- Dr. Hector Hammond, as he originally was.
- Knowledge?! I wanted a leather jacket with my name on the sleeves!
- And they were on sale, too? I suspect Blockade Boy, frankly... .
- Fire stick = cigarette = Libra's staff. Nice.
- That Alfred, in the midst of a raging fire, is still an unforgiving film critic.
- Yeah, I'd probably just wear whatever my closet told me to wear, too.
- "Condition Amber" made me laugh out loud.
- Hal getting hit in the head with a yellow frisbee.
- Oh my god. That's John. In an office. Like... like an architect. Seeing it feels like ... sacrilege.
- Is that the Man-of-Bats shield?
- The perfect cocktail.
- The cover of "Recipes for Revenge".
- Oh, Lex, sweetie; will you kill me if I tell you those pants make you look fat?
- Well, of course he's naked; duh.
- Even at the end, Clark has to scoop Lois.
- Jaime's understated inability to let go what happened. Or what didn't.
- Actually, Mr. Norg, I myself am quite disappointed about his serious interest.
- Rolex Chronoberg?
- Blindingly obvious. Heh. Heh heh.
- Geoff Johns, who is clearly some sort of superhuman, fixing everything about the Toyman in, essentially, one panel. Sheer genius.
- Orion = God of War = Mars = Manhunter = D.O.A.
- "Hit 'em like Napoleon" is the new "Bend it like Beckham".
- It's really hard to overuse the word "orrery".
- I... I love you, Solaris.
- "I'm twenty-two!"
- Okay, who set up those two for a date?! Not E-harmony!
- Hey, Batman's doing "Someone's taking my life apart piece by piece" and "Everything I know about myself is lie" at the same time. Grant Morrison is SO innovative!
- H is the eighth letter of the alphabet.
- That Ocean Master is at the table.
- How is it possible that 1011 doesn't mean anything significant in binary. Morrison so loves speaking binary.
- I dunno--don't children always look like that? They do to me.
- I'm sure J'onn would agree with you, Dan.
- It took me a while to figure it out, but that's the toy train Clayface knocked Batman out with 60 years ago. Nice memory, Grant.
- Wait... she kissed JO?! Good lord, it's like Degrassi in the 31st Century!
- Beagle.
- Nasty.
- Air hammers.
- Welcome mat. Heh. Of course.
- Now that's heartburn.
- Dark Side's limp.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Things That Made Me Happy...
in my comics this week.
I loved "Recipes for Revenge" too -- if you lived through the seventies, that font should fill you with nostalgia and horror.
ReplyDeleteI didn't start reading "Blue Beetle" until issue 25 so I'm not in a good position to judge: how does the new issue stack up to its predecessors? Is it the same feel and level of quality? Because I like.
I think "1011" refers to the fact that it is mentioned and page 10 and 11.
ReplyDelete"Man of Bats" shield?!? *Sea chokes on her coffee.* That would be AWESOME!
ReplyDeleteAll excellent points, to be sure. The joy I felt in seeing Hal get clocked was indescribable.
ReplyDeleteI also enjoyed the fact that apparently Final Crises completely ignored all of Countdown.
"Dr." Hector Hammond?
ReplyDeleteAs I recall the story, Hec wasn't a doctor or any kind of scientist before he used the Evolution Meteor on himself. Or am I being unnecessarily nitpicky?
Is it my imagination, or did Toyman dress up the bad robot as The Phantom Stranger?
ReplyDeleteNot picky, Dale, just wrong. The man invented an anti-gravity house, for pity's sake.
ReplyDeleteWell, Jacob, it is an opera cape he's wearing. But the story in which that Toyman appeared was one where the Toyman was heartbroken that he was omitted from a toyline of Superman foes because he wasn't scary enough, so he reinvented himself as a scary, psychotic threat to children, which is how Adam Grant died.
It was a very cool story, and the revelation that that was a robot doesn't really diminish it's impact.
I'd tend to think 'I ching' before 'binary'
ReplyDeleteAnd, given just how many New Gods, Old Gods, Greek Gods, Norse Gods, Space Gods, Elder Gods, and Ancient Aztec Blood Gods have been offed in the floating ten-year continuity window, how in the world can the Lanterns think that 1011's are particularly rare at all?
Well, it's been years and years since I read that first Hec Hammond story; I just remember him as a wealthy guy who exposed four scientists to the evolution meteor and kept them in the basement inventing weapons for him, kind of like Electra Woman and Dyna Girl did with Prof. Heflin.
ReplyDeleteOf course they wear what their closets tell them. They're the Legion for petes sake!
ReplyDelete"Hmm... Some one has bought all of us new costumes and snuck into our rooms to stick them in our closets!"
"Oh, well, that was nice of them."
--Mallet
Man of Bats? Do you mean the American Indian version of Batman?
ReplyDeleteIf it helps, is the other kind of Indian Batman, who says things to himself like "It's time for night-patrol of Bruce Wayne alias Batman. Now I will see why this Bat Signal is given?"
ReplyDeleteI think Lyle is still sending mixed signals.
ReplyDeleteConcerning Batman R.I.P. so far... is it me, or are they having batman reveal his identity to more and more women lately? Catwoman in Hush was okay, but got retconned pretty quickly if I remember right. but now this person he apparently just met? I need to get the rest of them and find out what this ridiculousness is.
ReplyDeletethat and I'm a sucker for anything about Thomas Wayne, for some reason.
Ch'p was in Hal Jordan's GL training class? That's hilarious! Especially when the cute little chipmunk gets to tell him "Everyone in the universe knows a Green Lantern's power ring is INEFFECTUAL against YELLOW."
ReplyDeleteI loved
Fire stick = cigarette = Libra's staff
ReplyDelete= Torch of liberty (and some interpreted Orion's message -- and burning -- to Turpin as a passing a torch in some ways) = Anthro with hands on the setting sun.
Two Green Lanters ("clouds") = Turpin + Montoya ("alleys") = mas y menos = Khamandi + Anthro = chess patterns on Darkside club = Libra + Barry? = Turpin + Orion? = two and twos etc etc
There's still the manner in which women's role are portrayed in comics overall (the iteration of prehistoric times in dr Light's scene). It's like Morrison pastiching Infinite Crisis (gloomy doomed futures, shitty use of 'relevant' in-the-news bits like toys from China and Katrina, crappy irrelevant deaths, Edens of garbage, Question jumping into garbage ferry, muk-muk as muck, "I'm in deep shit" as the overall goldXshit Morrison plays with).
It's a mess of poor storytelling (and even worse storytelling from JG Jones).
And Libra paralleling The Hood somewhat brings some weird resemblance in Manhunter's death to Tigra's beating (a supervillain filming, the character basically with no reaction, Libra being the joiner of villains making promises in exchange of him being on top etc).
ReplyDeleteHere's a thought of the day:
ReplyDeleteJimmy Olsen is the Jim Halpert of the DC Universe.
Discuss.
No, he's Dwight. Michael Scott is Superman.
ReplyDeleteI finally got Legion, and understood about half your items. And loved them.
ReplyDeleteI suspect Blockade Boy too, not only for the redesign and purchase, but infiltration too.
And I have to agree with Lyle's mixed signals too, although there is no denying his has a major crush in the alien girl.
No, Jimmy Olsen is the Johnny Thunder of Earth-1.
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous First Absorascommenter,
ReplyDeleteBlue Beetle was *even better* in the issues leading up to and culminating in issue #25. You will do yourself a huge favor if you find the collected issues (surely in TPB by now) of the entire run on your next visit to the comic book shop.
--hza