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emixion · 3 years

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Speed Force - Day 20 Maribat MArch 2021

Loosely following the prompt today. But, hey, this counts right? Based on the final scene from Justice League: Apokolips War. @maribatmarch-2k21 ao3 link The world was broken, that much was clear.

The war with Apokolips had taken its toll on Earth. The planet once filled with life was reduced to rubble and ruin, the few and far between survivors despaired and broken.

The Justice League had lost half its members.

Team Miraculous had been wiped except for Ladybug, Rena Rouge and Carapace.

The Teen Titans were obliterated, leaving only Starfire, Raven and Robin.

The was nothing left of the Suicide Squad.

Superman had lost his entire family and Batman had lost all but two of his sons.

The shattered remains of Earth’s heroes sat solemnly together in front of what was left of the old Titan tower, looking out on the coast. There were too many people who weren’t there with them.

Aquaman.

Green Lantern.

Cyborg.

Zatanna.

Batwoman.

Lois Lane.

Catwoman.

Harley Quinn.

Superboy.

Beast Boy.

Wondergirl.

Batgirl.

Orphan.

Spoiler.

Signal.

Red Hood.

Red Robin.

Blue Beetle.

Shazam.

Ryuuko.

Viperion.

King Monkey.

Pegasus.

Chat Noir.

The list went on and on.

Ladybug sniffled, her head on Robin’s shoulder. She thought about her fallen teammates, watching Rena comfort a distraught Carapace out of the corner of her eye. They’d lost so much during this war, she could hardly fathom that there used to be a time when they weren’t surrounded by tragedy.

Robin stayed mostly stoic, his arm wrapped tightly around Ladybug’s shoulders, but there was a sad look in his eyes. It was obvious to Ladybug that he was in mourning. Who wouldn’t be? He’d lost all of his siblings except one, who wasn’t even himself anymore.

He glanced guiltily at Starfire and Raven, who were trying to soothe a restrained and exhausted Nightwing.

He knew he promised Marinette that he would never go near a Lazarus pit again, he just couldn’t stand the thought of losing another sibling.

Starfire was hushing the restless Dick Grayson, who seemed to have exhausted himself in his struggle. Raven sat quietly with them, her white hood covering her expression. Her hand carded idly through Nightwing’s hair. Dick was the closest thing she had to a brother.

Damian’s attention shifted to Titus, who’s chin was rested on Mari’s leg. He gave the dog a gentle scratch behind the ear with his free hand.

The silence of the group was broken when Batman returned, approaching Superman and Wonder Woman.

“Any news?” Diana asked.

“The planet’s rotation is compromised.” Bruce announced grimly.

“How bad?” Asked Clark.

“We lost thirty-one percent of the Earth’s core.”

The air over the group grew even more heavy.

Batman announced there would likely be millions upon millions of more deaths before there would be any sort of normalcy.

Marinette stifled a sob, a hand coming up to cover her mouth. Damian pulled her closer.

Superman was desperately trying to rile the crowd, stating that they could still fix everything if they pulled together. That heroes never quit. It didn’t seem very convincing.

At the edge of the group, The Flash sat alone, bouncing his knee anxiously. John Constantine approached him, a cigarette between his lips.

“You know what you have to do, mate.” John said lowly to the other man, tossing his cigarette to the ground and stomping it. They both looked like hell.

Barry looked at the ground, his shoulders slumping.

“I can’t.” he shook his head. “I promised Iris before she…” He trailed off, pausing to compose himself. “Everything would change again. Again.”

Constantine laid a hand on his shoulder. “And some of those changes may be shit, but we could be a lot better off than we are right now.” He said as the two men looked over the small group of survivors.

After another moment of hesitation, Barry looked back to Constantine and gave him a nod.

His face grew determined and he stood up shakily, crouching down into a sprinting position. He was off in a split second, a streak of speed over the water in front of them.

The group watched as a blinding light emerged from the direction Barry ran to.

“Run, Barry, Run.” Constantine muttered, as the light grew bigger and brighter.

A silent understanding washed over the group as they watched the light approach them. They braced themselves, those in pairs or groups clutching tightly to each other.

Clark placed either hand on Diana and Bruce’s shoulders. Alya held tightly onto Nino. Raven and Kori hunched protectively over Dick. Mera, Martian Manhunter and Hawkman stood up to get a better look.

Marinette’s eyes shined with unshed tears as she watched the light come closer. She knew what this meant, and so turned to Damian, who was already looking at her. His expression said everything he wanted to say, there was no need for words.

She leaned in and kissed him with everything in her. Damian kissed her back just as intensely, wrapping his arms around her waist, holding her as close as possible as the light enveloped the shore.

Hopefully it brought a better tomorrow.

#maribat #maribat march #maribat march 2021 #daminette #maridami #mlb x dc #ml x dc

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underthestarlitsky · 3 years

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I would love to hear your thoughts on YJS3

sure! fair warning, though, I'm a ranty person by nature so this might end up being a bit long. sorry in advance ♡

anyway! things I liked:

the humor: s3 was pretty funny lmao, theres that whole collection of outta pocket scenes from throughout the season that I find hilarious each time + the humor was a little more dirty which is nice bc the audience has also grown up from the kids they might've been when they watched it on CN

dickbabs!: I'm not a huge fan of dickbabs, I prefer dickkory (no hate to dickbabs stans btw I just vibe more with dickkory) but this dynamic between the two of them was so sweet and well-balanced I couldnt help but squeal everytime they were on-screen

Clark and Conner getting along: them calling each other brothers was so CUTE I canttt

FORAGER: an absolute legend 10/10 freaking love him

That Episode With The Hallucination: mmmmmmm I miss wally. SO MUCH. and the og 6 I was Super Mad about the first timeskip so it was nice to see them all together again🥰

yeah that's about it for things I liked lmao. now time for the Much Longer list of Things I Hated:

HALO: young justice the bar was so fucking low how are you still successfully doing the limbo what the fuck. you take a muslim immigrant in what is VERY CLEARLY a hijab and 1. infantilize her to an exceptionally uncomfortable degree (I KNOW SHE WAS THE MOTHERBOX, I DONT CARE) to the point where she resembles a five-year-old with every sentence she speaks or action she takes 2. you made a visibly muslim girl claim that she's actually no longer muslim, she's just wearing the hijab as some kind of security blanket???? I'm sorry??? what the fuck were you aiming for here exactly 3. why did you have to name her violet harper. what. 4. really?? the immediate romance with brion? What the shit was up with that...you make her Muslim in some aspects like victor not seeing her hair when she brushes it but her LITERALLY making out with brion like I'm sorry what the fuck are you doing??? you had one muslim character and you fucked up so bad holy shit...like...it could've been simple as hell, man, but no...Big Yikes.

M'gann: I've said this before but I really feel like once they introduced artemis m'gann immediately became a side character whose only job is to be villainised again and again even though it doesn't really vibe with her character. Secret teams?? Lying to Conner??? This isn't s3 but that whole thing with their breakup in s2...what the shit are they doing to M'gann, man. I loved her so much in s1, she's literally trying her best after having gone through so much and it's never fully explored...like we get half explanations every season but we're never shown half the shit that we were given for artemis. And by making her the Uncool Girlfriend at points it just looks like they're trying make her easy to hate like what the fuck. no. stop it

The Plot: too overcomplicated, too many characters. It's only season three, why are you introducing Apokolips already. Why are there so many characters?? what's with all the subplots yall were switching location cards every five minutes. And it's so convoluted...like...what was going on with Beast Boy and the monkey-god-doom-patrol-exposition stuff? I can't even remember if there were two granny goodnesses or just the one. All of those meta kids left over from the last season are a cute cast but like...I was so bored??? we know you can do well-written self-contained storylines a la s1, so hop to it, yeah?

