DCU : The Original Universe

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 6:30 pm

I got a cool book "Batman: The Archives vol 1" which is a collection of the first 24 Detective Comics stories featuring the Bat. Notable findings:

- no credit to the writers
- the art looks like stuff my friend was coming up with in grade 7
- people are getting whacked all over the place, I guess that promise not to kill came later, huh?
- the stories are simple, but are pretty pleasant to read
- the villains have been surprisingly well characterized
- Batman actually appeared within a year of Superman
- it's better than I thought Golden Age stuff would be, this is my first exposure

I actually think I'll buy vol 2 when I get done, and maybe the vol 1 of Superman to go with it. I might go and buy some of those collections of Marvel SA stuff too, and write off ever owning complete runs of those books. New comics are too alluring, and take up all that money I used to think I wanted to spend on the classics.

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 9:53 pm

Teen Titans #5 came out today. Kid Flash is back! Bart "Impulse" Allen donned the old yellow and red duds and beat all kinds of Deathstroke ass. The JLA shows up next month. That should be a super showdown.

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 3:29 pm

I won a couple eBay auctions for the first appearance of the New Teen Titans (DC presents 26) and the the first five issues of the old series. Did you know Deathstroke the Terminator 1st appeared on racks 9/11/1980? Creepy.

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 11:20 pm

That is creepy. Retro-creepy or something.

My ebay wins netted me 8 issues of Watchmen and 1-10 of V for Vendetta. Total with shipping? $23. Wicked.

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 1:17 pm

Hush is coming back soon in Gotham Knights, looking for vengeance on Edward Nygma. . . who it looks like he might've killed, from the preview.

They refer to him as "the mysterious bandaged villain." But if it's Tommy, what the hell's mysterious about him? And why would anyone want vengeance on Riddler for his involvement but the guy who the Riddler told Batman that he knew the whereabouts of his body?

Related: serious continuity fart in Detective this month. The owner of the shop recommended it due to the cover of Batgirl perched on Jason's tombstone. (He'd not read it yet.) Bruce and, uh, whatever the hell Batgirl's name is go to Jason's grave in the end to wish him a happy 18th birthday.

Buuuuuuuuut. . . whoever Hush may be, JASON'S BODY AIN'T THERE!!

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 6:56 pm

Countdown came out yesterday and...

WHOA.

DC is kinda starting to kick ass. It's too bad they finally made a cool Blue Beetle story only to put a bullet in his skull on the last page ( and seriously, what is the comics code good for anymore? Does it protect us from boobie shots? Cause there's more graphic violence in some of these books than a Tarantino flick).

Jason Todd took off his Red Hood and mercilessly crow-barred the Joker into a bloody (dead?) pulp. It might lack the Holy Shit! factor from the Hush reveal a year ago, but I'm actually looking forward to having Todd as a Bat Villain. Lots of emotional gold to mine there.

Later, skippies!

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 11:05 am

Wh-wh-what? Did I miss something? What is Countdown?

And is DC going to kill everyone except Bats and Supes?

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 12:02 am

That would rock! And then the big boy scout (who's a bigger tool than Cap any day, in my opinion) could drive himself nuts wondering what he could have done to save everyone. And Batman could go "meh", and leave him by himself in his pit of despair to rot. That's what I'd do!

Anyhoo..... anyone check out the Frank Miller/Jim Lee "All Star BatMan and Robin" first issue? I know I didn't - and boy am I kicking myself in the nuts. Betcha it's sold out......

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 4:40 am

Are you kidding? Everybody ordered TONS of those. I'm kicking myself for not getting over to the shop in time to get Wonder Woman #219. It was the final issue of the four part Sacrifice story running through thru the Superbooks and also a sub story of the OMAC series which is leading into the big Crisis crossover later this year. ( all that clear?)

Anyway, WW has to save Supes by KILLING Max Lord in cold blood. Just grabs him by the head and twists it around like unscrewing a pop bottle. Awesome! Obviously this is a major morality schism between these two. DC is golden right now compared to the underwhelming House of M mega super crossover...

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:22 pm

Okay, so what's up with the whole "All Star" deal? I thought the title of the Batman book was "All Star Batman and Robin", but now that I've got the first 2 under my nose, I see that it's All Star "Batman and Robin" - almost like Marvel Knights, an in-house imprint. I read in one of those that they're doing up a Superman book in that "style", whatever that style might be. Mediocre, perhaps? The only thing amazing about Miller's B&R so far has been Vicky Vale.

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 11:10 am

The Proprietor(TM) of the local comic book shop told me is was sort of like "DC Ultimate." Only it seems they're going about it half-assed.

Jim Lee's Vicki Vale is the first time since Rogue back in the early 90s that I've been crushing on a comic femme.

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:32 am

I agree. I think this Batman book is supposed to be "in continuity" is it not? I don't know the history well enough to tell whether or not it's being fucked with. I don't see Frank Miller as the type to do that sort of thing anyhow, he's more into filling in the blanks kind of thing.

I figured out what's weird about the book: it's Miller's writing NOT being accompanied by Miller art. When you see thing like "I fly." "I fly." "I fly." written on a comic page - that's Miller. But it needs to be set against huge globs of black with little bits of awesome Lynn Varley paints peeking out - not this gorgeous, distracting Jim Lee stuff (that gives me a boner).

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:58 pm

It's its own continuity as far as I know. Miller has turned Batman into a hysterical crazed hyena. If it weren't for the killer art, I'd have stopped reading.

Infinite Crisis started also. Ugh. They brought back the Original (Earth-2?)Superman and Superboy that supposedly vanished when the original Crises on Infinite Earths ended. And they killed off a bunch of C-listers that had their own books back in the Early 90's like Black Condor, Damage, and The Ray. Plus Slade Wilson, greatest comic villain of all time, slipped his super sharp blade right between the pert titties of Lady Phantom or whatever her name is. The chick whose costume is a green and yellow g-string and some sunglasses. Anyway, she's hella dead thanks to Slade. Slade rules.

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:02 pm

I'm gonna double post and ask if I can have a
Slade Wilson, Deathstroke the Terminator Avatar.

Maybe that Mike Zeck shot from his first issue where he's standing on the roof with the M-60 slung over his shoulder. God fucking damn, Slade is the SHIZZ NIT. I'd pay Slade to bust open Rob Liefeld's nutsack with his steel toed orange bucaneer boot. But Slade would do it for free.

Post by **vynsane** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 5:41 pm

find me a pic, and it is yours!