I've recently took a look at the new Shazam comic book, and saw that now there are only Billy, Mary and Freddy like in the pre-Flashpoint era. What happened to the rest of the family?
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I've recently took a look at the new Shazam comic book, and saw that now there are only Billy, Mary and Freddy like in the pre-Flashpoint era. What happened to the rest of the family?
With batman caped crusader will crossover and tv show like flash and green lantern would be a good idea ?
Outside Fernus, who feeds on suffering to reproduce asexually.
Mine: Young Justice (2019-2021)
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Since he can turn alien, human, or angel can he change gender?.
What’s your favorite Tom King DC comic? I haven’t read any so far, but I’m planning on reading Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow soon.
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A while back I was able to visit a real comic book store overseas and was lucky enough to find the two out of print Checkmate trades by Greg Rucka.
Just finished reading the run this weekend and really enjoyed it. For what is essentially a bureaucratic team, the book never gets bogged down in rhetoric while maintaining political conflicts and tension. The high-energy field action and boardroom power plays are well balanced. The key characters feel real, even if they don’t get a lot of panel time.
Michael Holt, who I’ve read little of, seems right at home in an intelligence role, and utilising the digitised Thinker as his Bishop is a bold and interesting take. Having him be in a relationship with Sasha Bordeaux is much more than just a conflict of interest tension builder, but logical as well, considering Holt’s bizarre “meta-ability” to be invisible to tech so her OMAC eye can’t analyse him like everything else. I love little details like that. It really humanises Sasha who is a very stoic or pitiable character for a lot of the series.
Amanda Waller is her manipulative, vindictive and scheming self. The power struggles during her tenure are highlights. I really need to read Salvation Run now, which ties into this.
There are a lot of fun elements throughout the large roster of characters. Fire struggles with her conscience. Tommy Jagger confronts his father’s killer. A team up with Nightwing’s Outsiders on Oolong Island as well as deputising Shadowpact early on. A dramatic activation of the Rooks, of which one is a new model of JAKE. Master Jailer becoming the Castellan and fending off The Mawzir, which I had always wondered about, considering Ennis killed the character off. It was also nice to see Valentina Vostok find an appropriate role to make her relevant again.
It also begins and ends with the Kobra Cult. I have always wanted to read Kirby’s original series and always loved seeing them pop up here and there in titles I have read, but while they tend to be punching bags or cannon fodder in most team books, they are portrayed as very creepy and dangerous in this one. The first arc involves an attempt to infiltrate the highly secretive terrorist group which later concludes with a genuine global threat and an ethical dilemma.
The series is a great example how stories can exist in a huge shared world and build upon it, yet still be accessible to new readers while referencing broader aspects of that world. The timeline Checkmate exists in is preceded by a lot of material, namely Infinite Crisis and 52. What I love about Checkmate that makes it somewhat unique, is that it gives us more of a “what if” metahumans existed in the real world. If the UN had actual authority behind it. The political consequences of metas. The threat level these kind of agencies would have to face. The grey areas that “Superheroes” tend to avoid when dealing in black and white morality.
Overall I give it an 8/10. Rucka’s Wonder Woman is also a good read if you haven’t already. Now I just need to find the Chimera trade that concludes this Checkmate run.
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Found a picture of them in the killing joke and I'm confused, someone help please?
I noticed it has newer origins for Batman and Joker, does it replace their aformentioned comics?
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According to storyboard artist Jay Oliva in August 2023, in addition to Snyder's intended "Darkseid quadrilogy" that would have ended up with what he described as "a Justice League Unlimited version" of the "Snyder-Verse", Warner Bros. planned to make a Flash trilogy, which was at different points of development, with directors like Seth Grahame-Smith and Rick Famuyiwa being considered, that would have culminated in a "Flashpoint" film adaptation similar to Oliva's D.C. Universe Animated Original Movies (D.C.U.A.O.M.) film Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013), which would have revealed that Professor Zoom had been behind the D.C.E.U.'s events, having been in the background during most of the trilogy while having some influence over the Justice League films' events, provoking the Flash into changing the universe in a way that resulted in everyone becoming enemies with those who used to be their allies, forcing the Flash to reboot the franchise in a way that could have introduced a new cast, due to the studio folks feeling that the starring actors would wish to move on from their roles after a decade.
Well, with The Flash having been inspired by the "Flashpoint" story-arc and, albeit in a totally different fashion, totally revamping the D.C.E.U. into the D.C.U., coupled with how they mucked the franchise up and gave Snyder the finger, unfortunately, it looks like Warner got their wish, just much sooner than initially anticipated.
Old news aside, here's my source: https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/zack-snyder-original-flash-movie-plan-jay-oliva
Shocking, isn't it?