Dominic wrote:If it is a "drug episode", that explains why it was bad. (And now, pretty much all of the Japanese cast is ruined like Speedy!)
I can think of one single "did not suck totally and ruin a character" drug episode, ever, "The Wire" on DS9.
That is it.
Dom
-of course, the "Gargoyles" literacy episode might be the very worst "very special" episode of all time.
There was just the one comment by Big Convoy in story, the rest is kind of inferred from the toy cat- I mean Sourcebook. Every character that uses it gets bigger, has their abilities enhanced but always has extreme negative side effects. Hmmm... what can we think of here on Earth that fits that description... hmm.... I wonder... yeah, it's a pretty obvious drug referrence. Haha how is it that I found the "message" there when you're the one that typically looks for messages?
Dominic wrote:So nothing important or original then.
Yeah, because the continued fragile political struggle between Maximals and Predacons is not important.
The ideas in the story might not have been the most original but it was still an original take on those ideas.
But it was several issues of redundant confrontations, along with tie-ins leading up to......the event that really will not mean anything.
It was hardly redundant confrontations. People died and became Black Lanterns themselves, others have barely gotten away with their lives and continue to struggle against those Black Lanterns. And we haven't seen the outcome yet to know what it'll mean. You can't judge something before it has even happened.
But is there really any doubt about the outcome?
As above, you can't judge something before it has happened. We don't know the outcome.
I would like to see Black Lantern Wonder Twins. If anyone can prove to me, with science, that Black Lantern Wonder Twins would not be awesome, I will eat my hat. Show your work!
Despite it not relating to comics in any way, I can think of a "very special episode" that was awesome. Dinosaurs featured the happy plant episode, said plant was eaten by all the dinos and made them laugh, roll around on the floor, and the like. At the end of the episode, one of the characters pleaded for the viewer to "Just say no to very special episodes". Tell me it's not cool, I dare you.
As for why Jason Todd was dying his hair, I'd say it's the same reason that Dick's dressing as Batman now, and not as Nightwing. Batman wanted it to seem like the same two guys are kicking the crap outta Gotham's thugs consistently. I guess. I dunno, you tell me why then.
Dominic wrote: too many people likely would have enjoyed it as....well a house-elf gang-bang.
On a tangent completely unrelated to the current discussion but related to the topic:
I've been sorting and organizing my old comics from back in the day when I could afford to collect a lot of titles, around the early to mid 90s. One of the things I've been reminded of that I really enjoyed at the time was that there was essentially a weekly Superman book. It was four different books of course: Superman, Action Comics, Adventures of Superman and The Man of Steel, but they were staggered so that they came out on a weekly basis. They even had sub-numbering at the time so it was easy to tell the correct order to read. I loved not having to wait a month between issues. I'm not sure if any other character has had quite the same treatment since, or even if Superman still does. I doubt it. That was a 'comics are awesome' moment for me.
Spider-Man's been doing that for a while now, with a three-times-a-month release schedule. So it's close. DC's been doing a weekly comic for three years running now, starting with 52 (Awesome), then Countdown (Crappy), then Trinity (Not Bad), and now Wednesday Comics (Whatever).
138 Scourge wrote:I would like to see Black Lantern Wonder Twins. If anyone can prove to me, with science, that Black Lantern Wonder Twins would not be awesome, I will eat my hat. Show your work!
And that's a mighty big hat, too!
As for why Jason Todd was dying his hair, I'd say it's the same reason that Dick's dressing as Batman now, and not as Nightwing. Batman wanted it to seem like the same two guys are kicking the crap outta Gotham's thugs consistently. I guess. I dunno, you tell me why then.
Yeah, that's why Bats would do it, but Jason Todd's just being a whiny bitch about it.
Because he's, you know, Jason Todd.
BWprowl wrote:The internet having this many different words to describe nerdy folks is akin to the whole eskimos/ice situation, I would presume.
People spend so much time worrying about whether a figure is "mint" or not that they never stop to consider other flavours.
Jason Todd made me laugh very hard this week. Well, Morrison did, but he did it through Jason.
Batman and Robin #6. Page one, first couple panels. Dick and Damien are de-costumed, and Jason (as the Red Hood) announces "Call this number now if you think the Red Hood and Scarlett are doing a better job than Batman and Robin" Ah, c'mon, Jason, what do you know about Batman-related call-in vote things. Oh wait...
Also hilarious is Jason later telling an enemy "Go ahead, kill me! I'll come back!" For real, "Batman and Robin" is threatening "Secret Six" as my favorite DC comic. Sadly, the next story arc appears to involve Batwoman, and by extension, the whole rest of the DC Universe. I just wanna read about New Batman and Robin, dangit!
Even Robin. Somehow, I've gotten to like Damien.
Anyhow, the other comics I picked up this week: M.O.D.O.K.: Reign Delay One-Shot. Because it's M.O.D.O.K., that's why. This issue is a couple months old, but it has extremely cartoony art (as in, close to the kinda stuff I do), and features M.O.D.O.K. being relocated to Pennsylvania to deal with his parents, his high-school reunion, and the former Alpha Flight member Madison Jeffries. So I love this.
Marvel Adventures Super-Heroes #17: Eh, I've bought worse. This book threatens to bring together a "New Avengers" for the Adventures universe. Nice use of self-contained story that's part of a larger arc, and great to see Sue Richards fight Thor and pretty much win, but not as much fun as Adventures books usually are.
And just when I thought it'd be a small week, I find the $5 trade paperback boxes. Which contained, among other things
G.I. Joe: The Return of Serpentor. This is awesome
The Order: New Right Thing: the first part of Matt Fraction and Barry Kitson's "The Order". Good stuff.
Dominic wrote: too many people likely would have enjoyed it as....well a house-elf gang-bang.
