Bought/Thought 4/29/09 Spoilers

[yenaled]

Brainiac 5.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

The Brainiacs and some of the Light/ning Lads/Lasses head to the Fortress of Solitude, where Polar Boy, Dawnstar, and Wildfire meet them in a time capsule. Polar Boy produces a lock of Lex Luthor's hair while someone (Light Lass, I think, but I can't remember for sure) raises a giant machine from under the ice. Turns out it's the regeneration chamber that revived Superman after his death at Doomsday's hands. Conner was the corpse that Starman was tasked with digging up in the present and the restoration chamber's been restoring the Kryptonian part of Conner's physiology for the past thousand years. The lock of Luthor's hair is the last part they needed to fully restore him, since Conner's part human as well. Superboy Prime attacks and caves in the ceiling of the room they're all in, knocking out the Brainiacs just as the last part of the process--finalizing the configuration of Conner's genetic restoration or some equally techno-babbly thing--comes up. With seconds ticking away, Dawnstar desperately tries to use her ability to find the proper crystal configuration to revive Conner, but she realizes that Wildfire is the one who needs to choose it. Why? No f***ing clue, that's just the way it went. Wildfire obviously chooses the right configuration as Prime knocks Sun Boy and Polar Boy, the last two Legionnaires keeping him at bay, out. He rushes in to get blindsided by Conner, who pisses him off as much as Bart terrified him. Much rejoicing was done by me.

 

[Brainiac 8]

The Brainiacs and some of the Light/ning Lads/Lasses head to the Fortress of Solitude, where Polar Boy, Dawnstar, and Wildfire meet them in a time capsule. Polar Boy produces a lock of Lex Luthor's hair while someone (Light Lass, I think, but I can't remember for sure) raises a giant machine from under the ice. Turns out it's the regeneration chamber that revived Superman after his death at Doomsday's hands. Conner was the corpse that Starman was tasked with digging up in the present and the restoration chamber's been restoring the Kryptonian part of Conner's physiology for the past thousand years. The lock of Luthor's hair is the last part they needed to fully restore him, since Conner's part human as well. Superboy Prime attacks and caves in the ceiling of the room they're all in, knocking out the Brainiacs just as the last part of the process--finalizing the configuration of Conner's genetic restoration or some equally techno-babbly thing--comes up. With seconds ticking away, Dawnstar desperately tries to use her ability to find the proper crystal configuration to revive Conner, but she realizes that Wildfire is the one who needs to choose it. Why? No f***ing clue, that's just the way it went. Wildfire obviously chooses the right configuration as Prime knocks Sun Boy and Polar Boy, the last two Legionnaires keeping him at bay, out. He rushes in to get blindsided by Conner, who pisses him off as much as Bart terrified him. Much rejoicing was done by me.

Awesome...I'll be needing to pick it up.

I love Brainiac 5...that dude could think Reed under the table.

 

[Brainiac 8]

Question...has Supes found out that Conner is alive?

 

[Franklin Richards]

Awesome...I'll be needing to pick it up.

I love Brainiac 5...that dude could think Reed under the table.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Question...has Supes found out that Conner is alive?

Yeah, he's all "CONNER?!" when he sees him. Not much interaction between the two of them beyond that, though.

 

[iloveclones]

The Brainiacs and some of the Light/ning Lads/Lasses head to the Fortress of Solitude, where Polar Boy, Dawnstar, and Wildfire meet them in a time capsule. Polar Boy produces a lock of Lex Luthor's hair while someone (Light Lass, I think, but I can't remember for sure) raises a giant machine from under the ice. Turns out it's the regeneration chamber that revived Superman after his death at Doomsday's hands. Conner was the corpse that Starman was tasked with digging up in the present and the restoration chamber's been restoring the Kryptonian part of Conner's physiology for the past thousand years. The lock of Luthor's hair is the last part they needed to fully restore him, since Conner's part human as well. Superboy Prime attacks and caves in the ceiling of the room they're all in, knocking out the Brainiacs just as the last part of the process--finalizing the configuration of Conner's genetic restoration or some equally techno-babbly thing--comes up. With seconds ticking away, Dawnstar desperately tries to use her ability to find the proper crystal configuration to revive Conner, but she realizes that Wildfire is the one who needs to choose it. Why? No f***ing clue, that's just the way it went. Wildfire obviously chooses the right configuration as Prime knocks Sun Boy and Polar Boy, the last two Legionnaires keeping him at bay, out. He rushes in to get blindsided by Conner, who pisses him off as much as Bart terrified him. Much rejoicing was done by me.