THE ANIMATION: ok ok ok so. season 1 and two (one especially) had a very distinct feeling to them and that feeling was very late-2000s Cartoon Network Action Show - the base model for the males and females is the same (like Ben 10 Alien Force) the colors were not dynamic (stayed the same no matter the lighting, lots of cel shading, and generally were realistically colored in the sense that suspension of disbelief was not entirely necessary) CHEEKBONES, gritty textures and purple skies (Batman the Brave and the Bold). overall theres a certain Tone to the earlier seasons that spoke a lot to the animation capabilities of the studios at the time, as well as the general feel of the show. however, season three was a MAJOR downgrade in terms of animation. they made it both simpler and more complicated - they started using their DCAMU animation style which while it does give muscles to the women, adds too many unneeded shadows and a strange stiffness and dullness to every character. There are now extra lines and uncessesary shadows on the face of every character, and their eyes and facial features are almost identical. There's also less highlights, and the hairstyles are way too overcomplicated now to be appealing (see mgann and dick) - the hair is unspeakably dull and and the skin tones and hair colors are painful on the eyes. This isn't even taking into account the shitty backgrounds they've started using (AHEM AHEM ARTEMIS'S KITCHEN) because while the earlier seasons may have had unappealing, mostly empty settings, the characters still fit in to the scene, unlike now.

the lack of sisterhood????: apparently, only artemis goes to see zatanna for her Dr. Fate appointments. Apparently, M'gann barely talks to Artemis after the very tragic apparent death of Wally. the two of them, dare I say even the THREE of them, should be close as hell considering they spent their early years super-heroing together on a team full of boys. M'gann LITERALLY called Artemis her sister in the SAME EPISODE she was introduced, and neither of them had any real girlfriends other than each other at this point. M'gann who fell apart so hard Artemis died in her head that she almost killed them all in her grief. Like. You're telling me, you're SHOWING me that these two aren't each other's support system? Where is the sisterhood, bitch????

Lastly: the costume design. I understand that they're constrained by the need to make it simple enough to animate, but COME ON. if you're going to borrow Diana's DCAMU/JL: War costume, at least keep the metal silver. What the fuck is that green-gold. And Tigress? god DAMN that mask is ugly. Cassie looks like she robbed a goddamn supermarket discount clothing aisle for her outfit. Why is bart's outfit Like That it's so ugly it makes me want to cry. @ young justice costume designers Please Rethink Your Decisions

that's about all I can think of right now. it got REALLY negative whoops, but theres just so much I didn't like about this season :/ hopefully the next one will better ;-;

#thanks for the ask!#dc #dawn rants #young justice #mgann morzz #artemis crock #violet harper #opinions

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frasier-crane-style · 3 years

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Watching Snyder League

-Diana literally vaporizes a guy armed with nothing but an assault rifle.

-Also, these have gotta be like the dumbest terrorists. Their plan:

A. Send multiple armed gunmen to take hostages.

B. Stall for time

C. Set off a suitcase bomb on a one minute countdown (why not just set it off immediately? It's In The Script)

You have a suitcase bomb--just park a car somewhere, set the timer, leave it in the trunk, and walk away. You can kill as many people as you want without losing any of your own guys.

-Superman's scream sends out five separate shockwaves. Which makes me think the guy's milking it, personally.

- I'm amused that both SOP for the Amazons is having, like, fifty people standing around guarding the Mother Box. AND that they don't ramp up security after it wakes up.

- And there's this system of burying the Mother Box. Which 1. seems like the only way to get there in the first place is to teleport in. What good is this system against a teleporter?

2. It takes six guards to suicide themselves by knocking down pillars, which seems like--in five thousand years, you couldn't come up with something where you just pull a level from twenty feet away?

This is the problem with the Amazons. They're all women, so none of them go into STEM fields.

- It's also real weird that this Bruce Wayne doesn't even try to hide that he's Batman. He just walks right up to Aquaman and goes "hey, Bruce Wayne, I'm also Batman." And remember, he's getting the Justice League together entirely based on a hunch. At least in Josstice League, there were Parademons all up in Gotham.

- And should I even bother to ask why Darkseid's people can't just bring three new Mother Boxes to Earth? Are those the only three? If so, you'd think they'd try to get them back sooner. Like, A LOT sooner.

- Okay, this was supposed to come out one year before Infinity War, but still, it was pretty obvious what Marvel was doing with Thanos and the Infinity Gauntlet. They had to know they were inviting comparisons.

-I love the implication, tho, that Darkseid just lost track of the Mother Boxes and just... no one realized they were back on Earth. And they have Parademons that can specifically sniff out the Mother Boxes.

-And if Superman dying was such a momentous occasion that it woke up a Mother Box, why not the Old Gods dying? Why not Ares dying? Wouldn't that have left Earth just as undefended?

-I have no idea why any of this is happening a couple years after Superman debuted and then died and not in, like, 1446.

-Are the Mother Boxes like finicky computers? Do you need to turn them off and on again? When Superman showed up, did they shut down for real, and then he died, so they came back on for real? Is it like a Windows 95 thing, where you can't JUST turn the computer off, you have to go to the start menu and press Shutdown and then wait for it to close up shop?

-It’s so weird that this is supposed to be a Dark, Mature Adaptation For Adults! And it doesn’t have the same basic logic you’d get from an episode of Power Rangers.

-So. Much. Daddy issues.

-Please stop letting Ezra Miller improv.

-They cast like the gayest man in America to play the one guy with a love interest.

-Diana: "I lost someone I loved once." Well, twice, but who's counting?

-All those reshoots and they couldn't get Amber Heard to knock off the British accent?

-Why is Desaad, of all people, Darkseid’s dragon? Is it just because they were rifling through all the Fourth World saga to find the few guys with scary names instead of Granny Goodness or Virman Vundabar?

- And they really play up Darkseid appearing to Steppenwolf, but we've not only already seen him in the big flashback, we saw him get his ass kicked by Zeus of all people.

- And the whole thing where Steppenwolf is part of Darkseid's 'family' really isn't helping the Thanos-Nebula-Gamora comparison.

-It's weird to introduce Darkseid as the guy who was already beaten once. Wouldn't it make more sense that Steppenwulf was the guy who lost, and that allowed Darkseid to take over, and now he's trying to redeem himself for his defeat? Or that Darkseid was never defeated at all, but someone stole the Anti-Life Equation from him and hid it on Earth? Something. Instead, it’s literally just randomly burnt into the crust of the Earth, Darkseid discovers it, then forgets all about it for reasons the movie doesn’t get into despite being four damn hours long.

-It’s only the central plot, whatever, forget about it.

- Pretty sure Kal eye-lasered a couple Army guys to death after he was resurrected, not that he ever gives a shit.

-Third big reveal of Darkseid. Come on, you've shown him three times now. We've heard him talk.

-And this does the same thing as Josstice League with Superman being more powerful than the rest of the JLA put together. Here, he even no-sells Steppenwolf's axe. He just lets it hit him and it doesn’t do shit. So Doomsday could kill him, but Steppenwolf can't even scratch him. And yet Wonder Woman seems pretty evenly matched with both, if not outclassed by Steppenwolf.

-Barry Allen spends the whole climax running in a circle. And he fails at it! Dude's really retarded when he doesn't have Team STAR Labs cheering him on.

-He also casually travels back in time to undo his side getting a Game Over, which makes you wonder how any conflict in this universe can ever have any stakes. Say what you will about Endgame, but at least they explain why time travel can’t solve every problem they ever have.

-Hell, the Mother Boxes can bring people back to life. The example used is literally “it can turn smoke back into a house.” Why not bring Joe Morton back to life? He did a good job in T2, c’mon.

