It did take about a year in the telling (post-Convergence and into the Rebirthiverse).
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 10:02 (five years ago) link
someone needs to stage an intervention on dc, this is v troubling behaviour
― i'm w/ tato, super hot AND weird!! (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 10:04 (five years ago) link
Following up on my post from 3 months ago, Doom Patrol is fkn great - full-on GMoz weirdness. So far we have had:
A black hole contained in a donkey from Paraguay A cockroach narratorA dog with the magic to save the universe inscribed on itA giant floating eye in the skyAnother giant floating eye in the skyA stare-off between the two eyes in the skyNazi scientist puppet showsAnimal-Vegetable-Mineral ManThe lost city of Nurnheim, accessed through a priest's stigmata and inside a snowglobeSome other shit
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 10:10 (five years ago) link
Is the Doom Patrol named the Doom Patrol from the start or do they only formally become the Doom Patrol towards the end of the series, after dressing up in Doom Patrol costumes and operating under the name 'the Doom Patrol' throughout the series? It's DC so I figured I oughtta check.
I've (ahem) acquired all of the episodes but am still very uncertain about how I'll feel about them. Might be helpful to consider the show as its very own thing, unrelated to anything that came before.
― The First Time Ever I Fly @ U Face (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 10:26 (five years ago) link
The Doom Patrol got mentioned for the first time in the latest ep, and isn't them at all (it's a Celsius/Lodestone/Mento lineup).
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 10:31 (five years ago) link
i need to get around to watching that
i just realised matt bomer is playing negative man - have they really hired one of the most comically handsome actors working today and entirely covered his face in bandages?
― i'm w/ tato, super hot AND weird!! (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 10:57 (five years ago) link
He spends a fair proportion out of bandages in flashback.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 11:03 (five years ago) link
i'm into it but happy to wait until it inevitable migrates to one of the big streams
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 14:54 (five years ago) link
Legion might come back following Doomsday Clock given some of the plot elements (Saturn Girl?)
The new Superboy, Jon Kent, is a great addition to the Superman mythos
― Nhex, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link
Titans now on Netflix UK (and worth looking at, as a minimum the Doom Patrol ep) so seems the logical destination in about 6mo.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link
sounds safe, especially since marvel will be on Disney+ so they need a big ally
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
my money's still on WB's upcoming service / DCU / Criterion merging
― Nhex, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 16:45 (five years ago) link
i will be amused if we get a 7th Seal/Darkseid xover
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
I've read that Bendis has been teasing a potential return, as well...
"I'm sorry, BMB, but we cannot admit you into the LSH creators' club! Your powers are just too ordinary!"
― What's that Phish song that goes "Bag it, Tag it"? (morrisp), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link
This is my regular slot to wonder aloud i. Amazement that anyone at all still gives a fuck about the tedious old Legion.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 23:03 (five years ago) link
Why is the Legion any more inherently tedious than any other DC thing that’s been around 50-80 years, and has been rebooted 4 to 10 times?
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 01:38 (five years ago) link
Because this whole game is about picking your arbitrary sides and giving other people's arbitrary sides a hearty round of the raspberries. The Legion? Pshaw! They're no L.E.G.I.O.N. '89!
― The First Time Ever I Fly @ U Face (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 02:08 (five years ago) link
L.E.G.I.O.N. '89 were no L.E.G.I.O.N. '90.
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 02:15 (five years ago) link
lol!
Like I admit it's somewhat corny to purport to depict what Earth and humans will be like in 1000 years -- but it's no cornier than Planet Krypton, or the Green Lantern Corps, or (shudder) "Superboy Prime," or a lot of other DC stuff. Trying to spin contemporary cool out of Golden Age corn is their thing, right?
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 02:35 (five years ago) link
(Or "Silver Age," I guess... in fact one of their first attempts at "coolness" was probably when they tried to ghettoize the Golden Age stuff back in the day.)
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 02:36 (five years ago) link
to be fair, I kind of hate all that other stuff you listed. But yes, the Legion just seems a particularly dated and tedious bit of nonsense. But I'm aware it's hard to justify this.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 28 March 2019 00:26 (five years ago) link
Karate Guy and Matter Eater Lad and crying inside
― Nhex, Thursday, 28 March 2019 01:04 (five years ago) link
I think a Legion revival, if done well (and I know DC’d track record isn’t particular strong with that), could be cool & timely — because (among other things) the Legion has a large cast of characters, at least half of them women (depending on how Luornu is split at any given moment, LOL); and their interest lies less in their powers than in their relationships and interactions with each other. Plus, their world sits at a comfortable remove from the messiness of the present-day DC universe... at least until the demands of “making a new continuity work” intrude to f up their shit.
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Thursday, 28 March 2019 01:53 (five years ago) link
btw - I kinda like DC's intentions with a somewhat softer push on the New Age of Heroes line, which is largely a DC inversion of Marvel properties featuring mostly new characters introduced after <i>Dark Nights: Metal</i>. They're not all good, but I like that it was at least a creative push that was going for new books and characters and not just yet another universe reboot
At least Silencer (sorta-Elektra) was decent; Terrifics (Fantastic Four) and Damage (Hulk) were so-so. There's like three or more other books in the line I haven't gotten around to? Looks like they've already all been cancelled except for those first two anyway.
