Gaze upon me, mortals, and tremble! For I am the brute that walks!
This is why the New 52 absolutely sucks. The only thing you get when you reboot continuity is a free pass to recycle concepts you’ve already done, with the logic that the characters don’t remember it so it’s new to them.
This is where some marketing jerk would say that it’s not for me, it’s for people who never picked up a DC comic before 2011. Fine. But I’m pretty sure “Aquaman tries to kill Superman” would be novel and fresh to that new fan and me, so why not do that? Because that would take effort; it’s easier to just trot out the same old shit and pretend it’s never been done before.
Dear cartoon Network. Plase can we have more green Lanter and young justice?
Sienna (P.S I am a fan)
I never wrote a letter to get Superfriends back on the air, so I’m pretty sure this kid is a bigger fan than I’ll ever be.
He’s got a ham
Uhhhhh…he’s gonna rob the First National Bank on Chatham Avenue!
No wait, there’s an exhibit at the museum this week about Egyptian cat worship, and the main attraction is a priceless gold hambone discovered by a Professor Archimedes Mew!
I got it! “Got ham”…”Gotham!” And when you think of cats in Gotham City…holy hot tin roof! Riddler’s got a date with Catwoman!
Falling in Love #99 (1968)
Oh god. For a sec I was worried this was Clint and Kate.
It still could be, if someone shows this to Fraction…
FROM THE GENIUS THAT GAVE YOU
THE X-MEN GET MAD AT PROFESSOR XAVIER
AND
REED AND SUE HAVE MARITAL PROBLEMS
AND
THE JOKER SHOULD ALMOST MAKE BATMAN GO NUTS
Tumblrs you should follow
Your Kickstarter Sucks - Scathing reviews of some of the stupider fundraisers on the internet. You won’t believe how many ways a person can propose a skinny wallet.
Literally Unbelievable - Screencaps of people on Facebook reacting to stories from the Onion, without knowing what the Onion is.
Kate Beaton - The artist behind Hark! A Vagrant, but her Tumblr is mostly interesting historical curiosities. Also, notifications when the comic is updated, which is handy.
Tom Brevoort - Marvel comics editor and pretty cool guy. He primarily invites readers to suggest which original Marvel artwork he should post.
Tom Peyer - Writer of Hourman and Legion of Super-Heroes in the 1990s. If you’re looking for crazy out-of-context panels from Silver Age comics, you’ve found ‘em.
Vintage Sesame - Old school Sesame Street content.
The Yancy Street Gang - Were you aware that the Idol o’ Millions, Benjamin Grimm, is in fact a sissy? Get the scoop here.
Jess Fink - Writer/artist of Chester 5000 XYV. Posts interesting/wacky drawings. A bit more dudes in garter belts than I prefer, but maybe you’re into that sort of thing.
Starscream and Hutch - Possibly the best username on Tumblr. Freaky mind-blowing oddities.
Larp Trek - A webcomic in which Captain Picard and the gang take up Live Action Role-Playing as the crew of Deep Space Nine.
Matt Fraction - Writer of Hawkeye, the best Marvel comic being published right now. An interesting fellow who posts amazing stuff.
Kelly Sue DeConnick - Writer of Captain Marvel, which is also pretty good. I really like watching new comics fans worship the ground she walks on.
Fuck Yeah Thunderbolts - Because fuck yeah, Thunderbolts.
A very special guest appears in the new The Rack, featuring art by Tracie Mauk and colors by Joe Hunter.
Man, letting aside the fact that I obviously agree with this, I love how Superman’s written on this.
Whoever wrote this should be writing Superman instead of Orson Scott Card, it’s what I’m trying to get at here.
Am I reblogging this in part because of the Blue and Gold reference?
Maaaaaybe
I’m reblogging for Superman backing my decision to quit reading DC comics until they remember how to do him right. It’s pretty awesome when Superman agrees with me.
Of course, I’ve been boycotting DC because of the stupid reboot, before the whole Orson Scott Card business. If I could figure out how to double-boycott DC, I’m pretty sure I would.
So one thing I’m always seeing on Tumblr is the idea of racebooting or racebending existing popular characters so that they’re played by an actor of color. I guess on some level I get this, as I enjoy how pissed off Sam Jackson as Nick Fury makes some people, and would love if they cast an Asian actress as the Wasp ala the Ultimates.
But in general? Why would I want a black guy playing Superman or Batman when there are tons of great black superheroes? Who needs a racebent Batman and Superman (which come on you know will NEVER happen) when we could instead be putting Steel and Batwing up on the big screen?
