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[Batman]

Superman - Lose the cape.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the day I stop reading DC Comics.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I take it you skipped the Electric Supes period, then.

 

[Doc Destruction]

If he was smart, he did.

 

[Batman]

I take it you skipped the Electric Supes period, then.

Actually, I did. Not for that reason, just that it was a period where I really wasn't into comics... so I missed quite alot of stuff, including the Watchtower days of the JLA.

I just never bothered to go back and read the Electric Supes run.

 

[moraldeficiency]

I don't think I like any of your ideas for the JLA outside of the ones you're just keeping the same...

I guess that's why it's a question of what you would do not what you think someone else would like.

 

[moraldeficiency]

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the day I stop reading DC Comics.

Yeah cause capes are cool and super functional too. Remember the JLU (maybe it was the supes) episode where darkseid had a brain washed supes? Darker outfit without a cape. I thought that looked much better.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Actually, I did. Not for that reason, just that it was a period where I really wasn't into comics... so I missed quite alot of stuff, including the Watchtower days of the JLA.

I just never bothered to go back and read the Electric Supes run.

That's a shame. Superman's comics sucked, but Morrison actually managed to make Electric Supes not a total loss in JLA. There's a scene in the second arc where Superman's wrestling Asmodel and you can't help but be like, "New powers, old powers, who the **** cares? This is Superman being about as Superman as he could possibly be, period."

 

[moraldeficiency]

If he was smart, he did.

Yes, I skip anything that just reeks of stupidity. Ask me what happened during the spiderclone days. Or about superboy prime. Or house of M. Or anything about the Sentry.

I like to pretend these things didn't happen, if not it makes my brain cry.

 

[Batman]

Yeah cause capes are cool and super functional too. Remember the JLU (maybe it was the supes) episode where darkseid had a brain washed supes? Darker outfit without a cape. I thought that looked much better.

It's just not Superman to me. The costume is practically as much of an icon as the man.

 

[moraldeficiency]

I get what you're saying there, it just always seemed stupid to me. Bat's cape makes sense and he uses it. Supes cape is just an easy way for tanks to grab him and whip him around. Long as the S is still there he's the same symbol to me.

Oh but one more change, instead of Supes secret identity being protected by glasses give him the ability to expend some of his energy becoming a smaller and weaker looking human. That way I can still think of Lex as a genius, it's always been a strain to think he was smart but couldn't figure out the same picture in the byline of the writer is the same picture of supes.

 

[Aristotle]

Lex should feel getting physical beneath the intellect and skills of someone like himself.

Not at all. I don't see Lex as much of an elitist at all. Lex, above all else, loves humanity, and his love for them is his undoing. But he doesn't see himself as above the rest, at least not to the point that he can't do a little work himself.

 

[Ultra-Herald9]

I get what you're saying there, it just always seemed stupid to me. Bat's cape makes sense and he uses it. Supes cape is just an easy way for tanks to grab him and whip him around. Long as the S is still there he's the same symbol to me.

Oh but one more change, instead of Supes secret identity being protected by glasses give him the ability to expend some of his energy becoming a smaller and weaker looking human. That way I can still think of Lex as a genius, it's always been a strain to think he was smart but couldn't figure out the same picture in the byline of the writer is the same picture of supes.

To me its kinda the opposite. I could see more reason for batman leaving the cape behind than Superman. Superman outfits without capes just feel way to 90's for me. Everyone tried to get rid of his cape back then.

 

[Aristotle]

Yeah cause capes are cool and super functional too. Remember the JLU (maybe it was the supes) episode where darkseid had a brain washed supes? Darker outfit without a cape. I thought that looked much better.

Yes, because darker is ALWAYS better. We like things grim 'n' gritty, we don't like heroic heroes, we want a postmodern muck and mire and sludge of slippery morals and questionable ethics! **** heroism, we want meaningless battles between evil and less-bad.

Read a lot of Marvel, don't you?

 

[Ultra-Herald9]

Yes, because darker is ALWAYS better. We like things grim 'n' gritty, we don't like heroic heroes, we want a postmodern muck and mire and sludge of slippery morals and questionable ethics! **** heroism, we want meaningless battles between evil and less-bad.

Read a lot of Marvel, don't you?

............................damn. Its like he said everything I wanted to say.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Not really like DC doesn't have more than its share of that stuff now, too. I'm still waiting for the brighter, sunnier DCU that was supposed to come about post-IC.

 

[fifthfiend]

Not really like DC doesn't have more than its share of that stuff now, too. I'm still waiting for the brighter, sunnier DCU that was supposed to come about post-IC.

I always figured that "brighter sunnier DCU" line was a crock of ****. If DC wanted to write bright sunny comics they'd have just started writing bright sunny comics, instead of writing a dark depressing Infinite Crisis and telling everyone how it was actually supposed to lead to everything being bright and sunny.

 

[moraldeficiency]

Yes, because darker is ALWAYS better. We like things grim 'n' gritty, we don't like heroic heroes, we want a postmodern muck and mire and sludge of slippery morals and questionable ethics! **** heroism, we want meaningless battles between evil and less-bad.

Read a lot of Marvel, don't you?

Wow, that's about the most out of context statement I've ever read. I write how I liked a capeless Supes costume better than a caped supe and I get that as a response? Really, are you @hitting me or do you really not get the difference between a choice of fashion and a choice of character?

Think then write, it'll come out better.

 

[Aristotle]

Wow, that's about the most out of context statement I've ever read. I write how I liked a capeless Supes costume better than a caped supe and I get that as a response? Really, are you @hitting me or do you really not get the difference between a choice of fashion and a choice of character?

Think then write, it'll come out better.

Yeah cause capes are cool and super functional too. Remember the JLU (maybe it was the supes) episode where darkseid had a brain washed supes? Darker outfit without a cape. I thought that looked much better.

Was I exaggerating? Perhaps. But I find that the push for a darker outfit belies a broader push for a darker character.

 

[The Question]

Was I exaggerating? Perhaps. But I find that the push for a darker outfit belies a broader push for a darker character.

That, or he could just like him in darker colors. There are plenty of fictional chasracters who are cheery as all hell, but look good in black.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

GLs spring to mind. They make a big deal about operating in the light and being beacons of hope to the cosmos, but their costumes have a lot of black on them.

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

DC won't evet start from scratch.I think fans would be in an uproar.

 

[Kitsune]

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the day I stop reading DC Comics.

The cape stays... Just lose the red underwear on the outside.

 

[Kitsune]

Not at all. I don't see Lex as much of an elitist at all. Lex, above all else, loves humanity, and his love for them is his undoing. But he doesn't see himself as above the rest, at least not to the point that he can't do a little work himself.

And this is why he kills so many of them?

 

[Aristotle]

And this is why he kills so many of them?

The reason he kills so many of them is that for all his intelligence, he's a ****ing idiot who's just too damned emotional to ever allow his genius to reach its potential.

Is your avatar intentionally selected to make people feel condescended to? That sounds like I'm being pissy, but it's just like a statement. Anything you say, I automatically feel double-owned, because of those rolling eyes.

 

[Kitsune]

The reason he kills so many of them is that for all his intelligence, he's a ****ing idiot who's just too damned emotional to ever allow his genius to reach its potential.

Is your avatar intentionally selected to make people feel condescended to? That sounds like I'm being pissy, but it's just like a statement. Anything you say, I automatically feel double-owned, because of those rolling eyes.

It doesn't sound pissy, it is pissy. My Avatar is selected because I like Walt Kelly's artwork.