Rolling Sadface 2007

give it back!

So, Outsiders: Five of a Kind. Yeesh.

Wait, so who tapdanced on his wife's brain again?

jean loring used the atoms power to go inside her brain. also she was raped by dr light. talk about mind fuck!

I'm trying to wrap my brain around the idea that G. Willow Wilson's first published comic is going to be, not the Vertigo graphic novel she's been working on for ages, but METAMORPHO/AQUAMAN.

No laughing matter

:(

Am I alone in not wanting to look at any pictures to preserve the sure-to-be-awesome effect of seeing everything for Joker for the first time in the film itself?

Yes.

Mark Waid (low sadface quotient) on Flash!!!

yay

and they're calling it "All-Flash"

which indicates oldface quotient

yay of lesser intensity

and it's resuming the numbering of the Wally West Flash series???
WTF DC, though it's kinda nice to see them come this close to admitting they FUCKED UP BIGTIME ON FLASH.

okay, wait. "All-Flash" will just be a special to launch the new/old "Flash" series.

Damn Newsarama and their inability to write clear and concise news items.

and damn me for repeating their incoherent mess before I had processed it! I feel like Nancy Grac3 up in here.

WTF DC, though it's kinda nice to see them come this close to admitting they FUCKED UP BIGTIME ON FLASH.

They had their reasons - I imagine someone high up thought the TV guys could hook him up with Amanda Pays.

Yeah, cuz the TV Flash was such a ratings blockbuster??? (I don't know who Amanda Pays is, so I'm attacking selective parts of statement---NOW I'm GLEN BEK!)

I'm actually pretty impressed by the way DC teased the Flash thing--"This is the story that will change EVERYTHING! IT BEGINS HERE!!--oh yeah: next week's issue is the final one, and those solicitations for the next few months? Red herrings."

Black Canary (hearts) Green Arrow???

That image is really really good. It has no place in a sadface thread!.

Yay to Waid on Flash!

I'm kinda Boo! on the likely return of Barry Allen, but if someone is going to make it good, it's Waid.

Most of the con news from this weekend seemed to be of the :( persuasion.

Cliff Chiang on Black Canary Loves Green Arrow = :)
JW on BCLGA = :(

September Spawned a Monster

Why is Superman at Black Canary's shower?

omg the DCU version of Hot Cops???

The Batman I know and love would never EVER do this.

Didn't these used to be well done?
First he rips on the Bottled City cover for being "computerized" when it's obviously a photo of TOYS (which makes it GOOD), then he digs on the Green Lantern "homage" and claims that the hand on the Atom cover is "well drawn" (it ain't--that is, it isn't, y'know, accurate, which is, I think, what "well drawn" is supposed to fill in for).

return of VagDent in Flash!

wokka wokka

Didn't these used to be well done?

You want the BLOGOSPHERE SHUT UP thread!

Ant-Man CANCELLED!

(sadface mine)

I gotta say: Peter David on She-Hulk = :/

SPOILER

RIP Bart Allen, we hardly liked you.

wowza after nearly two years, stuff HAPPENS for Flashes!

THEY KILLED IMPULSE

YOU BASTARDS

Bart Allen had so much potential! I mean, they had an opportunity to make a youthful Flash, really play with what it must be like to be a person who is that unfathomably fast and was in a situation in which he was actually missing half of his life, but no, they just keep getting hung up on Barry Allen, as if anyone reading comics now really gives a damn about all that. They keep trying to make the Flash bland because...what? he was bland in the 50s and 60s? This Wally West business isn't all that promising either.

Why are they killing Young Justice? Is Lil' Lobo next?

All-Flash preview.

For a second I read the title as JESUS, LIKE LIGHTNING, and now I wanna write the story that goes along with that title.

for a second, I read R Baez's misread as JESUS, LIKE NIGHTWING, and now...oh forget it.

I'm actually kinda excited to see where Waid goes with the Flash this time. I'm optimistic about it.

Nice art.

Didio explains it all????

Deep.

Sanctimonious comic book shysters aren't what they used ta be.

OH GOOD LORD

http://www.newsarama.com/dcnew/Countdown/Marts/44/Countdown43_14.html

32 pages of sadface, guaranteed!

