RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Comic Books Sinestro Corps Wars....a must read

I have read parts 1 and 2 so far and it is very good. Superboy Prime and Cyborg Superman and the Anti Monitor are part of Sinestro's Corps. They have turned Kyle into the new Parallax. Please read.

I already get it for myself, but I also grab copies for my brother. I don't care what the criticisms are, I'm digging it!

yeah ive been checkin it out. good stuff.

that and Dini's Detective and Countdown are the best stuff out right now....I dropped all my Marvel titles.

actually I still get Spidey but it has been shitty.

i still get daredevil which has been the best marvel has to offer IMO.

I pick up a few Marvel titles - most notably She-Hulk and Daredevil - but I've dropped almost everything else. I'm mostly picking up DC titles and a few other non-"Big Two" titles.

Right now I get ASS, GL, Avengers Classic, and WWHUlk. Everything else I get sporadically or in trade.

Or I download...

No Annihilation?

Mmm, no...

Oh, I also get The Spirit...which is weird that I forgot because It's actually my favorite title right now.

Countdown is pretty unreadable. It's like taking Nyquil PM and listening to nature sounds. Bor-ing.

In fact, I don't think DC is putting anything out I'm really into (save All-Star Superman). And, for those of you who really know me, you understand the tragic irony in that statement. DC was dead the moment Infinite Crisis did.......nothing at all.

I've been getting WORLD WAR HULK (so far, so good!), IRON MAN: Director of SHIELD, THE INITIATIVE, and SILVER SURFER: REQUIEM. I just picked up the first THOR issue. Not bad.

Now, as for SINESTRO WAR, I can barely stomach Hal Jordan's presence in the modern DCU. That being said, I did give this one issue a shot.

PROS: John Stewart, Sniper-Lantern.

The scene where about thirty rings wiz by looking for new bearers, after the Corp starts getting slaughtered.

The art is fantastic. Van Sciver has come a long way. He's got this pseudo-Brian Bolland thing going, with the definition in the lips, and surface textures. Very nice.

And.......yeah, that's it.

CONS: Every single other piece of that story. I think Geoff Johns just dumps a pile of character pics on a floor, closes his eyes, and beats off. Whatever his load hits are the characters he slaps together. Superboy-Prime??? The Anti-Monitor???? Oh, fuck off...

those were the main villains from Crisis....it kind of makes sense.

The Anti-Monitor was the main villain of Crisis. Superboy-Prime was a throwaway character that Geoff Johns somehow thought was important enough to bring back. Unfortunately. Throwing them together makes no sense...to me, anyway. If you're digging it, that's cool. I'm just not a fan...

I have more hair than you.

PAAAAAAPPAAAAAAASSSS!!!

space cooties.

heh. he wins...

Easy, Courtney...

heh. its too late pro...ive accepted it.

wait till you meet basams.

well im sure it will be brutal. but going through it in life i think is tougher than on a message board...

seriously, what about some fucking artistic integrity? Green Lantern used to be a simple, enjoyable concept, although one that never seemed to fully reach it's potential. guy gets a ring that can make whatever he imagines happen. he becomes basically a cop for the universe. loads of potential, simple setup, easy to get in and out of. tons of places you can go with the concept.

I was even willing to deal with Hal turning into Parallax and wiping out the Corps as a "spring cleaning" type situation, clearing away a lot of ideas that just weren't working out at the time. (which is the same way I see the New Gods characters at this point in time.)

but then came Afterbirth. and Parallax was just a space bug up Hal's arse. horrible idea, but given the catch-22 of attempting to restore Hal to prominence, but not completely wiping out his actions, sort of understandable. it's a rock and a hard place, with no real "right" choice. (with the possible exception of "leave him dead")

Sinestro Corps. actually a good idea. great designs. some interesting new characters. but throwing the whiny bitch Superboy Prime (we all knew he'd be back) and the freaking Anti-Monitor???!! WHAT THE FUCK???!!! Wank, pure and simple. no bloody integrity. leave the Anti-Monitor dead and buried and stop raping the corpse of Crisis. Infinite Crisis was bad enough. you don't have to compound it with this tripe.

Superboy Prime is a lame villain. I'm sure DC thinks he's a great villain because everyone hates him. wrong. we don't hate him because of his villainous actions, we hate him because he's an awful character who should've been left in the limbo he went to twenty years ago. he's got the comicbook equivalent of "X-Pac heat".

not to mention that Ion now is also a space bug who's been in and out of Kyle's arse the last few years. But Sinestro pulled Ion out of Kyle's arse and shoved Parallax in there and that Johns has implied more space buggery is on the way. really. just quit while you're ahead. too late.

however, I can't help but think that blaming Geoff Johns is really the easy way out, imo. he's not the full problem, he's just a symptom. he's just a hired gun. if he wasn't doing this, somebody else would be. the problem is that DC (and Marvel) are losing sight of the simple art of telling stories. with all the "event" hoopla and the rush of sales, they've lost sight of what really matters. let's face it, "big events" are this decade's gimmick covers. lots of hoopla, lots of people running around excited, not a lot of good storytelling. no real, long term interest.

Blame Dildio!

Grimmothy speaks truthiness...

So does PJP...Dildio is the new Jemas.

Sometimes Pro makes a great deal of sense.

Sometimes?!!









...yeah...

Not denying that at all. In fact, he seems worse than Jemas. Whereas Jemas was "against" fandom, and wanted to branch Marvel out away from comic book fans, Didio seems to want to seclude DC. As a "fan", he is inbredding the shit out of the DCU to the point where no outsiders can readily understand what the fuck is going on at a glance.

Jemas seemed to want to "dilute" comics as an artform, and crass it out as an insta-pop-culture whore. Didio just suffocates comics as an artform by regressing it backwards to a silly kids-only era, and aiming it squarely at the pre-existing, eroding post-30's fanbase...

Heh. Man, my name is "Devin". Throw an "O" in place of the "i", and you've not only got a girl's name, but a well-known female porn star to boot. I'm also relegated to reminding comic fans of Devin-fucking-Grayson. To top it all off, I grew up in the southern base of Mississippi. You haven't lived until you've heard some sister-fucking redneck try and comprehend the combination of linguistic motions to pronounce it correctly.

"Deyah-vyn?? Is that like Keyeahvin?"

Yes, you horrifying hillbilly. It's exactly like "Kevin". Congratulations on passing the sixth grade...

you said my accent was "charming" and that you'd never heard that joke before.

I was just trying to get into your pants.

Obvious now, isn't it?

tee hee!

Devin Devasquez's name is spelled with an 'i' and she's hot....

See, Knut? See??!

See what?

ur like me. except bald and pale...