energy, Emotions of Stupid Mother Fuckers who don't buy comics<br /><br /><br />Now then, Marvel Comics as a company have created several alternate universes. For all intents and purposes lets call the one where Spider-Man is alive and still white, the M616 universe. This is how comic book fans think of it.<br /><br />The Spider-Man you saw in movies and TV is not the M616 universe. Those were movies and TV and the people who make that stuff think not very much about what nerds think. They love their bank accounts more than they love your comic book continuity.<br /><br />One of the universes that Marvel Comics created went through some major upheaval recently and because it's fairly new and NOT the main universe, this is ok. Let us call this universe MU2000 (Marvel Ultimate 2000) since 2000 was about the year this universe was created.<br /><br />We have come to a point where Peter Parker in the MU2000 universe is dead as a doornail but the M616 Peter Parker is STILL alive and white (I state the latter because that matters to some of you idiots).<br /><br />THIS IS THE SPIDER-MAN of MU2000<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DMm5CGfsh_A/TjnEa67YEII/AAAAAAAAAf0/WRewWXXdLbQ/s1600/The-new-Spider-Man-Half-black-all-hero-MH8RQ8T-x-large.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 297px; height: 218px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DMm5CGfsh_A/TjnEa67YEII/AAAAAAAAAf0/WRewWXXdLbQ/s400/The-new-Spider-Man-Half-black-all-hero-MH8RQ8T-x-large.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636752375404826754" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Now we know there just happen to be some people out there in the world who can't stand when something from their childhood changes or goes away. For this reason I think we still have things like all the stuff from the childhood of anyone 35-105 that folks haven't gotten over to the tune of giving something new a chance because their racist and withered hearts are full of poo.<br /><br />For those of you with poo in your hearts, you blow BUT generally the M616 universe is still there for you. Peter Parker is alive and well and he's doing stuff.<br /><br />Here he is:<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o1tq8lOvQ0M/TjnHAh6-d-I/AAAAAAAAAf8/10WblO_cmOg/s1600/Spidey77.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 291px; height: 440px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o1tq8lOvQ0M/TjnHAh6-d-I/AAAAAAAAAf8/10WblO_cmOg/s400/Spidey77.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636755220550547426" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Lets be honest, there's a white man under that mask for damn sure.<br /><br />Now, knock yourselves out.<br /><br />Now, as Spider-Man goes, I don't really care because I'm not that big a fan BUT I do care that assholes run to the damn internets anytime they hear that a fictitious White person has bought the farm, only to have a similarly fictitious Black/Hispanic person pick up the mantle. The bigot rage is so strong sometimes that you'd think a comic book company was about to have an encounter with a iceberg ala Titanic and sink into an ocean of ill thought out futurism.<br /><br />In reality if Glen Beck (who bitched and blamed this all on Michelle Obama) and the majority of you racist jag bags out in internet land actually spent money on half the shit you showed indignation about, the world would come closer to resembling your world view. It does not because you are assholes and the universe hates you. You also have ugly feet.<br /><br />Ok to summarize. Spider-Man is only "Black-Spanic" in an alternate univere of a thing that is also not real.<br /><br />Comic books, while not being real, are still composed of matter and the energy contained within is still great, especially when a bunch of racist ass goblins decide they'll leave my favorite hobby to me and my friends.<br /><br />For the record, I count among my friends the following types of people:<br /><br />Blacks<br />Whites<br />Asians<br />Aliens, illegal or otherwise<br />Gays<br />Dems<br />Reps<br />a Libertarian<br />Some dumb folks<br />Smart folks<br />Scientists<br />This one chick from Germany<br />Geeks<br />Nerds<br />Some kids from Jersey<br />The Jewish Girl from Texas<br />Small Town girls who love beer<br />People with feelings<br />People in recovery<br />Pro comic book artists<br />Less than pro comic book artists<br />My Sister with lupus<br />My Sister who likes jean skirts<br />Radio personalities<br />Sports radio listeners<br />Catholics<br />Pagans<br />Travelers<br />Homebodies<br />Knitters<br />Boozers<br />Believers in the Power of Metal<br />Some Haters<br />and anyone who reads this and knows where I'm coming from.<br /><br />If you can't accept that Spider-Man can be brown in some other made up universe then you are an ass and when you move to Asslandia, we will not miss you.<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.thirdcoastcomics.com</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559709230219813047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630194366723823977.post-10594884851168218732011-06-24T10:59:00.000-07:002011-06-24T11:02:59.854-07:00DC Relaunch: The Bat-Network<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal">If all the pals of Batman had their own searchlight signals, the skies over Gotham would look like Vegas!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" ></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" ></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:black;" >Batwing by Judd Winnick and Ben Oliver</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: I’m glad later press releases narrowed this down to a fictional city in the </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Congo</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" > rather than “The Batman of Africa.” I hear that place is pretty big.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: I don’t give a shit. The “Press” can kiss my ass for pretending they care if </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Africa</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" > is a big or small place at all. In one fucking month, Batman can have his ass in </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Gotham</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >, Metropolis, Vegas, </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Spain</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >, </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Mexico</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >, </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Japan</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" > and the god damn moon. This Batwing guy has a fictional city because if he didn’t, he’s have a hovering base over </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Mt.</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" > </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Kilimanjaro</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" > and would get everywhere in </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Africa</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" > by teleporting and would solve it’s problems in a year, making Bruce Wayne look like a waspish slacker. Fuck the “Press”.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: I know there’s only one writer I’d trust with the “hovering over Kilimanjaro” angle. But unfortunately Bob Haney is dead.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Wait! Morrison put his Ultramarines there didn’t he? Then Grodd ate them. Black folks forgot to get angry and complain. So did vegetarians. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Red Hood and the Outlaws by Scott Lobdell and Kenneth Rocafort</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Wow, you can’t swing a dead cat in here without hitting an angry sidekick--oh sorry, Speedy.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Well I think this is meant to have that WildStorm like feel. It’s the only reason you include Starfire. I Can see Red Arrow hanging out with Red Hood but there are other angry also ran side kicks they could use, right? </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Absolutely. All-new, all-deadly versions of Wing, Dan the Dyna-Mite, and Little Boy Blue.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: If the JSA still existed, I know they’d use Ted Grant’s Wildcat kid. If this were a WildStom title we’d just be missing some feral cat dude with claws and a killer robot-demon. Technically maybe that’s Starfire, who also gets to be the hot, angry, space babe. She’ll have a katana to use by issue #7.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Doesn’t Lobdell have the Teen Titans also?</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Yeah. Cross that bridge when you need to set it on fire with me in a few days.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:black;" >Nightwing by Kyle Higgins and Eddie Barrows</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Take 2 steps back, Dick Grayson!</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Sigh...To be honest we all knew it was coming. The online casual readership doesn’t know fuck all about there being 2 Batmen running around. It’s just confusing to them. He goes back to being Nightwing. At least they didn’t kill him after making him one of the best characters of the last 10 years. I’m looking at you Marvel.