# Weekly Comic Book Discussion 8/14/2008

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 15, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-comic-book-discussion-8-14-2008/460046 "2008-08-15T00:15:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-comic-book-discussion-8-14-2008/460046/1 "2008-08-15T00:15:39Z")

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Here it is. A really excellent week for me - Booster Gold, Wonder Woman, Action, Batman, Final Crisis : Revelations… hell, even Secret Invasion was passable.

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**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-comic-book-discussion-8-14-2008/460046/2 "2008-08-15T01:04:03Z")

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I liked this issue of Secret Invasion…especially Clint’s reaction at the end. When he saw that you-know-who was a Skrull, he didn’t hesitate or emote, he just grabbed the submachine gun and went to town.

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**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-comic-book-discussion-8-14-2008/460046/3 "2008-08-15T01:05:03Z")

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Who was a Skrull?

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**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-comic-book-discussion-8-14-2008/460046/4 "2008-08-15T02:05:09Z")

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[QUOTE=Gadarene]  
Who was a Skrull?  
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Mockingbird.

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**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-comic-book-discussion-8-14-2008/460046/5 "2008-08-15T02:09:53Z")

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Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-comic-book-discussion-8-14-2008/460046/6 "2008-08-15T03:17:14Z")

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**Wonder Woman** - Sarge has completely lost it, obviously. The scene with Donna and Tom was cute. Wondie dragging D’grth back to be dealt with was awesome, too. ‘Hush.’

**Batman** - Speaking of completely lost it… I don’t know why people think it’s so confusing, but, oh, well.

**Transhuman** - Oh, those monkey scamps. \>\_\> Tim misspelt buttsecks, though. It’s pretty obvious now, why ChimeraCorp came up second.

**Galaxy Quest** - Oh, glee! I \<3 that movie, it’s lovely to have it back. The only thing that could have made it better would have been if there was a back-up story of the show-within-a-show Galaxy Quest.

**Gen13** - Yay! They’re back! Hope the events of the Armageddon issue can be avoided…

**Transformers: Animated - the Arrival** - I almost skipped this, because I’d heard the TFA comic was going to be just screencaps from the actual cartoon…I’m glad I heard that it wasn’t, because I’d have hated to miss this issue.

**Action** - Hee…Koko. The conversation between Cat and Kara was awesome. In a cruel way, but awesome.

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**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-comic-book-discussion-8-14-2008/460046/7 "2008-08-15T16:57:44Z")

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Thanks. :eek:

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**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-comic-book-discussion-8-14-2008/460046/8 "2008-08-15T17:02:53Z")

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[QUOTE=Gadarene]  
Who was a Skrull?  
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Actually, the entire '70s crew was.

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**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-comic-book-discussion-8-14-2008/460046/9 "2008-08-16T01:46:21Z")

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**Wonder Woman** #23 - I liked the bits back home with Donna far more than the rest of this story arc. There are a whole bunch of untouched plotpoints – e.g., Hippolyta, Diana’s deal with her new godly patron – that need to be touched on, too.

**FC: Revelations** #1 - Interesting enough to keep on with, but really didn’t like how the Question is pictured here.

**Action Comics** #868 - Far more interesting than what is going on over in Superman nowadays, and the Kara here is a 100% improvement over what is in the Supergirl book, too.

**Booster Gold** #11 - Heh. Loved the mothmobile, the mothcopter, the mothdirigible (?)… and Alfred kicking butt.

**GL Corps** # 27 - Um, I thought that Oa was now encased by a huge lantern-shaped fortification? So how did that Sinestro corpsman get close enough to the surface to do that, without being noticed?