i'm sure not even dc execs do
― gnaw on my meat oreo (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 5 May 2017 13:26 (seven years ago) link
Yes, all the evidence is that Aldo cares more about this shit than anyone at DC at any level.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 5 May 2017 13:48 (seven years ago) link
Btw, in the dodgy DC Heroes RPG fro the 1980s had a map that put Metropolis in Pennsylvania and Gotham in NJ.
Does NYC exist in the DCU? I've never been clear on that -- I've seen it referenced in older comics, but never used as an actual setting (so wasn't sure if the references were just editorial glitches).
This thread is epic, btw... mad props to aldo (& ulysses)!
― retconned out of existence (morrisp), Saturday, 6 May 2017 23:23 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, a lot of Seven Soldiers was set there iirc
― albvivertine, Sunday, 7 May 2017 00:59 (seven years ago) link
And werent the teen titans in NYC in the wolfman era?
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 7 May 2017 02:32 (seven years ago) link
it's amazing how much of the fictional DCU is in or near New Jersey
― a landlocked exclave (mh), Sunday, 7 May 2017 03:28 (seven years ago) link
it's how you know it's a make-believe story
here's the map from the DC Heroes game.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 7 May 2017 03:36 (seven years ago) link
It's not just Jersey, it's the abandoned Oyster Town part of Jersey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Norris%2C_New_Jersey
― “Yeah. Huh, thanks.” (los blue jeans), Sunday, 7 May 2017 04:41 (seven years ago) link
Metropolis is in Delaware(!?)
― retconned out of existence (morrisp), Sunday, 7 May 2017 04:57 (seven years ago) link
Ah, damn, I misremembered. But i was close!
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 7 May 2017 07:44 (seven years ago) link
The worst part of this is, when I went to go see Batman vs. Superman, me and my friend chuckled about Gotham was so close to Metropolis, it was basically Newark to NYC. Turns out he was right!
― Nhex, Sunday, 7 May 2017 08:18 (seven years ago) link
Johnsiverse Supergirl was set in the Lower East Side.
Current Titans (Dick & White Wally Time Displaced Ones) are in Manhattan.
Green Arrow is in Seattle.
Green Lanterns is in Detroit.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Sunday, 7 May 2017 10:10 (seven years ago) link
So the Northeast Corridor is like twice as crowded in the DCU... holiday traffic on I-95 must REALLY stink!
― retconned out of existence (morrisp), Sunday, 7 May 2017 18:00 (seven years ago) link
All that said we've arrived at the age where the best book DC are publishing is probably The Flintstones.
Speaking of which, there's a full-on DCU/Hanna-Barbera crossover in a couple of months seemingly in continuity.
We have a recent copy of "Scooby-Doo Team-Up: Featuring Martian Manhunter [and other alien heroes]" that my son likes to read... it is indeed pretty good, and has a more likable version of Starfire than I've seen in other media lately (including that goofy cartoon). If not for the Scooby-Doo content (which is "whatever"), I could see reading stuff like this from time to time; it's light, fun, and well done.
― base of operations: mobile (with the memphis blues again) (morrisp), Friday, 12 May 2017 21:08 (six years ago) link
...speaking of which, ran into this business on the DC website; check out the talent involved, haha(!) -- http://www.dccomics.com/comics/scooby-apocalypse-2016/scooby-apocalypse-1
― base of operations: mobile (with the memphis blues again) (morrisp), Sunday, 14 May 2017 06:10 (six years ago) link
y would they write this - Flying and crushing coal into diamonds may come easy, but try popping a Kryptonian zit!
as the first sentence promoting the first issue of a series
why
(http://www.dccomics.com/comics/supergirl-being-super-2016/supergirl-being-super-1)
― base of operations: mobile (with the memphis blues again) (morrisp), Sunday, 14 May 2017 06:14 (six years ago) link
I actually want to read that! Mariko Tamaki is good.
― Nhex, Sunday, 14 May 2017 07:06 (six years ago) link
xp wow that's a crazy team for Scooby Apocalypse
― Nhex, Sunday, 14 May 2017 07:07 (six years ago) link
A very average book. Original premise was fun, took a really weird diversion that went nowhere, has spent two issues parodying Trump. And it's only a year old.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Sunday, 14 May 2017 08:10 (six years ago) link
The changes to the last page of Detective is an odd one.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Sunday, 14 May 2017 09:54 (six years ago) link
DC finally acknowledging they have a problem with Titans (by which I mean they are going to try and DiDiosplain it):
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4192/34607782426_ec87968a7d_m.jpg
I should also say this comes at the end of an issue of Titans which wraps up the last 6 issues of Deathstroke OFF-PAGE (he gets an eye transplant, no biggie, so he can see again) and in the process becomes an immensely powerful being with time altering machines and the ability to be the Psycho Pirate of the Rebirthiverse (or the Deadpool or Gwenpool if you like, that he knows his writers have just made up some incoherent bollocks).
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Sunday, 14 May 2017 10:32 (six years ago) link
I've been "DC-curious" lately, but not sure what (if anything) to read... and this thread hasn't "helped"!
― base of operations: mobile (with the memphis blues again) (morrisp), Sunday, 14 May 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link
Avoid most of the past decade! Lots of good stuff before then.
