This July, the ever-expanding Crayola Corps brings you...the Ultraviolet Lantern!
I wish that was a joke.
I wrote up an Ultraviolet Lantern set in the Legion future. His ring manipulated energy invisible to human (and most alien) perception, and kept him invisible most of the time, as his role was as an internal police force for the other lanterns...
I'm amused that DC has decided to make Ultraviolet Lanterns, although I imagine their version will be nothing like mine. :)
Plaid Lanterns will no doubt be next.
didn't they do that already with the corpse?
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Man I hope Jon survives whatever Bendis has planned, that kid is the best thing to happen to Superman in a long time. Being a Dad just brings out the best in him.
According to Previews, Bendis starts out with Lois and Jon missing.
Clark is trying to keep it a secret from everyone at the Planet, while Superman is fighting some villain.Doesn't sound like a good start to me.
Charles,
No, no it does not. Not one bit. So far I thought Metal might help stuff....but now I'm convinced it was just a way to prepare us for darker, grittier less hopeful DC Comics...
I'm amused that DC has decided to make Ultraviolet Lanterns, although I imagine their version will be nothing like mine. :)
As far as I know right know, John Stewart will be the only Ultraviolet Lantern.
Yeah it just seems to be a one time deal, much like the Phantom Lantern was, or explaining how we got TWO Volthooms for a brief time.
DC is putting out new crossovers
Aquaman/Jabberjaw
Black Lightning/Hong Kong Phooy
Flash/Speed Buggy
DC is putting out new crossovers
Aquaman/Jabberjaw
Black Lightning/Hong Kong Phooey
Flash/Speed Buggy
Yep. Detail added.
I'm still waiting to see what the big deal is about Doomsday Clock honestly...
Well here's hoping Issue #5 does something then. Dark Knight Metal wasn't great...but it was better than some other crossovers.
Ok so now we have some idea of how Darkseid ends up with the League. The old Amnesia Evil Guy plot.
and damn...the Controllers F'k up so badly
Grey,
Not sure that's it so much as the Source Wall breaks and now dear old Darkseid's dad is out. At least...that's the rumor.
But yeah the Controllers REALLY screwed the pooch on this. Not sure the GL are doing much better though.
Grey,
Not sure that's it so much as the Source Wall breaks and now dear old Darkseid's dad is out. At least...that's the rumor.
But yeah the Controllers REALLY screwed the pooch on this. Not sure the GL are doing much better though.
Might be part of it but Wonder Woman ripping out all his stolen divine energy (with the power of love) seems to have addled him a little.
Well yeah. But I thought that it wasn't the ONLY part.
I’m just starting the New 52 (about 15 titles) after a long hiatus. I’m enjoying Action Comics, Superman is a hard slog so far tho. Does Superman get better or should I skip it until Rebirth?
Skip to Rebirth. That's my call...
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I’m just starting the New 52 (about 15 titles) after a long hiatus. I’m enjoying Action Comics, Superman is a hard slog so far tho. Does Superman get better or should I skip it until Rebirth?
Well, I didn't actually read it... but from what I heard people really liked how Morrison started and complained how it turned out later.
So if the beginning isn't hooking you, I wouldn't count on improvements...
I gather there is another Crisis coming on the heels of the breached Source Wall and the coming of the four Celestials or whatever they're calling that bunch that prompted the formation of four ad hoc teams to combat them.
Poor DC Multiverse can't catch a break. It's like it has a cosmic case of some major digestive disorder whose symptoms have worsened over the past several decades.
Hypertime was a Morrison invention to explain various timeline stuff and also introduce a KIND of multiverse.
Also I'm still a fan of the Multiverse...just not the way it's been heading for the past 10+ years And yes the Titans thingie IS too much like Marvel but I guess when you run out of creative ideas after rebooting so much...you get this.
And yes Morrison DID write Action but he stopped after something else came up. I think.
That might be that too, jeff.
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Well, IMO, Crisis broke everything, ruined some favorite characters and left others a confusing mess as their origins got vaporized. It did do some good things though.
I thought they'd started reintroducing the multiverse sooner than that, but it seems like the first bit was "Hypertime" around 2000.
Yeah, that's my take on it to, as a fan of the Justice Society and Legion of Super-Heroes.
Plus they seemed to break their own rules willy-nilly. Supergirl, for instance, was alive again pretty fast (compared to say, Barry Allen, who took 20-something years to come back, or Kole, who never came back).
Kole I think is vacationing with Ambush Bug somewhere in the Bleed.
Also there were a couple DIFFERENT Supergirls before we got kind of back to Kara Zor-el...
1985's Crisis was supposed to simplify things. It did, and was the better for it.
But they decided to reinstate the multiverse in the 2000's and its been all downhill since then.
It tried to fix a problem that never existed. The claim that multiple earth's confused people was dumb. As rarely as they ever actually USED any of the Earth X, Earth S, Earth 5 type characters it was really a non-issue.
Most of those characters ended up essentially getting wiped out... when it would be just as easy to not use them. Which they were also doing.
Earth 1 and earth 2 were the only earths that got any real attention, and the few times they did show up, it was easily explained in the first page or two.