-Speaking of, according to TV Tropes, Ray Fisher got to come up with his own backstory for Cyborg (”I don't praise Chris Terrio and Zack Snyder for simply putting me in Justice League. I praise them for EMPOWERING me (a black man with no film credits to his name) with a seat at the creative table and input on the framing of the Stones before there was even a script!”), which makes it kinda hilarious that this movie’s characterization of Cyborg is that he’s a genius sports hero who also loves helping out the underprivileged.

-AND his big conflict with his dad is that Silas Stone was never there for him, as literally represented by there being an empty seat next to his mom at Vic’s big sportsball game. So apparently the black experience is indistinguishable from Austin Powers In Goldmember. Who knew?

-What else? It's weird that the narrative tries to put some importance in Martha Kent, but then in her big scene with Lois, she's really Martian Manhunter (not kidding) and when Superman is resurrected, he hears encouraging words ONLY from Jor-El and Jonathan. All she really contributes to the story is hugging Superman after he comes back.

-Also, Batman spends a lot of time in the climax shooting people with a rifle. They're bug people and it's, like, a Halo rifle, but still. You can tell Snyder's just chomping at the bit to have Batman carry around a Colt Commando.

-They give no shits about secret identities in this, so why do they still bother with putting a shitty distortion effect on Batfleck's voice? He has a pretty good Batman voice outside the suit, but once he puts it on, he starts sounding like he's giving a blowjob to Daft Punk.

-One of the movie’s, like, four cliffhangers is Lex Luthor telling Deathstroke about Batman’s secret identity, because Deathstroke has a private vendetta against Batman and is out to get him. Of all the Bat rogues who are solely motivated by taking out Batman--why choose Deathstroke, the guy that’s just a mercenary for hire, to characterize as simply hating Batman? (They also imply Batman took out Deathstroke’s eye and THAT’S the big feud between him and--guys. C’mon. This was really supposed to be a whole movie of Deathstroke getting revenge for his eye?)

- The movie ends with them making Wayne Manor the JLA headquarters--God, just tell me if secret identities matter or not.

-Did we really need two ‘beyond the impossible’ scenes back to back, one for Cyborg and one for the Flash?

-Oh, it’s not Arkham Asylum, it’s ‘Arkham Home For The Emotionally Troubled.’ Was this supposed to be one of those Arrowverse things where they call it Starling City for a while, only to rebrand it Star City because that’s somehow better than just calling it Star City in the first place?

- "[Snyder] also said that the reason Darkseid lost track of which world the Mother Boxes were left on was because he was gravely injured and their forces sent limping away, and upon returning to Apokolips had to fight a civil war for the throne (possibly the event hinted where Steppenwolf betrayed him), wherein their records were lost." Imagine having a movie four hours long and not explaining the fucking backstory.

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geekmedium · 3 years

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Jack Kirby’s Jimmy Olsen

So I just got through reading the first omnibus in Jack Kirby’s Fourth World saga. I’m gonna try to make my way through every last one in order to see what the big deal is and analyze why they have such imaginative power while other Jack Kirby creations like the Eternals went down the memory hole.

And honestly this isn’t an auspicious way to start. I had wondered for a while why Jimmy Olsen isn’t really recommended in the New Gods Saga and now I know why. It’s barely a New Gods book. The only connections to the New Gods are:

Mokkari and Simyan as the recurring antagonists

Morgan Edge working for Darkseid (which isn’t resolved in this book)

Lightray appearing for a scene

Clark spending an issue in New Genesis

A few references to the Forever People

Not exactly the best intro to the War of the New Gods. In fact I would describe this book more as New Gods clean up. It spends more time dealing with threats that are the spillover of war rather than confronting the war directly.

The real through line of these tales is “The Project.” A genetics facility that would later be known as Project Cadmus.

Mokkari and Simyan create threats based on Cadmus tech. Superman and Jimmy deal with the monsters of a Cadmus scientist. We meet the D.N.Alien Dubbilex who investigates a secret passage to Cadmus. Heck the entire story starts with Jimmy investigating a wildness group that uses technology left over from Cadmus. If you’re someone who likes Project Cadmus then this is a highly recommended collection for you.

I think the biggest revelation was that Superman was a partner and firm advocate for the Project. Literally every piece of superhero media I’ve watched portrayed Project Cadmus as morally dubious at best, so it’s kind of surreal that Kirby intended them to be good guys. Especially since a lot of stuff they do in this book is still morally dubious. They create human clones (seemingly without permission) and employ mad scientists. Some of their soldiers are children or teens and they seem really intent on keeping all this literal life changing tech undercover. It’s kind of wild that Kirby framed all of this in the narrative as morally good without questioning it at all. Then again, wasn’t eugenics a well thought of science back in the day? I figured it died out in the 50s or so, but maybe a lot of people still agreed with it in the early 70s.

Anyway, the real reason why I think Project Cadmus is the focal point is that it allowed Kirby to work where he shines brightest. Big ideas.

Someone once described Jack Kirby as a hundred ideas per square inch, and it’s hard to disagree when reading through this. Small planets, D.N.Aliens, the Habitat, Zoomway, and the solar phone are just some of the inventions that fill the pages of this collection and I purposely left out the stuff connected with New Gods like the Boom Tube. But more than just making cool technology, Jack gave Superman cool threats.

It can be hard coming up with challenges for any incarnation of the Man of Steel, and I have to imagine the Bronze Age one was one of the hardest. But reading through these I’m amazed with how rarely I felt the threat was below Superman. And I think that comes down to the fact that rarely was Kirby trying to write a cosmic wrestling match. His solution to problems had a more cerebral element to them, and required Superman to get creative or even occasionally play for a more peaceful resolution. I think my favorite was when he saved Cadmus from a collection of atomic energy eaters in like 10 seconds.

In fact, Kirby wrote an absolutely fantastic Superman. Strong, clever, mature, creative, kind, and badass. I said it can be hard to write for Superman, and I think a lot of comic writers think that decreasing him makes him work better, but Kirby knew that all you really have to do is make the threats bigger. And this cosmic war of gods, with Earth as just a casualty in the way, is about as big as you can get. And as a result, the Superman that emerges here is all the stronger for facing these threats as they come one by one while also trying to help start a whole new branch of science that these monsters threaten or distort. While this isn’t much of a New Gods book, I consider it a bit of a hidden classic for Bronze Age Superman stories.

But what about the titular character of Jimmy Olsen? Well honestly, he really ends up playing a side character in his own book. And I’m fine with that, because I think Jimmy only really works as a spotlight character once every couple dozen of issues, but if you are reading these stories for him, you’ll probably be disappointed. It’s not that he has nothing to do, but when your book has New Gods and Superman and genetic warfare and interdimensional schemes of every shape and size, you’re just gonna have to play second or even third billing. To be fair, no other main player in the Superman mythos can really tag along either. Lois is nowhere to be seen, I think Perry White only shows up once, and while Morgan Edge is a small antagonists, he really only acts as an orchestrator instead of a major player. They are all gone to make room for the Newsboy Legion.

And man do the Newsboy Legion just barge into the story. Sometimes literally.

Kirby seemed to really want to make them a thing again like when he wrote them in the 40s. It kind of reminds me of how J.M. DeMatteis tried to put Vermin in a lot of his stories. And just like with Vermin, they really end up over staying their welcome.

They were fine in the first two or three issues, but around the time the Outsiders (no not those Outsiders, a different one) exit the story, the NL should have left too. They could return for a story or two, but no more. Instead Kirby makes sure they appear in every single story in this omnibus, including ones where they aren’t really needed. Oh no! Jimmy has been ambushed and Clark has been sent off to Apokolips with no way to return. Quick, let’s go see what hijinks the Newsboy Legion are getting up to. Like, I don’t hate them, and giving Superman super wacky kids who support him in his adventures isn’t a setup I’m adverse to, since that’s basically what Jimmy was for the Silver/Bronze Age. But man, the 70s slang and rapscallion attitude you see in the panel above is only a little of what shows up, and it gets really grating after a while.

