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DC Comics - Ongoing Discussion - SPOILERS

DC 1,000,000 is a story set a million months after Action Comic #1.

The 853rd century.

Y'know, because comic books come out every month. :)

Look what happened to Jack Harkness after 200,000 years?

If a white man lives long enough, thousands of years, in a constant/specific climate, he turns into a black man... Which I doubt is what happened. :)
 
kirk55555 said:
Well, in the New 52 the Wizard is (or at least looks to be, he might never have been human for all I know) of African decent, so definitely not.

Pre-reboot the wizard had an origin as getting his powers and name "shazam" from older gods (I think ones that humanity wouldn't even know anymore or something like that), and definitely wasn't Billy Batson.

In the DC 1,000,000 series Billy Batson is shown to still be alive a million years in the future, and has taken the old Wizard's place in the Rock of Eternity, which is the closest to what you describe.
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Post Infinite Crisis, Billy became the wizard Shazam as well.
 
Guy Gardener said:
DC 1,000,000 is a story set a million months after Action Comic #1.

The 853rd century.

Y'know, because comic books come out every month. :)

Look what happened to Jack Harkness after 200,000 years?

If a white man lives long enough, thousands of years, in a constant/specific climate, he turns into a black man... Which I doubt is what happened. :)
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I thought that DC 1,000,000 wasn't actually a million years, but I was too lazy to check :lol: I only got about halfway through it when I tried to read it. It wasn't bad, I just got distracted and never went back to it. I remember Billy's part in it, though.

theenglish said:
Post Infinite Crisis, Billy became the wizard Shazam as well.
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Well, kind of. He took over the Rock of eternity and renamed himself Marvel, all so DC could turn Freddy Freeman into Shazam. That lead to Billy getting turned evil by Marvel marvel (who turned evil because of moronic writing in the horrible Countdown to Final Crisis), and then the old wizard Shazam returned, depowered Billy and Mary (Freddy was basically never mentioned after Cry for Justice, and it wasn't even technically him in the book) and then Billy and his sister were shown I think once more (in a Blackest Night tiew in), then the New 52 reboot happen. Basically, DC screwed over Captain Marvel with Trials of Shazam, and have continued to screw him over ever since (with Grant Morrison's Thunderworld one shot being the only good Cap story, and even that had huge flaws).
 
Saga said:
my DC pull list is pretty bare. maybe this will change things.
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Yeah, same with me. The only DC title I'm currently reading that I'd miss is Starfire. It will be interesting to see what happens, but honestly, unless DiDio, Harras, Johns and Lee leave leadership positions, I don't see DC Comics having a massive improvement all of a sudden.
 
kirk55555 said:
Yeah, same with me. The only DC title I'm currently reading that I'd miss is Starfire. It will be interesting to see what happens, but honestly, unless DiDio, Harras, Johns and Lee leave leadership positions, I don't see DC Comics having a massive improvement all of a sudden.
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agreed. and honestly, most of the stuff i am reading is out of habit. Wonder Woman has not been good since the Finch team took over. and yet, i'm still reading it.
 
kirk55555 said:
Yeah, same with me. The only DC title I'm currently reading that I'd miss is Starfire. It will be interesting to see what happens, but honestly, unless DiDio, Harras, Johns and Lee leave leadership positions, I don't see DC Comics having a massive improvement all of a sudden.
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I agree with this. The New 52 genuinely had a lot of potential when it started to really breathe new life into the characters.

I wonder if this means we have a new event coming up to undo Flashpoint or some such nonsense.
 
I read Justice League of America #7 this morning and the series is really growing on me. The final pages with Superman were extremely cool.
 
That comic, Hitch, ignores the New 52, maybe an editor shoved in some crap, or suggested keeping somewhat modern with the costume designs, but that story/book could be From Hitch's turn of the century heyday before everything got crisised.

Which is why it's a good story.

But it's also a predictable story.

I
 
Was there more than none Justice League Task Force, because the one I remember was nothing like this.
 
theenglish said:
Justice League of America is basically the new version of Justice League Task Force.
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In what way? JLAofA uses the same lineup as Justice League, (the Big 6+1)and handles the big problems just like JL. Justice League Task Force was a mix of the A-list and B-list.
 
Nerys Myk said:
In what way? JLAofA uses the same lineup as Justice League, (the Big 6+1)and handles the big problems just like JL. Justice League Task Force was a mix of the A-list and B-list.
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I was just being sarcastic, just because I like the JLTF stories more than the JL stories of the day.

If I had to stretch, I would say because it is out of continuity.

But ever since the new 52 started I've felt a little cheated with the JL stories because they keep referencing this incredible five year history when they fought Darkseid multiple times, Kanjar Ro in some capacity, and other things I can't remember. In the past few years I've thought it would be a great move for DC to make a JL comic that went back to that five year history and filled in the gaps.

But don't read to much into my original comment.
 
I read Aquaman #48 this morning, the conclusion to the city of Thule(old Atlantis) that was shunted to a parallel time space due to magic, and some things just didn't synch up in the end for me.

Aquaman finds out, with help, that Thule is creeping back into it's proper space/time location due to the ancient magic wearing off. The current citizens of Atlantis, with Mera in charge due to Aquaman's absence(some crossover?), feel that these are invaders and want them eliminated. Arthur tries to reassert control and Mera will not and Arthur is branded a traitor. He then sets about to save Thule w/o allowing any to perish. He tells this to a few people, including WW and JLA around issue #45/46.

So, here in #48, he tells Mera
the real Mera is now free from her shape changing sister who had taken her captive, assumed the throne and it's she who made Arthur a traitor
"I always knew there would be some sacrifice. Maybe if I'd acted sooner, called the League less lives would've been lost when Thule was coming over".
Arthur never expressed that. His actions through the first few issues of this arc were explicitly about saving everyone. I found this to just be bad writing. Perhaps I'm misremembering it and if I am then someone else whose reading Aquaman let me know where I've erred.
 
Captain Craig said:
I read Aquaman #48 this morning, the conclusion to the city of Thule(old Atlantis) that was shunted to a parallel time space due to magic, and some things just didn't synch up in the end for me.

Aquaman finds out, with help, that Thule is creeping back into it's proper space/time location due to the ancient magic wearing off. The current citizens of Atlantis, with Mera in charge due to Aquaman's absence(some crossover?), feel that these are invaders and want them eliminated. Arthur tries to reassert control and Mera will not and Arthur is branded a traitor. He then sets about to save Thule w/o allowing any to perish. He tells this to a few people, including WW and JLA around issue #45/46.

So, here in #48, he tells Mera
the real Mera is now free from her shape changing sister who had taken her captive, assumed the throne and it's she who made Arthur a traitor
"I always knew there would be some sacrifice. Maybe if I'd acted sooner, called the League less lives would've been lost when Thule was coming over".
Arthur never expressed that. His actions through the first few issues of this arc were explicitly about saving everyone. I found this to just be bad writing. Perhaps I'm misremembering it and if I am then someone else whose reading Aquaman let me know where I've erred.
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that whole run was a mess IMO.
 
Cullen Bunn has said in a deleted post that he pretty much hasn't read an issue of the 52 Aquaman before taking the job (presumably for the paycheck).
 
Batman #49 was a really good issue. I was actually close to tears at the end. Wonderful character moment.
 
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