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Busiek just gets Clark the way so few writers do. Like I don't think any writer within the last 20 years just short of Morrison and Yang have truly made Clark click to me like he did.
November 17, 2024 at 11:54 AM
Busiek just gets Clark the way so few writers do. Like I don't think any writer within the last 20 years just short of Morrison and Yang have truly made Clark click to me like he did.
But that man's face? Something so eerily familiar. That nose, that chin, that hair. He recognises that man. That man who activated the machine. His executioner. Something beckons him to show him the horrors he unleashed. Unknowingly punished Kal-El to the sins of his father.
November 16, 2024 at 10:45 PM
But that man's face? Something so eerily familiar. That nose, that chin, that hair. He recognises that man. That man who activated the machine. His executioner. Something beckons him to show him the horrors he unleashed. Unknowingly punished Kal-El to the sins of his father.
It doesn't matter when you entered. Decades, centuries after his imprisonment. The Phantom Zone doesn't understand time. All it knows is that this man has been subject to ever mutation and twisted his every cell. Punished for his twisted crimes, after a millennia, he's forgotten everything.
November 16, 2024 at 10:45 PM
It doesn't matter when you entered. Decades, centuries after his imprisonment. The Phantom Zone doesn't understand time. All it knows is that this man has been subject to ever mutation and twisted his every cell. Punished for his twisted crimes, after a millennia, he's forgotten everything.
But if you're truly unlucky, you'll see a figure over the hill. One that's very real, and approaching. It looks humanoid, but it's limbs are too long. It's knees bend at the wrong angle. It's features, don't make sense. Adorned in bandages and a tattered red cloack: The Phantom King.
November 16, 2024 at 10:45 PM
But if you're truly unlucky, you'll see a figure over the hill. One that's very real, and approaching. It looks humanoid, but it's limbs are too long. It's knees bend at the wrong angle. It's features, don't make sense. Adorned in bandages and a tattered red cloack: The Phantom King.
The dimension is cast with a looming sense of paranoia. The winds sound like screams, in every fog and reflective lake you'd swear you'd have seen eyes. Silhouettes fading in and out of view. It's like a terrible nightmare, except its not your dream.
November 16, 2024 at 10:45 PM
The dimension is cast with a looming sense of paranoia. The winds sound like screams, in every fog and reflective lake you'd swear you'd have seen eyes. Silhouettes fading in and out of view. It's like a terrible nightmare, except its not your dream.
The Zone itself is a place that could drive even the strongest of wills mad. It's a realm cast in monochrome, caught in an eternal storm. Its physics incomprehensible as landmasses drift apart and through each other, mass has no concept. Motion has no rules.
November 16, 2024 at 10:45 PM
The Zone itself is a place that could drive even the strongest of wills mad. It's a realm cast in monochrome, caught in an eternal storm. Its physics incomprehensible as landmasses drift apart and through each other, mass has no concept. Motion has no rules.
The Phantom Zone Projector is the Kryptonian Atom Bomb. A device that taps into a power man should never have had access to. Harnessing an eldritch power for utilitarian purposes, its what happens when you undermine an authority. They'll do anything to show who's in charge.
November 16, 2024 at 10:45 PM
The Phantom Zone Projector is the Kryptonian Atom Bomb. A device that taps into a power man should never have had access to. Harnessing an eldritch power for utilitarian purposes, its what happens when you undermine an authority. They'll do anything to show who's in charge.
Think it'd be cool to read through his entire history chronologically because he's the only one of the main 6 I've basically read zero comics for
November 16, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Think it'd be cool to read through his entire history chronologically because he's the only one of the main 6 I've basically read zero comics for
Wes Craig, Dike Ruan, DWJ and Marco Checchetto
November 16, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Wes Craig, Dike Ruan, DWJ and Marco Checchetto
Swan Songs is one of my favourite comics of all time, Arcade Kings is a really simple but fun story and Deadly Class is just a phenomenal book.
November 16, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Swan Songs is one of my favourite comics of all time, Arcade Kings is a really simple but fun story and Deadly Class is just a phenomenal book.
I was considering starting Uncanny X-Men, but I never got around to it. X-Men still feels impenetrable to me no matter how many times I try to get into it
November 16, 2024 at 2:35 PM
I was considering starting Uncanny X-Men, but I never got around to it. X-Men still feels impenetrable to me no matter how many times I try to get into it
This story's got a cool classic myth structure where Diana has to fetch an ancient item in order to save Themyscira (from aliens but that's aside the point) and faces the typical trials and tribulations. It's fun.
November 16, 2024 at 2:04 PM
This story's got a cool classic myth structure where Diana has to fetch an ancient item in order to save Themyscira (from aliens but that's aside the point) and faces the typical trials and tribulations. It's fun.
