Aldo reads DC's New 52 (So you don't have to)

omg this is a treat:

http://geek-news.mtv.com/2011/02/25/the-10-weirdest-members-of-the-legion-of-super-heroes/

HATE FACE

I always loved that after he died they made a statue of Ferro Lad, who could basically turn into a statue.

LOOOOL

I like the ridiculous/taken-to-logical-extreme nature of the Legion but I am a big Silver Age DC stan so

Hate Face is next level

Dan should have started with the Five Year Gap in 1989 to avoid silly names

okay lol according to Wikipedia there was a "False Pretenses Lad"

this is a one-panel joke from 1964 btw

I mean a fan joke ABOUT one panel from 1964

Five Year Gap in 1989 to avoid silly names

also I mean if you accept Reep or Salu as being less silly names than Chameleon Boy or Shrinking Violet

Haha how long would Salo last in LoSH

would watch version of Salo featuring LoSH

Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodam Yat.

One major storyline during this period was the discovery of Batch SW6, a group of clones of the early Legion, c. their Adventure Comics days, created by the Dominators. Keith Giffen's original conclusion for the storyline was that the clones would eventually have been revealed to be the real Legion, and the ones whose adventures had been chronicled since the 1950s were actually the clones. The adult Legion's secret programming would kick in, forcing them to fight the younger Legion and leading to a fight to the death in which Legionnaires on both teams would die, with the victims’ names being picked at random out of a hat.

lol I didn't know about this. continuity is the silliest shit ever

the SW6 shit worked for a surprisingly long time, while Jason Pearson was drawing it, before going as wonky as you'd expect

First thing Salo made me think of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu-CN2C-nJI

to be fair to Reep Daggle and Salu Digby, they are aliens from other star systems

Rokk Krinn needs no excuses though

I am still half-heartedly looking at these, and this panel from Birds of Prey is a doozy:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8370/8417036800_d5e3bfc51e_o.jpg

Babs never finishes her sentence due to blowings up etc but...

What, realistically, could she be about to conclude her sentence with? A No-Prize for anyone who comes up with a non-offensive answer.

In neeed of female companionship

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/01/31/wonder-woman-comic-wesley-willis-azzarello-chiang/

I just... well, ok, then.

I kind of thought that was how the first issue with him in read, but... ROCK AND ROLL MCDONALDS

wow
tho i dunno how to feel about this

TS: this vs the Mountain Goats' Best Ever Death Metal Band Out of Denton turning up in Thor.

The Third Army were destroyed by Mogo reforming around them, except the ones that weren't, which were destroyed by Atrocitus learning how to control the Manhunters. Hal and Sinestro are still dead, and Guy, Kyle and Baz are the best Lanterns ever (possibly in that order, with Baz the best as he has done something impossible to every other Lantern ever - although so has Kyle). In response the Guardians have awakened the First Lantern who will destroy everything, including them.

The Black Diamond bullshit seems to have been solved by Jonah Hex throwing a whisky decanter into the sea.

Atlantis Attacks or whatever it's called this time is in internal Atlantean conspiracy involving Johns baddies and Johns' vision of Atlantis history which he hasn't revealed to anybody to date and will make Aquaman the new Green Lantern Action Playset.

H'El on Earth is still ploughing a lone furrow trying not to interfere with any other book (except JL) and not have anything to do with anything else. Something in space is coming to destroy the Earth, like it did Krypton.

Hawkman's crossover has been ignored by every book other than Deathstroke and has achieved nothing except reboot Hawkman into undoing the first twelve or so issues and seems to be over with no consequences.

Batman Joker thing is still going, having teased the final cliffhanger in every book now for a month. The cliffhanger may or may not be under cover blight for Red Hood 19 according to Bleeding Cool.

That seems to cover all the ongoing crossovers.

DC have announced #19s will be "WTF cover month" which will have a Mad-style foldout. From the 3 announced to date, only Red Hood 19 could conceivably by WTF and even then idgi.

Fuck me, even casually reading this bullshit is painful.

Even casually reading about reading them is no walk in the park.

They made a series with Vibe? Vibe? This character?

http://i.newsarama.com/images/jlavibe.jpg

Geoff Johns is trollin'.

And it will change writer with issue 3...

btw I recommend reading the b&b interview at comicbookresources. At times they sound like defendents at a congressional hearing. all meaningless platitudes and talking around stuff.

Oh my god. I would have fired Gail for coming to me with this idea:

New DC books - The Green Team and The Movement

That link is blocked for me at work, but I take it that's the old Joe Simon creation:

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/Green%20Team%201.jpg

I think so, but the other is an "occupy" riff.

