Probably the dumbest thing in recent DC history was making Barbara Gordon Batgirl again rather than letting her remain as Oracle, one of the few truly original characters of the past thirty-five years. I flip between this and replacing Wally West as Flash with Barry again.
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Seconded x 100000000000000000000000. Basically the biggest nostalgia bait F.U. to representation that has ever come out of the big two. While they’re flipping race on characters all the time to make the properties more accessible, they take away one of the most brilliantly developed differently-abled representative…
Oh I’m so glad comics’ most prominent disabled superhero was wiped from continuity in order to be brought back as a... “ robotic menace in the vein of Marvel’s Ultron.”
Because “evil robot” is so much less of an explored space for comic books than the old Oracle, who doesn’t even have an easily-referenced identical…
Please don’t post this comment like you aren’t perfectly aware that DC has a long-standing, well-documented history of problematic issues with inclusiveness, portrayal and yes, hiring practices. This is the publisher that birthed the term “fridging”.
On the one hand, this looks dope and Greg Rucka is a god tier comic creator.
Oh no, honey. This was worse than Goop. I half expected her ass to pull out a fistful of crystals and say that the only way to heal America is by re-aligning the chakras of every man, woman and child in the country. She is like a dozen tics beyond Goop.
It’s Golden Corral, not Le Bernardin. She was probably dressed better than 90% of the customers.
Yeah what she’s wearing looks perfectly fine for a casual, not at all fancy buffet restaurant. Especially one that’s next to a waterpark.
“Sir, we’re losing altitude!” “Engage bottom rotor!”
I’m reasonably certain that “Homo Demons” is meant as a species-variation name (like Homo Erectus, Homo Sapiens, etc.), rather than any sort of untoward reference.
...then again, this is the man who gave us about the most eighth-grade bit of wish-fulfillment pablum ever to explain Quiet’s mode of dress, and who…
It isn’t Game of Thrones like, but I’m going to recommend a young up and coming author named Katherine Arden. She recently completed a trilogy about a young Russian girl (later woman) names Vasilla who has the ability to interact with mystical creatures that most people have neglected or forgotten about since turning…
God, Euron was insufferable. I’m surprised his last words weren’t “Most. . . awesome. . . death. . . ever. . . amirite?” or “How. . . great. . . do. . . my. . . abs. . . look?”
That wouldn’t have helped, as the show runners effectively (and presumably politely) noped out on following the books after A Storm of Swords.
Alita and her eyes. They changed them and fans were much happier.
How the fuck are they just NOW getting that message? Ever since the first teaser poster came out it’s been unanimously negative, including from the top people of Sega themselves.
I get why it was popular. It was a book of impossible problems. Watching a guy solve those problems is fun. It’s why we like Agatha Christie detectives solving murders. It’s fun to see someone smart doing smart stuff.
The Martian is one of the rare cases where the movie was better than the book. The book was just awful and I’ve never understood how it became so popular and well received.
It looks that the complaint is, “the nerve of this author to write a female, Muslim character so badly!” I didn’t see any complains about the protagonist being one.