this looks terrible. kinda surprised (but grateful) they're not trying to fold watchmen into the dcu as part of this
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 26 March 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link
CONVERGENCE: AQUAMAN #1U.S. Price: $3.99On Sale 4/15STARRING HEROES FROM ZERO HOUR! Aquaman has lost his home, his powers, and his hand – but now he faces his most difficult challenge: a battle to the finish with Deathblow!
STARRING HEROES FROM ZERO HOUR! Aquaman has lost his home, his powers, and his hand – but now he faces his most difficult challenge: a battle to the finish with Deathblow!
thrilled that they're streamlining the dcu by resurrecting 20-year-old efforts to streamline the dcu which were terrible even at the time
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 26 March 2015 15:25 (nine years ago) link
putting aquaman in sweatpants is a bold new direction tho tbf
http://media.dcentertainment.com/sites/default/files/styles/covers192x291/public/comic-covers/2015/01/CONV_AQ_1_54b0748c8bb876.77829605.jpg?itok=eFRVHUZL
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 26 March 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
almost 20 years ago, Deathblow was chilling with Wolverine!http://marvel.wikia.com/Deathblow_/_Wolverine_Vol_1
the times, how they change
― mh, Thursday, 26 March 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
This ad is totes hilarius though
http://media.dcentertainment.com/sites/default/files/imce/2015/03-MAR/RoadToConvergence-Sale_FIXED_top-or-bottom-456x404_iPadHD_3_MD_55109957393148.89326353.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 26 March 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link
this looks terrible. kinda surprised (but grateful) they're not trying to fold watchmen into the dcu as part of this― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 26 March 2015 15:23 (37 minutes ago)
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 26 March 2015 15:23 (37 minutes ago)
Well they have, kind of. Earth 4 is the earth of Watchmen, or rather the earth of Watchmen had it used the Charlton heroes after all.
http://www.dccomics.com/characters/earth-4
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
As a store owner whose only DC sales for two months will be Convergence - fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 26 March 2015 20:20 (nine years ago) link
Followed shortly by Marvel rebooting with an assload of #1s with their version of the New 52.
I need to find a connection for good, mellow weed.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 26 March 2015 20:21 (nine years ago) link
okay irl lolz
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 March 2015 20:23 (nine years ago) link
Multiversity: Ultra Comics was really cool, but at this point I have no idea how it's all supposed to fit together.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 26 March 2015 20:40 (nine years ago) link
I was about to say, as someone whose only DC book has been Multiversity, DC seems to be in a pretty neat state at the moment!
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 26 March 2015 22:08 (nine years ago) link
Check back here frequently as new content is added.
Check back here frequently as we make up the answers!
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Friday, 27 March 2015 00:56 (nine years ago) link
Well... yes?
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 27 March 2015 09:01 (nine years ago) link
Caught up with some DC stuff -- the final issues of the three weekly minis, plus Convergence 0.
Surprise! They were not good. Also, unless I read wrong, they've set up a definitive future in which, er, all the heroes are killed and turned into zombie robots - is that right? That seems... bleak.
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 4 April 2015 01:41 (nine years ago) link
it's convergence. Everything will change and be rewritten and chucked out the window for the nunu-52.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 4 April 2015 01:44 (nine years ago) link
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2015/04/dcs-convergence-begins-while-its-weeklies-end-weakly/#more-209032
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 5 April 2015 20:17 (nine years ago) link
I don't know if we need a new thread for post 52 clusterfucks, but DC is making a new ad campaign: DC YOU! Promising to ask readers such smart questions as: 'Are YOU ready to laugh?, Are YOU ready to hashtag this?, and Are YOU ready for the new awesome?' I know I'm not! Apparently they are promoting diversity. So of course there's an ad with famed gay superhero Midnighter, which just shows a man in a mask with blood on his face and the tagline: He can predict your every move... but nobody can predict what he'll do next... are YOU ready? They really sold the diversity of that story...
http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/dc-comics-announces-dc-you-highlighting-character-story-creator-diversityhttp://www.comicbookresources.com/prev_img.php?pid=44214&disp=ilib&oty=1&oid=62294
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link
New Fifty-YOU! sounds horrible.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link
I'll contribute to a thread but Conetc has undone all my goodwill to lengthy reviews tbh.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 03:48 (nine years ago) link
So, based on those ads, the "bunny Batman" we discussed in the other thread is... Commissioner Gordon in a robosuit?! Whoever thought that was a good idea?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 06:37 (nine years ago) link
kneejerk answer is 'geoff johns'
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 08:35 (nine years ago) link
I think it's an okay idea, and I like the suit design. Snyder's a decent writer when he can be bothered (which hasn't been often, lately). I wouldn't buy it, though.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 09:15 (nine years ago) link
The question isn't who thought of it. The question is: Are YOU ready for it?
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 09:37 (nine years ago) link
what in the fuck? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CFiw38nUkAE_KJx.jpg
― like working at a jewelry store and not knowing about bracelets (Dr. Superman), Friday, 22 May 2015 19:56 (nine years ago) link
um
― DJP, Friday, 22 May 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
I'd always wondered why you never see Superman and Henry Rollins in the same room.
― The Freewheelin' Denny Dillon (Old Lunch), Friday, 22 May 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
Is that the new version of Superboy Prime? IIRC he had that red "S" on black background thing going on before the reboot... Considering that the whole character is supposed to be a parody of fanboys, I guess it'd make sense for him to try to look cool and drive a motorcycle.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 24 May 2015 09:41 (nine years ago) link
I am not that into DC's recent work but that image gives me hope for something
― ultimate american sock (mh), Sunday, 24 May 2015 10:39 (nine years ago) link
Tuomas, that's the post-Convergence Superman, seen in a preview of an upcoming Superman/Batman issue. Apparently his Clark Kent ID has been revealed (by Lois Lane!) and he's depowered. And he's been watching Bruce Willis movies.
