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[Mr. Negative]

I like Bendis run. I liked his street level Spidey/Cap/Wolverine angle....with Echo. I liked the handful of Moench issues I owned, LOVED the Huston/Finch stuff. I was just getting back into comics after a 6-year layoff, and it was one of the best books at the time. I dropped Ellis' run about halfway through. It was taking too long for me to get somewhere for me. I have not picked up the current run, but I probably will

I got Ellis 2nd because

1. It introduces stuff like Mr. Knight and bird head jerk nikka Khonshu as opposed to Khonshu being a statue

2. By that point, Ellis was in full "I'm writing this for TV" mode. Easily digestible episodic almost self contained wide screen action stories. Honestly if you took away the Mr. Knight and Khonshu stuff, it's Ellis writing a PG-13 Midnighter series.


Houston/Finch is... IMO, what people who don't know the character imagine what Moon Knight to be.... but done INCREDIBLY well.

The current run is a mixture of both, but adds more supernatural weirdness (and a supporting cast) that the character had been missing since like the 80s. And story arcs.

 

[MenacingMonk]

That was awesome.

Do you know that kid in the last panel?

 

[Mr. Negative]

Do you know that kid in the last panel?

I didn't.

That was too obscure even for me.

Honestly I didn't like this issue, But I appreciate DC running this thread in the background. It made me go back and finish Justice League Incarnate

And it looks like the biggest level of fukkery in DC since that page in Sinestro Corps War


I will point out that the computer on the first splash page is (most likely) an IBM 5100

It's a key component in the internet/conspiracy "John Titor" time travel mythos. John Titor - Wikipedia

The modem ties it into the anime/manga Steins;Gate.

 

[MenacingMonk]

I didn't.

That was too obscure even for me.

Honestly I didn't like this issue, But I appreciate DC running this thread in the background. It made me go back and finish Justice League Incarnate

And it looks like the biggest level of fukkery in DC since that page in Sinestro Corps War


I will point out that the computer on the first splash page is (most likely) an IBM 5100

It's a key component in the internet/conspiracy "John Titor" time travel mythos. John Titor - Wikipedia

The modem ties it into the anime/manga Steins;Gate.

I heard of the guy, but what’s the connection to the hardware?

 

[Jello Biafra]

Do you know that kid in the last panel?

That is Corky Baxter. He and his sister Bonnie are part of The OG Time Masters with Rip Hunter.
The character got rebooted in the 90s to be more of a little douchebag.

 

[Mr. Negative]

I heard of the guy, but what’s the connection to the hardware?

It has some component that could translate one computer code to another. John Titor supposedly needed one to be able to return to the future, since no other computer could do it.

Steins;Gate had its characters not physically time travel, but transfer their consciousness to a version of themselves in another timeline using said computer, the phone/modem, a microwave and a banana (IIRC).

Not saying it'll weigh in on the story, just may be a cool Easter egg.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

 

[Jmare007]

The “Flashpoint” Universe, and Geoff Johns, Return to DC for “Flashpoint Beyond”

Geoff Johns fukkery will never leave DC for good

 

[Jello Biafra]

That is actually something rooted in his history because Connor was always hitting chicks with the when they would come onto him.

 

[MenacingMonk]

The “Flashpoint” Universe, and Geoff Johns, Return to DC for “Flashpoint Beyond”

Geoff Johns fukkery will never leave DC for good

You’re several weeks late, buddy. First issue dropped last week.

 

[Jmare007]

You’re several weeks late, buddy. First issue dropped last week.

Oh well

 

[Jello Biafra]

Oh well

Flashpoint Beyond #0 was pretty good actually.

 

[Jmare007]

Flashpoint Beyond #0 was pretty good actually.

You like DC fukkery way more than I do breh. After Three Jokers and Doomsday Clock I ain't giving Johns another shot

 

[MenacingMonk]

You like DC fukkery way more than I do breh. After Three Jokers and Doomsday Clock I ain't giving Johns another shot

Both of those were meh. I fukks with Elseworlds shyt and the Batman FP universe was a different, interesting take on the character. That’s why I’m reading this series.

I’m not even a Johns stan, but I’ve enjoyed most of his work that I read.

 

[R=G]

Reading Onslaught real quick on the Kindle app..that Xavier revelation on wanting to fukk Jean Grey at 16 is utter comedy