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

I disagree with that because I think your other point



...is spot on and, yet, seemingly contradicts your first point.

I agree that Didio is letting his writers resurrent a lot of silver age concepts but not in a way that makes them kid friendly, let alone "kids only." Instead he is having his writers resurrect in a way that would actively discourage a kid (or new readers in general) from ever reading most of the books (A-S Superman, Dini's Tec and Smith's Shazam being three notable possible exceptions).

Unless that's what you meant, in which case I agree with you.

That's exactly what I meant, I just mis-phrased it.. When I said "kids-only", I meant the old world view of comics, as seen by outsiders. He's aiming them at "kids-only"....except, those "kids" are in their 30/40's now, and are trying to relive their childhood through the nostalgic wank drenching the entire company...

You know...you offer a guy a hand, and he slaps you in the face...

Or on top of the head!

No, I have hair on my face...

Who cares?
Slapping baldies on the head is fun!

that was...




cold blooded...

Spare us your British slang for masturbation, please.

Stop thinking about my penis then ya sick fuck!

I think I'm bleeding inside my chest.

but ive got the medicine. bitch! come over here and have sex with Joe Mama! Im K-nut bitch!

This is pretty cool: All the stuff happening in the Sinestro Corps War, except the Sinestro Corps itself, was prophesized in one of Alan Moore and Kevin O'neill's GLC stories from 1986. I knew the villains that have been popping up in Dave Gibbons' GLC series seemed vaguely familiar.

Part of the prophecy is a GL called Sodam Yat, who's destined to become the Ultimate GL. He was also part of Moore's Twilight of the Superheroes proposal. Being a Daxamite, he has Superman-like powers, so it's possible that he'll be the one to defeat Superboy Prime.

It's Geoff Johns. Naturally he went back and read the entire history of the character and is now writing it to "come true". I'm not saying that's a failing, mind you. However, it's not surprising that something Geoff Johns writes ties into previous DC history. In fact, it's to be expected...

sodam yat looks gay in that picture...

Not surprising with a first name like Sodam.

very true...

that's just horrible.

Anyone else remember the Silver Age story that revealed that, if Krypton hadn't exploded, the Guardians prohpesized that the ultimate GL would be a Kryptonian, namely, Kal-el?

anyone remember that Silver Age story that showed had the big bang never happened then Superman would've played golf with Batman in some bizarre alternate universe. And that Batman was be the greatest golfer ever if it weren't for a certain Kryptonian, namely Kal-el?

The cool thing is that, this time, you don't need to be aware of the original issue to enjoy the current story. Johns doesn't rub the reference in your face, like he's done in the past. Until I stumbled upon this, I thought he'd just made up the prophecy and put it in the Book of OA. And it'd work just the same if that was the case, too.

Also, I like the idea of the "Ultimate GL" not being someone from Earth. Typical attempt on Moore's part to get rid of improbable coincidences (like naming the Marvel U Earth 616, instead of Earth 1 or 2 like in DC). Hopefully the character won't turn to shit before the story is over.

Back in Action comics weekly it was said that Clark Kent was called to a dying Abin Sur before Hal, and helped select who would be Earths GL, as he didnt want the ring himself.

Rack Jeff Glacier.

Actually, I don't think that was an improbable coincidence. I think Earth 1 was called that simply because it was the earth that Barry Allen resided on (and, obviously was therefore first aware of) and, when he discovered another earth, he called it "Earth 2."

But even the Monitor and other cosmic beings referred to the DCU as Earth 1. Whatever the case is, I've read at least one interview with Moore where he said he chose 616 for Marvel to contrast with DC's single-numbered earths. If there are so many earths out there, he figured, they'd be more likely to have high numbers.

So according to the new ad they are calling Superboy Prime SuperMAN Prime now.



Ad!

If they can't use "Superboy", they should call him "Prime".

They probably can't call him "Prime" because there was another character with that name, originally published by Malibu and now owned (I think), by Marvel.

But that one shot is solicited as "Antimonitor" somewhere else. Maybe that's their way around it. Either way I read at Newsarama that this matter with the Superboy name should be settled by December of this year.

My bet is that Superman-Prime will become the Superman in black shown in DC's villains teaser.

Here's a fan made Sinestro Corps war video


And in a Newsarama interview with Johns, plenty of Star Wars analogies are made. Hints are also dropped as to what is coming after the war. Looks fucking awesome, I'll pick it up when it's collected as a hardcover.

It's been a great series so far. One of the few comics besides Superman/Batman that I am really enjoying.

Hal Jordan broke Sinestro's neck in Emerald Twilight and Sinestro was shown to be a ghost in the later Spectre series.
This makes no sense on any scientific level.

Yellow is the color of fear...preposterous!
@ Ray Adler

what about Robin? does that mean his cape is fear? and is all fear the yellow bug or just some fear? and isn't someone who has no fear at all most likely sufering a terrible brain disorder?

Are you saying Hal Jordan is retarded?

yeah, or a psychopath.
in fact Emerald Twilight really does make a lot of sense.

wait, no. i forgot that it's out of character for a driven, controlling, man who represses fear and has no stable relationships to suffer a nervous breakdown after losing the 6 million people he swore to protect. and the name parallax (or "a different point of view") really doesn't apply.

yellow space bugs infecting a man and being called parallax (or "yellow space bug") makes sense.

You should add that to your sig on the DCMBs.

Actually if you read the article, Johns talks about what fear is to the Sinestro Corps. To them it's the best way to order, through control. He also explains that fear to a GL is something to overcome. Everyone has fear, knows it, and faces it. The job of a Green Lantern is to overcome it, not repress it.

Oh, there's scarier things about Robin's costume than his cape, Ray.