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Don Zomberg
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Jesus, is it 1993 again?
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Shaun Barry
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The stereotypical rancid, ugly unpleasantness I've come to expect from DC, be it film or comics.
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Jason Scott
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I was going to point out the gun thing, but JB beat me to it. And yeah, the slogan really turns my stomach..
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Leigh DJ Hunt
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"It's sad really. You can actually almost see it. A bunch of guys sitting
around a boardroom table asking each other,
"Well, what do the kids like these days?"" -------------------------------- You think they think about what kids like??
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Steve De Young
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Incidentally, isn't it beyond time someone told Hollywood and comicbook artists that holding a pistol sideways seriously messes with the aim?
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Probably my favorite gag in Kick Ass 2 (spoilers incoming, but since folks didn't like the ad above, they probably aren't interested in Kick Ass either) was when people kept telling a certain villain that if he pulled the trigger with the gun sideways he'd break his nose with the recoil...which of course he eventually did.
And yeah, they had to render their Bat-continuity incomprehensible to save the beloved character of Nightwing, only to turn him into King Faraday.
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Gundars Berzins
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Oh good grief! Maybe it's his twin or a clone.
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Don Zomberg
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Poor Dick Grayson. Starts off as with his own identity of Robin, then gets turned into a third rate Batman knockoff, only to finally get turned into a third rate Punisher knockoff.
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Stephen Churay
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Actually, he's supposed to be a third rate Nick Fury rip off.
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John Byrne
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American superhero comics, thru much of their history, have been produced by "a bunch of (middle aged) guys, sitting around a table trying to figure out what kids think is cool." For much of that time, things have worked quite well. A bunch of middle aged guys gave us the Silver Age. A bunch of middle aged guys gave us the Marvel Age. Two things changed. The "guys" started to get younger, and their target audience got older. This was twenty-somethings producing FOR twenty-somethings. People started forgetting the LAYERING of classic Stan Lee stories. Stan wrote for the widest spectrum he could reach, but he did not overlook the PARTS of that spectrum. Turn the characters over to FANS, and get stories targeting FANS. In other words, the club members. The initiated. While for potential new readers things became increasingly impenetrable. Consider: its a good bet that, before the Seventies, nobody ever asked of a title what would be "a good jumping on point." I know. I was there. I started reading by diving right in. At no time did I need back issues to understand the stories. That was another thing those middle aged guys got right, back in the day!
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Brian O'Neill
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In the '60s and '70s, the 'jumping on point' for a Marvel Comic was called 'the splash page': (Drawing of..I don't know, Magneto ejecting Captain America into space as the Hulk is tearing everything apart): 'Hang loose, Frantic Ones! Just keep reading, and we'll fill you in as we go!' And they actually did! Nowadays, that scene would have 15 pages of talking heads, as Magneto and Cap each called one another 'dick'...and I don't mean Grayson!
Edited by Brian O'Neill on 24 July 2014 at 10:07am
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Ernest Degollado
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I think they made a mistake.
They need to remove this:
and replace it with this:
Of course that might be too many words for a DC cover.
Edited by Ernest Degollado on 24 July 2014 at 10:28am
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Carmen Bernardo
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I can imagine the guys who put this out shrieking "But it's KEWWWWWL!"
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