The All New State Your Opinion on a DC Character Thread

[Roose Bolton]

One of my favorite Batman stories, it had some moments that really explored some of the deeper questions about the character and his place in the world.

 

[Anubis]

It's a classic.

Dial H is also awesome.

 

[Mystirious]

What kind of hero would you want to turn into if Dial H for Hero was real 'Nubsy

 

[The Question]

What kind of hero would you want to turn into if Dial H for Hero was real 'Nubsy

Isn't it a random selection with the dial?

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

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you gotta know your gazintas! 2 gazinta 4, 4 gazinta 8, 8 ... it's

THE CALCULATOR

Intel gathering bad guy who exploits your weakness!!!that's cool!! but that purple costume with numbers had to go!

 

[Mystirious]

I dig him

I liked the idea of him being a supervillain version of Oracle

Isn't it a random selection with the dial?

I meant what kind of hero would he hope it would turn him into

 

[Anubis]

What kind of hero would you want to turn into if Dial H for Hero was real 'Nubsy

The ability to alter reality. Then I wouldn't be a hero, I'd be an Amoral God with a a multi-gendered harem of bionic love slaves.

As far as the Calculator...I love what they did with him. Proof positive that there are no bad characters, just unimaginative writers.

 

[Mystirious]

Will you share your bionic love slaves with me

Please?

 

[Anubis]

Oh Mysti, of course not. Nubsy don't share.

 

[Mystirious]

Fair enough

You can never have too many bionic love slaves

 

[Panthro]

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you gotta know your gazintas! 2 gazinta 4, 4 gazinta 8, 8 ... it's

THE CALCULATOR

Intel gathering bad guy who exploits your weakness!!!that's cool!! but that purple costume with numbers had to go!

Never spent a lot of time with him either.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

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well we did poignant stories of Supes and Bats sooo it's only right we do

EMERALD TWILIGHT

I liked it! I can fully understand someone having a completely bad day. Killing all your all friends, taking their rings, killing the dude who's been pissing you off for years, killing your blue bosses and becoming a cape wearing bad guy.All it takes is one extremely bad day for someone to snap. it made sense to me. plus i dug that readers were so pissed. my boy at my shop said readers took out a full page newspaper ad and the dude who wrote it was getting death threats! People! People! get a grip! heroes never stay dead or as crazy bad guys!

 

[Mystirious]

Hal's expression makes it look like he's terrified of his hands

 

[Roose Bolton]

He can do a lot with those fingers.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

He looks like The Diddler.

 

[The Question]

I liked the idea of Emerald Twilight, I thought the execution was shoddy. It should have been a longer story that gave the breakdown of the GLC the weight that story deserves and really showed Hal's slow descent into desperation to justify his going rogue.

I still liked the end result well enough, but it could have been much better.

 

[Panthro]

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well we did poignant stories of Supes and Bats sooo it's only right we do

EMERALD TWILIGHT

I liked it! I can fully understand someone having a completely bad day. Killing all your all friends, taking their rings, killing the dude who's been pissing you off for years, killing your blue bosses and becoming a cape wearing bad guy.All it takes is one extremely bad day for someone to snap. it made sense to me. plus i dug that readers were so pissed. my boy at my shop said readers took out a full page newspaper ad and the dude who wrote it was getting death threats! People! People! get a grip! heroes never stay dead or as crazy bad guys!

Controversy incarnate. Some genuinely poignant moments but Hal's descent into madness really should have been longer.

 

[Hound55]

F*** Geoff Johns and his retcon bulls***

 

[The Question]

F*** Geoff Johns and his retcon bulls***

Well, that goes without saying.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

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get ready to do the Electric Boogaloo!
it's

LIVEWIRE

come on !she tosses lightning!I like lightning tossers... and in latex and thigh high boots too!!! oh mama! I am there!( even if that cut is a bit butch looking)

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Dark Knight Returns: Just ****ing awesome! Don't get me wrong, if this story was canon I'd absolutely loathe it but it aint so it's all good! Can't wait for the movie.

The Calculator: yeah, I liked what they were doing with the calculator, making him like a kind of "Oracle for villains". That' a cool idea.

Emerald Twilight: A terrible, non-sensical idea that never should have happened. Having said that, it's actually quite well written.

Livewire gets a hard meh from me. She's just one of those 'yeah, whatever' villains.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Livewire's STAS voice is pretty annoying.

 

[Panthro]

Livewire's STAS voice is pretty annoying.

Agreed. I suspect she was meant to be a caricature of all those "hip & edgy" types who liked to dump on Superman.

 

[Hound55]

Emerald Twilight: A terrible, non-sensical idea that never should have happened. Having said that, it's actually quite well written.

I view it the other way. I think it's an awesome idea, that if it has any failings its in the execution.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

I view it the other way. I think it's an awesome idea, that if it has any failings its in the execution.

That's cool but, personally, I think what they did to Hal was absolutely disgraceful. It was the worst crime 90's comic books committed (and there's quite a lot to choose from.)
The story itself though, is well put together. It has mistakes, yeah, like the way Hal goes insane in like, 2 panels, but for the most part Ron Marz made the most of a terrible idea and delivered a pretty epic would-be conclusion to the Corps.