On top of that were some other weird cast choices. I actually really like the Golden Guardian’s setup as a genetically made man with memories implanted with those of a dead man. I really looked forward to him relearning his past life while making a new one in Metropolis as much needed backup for Superman. But he honestly ends up as just a kind of Captain America clone

He also ends up just dropping out of the story later on. Not even leaving, it’s just that one scene he is with Superman exploring the city and the next Superman is off exploring a secret tunnel with Dubbilex and not-Lois character Terry Dean.

And speaking of Terry Dean I find it just hilarious that she is in this panel. Superman and the others are exploring secret entrances and contemplating literal apocalyptic war, and she’s just kind of...there. For those who don’t know or care, according to my research she is a character who showed up once before Kirby came on the Jimmy title, twice after he left it, and then one more time eighteen years later as a deep cut in Superman vol 2. #46.

If I seem to be nitpicking, it’s just that it’s so weird Kirby would go for this character instead of bringing in Lois. And he includes another weird character named Goody Rickels for like two or three issues for a story arc I’m gonna have to reread just to understand what the point of it was.

Still, ignoring these flaws, the Jack Kirby’s Jimmy Olsen Omnibus is a recommend if for nothing else than the fact that it is a good set of Superman stories with incredibly inventive and creative plots that hint at a larger world on the horizon. And I honestly can’t wait to tackle that new world of New Gods.

#review #Jack Kirby #Superman #bronze age #Fourth World

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beyondthetemples-ooc · 4 years

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Okay! So! Thoughts!!

I have too many to put in the tags.

“I will kill you, boy!”

...OH. Fuck, you hear Trigon AND Raven's voice in that line. That's even more unsettling than his alone...

Probably really sucked for Raven to hear herself making that threat. To him.

Fuck.

"who have diminished powers at this point"

I'm sorry, WHAT? How? I mean, Kryptonite Tattoo obviously for Clark, but RAVEN?

(she's such a canonically op character, they probably had to nerf her to keep the movie Balanced tbh)

CONSTANTINE JUST.

*DECKS* CLARK

And it's GLORIOUS.

(i have to invoke the laugh rule on that. i laughed.)

ZATANNA being DROWNED IN PARADEMONS has ME (and JOHN CLEARLY) so CONCERNED.

"We took iconic elements from that story..."

Wait, which story? What on earth was THIS movie based on?

"Oh, you should do that story from high school."

Are you telling me this movie was based on a FAN FICTION? (Because I am absolutely DELIGHTED by the idea!)

Or was the thing with Supergirl getting a tattoo of kryptonite actually CANON? (Even if it was some Alternate Earth canon.)

There's not a lot of Damian in this trailer, but dear gods, it's Important.

--Who...??

That wouldn’t be Damian, would it? I don’t think they animate him that dark. Someone from the League of Assassins?

...fuck

hearing Raven say her iconic "No!" like that.... Shatter me.

"Only a matter of time."

Yeah. Yeah, I'm definitely convinced that shot of Raven and Trigon “in Azarath” is a mindscape scene.

“Even awful parents care about their kids... I should know.”

That’s-- okay. Sighs. That’s not “caring” about their kids, that’s “caring” about the fact that they’re your progeny and nothing more. That’s “caring” about what YOU want them to be, what YOU want them to do; that’s “caring” about YOUR OWN ambitions.

Being an empath in an abusive situation, I can confirm that they THINK they love you, but that’s not the same as LOVING you. It’s not the same as “caring about their kids”.

I could absolutely Go Off on this, but I just don’t have the energy right now.

“Raven is a character where as tormented as she is, she wakes up every day having to sort of choose to hope and choose to do better...”

.....I Know the Feel, Soul Sister...

LOIS LANE. Lois and Clark is canon again! And I am LOVING how much of a badass they're planning to play her as.

"With... a group you wouldn't expect?"

I've heard rumors of the Suicide Squad. Don’t know why they’re being so cagey about This Particular Plot Detail when they’re also literally showing characters dying or going evil in other previews, but okay! Sure?

Also:

“We need to blow up Apopkolips.”

Okay, that’s hella ambitious.

I’m down for a hella ambitious mission!

then the preview just...

.................

...ouch

Ow. That shot with Raven. The one that destroys me. I don’t want to screencap it, so take this one instead. She's on Titans Island. And the Tower is absolutely decimated.

I still want to know why/how Clark is there, but by Azar, I'm glad he was.

"What can I say? I had issues."

Implying you DON'T anymore, Lex?

BLACK ORCHID.

Makes me wonder if/what they’re going to do with the House of Mystery?~

"The best you could ever hope for"

Are you SURE? Better than (the original) Crisis on Infinite Earths?

I mean it's going to have JOHN CONSTANTINE, so you've got a shot. But how the HELL are you going to be better than a year-long run like that with only NINETY FREAKING MINUTES. The HELL? I'm BAFFLED. I'm CONCERNED, I'm CONFUSED, I'm HOPEFUL, and I am ABSOLUTELY entirely too eager to SEE how this all PLAYS OUT!

"I don't think there's any way to prepare yourself for how 'out there' the climax of this movie is."

Oh trust me. I believe you. I hardcore believe you guys.

I don’t even know what’s happening and I know I am very Not Prepared.

#jld: apokolips war #rhs jld:aw

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Top 10 Moments from Young Justice Outsiders episodes 7-9 **SPOILERS**

So much stuff happened in these 3 episodes, I had to create an honorable mention category

Honorable Mentions

-Nabu is Vandal’s son.

This was an interesting twist. Nabu is a powerful, magical spirit that controls Doctor Fate and takes over the mind of whoever wears the Helmet of Fate. Nabu is currently in control of Zatanna’s Father, Zatara.

-Hot Lava

During a beach training sequence, Nightwing told Brion, Halo and Forager to come up with their Nom De Guerre (war name). Brion came up with the name Hot Lava and I love him for it.

-Nightwing

Nightwing was soooo dramatically funny in episode 7. From being EXTRA when telling the team to pick out their Nom De Guerre, and picking on Artemis about her stripper code name Tigress; Dick reminded us why we love him so much.

-Orphan slices Tetch/Clayface

In episode 8 we are introduced to Robin’s team consisting of Spoiler, Orphan and Arrowette. They are tailing Jervis Tetch to get some intel on the meta-human trafficking ring. Spoiler notices that something is off with Tetch and Robin points out that he is drinking a lot of water. They notice clay in the bottom of one of his discarded water bottles. Before Robin can say when, Orphan is gone and we get a shot of her slicing Tetch right down the middle of his body to reveal Clayface. That’s a boss way to make your animated appearance.

10. Stephanie

I never had that much of an opinion on Stephanie Brown. I never read her Batgirl or Robin run; and her role hasn’t been significant in the latest Detective run. After her YJ debut, I am a new fan. She was a good teammate and quick thinking on her feet. If it wasn’t for her, they wouldn’t have found Jervis Tetch’s base of operations. While Tetch was unfortunately able to escape, they put an end to his experiments, obtained valuable intel and freed several criminals from Tetch’s mind control. I am definitely open to her becoming Robin (if Tim becomes Red Robin first) and/or Batgirl in YJ if she continues to operate at this level of efficiency. Also Cassie better watch out. Tim was clearly impressed by her.

9. Victor Stone

Victor a.k.a Cyborg got a cool shout out, setting up his YJ debut. During football highlights, Victor was mentioned on a radio program. Victor was a promising football player until an accident cut his career short, leading him to become Cyborg. Cyborg is a long time member of the Teen Titans and Justice League.

