#Simon spurrier got it

[chaoswxlson]

i seriously cant believe how misunderstood Constantines character was by most of his writers. Hes essentially the meaning of “everyone who is human makes mistakes” and preaches about how we are not good or bad by our actions, and about how tragedy changes someone (in his case there is magic involved)…..but nooo edgy dark lord of magic who sleeps around a lot is the representation we get by most of the mainstream writers

#dc #hellblazer #When i mean he is just “some guy” i MEAN it #constantine #johnzee #john constantine #alan moore #comics #dc vertigo #Simon spurrier got it #Garth ennis is in limbo about this #P*t*r m*llig*n and bryan azarello get out of here i hate these men

[whipbogard]

do you have a bruharvey comic reading list ?

Lmfao I personally feel like every Harvey-centric comic is somewhat a BruHarvey comic if you squint 🤣🤣🤣🤣

This list is in no way exhaustive and I'm pretty sure I've missed out some very important stuff but nevertheless, this is what I could think off at the top of my head:

Disclaimer: I'm bad at continuity. And I won't call some of these excellent writing but they did give me all the delicious bruharv moments.

Batman - A Lonely Place of Dying - Some nice parallels between Batman and Two-Face were made in here when they're busy trying to outwit each other. This is mainly focused on Bruce's angst post-Jason's death and it is rather delicious for the angst-lover. And also origin story for Robin Tim.

Batman: Year One - That infamous scene where Batman hid under Harvey's desk. That's it. That's big reason enough for you to read it. (Harvey is also exceptionally hansum in here. Will always be one of my fav Harveys).

Two-Face: Year One - Chummy college days, Bruce hanging out at Harvey's office late and night and also the one where 2F didn't listen to the coin and spared Bruce's life :^)

Batman: Eye of the Beholder - The one where Jim introduced Harvey to Batman and then they started hanging out together and left Jim out. JK JK JK LOL but it sure felt like that 🤣 In all honesty though, this is one of--if not--the best Harvey story out there so please read it anyway!!!!

Batman: Face The Face - This takes place sometime after Batman: Hush (where if you recall, Harvey betrayed Tommy to save Bruce's ass uwu). Harvey is somewhat "cured" now that his face is fixed. He go about protecting Gotham in Bruce's absence. And oh, Harvey recalling the 30 days whirlwind of a romance with Bruce where they trained together and also went for dinner dates and movies (I KID YOU NOT)---and obviously got 2F very upset LOL.

All-Star Batman: My Own Worst Enemy - The one where Bruce and Harvey went on a cross-country trip while being handcuffed together. Also a look into their childhood together at that very weird school lol

Batman and Robin #24 - #28 (The Big Burn) - This is 2F's origin story for current continuity. The one where Harvey called Bruce a Prince (while looking at his own reflection on a knight armour) and Bruce called Harvey "dummy" affectionately. Also here we learn that Harvey had known that Bruce is Batman since forever and has been protecting that secret from 2F.

Detective Comics #989 - #993 (Deface The Face) - My beloved Gotham Justice Triumvirate reuniting and working together!!!! The ending to this arc truly fulfilled my love for that chasing game between a hero and a villain tbh uwu

Detective Comics #1020 - #1024 (Ugly Heart & Prelude to Joker War) - It started out weird enough with 2F having a cult of some sort and having real weird erotic ritual involving the coin (lbr you know I'd join this cult in a heartbeat LOL). Again, this arc emphasized on Harvey's struggles to protect Bruce and his identity from 2F. And Harvey teaming up with Bruce to beat Joker's talons!!!!! It ended with 2F being suppressed and a somewhat "reformed" Harvey in Blackgate being visited by Matches. I like this arc for a lot of shippy reasons lmfao ("Promises, promises" hehe)

Detective Comics #1062 - present - The current craze. An excellently written Harvey by Ram V and Simon Spurrier. I look forward to where this is heading! (As of now, seems like Harvey has stopped making an appearance but I sure hope he'll come back again!!!)

ADDITIONAL MENTIONS

The Doom That Came to Gotham - This is a depressing Elseworlds story with Lovecraft elements but the BruHarvey in here is absolutely golden and even more so in the movie version.

Batman 1989 Newspaper Comics - I have yet to go through this tbh but there are a lot of good bruharv moments in here and thIS ONE RIGHT HERE I s2G GETS ME ALL THE TIME

THAT IS ALL!!! Thanks for asking me this because now I have a proper record to refer to since I'm so bad with arc names and issues etc 🤣

#whew this got longer than expected LOL #bruharvey #twobats #harvey dent #bruce wayne #wppyrec

[constantineshots]

Hey, what is your top 10 hellblazer issue?

TOP TEN HUH.

well, i wouldn’t put them in order, nor do I remember issue numbers off the top of my head. more specifically moments. it’ll be under the read more for a long, long post. some trigger warnings for abuse.

i like the first issue for nostalgia and the way it manages to show us john constantine as a character, and somewhat to outsiders. we see him as a human . . . and then his descent into what he see him doing every day because he’s a bit silly (racists are scared of him, for example, but that doesn’t really have to do with the magical aspect of john and more of his political one). it shows us who he is without necessarily delving too deeply into the world of magic, even if it’s just a glimpse.

another that really tickles my brain is technically a couple, but the specifics of newcastle. throughout hellblazer, it’s very much up in the air what actually happened and we only know the end results, because no one talks about it. however, while it is early on in the series, we get to learn about why this affects john as much as it does, and afterwards, how most of it was just pinned on john because of course the police don’t know much about the magical world. i think my favorite aspect is how, when we see him in ravenscar, magic is more of an ‘addiction’ of his as opposed to being a tool. yet he’s in there because they think he’s “loony” as it’s put then, but that’s a separate issue. count that one in this list of ten too, i think.

