Ain't it the truth (defeated sigh).
― human/hutt hybrid (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 21:56 (seven years ago) link
guys, just so you don't make the same mistake DC does, "dick" is slang for male genitaliajust fyi
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
quite the boner they made there
― mh, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
stuck their cock in it, as it were
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
penis
― 🎵 it's grey pubic now, stoner blue 🎵 (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 16:26 (six years ago) link
I just want to make it clear that I'm clear on the distinction between discussing multiple instances of the character Dick Grayson and discussing male genitalia. Clearly, there's a vas deferens.
― human/hutt hybrid (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link
at an unprecedented moment of good will for the wonder woman character, the bigwigs at DC decide to cash in with a groundbreaking special sure to please new fans and win them over into becoming ongoing comic buyers
http://www.previewsworld.com/SiteImage/CatalogImage/STL046492%3Ftype%3D1
http://i.imgur.com/AVBpSkn.png
http://i.imgur.com/szr6BqM.png
http://i.imgur.com/LMWv1XY.png
SYNERGY
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 23 June 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
that cover again:http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/dcn-wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20230203/WonderDevil.jpg
so confused
― Nhex, Friday, 23 June 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
I so misread that "kicked some rectal" thing at first.
― Mr. Crackpots (WilliamC), Friday, 23 June 2017 16:33 (six years ago) link
uhh yeah
― mh, Friday, 23 June 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
they're just kickin it, doing butt stuff. wonder woman and the tazmanian devil. nothing to see here.
― mh, Friday, 23 June 2017 16:41 (six years ago) link
to be clear: that book came out THIS WEEK
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 23 June 2017 16:41 (six years ago) link
is this the real life
― total eclipse of the beefheart (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 June 2017 16:44 (six years ago) link
"F from Professor Bechdel" -- how rude
― face it, tiger... you just hit middle age (morrisp), Friday, 23 June 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link
lol at The Comics Journal review:
Lobo/Road Runner Special #1: Fuck these comics; $4.99.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 23 June 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link
and further
I dunno, I just have a really visceral aversion to these DC serious-but-funny takes on Warner Brothers and Hanna-Barbara cartoon properties, which seem designed primarily to coax oh my god such a weird idea ha ha ha ha ha ha reactions from credulous entertainment news sources that translate to added visibility, theoretically leading to impulse sales from curious and/or potentially-ironic-but-probably-assertively-‘sincere’-and-anyway-still-buying-so-it’s-exactly-the-same-thing-as-far-as-the-publisher-is-concerned consumers of popular ‘geek’-categorized franchise content. Hey, it worked for Archie. The Flintstones book is supposed to be actually good, and, as we know, only one (arguably) actually-good title is needed to valorize the whole line’s calculation, given the curve on which these corporate funster efforts are typically graded. Whoops, I just fell into their clutches by even talking about it! Still, NONETHELESS, the Lobo/Road Runner book is drawn by Kelley Jones, and it’s nice to see his work, and to know he’s getting paid. Maybe It’s Good (TM).
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 23 June 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
um. someone's gotta chill. punisher meets archie shaped a generation, yo
― Nhex, Friday, 23 June 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
I can roll with this latest wacky crossover iteration much more easily than I can John Constantine vs. Evil Orko.
― President Buttstuff (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 June 2017 18:33 (six years ago) link
oh god i forgot about Evil Orko. i love it
― Nhex, Friday, 23 June 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
i just read the lobo/roadrunner thing and it's bad btwtho nowhere near as bad as wonder woman/Tasmanian devil; that thing is garbage
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 23 June 2017 18:47 (six years ago) link
Why is the comics press so snarky
― face it, tiger... you just hit middle age (morrisp), Friday, 23 June 2017 21:30 (six years ago) link
inferiority complex
― Nhex, Friday, 23 June 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link
comics are terrible
― bonamasso guitara (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 June 2017 21:43 (six years ago) link
the kelley jones art is really bad
season of mists > lobo/roadrunner is a sad career arc
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 23 June 2017 22:29 (six years ago) link
If you had told me that in 2017 Aquaman and Super Sons would be two of the best comics DC or Marvel were publishing I would have laughed in your face. But here we are.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 24 June 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
The Batman/Elmer Fudd comic is... quite good, and maybe better than anything King's done on the solo title? The art is *really* nice.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 16:43 (six years ago) link
(This is a variation on EZ Snappin's previous post I guess.)
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 16:44 (six years ago) link
Your entire post is in English, and I understand all of its constituent words, but for some reason my brain is refusing to process any of the things you just said.
― Duane Quarterdump (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
Wow, it does sound good - http://www.cbr.com/review-batman-elmer-fudd-one-shot/
― face it, tiger... you just hit middle age (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 19:43 (six years ago) link
I have to respect Warner's openness to pushing the envelope so far with the classic WB/Hanna-Barbera characters. I imagine Disney/Marvel would not follow a similar path with "Deadpool vs. Uncle Scrooge" or something (though I know there have plenty of "Uncle Scrooge" comics, and I don't know how funky they've gotten).