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: I know, I can’t believe Marvel killed the Sentry either.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Well...or Ares, the guy who killed the Sentry for that matter...</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:black;" >Batgirl by Gail Simone and Adrian Syaf</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Barbara Gordon walking again can only mean one thing: DC finally figured out they can kill Stephanie Brown a second time!</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: No they haven’t. They don’t need anymore hate mail from the very audience they want to draw back to comics...wait...DC isn’t trying to draw girls who started reading comics Circa Y: The Last Man #1, back to comics. They are trying to attract a crowd that’s 18 - 35...which would be too young to have remembered the last time Barbara Gordon was Batgirl. Honestly, if you told anyone that the Joker had a) killed a Robin and b) crippled a Batgirl, they’d have to wonder why Batman a) didn’t just throw him in front of a train...accidentally and b) why he bothered with plucky teenagers. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: I’ve seen people ask you that question. You hurl a copy of Brat Pack at them.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: I will say this to all the people who think Oracle was the best character ever and her disability had nothing to do with why you liked her so much because you really were just into the character because she was so strong. Thank you in advance for continuing to support Gail Simone as a writer and Barbara Gordon as a character. Remember, Damian’s back was fixed in an issue after the Joker crippled him. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: If comics were supposed to make sense Bruce would remember where he put Shondra Kinsolving and SHE could cure Oracle.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Barbara is smart and strong as shit. She can just acquire a suit that helps her physically and with her computer stuff. There. She’s then like bad ass super connected Oracle AND she’s in the field doing what she loved best, kicking ass just like everyone else. People with all sorts of disabilities, who buy comics, should be damn proud to be a fan of hers. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Catwoman by Judd Winnick and Guillem March</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: I’m not sure what has to happen but I can’t think of anything that makes me want to buy a Catwoman comic when it lacks the names Brubaker or Cooke. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: I’m a little surprised the 90s Time Machine didn’t come back with Jim Balent.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:black;" >Birds of Prey by Duane Swierczynski and Jesus Saiz</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: I guess we can forget all the sociopathic killing stuff Poison Ivy used to do here in The New DC. What have we got here...Black Canary, Mecha-Katana I guess, and...is that Amazon Grace with the tattoo sleeve? </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: I think so but we may have to wait til the book ships for confirmation. I like the lineup. It’s what I always liked about the Birds. One day a bunch of Kick Ass DC Chicks get together and have Tom Clancy like fun. What’s not to like? </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: You know, it’s been more than 10 years since the last revamp of Black Orchid. Somehow nobody ever thought to put her in Birds of Prey?</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: I see, you’re gonna treat this like Girl Thunderbolts right off the bat?</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: But disguise is her thing!</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: No one in BoP needs a disguise. They need to be themselves and crash through skylights. It’s missing Manhunter and Big Barda.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Orchid’s a master of disguise AND she’s punched out Superman, so she’s better than those two combined. This isn’t rocket botany.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: And turned into a race of plant people or something and she’s not going to be in this book. I’d rather see more people named after birds and shit than some character the 70’s forgot that even Vertigo decided it was best to just let lay around. If you want Black Orchid, call Rick Veitch. He’ll writer her, it’ll be great, DC will get sued for something and she’ll go away again.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: I’m going to read this and imagine every background character is actually Black Orchid in disguise. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: No you aren’t. You want Black Orchid in a book you have no intention of reading just so you can declare that DC is doing it all wrong when they forget she punched out Superman. Because Orchids are Kryptonian Tough. Let it go. They’d be better off with Arrowette...Speedy...Red &Yellow Arrow Kid...or whatever her name would be once she graduates from “damaged sidekick” to “former damaged sidekick on borrowed time”. </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:black;" >Batwoman by those late people</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: I stand corrected--I was also buying Rucka & Williams’ Batwoman. That said, I’m encouraged by the rumors at bleedingcool that she’s actually Black Orchid in disguise. (spoiler)</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: You know there was only one issue of that right? This is where I see the bottleneck in DiDio claiming all books will ship on time. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Well, Mr. Williams III has had an extra few months to get ready.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: He does comics on a schedule similar to the one Sid Vicious used for wrestling.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: JHWIII is active less often than Eclipso.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: JHWIII does comics on a schedule similar to the early acting career of Robert Downey Jr. But I assume sober.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: JHWIII has turned “Travis Charest” in to a verb.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Fans, please contribute your ideas to Twitter, care of #JHWilliamsIsSoLate</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: #JHWilliamsIsSoLate Christian Alamy has a shrine to him in his basement.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: #JHWilliamsIsSoLate He told Brian Bolland to slow it down.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: #JHWilliamsIsSoLate He was rejected as a fill in artist for Battle Chasers.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: #JHWilliamsIsSoLate He’s working on the box art for Duke Nukem Forever.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: #JHWilliamsIsSoLate His variant cover for Fell #10 was turned down.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: #JHWilliamsIsSoLate David Finch is making #JHWilliamsIsSoLate jokes.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: #JHWilliamsIsSoLate Alan Moore is mad iffy about letting him work on Big Numbers.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: #JHWilliamsIsSoLate Final Crisis still made sense when he started Batwoman #1</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: #JHWilliamsIsSoLate DC scrapped plans for the Batwoman Forever series that would have shown what the 2nd issue would have been like if he were on time.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.thirdcoastcomics.com</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559709230219813047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630194366723823977.post-86193476149150167862011-06-24T10:27:00.001-07:002011-06-24T11:03:44.343-07:00DC Relaunch: The Batbooks!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:black;" >The Batman Titles:</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Batman by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo</span><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Detective Comics by Tony Daniel</span><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Batman and Robin by Peter Tomasi and Pat Gleason</span><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Batman the Dark Knight by David Finch and Jay Fabok</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Aren’t you avoiding the bat books?</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Folks, I have to come clean here. In the past 12 months the only DC titles I’ve paid attention to have been T.H.U.N.D.E.R., Hex, and Whatever Grant Morrison Is Doing.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Well then you missed you some good Batman issues. They took place in a book called Batman and Robin and they were not written or drawn by anyone named Tony. They were GREAT! Batman did some stuff in his other books too but..well, you know, it’s Batman. Grimace, grimace and stop a serial killer here and there. There was this other book, not included in the 52 relaunch titles where Batman issues an IPO for the company of Batman and makes a fuck ton of cash. He uses it to hire some guys who look like him in </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Africa</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >, </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Japan</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" > and </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >South America</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" > and even has this cat in France who’s into parkour!