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Post by jessebaker on Nov 8, 2010 22:32:57 GMT -8
Another reason for why Diamondback and Steve Rogers worked is that they showed how being in love with Cap truly made Rachel want to be a better person. And how that, in turn, led to Asp and Black Mamba want to become better people and renounce crime, because they saw how giving up evil made Rachel a more happier person.
Plus, there is the notion that Rachel/Cap explored the power of love and the notion of love being able to change a person's life for the better.
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Post by jessebaker on Oct 29, 2010 19:15:45 GMT -8
Regarding the dead X-Men thing, one thing I found funny about Necrosha was that (Proudstar aside) we never got any confirmation that ANY of the Techno-virus revived mutants reverted back to being dead. Especially if you factor in the notion of Destiny lying to Rogue so that she can go about her business now that she's back amongst the living.
Indeed, given how Thunderbird was basically raptured back up to Heaven, the writers have left the door open to bring them back later if they wanted to.
And in a lot of ways, I wish they would bring the Hellions back and incorporate them into the X-Men since the Hellions always were a batch of characters with much potential to them. Think DV8, but more likable and with less emphasis on shock for shock's sake.
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Post by jessebaker on Oct 5, 2010 23:34:20 GMT -8
He had his entire city DESTROYED. DESTROYED. You think that isn't a good reason to take a leave of absence? Especially compared to Aquaman's bullshit? Fuck, Hal didn't fire 90% of the JLE and replace them with scrubs when he left. You can't compare that to that.
Proven as fact, so that sort of BS doesn't fly (and why Batman was treated as being in the wrong pure and simple at the end of Rebirth and bitchslapped). Also, why is it that Hal gets shitted on for being possessed but BATMAN AND HIS MURDER FANTASIES, INCLUDING HIS FANCY MURDER SPY MACHINE BROTHER 1, which he came up with ON HIS OWN FREE WILL AND WITH NOTHING CONTROLLING HIS THOUGHTS, get a free pass? Even though they led to half the League maimed and damn near killed and in the case of Blue Beetle, MURDERED when these plans were discovered by bad guys and Batman pretty much hiding his own culpability in these things until it was too late to stop his teammates from being maimed and killed?
And while all of the crippling injuries he conceived to inflict upon the team in Tower of Babel was reversed in the end, Ted Kord is still dead because not once, did Batman not only did Batman build a murderous spy satelite, but FORGOT ABOUT IT long enough for Checkmate to steal it from underneath his nose!!!! And it wasn't until AFTER Ted Kord was murdered AND Booster Gold damn near killed, that he bothered letting the JLA know about Brother 1's existence. EVEN THOUGH YOU'D THINK HE WOULD HAVE COMPLETELY DESTROYED BROTHER ONE AFTER THE TOWER OF BABEL ARC!!!!!
Re-Read your Hal Jordan stories before making BS claims. Hal never "quit" the GLC when he travelled America and if he didn't LOTS of people would be dead or worse if not for him taking the road trip (and the fact that it was Ollie, not Hal, who fucked things up by taking the road trip as far as Hal having no personal shit going on at the time he went on the road). Fuck, if Hal hadn't gone on the road, Black Canary would be a brainwashed pawn of a wannabe Charlie Manson and Maltus, the overpopulated world, would still be slaughtering women rather than trying to come up with non-violent ways to deal with their population problem.
And fuck, the second time he went away, he did so BECAUSE THE GLC ORDERED HIM TO SPEND A YEAR IN SPACE! And it was BECAUSE his absence caused Carol Ferris to be attacked by by people taking advantage of the lack of Green Lantern being around, that Hal quit. At which point, John Stewart was instantly drafted back into service, so NO WAY did Hal's quitting hurt ANYONE since John came onboard to replace him almost immediately.
I'll give you that one...
