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Has anyone been reading Bendis' run on the Superman titles so far? I've been listening to Professor Geek's thoughts on it so far and I've been looking at it in a whole new light. One of the things that irks me is that Bendis is just.... lazy. Most of the underlying ideas are solid, but Bendis fails to follow through and fall back on his usual decompressed, quippy, and dialogue-heavy style. One would think he would try to challenge himself and tweak his style to match DC's, but nope. His characterization is also rather haphazard. He can do a serviceable jobs with characters like Perry White, but his Flash is painful to read as Bendis writes him horribly out of character.

What really sticks in my craw is how Bendis put Jon on a bus. Jon Kent AKA Superboy to me was the breakout character coming out of Rebirth with Tomasi/Gleason's Superman and Tomasi's Super-Sons as two of my favourite titles. It really feels like a slap in the face and having Superman mope around over "losing" his family is just more salt in the wound. Yet I get the distinct impression that Dan DiDio is also to blame.

I was an idiot for defending DiDio in the past. I don't think he is a bad guy. His vision for the DC universe is just shitty and it's quite clear that Rebirth was Geoff Johns brainchild. With Geoff Johns gone as Chief Creative Officer, I fear that we're going to see DC slide back into an "edgy" phase. Turds like Countdown and The New 52 were Dan's ideas and he famously hated 2006's 52 despite its good sales and critical praise. Heroes in Crisis looks like it will set up another cycle of "OMG! Another hero dies!" and put the rest of the DCU through hell. Fuck it. I'm sick of character deaths being used as a marketing gimmick. I'm fucking sick of DC characters having constant existential crisises and being miserable.

The DC Universe is supposed to be an optimistic place. We don't need Damian Wayne being an insufferable edgelord who savagely maims super-villains and turning the Teen Titans into a band of delinquents. We don't need a Superman that mopes around pining for his family. We need our heroes to be the light that brightens an otherwise dismal world. Granted, it is not all lost. Scott Snyder's doing good stuff with Justice League, Josh Williamson's still killing it on Flash, Robert Vendetti is likewise making Hawkman a blast to read, there's also The Terrifics, Geoff Johns' upcoming Shazam!, and Grant Morrison on The Green Lantern. There's still good stuff.

It's just that with Marvel more interested in pontificating to a non-existent audience with shoddy allegories, Bendis' Superman run leaves me with the feeling that DC is on a razor's edge.
 
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And stars Terry McGinnis... and features his rogue's gallery... and keeps referencing stuff from the earlier DCAU show and comics. It shares a lot more than the name, is my point.
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It doesn't, at least it didn't at first. It was about Tim Drake filling in the void in a Terminator-esque future that happened to have a Terry McGinnis. They only brought Terry back and added some more DCAU elements AFTER people kept bitching that Batman Beyond wasn't what they expected. They rarely featured any of the Batman Beyond Rogues.

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It doesn't, at least it didn't at first. It was about Tim Drake filling in the void in a Terminator-esque future that happened to have a Terry McGinnis. They only brought Terry back and added some more DCAU elements AFTER people kept bitching that Batman Beyond wasn't what they expected. They rarely featured any of the Batman Beyond Rogues.

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I read that stuff... but only for continuity reasons. Most of the post-Tim shite is a high-speed reset to DCAU, followed by Rebirth and some decent plots.
 
Senior Lexmechanic said:
I read that stuff... but only for continuity reasons. Most of the post-Tim shite is a high-speed reset to DCAU, followed by Rebirth and some decent plots.
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Fair enough, wasn't trying to sound condescending if I came off like that. You're talking about how tried salvaging it to resemble the future from the show which isn't same as being that continuity. They have conflicting histories if you look at anything beyond "Neo-Gotham" which is just "Gotham" in Batman Beyond, namely the fact everything is a wasteland.
 
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Jetpack Himmler said:
Granted, it is not all lost. Scott Snyder's doing good stuff with Justice League, Josh Williamson's still killing it on Flash, Robert Vendetti is likewise making Hawkman a blast to read, there's also The Terrifics, Geoff Johns' upcoming Shazam!, and Grant Morrison on The Green Lantern. There's still good stuff.
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I also recommend Green Lanterns and Christopher Priest's run on Deathstroke. I am LOVING Doomsday Clock so much as well.
 
I am a fan of the Disney Duck universe, especially the works by Carl Barks and Don Rosa. Also I like European "bandes dessinées", the last series I have purchased were "Le Chateau des l'Etoiles" and "Le Voyage Extraordinaire". Currently I try to get all Star Wars comicbooks from the old Expanded Universe that I still don't have.
 
Is Monstress any good? Someone described it to me as Berserk with a female protagonist and that sounds dope as fuck.
 
Sara Alfageeh, from Boston, USA, has always loved comics. As a child, she used to "run home from the library with stacks of them".

But the recent depiction of one character annoyed her so much she chose to take matters into her own hands.

In a tweet, Ms Alfageeh vented her frustration with the way the X-Men character Dust was drawn.
Dust, a mutant from Afghanistan, is described by Marvel as having a strong "respect for tradition".

Ms Alfageeh shared an image of Dust and asked: "Who looked at a niqabi character and still gave her the latex costume treatment?"
The question clearly hit a nerve with many other comic book fans.

A number agreed that the design of Dust's outfit was not reflective of a realistic niqab and took issue with the form-fitting outfit

Ms Alfageeh told the BBC she was annoyed the artist had "felt the need to sexualise Dust" and make her "clothes cling to her body".

One Twitter user said: "No female artist would ever pretend that's how boobs work."
While another pointed out having tight material on one's chest would be "so uncomfortable in the desert".
Twitter user Anile expressed concern that the tightness of Dust's abaya (long robe) would restrict the superhero's ability to breathe.