Something that stuck with me once I’d finished the issue – and something almost separate to the issue itself, as Good as it was – was the way in which the Marvel Universe these days is all about fear. You could, and I’m sure that Joe Quesada and others will if pressed, argue that that’s almost traditional for the publisher and the characters, but right now, any sense of wonder or awe has been replaced by a sense of terror and threat: We have Atlantis launching sleeper cell terrorist attacks, we have the Inhumans declaring war on humanity and wanting to take over the world, we have mutantkind facing extinction and infighting, America becoming a police state because superheroes might accidentally blow up a school full of kids, and by the way, your best friend or anyone you know might be an alien invader undercover. There’s an incredible and depressing lack of openness to “the other” in Marvel’s books, these days; nothing is seen as new or different or unusual in a good sense, because everything that isn’t “us” is a threat (as opposed to even being a potential threat). Whatever happened to the days of The Impossible Man appearing and aliens being goofy nuisances? Or Spider-Man being misunderstood and really a good guy, not a public menace, you know? There used to be a time where it was awesome (in both senses of the world) that there was a race of superhumans living on the moon, instead of it being another band of people who want to kill us. Yes, there are a few exceptions (Iron Fist and Fantastic Four come to mind), but overall: Is it really post-9/11, post-Afghanistan invasion and post-Iraq civil war insularism informing what the Marvel writers are coming up with, or something else? And, either way, is there any way that optimism and, well, good fun could come back to these characters again?

Graeme McMillan completely OTM. Link

NRAMA: So Kyle had Ion, the embodiment of the emotion willpower, within him.

GJ: Yes.

NRAMA: And the Ion creature could be removed because Kyle lost his willpower? This power of the emotion that you're talking about?

GJ: Yeah, he was broken down so much physically and mentally. At that point, he was just overwhelmed and it was able to be removed.

NRAMA: Then he was possessed by the Parallax entity, complete with a modified Hal Jordan-type Parallax costume. But some have wondered -- why is Kyle glowing green if the entity is yellow?

GJ: It's just like in Rebirth, Parallax glowed green when he possessed Hal. It's a big "eff you!"

NRAMA: (laughs) OK.

GJ: (laughs) ... which I love. Parallax is sadistic as hell. This creature is just sadistic as hell.

Sadism huh? Comics aren't for kids part xxxioxoxixodgetalifejohnsiv!

;_;

"Could there possibly have been a more awesome choice to take over writing Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane than Terry Moore? Okay, we all know the answer to that is "no", so... When will we learn who's drawing it and when the series is returning? I can't wait!" - S3an McK33v3r @ N3ws@r@m@

hahahahahahaha so glad I don't ready spidey

countdown to mj becoming a confused, annoying lesbian starts now

Just to be clear, SMLMJ is about teenage MJ in a fancy-free continuity-free world where she went to high school w/ Spidey & his supporting cast (including the Black Cat & Firestar). It was probably the best Spidey-related title of the past 3+ years, & now it will be filled with horrific relationship "drama" & boring lesbionic horseshit. ;_;

Well, okay, if you want to typecast Moore. I'm sure the dude can do the job without rewriting his old book. People do it all the time.

That said, I'm almost certainly out when McKeever is gone.

Given that Moore's major work (& my only exposure to his particular talents) was, in hindsight, excessively punchable, then, yeah, I'm gonna wait until the pudding contains some proof before I go & sully my spoon on that stuff. Goofing on the lesbian thing is (I thought) obvious hyperbole, but his handling of romantic & friendly relationships in SiP (i.e. the very thing that drives the book he's taking over) left a little to be desired. Regardless, I'm not going to stick around once he comes on board, so if any of you suckers are game to give him a go, let me know how that turns out, plz.

Several people have pointed out that this image is based on "The Last Supper," and that the parallels apparently have symbolic value. Which means that about eighteen million times more thought and care has gone into that image than into the entirety of Countdown so far.

I guess the Scarlet Skier's fucked, then.

Wait a minute, are they copping to not only writing to, but adjusting content to the whims of the Internet?
What kind of fucking railroad are they running?

David R. is OTM.
Mr. Perpetua is Mr. Save-An-Awful-Writer.

This doesn't really belong in the sadface thread, but Metal Men is probably going to be a very wonderful 15-18 issues.

You mean 8 issues, Huk - it's a mini-series.

Meanwhile, UNCLE SAM gets free reign!?!?!? Can someone unearth some pictures of Didio giving Joe Quesada a massage or something?

(BTW, the last issue of Blue Beetle managed to have ties to Identity / Infinite / Weekly Crisis horseshit w/out coming off as punchable nonsense - girl raised by the Dibnys sons the nu-Eclipso inna magick stylee, & makes time w/ BB! Yay!)

