Anya ,'Help'
A topic for the discussion of Doctor Who, Arrow, and The Flash. Beware possible invasions of iZombie, Sleepy Hollow, or pretty much any other "genre" (read: sci fi, superhero, or fantasy) show that captures our fancy. Expect adult content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Marvel superheroes are discussed over at the MCU thread.
Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.
Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.
This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.
In the Silver Age, the Elongated Man was a back-up feature in Detective Comics. He and his wife Sue Dibney were a husband and wife team patterned after Nick and Nora Charles. Only with less booze and more stretchy.
The characters did not fare well in the grim ’n gritty Modern Age of comics, hoo boy.
OK, here's the list of names: Jake Davenport, Darya Kim, Ralph Dibny, Al Rothstein, Grant Emerson, Will Everett, Bea da Costa, and Ronnie Raymond.
OK, here's the list of names:
Man, I like the idea that the particle accelerator is the origin of a good chunk of the Justice Society/League. Nice.
The characters did not fare well in the grim ’n gritty Modern Age of comics, hoo boy.
Ugh, Identity Crisis. Not pretty.
Sue Dibney may not have been the first woman to be fridged, but she was quite nearly the epidome of the phenom.
I kind of wonder if Sue was fridged not just because she was a woman, but she was a woman in a happy, healthy marriage.
she was a woman in a happy, healthy marriage.
There certainly seems to be a vendetta against them, and since the guy's the hero, she's the obstacle.
Bea! I always thought she got her powers back home, now that I think about it--that's the only name other than Dibney and Raymond that rang a bell. Maybe Dibny's alive and just spread a molecule thin somewhere. Pull it together, man!
Okay, now to see who the others are.
Gotham--who's watching that? Is it fair to say DC has 3 decent TV properties (live action, anyway--I'm out of touch on the animation front) (I find Constantine horrific enough, but I don't like anyone--I would like Zed to be the chosen one of some sort...who was that Vertigo kid no one thinks about after Harry Potter from Books of Magic--chosen like that) and Marvel has 1.5 (I'm sure Agent Carter's future is rosy after the kick in the pants Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (I got that far, how could I leave out the dots?) of quality that they got.
Ugh, and I totally missed that was Poison Ivy. Only was thinking about each new adult. It's weird thinking about Dent as a generation almost older than Bruce. And Selina needs to lose the goggles. She hasn't grown into them yet. Otherwise she's great casting.
But I don't see how Bruce lives through puberty if he doesn't pre-Batman more. He's so damned NICE (you were right, Kyle) it makes me ache. How can you have a thread of horror like that and still appear unjaded? You are growing neither into a psychotic detective with family issues (lost a parent? want to move in with me and FIGHT CRIME (aka risk bodily harm) --I might even let you go to high school, if you like--nor the millionaire playboy.
Shit, I really want to read Batman comics now: comic spoiler is Damian back?
DC is going through another not-a-reboot right now. He's probably mixed in there somewhere, but who knows for how long.
That left me with 0.5% hope I'll buy DC again.
I just like Batman SO much.
That article made my head hurt. I'll stick with Lumberjanes and Sex Criminals (an admittedly odd combination).
What about Saga, Steph? Are you not reading Saga ? WHY ARE YOU NOT READING SAGA.
Also, WTF Convergence.