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11/29/09
11/29/09
Nope, he's been neutered.
11/29/09
A neutered version, pfff.
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10/20/09
Fraction was making Tesla cool before all the other steampunk fans jumped on the bandwagon.
There, I said it. #angel
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09/29/09
The plotting was totally inane and driven by the fact that everyone Superman or Batman acted out of character/ idiotic.
The voice acting was excellent though, and the action/fight scenes were very well animated and directed.
Also they managed to keep the sexual/romantic tension between Superman and Batman intact too.
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I thought they should have kept Hamill as the voice of the Joker, but otherwise I really liked all the character redesigns. Ah well.
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And this is from a died-in-the-wool DC guy.
09/22/09
Public Enemies was just a 6 issue Batman/Superman storyline that had Batman and Supes fighting everyone else. The story was pretty much self-contained/disposable; with the exception dethroning Luthor it had no significant impact on the DC universe or canon thereafter (thank god).
Civil War was a much more epic storyline that overran the entire Marvel universe for a year and pitted the the entire MU against each other, and has changed the direction of every single series.
The only real similarities between the two is that their premises relied on reducing every character into a complete moron/a-hole. Especially the general population of the worlds they took place on.
Seriously, if you find yourself AGAINST Captain America or Superman, you should probably realize that you're doing it wrong.
While DC didn't let PE turn into a Civil War-scale linewide clusterfuck, I've been noticing shades of 'instant universal stupidity' creeping back into the current Superman 'New Krypton' storyline which features the whole wide world once again turning against him.
09/22/09
Besides, I've got Terminator:SCC Season 2 on bluray to keep me occupied for awhile. I'm sad to see so many reviewers negative reactions to this film though. Its an interesting concept, and I'd be lying if I said I haven't been looking forward to it's release for some time.
09/22/09
Jeph Loeb is not a writer who carefully builds on the continuity set by his predecessors, tweaking and retconning as necessary to keep the balance between what has gone before and doing something new.
He's a writer who takes that continuity and pounds it clumsily into the shape he needs. That's the only way to explain the superheroes practically unquestioning obedience to a dude who has in the past flown around in an armored battle-suit and shot death rays at their faces.
09/22/09
Please tell me it was Superman. Please please pleasepleaseplease
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09/22/09
They are from Krypton; not Alabama!
09/22/09
Supergirl: "Omg she looks just like me!"
Ollie: "Yea except more... developed."
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Now hand me that Kryptonian ballgag. The safe word is "Kltpzyxm."
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09/22/09
The only problematic part of that character arc was the resolution that Jeph Loeb wrote for it, which made absolutely no sense and, of course, threw out everything everyone before him had built up so nicely.
09/22/09
09/22/09
And then Jeph Loeb put him in power armor and had him throw it all away.
09/22/09
President Luthor was developing so many shades of grey it's really a shame that Loeb had to fuck it up.
I think Azarrelo's and Bermejo's "Lex Luthor: Man of Steel"mini-series managed to capitalize on all these same nuanced possibilities afterwards.