8. Babies R Us

I loved this scene so much. In episode 9, we saw the future of the superhero community as Will Harper, Iris West-Allen, Lois Lane, Mera, Raquel Ervin (Rocket), John Smith (Red Tornado), Lynn Stewart and Karen Beecher-Duncan (Bumblebee) gathered for the most exclusive play date in history. We have seen the following babies this season: Lian Harper, Don & Dawn West-Allen, Jon Kent, Arthur Curry Jr, Anissa & Jennifer Pierce, Damian Wayne, Amistad Ervin and Traya Sutton. The Universe will be in good hands with these Superbabies.

7. Tim

What an upgrade. In season 2 of YJ, Tim was leading the Beta team. Now in season 3, he has his own unit and is standing alongside Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Nightwing, Oracle and Miss Martian as the Anti-Light. It’s good to see characters be elevated into higher positions this season.

6. Lobo

The Light hired Lobo to kill Forager in order to obtain intel on Nightwing’s new team. Nightwing’s team gave everything they had to defeat Lobo but ultimately could not stop him. It took Forager tricking Lobo into thinking he killed him for the fight to be over. While Lobo ultimately failed, he gave The Light the intel they needed on Nightwing. And Lobo left a finger behind, so that will probably be important in future seasons.

5. Shiva beheads Prince Orm

During the ultimate playdate, a man watched the festivities from a house across the street. We learn that it was Prince Orm (King Arthur’s brother) who wanted to exact revenge against the Superhero community by killing their offspring. Suddenly SHIVA appears on behalf of The Light and encourages Orm to stand down. After he refuses, Shiva beheads Orm. As quickly as she appears, the crime scene is cleaned up and the heroes across the street are none the wiser. Orm’s death so early in the season is dumbfounding. Do not cross The Light. Even if you are amongst their ranks, you are disposable.

4. Vandal kills Olympia

The story of Vandal Savage (as told by his companions Olympia and his daughter Cassandra) took up the majority of episode 7. Throughout the episode, it appeared that Olympia was suffering from dementia, as she kept asking Cassandra the same questions over and over. Even thru her forgetfulness, she constantly displayed her admiration and love for Vandal. At the end of the episode, Vandal snapped Olympia’s neck; in what could be considered a mercy killing. After her death, we learn that Olympia was Vandal’s daughter. This was a sad turn of events as Olympia clearly adored Vandal; he killed her in front of her sister Cassandra; and Vandal clearly loved Olympia. This was the highlight of the Vandal story.

3. Granny Goodness

Throughout the season, we have seen people wearing virtual reality Goode Googles. We learn that these googles are actually made by Granny Goodness. Obviously something is going to happen to whoever wears the googles. So far this season, Garfield (Beast Boy) and Barbara (Oracle) have donned these googles.

2. 6 Teams

Surprise, Surprise. Batman didn’t abandon the League after all. In this episode we learn that six teams have been working undercover to fight the Light. These teams are being led by Aquaman (Kaldur’ahm), Wonder Woman (Diana of Themyscira), Batman (Bruce Wayne), Nightwing & Oracle (Dick Grayson & Barbara Gordon), Robin (Tim Drake) and Miss Martian (M’gann M’orzz). While they are affective in their objectives, Wonder Woman has serious doubts about lying to their respective teams. When questioned if they would lie on the stand, the Bats were stoic while Aquaman and Miss Martian exchanged nervous glances. Let’s be real, the Bats are the best liars in the game. She has nothing to worry about.

1. Step Into The Light

We finally know who is in The Light and their objective. The Light includes Vandal Savage, Lex Luthor, Klarion, Granny Goodness, Deathstroke, Queen Bee and Ultra-Humanite. The Light is aware of Dick’s off the books team consisting of Black Lightning, Tigress, Superboy, Brion, Halo & Forager. We also learn that Vandal and Darkseid made a pact to help each other take over the Galaxy. Once they have control over everything, there would be a final battle between Earth and Apokolips. The Light was assembled to battle Darkseid when that moment arrives. The Meta-Human trafficking is to prepare for that final battle.

What were your favorite moments in episodes 7-9

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This is Snyder

I don’t care for Zack Snyder. I don’t hate his craft as much as i hate Michael Bay, Snyder actually tries to make good movies, but i don’t find his schlock entertaining. He’s not a bad director, i guess, but his movies are always scatter-brained messes. I think Snyder is more a creative than a crafter. He’s the guy you want in your development stages, throwing out ideas and boarding those massive action scenes. If i were to equate him to a sports analogy, Snyder is the Offensive Coordinator on an American Football team. He’s the guy that builds the visual aspects of your scenes, the car who sets up the set pieces. He’s Mr. Battlemaster, the Attack Master, the guy you call in to adds little spice to your drama and conflict laden plot, not the guy you give the keys to an entire cinematic universe where you have to humanize godlike heroes. Emotional subtlety has never been Snyder’s strong point. Since the only DCEU film that was passable was Wonder Woman, the one flick that Snyder didn’t really have his hands on too much, i wanted to take some time and kind of dissect why i hate almost everything Snyder has ever made.

Dawn of the Dead

It’s been years since i’ve seen this movie but i recall enjoying it considerably. But it’s a zombie movie. And it wasn’t written by Snyder. That’s going to be a running theme in this; Other people’s stuff, Snyder is okay. His own stuff, not so much... Zack was only a Director on this flick which meas he just got to bring a script to life. He just got to pick the best scenes and build a cool looking movie. That’s Snyder at his best and it shows. For my money, DoD is his best film.

300

This was his breakthrough. 300 lends itself to Snyder’s style even more than DoD. The comic it’s based on is literally revisionist history written by 80s comic madman, Frank Miller. It is literally a series of splash pages with cool sh*t on them. In comic book speak, it’s literally a series of action set pieces. Splash pages are used to fill every inch of paper with dynamic, poignant, information. When every page of your book is a splash page, it conveys a sense of aggressive action. That is right up Snyder’s alley. There’s no room for plot or character development but that slow-mo buster kick to that persion dude was crazy dope, son! “THIS! IS! SPARTA!” It’s also a superficial, special FX laden, popcorn movie that is borderline sexist with all of the half naked dudes about but still, i had a good time.

Watchmen

Watchmen was the first Snyder movie i saw where i realized he was kind of out of his depth. Dude did his best to bring this unfimable story to the screen, and in some spots i think he did a really good job (Comedian’s arc was okay and that change toward the end made all of the sense to me) but overall, it lacked the emotional, philosophical, and political depth from the source material, you know, literally the reason why Watchmen is so goddamn brilliant. Snyder shot this movie like a mid 2000s cape flick. Think Raimi’s Spider-Man or X2 but infinitely more superficially, which is ridiculous because the Watchmen novel is infinitely more rich. WB kind of let up on Snyder’s leash a bit and he focused way too much on the sh*t that shouldn’t have been focused on. At it’s core, Watchmen is a character study of those old timey 80s archetypes and an indictment of the destructive materialism infecting society at that time. There’s a visceral moral question that my brother and i argue about all of the time and i believe Snyder stuck the landing, but he kept falling off the bar to get there.

Sucker Punch

Sucker Punch is one of the worst movies i have ever seen. The mechanics, the technical aspects of this movie, are just the worst. I can go into how this is basically a shittier version of Inception with the dream in a dram aspects or how that sh*t doesn’t make any sense in the movies established lore or timeline. I can go into how this thing technically takes place in between the five minutes that Babydoll is being moved from her cell to the lobotomy chair so none of it matter or how f*cking ridiculous it is that this woman’s name is f*cking “Babydoll”. Sucker Punch is wildly problematic and i’ve written at length about how i feel about it before, i think, but my point with this entry is to high light how messy this movie feels. This is Snyder wit h no brakes. This is Snyder unleashed, When left to his own design. THIS, Sucker Punch, is the type of movie Zack Syder wants to make. He wanted to explore the psychology behind being in such dire straights, the emotional and psychological rationale of those terrible circumstances but he also wanted naked chick, a dragon, and giant robot samurai in it. How does that work? You can’t put Nazi Zombies in Girl, Interrupted, man. that dog don’t hunt. i know because Sucker Punch tried it and IT was AWFUL!

