tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post7713431364078256375..comments2024-03-27T08:49:38.786-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: The Siskoid Awards 2013Siskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-27616823883970679372014-01-02T16:24:44.497-04:002014-01-02T16:24:44.497-04:00Still better than DC's miss-to-worse-miss rati...Still better than DC's miss-to-worse-miss ratio, I reckon!Doc Savagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08783244633195233970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-53635750007629169812014-01-01T21:34:36.947-04:002014-01-01T21:34:36.947-04:00Some versions might be good, others pretty bad, I ...Some versions might be good, others pretty bad, I suppose!Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-22670637805151278092014-01-01T16:54:36.948-04:002014-01-01T16:54:36.948-04:00Sadly can't vote as I haven't seen or hear...Sadly can't vote as I haven't seen or heard any of these things aside from Daredevil by Waid, which is just okay but seems amazing simply because everything else by Marvel and DC is so awful.<br /><br />I vote DC just cancels everything and shutters its doors and stops lobbying to extend copyrights so we can soon all publish our own Superman, Batman, et al. comics and show them how to do it properly.Doc Savagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08783244633195233970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-11974091303795164272014-01-01T16:35:33.006-04:002014-01-01T16:35:33.006-04:00I think there was a throwaway line early on that U...I <i>think</i> there was a throwaway line early on that Ultraman not only "fixed" the moon in place somehow, but <i>moved it closer to the Earth</i>. 'Course now Alfred/Outsider needs to use his powers to stop both planets from tearing themselves apart. (For those who care, Earth would be wracked by tsunamis, monster tides and seismological damage. And the tidal effect on the Moon - it goes both ways! - would tear it apart if it were that close, raining extinction-level destruction on the planet.)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00412497492372886356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-31600750622941411812014-01-01T14:29:33.343-04:002014-01-01T14:29:33.343-04:00I've put a lot less thought into "Forever...I've put a lot less thought into "Forever Evil" than you might imagine. But I saw that Sinestro appeared on the last page of one of the comics, and I said to myself, "okay, now I know why Geoff wanted to write this".<br /><br />As for the Outsider, I remember him from the 70s, yeah that's how old I am. I remember he could do freaky stuff like grab the moon (which, you may notice, is small enough to fit in your hand) and shove it in Man-Bat's face to split into good and evil halves, or something. I forget the details, but he totally grabbed the moon, and concepts like "perspective" and "science" simply weren't a thing in his world. Which makes him ideally suited to make an eclipse that happens everywhere yet doesn't have any physics-y side effects.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-24375657445240479152014-01-01T11:35:52.625-04:002014-01-01T11:35:52.625-04:00You've put more thought into Forever Evil than...You've put more thought into Forever Evil than I have. I've been avoiding it like the plague. And yes, DC's mishandling of their communications, properties and personnel doesn't invalidate the good work many people making comics for them have done. I've dropped almost all the Batman books despite acknowledging their quality (only ready Batwoman and Nightwing at this point), and like you, enjoy Wonder Woman and Green Arrow. Also, All Star Western, The Movement, Swamp Thing and Animal Man. Greg Pak's Action Comics has promise though the Superman franchise is in deep deep trouble otherwise. I'm gonna check out Parker's Aquaman this week to see if he can save the book for me. Don't know how long I can stay interested in World's Finest and Earth 2 (probably dropping the latter), but I'm still reading them.<br /><br />And of course, there's non-New52 stuff, like Smallville which is excellent, Batman '66 which I'm not reading anymore, but still looks like fun, and some interesting new Vertigo titles.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-86498223156958819722014-01-01T08:24:09.837-04:002014-01-01T08:24:09.837-04:00Man, DC can be a depressingly bad place, can't...Man, DC can be a depressingly bad place, can't it? And yet a lot of its material is better than ever. There are at least three very good Batman-oriented titles right now, "Wonder Woman" has been consistently stellar, even "Green Arrow" has rounded the corner from complete garbage to top-of-the-reading-list.<br /><br />I wonder if "Forever Evil" exists simply because Geoff Johns wanted a venue to write Sinestro again. That is seriously completely possible. I can't begrudge him Geoff too much because even his self-indulgent moments are better than many other writers can accomplish on their best day, but still.<br /><br />I'm still amused that an eclipse covers a spot maybe 250 miles across, yet somehow the Crime Syndicate has blacked out the entire world. Also, blacking out the entire world would cause temperatures to plummet. (Solution: the Outsider is using his freaky powers to make it eclipse everywhere without depriving the world of heat -- I don't think the Earth-3 Alfred has any powers, but this would be grounds to give him some.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com