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Oh yeah, I liked that Hal was made to choose. I guess their relationship's been strung out so long though that if a writer got them together for good then the excitement would probably be lost, and if Morisson's Hal is anything to go by then he would probably stop going on so many adventures if he had a proper full time gf. The rejection worked with Morisson since he was showing how disconnected Hal had become from earth, but sometimes their constant break ups can got boring. You sometimes wonder why he even bothers when he clearly sleeps with other girls/girl-like-things on the side.

Is it just me, or has Kyle sort of vanished? He was in the 80 year anniversary, but I don't remember seeing him around recently. It's a shame, I think he's the most likeable of the original 4. Given the way he's drawn they could probably retcon him as Asian, and I soubt anyone would really notice.
Kyle is half Mexican from his father's side.

I liked him with Jade, but I really wish they'd get back to his relationship with Sinestro's daughter Soranik - especially after she took over the Sinestro Corps, found out that Kyle killed their future son and then tried to hide it from her.
 
I've been on a DC kick lately. Are they putting out anything right now that isn't total shit?

tynion's batman isn't terrible, aside from the fact he opens his run with Joker War, while we also had Death Metal going on and three Jokers...

speaking of Joker there's the Joker stand alone book, which, despite the name, seems to be more of a crime noir comic about Jim Gordon, so that's neat.

Tom Taylor has started his run on Nightwing, so after..what? two and a half years of Nightwing not existing, we at least have a semi-competent writer at worst at the helm now.

that's all off the top of my head.
 
I've been on a DC kick lately. Are they putting out anything right now that isn't total shit?
The major stuff has already been mentioned, but the first issue of the new Suicide Squad book was pretty solid, same with the first issue of Phillip Kennedy Johnson's run on Superman. Honestly I think that Phillip Kennedy Johnson is an underrated writer in general right now. Everything of his I've read has been good, and I'm not really sure why nobody talks about him.
 
The major stuff has already been mentioned, but the first issue of the new Suicide Squad book was pretty solid, same with the first issue of Phillip Kennedy Johnson's run on Superman. Honestly I think that Phillip Kennedy Johnson is an underrated writer in general right now. Everything of his I've read has been good, and I'm not really sure why nobody talks about him.
idk either. i enjoyed that book.

uh, the whole Titans shit may be an interesting mindfuck but I wouldn't outright recommend self-torture.
 
idk either. i enjoyed that book.

uh, the whole Titans shit may be an interesting mindfuck but I wouldn't outright recommend self-torture.
I'm scared to pick up the new Titans stuff after reading the Future State Titans book. The Future State book was written by the same guy who's writing the new one, so if that's any indication of quality I'm expecting it to be really fucking bad.
 
I'm scared to pick up the new Titans stuff after reading the Future State Titans book. The Future State book was written by the same guy who's writing the new one, so if that's any indication of quality I'm expecting it to be really fucking bad.
they're bringing in shit from the teen titans show from the 2000s.

it's going to be a hilarious clusterfuck
 
Oh yeah, I liked that Hal was made to choose. I guess their relationship's been strung out so long though that if a writer got them together for good then the excitement would probably be lost, and if Morisson's Hal is anything to go by then he would probably stop going on so many adventures if he had a proper full time gf. The rejection worked with Morisson since he was showing how disconnected Hal had become from earth, but sometimes their constant break ups can got boring. You sometimes wonder why he even bothers when he clearly sleeps with other girls/girl-like-things on the side.

Is it just me, or has Kyle sort of vanished? He was in the 80 year anniversary, but I don't remember seeing him around recently. It's a shame, I think he's the most likeable of the original 4. Given the way he's drawn they could probably retcon him as Asian, and I soubt anyone would really notice.
Kyles been more or less mia since Hal Jordan & Green Lanterns ended and judging from the Infinite Frontier he won't be showing up in the main Gl book.
they're bringing in shit from the teen titans show from the 2000s.

it's going to be a hilarious clusterfuck
Aren't they also including a shitton of Ocs as well?
 
Kyles been more or less mia since Hal Jordan & Green Lanterns ended and judging from the Infinite Frontier he won't be showing up in the main Gl book.

Aren't they also including a shitton of Ocs as well?
a lot of them have had cameos here and there except for Red X, who made a debut recently.
 
Came across a copy of Detective Comics #634, from 1991 recently. A minor story but somewhat entertaining. Batman investigates the deaths of two men killed with a martial arts technique known only to a low-single digit amount of people, while dealing with the interference of the Biddee Sisters, a couple of out-of-town little old lady amateur detectives who happened to stumble across the body of a victim.

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DC is publishing a new series "Let them Live". It's an interesting idea. The company has hundreds of unpublished comics with writing and artwork. Could they be publishing Rick Veitch's final Swamp Thing? Chuck Dixon's BoP Noir title? Maybe they have some old inventory scripts from cancelled seri....nah.

It's a bait and switch. Five issues in and it's all Nu52 forward era stuff by a bunch of whos except for one Bryan Hitch story featuring Black NuWally. For a company with 70 plus years of material to pull from to recycle trash (and Bryan Hitch) from the last ten years is extremely frustrating.
 
Came across a copy of Detective Comics #634, from 1991 recently. A minor story but somewhat entertaining. Batman investigates the deaths of two men killed with a martial arts technique known only to a low-single digit amount of people, while dealing with the interference of the Biddee Sisters, a couple of out-of-town little old lady amateur detectives who happened to stumble across the body of a victim.

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The post-Crisis/pre-Knightfall window of Batman for those 5 years is one of my favourite Batman era's tonally and has a tonne of great sleeper stories that no one ever talks about, which is sad because both the caliber of artist and writers working on the books at the time. Jim Aparo and Norm Breyfogle were real work horses and defined that the look for that era. Also a lot of the one shots really shine because the British writers that were rotating writing duties would have been used to telling stories in much shorter page lengths so they feel pretty thorough unlike a lot of current one and dones.

Also Alan Grant might be one of my personal favourite writers at the time, he was very much the Stephan King of Batman at the time, just throwing everything at the wall and coming up with some of my newer favourite villains like Scarface but still being self aware enough to "pants" and make jokes out of his lamer creations, and outright kill them in the case of Mortimer Kadaver. He was so prolific they gave him his own ongoing for 72 issues straight while he worked on a myriad of Prestige issues and one shots/mini-series based on ancillary characters/villains.
 
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