― Nhex, Thursday, 28 March 2019 03:18 (five years ago) link
I think the Waid 'up yours, grandpa" Legion from (ouch) 2004 was pretty close to what you're describing, Morris - I remember enjoying it at the time, though after a while it just dissolves into soap opera again.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 28 March 2019 09:47 (five years ago) link
The Legion, when it's done right (so off and on before the last decade of pure suck), is a great super-hero book. Sadly, I don't think any of the minds in charge at DC have a clue how to make it one again.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 28 March 2019 13:55 (five years ago) link
Time to give Shooter a call, I guess.
― The wettest sandwich you ever ate, guaranteed! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 28 March 2019 13:56 (five years ago) link
13-year-old Shooter's LSH run was better than 24-year old Shooter's LSH; imagine how bad 56-year-old Shooter's run must have been
Shooter's return to the Legion, a little over 30 years from his previous run, was his first major published comic book work in years. His run on the series ended with issue No. 49, one issue before the book was canceled.
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Thursday, 28 March 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
I certainly don't think the field would be any worse off if there were more thirteen-year-old comics writers.
― The wettest sandwich you ever ate, guaranteed! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 28 March 2019 19:28 (five years ago) link
Waid Legion was pretty decent but then crashed along with Infinite Crisis IIRC
― Nhex, Thursday, 28 March 2019 21:36 (five years ago) link
Yeah -- I never read it, tho I know they were revealed to be from the future of Earth-Prime (in Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds).
Ha ha ha... I forgot about this:
Superboy-Prime begins to live in his fearful parents' basement while reading the last issue of Legion of 3 Worlds. He then turns and talks to the readers, insisting they knew he was meant to be Superboy before Conner. He then proceeds to troll the official DC Comics message board on the Internet, remarking "They'll never get rid of me. I always survive."
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Thursday, 28 March 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
At the risk of getting too far off-topic, here’s some prime Shooter greatness: http://legionofsuperbloggers.blogspot.com/2019/03/tos-adventure-comics-380.html
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Friday, 29 March 2019 03:42 (five years ago) link
Based on Superman being fun and interesting for the first time in years, I wouldn’t mind Bendis doing the Legion.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 29 March 2019 07:47 (five years ago) link
I would (will?!) definitely check it out... my fear is book-length scenes of characters sitting around arguing in Legion HQ.
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Friday, 29 March 2019 16:58 (five years ago) link
Last week was the most bonkers in DC recently. SPOILERS OBVIOUSLY.
Batman's drugged wet dream about Selina's hen party with Lois featuring robot Superman strippers, an orgasmatron, lesbian experimentation and DRINKING PARTS OF ACTUAL MOGO FOR SHITS 'N' GIGGLES was ... good?
The Trickster solving the problem of how to stop the Flash from running by AMPUTATING HIS LEGS was... something else.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
I'm afraid to ask what "MOGO" is(?)
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Mogo
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 21:25 (five years ago) link
Thx
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 21:28 (five years ago) link
Make Oa Great Okay?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 18 April 2019 02:49 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6BAzlZUUAAWRHn.jpgPoor Sam Kieth! Just ring him, Batman!
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 23:00 (five years ago) link
LOL (also, wtf with that art?)
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 23:02 (five years ago) link
Batz needs a hug
― WmC, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 23:17 (five years ago) link
(also, wtf with that art?)
is this your first encounter with Kieth post-1991?
LOL otm
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 23:43 (five years ago) link
Yes it is!
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 23:44 (five years ago) link
solomon grundy beats up ed mcmahon, with laugh trackhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzTgwV4i-0M
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 13 May 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
I didn't know where else to post this, so I'll post it here. My wife just asked if there's ever been a female Joker, and I remembered the one from Flashpoint, and vaguely recalled there was a pre-Crisis character called the Joker's Daughter... So I went to to look for info on the Joker's Daughter in the DC wiki, and found her page. So, she's called Joker's Daughter, event though she's not the Joker's daughter, rather than the daughter of Three-Face (not to be confused with Two-Face) and Jokester (not to be confused with Joker). And apparently the new 52 introduced a new Joker's Daughter, who's not related to the old Joker's Daughter, nor to the Joker.
No wonder so many people find superhero comics incomprehensible.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 13:50 (four years ago) link
DC is basically an eighty-year-long episode of Who's Line is it Anyway?
― John Denver – Led Zeppelin IV (Part II) (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 14:26 (four years ago) link
It is later revealed that Earth-3's heroic version of the Joker, the Jokester, is the father of Duela Dent, and that her mother was Evelyn Dent, Three-Face (the Earth-3 version of Two-Face). She was raised by Three-Face and her stepfather, the Earth-3 Riddler, and together the three formed the Riddler Family. When she was finally introduced to her birth father, she dropped cryptic hints implying that she or her consciousness shifts unknowingly from Earth to Earth, which is the source of her parental confusion.Confusion, you say?
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
Btw - isn’t Harley Quinn (not to be confused with Harlequin, the later alias of Joker’s Daughter I) more or less a “female Joker,” in all but name?
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
Yeah, she mentioned Harley Quinn, I was just trying to think if other examples.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link