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Yes, they bring back one thing and remove another. I want the 70s-80s look but they like to have him wear pouches on his belt and show all the stitching in his costume.

I think the Earth One Batman has the visible stitching going on, but it’s been a while since I looked at that series.
 
WW's gettin' a little dark on the seid?
I know you were all about me fornicating with John Byrne, but if Darkseid is husling himself, can you see if Amazing Grace is putting herself out there?

Then again. I hear the Female Furies have a redhead or two nowadays. Check on that as well.
 
I finally caught the 'new' Suicide Squad and found it to be trippy, silly, gory fun. It embraces its comic book roots like few of the superhero films of the last decade have.



Everything the first film should have been and wasn't.

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Very much the kind of superhero film one would have expected from the James Gunn of Slither and Super.
 
I didn’t realize I didn’t have this page packed away. The very first published art page I ever bought, back in the days when a page from one of the Trinity’s titles could be purchased for less than a three-digit sum.

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Watched the DC animated movie Injustice. I didn't have high hopes as it seemed it was going to be another of those dark, violent DC epics with heroes dying left, right and centre and going over territory which has already been covered several times before.And it was exactly that, but it also turned out to be quite gripping with lots of twists and turns with very efficient storytelling.

My main complaint is too much Harely. I get she's popular but it almost like DC is afraid to make any animated movie without giving Harely a big role.
 
I haven’t liked a DC animated movie in like ten years.
 
The cover for upcoming series World’s Finest #1. This is literally what I was hoping DC was going to do with the look of the characters. I’ve been tired of dreary and depressing superheroes for way too long. Now DC just needs to bring back The Brave and the Bold and I’ll be really happy.

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Some mock-ups by Dan Mora:

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I caught up with season 2 of Titans. There was enough in it you keep me entertained, but DC clearly has a lot a work to do to catch up with what Disney+ has been doing in the Marvel. Or Netflix did with Marvel.

The show does the its own variant on Trigon and Judas Contract storylines, which would be fine except that I'd already seen those stories done in more than once various animated shows and movies. I mean I never read any Teen Titans, but I am guessing they do have other stories beyond the Judas Contract?

And Ian Glen is a terrible Batman. For one thing, Ian Glen help himself from being British. But more to the point, old Batman playing the role of the wise , serene sensei is plain wrong. I like old Batman bitter and tough as nails, like he was in Batman Beyond. The rest of the cast is pretty decent and they manage to carry the show

That said, I will carry on with season 3 because I am a superhero junkie, I finished Hawkeye and I suspect She-Hulk is still a few months away.
 
The show does the its own variant on Trigon and Judas Contract storylines, which would be fine except that I'd already seen those stories done in more than once various animated shows and movies. I mean I never read any Teen Titans, but I am guessing they do have other stories beyond the Judas Contract?


Regarding what they could adapt, 60s stories tended to be cheesy, crazy world-ending stuff that would blow all the budget of the season on one episode, or a combination of both.



80s Titans was often compared to X-Men. It had a lot of long-form storytelling like X-Men, with a lot of focus on character development and (for lack of a better term) slice of life stories; you could sometimes tell author favorites by seeing who got more focus over the years, and who got pushed to the wayside. I’m not saying that they don’t have stories they could adapt, but many of the stories would be hard to translate without many episodes devoted to just the characters and their lives.



The 90s started with that long-form, but then things got weird as sales flagged. The Wildebeast (sp, maybe) Saga, The Titans West spin-off that was set up and then never published…..they also did a lot of gimmick stories, involving crossovers and introduction of other characters that the TV show might not be able to use, like Supergirl or the Atom.



Early 2000s was the last time I paid attention to the Titans. There were some stories that nowadays would be classified “Hello, fellow kids,” as well as an extended attempt to set up new characters that never caught on. There were some stories I thought were good in this period, but I’m in the minority for that, and most involved characters not on the show.
 
