It's funny how Sandman is so isolated from the rest of the DC Universe; stuff you read in Sandman is permanent; everything else is temporary. So when someone resurrects a character that is established as very, very dead in Sandman, it rankles.
Hmm. Do you read JSA? Because bringing Hector back was really well done, and I've been re-reading Sandman at least once a year for years now. (I agree, Victor, that he and Lyta haven't been exactly exciting since her return, but hey, it's early days yet.)
It's only *kind of* isolated. I mean, Dream's shown up to give Kyle a pep talk about his path as Green Lantern. Which was just weird.
Eh. If you say so. I was OK with Hector until they brought Lyta back, undoing anything interesting that had been done with her in the Vertigo stories.
Yes. Another problem is that, YET AGAIN, they decided to make Nabu the Wise into a semi-villainous figure that had to be overcome by whoever is currently Dr. Fate.
I think the character is much more interesting when the wearer is being unduly influenced, if not outright possessed, by the spirit of Nabu in the helm. For however many years, Fate was portrayed as spooky, cold, and logical with no sentiment. I'm very disappointed that Johns had him go on another power trip after so nicely disregarding the last one from the DeMatteis run.
It's only *kind of* isolated. I mean, Dream's shown up to give Kyle a pep talk about his path as Green Lantern. Which was just weird.
Yeah, he's also been tangentially around JSA, which is kind of OK, considering his many connections there, both through Daniel's parents (the current Dr. Fate and Fury) and his connection to Wesley Dodds, the Golden Age Sandman.
I think the character is much more interesting when the wearer is being unduly influenced, if not outright possessed, by the spirit of Nabu in the helm. For however many years, Fate was portrayed as spooky, cold, and logical with no sentiment.
Yeah, that's kind of how I like Fate, too. I'd like to see some sort of accord there.
So, tomorrow? Lots of stuff coming out:
War Games:
Batgirl #56
Catwoman #35
Robin #130
Non War Games: Manhunter #2
Teen Titans #16
Flash #214 - -which has an IC tie-in and
Astounishing #5
sumi, your list is my list, except I'm not reading Manhunter or Flash. Though I might flip through Flash while I'm in the store, just to see what the IC tie-in is.
ita's pull list:
Batgirl #56
Catwoman #35
Robin #130
Teen Titans #16
Astonishing X-Men #5
Ultimate Elektra #2
Ultimate Fantastic Four #11
Uncanny X-Men #449
Ooh, and looks at this:
As previously reported, Nathan Fillion is voicing Vigilante and Gina Torres is voicing Vixen. Adam Baldwin is voicing a villain in the season finale.
I only knew about Gina Torres.
There are going to be villains in the season finale??!?! I'm SPOILED.
That having been overreacted, where's the Tudyk love?
Ha ha! Changed to make ita look insane.
I don't know why they don't love Alan Tudyk. Perhaps he's been too busy playing robots to do cartoon voices.