okay. i know. this one’s less traumatic and technically isn’t part of the original 300 of hellblazer. but. i thought the unicorn thing was actually hilarious. though honestly, i think since the original run ( and let’s be honest, even among some of the writers for the original ), simon spurrier is up there with some of the best hellblazer authors. BUT. i thought the pretty unicorn murdering people and shit was kind of amusing. sorry. i loved it.

another one of my favorites is the one where john is,,, so there’s this lesbian couple that wants to get pregnant. and one of them decides to essentially flirt with john and try to get him to sleep with her, and of course, it turns out with john being like “you could have just asked.” and it puts into perspective a lot of the things that he deals with, the ways people treat him. the things he faces. it’s a lot to take in. and the whole thing about wanting someone to hold you so you feel less alone….

tumblr is fucking with my spacing. how cruel. sorry for the squished lines </3

but anyways, onto number seven i think. personally, i really like the one where he broke ho with kit, and it’s because of two reasons: one, because it shows kit. i love her! but what i mean is that she is a take no shit kind of girl, and while she’d already explained this, it really shows it. people have said “oh fuck you john” and yada yada and end up back in his life again (no shade, chas). kit? she said “john, if you get magic into my home, i’m OUT.” and she fucking meant it too. she got attacked (and she handled it! love that for her) and then kept that boundary. i love her for being a strong character- not physically, necessarily, but keeping her boundaries, too. and also, it shows us what john is like when he’s losing something he really cares about. he acts like a cornered animal. he shouts and tries to say shit that will hurt you (like calling kit cold) because he’s scared. while we already knew this, it’s a very big throw in your face moment about how much of a piece of shit john can be, especially because this was a long-term relationship. and then, of course, he ends up depressed and homeless and doing his best to drink away his problems.

and i know this is going to sound horrible, but the one where john is like. literally discussing how he pretty much made his father sick with a spell and a dead cat (if i recall correctly) because of all the shit that his dad did to him and how he was treated. to me, it made sense. he found a way to defend himself. magic was that outlet of his own protection, his own defense, a way to try little by little to keep himself safe. really connected to me in a way- growing up, i had an abusive parent, and i could understand why he did what he did, because i wouldn’t have done any different.

AND THERE’S THIS ONE WHERE. john makes a statement about not trusting priests because of the fact that one attempted to assault him, but there’s a story where john is going through that story, and john sees the priest again. he has a panic attack first and foremost, and i think, to me, it’s one of the very first depictions of a mental health struggle. not necessarily in hellblazer- mainly because this is a story that handles a lot of hard topics and, depending on the writer, it’s done rather well- but in comics overall. it also shows that yes, priests can be villains too and take advantage of people, and that was a rather controversial topic during that time period. hell, it’s even controversial now, and we have stories of it happening all the time.

and ten. honestly, picking these was a bit difficult because i love a lot of hellblazer, but here we are. i, personally, enjoy mike carey’s run a lot (i LOVE lucifer. so i already knew i was in for it.) the arc where we’re seeing how much john cares for his sister and that he’s literally going to hell (okay maybe this isn’t that impressive because he’s always there) to get her back. with nergal! the fucking asswipe! but it also focused a lot on tony being very religious, and gemma, and how affected everyone was. gemma wanting to be like john and john shooting her down. there’s a lot to handle- like john’s…. children… that came about from odd circumstances…. maybe i’m biased here. ANYWAYS. good fun!

but i despise. and i mean DESPISE. anything after 250. i will never touch it again. i barely got through it the first time. again. DO NOT READ. ANYTHING PAST 250.

and i hated the original justice league dark run. probably because of milligan. fucking hate that guy. but regardless. you asked for hellblazer issues. technically some of these are arcs. BUT HEY! here you are :D

#asks #john constantine #hellblazer #sorry for the yap session #as my little brother would call it

[heckcareoxytwit]

A preview of Uncanny Spider-Man #4

UNCANNY SPIDER-MAN #4

SPIDER-MAN’S A MUTANT! Okay, not that Spider-Man, but we got your attention, eh? Orchis’ Stark Sentinels are wreaking havoc across Peter Parker’s home turf, and it’s not just mutants in the crosshairs now. But while Peter and Kurt thwip and bamf their way around the murderous machines, another set of eyes watches from the shadows. Secrets will be revealed in this penultimate issue!

Written by: Simon Spurrier Art by: Lee Garbett, Matt Milla Cover by: Tony S. Daniel, Yen Nitro Page Count: 28 Pages Release Date: November 22, 2023

#Uncanny Spider Man #Spinnenmann #Nightcrawler #Kurt Wagner #X Men #Bamf #XMen #Spider Man #Spiderman #Peter Parker #Stark Sentinel #Fall of X #marvel preview #marvel

[zahri-melitor]

Playing on Easy Mode:

More thoughts on titles and who has them, this time via writer rather than me playing with the titles, and using the known title changes due:

Chip Zdarsky – Batman, Nightwing

Ram V. – Detective Comics

Joshua Williamson – Superman, Batman & Robin

Tom Taylor – Nightwing, Titans, World’s Finest, Green Lantern

Phillip Kennedy Johnson – Action Comics, Green Lantern: War Journal

Simon Spurrier – the Flash, New Justice League Dark/Magic/Hellblazer book

Tom King – Wonder Woman, the Penguin

Tini Howard – Harley Quinn, Catwoman

G. Willow Wilson – Poison Ivy, Wonder Woman

Kelly Thompson – Birds of Prey

Jeremy Adams – Green Lantern, the Flash

Mark Waid – Shazam!, World’s Finest, Titans

Dan Mora – Shazam!

Geoff Johns – JSA (also Johns is leaving DC shortly)

Leah Williams – Power Girl

Josh Trujillo – Blue Beetle

James Tynion IV – The Joker: the Man Who Stopped Laughing (finishing next month), JSA

Matthew Rosenberg – WildC.A.T.S. (finishing next month), New Stormwatch/Checkmate/Suicide Squad

There’s also Brave and the Bold which is a straight anthology

Ignoring minis and maxis right now, that’s not a horrible spread. We’ve got 4 women with 5 titles between them (doing better than some other periods).

