I’ve only seen six or seven episodes, but I love the Japanese guy. He’s great. The rest of the show I couldn’t care less about, but anytime the Japanese guy shows up, something cool is going to happen.
Yeah, that dude is all right. But I just can’t get interested in the story. That show has a bad case of Jeph Loeb syndrome. It is not well-written. Kring said he purposefully didn’t read comics while creating the show, right? So why does it feel like a riff on Rising Stars or Supreme Power? Reading that little article just gave me the impression that he felt like superheroes are a silly genre and he thought he could make them respectable.
Yeah, I definitely get the feeling Kring thinks that telling a gloomy, serious superhero story is a new and revolutionary idea, when in reality, it’s been done to the point where “grim and gritty” is used as a pejorative in comics.
Maybe he’s telling the truth about not personally reading comics, but it’s a cinch his creative team has stacks of them. My first thought upon watching the show was, “I hope Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and Akira Toriyama are getting royalties for this shit.”
But every time I feel like turning the show off and never watching it again, the damn Japanese guy comes in.
Sounds like you got some Asian fetish there, man.
Not really. I don’t like him because he’s Japanese, although the fact that he has a compulsive habit of shouting “YATTA!” into the sky a la George Costanza is somewhat endearing. He’s the only character who’s more than a 2D archetype. He actually captures some of the fun and absurdity of having superpowers that tends to get lost when everybody is concentrating on how shitty everything is. And his scenes tend to be staged with energy and enthusiasm.
Without him, the show would have a stick so far up its ass that King Arthur wouldn’t be able to pull it out.
So I read a little bit of All-Star Batman & Robin. Wow, what happend to Frank Miller? Is this really the guy who wrote The Dark Knight Returns? 
The comic is so bad it’s funny! Jim Lee’s art work is good, though. It could end up being a guilty pleasure if I decided to buy it.
I picked up All-Star Superman #7-8! Haven’t read 'em yet but I’m glad I was able to scope a copy of each. When will issue 9 come out? My money’s on Jan of '08. 
exactly.
I think the reason most people read ASBAR is because it is just so loony.
Funny. My opinion of All Star Batman and Robin is that the art is painfully gaudy, but at least the writing is entertaining, in an over-the-top way. I guarantee you, that book wouldn’t get half the crap it gets if Frank had done the pencils himself, instead of handing them to Jim “I needlessly crosshatch fucking everything” Lee.
Currently, All Star Superman #9 is on deck for November 7th. Of course, before that, it was on deck for October 7th, so really… just plan on it coming out sometime between now and your death.
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Excellent ninja avatar change, Taichi. I approve.
I needed something new.
when I came upon the Shoryuperman, I knew I had found my new avatar.
what in the fuck is up with this week’s countdown? nice spoiler for another book (death of the new gods) i hadn’t read yet - but was going to later. i’m not even going to get into how angry the actual book made me. jla 14 sucked pretty bad, too.
almost as bad as when powergirl gave birth to a son during zero hour.
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they tell you barda died in countdown, which happened in the first issue of death of the new gods. as if that wasn’t bad enough, she gets a goddamn off panel death in her kitchen holding groceries.
That’s terrible planning on DC’s part right there, namey. I feel your rage. It’s hard to believe Paul Dini’s name is attached to that horrid shit. Maybe it’s not actually THE Paul Dini and it’s just Chuck Austen with a new pen name.
i can’t believe the same guy to give us the infinity gauntlet is responsible for that trash (death of the new gods).
i think you’re on to something for real. maybe they killed all their writers and have liefeld in skin suits doing the actual writing for the books.
edit: and in regards to all-star batman & robin: i’m gonna go with a friend of mine who said miller is basically writing that like he would sin city. it’s so bad i have to keep reading it. i loved it when they show you the warehouse w/supes and co. chillin… and supes is just bending some metal randomly. gotta love jim lee.
Jim Starlin is all right, but I think his sensibilities are rooted pretty firmly in the late '70s to mid-'80s. None of his comics feel modern. Even rereading Infinity Gauntlet a couple years ago, it just didn’t feel as cool as when I first read it as a kid. It was still fun, but I knew in my heart that it wasn’t anything special.
And then Infinity War and Infinity Crusade are just plain unreadable now - makes me wonder how foolish I actually was when I was young, and how that managed to captivate me back in the day.
LOL, and Death in the Family - did you see Clinty’s remarks about that in some other recent post he made? Y’know, how Batman, the World’s Greatest Detective, looked at Jason Todd and still couldn’t make an educated guess as to whether his mom was Chinese, white, or Israeli? That’s pretty high tier in terms of unintentional comedy.
I’m sure if I read Death of the New Gods, it’ll just make me lose even more respect for Starlin. I think I will just choose to remember him as the man who wrote The Death of Captain Marvel and the guy who introduced me to Ron Lim’s top flight POWER BLASTS.
yeah, if i could take it back i would; however, since i’m not in that position at least learn from my mistake and keep away from it. i was trying to read the thanos saga for the last 2 days and the best thing about the war/crusade books (besides the blasts lol) would be when hulk falls on sasquatch from orbit.
i didn’t see the comments about death in the family, but if that actually comes up and batman draw’s a blank… that’s just terrible. “hmm, btw jason are you white or asian? i’m the worlds greatest detective!” hopefully that was intended to be a joke because you know he has jason todd’s parents on file.
Trust me, Batman knew Jason’s Parentage.
he just teamed up with the Joker to off the obnoxious little shit, and wanted to cover his tracks.
oh i forgot to mention, i got a chance to read stan lee’s “just imagine” series. where he does each big DC hero, as well as an issue of JLA, as well as “crisis.” i’m not sure what crisis it is, i was having a hell of a time reading the other shit and i was saving what i knew to be “the best” for last.
if anyone doesn’t know what i’m talking about you need to at least look at the covers to each issue, that’s bad enough by itself to make you want to stab someone.
here’s the cover to the JLA issue, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Imagine…
Was Jason Todd really that awful a Robin with the readers? Well they did want him dead, so I guess he was that sucktacular. BTW, is A Death In The Family still worth reading?
To anyone that’s reading them, how are the current regular Superman and Batman books going?
Oh anyone check Superman/Batman #40? Bats has the hots for Orions wife.
Jason Todd wasn’t THAT bad. He was voted to die by a narrow margin.
A Death In The Family is pretty workmanlike. It’s more significant because of its impact on Batman than for the quality of the storytelling.
This current Superman/Batman arc is pretty entertaining. It’s gotta be the best arc of the series so far. I would have the hots for Orion’s wife, too. She’s pretty hot. DC had to censor that cover. The original cover in the old solicitations showed Batman’s hands around her chest, but I guess that was too sexual or something.
A Death in the Family isn’t worth reading. Frankly, you’d find better entertainment by just asking Clinty to give you a summary. And you’d save yourself the trouble of slogging through a terrible plot. You already know what happens - Jason Todd gets beaten to death by the Joker (with a crowbar, predating Half-Life) and then gets locked in a room with a bomb. How it happens isn’t very interesting.
Joker owning Superman in the last issue of JLA was hilarious! Man you can not sleep on the Joker’s crazy ass.
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Joker had some Kryptonite paint splattered on Superman’s face and he was whining like a little bitch! Black Lighning had to take him outside and open a fire hydrant so he could wash his face off. Oh the great Superman washing his face with water coming from a fire hydrant OH THE HUMANITY! Damn Superman YOU GOT PUNKED!