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It does remind me of a joke from Posehn & Duggan's Deadpool
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sKr0n said:
Also Alan Grant might be one of my personal favourite writers at the time, he was very much the Stephan King of Batman at the time, just throwing everything at the wall and coming up with some of my newer favourite villains like Scarface but still being self aware enough to "pants" and make jokes out of his lamer creations, and outright kill them in the case of Mortimer Kadaver. He was so prolific they gave him his own ongoing for 72 issues straight while he worked on a myriad of Prestige issues and one shots/mini-series based on ancillary characters/villains.
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It does feel like Alan Grant is very under-appreciated. Hardcore fans know him, but more casual ones almost never mention him.
 
GranDuke said:
It does feel like Alan Grant is very under-appreciated. Hardcore fans know him, but more casual ones almost never mention him.
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I still remember the letters page always making Jurassic Park jokes when grant was the batman writer. Get it? Alan Grant? That had to be the funniest part of the batman comics at the time. I don't mean that in a bad way it's just that the comics were all dark and super edgy with barley any room for humor.
 
Finally had a chance to give the new Teen Titans Academy book a read. It wasn't very good. On one hand, everyone seemed in character and it looks like they've aged all the classic titans back up to where they were pre-new52 which is nice, but there were some really bad pieces of dialog that completely took me out of the story. There's one panel where Nightwing makes a Harry Potter joke and gets told by a student that references to Harry Potter are "Problematic and should be ignored". I'm serious. Nightwing just responds with "oh ok" like he's trying to understand what the fuck he just heard too. Later on, a kid asks another kid what their gender is and the response is like a fucking sentence of genderpandering. Literally the definition of how you don't attract a new diverse audience. Oh right and also it makes a bunch of references to Nightwing having once been Red X, which if I'm not mistaken is something that only ever happened in the cartoon from my childhood, so unless that's canon now, I'm very confused as to when that arc occurred.

I dunno. I'm all for diversity in comics and shit, but if you're going to push it do it in a way that doesn't feel like heavy handed pandering, you know? Like, do what they did with Kamala Khan or Miles Morales where the character is actually interesting instead of being a token.
 
Lucifer's Rectum said:
Finally had a chance to give the new Teen Titans Academy book a read. It wasn't very good. On one hand, everyone seemed in character and it looks like they've aged all the classic titans back up to where they were pre-new52 which is nice, but there were some really bad pieces of dialog that completely took me out of the story. There's one panel where Nightwing makes a Harry Potter joke and gets told by a student that references to Harry Potter are "Problematic and should be ignored". I'm serious. Nightwing just responds with "oh ok" like he's trying to understand what the fuck he just heard too. Later on, a kid asks another kid what their gender is and the response is like a fucking sentence of genderpandering. Literally the definition of how you don't attract a new diverse audience. Oh right and also it makes a bunch of references to Nightwing having once been Red X, which if I'm not mistaken is something that only ever happened in the cartoon from my childhood, so unless that's canon now, I'm very confused as to when that arc occurred.

I dunno. I'm all for diversity in comics and shit, but if you're going to push it do it in a way that doesn't feel like heavy handed pandering, you know? Like, do what they did with Kamala Khan or Miles Morales where the character is actually interesting instead of being a token.
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I've read some of Miles stuff which is pretty good. I keep hearing good things about Kamala.
 
KillEmAll1989 said:
The fact that they gave Captain America to the guy who wrote in his biography that he didn’t care about the police and firefighters who died on 9/11 because “muh black body” was testament alone to how bad this medium has gotten.
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And now he's rumored to be writing a Superman movie.
 
Volthoom said:
I've read some of Miles stuff which is pretty good. I keep hearing good things about Kamala.
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I agree with them not doing too many interesting things with her, but, weirdly, that's what made her work. At least, at first, I admit I've long since stopped reading her comic. Partly because it got boring, but also because the issues started tying into whatever big event was going on, whether it was Inhumans stuff, Civil War 2, whatever the event was where Doom destroyed the universe etc. And as I type that, I realize that is a continuing problem, since the most recent comic I tried to pick up to see if it was worth getting back into was basically a tie in for that failed mini Civil War event they tried to do outlawing all heroes under 18.

