great look at Deathstroke who will hopefully be in the stand alone batman movie.
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great look at Deathstroke who will hopefully be in the stand alone batman movie.
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Batman ... Ninja?!
(Coming 2018)
Yeeeeeeesssssss
The writer of this thing is good and makes me want to watch this, but even though this isn't the worst CG anime I've seen, it looks like CG anime and I don't really like it.
This is great. Here is a Trivial Pursuit card from the 2008 edition.
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Hahaha, this 2011 draft by Will Beale sounds crazy. Dude basically wrote a comic book story.
https://www.thewrap.com/justice-leag...suicide-squad/
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That's a movie I want to see.
The alternate reality is some of the best DC stuff. I'm including Flashpoint in that.
Damn, do an animated version of that.
They kind of have already.Quoting Skitch (view post)
New photo of Fuckuaman.
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Aquaman: Rough Seas, Rough Trade
Had no idea the franchise was going in this bold new direction, but I'm okay with it.
"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?"
--Homer
That dude has the body I lust after.
Tell me about it. Hubba hubba.Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
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Broquaman.
"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?"
--Homer
I love how Wan's just been off-camera quietly making his Aquaman movie while all this DC hand-wringing brouhaha goes down.
It’s still going to be awful.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Remember when we talked about manipulative superhero deaths played for effect?
Well, it seems Morrison planned to keep Batman dead for five years and DC wouldn't let him.
Justice League's failure is causing a big restructuring at Warner Bros that will take place in January. They're going to announce a new person to head the DC movies now. Apparently parent company Time Warner is really unhappy with what WB has been doing with the DC properties.
But I think this is the bombshell part:
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Apparently Jon Hamm really wants it.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
IF they reboot it with Flashpoint everything will be fine.
It's pretty sad that Affleck's career has been marred by playing a superhero twice. All that good will he got from building himself up as a director got derailed by this Batman business. Regardless of whether people like him as Batman or not, I feel like this is for the best. Just cut and run, Ben.
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Also, wow, this thing I posted 3 months ago is obsolete now. This grand plan they had to redeem themselves with Geoff Johns is kiboshed and now Johns is demoted to an outside adviser.Quoting number8 (view post)
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Excuse my chain-posting, but I forgot to post this the other day. This article is mostly about comics, but it has one paragraph about that killing in Man of Steel that I think is a very good point and relates to that discussion about it a few pages back:
http://theculturalgutter.com/comics/...in-comics.html
The article is about the peculiar way in which mainstream American comics has to constantly justify why not killing is important, as if heroes are constantly on the verge of killing bad guys and has to be held back, versus comics where the "heroes" need an external, distancing motivation in order to justify their decision to kill, which fundamentally changes them.
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I think that's rather irrelevant to her piece. It's not questioning why American comics as an industry played loose with violence. That's also actually backwards, which she noted in the footnotes: back when comics were undoubtedly, primarily for children, the heroes were less concerned about mortal violence against bad guys. Especially during wartime. The common "superheroes don't kill" credo really only emerged after the 60s resurgence of superhero comics, after college kids and older folks drove sales (probably a correlation between that and most writers/artists being caught up in the Peace & Love zeitgeist).Quoting Irish (view post)
I read this more as talking about the way that the culture feels a need to treat their aversion as an effort. Batman, as he's regularly portrayed in modern context, always believes that it's ok for Gordon and other cops to kill bad guys to defend themselves or others, but doesn't allow that of himself or other superheroes. And his main reasoning is essentially because he believes that killing bad guys is what's easy and normal for us normies, but because they're heroes with extranormal powers or resources, and who operate above the law, they should be required to do things the hard way, which involves refraining from killing no matter what the situation calls for.
So this piece made me think about what this means philosophically, when we have mythic figures like superheroes to tell the modern myths of our culture operating on the blanket acceptance that not killing is an inherently superhuman labor. Is that notion a cynical invention, or just an accurate reflection of our culture?
I've said this previously in this thread, I think, but what I found odd was the impulse for Man of Steel to build an origin story for Superman's sense of morality. One thing that gets really exhausting when talking to fans about that movie is that they try to explain to me how it's--as Snyder puts it in his quote--a Kobayashi Maru situation and that the movie adequately explains how he got to that point where it all makes sense for him to do that. But I don't care about any of that, because it's just fucking written that way, right? Someone decided that the story should culminate that way, and it's more that initial impulse to do that story that I bucked against. I do find it a little peculiar, in hindsight, why Snyder and Goyer saw this Boy Scout character and immediately wanted to deconstruct that as, like you say, an incomplete first arc. I'm actually wondering if the neck-snapping had happened in a sequel, would it have felt as egregious?
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Irish why do you constantly delete your posts? Just curious.