</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: People are really unhappy that he hired the black dude though. Apparently he’s got too much territory to cover. No one seems to care that the Argentinian dude is missing a fucking costume altogether.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Nothing we say about these books will matter. It’s Batman. This shit is already sold.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: I see they cranked up their 90s time machine and retrieved Greg Capullo.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: The 90’s time machine is real. DC is filled with thoughts of how Image changed the Industry. Like imagine what would have happened if the “Image 7” were given control of the creative direction and a share of the profits of the characters they worked on...while having none of the wisdom and business sense some (Jim Lee) have now?</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: If the time machine brings back Sovereign 7 we must call for its destruction though, agreed?</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: I don’t think that’s a concern. Somehow I think the relaunch has no room for creator owned shenanigans.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.thirdcoastcomics.com</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559709230219813047noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630194366723823977.post-70268316554588379482011-06-16T13:24:00.000-07:002011-06-16T13:29:14.824-07:00DC Relaunch: Lanterns, Lanterns Everywhere!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UI_WsDbD4Oo/TfpnDvBrD7I/AAAAAAAAAd8/RsRf7dp3arI/s1600/KyleRayner.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 217px; height: 405px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UI_WsDbD4Oo/TfpnDvBrD7I/AAAAAAAAAd8/RsRf7dp3arI/s400/KyleRayner.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618916798958866354" border="0" /></a><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-haf5uCsVosU/TfpnRmWXjwI/AAAAAAAAAeM/tZHXHdC95XY/s1600/redlanterns.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 203px; height: 315px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-haf5uCsVosU/TfpnRmWXjwI/AAAAAAAAAeM/tZHXHdC95XY/s400/redlanterns.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618917037147918082" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FIfIh-J2EJE/TfpnJ_c0vtI/AAAAAAAAAeE/xcONgMRnycM/s1600/dc-relaunch-green-lantern-corps-1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 207px; height: 326px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FIfIh-J2EJE/TfpnJ_c0vtI/AAAAAAAAAeE/xcONgMRnycM/s400/dc-relaunch-green-lantern-corps-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618916906446929618" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >The Green Lantern Books</span>:<br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Green Lantern: Geoff Johns, Doug Mahnke and Christian Alamy</span><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Green Lantern Corps: Peter J. Tomasi, Fernando Pasarin and Scott Hanna</span><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >New Guardians: Tony Bedard, Tyler Kirkham and Batt.</span><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Red Lanterns: Peter Milligan, Ed Benes and Rob Hunter</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: I don’t have any problems with the creative team that made Hal </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Jordan</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" > matter again, just staying on the book. My only request is please no more Wars of Green Lanterns. If we have less of what GL has been giving us though, I suspect that Johns may have to deal with the fact that Green Lantern normally has worse villains than Daredevil. Hal </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Jordan</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" > would kill to have to fight the Owl and Stilt Man.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: I don’t have a problem with John Stewart and Kilowog or someone heading up a GL Corps book but I do think Guy Gardner should just go and be a Red Lantern. I have never bought into the idea that he possesses great will of any kind. He’s just an angry dick.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: You never bought into my “Guy is Sawyer from LOST” argument?</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Fuck no. He’s not Sawyer. Tomar Re has a better chance of being Sawyer. Hell, Sinestro has a better chance of being Sawyer. Guy Gardner is White Masuka from Dexter. People are at least willing to side with Sawyer on a reasoned argument. No one wants to deal with Masuka.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Why is there a Red Lantern book? Seems like a very 90s idea. Back then it would have been called BLOOD LANTERN EXTREME FORCE and come with a holographic pog. I tell you, some days it’s not easy being a Peter Milligan apologist like me.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Because DC thinks that the message learned from Blackest Night is that we need more books about Lanterns. I don’t see this working with a hero who looks like a cross between a Sontaran and a broken lamp.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: And whose power is vomiting magic blood.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Blood that doesn’t turn into a giant boxing glove. Why isn’t there a Red Lantern Mike Tyson? Where the hell is Rachel Pollack?</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Get me Bill O’Reilly on the phone. “DC’s publishing a comic about a HATE GROUP?! We’ll do it live!”</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Call </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Luda</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >…I also thing they are just Rage-y not Hate-y. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: I am interested in this Tony Bedard New Guardians book. It’s got Kyle Rayner: Earth’s One True Interesting Green Lantern and a cast of hundreds!</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Bedard knows his space operas, that’s for sure. Hang on...Kyle Rayner AND multicolored lanterns? If they don’t form a Megazord of emotion in the first 12 pages I’m declaring it a failure.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Because you just know Rayner is the one lantern who can form a giant ass Mazinga and make him use a Wave Motion Gun too. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >TF: We’re the Planeteers! You can be one too!</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >DM: Form Blazing SWORD! OK this is looking like a region where I’ll follow GL, and the Power Rangers in Space book, but I’ll leave the Stabby Lanterns and the Green Lantern SWAT team book alone.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.thirdcoastcomics.com</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559709230219813047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630194366723823977.post-38722390483380263852011-06-16T13:06:00.001-07:002011-06-16T13:09:00.632-07:00DC Relaunch: DC Comics Presents...a fervent hope that you like this format!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K1E5nXPoMF0/TfpikZc_33I/AAAAAAAAAd0/q7SP6eTUJSI/s1600/dcu_presents_1_final_400.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K1E5nXPoMF0/TfpikZc_33I/AAAAAAAAAd0/q7SP6eTUJSI/s400/dcu_presents_1_final_400.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618911862545440626" border="0" /></a><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DC UNIVERSE PRESENTS</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Written by Paul Jenkins</span><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Art by Bernard Chang</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: I happen to like anthologies, but have any sold well at all in the past 30 years? OK, technically DC’s Wednesday Comics was an anthology...</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Hell no and this book is another sign that someone at DC is asleep at the switch. The one thing DC didn’t really need in the last year was a title at $7.99. If you’re gonna do DC Comics Presents, just bring back the old team up title. This should be another way DC gets fans interested in its reimagined characters and history. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: In the olden days, team up comics like DC Presents or The Brave & The Bold were how you spotlighted up-and-coming heroes or characters that hadn’t been seen in a while. That Brave & The Bold cartoon show was created specifically to be a gateway drug into the DC universe, and it works. Tune in for Batman, then learn about Deadman, or Bronze Tiger, or how many Blue Beetles there are.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Correct. Now DC seems to think we want to just read a Deadman arc and then read a Zatanna arc and then read a Dr. Fate arc...