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Post by dj1107 on Sept 22, 2019 3:07:02 GMT -5
Given how His Year of the Villain one-shot went & how he essentially quit supervillain (yeah how bad is ApexLex that an overbearing narcissist like The Riddler decides to up & quit?) I think it'll be awhile before Edward needs his ego stroked.
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Post by zarius on Sept 22, 2019 4:52:59 GMT -5
Lots of things from Tom King's twitter on Batman Day Batman#84 will be the follow-up to "The Button" and finally explains near the very end how Flashpoint Thomas Wayne ended up in the DC Universe King teases that something with Helena Wayne is coming Using The Phantasm in Batman/Catwoman wasn't originally planned, this development was entirely the idea of Clay Mann Jorge Fornes will return for the next annual, which is King's "final word/thesis' on Batman
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Post by AlwaysARanger85 on Sept 22, 2019 16:03:05 GMT -5
Nice to see riddler get his due. Also nice to hear dock be back to normal soon. Thought the mind wipe was stupid.
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Post by dj1107 on Sept 22, 2019 16:57:29 GMT -5
Nice to see riddler get his due. Also nice to hear dock be back to normal soon. Thought the mind wipe was stupid. It wasn't really a mind wipe. Dick suffered some brain trauma after the KGBeast shot him during King's Batman. He survived bit with no memory &....for some reason I don't know about (haven't read Lobdell's Nightwing) nobody tried to help him regain his memories or he didn't want his memories back.
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Post by zarius on Sept 23, 2019 8:57:39 GMT -5
Yeah, Dick decided he wanted a normal life and refused help...only he went about it in a 'dick' headed manner, and everyone was uncharacteristically content to let him
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Post by zarius on Sept 23, 2019 14:56:07 GMT -5
So I just dropped back into Wonder Woman just to see how G. Willow Willow is doing ahead of her departure...and, erm, Diana's tie-in arc to Year of the Villain involves the death of Aphrodite at the hands of Cheetah, thus supposedly eliminating all love from the DC Universe. Hilarious given King and Bendis just outright ignore that with the couples they're controlling, but it does actually serve up a decent excuse for Barry/Iris and Arthur/Mera presently, poor Steve Trevor gets no luck or love in this case, as most of the time you can never tell if he's being romantic or not, and now they're trying to make it canon that he doesn't have any strong feelings for Diana at all. Shame, these two were one of the last stable couples in the core DC titles.
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Post by dj1107 on Sept 24, 2019 2:53:52 GMT -5
That's a bit of a pill to swallow. While I get that this might be the "Bringing more connective tissue between books" Year of the Villains promotes (Yet Black Mask isn't out for revenge against Damian nor does he even reveal the little Torture chamber he was locked in to ApexLex because people like the "character interaction" of that trash book & we can't have logic end it) but I'm always weary about 1 particular Pantheon of Gods somehow actually influencing stuff like War & Love especially when it's canon other Pantheons exist.
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Post by zarius on Sept 24, 2019 11:19:36 GMT -5
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Post by zarius on Sept 24, 2019 14:38:25 GMT -5
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Post by dj1107 on Sept 24, 2019 18:51:35 GMT -5
This is probably the most fun thing about the Threeboot Legion. The letter columns pretty much being a fun little story.
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Post by zarius on Sept 25, 2019 5:40:51 GMT -5
Shazam finally came out with a new issue, and it was packed. Tawni saves the kids, Billy reveals who he is to his foster folk, he goes to the darklands and finds a grave marked 'CAPTAIN MARVEL'. Good to have Johns go there.
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Post by zarius on Sept 25, 2019 9:18:41 GMT -5
Even more wham books today]
-Steve and Diana break up in Wonder Woman (saw this coming from last issue), Steve cites all the times they haven't been communicating as the reason rather than Aprodyte's death. Still, dick move to leave the girl while she's vulnerable. -Peter lets little Normie Osborn in on his identity officially (Normie pretty much knew for years anyway) -Doc Ock is restored to his original body, with Peter Parker's memories and P.O.V taken from him, after a desperate deal is struck with Mephisto
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Post by dj1107 on Sept 25, 2019 17:42:33 GMT -5
Zarius help me out you're usually the type to focus on Batgirl so explain to me this whole villainous Oracle thing going on in her book.
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Post by zarius on Sept 26, 2019 2:58:03 GMT -5
The Oracle A.I is one of those weird retcons to Babs's history, and I'm pretty sure this is a repeat of something they already did during the Burnside era. Bottom line is the A.I gets sentient, Apex Lex gives her some upgrade and a "purpose", she beats the tar out of Babs. It's not exactly riveting stuff, I've only seen the cliff notes, I haven't actively been reading this book out of my dislike for Babs post-flashpoint. If she's being nice to Dick, that's the only time I pay attention to her.
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Post by dj1107 on Sept 26, 2019 3:16:14 GMT -5
Ok thanks.
In other comic news: Batman/Superman continues on into mediocrity. There's quite frankly no point in the "mystery" or these nonsensical plotpoints about Superman going undercover to solve the Sucky Six. We know who the six are because the marketing spoiled it more than Terminator Genysis trailer did, We know Superman gonna fail because BWL's a Gary Stu "Who planned this the entire time" (which by the way The World's Finest are The World's Dumbest for risking this moronic plan), So what's even the point of this book besides leading to a fight nobody ask for?
In more positive news Power of X continues it's new status quo for the upcoming X-books though it seems like Namor is the only Mutant not wanting to be apart of this stuff.....Mostly due to the stuff in Invaders but Fishstick might have made the right call given how....Culty stuff is getting. I also picked up on Flash again though I might need to go back a couple issues (I put the book on hold after the hold HiC mess).
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