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Villains United made me go "Whuzza?" And also made me go
Parademon -n- Ragdoll 4EVAH!!!
And then
"Parademon
OH NOES!!!!"
Infinite Crisis #1 was....well, I'm intrigued. I'll say that much. And -- are we meant to think that
J'onn is dead?
Because it seemed deliberately vague to me. Also, all the people in the Uncle Sam brigade
getting killed
would mean a lot more to me if I had a single clue who they were.
And the final page of IC = Teh KEWL. But I am a cheeseball. I dig that shit.
I only hope that those characters are treated VERY reverently by DC editorial, Steph.
The oldest two were given essentially a perfect happy ending, and if they are being pulled out of permanent retirement off in Misy Magic Land only to have some snot-nosed writer degrade them a couple years down the line to prove how edgy and cool he is (or, God forbid, have Golden Age Lois turn up stuffed into a refigerator at some point), I will go on the warpath
.
I read IC #1 and have absolutely no clue what's going on or who the majority of these people are, particularly
the old and young reversed Superman people at the end.
Guess that's what I get for most of my DC knowledge coming from the animated universe.
Hm, read Villains United...
Gail didn't do her homework. She has Luthor torturing and apparently fatally shooting Pariah. Who happens to be invulnerable on a level eclipsing the Pre-Crisis Superman—even those big anti-matter clouds that were destroying whole universes in Crisis weren't able to cause him injury. Admittedly he has no offensive powers, but defensively I don't think anyone short of the Spectre could harm him.
She should have had Psycho Pirate or Dr. Psycho manipulating his mind, a method that has been effective against him in the past
.
Doctor Doom's Top 10 Euphemisms for Sex: [link]
Matt, do we know that he
was
harmed? The failure may not be on the writer's part,
but on Lex's.
Which doesn't help that much, now that I think about it...
Talked to a friend about IC #1, now thinking that I may need to read "Day of Vengeance".
They had him
scream in pain and then collapse while showing what looked like blood (the black ink Comics Code Authority-approved variety) dripping down. Also, those stint/probe thingies on his face looked to be penetrating his skin
.
FTR,
In Crisis #12 he was being batted around by defensive countermeasures that drew blood from the Earth-2 Superman and just waved the heroes onward while saying not to worry, he was invulnerable
.
Fair enough. I never thought
he was dead, though.
But I forgot how invulnerable.
Quesada talks about the upshot of House of M.
Hrrm. I just can't shake my skepticism. The idea of
the "deep dark secret" that Professor X has been hiding for years
makes me get a bit @@. Also -- there will be retconning of
something:
in preparing for he story, he went back and found several moments that were never really explained when they occurred, and as a result, a "whole second story" can be laid alongside what was known to have happened.
Also:
there is now a mandate that no new mutants can be created wholesale - only five or six new mutant-based characters that were already in the pipeline will be seen. And that the ones going away won’t be coming back...
I wonder if that will affect anyone I actually
like...