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Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
It looks like the SJW comic, Princeless, is getting the possible movie treatment. Yep, the series where a number of the guys are either jerks, sexist strawmen, fools, inferior when compared to women or spew out talking points.
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Never read it, but let's be real, most comic book movies are nothing like the source material. I'm sure they'll make some changes to make it more... palatable to the masses.

If it happens at all.
 
I'm sure someone already linked this but Comics Explained is a great way to catch the gist of old and new stories and characters in DC and Marvel. The guy's enthusiasm is pretty contagious and I've caught myself binging some of his Hulk videos because the stories are either pretty interesting or such a fucking mess that you're wondering what they'll do next.

Probably my favorite Hulk one-shot story.


And the Omega Level Mutant videos can get weird as fuck.

 
Got Hero Killers #3, The Flash #27, and Blue Beetle #11. Also I got back issue of Super Sons I was missing but I'm not going through that one.

Hero Killers #3
At the end of the last issue we found out that the ray gun that Tim stole from Dr. Baron von Physics actually didn't vaporize the three people Tim "killed" with it, but rather sent them to an alternate dimension. As far as our protagonists know, however, they are dead.

The murder tally is brought up by two today, but for real this time. Tim goes after his sort-of arch-nemesis hero, Rainbow Boy, to take the key to the city away from him. Rainbow Boy gets mad at Tim and accidentally Jonah Hexes his eye. In a rage Tim uses the key to the city to bludgeon Rainbow Boy to death and leaves him and his rainbow blood pool on the floor of his kitchen, heading to Sparky's place.

Sparky has his own troubles. His mentor (?) Big Blue (who is the most obvious send-up of Dan Garrett as Blue Beetle, he even has beetles on him lol) knows what Tim has done, and how Sparky and Capt. Battle Junior helped cover for his "murders." When Big Blue tries to cuff Sparky, he panics and electrocutes Big Blue, who falls and impales himself, dying instantly. Tim shows up to freak about how Rainbow Boy fucked up his face, but Sparky is in some deep denial about how Big Blue is dead. After freaking out about what they should do, Tim tapes an oven mitt to his face to cover up the damage. Then he readies the ray gun.

In the alternate universe, Black Terror (Tim's mentor) and Blue Bolt (some dude they "killed" in the last issue) are heading back to base together in a world of disgusting creatures. Dr. von Physics is working on a way to send them back to the real world. But Black Terror kind of likes it there. The horrible creatures treat him like a king and bring him booze. However, they are interrupted by a new arrival: Big Blue's corpse. Seeing as Big Blue and Black Terror were good friends, he resolves to go back to the real world and end Tim's murderous rampage.

Captain Battle Junior, who is a complete and literal idiot, is called out to a dump or something by Tim and Sparky-mostly Tim, as Sparky has kind of lost his marbles. Tim asks if he's with them or against them as we cut to the mayor in bed, wondering where "Warren" went.

Turns out "Warren" is Rainbow Boy, and he walks in on Rainbow Boy's bloody corpse in the kitchen.
Overall, it has continued the trend of being better than the previous issue, but I still think the issues try to be a little too self-aware. It's mostly limited to narration boxes in the beginning, however. The actual story is shaping up to be an excellent example of digging yourself in deeper. And murder. But with a name like "Hero Killers" what did you expect? I'm liking this more and more.

The Flash #27
I fully admit to being a Flash sperg but the Rebirth stuff has legit been pretty awesome. If you don't read it, start reading it, because it is a gem.

Picks up where the last left off, with Flash having absorbed the negative speed force and attacking Thawne. Who keeps hitting on him. Seriously, you can't read it as anything else. I fucking mean it. It permeates the whole fight. But the Flash is like "We are NOT (BOY)FRIENDS." and bashes the fucker, sending them back in time.

They keep throwing barbs at each other that's actually really entertaining, but seriously, it plays out like Thawne is a psycho-ex girlfriend who is just way too in love with the Flash. I legitimately kept waiting for him to say "I love you." Hell, he basically did.

More banter and Thawne is going off about how he will never leave Barry alone when suddenly Iris vaporizes the motherfucker. And then points the gun at the Flash. Barry has to chill her out and be like "NO WAIT IT'S ME BARRY" but it's... awkward. She just ends up asking him to take her home.

