Reboot or not, "Final Crisis" is where the brought back Barry Allen, and it is where they lost me.
I will pick up "Backhawks" if Costa leaves IDW (we know he is off TF by the end of the year), nobody worthwhile picks up "Cobra" after he leaves, there are no other books I want to add to my pull list, *and* I really like the first issue.
I think of how close I was to being out of comics 10 years ago, and I look at my pull-list since and now.....
Dom
-is also trying to keep the pull list at 5 or less for a year.
Dominic wrote:Reboot or not, "Final Crisis" is where the brought back Barry Allen, and it is where they lost me.
Technically it was "Flash: Rebirth" that brought back Barry Allen. "Final Crisis" was just the first story to use the character since they were already planning his return by then and thanks to some time travel in context of the story.
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andersonh1 wrote:Tattoos must be cool and modern, because now Mr. Terrific has them too. He's lost his jacket with "Fair Play" on the arms, and instead has Fair Play tattooed on his biceps. So now the world's smartest man is going street thug/gang member? Are you kidding me?
Wait a minute. I've got a few tattoos. Sweet, so am I a thug or a gang member? Man, I always wanted to be a malcontent. Possibly a ne'er do well. But leaving that aside a minute.
I can almost see what you're saying here, even if the wording could maybe have been better.
Yeah, I didn't phrase that well. No offense was intended to the tattooed.
Michael Holt, from what we've seen of him before, doesn't seem like to sort to get all tatted up.
That's more of where I was trying to go, that tattoos seemed out of character for Holt.
But like, have you read the Starman comic where Jack meets the original Mr. Terrific? I wish I could find the issue right now and quote it directly, but basically Jack said to Terry that for as corny as the big "Fair Play" logo might have seemed, it took a real belief in what he was doing for him to just emblazon that on his chest there in big red letters. That kind of wild optimism, Jack thought, may have made him the best superhero of all. This was back when Robinson could write really well, so it came across better when he said it.
But anyway. Micheal Holt feel strongly enough about the "Fair Play" message that he's had it etched into his damn skin. And assuming that he's still the same character, the kind of guy that probably wouldn't get tattooed getting that message says something.
If they go that direction with the character, then that might make sense. You may have talked me into ignoring the fact that I dislike the new look so much and trying the first issue just to see if that's how they write him.
Oh, yeah. Superman's new suit. So, y'all maybe think someone at DC thought "Hey, I'll bet we can make a way worse new suit for Superman than the electric one!"? Since the Morrison book's likely to be closer to the original Superman comics, I'm hoping he might not have it in that run. Oh, how I'm hoping.
I'm honestly not sure why the red trunks bother some people. The red trunks help visually break up all the blue, but even that doesn't work very well without the yellow belt as an accent. If they absolutely had to get rid of the trunks (never mind that most people don't wear tights or a red cape either!) a two tone blue might have been a better approach. I saw a drawing where someone had given superman dark blue "pants" along with the traditional light blue shirt, with the usual S shield and cape. That looked better than the boring blue armor approach DC seems to have taken.
andersonh1 wrote:Tattoos must be cool and modern, because now Mr. Terrific has them too. He's lost his jacket with "Fair Play" on the arms, and instead has Fair Play tattooed on his biceps. So now the world's smartest man is going street thug/gang member? Are you kidding me?
Wait a minute. I've got a few tattoos. Sweet, so am I a thug or a gang member? Man, I always wanted to be a malcontent. Possibly a ne'er do well. But leaving that aside a minute.
I can almost see what you're saying here, even if the wording could maybe have been better.
Yeah, I didn't phrase that well. No offense was intended to the tattooed.
None taken, of course. And looking at the first issue's cover...is that a new costume, or is he just not wearing the jacket?
Dominic wrote: too many people likely would have enjoyed it as....well a house-elf gang-bang.
Hey, anyone want to read a fun, lighthearted,clever comic that manages to tell superhero stories without much violence? Like, without even the usual amount of relatively harmless super-beat-down violence? One that's well-drawn besides? Okay, what you should do, you should check out Dan Slott's "She-Hulk".
I just picked up the first collection, because I thought this was clever as hell when I'd flipped through some of 'em back in 2002, when it first came out. Yes, I know, Captain Old News strikes again, but I figured I'd recommend it anyway. In this book, She-Hulk takes a new job with one of New York's most prestigious law firms, but there's a catch. They do not wish for She-Hulk to be arguing their cases, they want Jennifer Walters, her alter-ego. Effectively, it restores a secret identity gimmick to a character with no secret identity, and makes Jennifer Walters the protagonist of the book, which hasn't been done with She-Hulk for quite some time.
The other big draw is the sort of cases she takes on. Her firm hired her to take cases related to superhuman law. So you get cases like, a guy suing his employer for damages after a workplace accident transforms him into a radioactive superman. Or Spider-Man suing J. Jonah Jameson for libel. Or arguing whether or not a ghost can testify as a witness against his alleged murderer. It's a lot of fun, and a neat illustration of how superhero comics can be different than the usual spandex slugfests.
The art's pretty solid, too. I especially like the artist on the first part of the book, he's got a really cool and unique style, and manages to draw She-Hulk as looking like an extremely muscular, yet very attractive woman. I mean, I liked Byrne's run on She-Hulk, too, but he drew her as just looking like a seven-foot tall supermodel with good muscle tone. This dude draws her with massive shoulders and arms, but still looking feminine and sexy. It's quite a trick. The artist on the second half of the book is still pretty decent, but he's got a real Dale Keown thing going. It still looks good and is appropriate for a Hulk book, but I kind of miss the first dude.
Anyway, if you dig funny lawyer shows like Boston Legal or the like, or just want a different type of fun superhero book, this is so worth checking out.
Dominic wrote: too many people likely would have enjoyed it as....well a house-elf gang-bang.
I wouldn't be so sure. Marvel already unveiled there will be a new Ultimate Spider-Man when they relaunch the Ultimate Universe... again. Of course that's not to say it'll be Peter Parker under the mask, but still...
