Archive for the ‘DC Comics’ Category
Friday, August 3rd, 2007
Remember when Superman/Batman was fun? Remember when it was The Book To Get for Superman or Batman?Yeah, I didn't either until I decided to do a Random Friday Night Fight and blindly unearthed Superman/Batman #6. Superman gives (soon to be ex-) President Luthor a quick civics lesson: that there's a ...
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
Received via e-mail from deceased JLA Detroit (Justice League of America Detroit?) veteran Paco Ramone, d/b/a Vibe..."Dear" Allen:My man Apache Chief emailed me a link to your inadequately researched and horribly executed post, in which you stated I was so awful in my role with the Justice League that I ...
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Since Tim unknowingly started this Tuesday Ten thing off last week with his rundown of the ten lamest Avengers ever (a pretty impressive list, I must say), I thought it was only fair to follow it up by picking through the ...
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Up until this morning, I hadn't believed that the recent rumors and news bits about a Watchmen movie were going to result in the creation of an actual completed film — several directors have been attached over the last fifteen years or so, so the fact that 300's Zack Snyder ...
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007
For those of you might have not quite have gotten Ben's JLA nomination last week (which, um, included me), he was helpful enough to provide us some reference material:(From 1997's thankfully aborted Justice League of America TV pilot.)These catastrophes are all caused by "The Weather Man," the baddie played by ...
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Friday, July 20th, 2007
Frank Miller's really just screwing with us at this point, isn't he?
(From the preview for All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder #6.)
Every single mention of Batman in those panels is as "the goddamn Batman." I know that phrase (very intentionally constructed) took the brunt of some Internet mockery the ...
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Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Allen had a point related to DC's upcoming Final Crisis yesterday:
DC has always seemed to work much more in a cyclical fashion than Marvel has, and I think twenty (or so) years since the last universal shakeup probably means it's about time for the cycle to end and begin again...
Quite ...
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
As you've no doubt seen by now, DC released their first teaser image for next year's Final Crisis event yesterday. The tagline -- "Heroes Die, Legends Live Forever" -- certainly implies to me some kind of large-scale DCU reboot might be coming at the end of what I sincerely hope ...
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
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Monday, July 16th, 2007
New Avengers #32 - Remember this Special Guest Reviewer? What-what does this mean? This month's New Avengers exists to tell us all what-what this means, Danny. And to tell us, and to tell us, and to tell us some more. I thought Bendis was so popular because his dialogue ...
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