</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: That said, it was at least wise to hire Paul Jenkins. He’s spent the past few years doing nothing but short character studies that aren’t involved with the continuity of the monthly comics.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: On paper that’s a maybe. I’m not sure that people are going to pay for this. Folks say they don’t want continuity but then find ways not to buy the books free of it. If DC wanted to give us a Deadman series, they should have thought of that when they came up with Brightest Day. That was a Deadman ongoing that got cancelled after 24 issues. Occasionally, Hawkman did stuff in it and there was a talking lamp. Right before Deadman could say goodbye in his own book, Swamp Thing, Aquaman, The Hawk People and Firestorm showed up to say, “We tried to make your book better but oh well, can’t get blood from a fucking stone, Deadman, see you after the relaunch!”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: I will say that this cover is by Ryan Sook and if he were drawing the book, I'd be all over it still!<br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.thirdcoastcomics.com</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559709230219813047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630194366723823977.post-38941597415602039812011-06-16T10:37:00.000-07:002011-06-16T10:45:32.827-07:00DC Relaunch: Captain Atom...for multiversal tourism!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9PEL5YwBkgc/TfpA45cqWVI/AAAAAAAAAds/m3vWzP7_1lc/s1600/catom_cv1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 263px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9PEL5YwBkgc/TfpA45cqWVI/AAAAAAAAAds/m3vWzP7_1lc/s400/catom_cv1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618874831336003922" border="0" /></a><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >CAPTAIN ATOM</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Written by JT Krul</span><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Art by Freddie Williams II</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Somebody’s gone all “Dr. Manhattan” in more ways than one.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Well to be fair, Dr. Manhattan was all Captain Atom. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Captain Atom was a sleeper hit in the 80s because he was just an ordinary, relatable guy who suddenly got cosmic super powers. Putting this “isolated,” “slowly losing his humanity” stuff on him makes it “Dr. Manhattan: The Series,” and that would be a tough sell even for Alan Moore. Who’d want to sit through issue after issue of cosmic navel-gazing? </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: In the 80’s you could get away with that. If you did it now, people would fall asleep. I’m thinking JT Krul will fall into the other cosmic guy trap. He’ll write all about how Captain Atom has to be careful of his power lest he destroy the multiverse. sigh.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: This is </span><a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=25698"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Gødland</span></a><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >, isn’t it? Gødland but without the Kirbyness (which is the whole selling point of Gødland)?</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: I can’t say that but there is one thing that bothers me here. The sheer number of Captain Atom relaunches. I think he’s had more books than (including </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breach_%28comics%29"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:Arial;" >Breach</span></a><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >) Hawkman. The only thing that has ever worked for this guy is making him an order following stiff jerk on the JLU show. THAT only worked because of the characters around him. If you were concerned about Mr. Terrific’s bad guys, you need to be doubly concerned here.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: I bought Breach but only because Marcos Martin drew it. Should we count </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takion"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:Arial;" >Takion</span></a><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >?</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: I don’t. I thought that was just some fake Kirby stuff.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Breach brings me to my one issue with DC and it’s use of the 52 universes making up the multiverse. DC seems intent to just play around the edges of it. They won’t just flat out use it. It’s like they did the right thing by having a beloved multiverse (a sci-fi and comics staple) but they are afraid to call attention to it for fear of it being called confusing (generally by newer DC fans and Marvel fans).</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: You can’t use the multiverse in any way that matters unless the thing out, assign it some characters, give them books and live with it. What if they want to “Dr. Manhattan” this book? So what. Shouldn’t that just be a book that takes place on Earth 4 or whatever anyway? Like what’s the point of bringing back all this Silver Age type shit if you’re really too afraid of it or too lazy to just own it?</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Why don’t they have an Exiles book? Did you know if Kamandi hadn’t been canceled in the 70s, they planned for him to jump to different Earths with Witchboy and Grandpa OMAC? <i>That’s</i> owning it.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: But that was like back in the day right? They’d have trashed that with Crisis on Infinite Earths and it wouldn’t have really mattered anymore. With Captain Atom they seem to want to tell stories about his VAST power. Breach did it. He’s responsible for the death of the Heartland in Kingdom Come and that’s not the end of it. Now it’s JT Krul book and I’d like this to be the point where they tour the Multiverse. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: It is a JT Krul book. Will Capt. Atom beat up people with a dead cat while tripping balls on heroin? Except the cat is like, the universe?</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: That’s what this book needs to be. Let’s invent some villains for him! </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: The Sun-f***er!</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: What the...well seriously, why can’t he deal with Solaris the sun eating super computer. He needs an anti matter guy, a nazi scientist not over losing the race to the atom bomb, the Parasite, etc. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Are the New Gods still dead? This comic could really use Metron jerking everybody around.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: I think they are on one of those damn Earths! Also I’m not giving JT Krul, Metron. Then folks are just gonna hate the New Gods for no reason.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: I’m scared Joe Casey will find this post someday and copyright “Sun-f***er.”</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: That would be Garth Ennis. This book feels all wrong before I even read it. It’s a solid maybe. JT Krul needs a breakout moment or a JT Krul-iverse. I’d change my tune for a JT Krul-iverse. Sometimes I may not like a writer but give him his own corner of the universe to play in and I'm happy. See Joe Casey and Abnett and Lanning.<br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.thirdcoastcomics.com</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559709230219813047noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630194366723823977.post-64309341609889641152011-06-15T12:25:00.000-07:002011-06-15T12:28:57.184-07:00DC Relaunch: Mr. Terrific - #3 in smarts...#2 in my heart!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EW5Y5oqYjYw/TfkH7bdGxzI/AAAAAAAAAdk/vw4i6TjJ6JE/s1600/mr_terr_cv1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 259px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EW5Y5oqYjYw/TfkH7bdGxzI/AAAAAAAAAdk/vw4i6TjJ6JE/s400/mr_terr_cv1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618530727684917042" border="0" /></a><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" ><br /><br />MISTER TERRIFIC</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >Written by Eric Wallace</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >Art by Roger Robinson</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >TF: The success or failure of this comic depends on one thing: world-building.</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >DM: Well that’s the same for everyone. Shit, Green Arrow only has 2 villains and one of those is an archer.</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >TF: Mr. Terrific has been the anchor of the Justice Society for more than a decade. What he doesn’t have is his own mythos the way DC’s franchise players have. They need to hit the ground running and put up a setting, supporting characters, and--most importantly--villains that are unique to him. Does he <i>have </i>bad guys of his own?</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >DM: No but he’s only been in the JSA (great cast of villains) and Checkmate (Not so much).