Playing on easy mode – allowed two reassignments without having to substitute, plus letting myself create two new titles for the two cancellations – I think I’m using this to straight out hand Wonder Woman to G. Willow Wilson and take her to two titles. I really want a woman on WW, and my other options are Howard, Thompson and Williams. I don’t want to shift Thompson from BoP until I get a better view of what she’s doing, I’m not sold on Howard as being the best choice of the four, and I have very little read on Leah Williams so far (apart from really disliking the pivot to ‘Paige’ ew)

I’m happy to leave Tom King on one title, given the spread of what everyone else has. In exchange please get DC to commission one of their fancy largely-out-of-continuity prestige maxis on *rolls dice* Maybe the Aquafam? They probably need some devoted love where King can dig in and do good work that nobody else will care about.

I still dunno who to give Nightwing to. God Dick just needs someone who loves him and who wants to write him with an edge for a while, but the options available are a mess. So gave him to Waid in that Waid won’t hurt him, though part of me is still interested in Spurrier, or even Trujillo (not that I think anyone would give Trujillo two titles and I want him on Blue Beetle) Reconsidered: putting Zdarsky on Nightwing to give me Dick & Tim & Barbara stories, I’m a genius. He probably needs to lose Batman then but I dunno who picks it up, wildcard bring someone in for it. I’m nominating Mariko Tamaki or Alyssa Wong. Alternatively give it to Kelly Thompson, I am going to increase the percentage of books written by non-men one title at a time.

[lucienne-thee-librarian]

Best and Worst sandman spinoffs 👀

Ooh okay, thanks!! Now I kind of feel awkward because in compiling this list I realize I might have to walk back what I said in that tag a little. I mean I did mention "obvious stuff like Overture and the Death comics" but putting all the stuff I think is good out there it really makes me realize how many good Sandman spinoffs and side issues there are. So...sorry if the Worst list is a lot shorter than the best *shrug*. I kinda wrote those tags without thinking too hard, and still bitter off reading the one thing that topped my Worst section. But if you just want whatever my opinions are anyway, then I figured why not?

So, in this list, I'm counting anything that isn't the original Sandman series that ended with the Wake as spinoff. That includes things written by the original author. This obviously contains spoilers for everything I'm gonna mention.

Best:

Sandman Overture (slight spoilers incoming): Obsessed with absolutely everything about this book. The story: immaculate and ties up a lot of loose ends about how our sad wet cat of an anthropomorphic personification got weakened enough to be imprisoned in the first place. Desire and Dream have to work together to literally save the cosmos and the group project goes off so well it makes their constant rivalry feel all the more tragic, because it shows what a massive cosmic goddamn waste it all was. What was it all for? What could they accomplish together if these characters were different enough to be capable of putting their pride and grudges aside more than once in a blue moon? What could their world look like? We find out the origin of Dream's Hope, a thing we thought we understood but this gives that moment a whole new meaning. And the art - good lord, sometimes I just like to stare at a panel, because every artist who worked on this comic apparently snapped and it is glorious.

Death: The Time of Your Life. I mean: this is a story written by the series original author and it shows. It has two dysfunctional lesbians at the center whose love for each other and their son still manages to be powerful enough to be the core of the story and catch the attention of an Endless. Also: Death is here and wonderful as always. And it's beautifully written and I'm never going to stop being weak over it. It means so much to me.

Endless Nights: again, written by the same author as Sandman and the illustrations in almost every section are either gorgeous or fucking haunting: and each one is a story where the other Endless get to shine. How can I not stan.

Death, the High Cost of Living: It features Death really heavily so right there...yeah. And the male protagonist, while he seems annoyingly broody at times, feels like a really realistically written teenager who's gone through some serious stuff in his life. I just love this story, it's short but wonderful.

Dream Hunters: this feels like a simple fairytale at first where Dream barely features at the end, but it sucks you in and the art style is unique and very well done. This book to me is proof that a story doesn't even need to be cosmic in scope to be a compelling tale that even still feels like one small story in that same world. It's not like, my favorite but I stand by what I said that it is a solid story with lovely art to bring it to life.

Worst:

Simon Spurrier's run of the Dreaming. If this is a favorite of yours, please just skip the bulleted sections lol, I'm sorry.

Honestly it's not all bad, some people hate it a LOT more than I do, but it just frustrates me so much. Because to me, it could easily have been salvaged, with heavy editing or some things being better fleshed out. In the end, it just SCREAMS wasted potential to me. It started off being decently written, and there were some not-terrible ideas in theory such as Dora's backstory, or the greatest threat to the realm of human dreams being an AI made up by someone who wants more control over the world and thinks he could run it better. In theory I even like the idea that Daniel makes some poor life choices and it causes consequences for his realm as he has to learn the responsibility of a ruler.

I like those elements in theory...but in execution?? God. It all felt SO half baked and several people (Lucien and Mervyn) got pulled pretty far out of character. And in the end, Daniel and Dora both left me utterly cold. I honestly feel like the writer couldn't make up his mind what he wants Daniel to be as a character, and Dora just...ehh. She was clearly meant to be sympathetic and there were moments I WANTED to sympathize: but idk, I just couldn't connect with her. She kind of had the vibe, to me, of someone's first OC they wrote when they were 13 who's bitchy in a kind of cringey #Girlboss way, but it's supposed to be charming solely because she has a tragic backstory.

Then you take the fact that the Walker clan gets brought back - and yet with no real resolution, no more than the Wake left?? This could've made the frankly baffling plot Rose got in Kindly Ones be the start of something more, maybe Desire's actions could have been given some purpose or explanation. But...nope.

