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jspit2.0 said:
Can and will. He's devoting his time to saving people. Great power mumble mumble great responsibility.

Being the wife of a cop or soldier is hard.
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As far as I know cops and soldiers don't lie to their wifes that they are not cops/soldiers.
 
@FROG can you tell us anything about Batman: a Death in the Family, the alternate story?
It was before your time, but you are the closest the darkside of the internet will ever come to somebody in the know about it.
Was the Alternate story were Jason Todd survives ever made?
 
Like a handful of other, equally gifted individuals, Elijah Snow was born on the first day of the Twentieth Century. Coming from an underprivileged background, his innate intelligence soon made him realize how different he was from everyone else, and an interest developed in discovering what other mysteries where hidden from the public.
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Following this lead, he came to 221B Baker Street, where he faced down two of the leaders of the conspiracy - Sherlock Holmes and Dracula. When Dracula attempted to attack him, Snow froze him solid, then shattered the vampire's crotch with a well-aimed kick.
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Planetary could be fun even if it felt like a store brand Morrison/Moore story. Didn't like the end though I don't remember why.
 
GranDuke said:
And which Titan character is going thru shit here?
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Starfire's getting a YA Graphic Novel about her Gay Goth Daughter

From New York Times bestselling author Mariko Tamaki (Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass) and artist Yoshi Yoshitani (Zatanna and the House of Secrets) comes a story about Mandy, the daughter of super-famous superhero Starfire, and her desperate attempts to get out from under her shadow.

Seventeen-year-old Mandy Koriand'r is not her mother. Daughter of Starfire and high school outcast, Mandy is constantly trying to get out from under the shadow of her bright, bubbly, scantily clad, and famous mother. Dyeing her bright orange hair black and sticking close to her best friend, Lincoln, Mandy spends her days at school avoiding Teen Titans superfans and trying to hide her feelings for the gorgeous, popular, and perfect Claire. And while Mandy usually avoids spending too much time with her alien mother, she's been particularly quiet as she's keeping one major secret from her: Mandy walked out of her S.A.T.

While Mandy continues to tell Lincoln her plans of moving to France to escape the family spotlight and not go to college, she secretly hides a fear of not knowing her identity outside of just being the daughter of a superhero and who she will become. But when she is partnered with Claire to work on a school project, their friendship develops into something more and a self-confidence unknown to Mandy begins to bloom. Claire seems to like Mandy for being Mandy, not the daughter of Starfire.

But when someone from Starfire's past comes to disrupt Mandy's future, Mandy must finally make a choice: give up before the battle has even begun, or step into the unknown and risk everything. I Am Not Starfire is a story about mother-daughter relationships, embracing where you come from while finding your own identity, and learning to be unafraid of failing, if it was even failing in the first place.
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TheAmbiguousLurker said:
Starfire's getting a YA Graphic Novel about her Gay Goth Daughter
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this is mildly infuriating because you'd expect the dad to be Nightwing or sth but they say it's a high school dropout.

Anyways the author is dead to me. They're pretty shitty. (google them and it's almost like they're just getting themselves drawn and written as the MC. )


is Starfire A-list outside of the Titans? Feels like they really could have just used Wonder Woman or any big Justice League heroine.
 
Czargon the Red said:
is Starfire A-list outside of the Titans? Feels like they really could have just used Wonder Woman or any big Justice League heroine.
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I don't know about A-list, but I'd say she's well known (she's probably the most popular Titan who isn't attached to a pre-existing hero). I'm assuming that the likes of Wonder Woman are too popular to be included in this kinda shit, while Starfire is just popular enough to be marketable. Then again, Gotham High still happened and that was with Batman and Catwoman.
 
TheAmbiguousLurker said:
Starfire's getting a YA Graphic Novel about her Gay Goth Daughter
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Of course, the daughter is also short, fat, and homely. Not surprising given that it's written by Mariko "Food obsession" Tamaki.

EDIT: She also did that Harley Quinn YA novel where Harley and Ivy protest their school's film club, because they don't acknowledge any female directors.
 
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At some point, this will all be more funny than disgusting. We'll look back and laugh ourselves sick at all this creative atrocity, just like when the silver age turned everyone into family-centric matriarchs/patriarchs and Joker planned every boner out.
 
Stoneheart said:
@FROG can you tell us anything about Batman: a Death in the Family, the alternate story?
It was before your time, but you are the closest the darkside of the internet will ever come to somebody in the know about it.
Was the Alternate story were Jason Todd survives ever made?
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Not Frog, but I can help! A alternative end page was drawn where Jason survived. The books intentionally didn't show or mention much of Robin, if at all, afterward as a "just in case" measure. Pic of the alternative page below.

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TheAmbiguousLurker said:
This... This is a thing apparently: https://bleedingcool.com/comics/sta...-i-am-not-starfire-ya-original-graphic-novel/

Why is this a thing? Haven't the Titans characters been through enough shit?
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Looking at pictures of the author, it's pretty obvious the book is just the writer self inserting herself into the story. Seems to be a trend with the YA prose book market.
 
TheAmbiguousLurker said:
This... This is a thing apparently: https://bleedingcool.com/comics/sta...-i-am-not-starfire-ya-original-graphic-novel/

Why is this a thing? Haven't the Titans characters been through enough shit?
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I'm sure this will save comics.

Aqua Panda said:
Looking at pictures of the author, it's pretty obvious the book is just the writer self inserting herself into the story. Seems to be a trend with the YA prose book market.
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If anyone thought the YA market was actually about publishing books for actual YA's, it's books for and by neurotic women in their 20s-30s. See how some people in the YA community REEEEEEE-act whenever someone suggests maybe publishers should publish books teenage boys could enjoy.
 
TheAmbiguousLurker said:
This... This is a thing apparently: https://bleedingcool.com/comics/sta...-i-am-not-starfire-ya-original-graphic-novel/

Why is this a thing? Haven't the Titans characters been through enough shit?
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What the absolute FUCK is this? Holy fucking God. This is absolute trash. This is a fucking abomination. That fucking description...who is it FOR? The writing is absolutely fucking TRASH, utter puerile garbage. This a fat cunt self insert. That's fucking disgusting. The author is a fucking shit writer and a fat fuck who is going to die of diabetes.

Somebody PAID for this. They were contracted for and wrote this vomit. This is the writing equivalent to a bulimic's fucking vomit.
 
TheAmbiguousLurker said:
This... This is a thing apparently: https://bleedingcool.com/comics/sta...-i-am-not-starfire-ya-original-graphic-novel/

Why is this a thing? Haven't the Titans characters been through enough shit?
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You know a book is going to be a disaster when the character on the front is fat, squat and looks nothing like the character they're supposedly the daughter of, the title is a reference to Leonard Nimoy's autobiography for some reason, and Mariko Tamaki's name is on the front cover.
 
Czargon the Red said:
I recall that Tony Isabella doesn't like the idea of Jefferson and Lynn seperating.
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Tony Isabella doesn't like anything added to Black Lightning he didn't add.

He doesn't like the kids and in an issue he wrote, he tried to make them his nieces. It didn't go over well.

As for the book? It's more of an illustrated novel then comic. I enjoyed it, but Ridley's take on Superman was all over the place.

Also!

On the Starfire's daughter YA novel, I noted a lack of mention of who her father is...
 
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