</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >TF: I realize that his “Fair Play” 8-ball jacket is very dated now (he was a product of the 90s, after all), but I have a problem with these tats. From a distance they look like black armbands, and that shouldn’t happen. Up close, they remind me of the current Tattooed Man, and that shouldn’t happen either. But tattoo armbands cause a problem artistically, since there are only so many poses that will show off the words “FAIR PLAY.” From other angles his arms may spell out “</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >FA PL</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >” or “</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >IR PL</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >,” and that’s not good brand recognition. Just ditch those weightlifting gloves and write F-A-I-R-P-L-A-Y on his knuckles. That would be awesome.</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >DM: Nice save on what is basically you complaining about what angles you need to see a man’s biceps from. Knuckles would be cool.</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >DM: On the villain front, he needs them to be set up for him like all good villains are. He needs a super intelligent rival, a mindless brute, A rogue operative from his Checkmate days, a JSA villain since we don’t have a JSA, A super cheater/trickster, a villain from Terry Sloane’s past. </span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >TF: Throw in a dude who removes tattoos with lasers and you’ve got yourself a deal.</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >DM: How about he can fight the Tattooed Man instead. It’s not like the tattoos matter. It’s like his mask...which looks better as an “M” than a “T”.</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >TF: I wondered what the hell that was. Why is the third-smartest human still painting letters on his face?</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:black;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">DM: I think the lesson here is that Mr. Terrific is a) smarter than us and b) capable of making solid mask innovations we scarcely understand. If this were a book about Hawk and Animal we’d never question it. Where the fuck is my Dr. Midnite ongoing in this relaunch????</span><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.thirdcoastcomics.com</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559709230219813047noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630194366723823977.post-70681762121010237902011-06-15T12:14:00.000-07:002011-06-15T12:20:47.832-07:00DC Relaunch: Justice League International - AGAIN!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C0iGLZAgPQI/TfkFfyjxa_I/AAAAAAAAAdc/E3NYWyltZTE/s1600/jlifinalcover1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C0iGLZAgPQI/TfkFfyjxa_I/AAAAAAAAAdc/E3NYWyltZTE/s400/jlifinalcover1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618528053827300338" border="0" /></a><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Written by Dan Jurgens</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Art by Aaron Lopresti</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">TF: Did T.H.U.N.D.E.R. get canceled already?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">DM: Well were they IN the DCU? If not then they can wait. Besides someone went and signed an exclusive across town. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">TF: Oh they were in the DCU. I’m just not seeing the point of their purchasing those characters. Unless it was spite against the late John Carbonaro. I could believe that one. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">DM: Well the point is that they are good characters and DC was trying to do something with them for ages. I’m thinking that Spencer following the “Great Image Comics Career Plan” may have left them minus one edgy hip writer to ride herd on that book. Come on. Remember my rule. Any book here in the relaunch has to be <b>BETTER </b>in concept than the Secret Six. THUNDER Agents is not that. It’s maybe the 55th book but not the 54th. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">TF: Who do we have here...Batman, Rocket Red, Fire, Ice, August-General-in-Iron, Vixen, Guy Gardner, Booster Gold, and...Donna Troy? Gypsy? help me out here.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">DM: I can’t see why Bruce Wayne would give a shit about this team. He’s busy. This is a job for Dick Grayson. You know what I don’t get about the JLI, here? What mission would be big enough for a Justice League but that the JLA wouldn’t do? You know like are Flash and Green Lantern really saying, “Umm...no, why don’t we farm that out to the Chinese cat in the armor and that Russian in the armor and that Norwegian cold chick. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">France</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> is SO FAR AWAY...for our teleporters to send us. Hey Batman, see if those guys wanna save the Louvre!”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">TF: You may as well ask why is there more than one international superhero team on the relaunch list. So I’ll ask it now. Stormwatch: why? </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">DM: Why what? Why is Stormwatch getting a book or why aren’t they the JLI?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">TF: Don’t they have the same mission statement?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">DM: Yes. <dear i="" snipped="" long="" ass="" explanation="" ll="" be="" used="" in="" a="" few="" days=""></dear></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">TF: That just brings me back around to T.H.U.N.D.E.R. also having the same mission statement.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">DM: Yes, “We kick ass where other super heroes can’t be bothered to team up and go.”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">DM: It looks like the best thing to do here would have been to make a book called ThunderWATCH International. It would include Hawksmoor, Apollo, Midnighter, J’onn J’onzz, Dynamo, Noman, Lightning, Fire, Ice Maiden, Booster Gold, Rocket Red and the August General in Iron. Add Guy Gardner when the sales drop at issue 10.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">TF: And put Batman in your final issue. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">DM: Damn right. He teleports </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Gotham</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> to </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Oslo</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> because he can’t be bothered to leave it to solve a mystery in fucking </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Oslo</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">. This book has Hawksmoor, the breakout character for Wildstorm so I’m in for now.</span><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:transparent;" ><br /><br /></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--DAqRwsccJY/TfkFOxDA4QI/AAAAAAAAAdU/wW-oXHbW3-M/s1600/int_jli_punch.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--DAqRwsccJY/TfkFOxDA4QI/AAAAAAAAAdU/wW-oXHbW3-M/s400/int_jli_punch.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618527761363689730" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.thirdcoastcomics.com</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559709230219813047noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630194366723823977.post-15997391690291770342011-06-15T11:53:00.000-07:002011-06-15T12:06:02.065-07:00DC Relaunch: Green Arrow - Richer than YOU!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hI1wYuhCmKg/TfkCZmM4FXI/AAAAAAAAAdM/3kuKwxR0RIE/s1600/ga_cv1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 264px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hI1wYuhCmKg/TfkCZmM4FXI/AAAAAAAAAdM/3kuKwxR0RIE/s400/ga_cv1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618524648895944050" border="0" /></a><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" ></span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Written by JT Krul</span><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Art by Dan Jurgens</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: JT Krul? Really? Still?</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: How many rich guys can DC support? Will there be an Arrow Car? Will Ollie have all the deadbeat dad angst?</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Green Arrow is one dude who could <i>totally </i>pull off being the Jack Burton of superheroes. <span style="font-size:100%;">“</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall zombie grabs your neck, looks you crooked in the eye and he asks if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ole' Oliver Queen always says at a time like that: ‘Have ya paid your dues, Ollie?’ ‘Yes sir the check is in the mail.’"</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >DM: You just described Hawkeye, who may be the Jeff Jarrett of superheroes. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >TF: “Just remember what ole' Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big ole' storm right square in the eye and he says, ‘Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it.’" </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Now you’re doing Blue Devil. Is he in JLA Dark?</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: The science is settled, people. Blue Devil is the Jack Burton. Ollie can’t be Jack Burton AND a millionaire.