I’ve taken to clicking on Facebook ads lately, as I’ve found the comments for them to be consistently comedy gold, whether intentional or not. As of late Facebook has been giving me an ad for a comic with a redhead on the cover. When I clicked on it today I found a comment from Jeffery Moy on it. He may be better known as Jeff Moy, when he worked on LOSH for DC. Moy made a brief comment on how silly the redhead’s gun looked.



Someone who had no idea who Moy is proceeded to nerdsplain to him about how comics don’t have to be realistic, and how he needed to get that if he was ever to understand comics.



I don’t know if I’m impressed Moy didn’t respond to the guy, or sad he didn’t tear him a new one.
 
The coming of Bendis was a warning! :shock: DC is experiencing all sorts of crazy. JL is dying, executives are parachuting, everything's turned Batman adjacent... :shade: :coffee: Interesting times. I never got into DC as an adult, but I guess it is sad to see a creative company rather eat its seed corn than change course or share the spoils.

As long as the Batman completionist whales exist I am sure it will all be fine. :thumbsup:
 
On the same shopping trip I’m 95% certain I caught COVID on I also bought a discounted copy of one of the THUNDER Agents collections DC published a number of years ago. My only prior experience with the characters was reading their crossover with the Justice Machine, which didn’t do much to flesh out the characters.



I have to say it didn’t live up to the hype, while at the same time it (mostly) wasn’t a bad collection of stories. I’d heard many times over the years what a “realistic” and “down to Earth” series it is, but those bits were the exception, rather than the rule, in what I read. In most cases they were punchlines in various stories, and I will admit they’re funny, but I expected them to be the way the majority of tales would play out.



My only real complaint was a tale that probably would have been my favorite, a follow-up to another story (not in this volume) involving an alien invasion. It quickly brought readers up to speed on what happened before, and had an excellent use of the comic format to build up suspense.



And then it went off the rails. At first I thought there was an invisible death field going on. No, wait, snipers of some sort in THUNDER HQ. No, wait, now they’re in the surrounding buildings. No, wait, all those buildings are now destroyed so I guess they were in THUNDER HQ. And now they’re going to nuke the HQ but the aliens….shoot the nuke? Somehow detonate it? The art does nothing to convey exactly what’s going on.



If I’d paid the $49.99 cover for it I’d have been heavily disappointed. For $9 or so, it was OK.
 
Was it a collection of the original stories, or was it the take DC did about 10 years ago (they did two minis with new takes on the characters, with mixed results)
 
Was it a collection of the original stories, or was it the take DC did about 10 years ago (they did two minis with new takes on the characters, with mixed results)

The old ones.
 
Back in early 2018 I started buying trade paperbacks every so often, courtesy of a store getting in remainder comic collections. I got a lot of New 52, and I found myself reading more Batman than I ever had before, as well as liking Catwoman for the first time.



Last night I read the 7th and 8th volumes collecting her modern series. The 7th volume was surprisingly entertaining, as it was the final arc of a storyline where Catwoman controls a mob family. My only complaints are it expected you to be reading the other Bat-titles published at the same time; if I didn’t know certain things by people talking about them back in the day, I’m sure I’d like this volume a lot less. There’s also a character who I know little of who makes an appearance, but from what I know she’s somewhat out-of-character here, and the resolution of her subplot just leaves a question unanswered in this or the next volume; perhaps another Bat-title followed up, but on its own it left me shrugging.



The eighth volume starts out strong, but to paraphrase a fellow talking about horror movies yesterday “It’s got one of those twists that you never see coming, and when you think about later you realize it makes no sense, no matter how they try to explain it.” There’s also some odd stories in the back of the volume, which may have been back-up stories in the original comics. One feels like an excerpt from a larger story, and the other involves some new facets to Catwoman’s past that left me “eh.”
 
Looks like there’s been leaks for Keaton’s new batsuit. I think it looks pretty good!

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The Arrowverse just got smaller, as Deadline is reporting both Batwoman and Legends of Tomorrow have been cancelled at the CW. First two victims of the Discovery buyout. Let the blodletting begin!
 
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