Wally is in the hospital. Barry tries to assure Iris that Wally will be fine, but Iris is pissed. She just asks if there's anything else he's lied to her about, since Thawne revealed to her that Barry is the Flash. Barry thinks about redhead!Wally, but stalls, and she just sends him away. He ends up at work, head in his hands in misery.

Book is bookended by Thawne's narration.
Overall: Fantastic. The last issue was a little meh comparatively in my opinion, but it turned out that actions had consequences. Everything's fubar and I wanna see where it goes. 100% recommended.

Blue Beetle #11
Alright, so the last issue ended with the Scarab having taken over Jaime. Except not, he's just messing with people. Arion has been defeated so all the people have been de-monsterfied and Doctor Fate has been convinced to leave Jaime and the Scarab alone for now... but he'll be watching. OMAC squashes Mordecai lol. Jaime suddenly has this weird angst and leaves. OMAC and Brother Eye fuck off. Tedd and Teri head back to their office and discuss Jaime's weird change in mood at the end when he had been so triumphant against Arion and steadfast against Doctor Fate. Ted thinks it's stress; Teri thinks maybe the Scarab is messing with his head. They agree to keep an eye on things.

Turns out Kord industries is paying to fix all the damage Arion and Mordecai brought to El Paso. Teri sort of drops some of her backstory on Ted, who promises to find a way to send her and Tina back to their own time period. According to a conversation between Tina and Milagro, Teri and Tina aren't actually sisters, so there's a lot more to their story we don't know yet. But she and Milagro are good friends still. Jaime's friend Kevin Kho (OMAC) is starting to go to school with them. At school Brenda punches Paco flat for calling her Aunt Amparo (who is La Dama) weird.

La Dama is having some troubles with a specific scientist named Elliot. He stole some shit and disappeared. Turns out he's used it to gain superpowers or something and will surely be important later, but here he just kind of monologues. In his monologue he's fighting BB, so I'm not sure if he's just fantasizing for if this is showing us future events.

Back at school Jaime starts hearing a voice. Talking to himself nets him a detention. He vents to Brenda a little, who tries to both give him the truth and be a good friend. In detention the Scarab talks to him more and Jaime talks back, which concerns the teacher. The teacher states that Jaime used to be a great student and asks if everything's alright at home. He says everything is fine as Elliot (who's calling himself Ghostfire because he's basically the Human Torch but lampshades how dumb and dramatic it sounds and wonders if he should change it) flies by in the distance.

Issue ends with a news dump talking about how Kord Industries is rebuilding El Paso and speculation on whether or not Blue Beetle is a hero or a threat. Cut to Batman wondering the same thing.

I understand that this sort of thing is within Batman's character and that he's a popular character who sells... but I wish he'd stop appearing everywhere. Oh well. With Ted around, being a former superhero, this could turn... interesting.
Overall, a nice wrap-up for the Arion thing. I really like this book. It just trucks along at a nice pace. I always felt that Jaime was strongest as a character when the Scarab was involved and not treated like a nonentity that gave him powers. We'll see how this goes. This book is not a good place to pick it up, however, if you aren't reading it. Next issue likely will be a good starting point. Recommended!

I also got a back issue of Catalyst Prime: The Event, which was a free promotional book for the Catalyst Prime Superhero verse, which currently consists of NOBLE, ACCELL, and SUPERB, which I've mentioned before. But as this book is supposed to have been the introduction to a whole new comic universe, I felt that I should discuss that one in its own post. I'll get to it sooner or later this week.
 
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Tranhuviya said:
Remember when Milestone was a thing DC did?
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They haven't been talking about it as much but Milestone is returning. That's why all their characters have been pushed to the background in the main DCU since Milestone 2.0 is taking place on "Earth-M" and they don't want confusion. They haven't given us a date but they said stuff about it last week.
 
RockVolnutt said:
They haven't been talking about it as much but Milestone is returning. That's why all their characters have been pushed to the background in the main DCU since Milestone 2.0 is taking place on "Earth-M" and they don't want confusion. They haven't given us a date but they said stuff about it last week.
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Oh, boy. It's going to be terrible, isn't it?
 