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Ollie cannot be both but he can totally be Robert Downey Jr. I mean he doesn’t have to invent stuff. He just runs a company that made him rich like Dead Ted Kord. All he has to do now if live the life of an unappreciative jag off for our reading pleasure. Like Guy Gardner but with good credit and hot ex girlfriends and the son he never knew about. Of the relaunches announced to the point we’re at, I’m willing to give this one a shot but man, JT Krul must be an awesome Blackjack player. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: You know what you have to do to make Green Arrow really good? Hire Chuck Dixon. HOLY CRAP! I just figured it out. Green Arrow should be Burn Notice with arrows! Remember the </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Dixon</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" > run back in the day when Connor Hawke shows up? He had a sloppy sidekick like Bruce Campbell didn’t he? Black Canary is Fiona...</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Connor’s under the same bus as Wally West. Because DC can have 3,600 Green lanterns, 10 guys who run fast, and Batman United Nations, but Oliver’s the only guy who can shoot an arrow.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Yeah it runs counter to what DC up top is going for. Our Hal Jordan issue is that the other 3,599 GLs are more interesting than him. Ollie is interesting by himself but he has a damaged ex sidekick (who was a GREAT single dad) and a son who really stepped up and carried the ball. This is what a supporting cast should look like. Lets hope DC isn’t shelving them.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.thirdcoastcomics.com</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559709230219813047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630194366723823977.post-25116210478904897342011-06-14T13:42:00.000-07:002011-06-14T13:50:23.572-07:00DC Relaunch: The Savage Sword, Mace and Cestus of Hawkman<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >THE SAVAGE HAWKMAN</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Written by Tony S. Daniel</span><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Art by Philip Tan</span><br /></p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YbiDsEpvAqA/TffJImBLRNI/AAAAAAAAAdE/-C_4I2evQU0/s1600/svghkman_cv1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 306px; height: 463px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YbiDsEpvAqA/TffJImBLRNI/AAAAAAAAAdE/-C_4I2evQU0/s400/svghkman_cv1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618180209649599698" border="0" /></a><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Geoff Johns believes saying things over and over in interviews will make them true, rather than putting them in the actual stories. “Hal </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Jordan</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" > is just like Indiana Jones,” for instance, despite all evidence to the contrary. And also “Hawkman is Conan, with wings!” Put the crack pipe down. Strapping D&D weapons on Hawkman is not going to get folks to respect him. </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT96_idWN0Q"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:Arial;" >I don’t know if anything would</span></a><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: On one level it works. He is interesting looking almost always. I think people just don’t care about Thanagar or his time lost love. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Maybe Hawkman doesn’t belong in a world where every other superhero </span><a href="http://www.seanbaby.com/superfriends/hawkman.htm"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:Arial;" >has more impressive powers</span></a><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: This is a function of writing. If Hawkman had the power to run fast instead of fly he’d be Flash and honestly, the only difference in their powers is that one gets you there faster. Make him interesting and give him a mission we can connect to and he can have the power to talk to fish.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Besides, Hawkman should be written like Indiana Jones. If he said that about Hal </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Jordan</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" > he didn’t write him that way. Maybe he meant Hal </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Jordan</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" > should be written like Jack Ryan...or Jack Burton. Either of those makes more sense and are still interesting. History has now shown that it like </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Jordan</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" > as written by Johns so you can let that one go. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >That being said, I just spent a paragraph talking about Green Lantern in the Hawkman column so until he becomes </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Indiana</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" > Jones, Hawkman is screwed.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Aquaman is Conan, but underwater! </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Aquaman should be Macbeth underwater.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Jonah Hex is Conan, but with guns! Actually that one <i>is </i>true. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: That one is true.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: I used to have this idea that Hawkman was like Batman but with feathers and missing a shirt. I wanted to give him a pet Hawk and a sidekick and a battle cry. Then I realized I just wanted more cartoons designed by Alex Toth.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRDMANNNN!!!</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Which just means that Hawkman is further doomed. Also this book is written by Tony Daniel, who hasn’t shown me much in his writing career. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: That’s twice now in this list a hot artist gets a marquee character to write. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Is Tony Daniel really a hot artist? I mean I know DC has a time machine set to 1997 but dammit, they came back with Tony Daniel not Paul Smith or Bryan Hitch.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: They thought he was valuable enough to give him a scripting credit. Kind of like how they let Tom Welling direct some of the last seasons of Smallville, or how somebody gave William Shatner a recording contract.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: I know what you’re saying but isn’t it like the bid against themselves? I mean was Marvel gonna come along and give Tony Daniel Thor or something? I think the Tom Welling deal is different. He at least had actual fans. The Shatner records are gold BTW...</span><br /><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: You know what? I think this thing with Hawkman now makes more sense. He’s that idea that is always good for a few laughs and serious talk over booze, like Bruce Willis, William Shatner and the WB. Then you take it further and make it real, and it’s not long before there’s a guy flying around with no shirt, brooding and swing a fn mace....Then you realize...”CRAP....we just gave Hawkman another book and canceled Secret Six!”</span></p><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--AhhdjQy4Sw/TffH-QhaNrI/AAAAAAAAAc8/MsEAVyjAZss/s1600/hawkman.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 263px; height: 288px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--AhhdjQy4Sw/TffH-QhaNrI/AAAAAAAAAc8/MsEAVyjAZss/s400/hawkman.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618178932568897202" border="0" /></a><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" ><br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.thirdcoastcomics.com</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559709230219813047noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630194366723823977.post-17171029193190045682011-06-14T12:59:00.001-07:002011-06-14T13:07:34.345-07:00DC Relaunch: The Firestorm that is...Firestorm<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><span style="font-family:Arial;">Written by Ethan Van Sciver & Gail Simone</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Art by Yildiray Cinar</span></p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WHftjoi9FtY/Tfe_Yxufc1I/AAAAAAAAAc0/g9xAY0_VAsE/s1600/firestorm_cv1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 258px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WHftjoi9FtY/Tfe_Yxufc1I/AAAAAAAAAc0/g9xAY0_VAsE/s400/firestorm_cv1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618169492554085202" border="0" /></a><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">TF: So Ronnie Raymond and Jason Rusch. I liked when they used this combo on the Brave & the Bold cartoon. Although Ronnie was a gym teacher in that; here they’re students roughly the same age. DC says, “This is not a reboot.” </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">DM: Well I can see them being the same age since comic book characters don’t really age and Ronnie never exactly hit pension status. If you recall, a lot of the original Firestorm’s appeal was his age and outlook. They can work well together. That doesn’t speak to reboot quite as much. You keep forgetting that the relaunch may not really be for us. It’s for your literary minded and e-reader using cube mates. THEY don’t wanna read all about the complications of Firestorm the way you remember it. