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Preview: Judge Dent and his wife in "Flashpoint: Batman - Knight of Vengeance"

May 27, 2011 13:58

DC's Source Blog--your regular output for official DC PR, previews, propaganda, what have you--has released a four-page preview of Flashpoint: Batman - Knight of Vengeance which directly focuses on Judge Harvey Dent, his wife, and their twins kidnapped by the Joker. Major spoilers for the end of Flashpoint #1, and although that particular spoiler ( Read more... )

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surrealname May 27 2011, 20:59:29 UTC

I stand by my opinion that this sounds and looks stupid.

also, what do people see in azerello? other than that joker and lex strip he did, and his run on hellblazer, everything the man does seems like the same kind of one note boring crime comic that frank miller writes, only when miller writes it it's entertaining because miller used to be talented and is now a glorious train wreck.

i may have to officially declare brian azerello to be fucking clown shoes.

ext_262094 May 27 2011, 21:25:58 UTC

For once i agree with you.

yaseen101 May 27 2011, 21:49:20 UTC

This.

I liked his work on Batman/Deathblow: After the Fire and Broken City but lately what I keep getting from his work, including this one is a 'haven't I read this story before?' vibe.

Also yeah, I agree this whole thing, including Flashpoint just sounds so stupid.

surrealname May 27 2011, 23:02:17 UTC

this?

what did you mean by "this"

i'm not trying to be a dick, i just honestly never know anymore if something is some kind of internet lingo or short hand. ever since teenagers (i always assume it's teenagers, cause i hate them. even when i was one, i hated them) decided that FTW meant for the win instead of FUCK THE WORLD (which it had for god damn decades) i've stopped assuming i can know what is or isn't typed on purpose on the internet.

yaseen101 May 28 2011, 00:09:19 UTC

Sorry, Sorry.

I meant, I agree with your whole comment. Typing comments at night while half asleep and english being my second language, I'm prone to make mistakes like that. :)

surrealname May 28 2011, 00:10:39 UTC

it's cool, i was not trying to call you out on anything or sound like i am coming down on you.

yaseen101 May 28 2011, 00:13:31 UTC

Yeah, I know. Just trying to be polite.

surrealname May 28 2011, 00:19:18 UTC

oh, thank you. I appreciate your politeness. It is a rare and precious trait in these strange internets.

says the man who has turned coming across as aggressively and caustically as is humanly possible.

back to this flash point thing, though, am I the only one who feels like we're getting zero downtime between events these days? Like, I dunno, comic book time and real world time are 2 different things, but, i mean, has it even been a full year since blackest night ended? can't we have like, a year with out the big crossover event? a year where we get a bunch of fun stories that aren't all tied around one big, boring event that it's really hard to care about?

yaseen101 May 28 2011, 00:42:55 UTC

Thank you.

You are not the only one who feels that way. I admit I haven't kept up with comics ever since the end of Blackest Night and since start of the Batman Inc. fiasco so I have only kept up with Flashpoint through wiki but I still agree with you on this. There should have been some sort of 'down-time' post-Blackest Night even Marvel did one post Secret Invasion and for some reason I thought DC was going to do the same.

The thing about Flashpoint that bugs me the most is that it is an interesting that gets needlessly stretched out, hyped and for some reason has to spill out on the rest of the DCU. I mean, do we really need so many tie-ins, mini's and one shots for an event and time line that's only temporary and won't last long after the event is over?

surrealname May 28 2011, 05:34:18 UTC

very good point about the temporary time line thing. though it does remind me of the whole amalgam thing that happened after the Marvel VS. DC mini-series back in the 90s, which i look back on fondly, mostly because it happened when i was ten and sort of dug what i would later come to know as the "meta-ness" of the whole thing. Plus they combined batman and wolverine and the joker and sabretooth, and at the time those 4 were my favorite comic book characters.

about_faces May 28 2011, 03:57:44 UTC

Azzarello is... well, unlike Miller's grim 'n gritty style, Azzarello is a lot more about style, wordplay, and general noir coolness. Of course, it's a bullshit coolness. But it's often a cool bullshit coolness. Also, his Lex Luthor: Man of Steel mini was quite great. And I think pretty much everyone likes 100 Bullets, although I stopped reading it when I realized that it'd hold up a lot better in trades. Never did finish it. I should.

surrealname May 28 2011, 05:29:04 UTC

i cannot get into 100 bullets, I dunno. Honestly, i think whatever good will Azzarello could have possibly had with me was completely lost as a result of the money i wasted on his boring, bland and pointless Joker story which said nothing that had not been said a thousand times before, but said it in a very boring and very "serious" way, and said it from the point of view of a character so 1 dimensional and stupid that he makes the leads of a grand theft auto videogame seem nuanced by comparison. I feel like he tries to write comics that are HBO miniseries or something, and it just doesn't work for me most of the time. this may just be one of those things that me and comicbook fandom will just never agree on. If i can learn to live with being the only person who thinks that he punisher sucks and is stupid no matter who is writing him (for those who don't know, Garth Ennis may be my favorite mainstream comicbook writer) then i can learn to live with being the guy who is unimpressed by Brian Azzarello. though i will never not be jealous ( ... )

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