Tranhuviya said:
Oh, boy. It's going to be terrible, isn't it?
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All I know is there was a small shitstorm from the "COMICS NEED MORE DIVERSITY" crowd when they announced Geoff Johns is writing one of the books. They didn't know Milestone was never supposed to be "Black Only Comics" even in the 90s or that Johns is an Arab.
 
I think one of the really under appreciated things coming out of Rebirth is DC reviving their different imprints. Young Animal is basically the cape stuff early Vertigo used to do, The Wild Storm is being used to revive the WildStorm line, and now they're bring back Milestone as well.
 
GabeRegan said:
I think one of the really under appreciated things coming out of Rebirth is DC reviving their different imprints. Young Animal is basically the cape stuff early Vertigo used to do, The Wild Storm is being used to revive the WildStorm line, and now they're bring back Milestone as well.
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The only problem I have with the Wildstorm revival is me being a continuityfag and their main universe counterparts becoming unusable at the perfect opportunity to actually do stuff with them. They never really explained how their history fits into the DCU or found a place for anyone besides Midnighter. Maybe if I'm lucky the end of Rebirth event will talk about their merger with the DCU or we'll get an one-shot out of the Wildstorm imprint talking about the older versions.

Milestone characters being unused doesn't bother me as much though. Mostly because the New 52 didn't change them (from what I remember) so Rebirth means nothing for them. We can assume New Earth's Vergil is going about his usual life in Dekota City even if we're not going to see him for a while.
 
I don't even know why DC bothered to try and integrate Wildstorm into the New52. The majority of the characters were in Stormwatch, and the entire point of that book was that they were a secret organization no one knew about. Speaking of Stormwatch, the book was so bad that at one point DC literally retconned the entire title and started over. I have no idea what happened to Grifter, I know he had a book when it started but I don't know if he ever interacted with other DC characters. Really Midnighter was the only character to really integrate into the DCU, and I hope they keep him around even after the Wildstorm revival.
 
@GabeRegan @RockVolnutt I know nothing about Milestone or WildStorm, so if y'all have any recommendations I'm always up for them.

Catalyst Prime: The Event! I finally bothered to summarize it.

If you've missed it, The Event was a free comic book given out to promote a new line of superhero books under the Catalyst Prime label. It is completely new and original, not a revamp or reboot of a pre-existing set of heroes. They have a stated goal of having more 'diverse' characters as well as wanting to avoid massive crossover events that the big superhero comics tend to have. They have stated that, while there is a meta-origin, they want each book to be able to stand on its own without having to constantly cross over with other books/characters to keep track of the story. Whether they will stick to these tenants remains to be seen, as the only books out yet are NOBLE #1-3, ACCELL #1-2, and SUPERB #1.
Catalyst Prime: The Event is mostly a series of vignettes.

One Year AFTER The Event: some metahuman activity. A speedster runs by, a guy in a suit gets riddled with bullets but is unhurt, a woman with a gun is begging a man in a mask to "show her", a woman tries to convince a man holding up a bus to not hurt the police officers that are taking her away, someone shooting lazer blasts... it's a huge mess of a fight, so it seems. Think the climax of Avengers, but without the coordination. Cut to-

One Week Before The Event: a woman rides a school bus with a child who is having difficulty with their math homework. This is a very important character named Lorena Payan. She's a humanitarian, I guess, who is in charge of a large corporation. Currently, she is trying to stop a giant, world destroying meteor named Icarus from hitting Earth. Her assistant, whose name is Shep I guess, chides her a bit for being tough on her engineers, but she simply states that if they screw this up then everyone dies.

Cut to a bunch of astronauts that she has sent out. Banter ensues.

Cut back to Lorena vomiting in a toilet. Her assistant chats with her, telling her to "stay strong for the troops." She responds that "These people are not coming back, Shep. They're not."

Back to the astronauts, one is having a flashback of his girlfriend, who is making him promise not to die. Another is flashing back to her telling her therapist that she has to do this because "life is made up of a string of accomplishments" and that failure is not an option, or everyone will die. One guy is talking to some sort of superior who is also drilling the importance of success here. This is obviously a world crisis. One of them is thinking of the final conversation they had with their mother, where there are some vaguely politically-racially relevant remarks are made, since this one is a black woman, but they sound like something a person would actually, y'know, say in a conversation. The leader of the bunch is thinking of how his friends threw him one last party before the road. He hates parties.