Miranda Walker is half Endless yet she manages to die of cancer - even if she was half human, I find it a little difficult to believe that she would be able to die the exact same way a normal human would given what we know of Orpheus' fate in the original series. She's in pain but it doesn't feel like there's any real struggle in the end. But that's a pretty minor nitpick...my real beef is, she gets next to no lines and nothing to do, she contributes nothing to the plot. We learn little to nothing of her relationships with Rose and Jed, or Ivy. This woman is the child of Desire and I have ALWAYS thought she deserved to be more fleshed out. But we get even less than Neil Gaiman ever gave us, her character is quietly poofed out of things without so much as a whimper, and we never learn anything more about who she was. Jed fares little better, I don't think he even appeared.

Rose does get more to do, thank God. But in the end she gets no resolution, even a tragic one, no answers, she isn't allowed to grow. She even gets to interact with her grandfather but the possibilities for serious drama and tragedy dealing with the fallout of that are all swept to the side in favor of plot drama from characters like Dora Daniel and Ivy, who...existed, I guess.

If you're wondering why I'm not talking about Waking Hours, Kiernan's Dreaming or the Season of Mists manga at all, its simple: I haven't actually read any of them all the way through. I've only seen some panels of the manga in passing online and the descriptions of the premises. I REALLY want to see if I can get my hands on copies or find them online and read them for myself. I've heard that the Season of Mists manga and Kiernan's Dreaming are kind of cracked out and weird, but that only feeds my curiosity tbh. I've also heard Waking Hours is good.

Sorry this list was so incomplete, but thanks!! I appreciate the chance to ramble lol

#sandman #sandman overture #death: the time of your life #endless nights #dream hunters #despairoftheendless

[thenightling]

The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country: Glass House issue 3 Review:

I just read The Nightmare Country: The Glass House issue 3. I still occasionally mess up the title because there is a Witcher comic called House of Glass. Anyway, it's just kind of... unpleasant. I try to force myself to read it but I'm not enjoying it. It's not as bad as the first Nightmare Country but it's not a nice story. It's decidedly unpleasant. It has that edgy 90s style that got boring by 1998. The Corinthian is the only semi-likable character and that's saying something. That was sort of my problem with The House of Whispers back in 2018. The House of Whispers wasn't terrible but that one was kind of boring where the only points of interest were Anansi (the Spider trickster God) and The Corinthian and how The Corinthian handled those abusive parents. The portrayal of Lucien is just awful. Not only is it flat but the character "Voices" don't feel right. Though The Corinthian is enjoyable his language, his use of words, it doesn't match any previous version of the character. It's very articulate but it doesn't feel like there's a personality in the dialogue. Everyone talks the same. That was a complaint I had back when Caitlin R. Kiernan was writing The Dreaming (1996-2002). Except with her everyone spoke like a cheap 80s action movie character, tossing around the the f word and trying to sound edgy. They don't do that here. In here The Corinthian is relatively well spoken but no one has a truly unique voice, a individual's way of talking. Every character should have their own "voice" a chosen vocabulary, or style of speaking and I'm not seeing that here. It's hard to get into the story when everyone talks exactly the same way except Lucien who... comes off like a self-righteous jerk. It's a bit like Simon Spurrier's version of Lucien in The Dreaming (2018) but not really Lucien of The Sandman by Neil Gaiman. Lucien pretty much shows up just to tell The Corinthian that he asked Daniel what he do if The Corinthian steps out of line and Daniel apparently said he'd unmake him. That's great, you conspire to unmake the only character actually doing anything in this story. Thank you for being completely useless, Lucien. The Corinthian and Lucien both bring up some very good points. The dead girl whose ghost is now residing in the form of a cat (I couldn't be bothered to remember her name) The Corinthian tells Lucien "Did you know she doesn't even like cats?" and Lucien says something to the effect of "The Dream Lord would not have turned her into a cat if she didn't like cats." This does make a valid point. I know Daniel is different than Morpheus but Daniel does share a lot of his traits and memories and Morpheus would never create a raven from someone unless he knew that person would prefer to be a raven than the mortal they had been.

It feels like DC shamelessly tried to make an expansive story out of something that didn't really need or deserve it, such as bringing Thessaly in after the events of Dead Boy Detectives as if to go "See, i is a shared universe!" Yeah, that only works if the stories being connected are... you know... good... This is better than The Corinthian: Nightmare Country in regard to the pacing but it still has that ugly, sadistic, and weirdly dull "gritty" 90s comic book style. I don't know if I can continue reading it just to review it. It's that unpleasant for me. It's not the worst thing I've ever read but I have little reason to want to continue reading it.

#The Sandman #The Sandman Universe #Nightmare Country #The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country: Glass House #The Sandman Universe Nightmare Country Glass House #Nightmare Country: Glass House

[milfzatannaz]

Out of curiosity, what did you think about Simon Spurrier's run on Constantine? I got half way through the first issue and felt like something was *off*

It’s good because it reintroduces what was missing in DC’s Constantine comics. Vulgarity, cursing, politics, wit, and it has very solid art.

I like it a lot but sometimes Spurrier seems to enjoy being really….harsh to John? I struggle with that as a reader. How much suffering is warranted for the character? They plopped him in 2019 after killing of Chas and the whole story is how he sucks and no one likes him. It doesn’t sit well with me sometimes.