I'm not a fan of Silver Age Wonder Woman because the front half of it is just Wonder Tot, Wonder Girl stuff which I'm not a fan of, and then the latter half is the super-spy stuff which I'm REALLY not a fan of but there is a handful of gems in there
November 16, 2024 at 1:57 PM
I'm not a fan of Silver Age Wonder Woman because the front half of it is just Wonder Tot, Wonder Girl stuff which I'm not a fan of, and then the latter half is the super-spy stuff which I'm REALLY not a fan of but there is a handful of gems in there
Show your comic taste with 4 different comics
November 15, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Show your comic taste with 4 different comics
Was not at all expecting this but got one of those JL cards in my package today
November 14, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Was not at all expecting this but got one of those JL cards in my package today
Just gonna leave this here
November 13, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Just gonna leave this here
Now I hesitate to deem this a full analysis of the story. I barely discussed Immortal Man and The Blackhawks, nor the other villains of the story. I wanted this to serve as a thematical analysis and as a way to highlight why this reinvention works so well.
November 13, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Now I hesitate to deem this a full analysis of the story. I barely discussed Immortal Man and The Blackhawks, nor the other villains of the story. I wanted this to serve as a thematical analysis and as a way to highlight why this reinvention works so well.
But as the prophecy would foretell, the blood spilt of an immortal would awaken the ancient deity. Just as one war would come to a close, another would begin. The conflict never stops, the "never ending-battle." For mankind, the rage of war will never truly die.
November 13, 2024 at 11:29 PM
But as the prophecy would foretell, the blood spilt of an immortal would awaken the ancient deity. Just as one war would come to a close, another would begin. The conflict never stops, the "never ending-battle." For mankind, the rage of war will never truly die.
You'd think this would be the celebration no? The big bad has been defeated, his armies to be left in dissary with no leader? But on one front, each member of the team has betrayed themselves. Forgot what made them, them. The heroes are left just as lost.
November 13, 2024 at 11:29 PM
You'd think this would be the celebration no? The big bad has been defeated, his armies to be left in dissary with no leader? But on one front, each member of the team has betrayed themselves. Forgot what made them, them. The heroes are left just as lost.
However not everything can be conquered by determination alone, as when we catch up to Immortal Man, he's facing down Vandal Savage. Two similar beings, embodiments of developing worlds, one motivated by destruction, the other protection. Eventually 'Morty strikes down Savage.
November 13, 2024 at 11:29 PM
However not everything can be conquered by determination alone, as when we catch up to Immortal Man, he's facing down Vandal Savage. Two similar beings, embodiments of developing worlds, one motivated by destruction, the other protection. Eventually 'Morty strikes down Savage.
That creeping fear of destruction, that worry that five years of conflict was worth nothing. But then, at the darkest hour, Abin re-emerges and strikes down the creature. Its that undying human spirit to keep fighting, personified ironically by the alien of the group. He is will.
November 13, 2024 at 11:29 PM
That creeping fear of destruction, that worry that five years of conflict was worth nothing. But then, at the darkest hour, Abin re-emerges and strikes down the creature. Its that undying human spirit to keep fighting, personified ironically by the alien of the group. He is will.
It sets the tone for the story as being one of desperation, after everything else has seemingly failed, they're on their last legs, and their motivation is running out. Complimented by the literal fear bug chasing them, it creates this oncoming sense of tension.
November 13, 2024 at 11:29 PM
It sets the tone for the story as being one of desperation, after everything else has seemingly failed, they're on their last legs, and their motivation is running out. Complimented by the literal fear bug chasing them, it creates this oncoming sense of tension.
Abin is in a slightly different camp to Al and Fate, as we don't spend much time with him in the story so his presence is more of one felt rather than told. We open the time skip with the warning of Surr's death. The greatest hope they had, has been snuffed out.
November 13, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Abin is in a slightly different camp to Al and Fate, as we don't spend much time with him in the story so his presence is more of one felt rather than told. We open the time skip with the warning of Surr's death. The greatest hope they had, has been snuffed out.
Lost relevance personified as lost identity. But nothing seems to work, their plan goes awry and they're in the jaws of the beast. But that's when a familiar chant reenters the picture, and Abin Surr rises to the challenge.
November 13, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Lost relevance personified as lost identity. But nothing seems to work, their plan goes awry and they're in the jaws of the beast. But that's when a familiar chant reenters the picture, and Abin Surr rises to the challenge.
His biggest fear is that, Kent Nelson may not even exist. That the classic adventurer that flourished nothing short of five years ago is now nothing but a metaphorical husk for the helmet to possess. That idea of the pulp hero has faded out.
November 13, 2024 at 11:29 PM
His biggest fear is that, Kent Nelson may not even exist. That the classic adventurer that flourished nothing short of five years ago is now nothing but a metaphorical husk for the helmet to possess. That idea of the pulp hero has faded out.