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i have the first trade of paper girls. need to read that shit!!

 

god country looks really cool, any idea when the first trade will be out?

 

Threads movin. Damn

 

it's cuz i'm here, yo

 

probably not for another 3 or 4 months if i was guessing

 

PS God Country is really cool

 

Reading!

The second half of "Superman Reborn" was fun. The Superman issue had way cooler art than the Action Comics issue, but I was happy with how things ended. Essentially explaining the whole New 52 era of Supes away with essentially an homage to Superman Blue & Superman Red was fun, lol. Thank goodness all this didn't totally derail the wonderful Superman status quo.

Jem: The Misfits #3 was another enjoyable issue. Not much else to say about it, besides to remind everyone that Kelly Thompson writes super likable characters.

Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows continues to be an eternal delight. Between this and Superman, it's nice to have so much superheroic family fun every month.

The last two chapters of the Spider-Man/Spider-Gwen "Sitting in a Tree" crossover... sure didn't leave a mark. lol. Six issues of Miles and Gwen illustrated by Pichelli and Rodriguez should've been more fun than this was. Not sure why it didn't land. Hopefully the next Spider-Man arc steps things up a bit.

 

Does a Superman story get any better than Red Sun though?

 

nope

 

Injustice has some pretty brutal death sequences. Jesus.

 

I only have the first two years. I need to catch up. Don't the books end right where the first game picks up?

 

Not only is that ouch, but in space that's instant death right?

 

Yeah. They end with Year Five. Right now, the collections are only up to Year Two. Not sure if I just go with the trades or wait for the compendiums going forward.

 

I'll just say that isn't the end of the sequence.

 

Yes. Basically any great Superman story that actually writes Superman as Superman.

I read recently that Red Son was one of the comics Cavill used to form his version of Superman. All-Star Superman was not. I think that really explains a lot of why Snyder's Superman is such trash.

 

Whoa. Man of Steel is amazing. I loved his version. Say what you will about BvS, no defense.

 

A character that has been around for 75 years and been through a ton of changes? Why can't it be a different version, one that works with the story they want to tell. It's that mind set I don't get and why I laugh at the MOS criticism. Best Superman movie and best Superman actor we've gotten.

 

Man of Steel is enjoyable if you're not a Superman fan. Literally. Amongst people I know, there's a definite correlation between appreciating the character and criticizing the movie. I myself first saw it when I didn't actively care about Superman, and then came to hate it more and more as I came to love Superman more and more. That's a sign of a bad freakin' Superman movie.

 

Yeah, Superman Red Son is not a book I hold in particularly high esteem. It isn't horrible for a Millar book, but as a Superman book, I will pass.

 

So you just don't like it because it's not what you wanted it to be? I still don't understand hate on anything other than the death of Jonathan scene lol. As a movie everything works. The story flow, the fights, the emotional beats, the characters were all good. It's just a different take, nothing wrong with that :-D

 

Sounds to me like you are giving Snyder a pass for something that is 100% his own fault.

 

It's a fundamentally different take, one that misses the fundamental aspects of the character that have been present throughout most of his history.

Superman is somewhat malleable. He's been a Leftist activist/hero, a prototypical Fantastic 4 sci-fi explorer, a relatively straightforward superhero, an aging hero returning from retirement in dark times, a young man, a father... There's so many angles you can take. But, the dark, gritty, hopeless mess Snyder crafted wasn't a good one for the character.

Oh, not giving him a pass at all, lol. Honestly, I bet he's the one who told Cavill what comics to read in preparation.

 

I dunno about all that. All in all it was a great movie about an Alien who is trying to live up to two fathers with his own morals and I think they knocked it out of the park.

 

Time for a new direction with Batgirl. This issue was the dullest so far in a pretty boring run. At least Babs is kicking ass over in BOP.