#answered

[dispatchdcu]

The Flash #7 Preview

The Flash #7 Preview #dccomics #comics #comicbooks #news #DCEU #dcuuniverse #art #info #NCBD #wallywest #Amazon #comicbooknews #previews #reviews #flash #theflash #scarletspeedster #speedforce #centralcity #flashfacts

The Flash #7 Preview: Jai West is going to try to rescue Max Mercury from the horrific remains of Timepoint, now a world overrun by time-gobbling monsters, and he’s got surprising backup—the shadowy bubble gum-chewing figure who goes by the name Inspector Pilgrim! Written by SIMON SPURRIER Art and cover by RAMON PEREZ Variant covers by MIKE DEODATO JR. and MATT TAYLOR $3.99 US | 32 pages |…

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#Barry Allen #comic books #DC Comics #DC Comics Previews #Flash #kid flash #Previews #The Flash #The Flash 7 #The Flash 7 Preview

[challengerscomics]

NEW for WEDNESDAY, October 26, 2022 A bunch of new spooky reads are here to creep up your Halloween week: IT TOOK LUKE by Chicago’s own Mark Bouchard! DAMN THEM ALL by Simon Spurrier and The Walking Dead’s Charlie Adlard! LOVESICK by Bolero’s Luana Vecchio! The MOON KNIGHT ANNUAL (co-starring one Werewolf by Night)! DEAD MALL! NIGHTFALL DOUBLE FEATURE! ETERNAL DESCENT! Not to mention new issues of CREEPSHOW, HOUSE OF SLAUGHTER, and DC VS VAMPIRES! But if horror’s not your thing, we’ve got the big finale of Marvel’s big ol’ AXE JUDGEMENT DAY event! RIDDLER YEAR ONE features the comic-writing debut of the Riddl—er, actor Paul Dano! And PUNCHLINE gets her own mini-series by Excalibur’s Tini Howard! A new STAR TREK ongoing stars The Sisko and features characters across all Trek eras! It’s a great big release week for comics that will chill and/or thrill! #newreleases #newthisweek #newcomics #newgraphicnovels #shoplocal #keepreadingcomics #challengerscomics #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovels #new #dontmissout (at CHALLENGERS Comics + Conversation) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkLkoR_LL2g/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[gorogues]

Spoilers for comics in April!

These are from the official solicits for that month, which you can see at CBR.

The Black Label Rogues series continues that month, and Girder will appear in a Flash movie prequel comic.

ROGUES #2 Written by JOSHUA WILLIAMSON Art by LEOMACS Cover by SAM WOLFE CONNELLY Variant cover by LEOMACS 1:25 variant cover by JORGE FORNÉS $6.99 US | 48 pages | 2 of 4 | Prestige Plus | 8 1/2" x 10 7/8" ON SALE 4/26/22 17+ You might think you know Gorilla City, but you don't. Not a soul who has gone looking for the secret kingdom has ever returned. You'd think the Rogues would know better than to go searching…but they either don't know or just don't care. The down-on-their-luck ex-cons are back together for the heist of a lifetime, but every time Captain Cold thinks he's got things all figured out, the rug is pulled out from under him. And even if they make it to Gorilla City alive, they have a version of Gorilla Grodd unlike anything you've ever seen waiting for them…Continuing this groundbreaking neo-noir take on some of the DCU's greatest villains!

The cover makes it difficult to figure out who’s going on the mission, assuming the lineup is actually representative of the story.  Len is obvious and so is Lisa (third from the left), but who are the others?  The guy in front might be a Mirror Master and maybe the guy with energy in his hand could be Weather Wizard or Kadabra, but that’s just spitballing.  And those appear to be Trickster pants on the second person.

Looks like Digger’s in for a rough time in the continuation of this Black Label series.

SUICIDE SQUAD: BLAZE #2 Written by SIMON SPURRIER Art and cover by AARON CAMPBELL Variant cover by QISTINA KHALIDAH $6.99 US | 48 pages | 2 of 3 | Prestige Plus | 8 ½" x 10 7/8" ON SALE 4/12/22 17+ The inmates who volunteered for the Blaze program are discovering fascinating things about their newfound powers—and about the best ways to torment their Suicide Squad watchdogs. Are they discovering anything about their core mission of stopping the cannibalistic metahuman who's terrorizing the planet and who, uh…might have just defeated Superman…? Well, slightly less so. But they're all going to be dead in three months. Or a lot less. Let them have fun, eh?

As you can see on the cover, Len appears in the New 52 omnibus.

JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE NEW 52 OMNIBUS VOL. 2 Written by GEOFF JOHNS, PETER J. TOMASI, TOM KING, and others Art by JASON FABOK, IVAN REIS, and others Cover by JASON FABOK $150.00 US | 1,256 pages | 7 1/16" x 10 7/8" | Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-77951-558-2 ON SALE 6/21/22 One of the boldest eras in Justice League history continues in this massive collection, featuring the second half of superstar writer Geoff Johns's run on DC's premier super-team. Volume two collects the rest of Johns' Justice League issues plus the Forever Evil and Darkseid War story lines, all leading up to DC's Rebirth event.

I sure wasn’t expecting Girder in a movie prequel...

THE FLASH: THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE #1 Written by KENNY PORTER Art by RICARDO LÓPEZ ORTIZ Cover by MAX FIUMARA Variant cover by ANDY MUSCHIETTI $5.99 US | 48 pages | Variant $6.99 US ON SALE 4/26/22 Race through the streets of Central City in this lead-up to the hotly anticipated blockbuster The Flash! After Barry's adventure with the Justice League, he's determined to become a truly skilled and inspirational hero. As a new threat emerges in Central City going by the name of Girder, Barry turns to Batman for advice on training to master his powers. Can the Dark Knight help show the Scarlet Speedster a way to defeat this metallic menace, or will the Flash be crushed by Girder's strength?

THE FLASH #781 Written by JEREMY ADAMS   Art by FERNANDO PASARIN and MATT RYAN Cover by BRANDON PETERSON and MICHAEL ATIYEH Variant cover by NIKOLA ČIŽMEŠIJA $3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock) ON SALE 4/19/22 The Eclipso War left Wally West stopped dead in his tracks…but a brand-new villain has emerged to wreak havoc on the Scarlet Speedster! An exciting new story arc begins here!

