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AshburnerX

AshburnerX

ThatNickGuy said:
Speaking of Batman Beyond, are you still reading it now? Because it's now tied in with the rest of the DCU and Terry isn't even in the Batman role anymore.
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The last series ended in 2014 and the new one only launched in June 2015. I haven't picked them up yet... and apparently I need to read all of Future's End to understand why this happened. *facepalm*

Come on DC... I wanted Batman Beyond officially in the line but you've gone and fucked it up ALREADY?
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

http://www.outerplaces.com/science-fiction/item/10171-fox-news-isn-t-pleased-with-captain-america-1

Breaking News! Fox News overreacts and misreads something in entertainment. No wait, that's typical work for them.

The Sons of the Serpent are an extremist, cult-like group more akin to the KKK. They're not just "Conservatives." Good lord, Fox. Come on. Though I find it hilarious they're defending the VILLAINS of the story.

"And now the threat comes from ordinary Americans." Oh! You mean like all the shootings in recent years?

"Keep politics out of comic books." *headdesk* Comics were FOUNDED on politics. Superman fought for union workers and the repressed.

To paraphrase Moviebob, you have a guy wearing the AMERICAN FLAG for a costume. Of course he's going to get political.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

One of the links at the bottom of the page Nick linked showed a female Wolverine. Is that a new development? Is Marvel rule 63-ing their characters after the surprising success of Female Thor?
 
filmfanatic

filmfanatic

bhamv3 said:
One of the links at the bottom of the page Nick linked showed a female Wolverine. Is that a new development? Is Marvel rule 63-ing their characters after the surprising success of Female Thor?
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It is. Wolverine has recently died, so X-23 (a teen female clone of Wolverine) is taking up his mantle.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

To be fair, X-23 has always been a fan favorite character, so she's been in a lot of books for years. I'm genuinely surprised she hasn't shown up in an X-Men movie yet.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

ThatNickGuy said:
http://www.outerplaces.com/science-fiction/item/10171-fox-news-isn-t-pleased-with-captain-america-1
The Sons of the Serpent are an extremist, cult-like group more akin to the KKK. They're not just "Conservatives."
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On the one hand, they're clearly extremists and meant to be judged so. On the other hand, what he says (in the article) does sound exactly like something Trump would say. Either the comic author didn't go far enough in his vilifying/exaggerating, or people have become far too insensitive to extreme right wing messages. Go on, guess which I think it is. I'll just say that if you reread the NSDAP party program, they'd be very clearly and easily to the left of Trump or the Tea Party (also, bear in mind "let's gas'm all" wasn't in their party program :p)
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

ThatNickGuy said:
Is it scary that my immediate addition to this sentence was "yet"?
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It was never added, since elections were put on hold during the crisis :p

What was in their program was stuff like adding extra taxes for specific groups, demanding identification and registration, barring certain nationalities/ethnicities from generally available assistance like welfare and health care, and trying to structurally separate the "real" or "good" Germans from others. So, you know, pretty much what the right of most of Eastern Europe is trying to do now with Syrians and Trump would want to do for Mexicans.
 
Covar

Covar

Considering Dark Knight Strikes again and All-Star Batman and Robin I think it's probably the only way to get something that's not a train wreck.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

ThatNickGuy said:
It's now been confirmed that Frank Miller is only involved in Dark Knight III in name only. He had nothing to do with it, creatively.

That's pretty low, even for DC. I get that they're using him for the name value, but if he has NOTHING to do with it? That's really shameful to put his name all over it. It's worse than Stan Lee because at least Stan Lee wrote the stuff he works on. Or at the very least, wrote the dialogue.
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Stan Lee has taken the credit for so many things over the years that other artists have done, even as those artists died penniless and barely known, that he's hardly one to look to for a bare minimum of involvement. The awful shit between him and Jack Kirby is only the tip of iceberg.
 
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Only one color credit, which means the flatter is probably still not getting credit. I doubt the colorist flats him/herself. That is a time consuming, tedious job that gets passed to interns a lot. It does look like they're crediting the fill pencilers though. Maybe. That's another thankless intern job.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

AshburnerX said:
Stan Lee has taken the credit for so many things over the years that other artists have done, even as those artists died penniless and barely known, that he's hardly one to look to for a bare minimum of involvement. The awful shit between him and Jack Kirby is only the tip of iceberg.
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Oh, I know. He's royally screwed over many artists, especially Kirby more than any other. But I blame Lee less for that and more the corporate higher-ups who didn't understand the comic book creation process. Since Stan was the guy who everyone heard from and knew, they thought he was the main idea guy. Stan gets credit for being able to sell one property better than anyone else: himself.

He's better than Bob Kane, at least. Then again, everyone in the business is better than Kane.
 
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Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

ThatNickGuy said:
It's now been confirmed that Frank Miller is only involved in Dark Knight III in name only. He had nothing to do with it, creatively.

That's pretty low, even for DC. I get that they're using him for the name value, but if he has NOTHING to do with it? That's really shameful to put his name all over it. It's worse than Stan Lee because at least Stan Lee wrote the stuff he works on. Or at the very least, wrote the dialogue.
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Maybe its just a very clever marketing campaign, and every book will read "Frank Miller had nothing to do with this"
 
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