Womack ,'The Message'
Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.
I'm curious about Firestorm (another title I don't read), because his eponymous title is still going even though Shadow Thief killed him
It's not still going. It's a new title, starting over from #1, with a new Firestorm.
I also think that killing a character often can be done well. Gets harder, but if you're killing them for good narrative reasons, there can also be good narrative reasons to kill them a lot.
David is amusingly outing himself as to how far behind the comics times he is...
It's not like I don't have references and little history capsules bookmarked either. But fuckety it's convoluted. I'm just not committed to relearning my post-Crisis continuity, especially when they fuck with it so much.
Probably explains why I enjoy The Outsiders or JLE more than most superhero titles. So many new characters, I don't have to worry about the backstory.
Barry's still dead, although there've been so many time travel and flashback stories about him that he's kept pretty much in the public eye. Still, Wally's the Flash, and everyone's pretty used to him, in ways that Kyle was never accepted as Green Lantern. (Although Hal's rather bad end probably had a lot to do with that.)
Very few characters are "dead forever" in comics. Maybe Barry, and maybe Bucky. That's about it.
Nightwing? They might kill Nightwing? Or maybe he'll kill himself? (He kind of seems headed that way.)
Umm, is there a Green Lantern: Rebirth thingy coming out tomorrow?
Very few characters are "dead forever" in comics
Which is why Jean Grey's (last) tombstone made me smile. They just didn't know when they'd see her next.
It's not still going. It's a new title, starting over from #1, with a new Firestorm.
Hmm. Interesting.
There will be no killing of the Nightwing.
Do we know who's Red Hood yet? I haven't been reading the Batman title.
Nope. We find out this week, I think.
Probably explains why I enjoy The Outsiders or JLE more than most superhero titles. So many new characters, I don't have to worry about the backstory.
I think that's more a function of the odd treatment of continuity in most team books. I don't need much, if any, backstory to get into team books. (The current exception to this rule is JSA, which *is* exceedingly history rich.)
(The current exception to this rule is JSA, which *is* exceedingly history rich.)
Is that a way for them to play with pre-Crisis continuity? Because I *did* know my JSA characters (from all the reprints they used to do in the 70s).
The JSA title is all ABOUT the history, though, so it's cool. In the right hands, comics history is fun. Otherwise, it just makes stories tedious.
I think that the OMAC Project and the Villains United things both look rather interesting.