I started reading that, and after the first line I thought "Man, I am so glad I belong to a group that wouldn't completely mock me for saying something like that." By the end, I was almost in tears laughing.

Seriously, that was so complicated (at least for someone who doesn't follow DC much), but I betcha you guys didn't even bat an eyelash. Comic fans are the absolute best (even the ones I argue with).

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Well, I was confused at some points, like why Wildfire had to choose the right gene... thing. Obviously, I didn't grasp all the genetic techno-babble too well, either.

But comic fans do generally have a good grasp of outlandish pseudo-science. Comes with the territory when your main characters tend to have irradiated blood and alien physiology.

 

[Brainiac 8]

Sorry Franklin...that's the Supes/Brainiac fanboy in me.

Yeah, he's all "CONNER?!" when he sees him. Not much interaction between the two of them beyond that, though.

That stinks, considering how hard Clark took Conner's death...I hope they give them a chance to talk later. I want a real reunion between them.


Edit: I just realized.....Conner doesn't know that Jonathan died!

 

[iloveclones]

^ My girlfriend is getting her PhD in Molecular Pathology and when we go to Marvel movies, you can literally hear her rolling her eyes. It is the best part of the movie for me, when they start discussing science. Sometimes I prep her before the movie (I find this tactic mitigates a lot of discussion during the movie.....)

 

[moraldeficiency]

and by prep clones means "get her drunk"

 

[Brainiac 8]

And shag her rotten?

 

[iloveclones]

After 40, you use whatever tools you have at your disposal....

 

[Bubonic]

So it would seem. That was pretty f***ed up that Caiera sacrificed the whole bloody planet because of Skaar's stubbornness.

That wouldn't really be the reason though, she's looking beyond the good of her own planet and realizing what is best for countless galaxies.

Sakaar is such a power dense planet that Galactus would be sated for over 10,000 years, sparring countless other planets and billions upon billions of lives.

It's a ****** deal for Sakaar but is unfortunately the right thing to do.

 

[Themanofbat]

After 40, you use whatever tools you have at your disposal....

My wife loves my pecker so much, that I really don't have any need for these... tools.

 

[Tron Bonne]

It's a Vertigo title because it's rewriting familiar DC history, I guess. None of this is really valid for the DC universe as a whole; it's like an Elseworld. Plus, there were boobies in earlier issues.

I liked the ending. The Spectre only does good because it's bonded to a man like Corrigan or now Cris Allen. On its own, it's the embodiment of God's wrath. I think we gloss over that too easily sometimes. The embodiment of God's (big-G) wrath. That's f***ing terrifying on a cosmic level. That it's tempered by something as simple as a human soul is wonderful and reassuring, but at its core, the Spectre is a scary concept. I think Madame Xanadu appreciates that and, rather than focusing on how Corrigan may rein it in, she's focusing on all the horrors the Spectre will one day create. She can see the future, after all.

Oh yeah, I understand why she's scared, definitely. I was just basically asking if Spectre was still a 'good guy', so to speak, or is it more an ambitious role?. I don't know much about him outside how he use to be back in the day, and I know that's changed pretty radically. Guess I should have clarified

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Oh, yeah, the Spectre's still technically a good guy. I mean, he wants to see wrongs avenged. He's just very brutal and horrifying in how he goes about things. He's like the living embodiment of "an eye for an eye."

^ My girlfriend is getting her PhD in Molecular Pathology and when we go to Marvel movies, you can literally hear her rolling her eyes. It is the best part of the movie for me, when they start discussing science. Sometimes I prep her before the movie (I find this tactic mitigates a lot of discussion during the movie.....)