Cut to Sixty Seconds Before The Event: leaderman is dead. Everyone else is freaking out. They try to wing it without him, but then everything explodes. Mission control chick, who is currently on a satellite surrounding earth. After everything blows up she runs to an escape pod, but her satellite is torn apart with the debris from the explosion. It is "The Beginning," also known as The Event. Rocks rain down on Earth, but complete annihilation is avoided.

Two Weeks After The Event: Lorena is hailed as a hero, given medals and receives letters of thankfulness from people all over the world. However, she doesn't appreciate it; she tells off an intern with "I did nothing. Five brave souls blew up that asteroid. Tens of thousands killed or wounded in the intense meteor showers that followed. Let's stay focused, okay?"

Shep says she was a little rough on her while Lorena says she doesn't need hero worship, everyone just needs to stay focused. But Shep found something interesting. He found some readings that didn't line up with theirs regarding the Icarus. Icarus was never going to hit Earth. What's more, everyone who might have known that is dead. Astronomers killed in car wrecks, overdoses, muggings, accidents, falls. Shep starts throwing shade about how suspicious it is, and asks Lorena what she's done.

She stabs and murders him.

Book ends on her smug face looking at a letter, stained with Shep's blood, from a kid that says:

"Miss Lorena--

Thank you for saving my Mommy and my cat, Dougie. I love you so much.

Billy"

as some people in hazmat suits take Shep's body away.

Overall, an interesting introduction. The beginning is a bit disjointed and hard to follow, but the ending is very effective and made me wonder what the ultimate plan is. The bad guy was a very convincing character. If the rest of the Catalyst Prime books can maintain this level of quality, they really will be worth checking out.
Considering how NOBLE is supposed to be the sole survivor of the astronauts killed in this issue, and that I already know that Accell, at least, got his powers by taking home a chunk of Icarus and keeping it under his bed, it's safe to say that she wanted people to develop powers. She probably is the one who owns the organization that was poking at redhead girl in my earlier view of SUPERB #1. But her full plan is a mystery.

I also, at someone's recommendation, started reading All-New Ghost Rider, who is apparently supposed to be better than the other "All-New" Marvel characters. Thus far he seems to have an actual, I don't know, character and motivation, even if it hasn't been fleshed out yet and is kind of hokey as of yet-I've only read issue one so far-but what the fuck is wrong with the way this artist draws arms? Has anyone else read this one?

EDIT: Finished all 12 issues of All-New Ghost Rider. Man, Robbie Reyes has been mistreated. Of all the All-New, All-Different characters, he was actually a decent character with potential for some really good stories. Why the hell has he been canceled but Riri Williams survives?

If I'd been aware of this book back when it was running, I'd have bought the hell out of it. Art got really freaking weird at issue ~5 though.
 
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The Wild Storm has been great so far. Doesn't require any knowledge of previous WildStorm titles. Also really enjoying The War of Jokes and Riddles in Batman.

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I also, at someone's recommendation, started reading All-New Ghost Rider, who is apparently supposed to be better than the other "All-New" Marvel characters. Thus far he seems to have an actual, I don't know, character and motivation, even if it hasn't been fleshed out yet and is kind of hokey as of yet-I've only read issue one so far-but what the fuck is wrong with the way this artist draws arms? Has anyone else read this one?
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I read the first issue. Thought it was ok, not interesting enough for me to continue reading.
 
Apparently there's a kickstarter for Patriotika, a superhero comic book with a heroine whose design represents everything SJW Marvel seems to have a hate boner for:
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Who would've thought 10 years ago that having a hot, busty blonde patriot as you protagonist would count as going against a status quo. Only in this reality...
 
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ShittyRecolor said:
Apparently there's a kickstarter for Patrotika, a superhero comic book with a heroine whose design represents everything SJW Marvel seems to have a hate boner for:
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[MEDIA=kickstarter]mountolympuscomics/patriotika-1[/MEDIA]
Who would've thought 10 years ago that having a hot, busty blonde patriot as you protagonist would coun as going against a status quo. Only in this reality...
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Can you imagine the salt feminist sites like BBAD and TMS will have when the first issue pops out.
 
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