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JD's Comic Book Thread

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If somebody from DC Comics came to you and asked you to create metahuman power sets for the following characters - Tim Drake, Cassandra Cain, Mia Dearden, Connor Hawke, and Bette Kane - what powers/abilities would you give them?
 
Damn, I really need to get back to Y: The Last Man sometime. I read the first couple trades ages ago, and loved it, but just got sidetracked and never continued on from there. I can't remember, do we know yet where this will be airing?
 
i was wondering what people think of the concept of Batman Incorporated.

Personally, I think the idea is interesting, but would only truly work if there were more gender inclusivity and more of a true international bent to the group and its goals.
 
I think it was a good idea, but it needed a writer whose work is more stable and is less inclined to write in a weird stream of consciousness that just doesn't work for a mainstream book. Basically, Grant Morrison at the time he wrote it shouldn't have been writing it (although JLA era Morrison probably could have done a decent job). So, its a good idea that needed a writer that works better with the standard superhero genre and who isn't basically "too big" for editors, not a guy like Morrison whose work by that point was barely coherent 90% of the time but DC considers him too big a name to reign in anymore. Morrison worked well when he was a small enough name that DC editor's could curb his excess incoherence, but Batman Inc needed a writer who was better at telling an actual coherent story.
 
Anybody want to "pitch" specific ideas for how to make the group/concept work better and be more gender-inclusive and more international?
 
Sorry for the double-post, but if nobody else wants to "pitch" a way to make the Batman Incorporated concept work better, I will.

The first thing to do, IMO, is to make Batman Incorporated an initiative that Bruce Wayne started in secret and was secretly funding, with the intention being to at some point gather its members together to fight crime on a global scale.

Second, it should be something that ultimately exists without Bruce himself and that only comes to fruition after his death, serving as a sort of legacy for him, with his successor as Batman being tasked with gathering its members and leading them.

Third, it needs to be more gender-inclusive (with at least 3 female members), more international, and more methodologically diverse, with each member having his or her own individual methodology while still adhering, for the most part, to ideals and moral codes that generally line up with Bruce's.

In terms of individual members, here's what I was thinking:
Batman (somebody other than Bruce)
Knight (a genderbent Cyril Sheldrake)
Squire (Beryl Hutchinson)
El Gaucho
Cassandra Cain (Orphan)
An older Damien Wayne using a moniker other than Robin
Nightrunner
David Zavimbe using a moniker other than Batwing
The Native American heroine Owl-Woman, albeit with more Court of Owls and Batman-esque trappings
 
Anybody want to "pitch" specific ideas for how to make the group/concept work better and be more gender-inclusive and more international?

Well, there was Justice League International. I think that gave a pretty-good rationale for having an international team, and as I recall they have a fairly diverse line-up both in terms of gender nd ethnically.
 
i was wondering what people think of the concept of Batman Incorporated.

Personally, I think the idea is interesting, but would only truly work if there were more gender inclusivity and more of a true international bent to the group and its goals.
It was alright but I feel they should have had someone else write it. Morrison wasn't the best for that concept.
Plus it was one of the series that was messed up because of the dreaded New 52 so the final part of it didn't mesh well. Particularly with the character of Damian.
 
Well, there was Justice League International. I think that gave a pretty-good rationale for having an international team, and as I recall they have a fairly diverse line-up both in terms of gender nd ethnically.

JLI really isn't the same concept as Batman Inc.

Anybody got any thoughts on my ideas for making the Batman Inc. concept work?
 
I just found out about a rather interesting sounding new Image series from the team behind the Mockingbird solo series, Man-Eaters. It takes in a world in which an infection causes teenage girls to turn into big cats when they get their periods, and the government freaks out and stars locking them all up.
Entertainment Weekly interviewed the writer, Chelsea Cain, about it back in July.
As you can probably guess from the title and writer, this is going to be a very feminist comic, so anybody who has a problem with that kind of thing is probably going to want to avoid it.
In the article Cain also reveals that she's working with Bitch Planet and Captain Marvel writer Kelly Sue Deconick on developing it for TV.
EDIT: I think the cover of #2 gives a pretty good idea what the tone of the series is going to be.
 
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Cross-posted from another board:
Any fans of the post-Zero-Hour Legion of Superheroes comics out there? The series is what really introduced me to the Legion , which I knew about in the abstract, and, IMO, would make for a really good live-action adaptation.
 
I think there still are a handful of other fans of James Cameron's "Avatar" around who might also get a kick out of this:

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Dark Horse will publish a six-issue miniseries, "Tsu'tey's Path". As the title suggests it will tell the story of Tsu'tey, who starts the movie as Jake Sully's rival and ends as his friend and ally. As such, the comic will be set before and during the events of the movie. It will be written by Sherri L. Smith and pencilled by Jan Duursema (who fans of Dark Horse's Star Wars comics should be familiar with). The first issue will hit in January 2019.
 
I think there still are a handful of other fans of James Cameron's "Avatar" around who might also get a kick out of this:

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Dark Horse will publish a six-issue miniseries, "Tsu'tey's Path". As the title suggests it will tell the story of Tsu'tey, who starts the movie as Jake Sully's rival and ends as his friend and ally. As such, the comic will be set before and during the events of the movie. It will be written by Sherri L. Smith and pencilled by Jan Duursema (who fans of Dark Horse's Star Wars comics should be familiar with). The first issue will hit in January 2019.
I'm interested. The story of the movie might not have been the most original, but I liked the characters and world and have wanted to see more of them.
Will this be the first Avatar comic? I remember them announcing we'd be getting some, but I don't remember actually seeing any yet.
 
I finished up Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang's run on Wonder Woman the other day, and I was really happy with how it all played out. The big attack on Themyscira was pretty cool, and the final defeat of the First Born didn't quite play out how I expected, but I liked. The final twist with Zola and Zeke was a bit surprise, I honestly hadn't even realized until Wonder Woman figured out
that Zola was a host for Athena, that we hadn't seen her at all
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I did enjoy the whole run overall, but I'm not quite sure how the judge it as a Wonder Woman run, there were a lot of traditional elements of her stories missing, and a lot of massive changes to the stuff that was there.
I started Vol. 2 of the first New Avengers series after I finished the last WW issue.
 
I finished up New Avengers Vol. 2: The Sentry last night, and I enjoyed it. The fight with The Wrecker was pretty good, and the mysteries surrounding The Sentry was interesting. I got a big kick out of the old comics about the Sentry.
Is it just me do Brian Micheal Bendis's characters seriously ramble? I don't think I have ever seen so many huge speech bubbles.
I'd give it a 4/5.
 
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