Going off of that, while it didn't actually bleed that much into the main comics, I think featuring Kamala in other comics really turned people off to the character. And, rightly so, to the point where I don't know if anyone even read Ms. Marvel before writing for Kamala in a team book, despite her being one of the main draws of a book like Champions. I think writers just treat her like a younger, muslim Carol Danvers. And the badly written version of Carol that even Ms. Marvel fans agree is poorly written.

I thought her earlier stuff was alright, though. It was kind of nice having a character cemented in one location with their own cast of characters, kind of like how people prefer the more lowkey Spider-Man stories where he's just confined to New York and not involved in cosmic, world shattering events. Actually, it really feels like they were trying to capture that young Peter Parker magic in a bottle. I think one of the things that hurt it was the lack of significant reoccurring villains and a fairly static supporting cast. There's one bitchy high school girl that later becomes her friend, but that's about it.

Miles is fine. I thought his earlier, post Ultimate universe stuff was kinda lackluster, but I think a lot of that was nobody knowing where his place was in the main universe. And even now, in crossover stuff, I feel like his character doesn't fit in but he gets shoehorned because there's "Spider" in his name. His actual solo comic managed to carve out a spot for him, though, so that's something, and I think it has the potential to be a decent series.
 
Omg omg fucking finally there will be a Justice League Dark omnibus edition! I've always wanted to get into that series and the animated film.

Roster seems pretty cool. Constantine, Zatanna, Wonder Woman, Swamp Thing, the criminally underrated Madame Xanadu, Detective Chimp, Deadman, etc. Apparently even fuckin Amethyst Princess of Gemworld assists at one point. Evidently as the series goes on Diana takes up her own team as they run into Circe who shows up with something for her.

Idk magical stuff is so much fun.
 
Scarlett Johansson said:
Omg omg fucking finally there will be a Justice League Dark omnibus edition! I've always wanted to get into that series and the animated film.

Roster seems pretty cool. Constantine, Zatanna, Wonder Woman, Swamp Thing, the criminally underrated Madame Xanadu, Detective Chimp, Deadman, etc. Apparently even fuckin Amethyst Princess of Gemworld assists at one point. Evidently as the series goes on Diana takes up her own team as they run into Circe who shows up with something for her.

Idk magical stuff is so much fun.
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i really don't care about the magical side of DC, but JLD was pretty good.
 
Jon Consteen of Heckblazer in the main stream DC is very meh.

As for Kamala and Miles, I liked the first volume of her Ms. Marvel book but beyond that nothing's ever interested me. For Miles, well... Bendis was going on year 50 of his Ultimate Spider-Man run and by then I found his writing to irritating and mediocre. Outside of that, the only time I've read Miles' stuff was when he crossed over with Spider-Gwen and they tried pairing them together to appease a weird Tumblr obsession, which just came across as weird and gross, not to mention horribly written and absolutely contrived.
 
Tor Lugosi said:
Jon Consteen of Heckblazer in the main stream DC is very meh.

As for Kamala and Miles, I liked the first volume of her Ms. Marvel book but beyond that nothing's ever interested me. For Miles, well... Bendis was going on year 50 of his Ultimate Spider-Man run and by then I found his writing to irritating and mediocre. Outside of that, the only time I've read Miles' stuff was when he crossed over with Spider-Gwen and they tried pairing them together to appease a weird Tumblr obsession, which just came across as weird and gross, not to mention horribly written and absolutely contrived.
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When the Molecule Man gave Miles's mom a ressurection after the event, I wish the comics explored MIles (and Peter) getting used to this in a proper manner. It would have been interesting to explore.
 
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