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">TF: I think DC puts these contradictions in their press releases to fry the brains of any killer robots who see them.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">DM: I think DC says things that make sense to DC and hope Marvel says something crazier the next day so we stop talking about the contradictions.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">TF: I saw a small thumbnail of this cover and thought “what’s with the almost-swastika?”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">DM: I saw the cover and thought, “Alright, those symbols represent the 8 hidden States of Firestorm’s existence and he’s unlocked like 3 of them!” You know, like in Iron fist. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">TF: I could get behind a teen hero who unlocks new “achievement” powers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">DM: Look, you get Gail Simone on a book so this is one that will be crafted well. You’ll get development, support and no bullshit here. You’ll also get a fun comic too. I can’t wait to meet the supporting cast and Cinar is going to art the shit out of it. You know what I miss about the Firestorm concept though? I want some actual science in it. The point of old Prof Stein was that he could do the science while Ronnie did the being young and cool. Just give a brotha some science, Gail...</span></p> <span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:transparent;" ></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.thirdcoastcomics.com</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559709230219813047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630194366723823977.post-28965414281367041062011-06-14T12:42:00.000-07:002011-06-14T12:49:24.869-07:00DC Relaunch: The Flash<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Written by Francis Manapul & Brian Buccellato</span><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >Art by Francis Manapul & Brian Buccellato</span><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xy4ecxwq1QE/Tfe6sw54qNI/AAAAAAAAAcs/22tA2tl1-Ow/s1600/flsv3_cv1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 263px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xy4ecxwq1QE/Tfe6sw54qNI/AAAAAAAAAcs/22tA2tl1-Ow/s400/flsv3_cv1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618164338372683986" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Giving Barry Allen a mask with a chinstrap is like giving Clint Eastwood a skateboard.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: That’s a design issue. Hell, most of the characters are designed in some way that speaks to function but adds a bit of “cool” that may or may not need to be there. for Flash I hope there’s more Cully Hamner than Jim Lee when it’s all said and done.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: Flash is one of those characters that needed the least amount of work. He’s the definition of the Legacy Character. If this new Flash book is a ‘Barry as One True Flash” scenario, I’ll be disappointed. I don’t give 2 shakes about Max Mercury but Wally West earned a shot at the big time and excelled when he got there, Giving him 2 super powered kids was GREAT and I’d hate to see all of that rolled back. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: Wally who?</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: We could be headed there but I can’t see it with Bart in the Teen Titans. I mean damn, Dick learned the promotion was temporary because his guy was unstuck in time. Wally learned that following the company formula doesn’t mean fuck all when your dead ass uncle comes back from the dead after 30 damn years. I hate this more than I hate Legion reboots. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >TF: It must give all the Barry Allen fans a twinge of delight to see everybody who grew up with the Wally West Flash be disappointed. Then they wonder why there aren’t any new readers. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;" >DM: I’m not sure I believe in the existence of Barry Allen fans. I think they are a myth, like the Easter Bunny, Trickle Down Economics and Cold Fusion. We have a better chance of finding Bigfoot riding the Lochness Monster through Camelot than finding an honest Barry Allen Fan who still reads DC Comics regularly. I’m giving this book a shot although I have no reason to trust Francis Manapul as a writer.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.thirdcoastcomics.com</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559709230219813047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630194366723823977.post-84647185463515863042011-06-10T11:21:00.000-07:002011-06-10T11:32:29.495-07:00DC Relaunch: Aquaman - The Most Interesting Man Underwater<span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><!--[if !mso]> <style> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >The Once and Future Aquaman (I made most of that up)</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis</span></p><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JghptSWN_a0/TfJhIWT2W2I/AAAAAAAAAck/gNq5AVAh14U/s1600/aqm_cv1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 261px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JghptSWN_a0/TfJhIWT2W2I/AAAAAAAAAck/gNq5AVAh14U/s400/aqm_cv1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616658481340111714" border="0" /></a></span><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">DM: OK, I’m all over a good Aquaman book and I haven’t been happy here since Peter David’s run. My only concern is that Geoff Johns has to work “Mordenkainen” levels of magic here.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">TF: I assume he’ll follow the usual Geoff Johns strategy: If one thing is good, a hundred of that thing is better. I’m predicting the debut of Riverman, Pondman, Freshwaterlakeman, and the Puddler, leading to the crossover event of 2012, Splashdown.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">DM: Yeah, there will have to be the decompressing (see what I did there) of whatever it means to be...Aquaman, I suppose BUT Johns has shown that he can take the worst ideas of the Silver Age and draw money. He’s like a great wrestling Booker. He’s not Paul Heyman but he might be someone better than that. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">TF: He’s looking all angry on the cover, which tells me mistake #1 has already been made. Stop trying to make an angry asskicker out of </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Aquaman</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">DC</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">. Nobody will ever believe it. You already have a ripoff of Namor called Black Adam, we don’t need another one.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >DM: I disagree. DC has had success with angry Aquaman. Fans just don’t want him crying about his lack of living children. Folks accept that he’s mad. The alternative is a peaceful Aquaman and then you have to ask, “What the fuck is he so happy about?” When it comes down too it, Happy Arthur Curry makes folks think of the Super Friends. Angry Aquaman is one that can be supported. He just needs to be mad about shit he can also resolve. I’ll also say you have your rip offs backwards. Namor joining the X-Men is almost exactly a replay of Black Adam joining the JSA. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >TF: He doesn’t need to be happy or shiny. He just needs to not be Namor. The guy’s wearing fluorescent orange. He’s a rescue worker to the world. Make him firefighting Dennis Leary Aquaman. THAT I could believe.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >DM: Yeah but you wouldn’t buy that at all and no one would respect it. What you really want is that clown from Brave and the Bold and I don’t think that works in comics.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >TF: That only worked because they ripped off Marvel’s Hercules instead of Marvel’s Namor.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >DM: Agreed. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >TF: “DID I EVER TELL YOU OF THE TIME I ACTED LIKE MARVEL CHARACTERS, MY FRIENDS? I CALL IT ‘THE ADVENTURE OF THE TIME I ACTED LIKE MARVEL CHARACTERS’!”</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >DM: Thankfully Geoff Johns isn’t going to do that. He’s probably going to start with a solid cast of supporters (hopefully without Vulko) and then shows us how Curry’s brother, Ocean Master goes from being good to slipping down into evil. I’d buy a book where the King has to deal with some Game of Thrones like BS. I know if we see Riverman and Glacierman, this is all out the window. So far, DC is 3 for 3 on books I’m supporting BUT 2 of those are by Johns and one is by Azzarello. These are damn near can’t lose properties.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >TF: I only have eyes for WW so far.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >DM That’s fine. I’m pretty sure you hate teams and I know you hate amphibians.