Het Centrale DC Comics-topic! Part 1

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Op vrijdag 24 december 2010 16:50 schreef Young_David het volgende:
Batman: Year One en The Killing Joke zijn opnieuw ingekleurd, en zien er al een stuk beter doen. Mogen ze met meer strips doen. Opnieuw inkleuren doet al heel veel

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Op vrijdag 24 december 2010 16:50 schreef Young_David het volgende:
Batman: Year One en The Killing Joke zijn opnieuw ingekleurd, en zien er al een stuk beter doen. Mogen ze met meer strips doen. Opnieuw inkleuren doet al heel veel

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Op donderdag 30 december 2010 22:11 schreef Breuls het volgende:
Er is een algemeen comic-topic, waar het Marvel gehalte wat hoger is. Maar voel je vrij een apart Marvel-topic te maken.

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Op woensdag 26 januari 2011 11:38 schreef Komakie het volgende:
Niemand verder nog een idee

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Op dinsdag 12 april 2011 11:14 schreef Chevalric het volgende:

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Het heeft even geduurd, maar ik heb het bovenstaande lijstje nu volledig in m'n bezit. De GL/GLC boeken als TPBs en de BN boeken als HCs. Nu alles nog een keer doorlezen voor het volledige verhaal.

Wat ik trouwens wel minder vind bij met name de GL comics, is dat het verhaal zeker in het begin wel 4-5 keer opnieuw lijkt te beginnen. Iedere keer weer dat Hal Jordan de power ring krijgt van Abin Sur, etc. Maar iedere keer zijn er weer minimale verschillen. Gelukkig loopt het verhaal later wel beter door.

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Op dinsdag 12 april 2011 15:17 schreef Komakie het volgende:
Laatst nog een keer The Long Halloween gelezen.
Ik vind altijd dat als je die boeken een 2de keer leest ze nog beter zijn

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Op woensdag 13 april 2011 19:18 schreef Breuls het volgende:
Ik volg Superman wel, maar die naam ken ik niet als artist. De tekening die je post is toch ook de cover van Action Comics 901?

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Op woensdag 13 april 2011 19:32 schreef Tokus het volgende:
sorry maar zo verschrikkelijk goed vind ik die tekening nou ook weer niet. Ja, best ok, maar niet meer dan dat.

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Op donderdag 14 april 2011 10:24 schreef Komakie het volgende:

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Batman hou ik nu helemaal bij
Waar ik wel een beetje van baal is dat ze nu weer een verhaal zijn begonnen (volgens mij 708) wat verder gaat in Red Robin en je dus niets aan de aflevering hebt, tenzij je Red Robin ook leest (of bij deze gaat lezen).
Ik snap wel dat gedaan wordt om zoveel mogelijk verschillende comics te verkopen, maar het is toch jammer dat je op deze manier gedwongen wordt om meerdere comics te volgen. Dat is dan weer het voordeel van TPB...

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This month's 3-part crossover with RED ROBIN and GOTHAM SIRENTS reaches its conclusion as Batman becomes Gotham City's last hope!

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Osama bin Laden Dead: Was ACTION #900 a Case of Bad Timing?
By Vaneta Rogers

In the media, timing is everything.

And with Americans cheering the triumph of good over evil with Osama Bin Laden's death, Superman's move to distance himself from the "American way" comes at a really bad time.

"Great timing, Superman," wrote one Hollywood blogger this morning, commenting on Bin Laden's death. "Don't let the door hit you on the way out."

"I guess Superman won't be celebrating with the American people and military today," said another.

This isn't the first evidence of ill timing for Superman. Last week, just after President Barack Obama produced his birth certificate to counter questions about whether he's an American citizen, Superman announced that he would renounce his U.S. citizenship. The juxtaposition of the two events created the type of contrast the media loves, and several national news organizations picked up the story.

The declaration may have been made in a relatively small, nine-page story that was tucked into an Action Comics issue nearly 100 pages long. But Superman's rejection of his former loyal patriotism aroused a debate about whether the American way represents good against evil anymore. At the height of the controversy, even Mike Huckabee weighed in, questioning Superman's new change of heart.

The timing of last week's comic was one thing, but today, with the announcement last night that Osama Bin Laden has been killed, the thought of an iconic superhero like Superman distancing himself from America smacks of another odd contrast.

Americans are celebrating Bin Laden's death, both on the streets and across social media, complete with waving U.S. flags and patriotic slogans. The nation today has a clear idea of "evil." And the American way appears to have prevailed on the side of good.

But instead of echoing the nation's current feeling of moral clarity, Superman is flying in the opposite direction.

That doesn't sit so well with many political watchers.

"When did our flag- waving, crime-fighting superheroes become a bunch of Muslim-friendly, politically correct, US-bashing weasels?" columnist Andrea Peyser wrote today in the New York Post.

In response to all the attention, DC released a statement on Thursday from co-publishers Jim Lee and Dan DiDio, saying Superman "embodies the best of the American way."

"Superman is a visitor from a distant planet who has long embraced American values," they said. "As a character and an icon, he embodies the best of the American way. And though Superman will 'put a global focus on his never ending battle,' he remains, as always, committed to his adopted home and his roots as a Kansas farm boy from Smallville."

Yet the fact remains that, in last week's Action Comics #900, Superman said the American way isn't "enough anymore," stating that he planned to appear before the United Nations and inform the world that he's renouncing his U.S. citizenship.

This isn't the first time the political stance of superheroes has been questioned in the media. Last year, Captain America #602 caused a bit of an uproar when an association was implied between an evil fictional group and the Tea Party political movement.