Oh. I thought it was an ongoing that wouldn't be ongoing for long.
xpost yeah, Sinestro Blue Beetle might be good even.

Oh, fuck off.

Bold, yet boring.

yay heroes?

And when they need another house clearing exercise are they going to rename this series, in trade format, NOT SO QUITE FINAL CRISIS?.

PENULTIMATE CRISIS!

I'm still waiting for INFINITE CRISSI!

Who's Blue In The DCU?

Infinite Crisps. Mmm.

BIENNIAL CRISIS

Final Crikey: the Steve Irwin story.

Too soon.

CLASSIC SADFACERY:

http://bp0.blogger.com/_kvv3fcoXqVE/RnG9WefYgkI/AAAAAAAABKk/8Hszgz4pidY/s1600-h/426.jpg

bah:

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j58/pttm/426.jpg

I'm just gonna keep reading my Parker-written Marvel comics. Y'all can keep your sadface.

Oh, and just because a lot of thought went into those COUNTDOWN preview images doesn't mean they're any damn good at all.

I've been reading up on this whole Infinite Crisis/Civil War background of current DC and Marvel universes and it seems like a pretty big mess to me.

The editors for both companies seem to be big on doing some killing. I hadn't even heard they had temporarily bumped off Spiderman. I had heard about Captain America (who I suppose is still dead for now) and Superman's temporary death.

Bumping off Blue Beetle, c'mon...that seems a bit harsh.

nu better mexi beetle though

Spider-Man wasn't really "killed" though, it was just a part of a crappy story. He was "alive" again by the next week.

oh the text on those DitF covers was Sadface ahead of its sadtimes!

"Middle East" should be uppercase, surely.

You should read the letter-pages following that storyline.

I remember one lengthy one about Shi'ite and Sunni and the Ayatollah (who guest-starred in DitF!!! He hired Joker as Iran's ambassador to the UN--which resulted in Superman stopping Batman from exacting revenge from J-Man for killing R-boy, what with diplomatic immuno)

OH MY

Have just read first issue (director's cut!) of Immortal Iron Fist. Very good! Is sort of like Green Arrow if Green Arrow didn't suck!
Actually it's A LOT like the 1983 Green Arrow miniseries (the last time GA didn't suck for an extended period?) right down to the artwork. Aja's PLEASINGLY reminiscent of Trevor Von Eeden's stuff back then. Not totally, but there's that same sweet murk to it.

nothing particularly revelatory in either DC or Marvel's Nov. Solicits, but we can discuss them anyway.

Although Countdown: Arena seems like, um, Ultimate Fanwank.

the thumbnail cover w/ the solicit for Cap Am #30 makes it look like Bucky's going to be going mano-a-mano with Tubby Flash!

oy vey

Why do you hate democracy, Huk?

CARRY ON SADFACE!
more death (or fake death) in Green Arrow? COME ON!

fan favourite David Lapham follows-up his WINNER of a Spectre tale with Spider-Man???

Hey, City of Crime was good enough I'll give the duder a break

City of Crime + Tony Harris = me buying Stray Spidey

wtf re: Chuck Dixon's triumphant return to DC? he's writing EVERYTHING not written by Gray & Palmiotti.
Am kinda bummed, since I rilly liked Adam Beechen's Robin stuff, and y'know BACKWARDS.

http://images.newsarama.com/dcnew/Oct07/previews/10_31previews_27.jpg
http://www.newsarama.com/imagepop.html?imageURL=http://images.newsarama.com/dcnew/Oct07/previews/10_31previews_28.jpg

Oh dear.

Oh man can they please rename this storyline GROPING IN THE DARK?

"Death signature"???

from LITG:

In June/July, DC are killing off Batman. Or rather, Bruce Wayne. Robin will inherit the Batman cowl. One of the Robins anyway. Tim Drake. Jason Todd. Or possibly Red Hood. Hey, maybe Jean-Paul Valley, it has been ten years since Azrael.

HOT DOG!

Isn't this the third or fourth time this has been rumoured in recent years? I mean I'm not saying it won't happen, but...

in that image from Death of the New Gods, i don't know why my eyes keep getting drawn to Vixen peeping on top of the fridge. It just looks even inherently sillier than a bunch of people standing around in tights in a kitchen.

The whole composition of the scene vaguely reminds me of something from a Richard Scarry book. It doesn't need dialogue. It needs vocabulary captions.

hahahahahahaha I still love the name "Red Hood"

Rolling sadface...

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