It originally broke on Huffington Post so maybe that link will work?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bryan-young/exclusive-dc-comics-revea_b_2641445.html

The great thing is that they claim this is two books about the 1% and the 99%. Except that the 99% are apparantly faceless terrorists, while the 1% are happy philanthropists. Yes, that is some sharp political analysis from Warner Brothers.

seriously facepalming. This is the solicitation:

THE MOVEMENT #1
Written by GAIL SIMONE
Art by FREDDIE WILLIAMS II
Cover by AMANDA CONNER
1:25 Variant cover by CLIFF CHIANG
On sale MAY 1 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T+
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the order form for more information.
We are faceless. We are limitless. We see all. And we do not forgive.
Who defends the powerless against the GREEDY and the CORRUPT? Who protects the homeless and poverty-stricken from those who would PREY upon them in the DARK OF NIGHT?
When those who are sworn to protect us abuse their power, when toxic government calls down super-human lackeys to force order upon the populace…finally, there is a force, a citizen’s army, to push order BACK. Let those who abuse the system know this as well: We have our OWN super humans now. They are not afraid of your badges or Leagues. And they will not be SILENCED.
We are your neighbors. We are your co-workers. And we are your children.

Baltazar on The Green Team"

This gives us the chance of making older, obsolete characters relevant …and awesome in the new DC universe.

I expect that I'm going to enjoy both of those - one is by the writing team of Tiny Titans, and the other is by Gail Simone.

The only thing that could make this funnier would be a grim 'n' gritty remake of Ivor Lott & Tony Broke (or Milly O'Naire & Penny Less).

http://comicalanimal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/bumpkins.jpg

entire DCU is basically just like an issue of Ambush Bug to me now

It's not really, it's more like Millennium/The New Guardians.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Extra%C3%B1o.jpg

A series where Tom Kalmaku developed the superpower of "bringing out the best in people".

lol

I bought a bagged set of the Millenium mini-series about a year after it came out. I payed I think $2.50 for all 8 (I think?) issues. I was totally ripped off.

I think I'd like to read it again just to see how bad it really is after all this time, but damned if I'm paying for it.

I tried a few years ago and I couldn't finish it. It's nonsense, and almost incomprehensible unless you read all the tie-ins.

The characters I remember were Extrano (who was a gay Mexican guy whose power was flamboyance and eventually discovered he had AIDS), RAM (a Japanese guy who became a living computer), Harbinger out of CoIE, Tom Kalmaku, Terra out of the Titans (who dies iirc), an Australian aboriginal woman who became a cosmic ghost, Jason Woodrue and a guy who was obviously Eugene Terreblanche. There was a "who's the traitor" cliffhanger story arc which turned out to be, surprise surprise, the white supremacist guy. Doin' it for Mandela, man!

There were definitely a couple of others though. A Chinese woman who moved round ley lines? A black woman who got AIDS as well?

She might have got AIDS from... was there an AIDS spreading vampire called the Haemogoblin or is that too ridiculous even for DC?

sadly no
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091006193611/marvel_dc/images/0/0d/Hemo-Goblin_01.jpg

"The Hemo-Goblin was a vampire created to help a white-supremacy group eliminate non-whites. He is notable mainly for infecting members of the New Guardians with the AIDS virus. He was killed in battle with the team."

Istr there was also a story which came from Steve Englehart that he originally wanted to call the team The Trumps but DC corporate were scared Donald would sue them.

I hadn't realised, but to make way for The Green Team and The Movement the following books are being cancelled:

Hawkman
Deathstroke
Firestorm
Ravagers
Sword of Sorcery
Team 7

Aside from it being the final clear-out of the Liefeldening, that's a Wave 2 book and two Wave 3 books. It's really not working, is it.

i'm guessing it has 'worked' for DC inasmuch as it has prob sold a few more comics, overall, than if they hadn't launched the new 52. DC have made v v few 'new' titles/characters stick for the last thirty years - monthly comic bks are always seemingly locked in a cycle of crash, burn, revive, rip-off, relaunch blah blah

There's a thread somewhere around here where, I think, John Constantine was held up as the longest-lasting lead character since the 70s, and er, oh dear.

Sandman sort of a grey area there...? I guess new material about him stopped after awhile

but yeah Moore is basically otm when he complains about how shitty the big two have been in developing new material

Hellblazer has run 300 issues (plus several dozen specials, minis and GNs) - Sandman ran 75 issues (plus 7 issues of minis/specials & three 8-page shorts). Hellblazer is still going and the lead is about to transfer to another lead book*, Sandman has led 2 GNs in the 17 years since it finished.

(P sure other Vertigo books have had close to 75-issue runs, if only other Gaiman-created stuff like Books Of Magic & Lucifer, and some new Bat-related characters probably have too)


*which will likely die in 8-14 issues, but we're still counting for now

Scalped ran 60 issues.