https://www.wired.com/story/new-joker-movie-scorsese/


Marty needs to leave this alone.

I don't care that he will be involved in some capacity. We don't need a Joker Origin movie.

Maybe a live action The Killing Joke but this no thanks.

Directed by the guy who did The Hangover... why?

Just discovered he was awesome, so know any good **** with him? Newest series is good, first Red Hood and the Outlaws series looks terrible, in the process of reading his opening arc, and then I guess I'll go read Battle for the Cowl, but other than that I haven't heard much else that's good to read.

Oh... ****... nigga. An adaptation of Gotham by Gaslight? I've only read a bit of it but it's basically an AU Batman story about Bruce Wayne in the Victorian age fighting Jack the Ripper. I didn't even watch the whole video cause I don't even want that many spoilers. My only initial issue is that I wish they'd come up with a more creative animation style than just recycling the modern DCAU straight-to-DVD style that they've been using for years, but I guess that's just the thing that they do so whatever. Still highly stoked, even if these DC animated movies are kind of a mixed bag.

Just picked up the latest Doom Patrol. The main character has an existential crisis and fucks a cat.

Well I'm sold.

This is officially on my Must Have It Now list after reading "Judge Death Lives", "The Hotdog Run", and "Block Mania" (just starting "The Apocalypse War"). I don't think I've ever read a comic that would be as perfect for reading on the can so I need a physical copy.

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https://www.amazon.com/Judge-Dredd-C.../dp/1781080283

I'd go for The Cursed Earth followed by The Day the Law Died and The Judge Child if I were you. Some of Dredd's day-to-days were a bit meh.

Also: have you never heard of an ipad?

Edit: hold the phone! You've read Judge Death Lives but NOT the original, The Four Dark Judges? Or Necropolis? Get on that ****, man! Now!

Ipads don't look awesome on my bookshelf. And I have read "Judge Death". I started there and then skipped to the follow-up cause I was curious about Anderson, being a main character from both movies.

No but you can use it when you're on the jacks.
And good; if you hadn't known of the origin of the Dark Judges that's too big a gap in your Dredd history. Oh, I forgot about the Luna missions, where he's banished to keep law on the Moon. Get that too.

You know I can send you all these? I did, didnt I?

Yes you did, although I seem to be missing progs 658-954 for some reason.

Want me to resend? I also have all the Dredds if you want them.

Sure, that'd be cool. Your versions come in separate, named progs and all the ones I can find online are in trade paperbacks that aren't very good for finding a specific story.

Hah! Finally found all those Dredd progs I was missing, along with Judge Dredd: The Megazine and even Anderson: Psi Division (which I was kind of giving up hope on). I am simply Dredd-ful. You may stand down TH.

Cool. Enjoy! :thumb:

I grew up with 2000AD. As well as Dredd I love Sláine, ABC Warriors, all the Nemesis stuff. Awesome ****.

:beer:
But don't forget Johnny Alpha!

Holy God, "The Cursed Earth" is bat**** crazy. Literal fast food franchise wars, mad scientist Colonel Sanders with Jolly Green Giant minions, Mount Rushmore with Jimmy Carter. ****in' lovin' it.

It's amazing isn't it? Most of that had to be redacted from the reprints due to copyright infringement. I mean, the Michelin Man? :laughing:

Lulz. At least the early Dredd stories go ****ing hard with lampooning America. Got plenty right too.

And I guess British copyright laws are different from American ones. Those strips would clearly fall under fair use as a satire over here. Or at least I hope they would. They were American companies, so I dunno.

