I fail to comprehend how those glasses are supposed to conceal her identity? Glasses only work if you're Superman. ;)
Where were you in '77?
Yeah that part is stupid. The Batgirl costume worked for me because it had a mask and looked like something someone could put together out of clothes they could buy and it wasn't all that different from her animated series costume, this one not so much.
I like the general idea of making the costumes look like something a real person could make if it is supposed to be something a real person had made, but without a mask what is the point of a costume?
I've been filling in the gaps of my Justice League Of America collection.
Comics date are from 1977.
You got to love the look of horror on Superman's face on that first cover. I mean it's a robot he could take it in one punch, if he really is so upset why doesn't he do something?!
Bottom line? Superman is trying to cover up the fact that he wants those people dead and he is letting the robot do his dirty work.
If the website still existed I would say that belongs on Superdickery.
Awesome.
"Red Alert for Earth" would be a great name for a band.
Yeah it would, if I had a band that is what I would call it.
So he is calling for the Atom instead of dealing with it himself? Also does he have to specify that it is earth that needs their help? I mean does The Atom or the JLA protect other planets, oh and sound can't travel through space so I assume that if The Atom can hear Superman he would know he is on Earth. Wouldn't giving the Atom the precise location on earth that needs his help(You know because Earth is a rather big place)be more productive?
This one caption just raises so many questions. At least it isn't boring like so many recent comic book covers.
It would be a great album title, but it's too long for a band name. I like 'em short.
Some more Justice League Of America issues for the collection.
Poor 'ol Superman is in distress again in issue #153 as he is bashed across the bonce my Ultraa.
I finished reading DC Comics' second Star Trek series.
I'm sorry to say that, unlike DC's first crack at TOS, this one left me rather cold. The first twelve issues were pretty good, but after that the series became rather meh, with only a couple storylines scattered here and there standing out to me.
I suppose my two main gripes with this series are:
1. Too few stories focused on characters other than Kirk, Spock, and McCoy.
2. The lack of original recurring characters (I blame Paramount for this rather than the writers, though, as they're the ones who imposed this stupid rule on DC.).
Duracell, have you ever given any of IDW's Trek comics a whirl?
If not, I definitely recommend:
DuracellEnergizer said:
I finished reading DC Comics' second Star Trek series.
I'm sorry to say that, unlike DC's first crack at TOS, this one left me rather cold. The first twelve issues were pretty good, but after that the series became rather meh, with only a couple storylines scattered here and there standing out to me.
I suppose my two main gripes with this series are:
1. Too few stories focused on characters other than Kirk, Spock, and McCoy.
2. The lack of original recurring characters (I blame Paramount for this rather than the writers, though, as they're the ones who imposed this stupid rule on DC.).
Someone gave me a softcover collection of the DC run as a get well soon present once that had some great stories in it. Probably was a "best of". The Trial of Capt. Kirk storyline brought back a number of characters from various TOS episodes as witnesses.
I liked that TAS characters like M'ress appeared in the DC era, and there was a Horta crewmember at one point. Although I think the artist got them confused with the Tholians.
Where were you in '77?
Tobar said:
Duracell, have you ever given any of IDW's Trek comics a whirl?
If not, I definitely recommend:
Yep, I've read a few of their series, including Year Four. Decent stuff for the most part, but nothing that's really entranced me so far.
The X-Men #1
Great start to the series. I hope that if Marvel ever gets the rights back they'll start with this original line up for an MCU reboot.
I'd like to see a movie with the just the classic X-Men, too. I'm sick to death of Wolverine and his stupid "I can regenerate from ash because I'm just so goddamn great" schtick.
I read all three storyarcs of the Dawn of the Jedi series today.
To quote Mr. Burns: "I know what I hate. And I don't hate this."
Right up front, I'm gonna say that I don't like the majority of John Ostrander's Star Wars work; I don't like his characters, I don't like his adoration and use of prequelisms, and I especially do not like the Legacy series -- the worst thing to ever happen to the EU since the PT.
Now, that aside, I think he did a good job with this series; there were next to no prequelisms to be found, and at least a few of the villains had a modicrum of depth to them this time around.
Of course, there were still things I disliked. I didn't like that the proto-Jedi were called "Jed'aii" -- the precursors of the Jedi should have a completely different name from their successors, not merely an alternate spelling of the same name -- and I quickly grew sick and tired of the forcesabers; it wouldn't have been so bad if the weapons had been limited to Xesh and the other Force Hound characters, but everyone from the "Jed'aii" to the Rakata soon started swinging them around and the whole scenario became an excuse to shoehorn glowing energy swords into a timeframe where they shouldn't exist.
In the end, though, I liked this series enough to accept it as deuterocanonical within my own SW Universe. That's all that really matters, right? ;-)
Surprised you did not hate those comics as they reference Kotor, and the old republic.
Completely set up to overwrite the tales of the jedi series.
“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.
As I've said in the past, I don't exactly hate KOTOR: it's just the stupid Darth names and red lightsabers I particularily dislike. Regarding TOR, whatever references there were to that game I completely missed.
As for overwriting TOTJ, I guess the bit with the forcesabers does conflict with the protosabers used by the Jedi during the Great Hyperspace War, but I can think up a few hypotheses to make it work. Even if I couldn't, though, it's only the basic storyline and characters of DOTJ that I concretely accept as a part of my SW Universe; the surface details can be easily discarded.
New Wonder Woman costume as of June....
^ That's pretty good, except for Predator-style wrist blades. Is Wonder-Woman known for eviscerating her opponents?
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Ryan McAvoy said:
^ That's pretty good, except for Predator-style wrist blades. Is Wonder-Woman known for eviscerating her opponents?
She's known for snapping necks these days, so going from that to perforating her opponents is no great leap.
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I picked up the IDW Ghostbusters that Humble Bundle had recently, which contained all but the Mars Attacks one-shot crossover and the TMNT crossover series (that I had already purchased on sale last month).
I really, really enjoyed it. The early one-shots aren’t that great, but the direct lead-in to Ongoing Series 1 and everything after is so good. The writer really gets each character and their voice, my mind even went to the different voices when the Real Ghostbusters showed up. The art is fantastic, and each issue has some reference to the RGB toys, usually through ghost design but there’s one issue where they flat out fly Ecto-2! One later issue had the guys wearing the see-through goggles that came with a nerf blaster toy that I had as a kid! The whole thing was so much fun.
The plots are good, tying together GB1, GB2, and the Video Game (the player character is running the Chicago franchise!) while adding new villains and bringing back old ones. The fact that the writer wrote the upcoming “Tobin’s Spirit Guide” and both of the recent board games really gets me excited about those projects.
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Hey nice, now I can talk about how I just read Marvel’s 2006 Civil War and its tie-ins and found it enjoyable if drawn out.
I’m reading the 2008 Skrull Invasion comic and its tie-in now, but it’s been laying aside thanks to schoolwork for awhile now.
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Hey nice, now I can talk about how I just read Marvel’s 2006 Civil War and its tie-ins and found it enjoyable if drawn out.
So you’re human, that’s good to know.
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