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My main takeaway about the emotional spectrum stuff from the heyday of the 2000s was that Peter Tomasi kept doing the coolest poo poo with the concept, just nonstop bangers after bangers, and then I would look over at what Johns was doing in the main GL book and it was never anything particularly exciting. I will hand it to Johns for making rage kitty, though.
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One thing I hated in that era was I'd get attached to a Lantern and then they'd be killed off, often without ceremony. Some fun stuff, though. I still fondly recall Mongul's brawl with Arkillo.
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*bryan alvarez voice* Ar-KILL-O?!
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Alaois posted:*bryan alvarez voice*
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Calax posted:Can John Stewart get paralyzed again? His name was purgatory. He was going up some steps when he cut his hands, that caused the GL created legs Kyle made for him to vanish since he lost his concetration on keeping them. Neron was going around making deals at the time and offered him his legs and power in exchange for killing Kyle. He failed twice so Neron made him a minion in hell. Happy ending! I always regretted what happened to Alexander Nero. Guy was crazy and given a yellow power ring, he was like Kyle an artist, only he drew....disturbing things. It made him a good opposite to Kyle. A real enemy. He kinda lacked some real threats. He even went to the JLA to ask for help to take him down and asked if any of them realized his ring could crack atoms and if he could do that, Nero could do that. Nero gets defeated, and imprsioned, Hal returns and Nero during a very lovely Ion Mini is made into a Kyle impersonator and is ultimately killed by the Alpha lanterns after. The whole thing was a train wreck. The mini was horrible and it felt like it did a correction mid way through due to having little to no direction. That and fan feedback was extremely negative. It was also another lovely costume replacement for Kyle, the one with the black face mask. The one you see as a joke in that Supergirl gif meme from years ago.
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I mean, Nero was built originally to be Kyle's Sinestro. With the Weponeers of Qward making the ring because they wanted to honor Sinestro, even in his failure. IIRC he popped up during the first Ion story as a competitor for the powers of Ion. For him to come back would probably require the writers to actually make Kyle important again, instead of the 5th string he's currently idle on.
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Endless Mike posted:I'm now thinking about Meltzer and Alvarez reviewing comics I would pay good drat money for this.
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Vandar posted:I would pay good drat money for this. Hal Jordan: Am I going over?
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Calax posted:I mean, Nero was built originally to be Kyle's Sinestro. With the Weponeers of Qward making the ring because they wanted to honor Sinestro, even in his failure. You don't like Kyle crying in the corner in the latest GL book?
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The Last Call posted:Didn't the Blue Lanterns get nuked except for Walker. They got better I believe. They just got nuked again along with all of the other corps though
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Xelkelvos posted:They got better I believe. They're all gone?
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The Last Call posted:They're all gone? The current storyline in GL is that the new management (they're currently being run by the United Planets) is going around blowing up all the other power batteries and that the new lanterns can somehow switch powers on the fly. It's currently still a mystery as to what exactly is going on.
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Xelkelvos posted:They got better I believe. At one point there was an attempt to seek out new Blues but Dr. Manhattan was literally suppressing all hope in the universe.
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The Last Call posted:They're all gone? What TwoPair said but also a lot of the various names lantern users are in lock up in United Planets science cells so expect a scene where everyone busts out possibly with their rings
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Power Batteries get blown up at about the same rate as Cybertrucks they'll be fine
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Azubah posted:You don't like Kyle crying in the corner in the latest GL book? Current GL Tier List based on how DC portrays them: Hal John, Jo Jessica, Guy, Alan Kyle No I didn't forget anyone. DC did
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Gotham City Sirens is back! And they're going head-to-head with Punchline! This should be amazing news for me, a huge fan of both the Sirens and Punchline! https://www.polygon.com/24152237/dc-comics-gotham-city-sirens-2024 ...oh Leah Williams is writing it. drat the monkey's paw. 
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It'll probably be remembered for the half naked cowboys. Called The Nasty Boys.
