Eh, it's pretty good but it's very different. It's much more cosmic and I think if you accept it as it was written, as a conscious, light takedown of Star Wars sci-fi escapism, it's smart and funny.
Eh, it's pretty good but it's very different. It's much more cosmic and I think if you accept it as it was written, as a conscious, light takedown of Star Wars sci-fi escapism, it's smart and funny.
I buy that there are parts of it that are obviously meant to be fun. Captain Cold gets a lot of zingers, there's some solid beats of Batman not fitting in with Luthor's Injustice League, there's the Sinestro/Black Adam team-up, there's the Kryptonite snorting scene but everything around it is so grim. Ultraman…
Yeah, the first two issues are virtually unreadable. It gets better when they get to the suburbs but it has a terrible start. If you liked the original, it doesn't quite capture the same magic but it's pretty strong and very in Simone's voice.
I think he has a contract with DC so I imagine he's doing something with Rebirth.
I forgot to get Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Power Man/Iron Fist so I feel your pain. I might pick them up tomorrow.
These moments are always interesting as a DM. I feel like every party has that moment where they have to learn that they have to plan ahead, learn the benefits of buffs and work together better. It's always interesting to see how they come out of things.
He's quietly and consistently been one of the best traditional superhero artists in the game but rarely gets recognized for it. I love almost everything he's ever done but that Aquaman run is on another level.
Honestly, I'm not even a big fan of Johns' TT run. Give me a Young Justice over it any day. That's one of the books that really got me into comics.
I like the argument that Johns pushes in his Green Lantern run that everything Sinestro does is to prove that he could be better than the Guardians, that with their power and resources, he could better police the galaxy. I feel like it's grounded in who the character always was and it works to at least sort of…
The Nite-Owl scream really hurts it.
It also has some all time great Paul Pelletier art.
Morrison's run is so great because it starts with the idea that if the Justice League are needed, it has to be a huge event. He leans into the idea that every story is huge by making the characters recognize it.
I like the book better. I think it recognizes that Rorschach knows what needs to be done and knows that if it isn't done, he'll destroy everything. It's the first time in the book that he recognizes the flaw of his own design and he only comes to recognize it in the moment before annihilation. I think it's a better…
I know I'm sort of the resident Alan Moore hater, but Rorschach screaming to be killed at the end of Watchmen is a top tier comics moment.
I think y'all are forgetting Avengers #25, when Banner finds out that Tony has reformed that Illuminati and keeps taking tranquilizers so he doesn't turn into the Hulk and murder everyone.
They debuted the peel logo in The Dark Knight Rises opening credits so I've always assumed it was meant to look mature, I guess? It was horrible though.
Unarguably, the all time best quote in comics.
That scene where Ben is just wailing on Hulk as he starts to try to come to terms with what's happening is one of my faves.
I totally understand that my frustrations with Forever Evil are mostly based on my taste. I hate that it's a Justice League story that the Justice League are barely in, that it's a world-ending event that mostly involves a fist fight between bad people and worse people. Johns kept writing those throughout his JL run…
It's very good.