Controversy[edit]
The Cursed Earth caused a lawsuit involving the publishers of 2000 AD, McDonald's, Burger King, and the Jolly Green Giant. Four episodes in the series, written by John Wagner and Jack Adrian, featured trade marked characters used without permission.[2] One storyline depicted wars between rival gangs, headed by the Burger King and Ronald McDonald – including scenes of Ronald executing a gang member who spilled a milkshake. The owners of these characters objected to the use of their trademarks and sued. Publishers IPC settled out of court, publishing a half-page retraction and agreeing never to reprint the offending episodes.[3]
In 2014 the law was changed to implement a European directive on copyright law allowing the use of copyright-protected characters for parody.[4][5] As a result, Rebellion Developments announced in 2015 that it would re-publish the suppressed episodes for the first time in a book to be published in July 2016.[6]

****ing exactly. Firstly, those stories are fantastic, but that is clearly parody that should absolutely be covered by fair use. **** corporate fascists.

Edit: but high praise to 2000AD for even printing that **** in the first place. I can't think of where in America they would have published it. And in 197-****ing-8.

BTW Jeff Loebs' early issues of Superman/Batman are fantastic. Superman and Batman dethroning President of the United States Lex Luthor is amazing and the reintroduction of Supergirl after almost two decades of her being dead is the ****. And yeah Supergirl being dead and then not being dead is complex as **** cause DC continuity is a cluster****. Just read this **** though.

Superman - Batman #1 - 87 + Annual (2003-2011) – GetComics

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You know... halfway through issue 13, the last issue reintroducing Supergirl, I legitimately started crying. That **** was heavy and meaningful and everything I wanted from comics. Then Jeff Loeb showed me exactly why he's been revered throughout the 90s.

And why he's been despised ever since. Oh my ****ing god within a single page you just took one of the most emotional sequences I've read in all of comics and took a giant dump on it. I can't even reread this issue because I'll know what's coming and know that every brilliant emotional moment you built up meant absolutely nothing. **** you, **** your mother, but **** you most of all for having no vision.

*spoiler* But I will always remember the second death of Kara Zor-El and what it meant to Superman and how NOTHING after it existed as far as I'm concerned cause **** Jeff Loeb.

Superman is supposed to be a demigod with the heart of an all-American farm boy, so do you think it make him make more sense if he had an accent? I honestly don't know if people from Kansas have Southern accents, but it would make his "Aw shucks" ways more apparent, further reinforcing the dichotomy of his biology and his nature. On the other hand he's also supposed to be quasi-mythical and larger than life, so perhaps that would destroy that mystique. I'd be curious to see how Hick Superman would come off tbh.

Finally finished collecting the main story line.. now to finish reading it and then start collecting/reading the arcs.. I need somewhere to display my growing collection:

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Doom Patrol is the only comic I'm keeping up with these days.

Today at work I was again thinking about how cool Judge Dredd is and playing Anthrax's "I Am the Law" on repeat in my head (I've been reading more Dredd over the last two days) and for the second time it has made me misty-eyed like the weirdest nerd. Cause who the **** cries over Judge Dredd?

Currently reading The Complete Case Files vol. 24, which includes "The Pit", which I've been chomping at the bit to read ever since I read about how it expands on Judge judicial processes, and the preceding progs in the volume have reignited my interest in modern Dredd after kind of losing interest upon reading "America". Judge Dredd is simply the bestest. Whenever the new Mega-City One show comes out on Netflix I will most definitely binge watch it on day one.

I've even drunkenly ordered the Dredd movie on Amazon after realizing that my downloaded version's audio doesn't work on my Chromebook. One of those drunk purchases I don't even regret a little bit.

I'm planning on buying some Dredd Case Files TPBs soon, and I'm considering whether to start with vol. 2, as it contains the censored version of The Cursed Earth, or whether to go with the Cursed Earth TPB as it contains those copyright snafu progs. Vol. 2 also has The Day the Law Died, which I'm stoked to read, so I clearly need that, but I also need the other TPB as well to have the complete Cursed Earth run. Maybe I'll just get vol. 5 first as it has Block Wars and The Apocalypse War, which I've yet to finish. So many choices.

Glory. Got home from work to find Dredd (the good movie) and Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files vol. 5 waiting for me from Amazon (**** the delivery driver for shoving Complete Case files into the mailbox though). I have now tested my theory that Judge Dredd is the perfect thing to read on the can and found myself to have been correct. I can read one prog in five minutes tops, which is just perfect. Now I shall spend the next week reading "Block Wars" and "The Apocalypse War" while marinating in my own stench.

