The Comic-Book Thread

**Dave's Dreidel** · 01.07.21, 08:40 PM

Started watching The Boys on Amazon, two episodes in, and it is damn good.

**Number 47** · 01.11.21, 12:40 PM

This looks really cool.

**Bad to the Bone** · 01.12.21, 04:34 AM

Originally Posted by Dave's Dreidel

Started watching The Boys on Amazon, two episodes in, and it is damn good.

remember the story was originally pitched to DC and was written as a Justice League story....that makes it even more messed up.

wait till you see what Homelander is really about. it's a great show

**Number 47** · 01.12.21, 07:15 AM

Tooling around DCU and found a four issue arc from 1977 that I still remember reading and know is in a box in the basement.

The really, really do not write and illustrate comics at all like they use to... and it's a damn shame.

1977 Batman.PNG 1977-2.PNG 1977-3.PNG 1977-4.PNG

Turns out The Joker killed a Batman impersonator.

Ha! Sure, the stories were a lot cornier... but right now I'm attempting to get through Dark Nights: Death Metal so I can make some sense of the current Future State issues... and I'm dumbfounded at the complexity of it all that will probably end up making no sense at all when it's over.

I just hope that when DCU becomes DC Universe Infinite soon, that they upgrade the reading functions and make the tool bars and such easier to access.

**Bad to the Bone** · 01.12.21, 09:16 AM

Originally Posted by Number 47

Tooling around DCU and found a four issue arc from 1977 that I still remember reading and know is in a box in the basement.

The really, really do not write and illustrate comics at all like they use to... and it's a damn shame.

1977 Batman.PNG 1977-2.PNG 1977-3.PNG 1977-4.PNG

Turns out The Joker killed a Batman impersonator.

Ha! Sure, the stories were a lot cornier... but right now I'm attempting to get through Dark Nights: Death Metal so I can make some sense of the current Future State issues... and I'm dumbfounded at the complexity of it all that will probably end up making no sense at all when it's over.

I just hope that when DCU becomes DC Universe Infinite soon, that they upgrade the reading functions and make the tool bars and such easier to access.

I remember seeing the adds for the one with Luthor jamming supes and bats together and I wanted it soooooo bad, lol. I was like 5

**Number 47** · 01.12.21, 09:25 AM

Originally Posted by Bad to the Bone

I remember seeing the adds for the one with Luthor jamming supes and bats together and I wanted it soooooo bad, lol. I was like 5

A Jim Aparo cover. Nobody drew hair like Jim Aparo drew hair.

**Number 47** · 01.13.21, 12:49 PM

Infinite Frontier and What’s Next for the DC Universe

Infinite Frontier kicks off a bold new era for the DC Universe. Here's what it all means...

https://www.denofgeek.com/comics/inf...e-dc-universe/

**Bad to the Bone** · 01.13.21, 12:51 PM

Originally Posted by Number 47

Infinite Frontier and What’s Next for the DC Universe

Infinite Frontier kicks off a bold new era for the DC Universe. Here's what it all means...

https://www.denofgeek.com/comics/inf...e-dc-universe/

not doing it this time. I hope they do well but I have no interest in this at all.

**Dave's Dreidel** · 01.14.21, 07:08 AM

Originally Posted by Number 47

Infinite Frontier and What’s Next for the DC Universe

Infinite Frontier kicks off a bold new era for the DC Universe. Here's what it all means...

https://www.denofgeek.com/comics/inf...e-dc-universe/

A black Batman.

Why not. Make him a pansexual trans while they are at it.

I know it has to be hard to come up with new ideas and storylines after almost a century, but can we please leave some of the core characters alone and simply create new characters to reflect modern morality?

I know...get off my lawn.

**Bad to the Bone** · 01.15.21, 04:16 AM

Originally Posted by Dave's Dreidel

A black Batman.

Why not. Make him a pansexual trans while they are at it.

I know it has to be hard to come up with new ideas and storylines after almost a century, but can we please leave some of the core characters alone and simply create new characters to reflect modern morality?

I know...get off my lawn.

I read some spoilers for this and a few characters are getting a sexuality make over

**Dave's Dreidel** · 01.15.21, 07:05 AM

Originally Posted by Bad to the Bone

I read some spoilers for this and a few characters are getting a sexuality make over

Of course.

I look forward to my life in the woods more and more each passing day.

**Hamnerhead** · 01.16.21, 11:47 PM

Originally Posted by Bad to the Bone

remember the story was originally pitched to DC and was written as a Justice League story....that makes it even more messed up.

The Seven are Garth and Darick's analog for the Justice League characters, but I don't think THE BOYS was ever literally pitched as a JL story. It was always intended to be what it was, which is a cynical take on the archetypes. You might be mixing it up with WATCHMEN's history, in which was originally pitched with the Charlton characters that DC had just bought, like The Question, Peacemaker, Captain Atom, Nightshade, etc...?

BTW, I'm a late starter, too-- I just started season 2 and I'm really digging it.

**Bad to the Bone** · 01.18.21, 04:38 AM

Originally Posted by Hamnerhead

The Seven are Garth and Darick's analog for the Justice League characters, but I don't think THE BOYS was ever literally pitched as a JL story. It was always intended to be what it was, which is a cynical take on the archetypes. You might be mixing it up with WATCHMEN's history, in which was originally pitched with the Charlton characters that DC had just bought, like The Question, Peacemaker, Captain Atom, Nightshade, etc...?

BTW, I'm a late starter, too-- I just started season 2 and I'm really digging it.

there was a story going around news outlets when the second season started and that was one of the things they talked about. at one point very early on it was pitched to dc as an elseworlds story.
I remember thinking the first season is even more messed up if it was the league.

**Dave's Dreidel** · 01.18.21, 06:12 AM

Originally Posted by Bad to the Bone

there was a story going around news outlets when the second season started and that was one of the things they talked about. at one point very early on it was pitched to dc as an elseworlds story.
I remember thinking the first season is even more messed up if it was the league.

I read the same article, but I trust that Cully knows more about the biz than whoever wrote that article.

**Number 47** · 01.18.21, 06:20 AM

The Next Batman

Not a lot of action to speak of, but very well written... which is more than I can say for some of the main ongoing bat books.

This being Future State, the premise is totally plausible as to why someone else is Batman and how he got there... which is also tied into the ongoing stories.

I'm just treating this as an Elsworld story and looking forward to the next three issues.

FYI: the first issues of FS: Dark Detective and Robin Eternal are also really well written... which goes to show that the abandoned DC 5G protect at least had some talented writers on board.