#Captain Cold #Golden Glider #Captain Boomerang #the Trickster #Girder #Gorilla Grodd #the Flash #spoilers: comics #solicits #Harley Quinn #Peacemaker #King Shark #horror #Rogues Black Label series

[constantineshots]

Have you been keeping up with the current Hellblazer: Dead In America run? If so, thoughts on it so far?

I HAVE BEENNNNN just haven’t read the latest thing yet because i got super busy.

but i HAVE really been enjoying it! i also loved the first run simon spurrier did, and own it lol. but it was really nice to hear that there was going to be MORE. when i tell you i was jumping up and down.

but yeah, i really think it’s great! beats most everything else that’s been done recently. i say give it a read :D

#asks #john constantine #hellblazer #hellblazer: dead in america

[ofcowardiceandkings]

I think you mentioned listening to podcasts? Do you have any favorites to reccommend? I've run out of content :(

that i do !

im not entirely sure what kind of podcast you'd be interested in but i'll throw out a few of the goodies in my huge library of stuff , i'll miss out a few of the HUGE podcasts that have been all over tumblr though

a LOT of it is true crime or human interest stuff , or history because im nerd ,, and a few of these dont have nearly enough attention so [shrug] i'll try to keep this short i guess lol this isnt EVERYTHING ive got in my library or listened series' by any measure

i AM gonna pop a shout to both Stuff You Missed in History Class and Stuff You Should Know from iHeartRadio because their HUGE archives have kept me from losing my mind many times over , and they cover a wide range of both important and wacky topics

BomBARDed (ongoing) this is the only fiction podcast i have happening right now really but its DAMN GOOD ONE .... it's an actual-play D&D 5E podcast in the DMs own musically-inspired world, focussed on a group of multiclass bards going to music school !! and all players (+DM) are members of the Texas band Lindby !! and they actually use and play music in the show with one original song an episode !! Kyle's worldbuilding and storycraft are truly incredible, and (Nick) Goodrich, (also Nick) Spurrier, and Ali's characters are in depth and interesting as well as an absolute powerhouse :') i actually made a piece for its first fanzine, Bardic Dreaming, which published earlier this year and is free to view now, all the players and the community are super wholesome its just very good overall 💙

History & Humans;

Fall of Civilisations (ongoing) legit one of my favourite podcast finds, im so glad my youtube autoplayed one of these ... it took me like 2 hours to realise it was 1) not the same as what was playing before and 2) had been on for 2 hours and wasnt near finished lmao. anyway, this is a series by historical fiction writer Paul Cooper, and is honest to all thats good one of the best documentary series ive encountered in years - and ive consumed a LOT of documentaries. it covered the downfall of various civilisations through history, and the episodes run from an hour to FOUR hours depending on the topic. its so chill to listen to and just get done, but over the pandemic all of the episodes have been given full movie-quality video versions too on youtube if youre more of a visual person.

Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast (on series break) yeah that says that lol ... its a SUPER niche topic but its very interesting and treated very well despite being kind of comical at times, the hosts are just naturally funny lol ... it delves around from the history of cannibalism in whole regions to specific incidents as recently as the 1970s, and of course the first episode is about the Donner Party, and it covers things ive never heard of despite being kind of important ?? anyway Alix and Carmella are good eggs

Sawbones (ongoing) i probably dont need to mention much here other than say that Justin and Sydnee saved me from being SO BORED sooo often, the history of medicine is wacky as hell and its what most of my history GCSE was on so [shrugs]

Cautionary Tales (on series break) this was a wild-card find lol ... it's by Tim Harford "the undercover economist" who writes for the Financial Times, and its topics kind of weave modern topics and science with how to learn from historical errors ... its a bit weird but well worth a go, also each series has a few celebrity guest voice actors which is pretty awesome

Ephemeral (ongoing) this is a very strange but thought provoking series about sounds and other things just barely saved. topics include the last castrato, the hello girls, hand-stamped records, the spread of kīkā kila music, and acoustic fossils of wild places.

Neat! The Boozecast (ongoing) history and bartending whats not to like lol ... hosted by Teylor Smirl and now their dad Tommy, they're just digging around in how important booze is to human culture

True Crime (white collar and weirdness);

Swindled (ongoing) this is an amazing show full stop. A Concerned Citizen details some of the most impactful and unruly things to happen in white collar and corporate crime. very factually accurate but given the sheer bullshit of the topics the deadpan snarking is [chefs kiss] absolutely warranted ..

American Scandal (on series break) this one is a series within a series type, and spends a few episodes at a time poking holes in some of America's biggest scandals, from a dramatised but fact-based point of view. such as what the hell was going on with Enron, how big tobacco was forced to own up to covering its own ass, how Iran-Contra happened, etc. it also now has a sister show called British Scandal, which does the same thing for British cases but with a slightly different format.

Missing in Alaska (finished) this was a fascinating series, a deep dive into what happened to two US government officials who disappeared on a small chartered flight in Alaska in 1972. it goes some really strange places, but it actually turned up a lot of previously unknown information through the audience. John Walczak's new series in a new feed is Missing on 9/11 which looks into what happened to Dr Sneha Philip.

Pretend (ongoing) Host Javier Leiva holds interviews with anyone living a lie, or who have been touched by them. con artists, snake oil salesmen, former cult members, catfishing victims, anyone and everyone.

Power: The Maxwells (finished) hosted by journalist Tara Palmeri, the story of media tycoon Robert Maxwell from nothing to empire to mysterious death and the scandals uncovered after he was gone.

Lets Talk About Sects (ongoing) Sarah Steele covering cults from around the world, in particular those in Australia - where she is from. She often has former members on the show to share their stories, and share knowledge of how they left. each story has the relevant content warnings at the start of each episode.

Brainwashed (finished) investigation of the CIA's covert mind control experiments, centred on the experiments performed at a hospital in Montreal, and its cultural impact.

