tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post8898820937672025342..comments2024-03-27T08:49:38.786-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: DCAU #130: The Way of All FleshSiskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-85931244003346644142016-05-29T19:50:02.534-03:002016-05-29T19:50:02.534-03:00Thankee kindly. The search bar comes up with a nic...Thankee kindly. The search bar comes up with a nice selection on the theme.<br />Real continuity seems an impossible task...Brendoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10913031340103600964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-22116167785813963792016-05-29T19:35:24.227-03:002016-05-29T19:35:24.227-03:00Scroll through the Theory label, or maybe Continui...Scroll through the Theory label, or maybe Continuity Bottle.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-55583970006129313242016-05-29T19:25:45.124-03:002016-05-29T19:25:45.124-03:00LiamKav,
I'm showing signs of aging, seems I&#...LiamKav,<br />I'm showing signs of aging, seems I've camped out where the happy was and don't have any inkling of what came later. My Itunes is FULL of 70's rock too...<br /><br />The continuity articles sound interesting, let me know if they're any harder the find than searching for "continuity!"Brendoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10913031340103600964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-9567944408884063282016-05-27T09:11:21.958-03:002016-05-27T09:11:21.958-03:00The same reason that you say "his" rathe...The same reason that you say "his" rather than "he's". It's consistently inconsistent. :)<br /><br />Also, I've sorta come to admire your view of the DC universe. Maybe because you've been removed from it for several years, but "the irrelevance of inconsistency" and "enjoying new ideas rather than reinforcing the old ones". is almost the exact opposite of their intention, especially Geoff Johns and Dan Didio. Their current reboot (only 5 years after the last, which was only 5 years after the one before) is based around bringing back the stuff you missed from pre-Flashpoint. They are inconsistent, but it's very relevant. They really, really want you to care about whether Batman's parents were killed by Joe Chill or a random mugger, whether there has been a Superboy or not, and exactly how many Wally Wests there are and whether he is black or white. They want you to care so much that it's essentially the whole point of the current reboot.<br /><br />It's the main thing that puts me more in the Marvel camp, where they have a little bit more of the approach of "all this happened, but you can ignore it or use it however you want". There is no one perfect answer though. It's impossible to maintain a massive universe full of disparate elements whilst keeping things accessible but also making sure that things "count", and the older the universe gets the more impossible it becomes. I'm curious how approachable the DCAU is going to be by the time we're on the final season of Justice League Unlimited.<br /><br />I remember Siskoid doing a series of articles on continuity several years ago. I might re-read them...<br />LiamKavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01996095233681105682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-29791142909641347292016-05-26T21:11:24.428-03:002016-05-26T21:11:24.428-03:00Dang. I mis-spelled "its" as "it...Dang. I mis-spelled "its" as "it's".<br />Don't you hate it when the concrete learning of early school turns out to be falsehood or passing ephemera? I had been taught "apostrophe S" denotes posession.<br />Why is it that an "it" can't own posessions? Isn't that gender inequality?Brendoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10913031340103600964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-15682613179548915812016-05-26T21:05:40.203-03:002016-05-26T21:05:40.203-03:00Andrew, all that post crisis super-goodness is a l...Andrew, all that post crisis super-goodness is a large hole in my own comic reading experience, though I read the Silver age story with Vale and Corben probably 30 years ago!<br />So much to catch up on.... such a large body of work.<br /> <br />Something I love about the DC universe is the irrelevance of inconsistency, if you read the past 80 years as a whole. It's overall theme has been "what if?" it's more about enjoying new ideas than reinforcing the old ones we've already loved.<br />Unlike Star Wars and Star Trek, there's no real canon. There were times they tried to rewrite things to be "more realistic" but they don't stick for long. <br />A NEW origin comes along every year or two, though the old ones are still there to re-read.<br /><br />I've been re-listening to the 1940's Adventures of Superman... bullying and intimidation were a big part of his character. How things have changed!<br />Clark was also an enormously clever detective, in fact far smarter than Batman who seemed to be dumb as two bits.<br />Brendoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10913031340103600964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-62302659947833314772016-05-26T20:45:00.921-03:002016-05-26T20:45:00.921-03:00The amusing thing about the Post-Crisis Dr. Vale i...The amusing thing about the Post-Crisis Dr. Vale is that he came rather close to the truth--except instead of being the spearhead of an alien invasion Superman was more an unwitting harbinger of one. After all, the massive snowstorm that isolated the Kent farm from the rest of Smallville that winter (and allowed Ma and Pa to pass baby Kal-El off as their own child come the spring) was created by the Manhunters, who went on to co-opt most of the town including baby Lana.<br /><br />Funny how that part of the origin never gets referenced anywhere.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06382811944483828955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-51235401793789937072016-05-26T19:13:40.999-03:002016-05-26T19:13:40.999-03:00It's interesting in these "modern times&q...It's interesting in these "modern times" that Luthor is claiming other men's unfortunate discoveries as his own. The Corben Metallo, If I recall, was Prof Vale's handiwork. The misfortune was his choice of subject, John turned out to not be a nice man. <br />I also remember the story when Prof Nichols showed the Daily Planet crew his failed machine which resulted in the creation of Bizzarro... another accident which Luthor claims as his own masterful intention.<br /><br />What's wrong with Lex these days. Is his own evil genius failing?<br />Brendoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10913031340103600964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-54451705928124538232016-05-26T15:27:33.912-03:002016-05-26T15:27:33.912-03:00It's $15 on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Sup...It's $15 on Amazon:<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Superman-Animated-Comics-Classic-Collection/dp/B0002ZMHX6?ie=UTF8&<br /><br />Although you could just buy the entire series for $26<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Superman-Complete-Animated-Tim-Daly/dp/B002LWJ510?ie=UTF8&<br /><br />Also, if you have Prime it might be free. I'm not sure. One thing to note about the DVDs is that they appear to be multi-region. They only released seasons 1 and 2 in the UK, but I found out accidently that my season 3 one worked in my non-region free player. I've checked and apart from BTAS:Season 1 they all work, even the blu-rays. Oddly enough, I don't believe they say that they're multi-region on the boxes, but they are.<br /><br /> LiamKavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01996095233681105682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-29350773672268244692016-05-26T14:18:20.826-03:002016-05-26T14:18:20.826-03:00I got it off Amazon, myself, years ago.I got it off Amazon, myself, years ago.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-85365445201272917952016-05-26T13:24:09.093-03:002016-05-26T13:24:09.093-03:00I did kind of like Metallo's slow realisation ...I did kind of like Metallo's slow realisation that he would never be human again, though.<br /><br />By the way, where would you recommend buying this series?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com