The now NEW Official DC Stupid Questions thread: Didio Headaches - Part 1

[Kitsune]

...He died while choking to death on a walnut?

I though David Carradine died in the dumbest way possible.

 

[Manic]

David Carradine went out doing something he loved. We should all be so lucky.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

When do the new issues released today become available on the DC app?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Supposed to be same-day releases both digitally and in shops, isn't it? I thought that was one of the main points of this relaunch.

 

[Anubis]

I already got all my stuff digitally.

Maybe your phone and or ipad is racist or something.

 

[Panthro]

What trade follows up "Bruce Wayne: Murderer?"

 

[Anubis]

Bruce Wayne: Fugitive.

 

[Spike_x1]

Volumes 1-3.

 

[Anubis]

All of which is awesome.

 

[Spike_x1]

Indeed. Everyone read them. Right now.

 

[Anubis]

That was the first time in like a 10 year period where he came to terms with his *****eyness and decided to be a better person. Didn't stick however.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

He seems to be coming around again, according to the new Batman and Robin issue.

 

[Anubis]

And it only took a "death" and time travel. Talk to me in 5 years when he's all dark and broody again.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

if it even takes 5 years.

 

[Spike_x1]

He's probably already spying on his friends again and manipulating the hell out of them.

 

[Anubis]

Tell me about.

If there's one thing I've learned reading superhero comics all these years it's that character development is temporary at best.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

every writer wants to be the one who changes a character forever. So when somebody actually does, the next guy just ignores it so he can be remembered forever. selfish bastards.

 

[Anubis]

Lax editorial more like it.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

well, they're all selfish bastards. so my comment stands.

 

[trustyside-kick]

On the DC site for the digital comics, how do you delete comics in your "My Comics" section? It isn't like the Comixology App for my iPhone where I can easily edit and remove comics. Because there are some books that I bought on my phone and didn't end up liking and I removed it there but they still show on the DC website. So they are so-called "flooding" my collection.

 

[Spike_x1]

Tell me about.

If there's one thing I've learned reading superhero comics all these years it's that character development is temporary at best.

Wasn't The OMAC Project just a couple years after Murderer/Fugitive? Seems sad that they spent this huge storyarc establishing Bruce realizing the effects of his longstanding dickishness and resolving to be a better person, and then the next big crossover event hinges heavily on him still being a prick, and concludes with him learning the same lesson that he supposedly learned just a couple of years (months in comic time?) before.

 

[Panthro]

So I hear "Trials of Shazam" is really bad. Just how bad is it?

 

[Anubis]

Depends on how attached you were to Captain Marvel's whole way of doing things before.

I thought it was okay. Art was pretty. Finally got rid of that SHAZAM weakness where he can be tricked into saying it and turning himself back into a kid or in Freddie's case, a cripple.

But it's all meaningless now.

I would suggest however Superman/SHAZAM First Thunder.

 

[Panthro]

Depends on how attached you were to Captain Marvel's whole way of doing things before.

I thought it was okay. Art was pretty. Finally got rid of that SHAZAM weakness where he can be tricked into saying it and turning himself back into a kid or in Freddie's case, a cripple.

But it's all meaningless now.

I see.

I would suggest however Superman/SHAZAM First Thunder.

I actually do have that, along with Jerry Ordway's 1994 take on SHAZAM's origin, the big Alex Ross painted "Power of Hope", and "Monster Society of Evil". Sadly, there just aren't a lot of good trades out there for Captain Marvel. Somebody really needs to write a "Kingdom Come" like epic for him (but I guess that's what "Trials" was supposed to be).

 

[Anubis]

Yeah. I mean if you're looking for Captain Marvel stuff, yeah, you might as well grab it. Like I said, it was okay. A lot of people however hated it. I found it, adequate.