You should show her those books by James Kakalios. Sometimes, pseudo-science can be used to spark interest in real science.

 

[Dread]

Pff, sucks to be Doom, then.

Unless, of course, he takes the hammer into space. F***in' Loeb...

Wait, wait, wait, so, in HULK someone could lift Thor's hammer if they are in space?

That's....

That's worse than Xorneto's retcon. Dead serious. Jeph Loeb is officially the new Rob Liefield of our era, someone who can still draw incredible sales despite writing the worst gibberish known to man. To give credit, at least Bendis' "terri-suck" is a different class, and every year or three he'll write a random one-shot tale that is decent, like his last issue of MIGHTY AVENGERS before Slott started. Loeb's stuff both sucks and insults your intelligence, it seems.

In the meanwhile, I am reading WOLVERINE: WEAPON X FILES, which basically serves as a "WOLVERINE 2009 HANDBOOK". It obviously is there due to the increased interest from the movie, but I don't mind. Wolverine's last themed Handbook was in 2004 or 2005, so it has been a while. Technically Spider-Man and Hulk have had themed handbooks sooner, at least 2-3 by now. This is only Wolverine's second since the Handbooks picked up again in 2004, after a good 11 year gap. The characters selected for the Bio's range from those who are clearly associated with Wolverine and hail from his endless modern stories, mini's, and one-shots, and others are loose associations; Orphan-Maker seems there only because he fought Wolverine recently, and others are there for the movie, too, like Blob or Gambit. Granted, while Blob just had a Bio in 2007 or so, there isn't much to update, Gambit didn't have one since X-MEN 2004, so he was overdue. Wolverine's Bio is of course the longest at 6 pages long, but that's not as long as his Bio was for his last special, which was about 10-14 pages if I recall. Still, I enjoy these things, and they're usually a good value for the money.

 

[iloveclones]

Oh, yeah, the Spectre's still technically a good guy. I mean, he wants to see wrongs avenged. He's just very brutal and horrifying in how he goes about things. He's like the living embodiment of "an eye for an eye."

You should show her those books by James Kakalios. Sometimes, pseudo-science can be used to spark interest in real science.

I don't know why I never bought that book. I love looking through it every time I'm in Barnes and Noble.

 

[Keyser Soze]

I wish rather than taking Ellis' idea and running with it (he was the guy that came up with the norman rises to power being a scumbag/psychopath) they would have just let him run with his own idea.

Does anyone else think that Dark Reign is producing some really awesome stuff when Bendis ISN'T writing it? For being the supposed mastermind of the whole event, Hickman, Slott, Fraction, Diggle and others are all trumping him in the execution so far.

 

[Blader5489]

I don't really like Geoff Johns all that much, but Legion of Three Worlds was awesome.

 

[iloveclones]

Does anyone else think that Dark Reign is producing some really awesome stuff when Bendis ISN'T writing it? For being the supposed mastermind of the whole event, Hickman, Slott, Fraction, Diggle and others are all trumping him in the execution so far.

That is always the case. Bendis (for all his faults) is a really good idea generator. He's just bad at the execution of them. I can't tell you how many times I thought "Hey, that was a really good turn.." and then waited, and waited, and waited for the payoff that never comes.

 

[Dread]

That is always the case. Bendis (for all his faults) is a really good idea generator. He's just bad at the execution of them. I can't tell you how many times I thought "Hey, that was a really good turn.." and then waited, and waited, and waited for the payoff that never comes.

I agree here, which is why sometimes I have said he would make a better editor than writer. His execution is often lackluster, even if his ideas are good. The problem is that execution is really everything.

 

[iloveclones]

I agree here, which is why sometimes I have said he would make a better editor than writer. His execution is often lackluster, even if his ideas are good. The problem is that execution is really everything.

Which is why I always caution the people who always seem to be calling for JQs head to be careful what they wish for.....

 

[Dread]

Which is why I always caution the people who always seem to be calling for JQs head to be careful what they wish for.....

Yeah, they might get Dan DiDio.