Ms Alfageeh, "fuelled by bitterness and a deep love of street fashion", decided to take matters into her own hands and redesign the hero's attire - echoing a recent trend on social media to redraw comic book characters seen as sexist.

Her images of Dust have been liked nearly 20,000 times on Twitter. And hundreds of people have replied to praise the "amazing" images.
Many young Muslim women commented to applaud the fashionable designs.

While most responses to Ms Alfageeh's tweet were to congratulate her, others pointed out the superhero remained "problematic".

Despite being a popular character in the X-Men universe, Dust has previously drawn criticism for being poorly researched.

For example, Marvel lists her place of origin as an "unrevealed location in western Afghanistan".

However, Dust speaks in Arabic, rather than Pashto or Dari, which are much more commonly spoken in Afghanistan.

Ms Alfageeh's images have caught the attention of a number of high-profile comic book authors.

Zac Thompson, who has written a number of Marvel comics including editions of the X-Men series, replied to the tweeted designs to say they were "dope".

Ms Alfageeh, who is an artist, said the positive reaction had been "really exciting".

She said she had known she had "nailed it" when young Muslim women told her they identified with the outfits.

"I wanted to give Dust lots of attitude in my drawings." she said.
"A woman who wears the niqab needs that attitude and thick skin just to walk down the street."

The images also started a conversation about the importance of "diverse creators" who were able to properly reflect the cultural backgrounds of characters.

Ms Alfageeh, agrees it's hard to represent different cultures authentically when those people aren't "involved in the creative process".

Marvel has introduced more LGBT and ethnic minority characters in recent years, including Ms Marvel - a young Muslim woman.

Ms Marvel has been well received by fans. And Ms Alfageeh agrees that the hero is an example of Marvel succeeding in representing minority groups with "well written three-dimensional characters".
She jokingly said she was "doing it for the kids" but very seriously believes that the young people "carrying stacks of comics" like she did have "every right" to feel represented.
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Writer Brian Michael Bendis has apologized and promised to remove the word "autistic" from future reprints of Action Comics #1002 after fans and journalists called him out for using the term in a derogatory manner in his script for the issue.

In the latest issue of Action Comics, which was released Wednesday, Boss Moxie Mannheim grows frustrated with a henchman while trying to determine where Superman is. When the henchman admits he's lost track of the Man of Steel, Mannheim tears him a new one in a chewing out that includes the word "autistic." Here's the panel in question, as posted by Comic Book Resources writer and comics podcaster Kieran Shiach.

In this case, as Shiach points out, the word is used only as a pejorative, without any context beyond simply being a means to call another character stupid. Readers of the issue, including ComicBook.com writer Russ Burlingame, were disappointed.

Word of this ultimately got back to Bendis himself, who both attempted to explain his reasoning for the use of the term and understood why readers found its use offensive. As a result, he also took the issue directly to DC Comics editorial, and promised that the term will be replaced by something else in reprints, including the upcoming Action Comics trade paperback.

The discussion that arose from the issue is an interesting example of the fine line creators sometimes have to walk when it comes to the use of language, particularly language that comes out of the mouth of a character who's understood to be bad. Yes, a villain is an insensitive and even heartless person, so of course they don't care if they offend or hurt someone's feelings, but there's a writer behind that character who has a choice to make, and sometimes in the quest for the most biting insult that choice can be wrong.

In this particular case, Bendis seems to agree with fans who found his choice of words could have been better, even if they came out of the mouth of a bad guy.
 
I'M falling asleep but has anyone compared Marvel Comics Captain Marvel and Marvel Studios Captain Marvel? I'm wondering how similar they look
 
Zaryiu said:
I'M falling asleep but has anyone compared Marvel Comics Captain Marvel and Marvel Studios Captain Marvel? I'm wondering how similar they look
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They're doing Carol Danvers in the movie, with Mar-Vell presumably playing a mentor role. The film will be set in the 90s, making her possibly a time-displaced hero like Captain America. As far as appearance, the only costume we've seen so far seems to be a based on Mar-Vell's costume rather than her current one (meaning its dark green rather than red and blue).
 
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They're doing Carol Danvers in the movie, with Mar-Vell presumably playing a mentor role. The film will be set in the 90s, making her possibly a time-displaced hero like Captain America. As far as appearance, the only costume we've seen so far seems to be a based on Mar-Vell's costume rather than her current one (meaning its dark green rather than red and blue).
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Oh okay then only problem left is finding out if they copied parts of the last few years of her comics cringe, made new cringe or they somehow avoid cringe and based the actress has said among other sources i'm not hopeful they picked option three
 
I'm not certain how much of her past few years they can actually use in the movie. They can't really keep her relationship with War Machine, considering the difference in age between the characters and actors. Her supporting cast post Secret Wars are probably off the table as well, since Alpha Flight and Brand are technically X-Men characters and their film rights are probably owned by Fox.

My guess for what they're doing for the film is they're taking ideas from Secret Invasion and having SHIELD deal with Earth getting caught in a war between the Skrulls and Kree.
 
GabeRegan said:
I'm not certain how much of her past few years they can actually use in the movie. They can't really keep her relationship with War Machine, considering the difference in age between the characters and actors. Her supporting cast post Secret Wars are probably off the table as well, since Alpha Flight and Brand are technically X-Men characters and their film rights are probably owned by Fox.

My guess for what they're doing for the film is they're taking ideas from Secret Invasion and having SHIELD deal with Earth getting caught in a war between the Skrulls and Kree.
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I mean how much sjw she might be, the over the top !Yas Queen Slay! kind or more generic kind
 
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