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Post by tingramretro on Dec 18, 2019 9:43:11 GMT -5
At this point, I'm just glad the whole thing seems to have restored the JSA and ther entire continuity. There's a hint at the end that we're in for another reality changing event soon (which was already strongly suspected), but that it'll be undone within a few years (which is nice to know).
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Post by tingramretro on Dec 18, 2019 9:37:43 GMT -5
For me Watchmen is....interesting. Ozymandias is a fantastic villain and Moore IS a fantastic writer regardless of what one thinks of the man himself. However the Nixon being president 5 times.....yeah that was just silly. Overturning a constitutional amendment is no easy feat and I think that’s one of the weaker elements in the world building. Didn't seem sily to me, but then, I have no idea what your constitution does or doesn't say and wasn't really aware that there was a limit on how many times someone could be president until you mentioned it. I doubt Alan thought it was a big deal either, it's probably one of those things non Americans don't think about. |
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Post by tingramretro on Dec 3, 2019 8:28:10 GMT -5
I'm most impressed how on top of all that, Moffat tells his own personal story. "The Eleventh Hour" is about a child who thought Doctor Who was coming back, and waited eagerly, but days turned into years, and by the time the Doctor returned, it was too late. The child was gone, replaced by an adult whose childhood fascination with the Doctor had become a running joke with friends and family, and whose collection of fan memorabilia were now an embarrassment. This is exactly what happened to British children when Doctor Who disappeared from TV in the late 1980s and didn't resurface until they had jobs and families. Amy's wedding dress symbolizes the taking up of adult life, and the Doctor's surprise reappearance is the occasion of temptation to forestall adulthood for just a little while longer. I'd never thought of it like that! You're absolutely right! (though I was one of those fans who never left it behind) |
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Post by tingramretro on Dec 3, 2019 7:35:55 GMT -5
I've come to the conclusion that it's pointless trying to talk about Moore to superhero fans, or perhaps I should say people who see everything, and especially everything to do with comics, through the lens of their DC/Marvel worldview, in which everything is geared towards fan entitlement and their love of the shared superhero universes, etc. Anything that enhances that enjoyment is, in their eyes, automatically good, no matter what its repercussions and anything that fails to enhance it or even just speaks disparagingly of it, is automatically evil. Nothing else matters: right and wrong, logic, rationality, ethics - forget it. Sadly, very true. |
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Post by tingramretro on Nov 6, 2019 4:01:20 GMT -5
Those Egmont annuals are great (I had the 1986 one, but lost it during a house move. Or maybe someone stole it, LOL). Modern UK annuals (for superheroes) tend to reprint recent stuff. Egmont annuals didn't. To think, the 1986 Egmont annual printed a 1971 story ("A Vow From The Grave" from Detective Comics #410). That's one of my favourite Bat-tales, but as a kid, I doubt I'd have come across a random 1971 comic. So those annuals really introduced me to pre-1980s Bat-stuff, and I will forever be grateful for those. Without reprints, I'd have not come across great stories from eras before I was born! It's shame DC doesn't have a licensee in the UK right now. Yes, we can all buy the US originals easier now, but I did like the curated nature of reprints. I mean, I buy US Marvel titles, but I do buy reprints, too. I like The Mighty World of Marvel (monthly) as it reprints Marvel US stuff I may well have missed. More to the point, for me at least, Mighty World of Marvel and its sister titles reprint generally four US titles for the price of one original! It makes it a lot cheaper to keep up with stuff that wouldn't necessarily be a top priority for me. |
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Post by tingramretro on Nov 5, 2019 5:52:50 GMT -5
Yes, 70s Batman is my Batman because so many 80s comics/UK annuals chose to reprint 70s stuff. In 1988, London Editions Magazines released a monthly Batman title here in Britain (2 US reprints per issue). It started off with reprints of "The Untold Legend of the Batman", but after that, began reprinting 70s tales. For its first 20 or so issues, it reprinted those arcs. With its 21st issue, it began reprinting "Blind Justice". A 1986 annual over here reprinted "The Joker's Five-Way Revenge" ( Batman #251), "A Vow From the Grave" ( Detective Comics #410), and "Fugitive From Two Worlds" ( The Brave and the Bold #155). All of those were 70s tales. For whatever reason, 80s UK reprints "plundered the archives" of 70s tales, so that is pretty much what I knew. In fact, for my entire childhood, I'd wager I read nothing but 70s Batman issues until the reprints