On a similar note, I recently saw "The Lego Batman Movie." It was good, but left me a bit nonplussed at how "non-canonical" a take it was... almost like "fake Batman," made by folks who are familiar with the basic Batman elements, but not interested at all in staying true to tradition. The movie's characterizations are very far afield; and it presents an alternative history of Batman that alludes to his many familiar incarnations (going back to the beginning), yet retcons Robin out of the history altogether. And while I'm no Batman purist, I found it took me out of the movie. For example - everyone in the Lego world remembers Batman in his swingin' 1960s incarnation, and a brief clip is even shown of Adam West in costume (to drive the point home); but the viewer isn't supposed remember the fact that Robin was also in the series?
I was expecting something more like the direct-to-DVD Lego Batman/Justice League movies, which have lots of humor and in-jokes, but are otherwise "standard" stories that fit well enough within the DC canon (just for a younger audience). And while "The Lego Batman Movie" is more overtly absurdist and ironic in its execution, it's not all played for a joke... it has the standard action movie beats, peril and resolution, etc.
I guess my point is that while it is impressive WB/DC were open to such an alternative take on a key property, it didn't quite "work" for me as a viewer with a basic understanding of Bat-history (and not even as a "rabid Batman fan," which I'm not).
― face it, tiger... you just hit middle age (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
I think it's just a version of Batman who is also a Lego guy, and is for children who have no idea what any of those previous things are but have a general idea of Batman? All the references are for older kids and adults to pick up and add some value, not for the primary audience.
retcons are retroactively changing continuity, it seems like Batman being three inches tall and made of plastic would be a much bigger retcon than not having a sidekick
― mh, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
I suppose, though it retains a ton of other elements from the "real" continuity (a cameo by the Justice League; a bunch of first-, second- and third-rate Batman villains who are painstakingly taken from canonical sources; etc.). Weird to have a Bat-world where Harley Quinn and Bane are familiar nemeses; Barbara Gordon is older than usual and taking over as commissioner, has never been Batgirl, and Batman has a crush on her; and Dick Grayson is a young orphan whom Batman is just now meeting...
― face it, tiger... you just hit middle age (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
I know I sound like I Hate Fun or something, and that's totally overstating it... it's not a huge deal, just more like -- that's not "Batman," you know? He's not an egotistical jerk who thinks he's the greatest, etc. And the Lego Batman in those straight-to-DVD movies is more like a traditional idea of Batman. Being small and made of plastic (and cracking frequent jokes) doesn't mean they can't still "feel" like characters drawn inside the lines of canon, and the movie was outside the lines for me somehow.
― face it, tiger... you just hit middle age (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 20:46 (six years ago) link
(And also the fact that they explicitly allude to all those movies and iconic comic book covers, which implies a connection to a history that is then flouted/ignored... but I know, you're not supposed to read that much into it.)
― face it, tiger... you just hit middle age (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
it's an elseworlds batman
I can understand what you mean by feeling it's off, though. I think I've seen an episode and a half of whatever Spider-Man animated show is currently on and it has characters and locations with familiar names, but none of them fit together in a way I'm accustomed to.
― mh, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link
I feel like the meta-commentary of some of the Lego junk means that it takes place in a world similar to ours where somehow there both is a Batman and there's Batman fiction that's the same as our Batman fiction
― mh, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
Yeah - one of the jokes is like, "Remember that time with the parade and the Prince music?"; so it can be pretty aggressively meta.
― face it, tiger... you just hit middle age (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 20:57 (six years ago) link
morrisp you're overthinking this. just enjoy it!
― Nhex, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 21:20 (six years ago) link
I DEMAND FEALTY TO THE ALMIGHTY BAT-CAN(N)ON!
― face it, tiger... you just hit middle age (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 21:43 (six years ago) link
Crucially this Batman is the Batman from the Lego Movie, so most of your objections are not really on very solid ground.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 22:41 (six years ago) link
Yah - but he's not dating "Wyldstyle" and fighting the "kragle" in this one... he lives in the Batcave, protects Gotham City, interacts with tons of other DC characters, etc. It gets close enough to being a "real" Batman production, that the odd ways in which it deviates are highlighted; making it (for me) fall into a kind of "uncanny valley" of "off-brand Batman." I've said my piece!!
― face it, tiger... you just hit middle age (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 23:11 (six years ago) link
fudd/batman xover has my full attention
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 23:29 (six years ago) link
The Lego Batman Movie is at least the second-best Batman movie
― Doubtless they are toss. (sic), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 23:33 (six years ago) link
The last Nolan movie is definitely less plausible than the Lego one
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 29 June 2017 00:11 (six years ago) link
"You should use your given name more often... ROBIN"
― face it, tiger... you just hit middle age (morrisp), Thursday, 29 June 2017 00:45 (six years ago) link
mask of the phantasm still pretty good
― mh, Thursday, 29 June 2017 03:15 (six years ago) link
just got a blu-ray release too
― Nhex, Thursday, 29 June 2017 04:02 (six years ago) link
Chuck is right, the BatFudd book is really good. I actually think I like the backup more, but well worth your time.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
Backup was also good! And considerably less pitiful than the wile e coyote issue.
The Facebook mobile app is letting you, er, cosplay as the justice league right now
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 29 June 2017 22:40 (six years ago) link