NY Times Spoils Batman #50 in Headline (Tom King pissed)
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This sort of thing happens for big issues coming out sometimes. Press releases on big deaths coming and things like that.
permanent? no.
change? yes.
reset? 6 months minimum.
people felt it would have been nice to at least have those stories between the marriage and the reset period.
Yeah fuck Tom King. I'm glad they ruined the surprise. Oh suffering and pain is blah blah blah. Goddamn it I can't believe the Joker was his self-insert for why they can't marry.
fuck
this
entire
thing.
I know it happens a lot but man it's like hyping up Death of Wolverine for a year then not even killing him. The fact that this has happened twice in the same year so close together is pretty nuts and I don't even give a fuck about Kitty and Colossus
I actually can't think of a bigger character they could pull the rug out off than Bruce. Least it doesn't end with Booster and Skeets getting married.
I actually can't think of a bigger character they could pull the rug out off than Bruce. Least it doesn't end with Booster and Skeets getting married.
There are comics with continuity and end that should be read, Transmetropolitan for example or how Dark Horse's Conan the Barbarian run was going to end with Conan as king before they lost the rights to Marvel.
But big name superhero comics I tend to avoid these days because of shit like this, much rather prefer graphic novels with continuity, and writers like Warren Ellis.
Man if you like the format but are tired of capes give some Image books a go. Imo most of the best stuff in the industry the past few years has largely been their stuff. Self contained worlds and stories with actual progression and character growth galore, with all sorts of variety for basically anything you might want.
Trying to wish cape books into something theyre not and never will be is a waste of time. Just enjoy them for what they are and look elsewhere for other stuff.
The spoiler was pretty obvious from Batman and Catwoman solicitations, in addition to being heavily foreshadowed in King's own run, but still shitty to spill it three days in advance.
The problem is that you're only looking at one specific part of the comic market. There are plenty of books that tell one continuous story from a single creative team and don't roll back changes.
This just solidifies my hate of King's run.
Read Image comics then. They ship the best books on the shelf anyway.
Not gonna lie Booster and Ted getting married instead would have been better than nothing.
Yeah. If you're going to read a cape comic you're probably best of if it's something outside of main continuity, even an animated series or video game tie-in. Something contained.
Main continuity is just WWE writing if the wrestlers didn't age.
This is an issue pretty much specific to large publishers i.e Marvel and DC. Expand your horizons, a lot of comics out there.
Tom King's pissed it got spoiled, I would be pissed if that's the ending.
No change, no differences, just same Ol' DC.
They have progression on some things (like Bruce having a son with Talia, sitting in the Mobius Chair, dying and having Dick Grayson and others look for him), but this is DC and Tom King deciding not to have their characters experience personal growth. We fucking get it DC -- Bruce Wayne is sad and hurt that his parents died when he was a kid. Move on. He can still be Batman and married to the woman he loves. Selina Kyle can still be Catwoman and married to the man she loves.
Just have an actual story in Batman that's not just "here's another person Thomas Wayne knew in his past coming back" or "the Joker is doing something else again and we learn more about him."
No change, no differences, just same Ol' DC.
They have progression on some things (like Bruce having a son with Talia, sitting in the Mobius Chair, dying and having Dick Grayson and others look for him), but this is DC and Tom King deciding not to have their characters experience personal growth. We fucking get it DC -- Bruce Wayne is sad and hurt that his parents died when he was a kid. Move on. He can still be Batman and married to the woman he loves. Selina Kyle can still be Catwoman and married to the man she loves.
Just have an actual story in Batman that's not just "here's another person Thomas Wayne knew in his past coming back" or "the Joker is doing something else again and we learn more about him."
It's Tom King so all of this leading to some sort of commentary on trauma.
We should have had Alfred marry someone as a backup wedding
Have him marry Clayface
I said if they pulled this I was done,
I will never buy an issue of DC comics again.
Set all this up, then have filler all the way up to THIS?
Fuck King
I will never buy an issue of DC comics again.
Set all this up, then have filler all the way up to THIS?
Fuck King
LOL at least drag it out a month or two, DC. American comics...
Beautiful animation... I miss that show so hard.
Beautiful animation... I miss that show so hard.
Kitty did it worse. She destroyed Colossus soul in front of everyone he knows and to make matters worse somebody else got married in their place. I'd legit ask Dr Strange to send me to another dimension after that. Trash.
Why would they retcon such an awesome character? Super sons for life.
Exactly we got all this build up for a lazy ass Dear John break up. Do something, it barely matters what but something.
FTFY.
Comic book storytellers for Marvel and DC are Scheherazades.
They sell the illusion of change, not change itself. I made my peace with that a long time ago, once I realized that Brand New Day was the best thing to happen to Spider-Man since the death of Gwen Stacy. It needed to make a step backwards to make several steps forward. In a lot of ways, I'm WAY more interested on where Tom King's Batman and Joelle Jones' Catwoman are going than I ever was before.
Mask of the Phantasm is the best Batman film of all time and one of the very best superhero films ever. Such an underrated and little seen gem.
I like it when DC & Marvel accidentally sync up/copy each other. Batman & Cap not really being dead but time displaced, Blackest Night & Necrosha, Damage featuring Swamp Thing and Weapon H featuring Man-Thing releasing on the same day and now X-Men Gold and this.
the spoiler is untrue because there are plenty of comic stories that go places. they may have cycles, but they do incorporate change instead of cheap reloading and rebooting. This is a symptom of bigger tentpole comics. And it's a issue since comics became bigger and bigger business.
Hey man, somebody had to have a wedding for the cheer. The X-Men put up with like non-stop grief. There is an article about that breaks down how their lives are ridiculous whirlwinds of death and trauma over 16 years of canonical existence.
That's what I mean. That would have been perfect.
It is true when it comes to Marvel and DC, if you really think about it. ElBoxyBrown gets it.
I don't stop because I fucking LOVE them and in fact while I'm pissed that I was spoiled - I had an out, but I was stupid and it was sort of obvious what the spoilers would be anyway - but then again I'm more interested on where this is going than I was before.
Daily reminder that Goku, Vegeta, Gohan and Krillin are all happily married with children.
But no, let's keep the Western superheroes single because readers won't be able to relate if Peter Parker isn't a dork who dates multiple women at a time. /s
But no, let's keep the Western superheroes single because readers won't be able to relate if Peter Parker isn't a dork who dates multiple women at a time. /s
So apparently(seen it mentioned by 2 or 3 people)
Sounds stupid as hell if true.
Bane is behind everything in this run and got Holly to talk Selina out of it.
also for some reason Flashpoint Batman is alive and is with Bane scheme
also for some reason Flashpoint Batman is alive and is with Bane scheme
Sounds stupid as hell if true.
Thank god!!! Can't have the status quo be changed at all or have the character's experience growth or development. That would be terrible!!!/s
Sigh...I shouldn't be surprised but I am pissed. I thought they learned their lesson with canceling Batwoman's marriage and the backlash that happened. Now this isn't worse than that was but sure isn't any fucking better. This sucks. I had a preorder for the fucking wedding issue. It said Wedding Issue in the title damn it!
This. I'm so sick of the whole "Batman can't be happy and still Batman". That's stupid.
sounds like trying to fool the kids with tickets to disneyland. mom and dad are still getting divorced.