Scans: Trinity 18
*cracks knuckles* All right. Here's where things get awesome.
I'm a sucker for dystopian alternate realities, so this was so much fun. Sadly, "A world with no Superman or Batman" is...not going to get a lot of fic from me. And yet, I crave fic set in this world.
Specifically, Dick/Roy shippers should be all over this AU.
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I'm a sucker for dystopian alternate realities, so this was so much fun. Sadly, "A world with no Superman or Batman" is...not going to get a lot of fic from me. And yet, I crave fic set in this world.
Specifically, Dick/Roy shippers should be all over this AU.
To sum up a few of the ( Read more... )
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"One made bad people scared. The other made good people hope."
And all the rest of Charlie's speech? All summing up Batman & Robin in a nutshell.
Hmm, Zucco must have fooled Dick into believing someone else was his parents' murderer. I can't see Dick signing on with his parents' killers!
I wrote a long set of observations on this issue here if anyone's interested. :)
I'm eager to see how they show Superman and Wonder Woman's effect on the world next. :)
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I assume so, yeah. Or maybe there's a chance he's been working with him in the long-term hope of killing him and taking his place? Dick as a mob boss would be pretty awesome, lol.
Yeah, I'll be curious to see what's up in Metropolis. It's probably bad for Jimmy--his life is never improved by being Supermanless, that's for sure.
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I assume so, yeah. Or maybe there's a chance he's been working with him in the long-term hope of killing him and taking his place? Dick as a mob boss would be pretty awesome, lol.
Dick could charm everyone as a mob boss! ;)
But I can buy him joining up in order to kill Zucco. Biding his time, waiting years, etc. His rage was never given a proper focus as it would have with Bruce.
Yeah, I'll be curious to see what's up in Metropolis. It's probably bad for Jimmy--his life is never improved by being Supermanless, that's for sure.
LOL! Poor Jimmy! :)
OTOH, he may be some highly successful type. Fashion photographer? ;)
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It's mentioned on my comic blog.
Back on topic; a brightly lit Gotham where it's the main streets that get patrolled and not the side alleys is seriously creeping me out. That's not 'my' City - as in my fictional home :)
And it says something disturbing that Speedy obviously got over his heroine addiction but it's a world where there can be 'uptown yuppie cokeheads'. That says something to me more than anything else. It's as if Ollie gives a damn about the people he knows and likes, but everything else? Not so much. Whereas with the Bat, if something got close enough to trouble those near to him it meant things were seriously effed up and Gotham dealt with a Bat-crackdown.
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That says something to me more than anything else. It's as if Ollie gives a damn about the people he knows and likes, but everything else? Not so much. Whereas with the Bat, if something got close enough to trouble those near to him it meant things were seriously effed up and Gotham dealt with a Bat-crackdown.Yeah, I agree. I don't think that's something essential to Ollie here--I mean, I hope not. I'm kind of wrestling with Ollie the most--I can buy Dick being villainous without Bruce in his life, and Lois being hard and cynical without Superman, but Ollie has never seemed really...inspired by the Trinity, particularly ( ... )
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Now this is a style that is dynamic and exciting and larger than life, in short: how comic art should be. This photorealistic stuff à la Alex Ross that everybody seems to love so much is just an eyesore in comparison.
Btw, did you see the latest RIP cover by Ross? What is that supposed to be showing? The neighbors dressed up and doing the Batusi? Embarassing.
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Yeah, that cover was rather...yeah. Kind of matched the tone inside to me. Silver Age insanity mixed with bleak realism = really, really strange.
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*pants*
Aside from that ... Ragman and Tatters are actually really cool. It ... I don't know, it appeals to the part of me that always loved and suspected the jesters of fantasy fiction. The honourable jester was a name of mine, before icarus. These two just ... remind me of that.
And poor guy. Rock and a hard place. If the world was the other way, it'd be better, but on the other hand ... you'd be dead.
My friend, that's called getting seriously screwed by Fate. Bastard that he is.
Oh. And Arthur seriously rocks!
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I knoooow! The horror! The horror!
Aside from that ... Ragman and Tatters are actually really cool. It ... I don't know, it appeals to the part of me that always loved and suspected the jesters of fantasy fiction. The honourable jester was a name of mine, before icarus. These two just ... remind me of that.
I know, I find them very intriguing here. Just the whole image of being...cast-offs in a shining world, the bits and ends that don't fit, you know? The jesters that mock the king to his face. I'll be curious to see how they interact with Ollie in this Gotham.
Arthur rocks very hard here! One review I read of it notes that Arthur and J'onn are both technically dead at the moment in Earth-1, and that it might be important at some point...if this is a way to get them back, I'm all for it.
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Exactly! It's a role that always fascinated me, and I do hope these two are given a little room to play!
Arthur rocks very hard here! One review I read of it notes that Arthur and J'onn are both technically dead at the moment in Earth-1, and that it might be important at some point...if this is a way to get them back, I'm all for it.
*pounces* Aiya! If this is true, I'll be dancing with gllleeee! Hee! *crosses fingers of everyone in sight*
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