DC Relaunching Everything? - Part 6

[Phatman]

Continuity in the hands of a good writer is a tool. A good writer writes single-self-contained stories with beginnings middles, and ends. A good writer can take a smallest reference and turn it into an original story.

Continuity in the hands of a hack is a crutch. They have to keep referencing old stuff to the minutest detail it because they don't understand the basics of story paridigms, plot structure and form. They don't understand characters or character development. Because they have no imagination or creativity, they have to use plot devices like killing characters to shock readers and deflect from their poor storyteling skills.

Let's face it, most comic book writers today are HACKS.

 

[Anubis]

You also gotta add in people who change characters to fit their story. People who ignore continutiy and established character personas to tell their story. Unless it's an elseworld, you're f**king up.

Batman doesn't kill. Superman isn't a racist. Wonder Woman is not a homophobe.

I don't care how kewl the story sounds in your head, you have to write a story as to what the character would do in the situation, not change the character to fit your story.

 

[Mystirious]

Indeed

Nothing wrong with a story where Guy Gardner gradually becomes less of a dbag. But if you suddenly write him as the nicest guy on the planet helping old ladies cross the street that's going to be crazy out of character

I would point to Wonder Woman Odyssey as an example of awful awful out of character writing

J'accuse!

 

[Franklin Richards]

Actually, Guy is one of the people you could make instantly nice. Just fix his brain damage. One konk on the head and he's a prince.

 

[Anubis]

As long as that Konk on the head is shown and explained, I'm fine with it.

 

[CConn]

If Guy's wrong, I don't want to be right.

 

[Hush]

So apparently George Perez left Superman because he wanted to leave by issue #6 and has an upcoming project with DC. Awesome.

Good, I don't much care for his take on this new Superman.

 

[CConn]

You also gotta add in people who change characters to fit their story. People who ignore continutiy and established character personas to tell their story. Unless it's an elseworld, you're f**king up.

Batman doesn't kill. Superman isn't a racist. Wonder Woman is not a homophobe.

I don't care how kewl the story sounds in your head, you have to write a story as to what the character would do in the situation, not change the character to fit your story.

Superman was kinda racist at times.

And Batman did kill people.

Your WW's okay, though.

 

[Mystirious]

Only toward the Japanese though CConn

If he's racist toward anyone other than the japanese then its out of character

 

[Anubis]

That was a cover.

Guess what? Cap never punched Hitler.

 

[CConn]

Batman still smoked some mother****ers, though.

 

[Anubis]

And Namor has fish powers that he hasn't used in 40 years, whats your point?


Besides, multiple reboots have thrown all that stuff out. Maybe in the next one, theyll bring back killer Batman, in the meantime, he hasn't been a killer in 70 years, therefore, no longer a part of the character.

 

[The Morningstar]

You also gotta add in people who change characters to fit their story. People who ignore continutiy and established character personas to tell their story. Unless it's an elseworld, you're f**king up.

Batman doesn't kill. Superman isn't a racist. Wonder Woman is not a homophobe.

I don't care how kewl the story sounds in your head, you have to write a story as to what the character would do in the situation, not change the character to fit your story.

Millar's Civil War instantly springs to mind.

 

[Watchman]

So after the success of the new 52 what does DC have planned? Maybe Watchmen prequels.

Usually I would have instantly dismissed this but it's looks like Darwyn Cooke is heading the project. It can't really be all that bad, can it?

 

[Mystirious]

If these were really really good I may actually check them out

But I'm afraid Alan Moore will come to my house and show me the back of his pimp hand

 

[HighFivingMF]

I want this to happen solely because I need more angry Alan Moore articles in my life.

 

[Kahoot]

If these were really really good I may actually check them out

But I'm afraid Alan Moore will come to my house and show me the back of his pimp hand

And we've all seen the crazy amount of goth rings that nut job wears!

 

[Kurosawa]

I'd much rather read Darwyn Cooke's work than Alan Moore's at this time. Maybe he will do a more uplifting take on the characters.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

I don't care who's leading the project, we don't need this. The book was good. Just let it be remembered as it was. They don't have to ruin it by reviving something that shouldn't be revived after 25ish years.

I'll be skipping this book out of principle. I don't give a **** if it's the greatest thing ever written.

 

[Lord]

Crisis on Infinite Earths served to comemorate 50 years of DC comics, i bet that they're going to make another reboot with the 100th Aniversary

 

[Max Gaines]

I don't care who's leading the project, we don't need this. The book was good. Just let it be remembered as it was. They don't have to ruin it by reviving something that shouldn't be revived after 25ish years.

I'll be skipping this book out of principle. I don't give a **** if it's the greatest thing ever written.

Agreed.

Crisis on Infinite Earths served to comemorate 50 years of DC comics, i bet that they're going to make another reboot with the 100th Aniversary

Let's hope it's an actual ****ing reboot.

 

[Lord]

Yup, and lets hope this time the 100th aniversary event is much more epic than Flashpoint, it was cool but it wasn't as epic as Crisis on Infinite Earths and felt way too much like a Flash story instead of an old DC Universe farewell

 

[HighFivingMF]

Crisis was poop.

 

[Lord]

But it was epic

 

[Mystirious]

I really hope they don't do anything like that. I would utterly hate it if DC did another reboot and I'd hate it even more if they did a full reboot

I dont want the characters I care about to be rebooted

I'd much rather read Darwyn Cooke's work than Alan Moore's at this time. Maybe he will do a more uplifting take on the characters.

Why no love for Alan Moore's work Kurosawa