And last year, the Los Angeles Times questioned a statement from Joe Johnston, the director of this summer's Captain America: The First Avenger. "We're sort of putting a slightly different spin on Steve Rogers," Johnston said during Comic-Con International in San Diego. "He's a guy that wants to serve his country, but he's not a flag waver.

“And it’s also the idea that this is not about America so much as it is about the spirit of doing the right thing,” the director said. “It’s an international cast and an international story. It’s about what makes America great and what make the rest of the world great too.”

This global friendly move by superhero movies and comics might sell well oversees, but will it resonate with readers in America? Now that the U.S. is celebrating the death of Osama Bin Laden, which message reflects the culture? Does the American public want Captain America and Superman to be "flag wavers?" Or globally concerned superheroes that distance themselves from the U.S.?

That remains to be seen. But the response on most blogs and columns over the last week make it clear that the political world is not happy to hear that Superman will renounce his U.S. citizenship.

"I thought it was a well-intentioned but, through no one's fault, badly timed message," former Superman writer Mark Waid told the comicbookmovie fansite.

Bad timing indeed. But then again, some retailers are reporting "brisk" sales for Action Comics #900. So maybe bad timing isn't so bad after all.

DC Comics also may have the opportunity to reverse or erase Superman's new stance on his citizenship in the coming months. A DC Comics line-wide event "Flashpoint" kicks off in just 9 days. That series, which introduces an alternate version of the DC Comics world when a supervillain goes back in time and alters the past, may leave DC’s fictional universe dramatically changed at the conclusion of the storyline. DC could in theory restore Superman’s status as a U.S. citizen and his views as to his place in world affairs in the now post-Bid Laden world.

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Supe gets his tights in a twist


Holy America-haters, Bat man!

When did our flag- waving, crime-fighting superheroes become a bunch of Muslim-friendly, politically correct, US-bashing weasels?

The big news to steamroll like a locomotive through the comic-book world last week was that Superman, the iconic purveyor of "truth, justice and the American way," was pointing his Krypton-powered middle finger directly at the United States.

Superman is renouncing his American citizenship.

It happened after Supe flew to Tehran to support Islamic resisters, thus meddling in Iranian affairs like a buff Jimmy Carter. He managed to piss off both our government and that of Iran, which believed he was an American spy.

The Man of Steel responded in a fashion unbecoming a superhero. He threw a massive, intergalactic hissy fit.

Superman declared that he would stand before no less an America-despising body as the United Nations (that hurts!) and throw away his American citizenship like a used Kleenex.

"I'm tired of having my actions construed as instruments of US policy," he said in the latest issue of DC's "Action Comics." "Truth, justice and the American way -- it's not enough anymore."

Reaction came faster than a speeding bullet.

"Sounds as if it was written by an acolyte of the Obama administration," wrote columnist Cal Thomas.

The character, though born on another planet, has come to represent American ideals of strength, honesty and good character. But it comes as little surprise that he's morphed into the very definition of moral and political relativism. In the world of cartoon crime fighters, Superman, I'm afraid, is far from alone.

Captain America, for one, is sucking the America out of the Captain.

This summer's blockbuster movie "Captain America: The First Avenger" is lopping its title to "The First Avenger" in South Korea, Russia and Ukraine. So as not to offend anti-American sensibilities.

As if to put to rest any possible claim that the loss of "America" is an innocent move, "Avenger" director Joe Johnston told The Los Angeles Times that the comic-book star would not be "this sort of jingoistic American flag waver."

Ouch! Remember, this was a star-spangled superhero who came to life in 1941 with a Marvel comic-book cover that showed Captain America punching Adolf Hitler in the face.

Today, moral clarity has fallen out of fashion in the popular culture. Liberal values and fear of offense have trumped old-fashioned notions of good and evil. And these lessons in global wimpiness are aimed directly at your kids.

"Here you have the two biggest comic-book companies in the world -- DC and Marvel -- downplaying the characters' American-ness for the rest of the world," said one disgusted political observer.

DC also teamed up the Justice League -- that's Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and so on -- with The 99, a group of Muslim superheroes deemed sharia-compliant by an Islamic bank.

One gal, Batina, kicks butt covered head to toe in a burqa. But Wonder Woman-style cleavage is banned from the bodies of these Islamic comic-book stars. And male and female characters can't be pictured alone together. Ever. Talk about truth, justice and indoctrination.

However, a TV cartoon of "The 99" -- whose mission was "to instill old-fashioned Islamic values in Christian, Jewish and atheist children," wrote a Times of London columnist -- was scheduled to appear on The Hub (formerly Discovery Kids) last October. After I wrote about it, the show was pushed back to January.

Now "no decision's been made about airing the show," a Hub spokesman told me. "It won't be this year."

Score one for justice. The American way is hurting.

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Op dinsdag 3 mei 2011 10:29 schreef Komakie het volgende:

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Dat iemand in de NY Post zich daar ook druk om maakt

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If I recall correctly, Superman (or Superbaby, as he was then) entered the US via rocket pod without a green card or other authorized visa. Fox and the rest of the right wing therefore should be ecstatic that we now have one less illegal immigrant.

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Op donderdag 12 mei 2011 10:16 schreef Tokus het volgende:
waarschijnlijk de prequel voor Flashpoint Crisis, Crisis On Flashpoint, of Infinite Countdown To Flashpoint.

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Op donderdag 12 mei 2011 10:19 schreef Breuls het volgende:
Flashpoint: http://dccomics.com/dcu/comics/?cm=17823

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Marvel-DC flamebait.

Je hebt al een keer geroepen dat alle DC events "crisis" heten, maar dat is inmiddels allang ontkracht (Brightest Day, Blackest Night, Reign of Doomsday en nu Flashpoint).