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.thirdcoastcomics.com</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559709230219813047noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630194366723823977.post-7900283178157841842011-06-10T10:30:00.000-07:002011-06-10T10:33:13.303-07:00DC Relaunch: Wonder Woman<!--[if !mso]> <style> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >WO</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >NDER WOMAN </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >By Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chang</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VufGiSwOI1k/TfJVEBQC0XI/AAAAAAAAAcc/o3DV9dO8fZE/s1600/wwv2_cv1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VufGiSwOI1k/TfJVEBQC0XI/AAAAAAAAAcc/o3DV9dO8fZE/s320/wwv2_cv1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616645212827996530" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >TF: I was all set to complain that Azzarello shouldn’t write superheroes. Then I remembered these two guys did that Doctor 13 comic. SOLD.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >DM: Correct. I disagree about his Superhero books. I loved Cage. The most notable thing here is the Wonder Jacket is gone and Chang makes this outfit look like a great idea. All the detractors can now go suck it. Wonder Woman likes to break necks in pants. Done. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >TF: Getting rid of the scrunched-up jacket and bangles helps this outfit a lot. She doesn’t look like she escaped from “Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon” anymore.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >DM: Right. Instead she looks like she’s about to just walk through Frank Miller’s Daredevil, killing ninjas and smacking all of Matt Murdock’s angst upside the head. I’d buy 2 copies. Big win for a relaunch where I know not a thing about the plans.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >TF: Although we’re pretty sure she won’t be a sassy CEO looking for love in the </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >Big</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" > </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >City</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >DM: I’m pretty sure she won’t be a Sassy CEO because DC has a series of secret rules, made by They Who Sit In Shadow. Chief amongst these rules are there can ever only by less than three Sassy CEOs in the DCU, Bruce Wayne, Oliver Queen and...then someone has to become evil or die. There can never actually be three. I could however accept that plot from the Heinberg era of Wonder Woman where Diana is a bad ass spy type chick, kicking ass for the Man/Woman.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >TF: DC has NO limit on badass spies.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >DM: Not during this relaunch. Both of those comics fans who cried like babies when WildStorm was folded into the DCU should have a party where they celebrate and drink a few too many Long Island Ice Teas, because it looks like WildStorm has actually infected the DCU. What do you want from her supporting cast?</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >TF: Fewer albino gorillas. Bring back Rama, Nemesis, and I Ching. Steve Trevor and Etta Candy can go on a very long bus ride. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >DM: Well I think this relaunch can use some of everyone back. I liked the Etta I saw in the Wonder Woman animated feature. I really have all the use for Nemesis but zero use for Steve Trevor...unless they find a way to write him like Michael Vartan’s character in the first few years of the <i>Alias</i> TV series. Suddenly I just got an Image of Wonder Woman being written as if it were Tom Strong. Now I’m more excited!</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >TF: DC was too eager to scrap “Diana Prince super spy.”</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >DM: Yeah, they tend to have ball shrinkage when it comes to anything where Diana wears a white jumpsuit and beat ass full time. OK, it looks like we’re both on board here. We both dig the creators and you especially have come around since you realized the Doctor 13 team was back to work here.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.thirdcoastcomics.com</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559709230219813047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630194366723823977.post-70264998067350908902011-06-10T09:28:00.000-07:002011-06-10T09:47:37.023-07:00The New DC Is on the Move: The Relaunch<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >In more ways than one.</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >A lot of folks are up in arms about the DC “Reboot”/Renumbering or whatever you want to call it but no matter what, it’s a vehicle for Day and Date delivery of comics via the Internet and this is probably the best way to do it.</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >This is Doc Midnight and Trey Formidable giving you the blow by blow...</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >Now we’re going to analyze the 52 tiles DC is offering in order of their revelation to us by way of their blog.</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >First Up - The <i>Justice League </i>by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PS7LBqFnPvw/TfJGwJY0MhI/AAAAAAAAAcU/sP3VSiu8SIY/s1600/jl_cv1-679x1023.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 212px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PS7LBqFnPvw/TfJGwJY0MhI/AAAAAAAAAcU/sP3VSiu8SIY/s320/jl_cv1-679x1023.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616629478252098066" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >TF: I can’t believe nobody in this picture is wearing a jacket.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >DM: It’s true but what concerns me a little more is really an issue of composition. Seriously. Is there a bigger way to say “Jim Lee just wants to draw Batman” than to have Superman, the most important member of the JLA, flying out of the top of the page like he’s Hawkman or something?</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >TF: Cyborg. Is he there because he’s a graduating Titan or because he was on Superfriends? With Johns you never know.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >DM: I think you have an issue with Johns and his love of the Silver Age but lets be honest. DC is the “</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >Legacy</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" > </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >Loving</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" > </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >City</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >” and if one guy deserves it, it’s gonna be Cyborg. Now lets just hope the 1st 12 issues isn’t all about his noble sacrificial death so Hal and Barry can have a moment.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >TF: Bulky Cyborg reminds me of “Titans Hunt.” That should never happen.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >DM: Maybe he’s just bulky because this is a crappy drawing of the JLA. Aquaman looks like Ryan Phillippe. This whole pic looks like ti was drawn by the guy they hired to draw Hawk and Dove...who doesn’t like drawing feet....</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >TF: Aquaman needs a trenchcoat.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >DM: Yeah...a lot of these relaunched books scream 90’s. I stunned the League doesn’t have a Top Secret Base inside the high rise of a secret corporation owned by Bruce Wayne. Anyway, back to the book. I’m glad they settled on Cyborg as the clear diversity hire and I’ll support it because Johns is at least a better writer than Lee is a penciller these days.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >I’m not dying to make the 90’s the new Silver Age like it looks like Didio is going to do.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >TF: He’s banking on 90s nostalgia? So that’s why he put a Bloodlines character in The Outsiders.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >DM: My last point is that I think this particular relaunch misses the best chance to pull the whole line wide relaunch together. I loved Grant Morrison’s statement that the JLA should be the biggest and best the DCU has to offer. This Super Friends style lineup seems to be missing like seven other characters that would really make it pop. Those seven characters are getting new books and in the new DC they could be right at home in a JLA relaunch.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Just the same, I'm buying this one.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;" >TF: Well there IS more than one Justice League title launching...but we’ll get to those later.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;color:black;" ></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;color:black;" ><br /></span></p> <span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:transparent;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Next Up: Wonder Woman</span><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.thirdcoastcomics.com</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559709230219813047noreply@blogger.com3