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

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

I get that in a general sense, but they've kinda dicked him over directly a couple of times now.

genuinely fail to understand why J.H. Williams works with DC at all anymore

What has he agreed to do with them after 2012? Some variant covers?

Apart from writing all those Rebirth crossovers under the name Geoff Johns, obv

Maybe he isn't doing work for them currently but he did Sandman: Overture after the Batwoman fiasco.

Did anyone read Tom Strong? I've never been a Chris Sprouse fan - he's a good storyteller, but there's something creepy about the way he draws faces. I remember reading the first book - it seemed like every public library in the world had a copy of Tom Strong in 2004 - but seemed pretty dull compared to Top 10, or the first couple of Promethea & LOEG books.

Maybe he isn't doing work for them currently but he did Sandman: Overture after the Batwoman fiasco.

So he fulfilled a contract he'd signed long before they fucked him over, then never worked for them again? That's exactly the opposite of him working for them anymore.

i liked tom strong fine; it was basically moore's take on 60's-70's superman and that was fun

most of us mortals don't know when people signed contracts or whatever but yeah, that seems like some bad blood

in July 2012 he indicated that he'd signed on to Overture around August 2011.

he quit Batwoman on September 4th, 2013.

Which just proves my point. Case closed. You're welcome.

Sorry: you were right, sic, and I was wrong.

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The third issue of Doomsday Clock was so bad, Aldo should do a thread about it

I enjoyed the first two, in a mostly guilty way

The third issue was the "everything you were afraid of, but worse" issue

Obviously I will carry on reading it

spoilers pls!

I paged through the first one and thought it was horrible, is there at least blatant shitting on Watchmen instead of the faux-reverence?

Highlights include

* Clowns with invisible guns

* Clowns with knives for hands

* Old man Johnny Thunder stares out of a window for 8 pages

* Ozymandias and The Comedian's salute to Kirk Douglas's action scenes in The Fury

* Your ol' pal Geoff Johns reprises his greatest hits of limb dismemberment

* Comedian Stewart Lee guest stars

it's so bad