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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 26, 2016 21:28:17 GMT -5
If someone were going to do a Teen Titans review thread starting with their appearance in Brave and the Bold # 54 and ending with DC Comics Presents #27, what should he read besides... Brave and the Bold 54 and 60. That one story in Showcase All of Teen Titans vol. 1 (Fifty... couple issues.) 4 Team-Ups with Batman in Brave and the Bold and one Team-Up with Superman in World's Finest. Was there a one-shot appearance in some anthology title before the Teen Titans came back with issue # 44. I swear I read that in the Overstreet Guide. One appearance in DC Comics Presents... Are there any other significant Titans appearances? Those are the ones I know about.... are you thinking of doing such a thread? that would be pretty awesome  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 27, 2016 1:02:24 GMT -5
If someone were going to do a Teen Titans review thread starting with their appearance in Brave and the Bold # 54 and ending with DC Comics Presents #27, what should he read besides... Brave and the Bold 54 and 60. That one story in Showcase All of Teen Titans vol. 1 (Fifty... couple issues.) 4 Team-Ups with Batman in Brave and the Bold and one Team-Up with Superman in World's Finest. Was there a one-shot appearance in some anthology title before the Teen Titans came back with issue # 44. I swear I read that in the Overstreet Guide. One appearance in DC Comics Presents... Are there any other significant Titans appearances? Those are the ones I know about.... are you thinking of doing such a thread? that would be pretty awesome Check out Showcase 100, which featured anyone who had been in the comic, and the Flash edition of DC Special Series (#11) from Feb, 1978. Both are probably cameos. The crossover with the X-Men came out in the summer of 1982, but it was sorta kinda that era. May even have been delayed, like so many of tose kinds of projects are.  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 27, 2016 1:15:56 GMT -5
I picked up a Batgirl HC from the Library today that reprints the latest series from issue # 35-40. So far she is being written like a 19 year old living in queens with lots of young GF's and supporting cast. I know that they ignored her spine injury in the Nu52 but What happened, I thought she was in her 30's last time I looked?
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Post by tingramretro on Feb 27, 2016 3:33:46 GMT -5
It was a tongue in cheek story based strongly in Chinatown-y 70s noir. Neither of those were common elements of superhero comics at the end of the aughties, and together... I don't think comic fans had any frame of reference to process it, it was so far off from what everyone else was doing. And I kind of think that Foxley is right - if it wasn't actively trying to annoy it's audience, it was definitely scornful of the deep-continuity fanboy mindset that permeated quite a few mainstream books at the time. (I consider that a plus, so I kind of liked it.) Well, I've always prefered my Batman to be a hero, rather than a raging sociopath with no redeeming qualities wahtsoever. I guess I'm just old-fashioned that way. And I consider Miller to be a vastly overrated writer so reading him with no brakes on does not appeal to me in the slightest. You appear to be in good company with that opinion...     From The Daredevils #8 (Marvel UK, August 1983). |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 27, 2016 8:01:20 GMT -5
Those are the ones I know about.... are you thinking of doing such a thread? that would be pretty awesome Check out Showcase 100, which featured anyone who had been in the comic, and the Flash edition of DC Special Series (#11) from Feb, 1978. Both are probably cameos. The crossover with the X-Men came out in the summer of 1982, but it was sorta kinda that era. May even have been delayed, like so many of tose kinds of projects are. I was assuming he meant Pre-Wolfman/Perez. Not sure about Showcase #100... that might be one. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 27, 2016 17:01:55 GMT -5
Yeah, I was planning on ending with DC Comics Presents # 26, so I can start and end with a team-up book! The other two definitely count.
(Although Ebay only has one copy of DC Special Series # 11. Eep.)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2016 13:38:53 GMT -5
What's the best way to introduce the Black Canary to someone whose entire knowledge of her can fit on the back of a postage stamp?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2016 13:45:59 GMT -5
What's the best way to introduce the Black Canary to someone who's entire knowledge of her can fit on the back of a postage stamp? I never read any Black Canary before I read the handful of Birds of Prey mini-series written by Chuck Dixon and then I jumped right into the Birds of Prey ongoing. Also written by Dixon for the first few years and then Gail Simone after Dixon is pretty good too even with the Ed Benes art. I never felt lost because I never read the character before. And it turned out to be a great series for me. I think that's a great jumping on point. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 2, 2016 14:04:47 GMT -5
What's the best way to introduce the Black Canary to someone who's entire knowledge of her can fit on the back of a postage stamp? I never read any Black Canary before I read the handful of Birds of Prey mini-series written by Chuck Dixon and then I jumped right into the Birds of Prey ongoing. Also written by Dixon for the first couple of years and then Gail Simone after Dixon is pretty good too even with the Ed Benes art. I never felt lost because I never read the character before. And it turned out to be a great series for me. I think that's a great jumping on point. Agree. Any run of issues of Birds Of Prey are written well enough for her to understand BC. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 2, 2016 21:56:47 GMT -5
What's the best way to introduce the Black Canary to someone whose entire knowledge of her can fit on the back of a postage stamp? Yo boy. I only got a couple minutes. She's a street level Karate-based heroine who picked up sonic scream powers along the way. She started as a villain to goofball superhero Johnny Thunder in 1947, was quickly revealed to be a hero, and actually took over his strip and got Thunder cancelled. She went away when superheroes declined in popularity, but came back as an EARTH TWO based member of the Justice League. Her husband got killed and (out of grief) she moved to Earth One and joined the Justice League. Was Green Arrow's main squeeze for a good long time. And then she turned out to be her own daughter because Roy Thomas, but let's just ignore that. Recommended: Brave and the Bold # 91 and Adventure Comics # 419, by Cardy and Toth respectively. Two of the best drawn superhero comics of all time.  Other people know more post-Crisis stuff than I do. |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 3, 2016 2:19:35 GMT -5
Alternatively, and rather more simply, the post Crisis explanation: she's a martial artist with sonic powers, and the daughter of an older Black Canary, a veteran crimefighter who has since died.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 3, 2016 2:32:54 GMT -5
Mother and daughter Black Canary both shared Oliver Queen, that rascally dirty dog, but at separate times. Its a DC comics, not Vertigo
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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 3, 2016 9:36:57 GMT -5
Although Roy Thomas scripted the story that revealed it, making the Canary her own daughter was Marv Wolfman's idea.
Cei-U!
Is still kinda creeped out by it!
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 3, 2016 17:26:18 GMT -5
Although Roy Thomas scripted the story that revealed it, making the Canary her own daughter was Marv Wolfman's idea. Cei-U! Is still kinda creeped out by it! Oh good. (I have about ten times more respect for Roy as a superhero writer than Marv.) 'Couple more points - B. C. was mostly a supporting character in the Bronze Age. She was a JLA member forever, and often appeared in Green Arrow strips - including Neal Adams classic Green Lantern/Green Arrow and the (let's try to be tactful) less classic GL/GA run that followed it a couple years later. And I haven't read all of Birds of Prey but what I did read was rock-solid all the way through. I'm still miffed that Oracle got reverted back to Batgirl 2 - turning a unique character into generic Bat Family Member # 4,640 - which seems to have tanked the book in the modern era. |
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Post by Mormel on Mar 3, 2016 17:49:54 GMT -5
I thought Oracle (like Canary) was a fascinating character, and I was surprised to learn that DC had restored Barbara's legs and gave her back the cape and cowl. She seemed far more powerful as Oracle.
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