Dr Death (2 series finished) two series investigating huge cases of fraud and medical malpractice, and how they were brought to a stop. series 1 covers Dr Duntsch and his horribly butchered neurosurgery, series 2 covers Dr Fata and his fraudulent cancer clinic

The Immaculate Deception (finished) untangling the weird and disturbing fertility fraud of Dr Jan Karbaat, who fathered children himself through his fertility clinic, and the impact of his deception. later episodes also touch on other similar cases.

True Crime (Violent/General);

The Casual Criminalist (ongoing) Simon Whistler of-the-many-youtube-channels cold reads a script about the case of the day, with some of his daft commentary thrown in.

Southern Fried True Crime (ongoing) Crimes from the American South hosted by Erica Kelley, she puts all the facts out there but refreshingly for true crime she doesnt hesitate to tell you if she thinks someone is human garbage lol

They Walk Among Us (ongoing) probably one of the most popular UK crime podcasts, very measured and well put together, not weird or annoying about it either.

All Crime No Cattle (ongoing, feed slowed down for now) specifically about crimes from Texas, hosted by Erin and Shay, they're very sensitive hosts and a lot of the cases they cover shed light on why the Texas criminal system is how it is or show an impact at a national level

Canadian True Crime (ongoing) Canadian crime from an Aussie who's lived there for a decade, Kristi is again a sensitive and measured host covering some important topics

True Crime (Violent/Deep Dive);

Hitman (finished) journalist Jasmyn Morris digs around in the sticky tangle around a book published by fringe publisher Paladin Press, and its apparent use as a blueprint in the killing of a mother, her friend and her 8 year old boy for financial gain.

Camp Hell: Anneewakee (ongoing) this series is exploring how a wilderness camp "correctional facility" was endorsed by the Georgia care and juvenile reform system, despite widespread abuses and shady practices the whole time. warning for csa and child cruelty throughout.

True Crime Bullshit (on series break) this one is a huge huge rabbithole but a very interesting one where the host Josh Hallmark has spent years digging into the life and potential crimes of Israel Keyes. Keyes is often mentioned as a serial killer with no pattern, but in picking it apart thats not quite true, and has sparked some re-evaluations of missing persons cases and stumbling upon information the FBI has redacted organically. there's also a series in the middle looking into the crimes of Kelly Cochran

Forgotten: Women of Juárez (finished) this series looks into the huge numbers of missing women of Ciudad Juárez, the strange circumstances surrounding them, and the potential cover-ups and corruptions on both sides of the border, trying to give a voice to all of the forgotten women and girls and their families without answers. the series itself is finished, but a spanish language edition is being released every week now.

aaaaaand i'll call it there before i list everything lol, i hope you find something to plug your boredom hole with !!

#audio #rory's ramblings #podcasts #asks #anon #long post

[hellyeahheroes]

“ Awake to a creator mailout from a major comics publisher getting all steamy about the possibilities of NFT and saying not a single word about the literally planet-fucking energy costs. “

From Simon Spurrier’s twitter, you can see multiple creators in replies confirming they also got this shit. According to Bleeding Cool the publisher is, of ocurse, fucking DC. Not that Marvel is much better.

NTF is basically a way to fuck over the planet with humongous energy cost as a part of get rich quicker scheme, like bitcoin before it. People who publish books about heroes that save the world should, I think, know better than to become fucking Captain Planet villains.

-Admin

#DC #Marvel

[davidmann95]

If you could add 5 books to the Infinite Frontier lineup, what would those be?

We don’t know all of what’s going - Snyder said something to the effect of Infinite Frontier becoming an ongoing under Williamson, there’s rumor Zdarsky is working on a miniseries exploring the ‘Elseworld’ established at the end of Death Metal, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we got a Supergirl book helmed by Marguerite Bennett. But if we’re shooting for the moon:

A Superman anthology led by a Dan Watters and Juan Ferreyra feature: Batman gets Urban Legends, Superman should get a thing. I actually imagine he will within the next year insomuch as Urban Legends is testing the waters for expansion of that model, but not with a team this good.

Tom Strong by Ram V and Marcio Takara: If Tom’s been dug up and is out there anyway let him play, I’m sure V could do a solid spin on the pulp hero and Takara would be a perfect fit, and they just worked together on the Justice League Dark backup in Future State.

The Authority by Steve Orlando and ACO: Back up as much money to Orlando’s house as necessary to adequately apologize, and then stand back.

Challengers of the Unknown by Sholly Fisch and Robson Rocha: Nobody built for an infinite frontier like that bunch, and I feel like this team could do it justice.

Something by N.K. Jemisin: I imagine it’s Campbell rather than Jemisin who has Far Sector going bimonthly (not that I blame him, take as long as you please for results like those) and there’s only a couple issues left, for god’s sake DC get her on the hook for something else while you still can before she either goes to Image or decides comics were a dalliance she’s done with. Give her another Jo Mullein book, let her run wild with Black Label on the big names, hand her Justice Incarnate or Aquaman or something to do whatever she wants with, something. Alternatively if that’s too vague give Simon Spurrier’s Hellblazer that last arc he wanted, that’s never been a book I’ve followed myself but I know this particular volume meant a lot to people and ended too soon.

#DC: Infinite Frontier #Opinion

[daresplaining]

Secret Wars Journal: Hell’s Kitchen

[ID: A panel from a Secret Wars Journal story. Elektra and a version of Matt Murdock (wearing a bloody chef’s jacket, black and white checked pants, and with a red cowl covering the top half of his face) are standing together in a white room. Next to them is a table, on which is Man-Thing’s bleeding body. Matt is holding a knife.] 

Caption: “Two artists. One to bring the flesh. One to make it glorious.”

