Remake/Remodel: DC Rebirth so you don't have to

not even sure why I postulate or google search instead of calling the sic hotline tbh

Still very strange that he was willing to assume this.

maybe if you finish reading the sentence it will explain it

Still very strange

‘taste’s very strange!’

you may have noticed that alan moore is strange

Sometimes it's hard to tell if he's being fucked over, or being a spanner, or hoping he'll get screwed so he can say "I told you so" afterwards, or all of the above.

Which is to say, I think it's amazing that he's so uncompromising, but I'm not always sure he's telling the truth, based on my experience with less-talented male blowhards of a similar age.

e.g. There's a really long-winded interview here where Moore keeps talking about wanting to be called up and "thanked for the money" by Dave Gibbons, which made me a little leery of him, at least with regards to his personal relationships with artists.

Doomsday Clock is bad

It is an indefensible work of terrible art, but I'm enjoying it.

i think DC made some good strides in 2017, generally

finally firing eddie berganza for example

Why comics stunk in the ‘90s, Pt. XXIXXIV:
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DrlRzS-8AbI/Wldo-Epfo7I/AAAAAAABUCw/vjjNz4vREM4GFCbmJVJE7csteApw1FIvACLcBGAs/s1600/superboy45-1.jpg

because Rebirth hadn't started yet, obv

can't believe I'd never heard of Dr Mid-Nite's owl sidekick 'Hooty' before

https://i.imgur.com/a6dKRtF.jpg

can't get over how much this looks like a pixelated boat cartoon

I can’t stop thinking of the Sesame Street character Hoots, now

Where the Blowfish at, amirite?

i don't remember Hooty making it the early 2000s JSA run

someone get geoff johns on the line, time for a grim-n-gritty hooty reboot

and there's my new screen name

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgLFKWy04eE

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/bagheera_san/2764318/60652/60652_original.jpg

whaaaaaaat

please tell me that they really did the cheesy "i shall become.. a bat!" thing in the original comics

it sounds like roy thomas retconning but it's apparently the real deal

AND THUS A LEGEND IS BORN

http://www.writeups.org/wp-content/uploads/Doctor-Midnite-DC-Comics-McNider-h1.jpg

i just pulled the whole page so here go:
http://i.imgur.com/sHd7gVI.png

bonus hooty:
http://i.imgur.com/2npjCXm.png http://i.imgur.com/Y6wIdfA.png

wonder is anyone ever worked out that Dr Mid-Nite, the superhero with an owl for a pet, is actually the alter-ego of "Dr McNider", the identical looking man with an owl for a pet

http://www.science20.com/files/images/clark_kent_and_superman.jpg

I have to say that golden age hooty is very expressive for an owl who doesn't say anything apart from variations on "whoo", i.e that heavy lidded look of disdain he's giving Dr Mid-Nite on the penultimate panel of the origin story, the question mark in the previous panel that indicates he's hooting in a quizzical fashion etc

love the loopy lateral thinking which leads dr mcnider to only barely rename himself after owl-based inspiration strikes rather than, y'know, calling himself owl-man

Dr. Mid-Nite is a much cooler name tbf

Who's that guy saying, "Gosh, Mid-Nite. I really identify with that"? That dialogue's so funny to me...

It's Professor Dark-Ness, who had a startlingly-similar 'I once was blind but now I see through the eyes of a little birdie friend' origin story.

Or I might be totally lying.

Rebirth got really good after all I see

that’s dr mid-nite’s sidekick señor day-glo iirc

You guys!

Criminals are a cowardly lot... I shall become that which they fear... an owl
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4097/4919816496_01f54106ea.jpg

In all seriousness, I believe he's speaking to Hourman, whose power is basically getting really hopped up on homemade bennies, so the intense identification he's relating to Dr. Mid-Nite is a side-effect of what's commonly known as 'tweaking' (which might have been made clearer if Hourman were also sweating profusely and uncontrollably sniffing).

Many bad things here

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/01/21/looks-like-dc-comics-didnt-tell-chris-sprouse-tom-strong-appearing-terrifics-either/

oof

dc really just dgaf do they

I don't really get why they're doing this, unless it's just company policy to troll Alan Moore or anyone who's worked with him. Even if the original creators came back, these would be niche properties. Now they're just a subset of a niche.

I think you pretty much nailed their motives.

it can only be deliberate trolling or gross incompetence, really

either way, not a great look for dc

particularly since either way it's hard not to interpret as evidence of creative bankruptcy - being reduced to resurrecting old properties created by someone who absolutely despises you and, as chuck says, were not exactly blockbuster successes in the first place should be mortally embarrassing for everyone involved

it's just bizarre to take promethea, a character developed explicitly so moore could explore esoteric magical interpretations of the qabalah, and graft her into a justice league

like what is this character gonna bring that, say, doctor fate wouldn't? it's not energised new readers desperate to read the further adventures of promethea, that's for sure

that was the one character I figured they'd leave alone, but you know... DC

You know that this was a cynical, top-down decision because I highly doubt any creator who read and was invested in Promethea and wanted to explore the character further would float the idea of doing so via Justice League membership.

I genuinely fail to understand why J.H. Williams works with DC at all anymore (I mean, sure, $$$, but still).

a lot of people just really like making things that are seen by a ton of people in the mass market, even if it means having a corporate boss

the boss is always a boss, never your friend, and you have to expect them to do shitty boss-like things, because they don't work for you but for the nebulous corporate entity