...the big story is that (co-publisher) Dan Didio has announced that in the new continuity, the "Crises" never happened. There's some confusion about what exact events he's referring to when he's also said that Identity Crisis did happen. Rather than "Any Storyline Which Involves The Word 'Crisis'", I assume he means Crisis on Infinite Earths, Zero ( Read more... )

...that Scott Lobdell, the writer credited on Red Hood & The Outlaws, also wrote Teen Titans, which I liked just fine. The writing was decent and I thought it was pretty well put-together.

I suggested in both my reviews of RH&TO and Voodoo that bad writing flows directly from the decision to pornify these comics, and here's some evidence of that ( Read more... )

I don't really know if any of these are up to the nerdiness standards of my previous reviews, but it works as a tagline.

Teen TitansI started reading DC Comics when Tim Drake was already Robin, so for me the moment when he first crystallized as a *particular* Robin and not just Robin was during the Zero Hour event when he met a time-displaced Dick ( Read more... )

Justice League Dark

I'll say one thing for the reboot: it really makes me appreciate en media res openings. This "gathering of heroes" thing is a lot to sit through again and again. One doesn't notice it so much when reading a collected edition, but it makes the month-by-month method seem a little slow. At least none of the books other than the ( Read more... )

...during my lunch today, after having re-watched both Thor (on DVD) and Captain America (which is still hanging on at one of the local cineplexes) last night. The show wouldn't even be on my radar if I hadn't seen it being discussed by professed Steve/Tony shipper, the mighty ktempestIt's interesting. The first several episodes apparently aired as ( Read more... )

...but after viewing the first episode, I'm struck by a fierce desire to call Summer Glau's character "Orwecle" how much the part of the title character's gimmick that isn't tied up in the cape matches the original concept behind my character of Ray Vallenzio/The Fire-Eater. I didn't play it up so much in any version of the Star Harbor stories that ( Read more... )

I used to play one of those clicky "games" on Facebook, one that revolved around superheroes. Not Superhero City, but another one ( Read more... )

So, I kind of expected to spend most of the day today (Tuesday, that is.. or was) playing DC Universe Online or watching it be played, since it launched in the morning. Owing to the circumstances alluded to in my preceding post, I'm just barely getting my toes wet. I'll be making a post about what I think about it in more detail, but I wanted to ( Read more... )

Via WebsnarkApparently, in a fairly bizarre move, developer Cryptic Studios has outright sold the flagship (only) superhero MMORPH City of Heroes to publisher NCSoft and bought (not licensed but BOUGHT) the Champions RPG to adapt into their next MMO project. This is after their attempt to bring a Marvel-licensed game to the market apparently fell ( Read more... )