Aquaman, who got the shit kicked out of him when faced Prometheus (and remember the damaged he caused when he attacked the League and was only stopped because Catwoman decided to pick that moment to rob the Watchtower). Or, going back to the proactive League complaints, how Prometheus wouldn't have ever of destroyed Star city and maimed Roy/killed his daughter if Batman would have let Huntress kill Prometheus, instead of deciding to be all "My sense of self-righteousness is more important than the families of the future murder victims of my enemies" with her.
Given all of the times Aquaman keeps abdicating the throne of Atlantis only to come running back, he'd be one to talk. Especially since he doesn't even HAVE a secret identity.
Didn't Obsidian Age retcon Atlantis's sinking as being Aquaman's fault? Just saying....
Carol's mental stability issues have been erased due to the retcons to the Predator/Star Sapphire backstory, to the point that they've created a new SS character who killed Katmai Tui.
Also, Sinestro/Artrocius/Agent Orange are working under a truce (which is in the best interest of all given how weakened the GLC is) and quite frankly, better to have them close than out in space committing mass murder. And in the case of Sinestro, Hal has a vested interest in keeping him close so that he can make sure that Sinestro doesn't find a way to corrupt the white light/lantern powers.
Re-read Blackest Night; no one on Earth knew what was going on, so Hal (after avoiding being murdered by BL Martian Manhunter) left Earth after being confronted with the only lead available towards what the fuck was going on and to pursue the strategy that the Indigo Lantern laid forth (IE gather the other Corps heads). That's WAY more than what Superman and Batman were doing.
Re-read Blackest Night. Sinestro may have became the first White Lantern, but it was Hal and the rest of the possessed heroes that were able to harness it's light in a way to allow it to defeat Nekron.
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 23, 2010 21:32:04 GMT -8
I see that and raise you Hal asking what the fuck Aquaman is thinking saying that shit, by reminding Aquaman that he once FIRED the entire league because "they weren't committing to it full-time" and putting in a rule to the charter that you had to commit to the league full-time, only to jump ship within a WEEK for the same commitment issues he blasted Superman, Wonder Woman, etc for.
Hal gives that response and tops it with "and that's why your opinion on who's the better GL doesn't count, since you are the same idiot who thought it was a great idea to kick me off the League and replace me with fucking VIBE AND GYPSY...."
That would work only if they keep the current status quo of "Hal Jordan is the only guy who has the balls to stand up to the big bad Bat-Bully". Like say, Hal telling people at a high society party what a huge fucking douchebag Batman is and Bruce is in earshot, having to keep his stepford smile on while he mentally plots out the various ways he can kill Hal Jordan.
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 9, 2010 19:02:04 GMT -8
The only fucking "moment" for John Stewart in JL/JLU was the bit in the time travel arc where they had him, utterly powerless, fighting alongside Sgt Rock.
Everything else was fail or him existing SOLELY as a prop for Hawkgirl and Hawkgirl's storylines.
That said, Kyle's big "moment" is arguably WORSE than John's since unlike John's fucking up and getting several million people killed, Kyle's finding his GF's corpse in the fridge came to define the horrible treatment of women in comics.
And as for Hal; him punching Batman definitely DOES count as his big moment, for a couple of reasons. Mainly the fact that by that point in time, Batman represented the WORST of the super-hero community: a paranoid piece of shit psycho who kept murder files on his friends, acted like his shit doesn't stink, and generally demanding that only HE save the day or that if anyone else does, they have to follow BATMAN'S orders, so that he could take credit for victory.
And for Hal, representing the nerdy outcast by way of Veronica Mars type arch-type, punching Batman (the hipster elite shitheads who think anything that isn't hipster-esque needs to be wiped out of the comic industry) into unconsciousness was a sort of cathartic moment of clarity and pay-off to everyone who's listened to DC bitch and moan about how much Hal sucks and why obnoxious twits like Batman are better, even when Batman's been derailed into evil Libby status.
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 8, 2010 16:15:45 GMT -8
Funny thing about A Game of Thrones; a lot of the guys in my local comic shop are into the whole fantasy/swords and sorcery novel thing (so much so that the shop's owner added a whole section for those kinds of books and such) and none of them seem hyped about "A Game of Thrones" being made into a TV series. A couple of them didn't even know the books had been optioned to be made into a TV series, let alone on HBO.
