The DC Thread

[Podmark]

Blackest Night 3 was great.

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Poor Firestorm, I honestly found that scene horrifying.

[Mystik]

I guess someone ticked guy off

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[ink]

poor ice

[GhostMachine]

why the hell are the mutants in that image, is dark knight returns becoming the new kingdom come. force into everything

Actually, All-Star Batman & Robin is tied into DKR, sadly.

[murs47]

that guy image is sweet!

[Talavar]

What's with Firestorm being kicked around every time there's a major DC event?  That was really quite creepy, actually.

[AfghanAnt]

What's with Firestorm being kicked around every time there's a major DC event?  That was really quite creepy, actually.

It actually made me dislike Geoff Johns and his treatment of younger superheroes. In fact, I actually put Blackest Night down and ended up reading the rest later because it just left such a bad taste in my mouth. Why would he do that other than shock value and to mess up yet another young superhero's love life.

[Talavar]

I didn't care for it much either.  I mean, she didn't end up in a refrigerator, but she may as well have.

[Silver Shocker]

Yeah, I actually didn't have a big problem with what happened to Firestorm, mainly because I was totally expecting him to be c-list cannon fodder in this storyline. I still really enjoyed the issue even though what happened to Firestorm was horrible.

[yell0w_lantern]

Since when could Firestrom affect organic matter? It looked like he was turning that girl into salt.

Anyway, there's already more of a coherent story than Final Crisis had.

[Podmark]

Just want to say that I'm loving Francis Manapul's artwork on Adventure Comics. He's just astounding.

[AfghanAnt]

I am loving Adventure but I'm not such a huge fan of Manapul's work. It's ok but I'd take Mckone or Reis any day.

[murs47]

GLC #42 made murs a sad boy

[Podmark]

GLC #42 made murs a sad boy

What happened?

[murs47]

Spoiler

Kyle sacrificed himself to save Oa.



*cries a little bit*

[Podmark]

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[marhawkman]

Wow, that's a big collection of black rings....

[deano_ue]

why the hell are the mutants in that image, is dark knight returns becoming the new kingdom come. force into everything

Actually, All-Star Batman & Robin is tied into DKR, sadly.

yeah but both were "wrote" by miller and outside the main canon. this batgirl is the new main universe, hence my question

[udasu]

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You read comics long enough, and no one really dies. Especially in DC when they're coming back as space zombies or from a multitude of ongoing Final final final Crises/Earths.

[marhawkman]

Hehe.... Or in Marvel where they may or may not have been replaced by a Skrull.

[murs47]

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=23954

This sounds very promising. I like that it's straight to TBP format as well.

[Podmark]

That seems interesting, but isn't it more or less the All-Star line?
Still Johns Batman would probably be quite good.

[bat1987]

Gary Frank interview on Batman

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/091208-Gary-Frank-Batman-Earth-One.html

Huh, Alfred looks like Sean Connery.

[Podmark]

LMAO it looks just like J. Jonah Jameson Sr!
That's a really different Alfred.

[bat1987]

The B-man is coming back !!!!

http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2009/12/09/dcu-in-2010-the-return-of-bruce-wayne-hits-in-april/

http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2009-12-09-morrison-bruce-wayne-st_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

[Podmark]

Well that didn't take long did it.

My initial thought is lame. You pull this whole Dick is Batman stunt and if it's really over this quickly what was the whole point? However they might impress me.
Personally I think if you were going to kill Bruce and make Dick Batman they should have stuck with it as long as possible. Wally style....ya know until this year.

[Midnite]

Battle for the Cowl seems such a waste of time. *shrugs*

[bat1987]

Well that didn't take long did it.

My initial thought is lame. You pull this whole Dick is Batman stunt and if it's really over this quickly what was the whole point? However they might impress me.
Personally I think if you were going to kill Bruce and make Dick Batman they should have stuck with it as long as possible. Wally style....ya know until this year.

They never said that this was permanent. They even show Bruce at the end of Final Crisis, alive and well in stone age. Besides its a 6 issue mini, so it will last till september, and Morrison said that he has an entire year of stories for Dick and Damian dynamic duo. So it will be a year and a half with Dick in the batsuit, which is not bad. Bucky didn`t last much longer as Cap, which I personally thought it would.

[Previsionary]

Only problem with that... as far as we know, Bucky will still be Cap when Steve revives, going by a recent annual.

[bat1987]

Yeah, the Dark Avengers one, but the first cover of the Siege has Steve in the suit, though the covers may be misleading sometimes.