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The Last Call posted:It'll probably be remembered for the half naked cowboys. Called The Nasty Boys. This is my own personal hell.
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Vandar posted:Gotham City Sirens is back! And they're going head-to-head with Punchline! This should be amazing news for me, a huge fan of both the Sirens and Punchline! interesting that this is a weekly miniseries - I can't recall DC doing one in years
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Maybe it'll be like X-Terminators in which case I am all the way in.
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What has Leah Williams written?
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thetoughestbean posted:What has Leah Williams written? Power Girl, which is the main reason I'm not happy.
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thetoughestbean posted:What has Leah Williams written? https://www.marvel.com/comics/creators/12972/leah_williams
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thetoughestbean posted:What has Leah Williams written? just gonna copy this straight from the discord too lazy for new material she did a What If? Magik one shot where magik became sorceror supreme,X-Terminators obviously, she did the Mary Jane and Mysterio mini, the age of x-man mini X-Tremists where she rehabbed blob is probably where her popularity took off e&c pointed out she also did the war of the realms Giant Man mini which was pretty well received site fucked around with this message at 22:40 on May 9, 2024 |
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Leah Williams is good. I like Power Girl, but like we discussed, it doesn't really feel like it's a Power Girl comic.
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I still hold the Gwenpool mini against her for being yet another person to see "pool" in her name and think that meant Gwen had to be so random lol. But then again, that's basically everyone not named Chris Hastings.
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Darth Nat posted:I still hold the Gwenpool mini against her for being yet another person to see "pool" in her name and think that meant Gwen had to be so random lol. But then again, that's basically everyone not named Chris Hastings. tbf it was directly stated that her actions in that miniseries were a combination of a manic episode and desperately attempting to stay relevant so she wouldn't be canceled.
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Oh she did Trial of Magneto. I read through that and wasn’t super impressed—it felt like it thought it was smarter and more meaningful than it actually was.
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Power Girl is fun and cool. Leah Williams hasn't written any bad books I've read imo
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I agree with the goon that Power Girl isn't bad, it's actually good! It just feels like it should be about Supergirl. Also Paige as a name for her feels like it will stick around even less than trying to call Kitty Pryde Kate.
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thetoughestbean posted:Oh she did Trial of Magneto. I read through that and wasn’t super impressed—it felt like it thought it was smarter and more meaningful than it actually was. The X-Factor run before it was good and certainly a more interesting read than a lot of X books at the time. Trial of Magneto is absolute dogshit trash though, no denying it. Definitely should have just stayed an X-Factor arc and not get blown out to be a mini crossover event that nobody liked or remembers.
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quote:DC Comics' attempts to extend their trademark for Blue Beetle may have hit a snag with Volkswagen, the manufacturer of the VW Beetle car. https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-comics-trademark-for-blue-beetle-challenged-by-volkswagen/
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Joe Fisto posted:https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-comics-trademark-for-blue-beetle-challenged-by-volkswagen/ Time for Blue Shazam to hit the scene!
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Lord_Hambrose posted:The X-Factor run before it was good and certainly a more interesting read than a lot of X books at the time. Trial of Magneto is absolute dogshit trash though, no denying it. Definitely should have just stayed an X-Factor arc and not get blown out to be a mini crossover event that nobody liked or remembers. Her stuff is normally so good I wonder if Trial wasn't editorial mandates.
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I want to say she was also really unhappy with how X-Factor ended, and that some of the pages where not written by her or even shown to her before it hit the stands. Anyway, if Sirens is half as fun as X-terminator's, it's worth a pull.
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I read the free comic book day book setting up the new event where everybody gets depowered. They gotta kill Amanda Waller after all this, right? Like, she is insanely evil and destructive, they can't let her be around anymore, right?
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Lord_Hambrose posted:The X-Factor run before it was good and certainly a more interesting read than a lot of X books at the time. Trial of Magneto is absolute dogshit trash though, no denying it. Definitely should have just stayed an X-Factor arc and not get blown out to be a mini crossover event that nobody liked or remembers.
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