began focusing on 80s tales. So, weirdly, born in 1980, but 70s Batman is "my" Batman. Work that anomaly out. In fact, it doesn't just apply to Bats. As a kid, the majority of Hulk tales I read were 60s/70s reprints. The majority of Spidey stories I read were 70s reprints. We were always lucky in the UK to have Marvel UK for the Marvel stuff and various licensees for the DC stuff. We had a comic which ran from 1992 to 1995 called The Exploits of Spider-Man (it began as The Complete Spider-Man). It initially reprinted the contemporary four Spidey titles, but later on, it became a 100-page comic which reprinted modern stuff, Lee/Ditko tales, and Spider-Man 2099. It'd be a good topic to do one day, because I think while nostalgia means we can have a fondness for the decades in which we were born, it isn't always that simple. One would think "my" Bond would be Dalton/Brosnan, given the era I grew up in, but I actually was raised on a "diet" of Roger Moore! I was also raised on a steady diet of Marvel UK, thoug in my case, being a child of the seventies, the reprints were often only a couple of years old. The London Editions DC stuff came much later; for me, DC reprints meant the annuals, and Egmont's "The Superheroes Monthly" and Superman and Batman Pocket Books. |
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Post by tingramretro on Nov 2, 2019 12:46:50 GMT -5
The Doug Moench run in the early eighties remains my favourite Batman era ever. That whole period had so much great stuff going on; Nocturna and the Night Thief, Doctor Fang, the gradual development of Harvey Bullock, Julia Pennyworth...and the art was gorgeous, too...
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 11, 2019 5:08:36 GMT -5
Incredibly, Doctor Who Magazine, which started life as Marvel UK's Doctor Who Weekly, is forty years old today! Four decades of in-depth coverage of the world's longest running sci-fi series, and of course, four decades of original Doctor Who stories in comics form. Not bad going. Particularly since it's even outlasted its original publisher by twenty years...
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 8, 2019 5:44:48 GMT -5
• The best part of the series is the testimonials, which give King a chance to show each hero as a different person. Artist Clay Mann shines on the expression and body language in these scenes, as when Arsenal (the former Speedy, Green Arrow’s sidekick) recounts the origins of his narcotics addiction, a familiar tale among soldiers.  • Green Arrow and Black Canary’s only in-story appearance is this out-of-context page in which they are standing on a cliff, and GA is about to shoot a baseball cap into the ocean. Anybody have a clue what this is about?  I thought it was fairly obvious that it was the late Arsenal's baseball cap. It's been kind of his trademark since 2011. |
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 25, 2019 3:28:14 GMT -5
Flash Forward #1, carrying on the ongoing saga of Wally West from where it was left in Heroes In Crisis. Interesting, but I have no idea where the story is going.
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 24, 2019 4:10:04 GMT -5
Well I liked DC's sidekicks and knockoffs like Supergirl and Batwoman. It was something that made DC different than Marvel. Now it seems like Marvel has taken that concept from DC and gone to the extreme. For example it has gotten ridiculous with all the different Hulks. Despite my best efforts, Red Hulk and Red She-Hulk do nothing for me. They might do one day - the right writer might make me REALLY CARE about them - but for now, it seems redundant. Neither of those characters is still around. Why are people complaining about characters who are no longer even appearing anywhere? |
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 24, 2019 4:07:45 GMT -5
Well I liked DC's sidekicks and knockoffs like Supergirl and Batwoman. It was something that made DC different than Marvel. Now it seems like Marvel has taken that concept from DC and gone to the extreme. For example it has gotten ridiculous with all the different Hulks. You mean all the different Hulks who aren't actually around anymore and haven't been for a few years? |
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 24, 2019 4:06:20 GMT -5
A thought that just crossed my mind reading this... did they ever do a team-up of SPIDER-WOMAN, SHE-HULK and MS. MARVEL ? Seems like they should have.  Yes, more than once. |
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 23, 2019 4:53:44 GMT -5
So... um... I'm having trouble with some of the commentary here. You guys are saying this is NOT stupid and terrible? Like this comic that Geoff Johns SURE SEEMS LIKE he is only writing because Alan Moore obliquely dissed him in an interview is not abjectly awful? Weird. It's not abjectly awful. |
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 18, 2019 7:14:22 GMT -5
I can't answer that. The problem with them being tethered to the DCU is it confuses some people, understandably. I don't really see why it would. For that matter, I can't recall anybody much being confused by it in the past. |
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