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 7, 2010 23:57:36 GMT -8
Regarding cliffhanger talks; I have to to think the cliffhanger will involve the Doctor marrying River Song. Most likely as part of an overall plan (like say, they get married in order to keep some big bad from marrying River after he rescues her from the altar, with their marriage being some sort of social contract that River's stalker has to abide by as far as the stalker seeing marriage as a "to death do you part" thing where, if she marries someone else, she will be forever off-limits to him)
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 6, 2010 22:27:33 GMT -8
Thread for us posting our various fanboy-type dreams that we dream at night;
One particularly strong dream I had fanboy-wise, was a couple of years back when I dreamed I was before TPTB at the Sci-Fi Channel to screen an episode of Battlestar Galactica that I was hired to write and direct.
I discuss the plot: the episode was a spotlight episode for Kat and Racetrack, the two female pilots on the show, who end up chasing down a crazy guy who is obsessed with the notion that he can tell if people are Cylons by maiming them and examining the blood that comes out from the wounds. The B-Plot had Laura Roslin being tormented by an underground newspaper, run by special guest star Michael Muhney (of Veronica Mars fame).
The hatchet wielding crazy is obsessed with Laura as far as seeing her as being in the right and thinks Muhney's character is a Cylon because his left-wing newsletter is critical of Laura. So he hunts down the writer and chops off his hands, leading to a dramatic moment where Kat and Racetrack arrive too late and find Muhney's character holding out his stump limbs, screaming as blood pours out from them.
In my dream, I show them the clip of Kat and Racetrack finding Muhney, all maimed and such and Bonnie Hammer (who is in the group of Sci-Fi executives) FAINTS at the sight of the blood. I just stand there, shocked as everyone rushes to Hammer's side as I end up waking up before anything else happens.
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Post by jessebaker on Aug 25, 2010 17:48:31 GMT -8
Speaking of hell freezing over: the various rights issues for the 1996 Doctor Who movie have finally been resolved, meaning that it will be released in the US soon.... tvshowsondvd.com/n/14323
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Post by jessebaker on Aug 19, 2010 12:37:49 GMT -8
Getting caught up from the weekend pacioccosmind.blogspot.com/2010/08/bat-questions.htmlQuestion #1: Isn't this STILL a problem for Bruce? That someone with basic reasoning skills could figure out that the resources required to be Batman means that his alter-ego would have to be rich? How many multimillionaires in their twenties and thirties with the combat conditioning of a US Marine could there be in Gotham? (Yes, I know: Thomas Elliot. Hush, you). Now, one solution I can imagine is that to maintain Bruce's cover, he regularly hires actors and celebrities in great to move to Gotham for a while to throw off the scent. Of course, in my own personal imagination, those actors would include Michael Keaton, George Clooney, Val Kilmer, Christian Bale and Kevin Conroy. And I think that would be awesome. Question #2: Has there ever been a story, in which a Batman-Analogue or some other rich vigilante is adversely effected by an economic downturn or collapse? What would happen if suddenly, you couldn't afford the fuel for your rocket car or explodo-darts? Would that vigilante start stealing from criminals to fund his own efforts? Would even that be enough? Chris Sims, I demand Answers! 1. They handwave this either by way of the "Batman is an urban legend" excuse or by taking the stance that no one knows how hardcore Bruce Wayne is in the physical strength department, let alone the fact that Bruce purposely promotes the notion that he is Paris Hilton's slightly less punchable male counterpart to the press and those around him. 2. Green Arrow's financial fall from grace covered this: he ditched his gimmicks and started using real arrows when he lost his fortune. In Batman's case, if he were to be financially wiped out, he would probably ditch his high end toys, selling off everything he had to keep Wayne Manor, the Batmobile, and the Batcave computers going, while working on ways to rebuild his fortune. That said, it does make me wish THAT would be the next big Batman arc, IE "Bruce Wayne: Pauper!". Batman loses his fortune and has to fight crime in Gotham while coming up with a way to rebuild his bank accounts while fighting crime.
