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08/29/09
08/29/09
I mean, i don't watch the show or anything, and Earth-2 was technically destroyed, remade, maybe destroyed again, or whatever in the books - but there's no reason they can't have the JSA be from another dimension.
08/20/09
08/20/09
Johns is also working on that Metal Men script, right?
08/20/09
08/20/09
This could be really cool.
ooh, and Billy Batson better have an afro.
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I am confused by the current thinking that if I movie is only enjoyable by adults if it is inappropriate for children.
This is kind of sad really. All these characters we love so much (Batman included) were primarily created for the enjoyment of children.
However, in our never-ending battle to have our every geek fantasy played out on film we are killing superheroes for the next generation.
We loved superheroes when we were kids because they were heroic, not because they were violent.
08/20/09
But the entire tone of the 1st movie, half the 2nd, and most of the 3rd were pretty light and cartoony.
I'm pointing out that's it shortsighted to assume that the only market for a superhero film is if it's nitty-gritty.
08/20/09
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If you want a Batman movie for small children AND adults, take a look at Tim Burton's Batman films. Or the Superman movies. Or the Spider-Man movies. The X-Men movies are good for kids, too.
Please, don't try to act like we're turning superhero comics into ultraviolent affairs.
08/20/09
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Finger and Kane weren't exactly doing noir (albeit it was probably 'darker' than most other strips of the time). Also the 60s tv series was taking most of its cues from the Dick Sprang golden age era of strips that predated it by about 40 years, so they weren't really setting a precedent for campiness.
08/20/09
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Geoff johns is pretty damn good writer.
08/03/09
08/03/09
But Dc series the blackest night was planned and slowly put together .
Marvels new seris looks to be just thrown togther .
like Captain America : reborn.
08/02/09
08/02/09
To which I can only say:
w00t!
I'm firmly a Bronze Age kid, so I'm loving the return to a wider set of styles of comics. B:tB&tB is delighting me with bringing back characters from way way back in the day.
Maybe this zombie crap will go out of style soon (at the rate it's being pushed in every medium, probably so) and this will the last gasp *grr, argh* of it. We'll look back at Black Lanterns and P&P&Z and think "Oh, that's sooo 2009."
It'd be nice to get back to some heroics, some colors other than black and gray, some time of day other than night. Maybe an occasional laugh or two! (in a comic book? that's crazy talk)
08/02/09
Glad to see they're THINKING about what to do with them AFTER they decide to hop on the bandwagon, though.
08/02/09
08/02/09
@thefunnyone: DC does have Deadman. Boston Brand first showed up in'67. But the whole super undead thing is silly, ain't it?
08/02/09
@Grey_Area:
Marvel's Simon Garth aka Zombie in 1953! :D
08/02/09
08/02/09
Best I could do; apparently the Comics Code used to ban zombies.
08/02/09
Do any of you remember that it was that particular story in Green Lantern Corps Annual #2 in 1986 that got O'Neill's very art style BANNED by the Comics Code? "Too pointy & icky" they cried. That same year DC published Metalzooic, the first creator-owned book to come from DC, done by Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill. A beginnining of the end of that antiquated censorship bullshit.
But I digress.
08/04/09
Simon Garth sort've was a superhero zombie, he'd go zombie via the Amulet then do what he had to do. Check out the Marvel Essentials Tales of the Zombie book.
An alternate version of the Zombie joined Nick Fury's Howlin' Comandos.