    Happy Halloween! This year, I wanted to spotlight one of my favorite macabre alternate universe Daredevil stories, presented by Simon Spurrier, Jonathan Marks, and Miroslav Mrva in Secret Wars Journal (2015) #2. I love a What If? that isn’t afraid to be a little bit weird, and this tale fully digs into its surreal, bloody premise, with delicious results.

    This alternate universe brings us into the court of Mister Sinister, a tyrannical replicator with a taste for fine dining of an unusual variety. To hunt down the most obscure creatures for his table, he employs a mute killer known as the Collektra (an alternate universe version of Elektra who-- you know-- collects). At Mister Sinister’s relentless bidding, Collektra travels the worlds, slaughtering monsters and bringing them back to be transformed into delicacies by the court’s master chef, Matt Murdock-- a.k.a. “the Fare-Devil”.   

[ID: Collektra carries Man-Thing’s severed head down a red-lit cathedral-like hallway. A row of figures carry Man-Thing’s body behind her.]

Matt (caption): “He needs tame wonders, controlled by teleport-tags or simple terror. He needs slaves. Like her.”

[ID: She enters through a white doorway. Matt’s hand, holding a knife, is in the foreground.]

Matt: “Sounds like you brought me a big bastard today!”

Matt (caption): “And like me. Matt Murdock.”

[ID: Collektra, holding up the head, is shown in abstract shades of green, purple, and pink: a representation of Matt’s radar sense.]

Matt (caption): “I lost my sight as a kid, though there were... unexpected advantages. Forget enhanced hearing. Forget super-sensitivity. The master holds a sophisticated palette, above all else. So, no. I’ve never seen the woman I love... but I can taste her pain. We’re bound, she and I. Bound by our talents as much as our bodies.”

    Matt’s enhanced taste buds have always been his most narratively-neglected sense, and so it’s fun to see a version of his character who is a chef, because well, it's just logical. With his superhuman palette, Fare-Devil crafts strange and wondrous dishes for Mister Sinister and his guests, all the while dreaming of one day escaping to freedom with his love, Collektra. 

[ID: A collection of small panels showing Matt preparing various meals.]

Matt: “I’ve spent years in this pit. Years making wonders for a tyrant and his guests. My Beignets du K’un Lun Yeti made the Black Queen weep. Three Thors once gorged so hard on my Night-Fanger Biryani they couldn’t fly home. The House of Hyperion has twice threatened war for the secret of my Fricadelles du Stegosaure “Au Vincent”. Even the god-king Doom himself gave a singular exultant sigh at my famed Magret de Canard Caricaturée á L’Excelsiorange.”

    (He cooked Howard the Duck...)

    Matt’s plan to enact vengeance upon Mister Sinister is simple: he is going to poison him, with a toxin powerful enough to destroy not only Sinister himself but all of his hive-mind clones as well. He has his poison-- the venom from an Atlantean sea creature-- but there is only one problem. Before each feast, Mister Sinister has Collektra taste the food to be sure it’s safe. But Matt thinks he has this figured out too.  

[ID: Several green-tinted flashback panels. The first shows Matt’s working in the kitchen.]

Matt (Caption): “I took a looooot of care cutting out the venom that day. The feast went fine. I made Collektra a treat-- same as every night. Got it sent up to her room. It’s our one ritual, see? The only thing I can give her.”

[ID: Collektra walks down a staircase toward Matt, who looks shocked.]

Matt (caption): “It wasn’t until the morning I realized I’d used the same knife on both. But then... there she was. Like always. Ready for the hunt. Just dumb luck... a dose small enough to be metabolized. And maybe... just maybe... to start building an immunity.”

[ID: A hand holding a vial of dark greek liquid.]

Matt: “I have spent a year poisoning my beloved to increase her tolerance. Today my stock of the venom ran out. All that’s left was the last-- and largest-- dose. And so today is the day. Today the toxin will roar like mental fire between the identikit brains of the man I hate... while she? She won’t feel a thing.” 

    And so, our story brings us to the day of reckoning; the day when Matt will kill Mister Sinister and free himself and the woman he loves. He serves up a meal laced with a full dose of the deadly venom, and waits. 

[ID: Collektra, mid-dance, bends backward toward Mister Sinister, who holds a ladle out to her.]

Sinister: “Let she who collected the flesh be the first to taste it. It’s only fair.”

Matt (caption): “He thinks he’s covered. He thinks he’s safe. Today I will save the woman I love.”

[ID: Collektra puts a hand to her head, looking ill, then convulses and vomits up blood.]

The results are... not pretty. 

[ID: Matt is kneeling on the floor behind Mister Sinister while a man in an old fashioned soldier’s uniform pokes him with a sword.]

Sinister: “You are, of course, not a scientist. You are also extremely stupid.”

Soldier: “Creative types, eh, Sinny? Bloody scroungers, the lot.”

Sinister: “I suggest you therefore trust my expertise when I tell you nothing mortal can survive the venom of the Vex Imperius, at even the most minuscule dosage. One cannot-- one does not-- develop immunity.”

Matt: “B-b-but she... e-e-every day she was f--”

Sinister: “I am a cloner, you unfathomably dense individual.”

    The venom kills Collektra, who is almost instantly replaced by another, identical version of herself. An amused Mister Sinister reveals to this new Collektra and a shattered Matt the horrible truth: Rather than building his love’s immunity, Matt has been murdering Collektra every night, and after each death, Mister Sinister has replaced her with a new clone. 

    The plan has failed. Matt will never escape, and Collektra now-- understandably-- hates him. And so the story ends as it began-- with the Fare-Devil about to prepare another meal.    

[ID: Matt walks through a door holding Collektra’s blood-splattered corpse. In the background is Mister Sinister’s dining hall, still full of guests, and the new Collektra clone.]

Sinister: “Do try not to drip on the carpets.”

#Secret Wars Journal #Daredevil #Matt Murdock #Elektra Natchios #Mister Sinister #Commentary