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any1 else reading the injustice storyline?

in the latest issue, the amazons has marched against supermans regime. im excited to see a zeus-superman showdown
 
zackryder said:
any1 else reading the injustice storyline?

in the latest issue, the amazons has marched against supermans regime. im excited to see a zeus-superman showdown
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I'm still on Year Two but it's my favorite comic along with American Vampire.

Superheroes killing each other but still has enough emotional weight to keep the story moving.
 
I am loving the Secret Wars/Battleworlds stuff. Haven't enjoyed superhero comics this much in a while.
 
GoHastings is having 40% off sale right now. Picked up 8 tpb for $38 including Saga, TMNT and Black Science.
 
Anyone care to give a run-down of Batman
He died, but will he be back?

In JL, he's a Bat-God now?

what's going on?

I only casually keep up with comics.
 
Don't read DC for the most part, hell, only read Grayson.

But picked up Earth 2 book just because one of my favorite DC characters is in it, Michael Holt's Mr. Terrific, and I was wondering how a lot of people felt about the character.

I loved his run with JSA and found out he had a solo series that looks to have bombed.. Would it be worth it for a fan of the character to track it down?
 
I wonder if Avengers fans will ever see a more classic line up. I'm thinking those days are gone forever.

Cap, iron man, hank pym, wasp, she hulk, scarlet witch, hawkeye, wonder man, Hercules, black panther.
 
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Doughbelly said:
I am loving the Secret Wars/Battleworlds stuff. Haven't enjoyed superhero comics this much in a while.
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Me too.

You guys shouldn't sleep on nameless from image that comic is event horizon on crack. That's the comic I look most forward too
 
OML ish 2.... Awesome! I hope this is actually going where it has lead us thus far and it's t just some mindfuck. Last panel is epic.
 
Jesus Christ. Listen Alan Moore, I know you're a living legend, a storymaking genius and a comic book pioneer and all that, but would it hurt you to slap some "Adults Only" category/classification on your comics once in awhile, to let the Librarians know not to stuff Killing Joke and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in with the other comics in the "Children's Section" of our local library?

:eek:

Maybe its the Librarian's job or something, but holy fucking shit my 8 year old daughter took both home, thanks to my wife not knowing a thing about Alan Moore.

Now I have to calm a crying 8 year old busting down my bedroom door because she loves Batgirl, and Killing Joke is horrifying in about 5 billion ways.

All I can say is thank god she didn't get around to reading League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. For people who haven't read it, Alan Moore's version depicts a standard mission for the League, as they battle War-of-The-Worlds aliens and save the day--no wait,
the aliens kill half of Victorian England and the League loses their shit and starts having sex with each other and the Invisible Man gets raped to death by Mr Hyde, who then eats his body.
You know. "Children's Section" comic books.
 
That's awesome. Welcome to the elder gods, little girl!

"THE KILLING JOKE? Sounds like something for my eight year old."

Tell me. Was it the Brian Bolland cover that didn't quite -- but definitely did -- seem like like a Calvin Klein ad for rape and murder?

Parents? Know what your children are ingesting, before they ingest it and before you hand it to them. Unlike Barbara Gordon, you don't get to give out retcons. You know, because they're not anybody else's kids.

Allegedly.
 
Three Gun Fish said:
That's awesome. Welcome to the elder gods, little girl!

"THE KILLING JOKE? Sounds like something for my eight year old."

Tell me. Was it the Brian Bolland cover that didn't quite -- but definitely did -- seem like like a Calvin Klein ad for rape and murder?

Parents? Know what your children are ingesting, before they ingest it and before you hand it to them. Unlike Barbara Gordon, you don't get to give out retcons. You know, because they're not anybody else's kids.

Allegedly.
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Brilliant.
 
Three Gun Fish said:
That's awesome. Welcome to the elder gods, little girl!

"THE KILLING JOKE? Sounds like something for my eight year old."

Tell me. Was it the Brian Bolland cover that didn't quite -- but definitely did -- seem like like a Calvin Klein ad for rape and murder?

Parents? Know what your children are ingesting, before they ingest it and before you hand it to them. Unlike Barbara Gordon, you don't get to give out retcons. You know, because they're not anybody else's kids.

Allegedly.
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That'll do it. Somehow it's Moore or the librarians fault though.

Somehow.
 
Three Gun Fish said:
That's awesome. Welcome to the elder gods, little girl!

"THE KILLING JOKE? Sounds like something for my eight year old."

Tell me. Was it the Brian Bolland cover that didn't quite -- but definitely did -- seem like like a Calvin Klein ad for rape and murder?

Parents? Know what your children are ingesting, before they ingest it and before you hand it to them. Unlike Barbara Gordon, you don't get to give out retcons. You know, because they're not anybody else's kids.

Allegedly.
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Call someone's kids illegitimate in real life and you'll have real life problems, Keyboard Warrior.

Stick to the thread topic. That's out of line.

My wife didn't know anything about Batman comics or Alan Moore, she obviously thought the Joker on the cover was the typical bad guy who gets stopped by Batman at the end of every comic before he gets the chance to do any real damage. Those rules may have applied to comics in the early days, but comic fans know Alan Moore doesn't operate like that.

Luckily our daughter didn't have the faintest idea what rape is, she just couldn't understand why Batman wasn't able to stop the Joker sooner. She knows what "killing" is, she just doesn't want to see it happen to Batgirl. You can't tell your eight year old "well honey, the guy who wrote this Batman comic doesn't give two shits about Batgirl and has tons of sexual fantasies" you just say "I understand___" (*insert my daughters name here, because 1. it's not part of forum policy and 2. Sherdoggers clearly can't be trusted when assholes like Fish try to write a "welcome to the adult club, little girl" addressed to a fucking eight year old girl) "but the Joker is the bad guy, so he does bad things until he's defeated."

...Seriously Fish. Get your shit together. You're not sweet-talking someone's eight year old daughter, you fucking psychopath. You're replying to her father.


I posted the story because our daughter took it like a champ, went back to bed, and we averted the major disaster (League of Extraordinary Gentleman is far worse.) I just thought it was hilariously terrifying that Alan Moore comics show up in the children's section. That's probably happening in libraries everywhere.
 
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On a side note, I need to reread The Killing Joke, absolute classic
 
MacDuffle said:
Call someone's kids illegitimate in real life and you'll have real life problems, Keyboard Warrior.
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Ladies and gentlemen, you can't write shit like this.

Hats off to you, MacDuffle. Bravo.

I didn't have to read the rest of it. You win, sir!
 
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