― like working at a jewelry store and not knowing about bracelets (Dr. Superman), Monday, 25 May 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
From a 1998 Flash comic found at a charity shop:
http://41.media.tumblr.com/159790045d0041889b3d4c11204962c2/tumblr_nq9g6qs2ZO1qz6b1bo1_1280.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 20 June 2015 20:45 (eight years ago) link
was that ever published???
― like working at a jewelry store and not knowing about bracelets (Dr. Superman), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 21:29 (eight years ago) link
http://wrightopinion.com/2011/05/22/all-you-need-to-know-batman-the-abduction/http://thewrightopinion.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/youredead.jpg%3Fw%3D450
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 21:35 (eight years ago) link
http://thewrightopinion.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/ufocon.jpg%3Fw%3D450
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 21:36 (eight years ago) link
OOOoWoOo
― like working at a jewelry store and not knowing about bracelets (Dr. Superman), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 22:44 (eight years ago) link
Wasn't there a character in The Invisibles who was, essentially, Bruce Wayne if Bruce Wayne's life-defining moment had been being abducted by aliens and not having his parents killed?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 11:18 (eight years ago) link
Striking fear into the hearts of criminals using anal discomfort and memory loss
― Hikikomori Povich (tsrobodo), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 12:31 (eight years ago) link
Hal has a touch of the Fabio about him lately
http://i.imgur.com/l3rNutb.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 6 August 2015 21:58 (eight years ago) link
have they cast Green Lantern in the upcoming Justice League movie yet? Baffleck Batman playing opposite Fabio Hal could be pretty entertaining
― pop addicts should "do their thing", whatever that may be (soref), Thursday, 6 August 2015 22:17 (eight years ago) link
is he wearing a green fur robe?
― pop addicts should "do their thing", whatever that may be (soref), Thursday, 6 August 2015 22:21 (eight years ago) link
I want to believe so.
― earlnash, Thursday, 6 August 2015 23:08 (eight years ago) link
Mostly laying out of the New 52 outside a few issues when it started, I've read a few of the first couple Batman related trades. I've read the first couple years of Batman, Detective and Batman & Robin now. I'd say the artwork in these three titles over the first couple of years is really quite good. Whether or not they needed to do this reboot, I think it is a good run of Batman artwork in the three titles. I still thinking starting 5 years in and filling in the gaps was a bit wack, but it all does start to come together a bit as it goes on.
Court of Owls storyline - The story's execution was just dumb. They made those clones way too powerful and the fight scenes were just way over the top. The whole secret court seems pretty hard to buy in old continuity although parts of the background and how it tied into Gotham wasn't bad. I'd think Paul Dini could probably take the elements and make them work as at some point they would have to explain relationship and history between the Court and Ra's Al Ghul, which could work in the right hands. I thought it was a very weird story to use to reboot Batman as the story had so much back in the comics before hand.
Zero Year - It's definitely a different take on Batman's origin. I kind of liked the modern Riddler take although it seems to me to echo the last Batman movie a bit close. I figured that thing the soldiers found in the desert would end up being a Lazarus Pit, but it didn't go that way. All in all, kind of underwhelming but it wasn't bad. It's Batman's origin story, you better be able to make a decent comic with the material.
Death in the Family - It was a definite over the top modern Joker story, but I thought the horror elements worked better with the character than I would have thought. It definitely had a similar vibe to Snyders quite good arc "The Black Mirror" done with Jock before the reboot.
― earlnash, Thursday, 6 August 2015 23:41 (eight years ago) link
is Darlene the name of Green Lantern's space girlfriend? Is that a callback to his space girlfriend from the 80s when he was exiled from earth for a year?
― OOOoWoOo (Dr. Superman), Monday, 10 August 2015 02:01 (eight years ago) link
Darlene is the ship's computer, I think.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 10 August 2015 08:40 (eight years ago) link
with an ATTITUDE!
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 06:33 (eight years ago) link
You can come back Aldo, Dan DiDio is gone!
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 21 February 2020 23:40 (four years ago) link
OMG, no fuckin wayDON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE ASS THERE DAN
― Hot, Now, and Oh-So-Very Wow! (Old Lunch), Saturday, 22 February 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
Although now I have to wonder if Di Dio's departure doesn't mean that AT&T isn't preparing to gut the whole comics division.
― Hot, Now, and Oh-So-Very Wow! (Old Lunch), Saturday, 22 February 2020 00:07 (four years ago) link
I have not read a single new comic book in February. Cold turkey wasn't that bad.
― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Monday, 24 February 2020 12:20 (four years ago) link
In other DC news: I was wondering why I kept seeing raves about this goddamn Wonder Twins series that just ended and looked into it and discovered that it was written by the same dude who wrote the goddamn Flintstones series I kept seeing raves about and the goddamn Snagglepuss series I kept seeing raves about so I guess I need to just forget about the source material being mined and read this Mark Russell dude's stuff already, huh.
― Expart of Languidge (Old Lunch), Monday, 24 February 2020 13:14 (four years ago) link
lol, wut — https://cosmicbook.news/marvel-taking-over-dc-comics
― Ticket Tout (morrisp), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 04:45 (four years ago) link