The DCEU

I thought about doing these thing individually but considering he basically directed all of these f*cking movies (except Wondy) i can lump them all into one entry. WB mistook the success of the Grimdark Nolan Batman Trilogy as audiences wanted a bunch of edgelord superheroes. So they gave the Batman Begins treatment to f*cking Superman. And, to bring this car crash of an idea to the big screen, they give the reigns to Snyder. I don’t like Superman. I think he’s a terrible hero. How do you right him? What aspects do you focus on when the guy and turn back time by flying real fast? How do you make that asshole compelling? Snyder’s solution? Uncle Ben his ass! Guilt trip him into becoming the world’s savior! sh*t’s lazy son! Man of Steel was adequate though. it was good enough for the WB suits to hand the entire reigns of the DCEU over to this asshat and, oh boy, was that dumb! My chick is the biggest Superman fan and she hated this movie. For her, someone versed in the Kal-El mythos, this was an affront. From what little i know about Supes, i’d agree.

SO Snyder double-downs on his Batmanfication of Superman by literally introducing Batman into a Superman story. BvS is an abortion of a film. It destroys the archetype of what all of these heroes represent. Batman is a psychopath killer. Superman is a morose pussy. Lex Luthor is the goddamn Riddler from Batman Forever. It’s a goddamn mess. Which sucks because, at it’s core, there are a lot of good ideas here. I liked how Luthor was more Zuckerburg than Rockefeller. I liked the introduction of Wonder Woman, even if it felt a little forces at times. I liked at the whole “Punished Messiah” story line for Supes, even if it never got deeper than a puddle. I hated everything else. Everything was just too Snyder-y. Cool sh*t to look at as opposed to deep sh*t to identify with. But that’s what happens when you forgone character development for mech fights and a Doomsday story line that should have bookend a phase one of pictures. Seriously, Doomsday in the second goddamn movie of your fledgling franchise? No! no, im not going to get into that. We’ll address that later.

Suicide Squad was a goddamn mess. I know David Ayer directed that, and one day i hope we get to see that sh*t, but the studio brought Snyder in to fix what they felt was an unwatchable film. Seriously, Snyder is considered a “guest Director” on that film and it shows. Justice League is the same way but Joss Whedon kind of added a bunch of levity to this ridiculous film. While i think Justice League is trash, i also believe it’s the second best that the DCEU has produced, mostly because there was reprieve to ll of Snyder’s grimdark bullsh*t. Whedon was able to bring out the best of these characters. I eve liked Superman in this and i f*cking hate Superman. But that’s kind of my point. If you remove Snyder from the equation, you get solid sh*t! like Wonder Woman!

Everything about Wonder Woman screams dope. It reminds me of a Phase one MCU outing, which is a fitting tone for Diana’s adventures. It’s not a perfect movie, there area ton of issues with it, but overall, it is a delight. I think Gal Gadot gave her best performance and someone finally used Chris Pine in an advantageous manner. I think going full on Ares was a mistake but, in the context of the world, i get it. I thought this was a decent ride until the end. The climax was whack. Seeing as how Snyder is credited as a writer, i assume he wrote this part because it feels wildly Snyderish. Literally the worst pat of this film is the ending. Tonally, it’s ridiculous. It doesn’t fit. It’s poorly executed. But it’s fun to watch, i guess. That’s Snyder in a nutshell.

Ultimately, putting this guy in charge of the entire DCEU, which wanted to be a direct competitor to the MCU, was a mistake. His vision is ridiculous. He has too many ideas for any one film and with no one to reel that in, you get the mess that we have now. There are certain things that needed to happen in order for the DCEU to be relevant, to be good. Snyder doesn’t have the patience to execute like this though. He doesn’t want to put in the time to world build. He just wants to throw awesome looking sh*t on screen and move on. That, a good movie, does not make. If i had a say, i’d probably loosely follow the MCU Phases. That sh*t worked and gave ample time to develop a proper story. As an example, i’d have done something like this:

Phase One - Trinity

Movie 0: House of El. Prequel to the entire DCEU set in the final days of Krypton. You could establish all of the requisite Supermann necessities while also planting seeds for Brainiac, Doomsday, Apokolips, and Darkseid. This would be the backbone for the first three phases of your DCEU. Think Star Wars but with Krpytonians instead of Jedi.

Movie 1: The Batman or Gotham, dunno about that title yet, Definitely a Year one or Year Two Bat-story. I’d want to introduce The Long Halloween arc. Make it a noir, focus on the assumed Batman doing his detective thing, until the climax which would be an amalgamation of No Man’s Land and The Man Who Laughs. Like, Joker is holding the city hostage and all of the holiday murders were a distraction while he planted his trap. Batman would have to choose between his morals or vengeance in the end.

Movie 2: Superman Sequel. Calling this one Man of Steel as it would have both Superman and Metallo as the primary antagonist. I figure having Clark and Corbin duke it out makes for a clever title, you know? You can introduce Luthor as the mastermind, secretly collaborating with his miraculous AI that turns out to be Brainiac. Deathstroke could be hired muscle. Cadmus can be introduced. You get to see the introduction of Superman on a world wide scale as he and Metallo duke it out in the open. This would feel like that old Superman cartoon on the WB way back when. Light-hearted yet serious tone. Actual stakes. Sub plot of Lois figuring out Luthor is the reason all of the trauma occurs.

Movie 3: Wonder Woman. It will probably be a period peace set against WW1. It would pit her against Aries and the preconceptions of women during those bleaker times. The battle would be against disillusionment; trying to find a reason why Man should be defended or something of that nature. Wonder Woman would be more or less what we already got from Patty Jenkins, with a much better ending. Like, an actual pgysical fight with Aries seems dumb. If we have to go that course because of executive meddling, at least cast a better Ares. Make him more menacing and less inept. Motherboxes and a bit more of Apokolips will be introduced in this movie.

Movie 4: World’s Finest. Basically Batman against Superman while WW actually solves the real issues behind the scene. Like, she uncovers the underlying plot of the Motherboxes and actually tries to prepare for the coming of Steppenwolf. I really like the idea of Wonder Woman adapting her skill set to covert ops kind of like Motoko Kusanagi does. Also, you know, dudes is dumb and punchy. While Supes and Bats are having their tiff, Steppenwolf actually appears and engages the two of them. Ultimately, Wonder Woman arrives and the three of them, the Trinity, send ol boy packing back to Apokolips and the Motherboxes go dead. The Trinity is established, the seeds of Apokolips have been sown, and we can move into Phase Two - Justice League with the first movie of the lot; Death of Superman. Opening with the sidelining of the most powerful hero opens up a reason for Batman, having an established relationship with Winder Woman and Superman, realizing there are bigger things out there and a team might be necessary to combat them.

See, four movies, five if you count the Krypton prequel, and you’ve established the world, the main characters, the underlying conflict, and you have room to grow. You’ve developed characters, established the backbone to your entire universe, and given each of your principal heroes, Batman, Superman, ad Wonder Woman, their own outing, in the vein of their own themes. Grimdark works for Batman because he IS grimdark. Sh*t doesn’t fly with Superman or Wonder Woman. Diana is a warrior, set her story to the backdrop of a conflict to showcase her strengths. Superman wold spend his time trying to save Metallo, not murder him at the end of the goddamn movie because Supes is about believing in the good, not killing troubled assholes. Snyder didn’t have the patience to do this. He wasn’t building anything. He just wanted to put cool sh*t on the screen while trying to make everything dark and deep. He failed at both.

