Oops. I’ve been forgetting to start this. Anybody think we should just do one master, ongoing thread for comics discussion, and request that it be made a sticky?
Nah. I think that would just make the thread way too unwieldy.
I was just thinking the City of Heroes thread works out pretty well.
Let’s see - Incredible Hercules was probably my favorite of the week, as usual.
I think by title would be better.
I do. I’m not overly concerned about the ‘sticky’ element, but the weekly threads die awful fast, and even when they don’t, the creation of the new thread tends to kill discussion in the first one.
I, too, would say one recurring thread. It’s not as if there are all that many of us who post enough to cause the thread to grow so big it’ll gobble up all of Cafe Society, after all.
Reading Detective Comics this week, I realized it rather reminds me of the old Sandman Mystery Theater, sort of. Am liking it, too.
Supergirl only reminded me that I’m finding all the World Against Superman titles to be rather annoying. New Krypton I like, but the others are sort of a snoozefest.
BN: Superman has a completely random Black Lantern zombie show up (really? him?), but sets up Ma Kent to go kick zombie butt, so am approving.
I’m still waiting for Alice to give Kate a nickname in 'Tec.
I’ll be terribly disappointed if she doesn’t eventually take to calling her the Queen of Hearts or the Red Queen.
One continuing thread sounds good to me. It’s how another MB I post at does comic discussions.
Not sure if anyone discussed this, but just finished the conclusion to Wolverine: Old Man Logan, and I was disappointed. The writing is so cliche.
I’ve seen bits and pieces of it, and it appears to be a trainwreck…the whole Hulk Clan is just…bizarre. (And I don’t think I want to know how Bruce ‘convinced’ Jenn to mate with him.)
On to the newer books…
One thing is bugging the HELL out of me in the current Superman arc (pun not intended)… Not the anti-Krypton thing…not the behaviour of Supergirl and Lois (though the fact that Clark, Chris, and Lana haven’t all tried to talk some sense into them is a minor issue)… No, it’s the ‘water is more precious than gold’ thing.
So, Lane’s men blew up the sewers and therefore there’s no fresh water in Metropolis - ok, I can buy this - perhaps the explosion took out the water mains, too, or the sewage leaked into and polluted the water source, or whatever.
But…with the entire water system physically collapsed, especially given the demonstrated size of the sewers, half of Metropolis should be a sink hole, and most of what’s left should be knee deep in filthy water. This should be an evacuation situation, not ‘let’s go on with life, except grungy and angry’. (Not that the US in the DCU seems to believe in evacuations - see Gotham circa No Man’s Land.)
Putting that aside, let’s look at the water situation itself.
- The only problem that seems to be going on is getting fresh water in. Not dealing with the stuff that the sewers were dealing with. What are they doing about the toilet situation?
- The water system is the only part of the city’s infrastructure that seems to be disabled. They can get goods and people into and out of the city. Communications are just fine. They should have no problem getting adequate fresh water into the city, and where it’s needed. Donated by people outside, bought by WGBS, or LexCorp, or the Planet, etc. Maybe not adequate to allow regular showers and such, so the city’d still be plenty stinky, sure, but enough to keep drinking water from being an inviting black market for supervillains (even scrubs like Riot and whoever that was with him when Guardian took them out).
As long as they don’t touch on that aspect, I’m enjoying the whole thing, though.
On a different note…the Titans really, really need to stop letting strange animals into the Tower…this is the second time in less than a year, real time, that a monster’s gotten in in the guise of a friendly and cute animal.