Be sure to search out the original 90s Milestone run before the 2011 revival. There's a villain in it with a giant hand in place of his lower body. His name? Manuel Dexterity.
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It's weird; when I was a kid, I was not into Kirby's artwork at all. I mean, I recognized his genius and everything, and I dug the Kirby Krackle effect, but his artwork lacked a certain fluidity and polish that I gravitated to.
OH SHIT, his Ray run was SO GOOD. Definitely need to re-read that. I love Priest too, and while he has his faults, he is definitely a better writer than easily 90% of the DC/Marvel roster.
Recommended for people who are into stuff that walks up to the line between outright goofiness and batshit insanity and then stomps all over it. Examples: Mieville's Dial H, Hickman's The Manhattan Projects, and Rozum's Xombi.
Don't get me wrong. I don't think Blood Syndicate was a bad book (for most of its run, anyway; it got pretty dire at the end there) or that the characters didn't deserve to be humanized. I was just making the point that it was a brutal, brutal book: from the horror of the Big Bang and the gruesome way people died…
Batman Returns > Batman > Batman Forever >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Batman and Robin
I can't believe that I'm actually about to recommend a Chuck Austen story, but…
Again, comparing the outrage over Miles Teller's age and Michael B. Jordan's race is a false equivalence.
C'mon, son. The Heimdall thing made mainstream papers because a white supremacist group got involved, but the outrage and complaints were there long before they showed up. It only got media attention because there's an overlap between Thor fans and Stormfront posters.
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Another idea stolen from the black man:
That's not really a fair analysis, though. Remember when the internet found out that Idris Elba was playing Heimdall in the Thor movies? Who really gave a fat baby's dick about Heimdall before this? For some strange, unknowable reason, accuracy to source material in casting becomes an overriding primary concern when a…
And Night Thrasher was killed while kicking the whole thing off. But Speedball survives and becomes dark and brooding and complicated. Speedball.
Blood Syndicate was nasty. Nasty people doing nasty things. Humanizing gangbangers who are unrepentant thieves and murderers is difficult in the best of circumstances. Making all of them black, Latino, or Korean (or alien or PASSING as non-white) is only adding a degree of difficulty.
Re: the criticism of "create more new minority characters" — up until maybe four or five years ago, both Marvel and DC (but especially Marvel) were horrible when it came to killing off second and third tier minority characters as a way of legitimizing (white) villains and raising stakes. It's difficult for a character…
The speculator boom caused a lot of good comics to fall into the memory hole. Milestone is one of the most egregious oversights.
It was totally a weird sex thing.
It really is. It dovetails perfectly with my favorite definition of a hero: someone who, for even the briefest of moments, manages to transcend his or her own limitations.