Great Unified Comics Thread

[Eddie Teach]

What the...is this true Ide?
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3534271&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=31#post413921635

Coincidentally, it's said that when Barry died, he ran so fast that he turned into a bolt of lightning that went back in time and zapped himself to give him superpowers.

No. Flash doesn't exist.

[jimmy olsen]

 

[katmai]

Patton Oswalt's idea for SW EP VII

[katmai]

The blogosphere is going wild as Marvel chief Kevin Feige does interviews for Iron Man 3 and acknowledges that Daredevil has returned to the Marvel fold at Disney. We told you this was going to happen last August, when a last ditch attempt to shape a movie with Joe Carnahan cratered. Ben Affleck starred in the original film, and he's doing way more interesting things now as a writer/director/actor/producer. Without him, it was pretty clear that Fox wasn't confident about bankrolling a superhero-sized movie based on the character and that the brass at the studio wasn't at all upset about coming out on the losing end of the witching hour of when Marvel and Disney got back those rights. The intrigue will be to see if Marvel vamps the blind lawyer character, and whether he begins showing up in other superhero movies and maybe a sequel to The Avengers. They certainly have made The Hulk viable after he was pretty much thought to be dead as disco

[Viking]

The blogosphere is going wild as Marvel chief Kevin Feige does interviews for Iron Man 3 and acknowledges that Daredevil has returned to the Marvel fold at Disney. We told you this was going to happen last August, when a last ditch attempt to shape a movie with Joe Carnahan cratered. Ben Affleck starred in the original film, and he's doing way more interesting things now as a writer/director/actor/producer. Without him, it was pretty clear that Fox wasn't confident about bankrolling a superhero-sized movie based on the character and that the brass at the studio wasn't at all upset about coming out on the losing end of the witching hour of when Marvel and Disney got back those rights. The intrigue will be to see if Marvel vamps the blind lawyer character, and whether he begins showing up in other superhero movies and maybe a sequel to The Avengers. They certainly have made The Hulk viable after he was pretty much thought to be dead as disco

Daredevil is my favorite Marvel character. I like the new Matt Murdock almost as much as the one from the '80s. I like the person, his personality, his values and most importantly I like the power-set. The power set permits exposition, which is probably the most important suspension of disbelief there is and in battle daredevil wins by being more experience at the asymetric nature of his powers rather than the strength of his powers. Another exceptionally good recurring factor with DD is the team-ups with other new-york based heroes against kingpin and his minions, it allowed DD to face more powerful and more dangerous foes with backup so returning to the mundanes ones later wasn't really a let down.

Plus DD gave us Stilt-Man the least evil of all supervillans and the unit definition for "Vader" as the unit of measure for evil. 

I did like the movie, but I liked it in the same way I liked mission impossible. It was a good action flick with a name tagged onto it. The hero/villains/love interest were generic and not consistent with the tropes of the character.

[jimmy olsen]

Man of Steel looks so fucking great, I can't wait. I don't think I've awaited a comic book movie like this since Spiderman 2.

[Ideologue]

Keith Giffen in the 80s: great artist or greatest artist?

And while we're on the subject of the Legion, WTF is the deal with Cosmic King?  Why does he dress like Cosmic Boy?  Saturn Queen: she's a Titanian, the naming similarity with Saturn Girl is either coincidence based on shared ancestry or a deliberate mirror.  Lightning Lord: Lightning Lad and Lightning Lass's brother, and all three have lightning powers granted by the lightning beasts of Korbal.  Cosmic King: a Venusian who got hit with a fucking transmutation ray that essentially gave him Tromian powers, whereas Cosmic Boy is a Braalian with magnetic powers, who as far as I know never even met Cosmic King before they started having superhero/supervillain fights.  Did the other two just make him conform to their zany negative Legion theme?  Does that make him intensely lame, and explain why no one has given a shit about Cosmic King, ever?  Probably.

But here's a more fun Legion question: who's luckier, Colossal Boy, who has a shape-changing wife, or Bouncing Boy, who has two twin wives?  All things being equal, obviously Colossal Boy; but all things are not equal, so I say Bouncing Boy, because he found the only attractive woman in the galaxy with a fetish for mordbidly obese morons that chug down full bottles of experimental serum, and who coincidentally could also split into multiple women to service his bulk.  Gross.

[Neil]

So, the long run of Geoff Johns on Green Lantern has ended.  On the one hand, it had fallen off a little bit, but it was still pretty much all DC had going for it.

And yes, Giffen was really good Ide.

[jimmy olsen]

GOOD GOD I CAN'T REMEMBER BEING SO HYPED FOR A MOIVE!!!!!!!111111111

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlOF03DUoWc

[katmai]

What about a movie?

[Darth Wagtaros]

Meh. Not terribly interested. Last two Superman movies sucked. For that matter the last Batman movie was boring. 

[Neil]

I thought it looked good, but Tim might just have ruined it.

[jimmy olsen]

Saw it.

The dialogue was sparse, the story straightforward and simple and moved at a tremendous speed. Nonetheless this was one of the most ambitious science fiction movies I've ever seen and the action was absolutely jaw dropping.

I definitely recommend it.

There is one moment in particular that will cause purists to froth at the mouth.

[Viking]

The tornado?

I haven't see it yet but was partially spoiled about this, so don't give details.

[jimmy olsen]

I was thinking of something else.