In closing, i don’t think Zack Snyder is a terrible director. I don’t. I think he has too may ideas and no one to reel him in when left to his own devices. When he is making someone else’s material, when he has a guidelines to follow and people keeping his rampant creative energy in check, he can be pretty good at his job, a la DOD or 300. Hell, i’d even give him Watchmen. But, left to his own devices, we get nonsense like Sucker Punch and BvS. Zack Snyder is everything that’s wrong with modern American cinema and it galls me to the core.

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How San Diego can you get?!

Graduate of San Diego's Will C. Crawford High School, founding committee member of the San Diego Comic-Con, one of Jack Kirby's San Diego Five String Mob, and leader of Dr. Raoul Duke and His All-Human Orchestra, may I present my brainy professor pal -- Roger Freedman!!! Scott Shaw post

Roger Freedman, Class of 1969

UCSB professor recalls early days of San Diego’s premiere event

COMIC-CON 2019: PROFESSOR DOUBLES AS A COMIC BOOK HERO

You may know Roger Freedman as a professor of physics at UCSB. Look again.

On Page 8 of Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen 144 (1971), Dr. Freedman, with his long red hair and glasses, is standing with the San Diego Five String Mob, as the Guardian and Superman look on. “Dig those weird instruments they play!” Terry Dean tells the superheroes.

Little do the trio know that Dr. Freedman and his friends are actually in league with one of DC Comics’ most powerful villains – Darkseid! Egads!

Dr. Freedman became immortal in DC Comics canon because of someone he met at the first San Diego Comic-Con: the legendary Jack Kirby.

Mr. Kirby (1917-1994) co-created Marvel Comics’ Iron Man, Captain America, Black Panther, Fantastic Four, and later created DC Comics’ Fourth World stories, which featured Darkseid and his fiery world Apokolips.

From the start, San Diego Comic-Con had big names, even if the first convention only had 300 or so people attending, a modest dealers room with card tables and comics books and movie posters for sale, and only one room with speakers and movies.

“You didn’t see the multi-media stuff you see today,” Dr. Freedman, 66, told the News-Press last week in a meeting room at UCSB Broida Hall.

The first convention, then called San Diego’s Golden State Comic-Con, took place Aug. 1-3 at the U.S. Grant Hotel, and tickets cost $3.50 for three days.

Fans got their money’s worth. Besides Mr. Kirby, the first convention featured legendary sci-fi authors Ray Bradbury and A.E. Van Gogt, Dr. Freedman, 66, said. “That really impressed me.”

Earlier this month, Dr. Freedman spoke on panels about the convention’s history and the science of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” at Comic-Con International: San Diego – specifically the 50th San Diego Comic-Con.

It has grown exponentially from what Dr. Freedman experienced that first year.

Around 130,000 fans, many of them dressed as superheroes and villains and characters from other realms of fantasy and animation, walked around a convention that has grown beyond the San Diego Convention Center and taken over nearby hotels and the downtown historic Gaslamp Quarter.

Fans often wait for many hours to see the latest stars, especially in Ballroom 20 or Hall H, which seats 6,500 fans. There’s a long history of fans camping out overnight in grassy areas and parks to get into Hall H, where this year Sir Patrick Stewart talked about reprising his famous “The Next Generation” character in the upcoming “Star Trek: Picard” series on CBS All Access.

Only Mr. Kirby knew how big San Diego Comic-Con would get, Dr. Freedman recalled.

“Jack made the comment, ‘Some day everything is going to be at this convention. All the TV studios are going to be here. All the media is going to be here,’ ” Dr. Freedman said, recalling a story he heard from comic book and TV writer Mark Evanier. “”Mark’s response was, ‘Sure, Jack, whatever you say. Let’s go get lunch.’

“Jack was exactly right,” Dr. Freedman said.

The lifelong sci-fi fan recalled how much easier it was to get an autograph or talk with a star in those early years.

“You would see these guys sitting around the table or around the pool. You would say, ‘Hey, Jack, can you sign this book for me?’ ‘What was it like working with Stan Lee?’ ” Dr. Freedman said. “We didn’t know you weren’t supposed to do that.”

Dr. Freedman and his friends chatted with Mr. Kirby at the first San Diego Comic-Con, and convention founder Shel Dorf later called Mr. Kirby to ask if they could visit him at his Thousand Oaks home. The DC and Marvel Comics legend said that would be fine, and Dr. Freedman recalled one conversation in particular with Mr. Kirby.

“Jack said, ‘I can put anybody in a comic book,'” Dr. Freedman said. “Someone said, ‘How about us, Jack?'”

Mr. Kirby found a way with Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen 144.

“It’s us and Darkseid against Superman,” Dr. Freedman said. “I’m actually part of the DC universe.”

Dr. Freedman skipped San Diego Comic-Con in 1971 when it was at UC San Diego, but returned in 1972 and worked on the con’s program book when the event was at El Cortez Hotel. Besides Mr. Kirby, the special guests included Marvel Comics editor Roy Thomas and Looney Tunes cartoons director Bob Clampett.

Dr. Freedman said his first participation in the masquerade, the Comic-Con event that has grown into elaborate skits with effects and fans in impressive costumes, came in 1974. As an alternative to all the “Star Trek” fans at Comic-Con, he and his friends promoted fandom for “Gilligan’s Island” and went on stage to perform the 1960s CBS show’s theme song, complete with a prop for the line, “The tiny ship was tossed.”

“I had a plastic boat I threw into the audience,” Dr. Freedman said.

“For a while, I was the lead singer of a band that was only at Comic-Con. It was Dr. Raoul Duke and His All Human Orchestra,” Dr. Freedman said. “Dr. Raoul Duke” was a pseudonym for journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson.

Dr. Freedman said Comic-Con grew quickly in the 1970s, thanks to San Diego’s proximity to sci-fi authors and comic book talent and its draw as a vacation destination for the New York City-based comic books industry.

“I can tell you exactly where things got to get big, when the transition started from the original Comic-Con to today,” he said. “It was 1976 when there were 2,000 to 3,000 attendees. The word started getting out to Hollywood types that Comic-Con existed. They thought, ‘We have this movie coming out next year. We think people might be interested in it.’ “

The film was “Star Wars” (1977).

Behind-the-scenes crew sold promotional merchandise at a card table in the dealers room, Dr. Freedman said.

“If I had been smart, I would have bought every sticker and poster (in the dealers room),” he said. “I would be selling them now, and we would be having this conversation on my yacht. But I didn’t, so we’re not.”

Dr. Freedman, who earned his doctorate in physics in 1978 at Stanford University and became a teaching professor of physics in 1983 at UCSB (following a two-year post-doctoral program), continued to attend Comic-Con until the mid-1980s.

When he returned in 2009 for the 40th Comic-Con, he was surprised.

“I was pretty amazed by how large it had gotten,” he said. “I had heard second-hand, but I was pretty amazed by how large it had gotten. It was like 40 of the Comics Cons I remember happening simultaneously in the same room, which was awesome.”

Mr. Freedman, who came back in 2010 and this year, sees the future for San Diego Comic-Con as secure.

“The number of people who want to get in exceeds the number of people get in. It’s up there with Coachella or Burning Man tickets.” *Reposted article from Santa Barbara News-Press by Dave Mason of July 28, 2019.

