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Mongrel · « **Reply #1920 on:** May 30, 2012, 04:01:12 PM »

TA · « **Reply #1921 on:** May 30, 2012, 04:02:58 PM »

Ayup. And they're [spoiler]retconning out his family, so he can be gay. Including his son Obsidian. Who was already openly gay.

The net change in the homosexuality level of the DC universe will be 0.[/spoiler]

TA · « **Reply #1922 on:** May 30, 2012, 05:38:09 PM »

... oh god. [spoiler]He becomes helpless if you come at him sporting wood[/spoiler]. Fuck. Fuck you DC. Fuck.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1923 on:** May 30, 2012, 05:52:19 PM »

Sooo... basically after making a big public announcement full of promise, they've botched it about as badly as they possibly could have.

Sounds about right.

Thad · « **Reply #1924 on:** May 30, 2012, 06:40:59 PM »

Ohhhh, they could have botched it MUCH worse.

There were people who seriously thought it was going to be the Joker.

EDIT: Or ~~Captain Marvel~~ Shazam.

Quote from: Hans in the CA Comments Section

"how did you get your powers Billy?"

"well a crazy old man dragged me into an alley and turned me into a big gay man"

Büge · « **Reply #1925 on:** May 31, 2012, 08:19:23 AM »

Superman never died in the New 52. That means:

no Cyborg Superman, which means
Coast City was never destroyed, which means
Hal never went crazy, which means
Parallax never possessed him, which means
he never killed all the other GLs, which means
Kyle Rayner never got the GL ring.

How is Kyle Rayner still a Green Lantern if Superman never died?

A² · « **Reply #1926 on:** May 31, 2012, 08:44:03 AM »

Quote from: Mongrel on May 30, 2012, 05:52:19 PM

Sooo... basically after making a big public announcement full of promise, they've botched it about as badly as they possibly could have.

Sounds about right.

Just imagine the rest of this post is the rest of these.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #1927 on:** June 01, 2012, 05:30:05 AM »

Quote from: Mongrel on May 30, 2012, 05:52:19 PM

Sooo... basically after making a big public announcement full of promise, they've botched it about as badly as they possibly could have.

Sounds about right.

I don't think that's fair. The curious thing about all these announcements is that Didio was talking in may about a book coming out in June. In order to get a book on the stands in June, DC would have had to have had art and story in the can for awhile, far ahead of Didio's kind of off-handed remark to a fan. Seems DC was planning on just having him be gay and not making some big ol' jubilee out of it. And really, it's a legacy character from the 40s. Making him gay isn't exactly the easy target as it seems. It's a good choice, I find.

Zaratustra · « **Reply #1928 on:** June 01, 2012, 06:35:05 AM »

So the Earth-2 writer stated, essentially, that he couldn't put Obsidian in because Alan Scott is not old anymore, so he decided to make Alan Scott gay and keep everyone happy and pandered to.

Except old people, of course.

But fuck those guys.

Lottel · « **Reply #1929 on:** June 01, 2012, 08:09:25 AM »

If I had to choose a JSA-er, it'd be Wildcat. A rough and tough boxer being gay seems like a better idea to me.
Of course, with all the problems the GLs have with girlfriends dying or turning evil, I think all the Lanterns should be gay.

Büge · « **Reply #1930 on:** June 01, 2012, 08:54:43 AM »

How long does Alan's boyfriend have before they fridge him? Taking all bets!

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1931 on:** June 01, 2012, 11:34:05 AM »

Here's the interview with James Robinson where he talks about making Alan gay.

And in case you felt like getting depressed / angry today, here are some of the worst comments about it. Although they do end with a couple of positive ones, so there's that.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #1932 on:** June 01, 2012, 01:32:45 PM »

I must say I'm quite offended by the recent change to Alan Scott:

Dropping his baller Errol Flynn costume for a GL Corps style one.

TA · « **Reply #1933 on:** June 01, 2012, 03:01:55 PM »

man, what a flamer

Büge · « **Reply #1934 on:** June 01, 2012, 03:05:49 PM »

Thad · « **Reply #1935 on:** June 02, 2012, 09:15:08 PM »

Dear Vertigo,

Nice table of contents.

Traditionally, though, you don't just put page numbers in the table of contents. You put them on the pages, too.

Thad · « **Reply #1936 on:** June 02, 2012, 09:51:37 PM »

Quote from: Constantmean on June 01, 2012, 01:32:45 PM

I must say I'm quite offended by the recent change to Alan Scott:

Dropping his baller Errol Flynn costume for a GL Corps style one.

Mr. Komodo on the CA thread pointed out to me that that looks a lot like his costume from Kingdom Come. An interesting catch; I was thinking it looked like Hal as Parallax, but he's right, that looks like the Ross design.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1937 on:** June 03, 2012, 03:46:22 AM »

Quote from: Thad on June 02, 2012, 09:15:08 PM

Dear Vertigo,

Nice table of contents.

Traditionally, though, you don't just put page numbers in the table of contents. You put them on the pages, too.

That reminds me of how the trade for Ghost in the Shell contains extensive footnotes, each headed by a page number, only there are no page numbers in the book.

And it's over 300 pages long.

And even if you count by hand from reference points you CAN figure out (i.e. the footnote refers to something obvious), the pagecounts don't line up because they don't count the chapter header pages or something.

Thad · « **Reply #1938 on:** June 07, 2012, 07:20:16 AM »

Archie execs settle.

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The yearlong legal feud for control of Archie Comics has ended with a settlement that restores embattled Co-CEO Nancy Silberkleit to her position at the company. However, the confidential agreement was criticized by the granddaughters of Archie co-founder John L. Goldwater, who claim that both executives’ “hands are dirty.”

Ah hell.

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“Nancy Silberkleit and Jon Goldwater are no longer in an adversarial position, and they are beginning their working relationship anew,” Silberkleit’s attorney, Howard Simmons, said in a statement. “She’s thrilled to have settled this extremely upsetting matter.”

Kornreich signed off on the settlement over the objections of Richard Goldwater’s daughters, Lisa, Taylor and Summer Goldwater, who, after initially sitting on the sidelines, now accuse their uncle Jon Goldwater of misusing Archie assets and Silberkleit of drawing a company salary while still working as a teacher. In court papers, one of the daughters’ attorneys said the agreement is little more than a reciprocal exchange between “two directors who have been stealing from the company, or aiding and abetting each other’s theft.”

The judge said that while three didn’t have a legal standing to insert themselves into the settlement, the Richard Goldwater estate is free to pursue its own lawsuit.

...welp, onto the next lawsuit, then.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1939 on:** June 08, 2012, 06:53:08 PM »

The Dresden Codak dude makes a not-so-subtle pitch to take over the lead writer's role on the X-Books

Okay that's a little exaggeration, but still...

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