The Official DC Stupid Question Thread....

[BrianWilly]

Both GL and GLC will tie into and supplement Blackest Tie even as it's going on.

 

[Anthel]

Thanks man.

 

[trustyside-kick]

So my question is should i get Justice Society's Thy Kingdom Come (3 vols i believe...?) It seems to be getting alot of promotion at my bookstore

I personally loved it, and I wasn't too crazy about Kingdom Come. But I did like Kingdom Come. I'd highly recommend Thy Kingdom Come to anyone that wanted to get into JSA.

 

[Panthro]

So how have Wonder Woman's sales been since Gail Simone became the regular writer for the title?

 

[Manic]

So how have Wonder Woman's sales been since Gail Simone became the regular writer for the title?

According to these charts, the first few issues of Heinberg's run (the relaunch) were chart toppers. #1 sold over 100,000 units.

Jodi Picoult's infamously bad run usually averaged around 50,000 units per issue. A majority of her run happened during the Amazons Attack crossover and everyone knows and loves*.

So far, Gail Simone's issues seem be stay somewhere in the 30,000-40,000 range.




*hates

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I wonder if Simone's numbers would be higher if Picoult's bad writing and Heinberg's lateness hadn't chased a lot of readers away.

 

[Panthro]

I wonder if Simone's numbers would be higher if Picoult's bad writing and Heinberg's lateness hadn't chased a lot of readers away.

Maybe. I was just curious since I'm behind on my Wonder Woman reading (guess I'm lucky I missed the Picoult run) and a friend told me some pretty negative things about Simone's run.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It hasn't been as good as I hoped it would be, but it's better than Heinberg and Picoult's runs, as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Jordacar]

It hasn't been as good as I hoped it would be, but it's better than Heinberg and Picoult's runs, as far as I'm concerned.

Sheesh, just when I stopped reading the book, it got good.

 

[DawnWarrior]

What happened to Cir-El, the black-haired Supergirl? I last saw her in Superman/Batman, right before Kara showed up.

 

[Anubis]

She died.

 

[Ipodman]

I hear ppl saying The Dark Knight movie was "unfaithful" to the comics... how is this so?

 

[Manic]

I hear ppl saying The Dark Knight movie was "unfaithful" to the comics...

Really? I found that any changes made from the comics to The Dark Knight were pretty minor by comic-to-film standards.

 

[Ipodman]

Hmm.. Yeah... a few things were changed here and there but they were for the better and that's wats important...

 

[Anubis]

For the better? Well, I don't know about that, but it worked for the film.

 

[DawnWarrior]

Some of the things changed in Dark Knight:
-Movie Joker voluntarily smears make-up on his face. Comic Joker's face has no make up; it really looks like that. Also, Comic Joker has no smile scars.
-Comic Harvey's face was destroyed by Sal Maroni using acid. Movie Harvey's face was scorched by a trap set by the Joker.
-Comic Harvey has a repressed split personality that is brought to the forefront after he becomes Two-Face. Movie Harvey has no split personality; the incident that scars him (and in this case, kills his almost fiance) led to him ditching his moral code and sense of right and wrong.
-Rachel Dawes isn't in the comics.
-Comic Joker (at least the one I'm familiar with) uses lots of elaborate gadgets and exotic chemicals. Movie Joker mostly relies on low-tech crimes, like knives and cheap explosives.
-Harvey doesn't die in the comics. (I don't think he died in the movie either, but that's me.)

I am in agreement that these are minor differences.

 

[yenaled]

The characterisation is spot on to the comics - they feel like the characters we know if they don't always act/look exactly like them. That's the important part.

None of those characters have been consistent in the 70 years they've existed - stories have been retold and twisted a billion times. Remember this is not Watchmen or V they aren't filming a stand alone comic arc but using the characters to tell a new story.

 

[Manic]

The Dark Knight was a lot more accurate than, say, the X-Men movies. I could produce a list of all the things those movies changed about Iceman alone. However, both franchises (at least for the first two movies, in X-Men's case) are true to the spirit of the comics they're based off of, not to mention the stories themselves are just plain good, so all is forgiven.

 

[Ipodman]

ive been very interested in Two Face lately... how much does he appear in Gotham Central? (i know hes in the "half a life" TPB)
and what's this "Batman vs Two Face" Trade about?
Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Batman-vs-Two-Face-Dennis-ONeil/dp/1401217834

 

[Anubis]

It's a best of. Various stories of Bats VS Two Face over the years.


And I think he showed up towards the end of the series when Renee had her break down. Been forever since I read the series. That outta give me something to do.

 

[Ipodman]

Is there any reason why DC dont number the collections of certain series..
like Gotham Central or Superman/Batman... U dont know which one is supposed to come first

 

[TheCorpulent1]

They like to make you work for their comics.

Seriously, though, I have no idea. It's pretty stupid to not let people know what order to read stuff in. If you can flip through the trades before you buy them (i.e. if you're not buying online), there's a page near the beginning with a bunch of fine print toward the bottom detailing all the copyright information and such. That blob of fine print always has something to the effect of "reprinting material originally presented in Gotham Central #1-6." You could put them in order based on that. That's how I got my older JLA trades and my trades of Waid's Flash run in order.

Or you could go to http://tplist.millarworld.net and look up the comic's title. That'll give you all the trades in order for that series. I think they stopped updating it, but you should be fine if you're looking for trades that were published before 2008 or so.

 

[Miss Webb]

Is anyone else annoyed that for the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000th time Alan Scott is going to lose his powers? I saw the solicits for Solomon Grundy #4. For cripes sake, enough. I knew it was stupid and unecessary for Alan to go back to the "lantern" stuff and now it's apparently going to cost him. I swear, the nonsense and inconsistency continues!

SPOILERS BELOW!!!





















(Alan apparently has put some of his power in the lantern and it now communicates with him as a separate entity...wtf? and his power goes out while flying Molly to the hospital!)

Someone must really hate this guy. Now he's pointlessly doing the lantern thing, and now it talks to him like way back? When did all this happen? Will anyone ever, ever, ever come up with a way to legitimize this dude in modern times? The writers are stuck in some fragging time warp...

 

[Manic]

Wait, I'm sorry. Why the hell would anyone get rid of Alan Scott's powers? I thought DC's love for Silver Age characters extended far back enough to leave the Golden Agers alone. Even when the Speed Force disappeared (or was stuck inside of Bart, whatever), they let Jay keep his powers.

 

[wiegeabo]

I just read Grundy 4. I hope they plan on explaining everything in 5.