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Post by jessebaker on Aug 10, 2010 22:10:14 GMT -8
So in other news, reading the last three episodes of Brubaker's Captain America, the much dreaded Zemo storyline and it seems that Brubaker's trying to make Zemo some sort of uber-troll as far as doping Bucky with mind control drugs and leaking his secret ID to the public along with film footage of him as the Winter Soldier for the lulz.
Better than I expected, but Brubaker needs to have Zemo get away with this, for the plotline to work especially given the meta-text that is Zemo trolling Bucky for coming back from the dead given how there are a lot of people, like myself, who LOATHE Brubaker for raising Bucky from the dead as his Rob Liefeldian cyborg Mary Sue of grim and grittiness. Especially given the context that Zemo works best when he's given the Magneto treatment of being written not as a generic villain, meaning that in the context of "The Heroic Age", Zemo (much like Magneto currently) deserves a free pass given that villains like Zemo who are multi-dimensional and do question their motives and why they do what they do, deserve a place in the Heroic Age and don't deserve to be beaten down just because Brubaker's pissed that Bendis got to shove Norman Osborn and Bullseye as good guys down everyone's throats.
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Post by jessebaker on Jul 30, 2010 9:01:01 GMT -8
Louis Simonson already brought up a possible solution of sorts, with her out of the blue reveal that Magda was a sorceress and that she used her magic on Magneto to overcome the "99% of all mutants are sterile" thing that Simonson was planning on revealing as part of the original "The Twelve" storyline reveal.
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Post by jessebaker on Jul 27, 2010 22:05:04 GMT -8
I didn't take the season as a full-on reboot so much as a soft-reboot: new Doctor, new companions, but with the exception of River Song and the Daleks, the show going out of it's way not to mention the previous incarnations of the Doctor and their adventures.
OHHHH! That opens up a MAJOR dark horse for big bad: The Family Blood! IIRC didn't 10 lock up the mom, dad, and daughter in the darkest corners of the tardis is various hellish "And I Must Scream" forms of imprisonment?
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Post by jessebaker on Jul 24, 2010 23:33:10 GMT -8
Some random thoughts on the current discussions:
1. Even with the current fear of Republican gains this fall, no fucking way will Obama not run in 2012. The Republicans are running on the batshit crazy, fuck humanity platform and much like in 1994's gains ended up backfiring on them and costing them the 1996 election, it's going to backfire on them in 2012.Even with everything going on, it's Obama's race to lose since the GOP has NO ONE lined up to run against him that isn't damaged goods.
If the GOP take over the House and Senate, give them a month before the Tea Party racists and the rest of the Monster Society fuck things up (refusing to pass ANY legislation to help the country, let alone a thousand witch-hunts to try and crucify Obama ala Bill Clinton) that EVERYONE will be calling for EVERYONE to band together to drive the GOP out of power in 2012 and re-elect Obama.
2. Sarah Palin, if she's smart and has better handlers, WILL NOT run in 2012. 2016, YES, but not 2012. Sarah, despite being hot, proved herself to be an ignorant cunt in the 2008 election and has only salted the Earth even MORESO since then with her vileness, evil "Death-Panel" shit, and other things that only show her as being the Anti-Christ. Oh and quitting the job as governor won't help either.
She'd be better served running for Senate in 2012 or going away and having her handlers try and make her seem less ignorant and shit.
3. To the comment about the VP debate; Biden didn't reduce Sarah to tears because he didn't have to. He just let the bitch bury herself with her own stupidity and ignorance. Making her cry would have been counter-product AND WORSE, as far as inviting the media to go into hype remorse as far as Sarah being able to play the victim card and make Biden and Obama look bad for treating Palin that cruelly in order to expose her ignorance.
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Post by jessebaker on Jul 22, 2010 14:04:04 GMT -8
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