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Other Media 2: It's Astounishing!

Discussion of comics, graphic novels, and more. Except for capes. No capes!

Please use spoiler font for new releases until after the weekend following release.


Polter-Cow - Feb 10, 2011 9:09:58 pm PST #3307 of 5059
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

WTF, Marvel? WTF? [link] (Link is spoilery for Fantastic Four. No, not *last* week's spoiler; a new one.)

What? Is Spider-Man the new Wolverine? Wasn't he on the Avengers? And the X-Men, randomly, for some reason? Oh, Marvel. I am still miffed at you for giving Black Panther the Daredevil title. AND THE NUMBERING.


Volans - Feb 11, 2011 1:33:31 pm PST #3308 of 5059
move out and draw fire

WTF, Marvel? WTF?

The big cover is...well, it looks like Thing is tossing a frisbee. But there are hexagons! So it's clearly the future.


Steph L. - Feb 11, 2011 1:47:16 pm PST #3309 of 5059
I look more rad than Lutheranism

The big cover is...well, it looks like Thing is tossing a frisbee.

You mean the cover where it looks like Thing is wearing ONLY boxer briefs? (Oddly, the boxer-brief cover is NOT the cover that I found disturbing, with the FLOATING ALIEN HEAD IN A JAR.*)

*(WTF, Marvel? WTF?)


Kalshane - Feb 13, 2011 4:45:16 pm PST #3310 of 5059
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

Re: Young Justice

It's looking like you might be right, Scola. Though I hope the writers are trying to misdirect us and wouldn't be so obvious as to say "There's a spy on the team" right after said spy joins the team. So I'm hoping it's actually a different character.


Tom Scola - Feb 14, 2011 3:16:37 pm PST #3311 of 5059
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Jack Kirby's granddaughter on Antiques Roadshow: [link]


Tom Scola - Feb 15, 2011 3:26:38 am PST #3312 of 5059
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I hope the writers are trying to misdirect us and wouldn't be so obvious.

I'm pretty sure that this is the case. Too obvious. My current line of thinking is that Artemis is some run-of-the-mill villain who was sent to Justice Mountain by Bruce and Ollie as a superhero version of juvie detention .

My second theory, which is more wishing than speculation, is that Artemis is actually Wonder Girl, Cassie Sandsmark.


Kalshane - Feb 15, 2011 5:41:24 pm PST #3313 of 5059
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

Scola, yeah, I'm not thinking the second theory is likely, though it would be fun. Your first theory makes a lot of sense.

I do think, though, that she and Green Ninja Chick are sisters or otherwise related. It might just be the art style but they both have the same eyes and mouth.

Of course, if Artemis isn't the spy, I've got to guess either Superboy or Aqualad though the latter is only because I was accidently spoiled for his heritage.


Kalshane - Feb 19, 2011 7:26:55 am PST #3314 of 5059
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

Young Justice:

You know, I have to scratch my head at how often the team ends up scrapping with bad guys in their civilian clothes. (Twice so far.) I mean, granted, Miss Martian kind of gives them away, regardless, and Superboy and Aqualad don't bother to wear masks anyway, but I've got to imagine it's going to come back to haunt them at some point.

Speaking of which, I'm surprised Miss Martian doesn't adopt a non-green guise when they're out in public socially.


Kalshane - Feb 19, 2011 8:55:11 am PST #3315 of 5059
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

In addition, I'm kind of disappointed not a single person said "Klarion... Bum... Bum... Bum... The Witch Boy"

I could have totally seen Wally saying it sarcastically and it would have been a nice little shout-out to the comics.


Tom Scola - Feb 19, 2011 11:26:59 am PST #3316 of 5059
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Kalshane, I went back and rewatched, and at one point they explicitly say that Robin hasn’t told the rest of the team he’s Dick Grayson—on Batman’s orders—and he wears dark glasses when he’s in civvies.

So Robin and Artemis are hiding their identities from the rest of the team. It looks like this Aqualad doesn’t have a secret identity, what with the gills and all, and neither does Megan, and Conner doesn’t call himself Conner yet. The only one who’s really at risk of compromising his identity is Wally, who I kind of doubt has thought this thing through.