Compared to the chaos that trying to merge the hawkmen and wonder Woman origins and cram everythign together created... the multiverse was pretty simplistic.
Add in the fact how multiple earths/realities are common concepts in media now, if anything DC was ahead of it's time.
All I know is I liked it when we just had 52 universes...now I just wonder what the hell is going on...
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It tried to fix a problem that never existed. The claim that multiple earth's confused people was dumb. As rarely as they ever actually USED any of the Earth X, Earth S, Earth 5 type characters it was really a non-issue.
Most of those characters ended up essentially getting wiped out... when it would be just as easy to not use them. Which they were also doing.
It was indeed a solution in search of a problem.
Even as a teenager, I remember reading the issue where the Earths are being destroyed by the antimatter waves, and the Earth 3 Crime Syndicate go down fighting and are annihilated, while the Marvel family, Freedom Fighters, select members of the Justice Society, Captain Atom and the other Fawcett heroes all kind of 'jump ship' and end up on the new combined Earth, *while everyone in their universes dies.*
And I was left with a weird sort of feeling that the only *heroes* left of all these Earths were the Crime Syndicate, who died (futilely) trying to save their world, while all the other 'heroes' else just kind of bailed and left the billions counting on them (including their friends and families, assuming they weren't antisocial pod people hatched from eggs) to die screaming.
I'm *sure* that wasn't the message I was supposed to take away from the Crisis on Infinite Earths, but that's kind of the way it sorted itself out, at the end of the crisis.
Plus it got silly with the whole 'oh, retcon, the other earths never existed now' nonsense, since the various writers were on different pages about the whole thing, and started working on new versions of dead characters, and coming up with alternate versions of the multiverse (like Hypertime) within a year of this 'big fix' for a 'problem' that, IMO, never existed.
Plety of weird retcons that gave short-shirft to stuff. I kinda remember this comic that had a hero(magic shield or something?) that had a St.Elsewhere ending where all of his adventures were just two people in a cafe telling stories to each other.
All I know is I liked it when we just had 52 universes...now I just wonder what the hell is going on...
Near as I understand it we still have 52 universes, it's just we now of an explanation of how those alternate universes come to be.
The Multiverse isn't one based on going left in one reality and right in the other. Instead each reality is born from the collective Hopes or Fears of those living in the Prime reality. Each reality in the multiverse reprisents something in the collective unconcious of the universe.
The Dark is where those subconcious hopes and fears are forged into a new world, but they only last based on how strong those feelings are. If strong enough we get a permanent new Universe added to the current total.
So for example Nazi-Earth is a reality born from the subconcious fears of totalitarian rule, and that probably is reflected in the entierity of it's reality, not simply Earth. The GL corp of that universe likely has more in common with the Controllers than the Guardians.
the 52 Earths aren't simply random realities that happened to turn out different than the prime one. They are a creation of very specific concepts and ideas, and tied to distinct principles.
Grey,
Well that makes a little more sense now...even if I still don't like Space Titans that look like Marvel's Celestials...
Grey,
Well that makes a little more sense now...even if I still don't like Space Titans that look like Marvel's Celestials...
<cringe> It's been a month since I picked up my file. Just one thing after another and I haven't gotten to it yet. I have no idea what's happening right now and it's gonna be $100 next time I go to the comic store.
Kirbyesc Space Giants you say.
looking forward to it
Grey,
No Justice mini-run that was spring boarded from Dark Knights Metal.
And which in turn apparently leads into the next upcoming Crisis, about which I know nothing yet. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that "worlds will live, worlds will die, and the multiverse will never be the same!" In other words, DC personifies the adage that nothing is constant but change.
Damon,
Uhm there's no sign of a Crisis thing after they've already DID Final Crisis like...10 years ago. Or there abouts.
Not even a Final Crisis?
Damon,
Uhm there's no sign of a Crisis thing after they've already DID Final Crisis like...10 years ago. Or there abouts.
This is what I was referring to.
They DID have one. And yes Damon but I don't see them revisiting that any time soon.
Charles,
It's been doing that yes.
I think it will end up being a big Nothingburger at the end, with Mahatten popping up briefly and no doubt sending everyone back to their respective places.
Right now what I'm concerned about is what happens to having all these Justice Teams and stuff.
So I'm glad they resolved SOME of the issues in Detective Comics about Pre-Flashpoint Titans Tomorrow...but I'm less pleased about the characterizations in this issue of the Flash that is of course leading to Flash War.
Even if Flash War will mean less guys named Flash.
and I am now caught back up (after a $130..ouch. Nothing like leaving your file for a month or so to realize just how much I spend on comics)
One thing I am liking out of Doomsday clock is getting a look at the global-political side of the DC Earth and getting some details on Superheroes from around the world.
No Justice was an interesting mini-series and I'm looking forward to see how things grow out of it. Three full Justice League teams and the Legion of Doom still reprisenting those 4 trees.
and over in Wonder Woman I am really starting to like Jason and getting some neat insight into his armor (which apparently was meant for Diana but the rest of the Greek Gods just up and assumed it was meant for the Son and not the Daughter)
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Also thumbs up to the artist on Wonder Woman for having the Fates appear briefly as Granny, Nanny and Magrat from Wyrd Sisters