― Download this Man With Hamburder And Mug (Old Lunch), Sunday, 14 May 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
I'd like to read something current (as not much at Marvel is currently floating my boat)... maybe I'll try an issue or two of something. That Supergirl series looks potentially up my alley; assuming that "Kryptonian zits" doesn't reflect the actual content.
― base of operations: mobile (with the memphis blues again) (morrisp), Sunday, 14 May 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
Looks like the LSH crew is returning... but only in this "Holy flight rings, Batman" context (not sure what to makeof that): http://www.dccomics.com/comics/batman-%E2%80%9966legion-of-super-heroes-2017/batman-%E2%80%9966legion-of-super-heroes-1
― base of operations: mobile (with the memphis blues again) (morrisp), Sunday, 14 May 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
DC Books I can recommend: Flintstones, Batman, Savage Things... otherwise it's pretty grim!
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 14 May 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
Thanks... Yabba Dabba Doo
― base of operations: mobile (with the memphis blues again) (morrisp), Sunday, 14 May 2017 21:57 (six years ago) link
https://mobile.twitter.com/geoffjohns/status/863940804091363329
This can't be good.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Monday, 15 May 2017 05:48 (six years ago) link
wow that's a crazy team for Scooby Apocalypse
the critically-acclaimed team that set sales skyrocketing on Justice League 3000
― (±\ PLO;;;;;;; Style (sic), Monday, 15 May 2017 06:46 (six years ago) link
didn't even know that book existed! but it sounds like a semi-Legion comic at heart so of course it bombed
― Nhex, Monday, 15 May 2017 06:52 (six years ago) link
that geoff johns tweet has filled me with clammy dread
we should start a pool on which watchmen character (or characters, i guess) is going to get a limb torn off in a lovingly-rendered closeup during doomsday clock
― The Patricia Routledge Meatspin Gif Has Made You Gay (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 15 May 2017 11:52 (six years ago) link
oh geoff :(
7. About that title"It takes the iconic elements of both Superman and Watchmen, and the DC Universe. It felt like the perfect title. I like the “DC.” It used to be called “The Doomsday Clock,” but I took “The” off. Obviously people know who Doomsday is, but he’s not a part of the story, but I like the implications of it. People will think the last time they heard Doomsday and Superman, he died, so what is this going to be? What is he going to go through this time? And how will it affect them going forward?"
"It takes the iconic elements of both Superman and Watchmen, and the DC Universe. It felt like the perfect title. I like the “DC.” It used to be called “The Doomsday Clock,” but I took “The” off. Obviously people know who Doomsday is, but he’s not a part of the story, but I like the implications of it. People will think the last time they heard Doomsday and Superman, he died, so what is this going to be? What is he going to go through this time? And how will it affect them going forward?"
― The Patricia Routledge Meatspin Gif Has Made You Gay (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 15 May 2017 11:55 (six years ago) link
Deep sigh, followed by a pensive moment of reflection upon moments of innocence, when we still knew how to hope and to dream, and then another, deeper sigh.
― Download this Man With Hamburder And Mug (Old Lunch), Monday, 15 May 2017 12:05 (six years ago) link
Has Alan Moore weighed in on all this Rebirth/Watchmen business?
― base of operations: mobile (with the memphis blues again) (morrisp), Monday, 15 May 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
afaik he refuses to know anything about it
― mh, Monday, 15 May 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
Yeah it's hard to imagine any upside from his point of view.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 15 May 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link
i don't think so, but then i assume he's become inured to dc's continuing efforts to fuck his creations to death
wonder what dave gibbons thinks?
― The Patricia Routledge Meatspin Gif Has Made You Gay (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 15 May 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
xxp there
Dave G claimed at MCM Comic Con last year that he hadn't been consulted at all about either Rebirth (which is odd because he was a consultant on the Snyder film and Before Watchmen) or the apparently upcoming HBO tv series.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Monday, 15 May 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link
wait waht
― The Patricia Routledge Meatspin Gif Has Made You Gay (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 15 May 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link
a tv show?
― The Patricia Routledge Meatspin Gif Has Made You Gay (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 15 May 2017 14:56 (six years ago) link
Yes, because a stunningly terrible idea would be out of character for DC at this point.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 15 May 2017 14:57 (six years ago) link
Yes, apparently HBO want Snyder to make a full-length Watchmen. They're waiting his slate to get clear of filming BlackSuitGuy vs GreySuitGuy: Dusk of Vengeance so he can give the series his full attention.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Monday, 15 May 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link
jesus god
yeah, the only thing wrong with snyder's watchmen was that it wasn't long enough
― The Patricia Routledge Meatspin Gif Has Made You Gay (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 15 May 2017 15:10 (six years ago) link
I rewatched Suicide Squad on hbo and it wasn't as bad as I remembered
Jared Leto's Joker is still horrible though
― mh, Monday, 15 May 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
it is with great regret i must announce that mh's most recent post itt has made me break the glass on the 'flag post' emergency button i keep on my desk
― The Patricia Routledge Meatspin Gif Has Made You Gay (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 15 May 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
I think you misunderstand how bad I remember it being
― mh, Monday, 15 May 2017 15:24 (six years ago) link
i can brook no praise, no matter how backhanded, for suicide squad
a man must have his principles
― The Patricia Routledge Meatspin Gif Has Made You Gay (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 15 May 2017 15:27 (six years ago) link
the snyderverse is anti-principles
― mh, Monday, 15 May 2017 15:32 (six years ago) link