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

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!

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Well... yes?

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.

it's convergence. Everything will change and be rewritten and chucked out the window for the nunu-52.

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2015/04/dcs-convergence-begins-while-its-weeklies-end-weakly/#more-209032

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-diversity
http://www.comicbookresources.com/prev_img.php?pid=44214&disp=ilib&oty=1&oid=62294

New Fifty-YOU! sounds horrible.

I'll contribute to a thread but Conetc has undone all my goodwill to lengthy reviews tbh.

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?

kneejerk answer is 'geoff johns'

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.

The question isn't who thought of it. The question is: Are YOU ready for it?

what in the fuck?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CFiw38nUkAE_KJx.jpg

um

I'd always wondered why you never see Superman and Henry Rollins in the same room.

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.

I am not that into DC's recent work but that image gives me hope for something

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.

From a 1998 Flash comic found at a charity shop:

http://41.media.tumblr.com/159790045d0041889b3d4c11204962c2/tumblr_nq9g6qs2ZO1qz6b1bo1_1280.jpg

was that ever published???

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

http://thewrightopinion.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/ufocon.jpg%3Fw%3D450

OOOoWoOo

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?

Striking fear into the hearts of criminals using anal discomfort and memory loss

Hal has a touch of the Fabio about him lately

http://i.imgur.com/l3rNutb.jpg

have they cast Green Lantern in the upcoming Justice League movie yet? Baffleck Batman playing opposite Fabio Hal could be pretty entertaining

is he wearing a green fur robe?

I want to believe so.

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.

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?

Darlene is the ship's computer, I think.

with an ATTITUDE!

You can come back Aldo, Dan DiDio is gone!

OMG, no fuckin way

DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE ASS THERE DAN

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.

I have not read a single new comic book in February. Cold turkey wasn't that bad.

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.

lol, wut — https://cosmicbook.news/marvel-taking-over-dc-comics

Ok, that site looks sketchy af (I’ve never read it, the story just came up in my Google newsfeed)

Yes, that site is sketchy af and, iirc, a favorite of Comicsgate mutants.

sorry for the linky