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

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:

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bah:

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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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