My CBR Shame

Signed,
A confused stupid comics pirate.

Also d/led:
The Brave & the Bold #200, final issue, Batman/Batman by Mike W. Barr & Dave Gibbons. Turns out, I used to have this as well, but I had completely forgotten about it. A strange tale of Earths 1 & 2 and a man named Brimstone (with AWESOME hair) who traversed the multi-dimensional barrier using only his hatred for Batman.
Justice League of America #171 & 172 Another Earth 1 & Earth 2 story. This one concerns the annual team-up of the JLA/JSA and the death of the original Mr. Terrific. I remember getting the first issue from a used bin when I was a kid, and then I never found the conclusion, so I've just been walking around like a moron for all these years wondering who killed Mr. T. Turns out it was Jay Garrick, but the JL/SA decided that since they've always liked Jay Garrick more than Terry Sloane anyway, they'd just wipe their own minds and forget about it.

The Brave & the Bold #85, Peak Neal Adams, 1st appearance of Green Arrow's beard! Amazingly, I've read this before! It must have been reprinted in one of those DC Blue Ribbon Digests. Still, fantastic non-fantastic Bob Haney story. Bruce Wayne, congressman! Batman and GA share a psychiatrist! Psychiatrist uses self-hypnosis to remove knowledge of their secret IDs! Who needs Zatanna?

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I can't believe Big Sir got his own card. Did any of the other Injustice Leaguers?

No, that's fair enough. Being really quick reads also helps me get through 60-odd in a day.

Anyway:

Teen Titans Go! 1-20 odd

This is definitely the comic book of the TV Series, with the return of actual editor's captions, which refer to episodes of the TV show rather than other comics. Does the current rake of 'Adventures' (comics of DC TV animations) do this? I assume old-school toy comics (G.I.Joe, Transformers, Zoids) must have done this a certain amount.

The comics all read really quickly, like they'd be a good five-minute time-filler in one of the TV episodes. I never realised until reading them, what a strange continuity situation the series was in - they're characters from 20 years ago, in the modern world. Because I'd read Gotham Central's Dead Robin arc just before this, which has a Titans containing Beast Boy, Cyborg, Raven and Robin III, I didn't notice that this one was Dick Grayson until it's (literally) spelled out. Though guest stars from Wildebeest and Speedy should probably have tipped me off :)

Also I read Power Pack 1-5, out of a massive torrent of all of them ever, and thought "Yes, this is roughly what I remember, I'll stop now". They're great characters, but that might be the problem: they're so like actual kids that spending more than a short amount of time with them can get pretty annoying.

No, old school G.I.Joe and Transformers had continuities independent from the actual toys and the other tie-ins. And in the case of Larry Hama's Joe and the British Transformers, their continuities were way more intricate and way, way more awesome, although Hama's eventually died from an overdose of the crappy new toys he kept having to shoehorn in to his stories. (Well, OK, the ninja thing didn't help after a while either.)

Over the weekend, I d/led THE GREAT DARKNESS SAGA (whose central mystery is spoiled by the cover of the trade, dirty fuckers) and the first 37 (complete pre-Zero Hour?) issues of the Five Year Gap Legion.

I just found a motherlode of The Question, including a truly horrendous Question/Blue Beetle team-up from 1981 (Charlton's last gasp?).

The Hawk and the Dove #1

The Hawk and the Dove #2

I just finished (like three hours ago) my marathon of pre-Crisis Flash, from #300 STRAIGHT THROUGH to #350. Ye gods. Infantino, I really don't know what to make of you. Your loose lines (covers inked by Klaus Jansen, which makes it all wonderful) are sometimes immaculate, sometimes asinine. The panels where Barry Allen gets his face bashed in are really, really something.
I really, really feel sorry for the Flash. He was put through hell for nearly three years before his title was cancelled, and then he gets sent off to the future to be reunited with his formerly-dead wife, but by that time, I think he's already dead!

Read Yesterday:
Zero Hour w/ several x-overs (not the complete x-overs as the D/L file suggested): NOT THAT BAD. Clearly intended to be a sequel proper to Crisis (subtitle: Crisis in Time) (dead Flash hoax) (Spectre vs. Villain at the dawn of time), the best stuff was the timeline bleeding crossovers, like the multiple Batmanses in Superman: Man of Steel or the tweeness of Tim Drake teaming up with younger than him Dick Grayson (after a bit of malevolent Jason Todd OMG dickery). The Ordway over Jurgens art in Zero Hour proper is pretty nice and certainly gives it a Crisis Sheen, even if every character is in their lamest costume.
Also cool is Green Arrow #90 written by Dixon maybe? drawn by Barretto (of whom I've become fond since MarMan: AmSec), basically, two timelines unfold at once as GA chases a goon.

Having read and quite enjoyed THE KINGDOM I thought I was ready for anything. I WAS WRONG. Onslaught: X-Men was worse than I remembered (ya rly!!) but also funnier, especially all the scenes where the X-Men go "come on, you're Magneto aren't you" and Onslaught goes NO NO NO. Things I was reminded of: those 90s costumes, that 90s art style (the comix equivalent of gated drums on 80s records), 'Joseph', 'the X-Traitor' etc etc. (actually they did a reasonable save on this).

Onslaught: Marvel Universe however - OMG. How I love stories where the villain is defeated by a plot mechanism which all the characters understand immediately and act as if it's logical when in fact it makes no sense AT ALL. "Onslaught hav become pure THOUGHT let's all jump into him, except all the X-Men who just stand around. Hurrah it worked BUT AT WHAT COST." Sobering to think that if Heroes Reborn had worked in kickstarting the speculator boom again, this might really have been it for the MU as we 'knew it'. Hearty laffing at bare-chested Thor. Really awful art. TEH WATCHER, always a hallmark of quality eh. Has the Watcher ever appeared since Joe Q took over?