And tonight I shall get drunk and rewatch Dredd.

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Out of all the Batman villains I think Scarecrow gets the biggest shaft. He's an A-level Batman villain, but lives in the shadow of the Joker. If you want the craziest Batman story with the most bizarre storyline you go to the Joker, but if the Joker didn't exist then I think you'd go to Scarecrow, since his modus operandi is to create psychedelic terror and bizarre **** that would freak out all who came into contact with him. He's just not the perfect antithesis of Batman that the Joker is, so that his worth as an amazing villain is not reflected in his comic appearances.

His best appearance that I've seen is in the Batman: Arkham Asylum game, and is one of the absolute highlights, even though he's still in the shadow of the Joker in the storyline. That **** is all visual overload though and is gaming royalty. Jesus Christ do they need to give Scarecrow more play. Even his patient tapes in the game are the absolute best collectibles of the entire series.

#scarecrow4life

If only Batman was worth such magnificent enemies.

I've been a Superman hater for years. Then this last year or so I read Geoff Johns' Superman run from the early 2000's and realized that I was a fool. Now I'm watching a bit of Superman: The Animated Series from the 90s, which I watched the **** out of back in the day, and don't even know how I could have kept up the pretense cause clearly I was full of **** even as a child. Yeah he's a goofy hero in a lot of ways, but he's also the greatest modern piece of fantasy storytelling. There's just something about Superman, yo, something that isn't a thing even for Green Lantern or the Flash or Thor or any of those other mega-superpowered guys.

So you finally admit he's better than Batman?

Do you admit that Triple H is better than Stephen Hawking?

Triple H is definitely a better professional wrestler.

*two minutes ago*

My mother: Charles, do you sometimes go by an alias?

Me: What?

My mother: I was going to send a package back to sender, but do you go by "Joey DeMaio" (bassist of Manowar)?

Me: Oh, yeah that's me.

The pitfalls of being drunk while creating your eBay account. But **** me is Secret Origins #36 awesome. Neil Gaiman (of Sandman and American Gods fame) writing Poison Ivy's definitive characterization. And the comic is in flawless condition. Best $10 I ever spent wasted.

http://fwpodcasts.com/rd/originsimages/36cover.jpg

TFW you order comics off eBay and they look great on delivery but the person delivered them in bags with no boards and you're like, WTF? Why not just put in some boards? Loser.

*puts in boards because I have my own laying around like a true playa*

My haul btw. Amazing, bizarre, Lovecraftian mini-series that I'm fairly sure Todd McFarlane stole the design for Venom from and exposes the writer's desire to **** his mother.

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Oh, the thought of your mother still taking in your mail! :rofl:
1. Boards? :confused:
2. Dr ****ing Fate???? :rofl: :laughing: :laughing: :rofl:

http://www.heroesassemble.com/ekmps/...ics-7575-p.jpg

Bags and boards. The bags are the clear plastic bags you put comics in, and the boards are the thin cardboard pieces you put in the bag to keep the comic from getting bent. Try to keep up.



Think Dr. Strange but the character was created decades earlier. Except that this series was about a boy and his step mother becoming Dr Fate at the same time and it doesn't make sense but it was the 80s so it didn't matter cause comics were bat**** crazy and awesome in the 80s. And there was bizarre incest.

Here's my review of the series.

I never collected comics. I bought them, read them, put them in a box or somewhere but never bothered about keeping them in good condition. Pity really, as I would have had all the original Marvels, the American "colour/glossy" ones too, and every prog of 2000AD. Ah well. No collector, I.
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Think Dr. Strange but the character was created decades earlier. Except that this series was about a boy and his step mother becoming Dr Fate at the same time and it doesn't make sense but it was the 80s so it didn't matter cause comics were bat**** crazy and awesome in the 80s. And there was bizarre incest.

Here's my review of the series.[/QUOTE]

Huh???