I don’t need more white characters “reimagined”. I need Hollywood to reach into the big pool of black characters we’ve got and recognize their potential.
I mean in the Marvel Cinematic Universe right now it’s what? War Machine and that’s it? And the Falcon coming down the line. Those two are great characters but we could be doing a lot more than this.
Just saying. And I mean if you think about it making a Miles flick would be an easy way to reboot the Spider-Man franchise (cuz you know that’s where they’re going eventually) without having to rehash Peter Parker’s origin AGAIN.
Like I said earlier, Hollywood releases tons of superhero flicks each year, and yet few if any ever feature any heroes of color.
Pretty much this.
My only issue with racebending is that it’s just a patch on the problem, and not a very long-term one. This has played out in comics over and over for decades—to increase diversity a white hero is replaced by a person of color, and then inevitably the white guy reclaims his role. Miles Morales can be as good a Spider-Man as Peter Parker, but Peter will always own that role because he was there first. The best Miles can do is share the role with the white guy. I don’t think that accomplishes nearly as much as just starting with a non-white hero and trying to elevate him to Spider-Man’s level.
It’s the same issue with casting. I’m fine with with Lawrence Fishburne as Perry White, but I expect that to last about as long as Billy Dee Williams as Harvey Dent. I’d have been more impressed if Man of Steel had downplayed white Perry’s character to focus on Fishburne as Franklin Stern. Granted, nobody cares about Franklin Stern, but that’s the point—people might start to care if they’d actually use him in the Superman cast, instead of constantly reimagining the same four white characters.
so green lantern was reallyyyyyy stupid and I get what they were trying to say in regards to fear being bad but fuck you, movie, not all fear is bad and not all fear keeps you from acting. sometimes fear is the best fucking motivator there is. whatever. screwed up message, screwed up movie.
Not that I want to defend the Green Lantern movie too much, but I want to clarify this point.
Fear is a motivator, and a very effective one, but it’s mostly good for motivating you to a) escape from threats and b) protect yourself from whatever your afraid of. Neither of those are the goals of the Green Lanterns, who are supposed to rush in and save other people from scary things as a matter of course.
Just being in a space police force means you need to at least manage your fear with willpower. But on top of that, the Green Lantern Corps use willpower for fuel, so that’s why they’re always on about purging all fear and how dangerous fear is. Aside from all the “free your mind from doubt” inspirational stuff, fear literally taints the juice powering their primary weapon. So do other motivations, but since the movie is about a giant fear-eating fear monster from Planet Fear, we don’t get lectured about the others.
Where Sinestro runs off the rails by the end of the movie is that he’s so into this “eliminate all fear” business that he ends up being afraid of becoming afraid, which causes him to believe that the yellow fear ring can protect him better than his green willpower ring. In the comics, Sinestro has a whole Yellow Lantern Corps, and instead of being an intergalactic police force they’re more like a gang of bullies, using their power to intimidate everyone else so nobody can threaten them.
Anyway, that’s what the movie was trying to get at with all the stuff about fear. I’m still baffled that it didn’t explain it very well. It’s sort of like a Batman movie failing to demonstrate that Batman is dressed like a bat.
Rip Hunter… Time Master, 1959
Rip, that is a sauropod. They are herbivores.
I was more wondering why the only way to save them was to tear his shirt off, but I guess he is Rip Hunter.
The only way this could be better is if one of the comics on the newsstand was Flash #163.
(via starscream-and-hutch)
Yo dogg, I heard you liked Jim Aparo comics, so I had Jim Aparo draw some Jim Aparo in your comics so you could look at Aparo while you look at Aparo.
You were right, dawg.
Watchmen: The Toaster.
This is a real thing DC is really going to sell. I assume it burns Rorshach’s face into your bread, although it may also be designed to pop up thirty-five minutes late. This sounds like some corny product they’d put Batman on, but no. Watchmen.
I look forward to people crawling out of the woodwork to say “Alan Moore signed a work-for-hire contract, DC has a right to make money from their characters, blah blah blah.” Just because that’s all true doesn’t make any random thing you slap “Watchmen” on a good idea. Just because you can make, for example, a Watchmen toaster, does not mean that you should. This isn’t about Watchmen being sacrosanct; it’s about Watchmen toasters being really stupid.
Meanwhile, Spaceballs: The Lunchbox, which would be a great idea, still eludes us to this day.
Songbird versus Tyroc by Peter Vale.
Wow.
I’ve been playing “Find 10 things wrong with this cover” with Rob Liefeld art for years. But this is pretty shitty even for him.