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Hi! I'm Lulu And I'm super pleased to meet you Faerie's on my shoulder He can't wait to make you meat too (That tasted purple) Dispense with the formalities And the schemes you may be contemplating Foes are turning furry in a hurry when transmogulating By the pricking of my thumbs Something wicked this way comes Boys see me and get wild growth Just one look and up we go! Muggles always on my wand Bit of whimsy and they'll be gone And what we did with my magic stick Don't remember? I'll send you Pix Not quite the common lady But just maybe you can get to know me Shielding all these carries Staying wary just to keep you going They know I'm the Dom And stay submissive to this magic master Fidget with your mind And drive you crazy til you can't spell 'Caster' Turn you warm and fuzzy leave you silenced Now you're cannon fodder Fend against these dark arts all you want But you're no Harry Potter Pick a lane to face me Tilting baby, it just doesn't matter Panic while I'm stacking magicked corpses Like Abra Cadaver The mobile warrior is back Commence the drillin' and killin' These villains illing And feeling the robot wrath that i'm willing I've reached the ceiling But not my rhymes or skills that are spilling I'm at my threshold for damage Now I'm red and unfeeling It's time to go Cause when my armors steady and ready I'm gonna lay a beatdown And one you wont be forgetting Tristys' my soul And though I'm bound to damage And ravage I'm focused like a laserbeak And Rumble's still such a savage This'll be a blast Exploding to the battle I'm unloading the satchel I'm the hexplosive heimerdinger Though he thinks im a hassle But even Donger must be feeling The extent of my brilliance Cause when the dean of demolition speaks the world's gonna hear it It's time to boot up the show This fuse is ready to blow My fallout from megabomb Is dropping nuclear glow I hope you got enough room Because you can't flee the doom Like Marvin Martian I just want to hear the world go 'kaboom' I might be talking looney tunes but I'm a Hanna-Barbarian My explosive devices just make it harder to bury you When the bomb is ignited and then you try to escape I see you here and there and there Well you're all over the place The major league competitor Because I throw like its Madden And then I use my satchel charge to just take off like Aladdin And I don't need a Jasmine I just need you to be gone I can show you the world When I drop this magic carpet bomb It's no surprise, that I'm breaking the ice Look I'm just here so I don't get fined The past and present, you can link it to I My temperament rise Glass cannon as a dorf until you see the Ganon surprise Check it Shifting the flow the 2 for 1 package Is coming back like it's a boomerang throw Watch how I glow Up into Yorkage With the beast inside the name's Gnaruto Identity crisis, splice up the flavor Experimental build, feel like I'm Stitch A Gentleman's savage Mischief amidst, Digivolution from rookie to switch When your team game's distorted And synergy gets contorted Resisting me is focus My rampage will annul it I evolve into a God like Zilla No point in hiding I'm invincible provided no David can stop Goliath When the boulders get to flying Your stones hardly defiant Blood and bones my bread and butter When feeding this dino giant Anger potent Hi I'm Hogan Gnar Cross me and I'll throw you far Prehistoric cyber franky little foots with bulky arms Manners isn't made for Gnar Banner Hulk is who I are Charming but alarming Bandle City's my Jurassic Park From Diddy Kong To the Mighty Grodd Hit Gear 4 then I crush them all Jumping Crushing Stomping Going hard is never going far This is war, a Yordle's paradise, y'all And they call me Gnar I've got a mighty tantrum, inducing rage all day When despair sets in you know It's the curse of the sad mummy So sad and lorn, the helpless lad I heard them say From behind my back But I guess that is who I've become today Cryin' to your mummy she ain't comin' Ain't it funny Steppin' in to team fights about to make the money Throwin' out that bandage toss I'm lookin' for some new friends Okay, where are we going? Aww wait, hey no, come back You don't wanna play with me? Then I guess it's time for a hug attack! Tearin' through this brush With my hunter's machete Uh, 2 Health Pots and a warding totem at the ready My tears don't fall No they crash all around me Because no one wants to duo queue with a sad little mummy Comin' out the jungle And I'm still lookin for new friends Wanna hug it out? Or are you looking to get stunned again Amumu the Mummy Immortal Master Of Misery With all my CC, I'll make us friends for eternity! Enough this display is highly repulsive And frankly far too ego indulgent This misappliance of science indeed must retire But for the time being I'll fight fire with fire I am the HE-IM-ER-DI-NG-ER End all, Be all Inventor Experimentor Professor Data Processor Embodiment of accomplishment But you can call me GOD I created the rap game On that level that you can't obtain Turrets in place, Rockets to the face Number 1 stunner with a shock gre-nade I see you heading back to base Mid is conquered Journal entry title for today Raise your dongers Even though you scream And you blaspheme I'm more than I seem More than a meme Remember kids Donger is king My readings aren't light My afro is tight Say my name You're god dong right Kennen Master Ninja, A hero of the storm I'm here to counteract the blizzard lightning's keeping you warm And with the shimmering shadow You're gonna feel the raikiri An AOE of Thor's Armada striking any one near me Thunder Drop is in the Zone Smite you down and send you on Blitzkrieg in the middle lane Mark you till you feel the pain Stopping dead within your tracks Then you hear the thunder crack Leave you blind like you're Lee Sin You're in the dust, I am the wind Flash of League of Legends, Yordle Zeus is what they calling me The Tesla coils around the team till they form a dichotonomy The lightning blast lobotomy This homicidal side of me Conflicting with the notion that I got my medical degree No ordinary doctor Kennen M.D.'s gonna hit the scene An artist with a shuriken or scalpel all the same to me Cause dress me up or down, it makes no difference when I'm owning ya Bandle City's got its heroes, this one's for Ionia Oh little heroes, how quickly you fall Kneel before the rod, I am the hand of desecration My will is the force that shall undo creation Impeded by you weaklings, such nerve, such gall Valoran at my hand? Now that's thinking too small Imagine, if you will, a small nexus of worlds As they curl, and unfurl, bending lights in a swirl Clad in darkness so distant, so vast and destructive A cluster of stars, that bend to my instruction Take it to the galaxy, you won't last long Blowing up the planet like you're on Krypton Generating mana Q is stacking up the damage you were never gonna manage Suddenly you're GONE E, Now you're standing in my sight R, Losing half your life Nowhere left to run, when you're sitting in a stun, timer ticking down to 1 W, goodnight Ever so suddenly, you are cowering up to me Chaotic Supremacy, no AD for this Entropy Such a thrill when this fire's ignited Watching you divided never been so excited! Is that a rocket in your pocket? Tristana's here to annihilate the Battlefield So head to my bottom lane Won't you tell me how you really feel? You're just another target You're a mark to test the schemes I'm planning Once you're in my sights you're getting shot up by my boomer cannon Hit you with the timer then I rocket so we get together Fire till explosion, Then I'm out, I guess I'll call you never Next thing that you know you're up at home feeling a little mad But tilting lasts forever Sorry babe, you're just a one-night stand Cap-tain Teemo I'm armed and ready I'm the poisonous pest that you've all been dreading Like a pox when I blind you, and sneak up behind you You run but I'll find you, leave presents inside you! Back up, I'm here to carry the team on my back When it's clear that nobody can match up Like Prince when the purple is raining And all of the scrubs sitting idle can't catch up But here I stand, a yordle holding your life in his hands One dart and your back to the stands All those best laid plans fall to the sand When there's no kryptonite for this Superman Omega Squad Say hello to the new God My Darkseid is too Raw But war's just what I live for I'm sick to my stomach of little repugnant deliberate Bugs with the mouths that keep running Toxic or nothing Pestilence runneth Famine I hunger And for death I cometh Apokolips arrives, taking no sides But Teemo is here to decide the fate of the enemy 5 Who pray to survive but none of them leave here alive Shrooms for you all in the room This is your tomb While my dominance will resume Say your farewells, if Teemo is satan I'm dragging you kicking and screaming into elo Hell (My favorite leauge of legends song aside from the curse of the sad mummy

#song #leauge of legends #yordels #falconshield

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