#liveblogging dc

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i like to think that bruce clocks that superman and clark kent are the same person within two seconds of meeting the second one after having known the first for maybe a month or so. then, on the flip side, it would be SUPER FUNNY if batman and bruce wayne are SO DISTINCT that it then takes several years or possibly even a decade for clark to realize that batman is the same drunk idiot who once spilled a full glass of champagne onto clark's shoes and then offered to buy him a new pair, stating loudly "how much can a pair of shoes cost, three thousand dollars?"

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okay countdown final thoughts!

overall not bad. it might not be a good story, but it's fun enough, and the art was pretty decent (very comic style, with all the pitfalls that entails, but like... at least they were high quality pitfalls amirite?). it introduced me to some new and interesting characters that i might pursue outside of this mess. my biggest complaint is that they could have cut down the monitor bickering by at least 70% and STILL had a cohesive story, so rip that. but it tells you something when my biggest complaint about a story that includes jason todd is NOT the jason todd writing, so there's that!

for jason todd........ it's not my favorite of his stories, but it's not my least favorite, either. he's pretty fucking flat in this thing, but i think it was interesting, at least, to get that glimpse into the alternate universe with the gun bruce and how jason reacted to it. i'm gonna have to reread that part and figure out what i think of it. still VERY interested to hear what tim's excuse is for using red robin, but that's an investigation for another time.

one thing countdown did pretty well was weave all the moving parts/people/teams together. everyone had their part to play, and i even really enjoyed some of the transitions and plot progressions! also HELL to the YES for donna's sparkly costume. easily my favorite costume design in the whole thing. like seriously, look at this panel with her sparkly hair:

who doesn't want a sparkly donna????

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okay i'm having FUN with countdown???? piper and trickster have been a silly little distraction this whole time but deadshot finally got one of them and it got JUICY out of nowhere. piper still hauling around trickster's rotting corpse out in the depths of the fucking desert until his hallucination of trickster's voice finally convinces him to cut off trickster's hand to get free of the electrified cuffs that have been holding them together for legit like 15 issues now... like fuck, NOW we're GETTING somewhere!!

as an aside, is the homophobia founded in something (like is piper actually queer???) or was all that 'doth protest too much' stuff just because countdown was written in 2007? it's hard to tell, i know nothing about trickster OR pied piper

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dc dark legions is kinda funny, like. once i caught bruce wayne, sitting absolutely alone in a room, in full batman costume, saying "this is like the fashion industry, drama everywhere"

another time he was sitting in the library and jason came and sat LITERALLY TWO INCHES AWAY FROM HIM, STARING RIGHT AT HIM, and went "i should warn you, i don't play nice"

and then there was that time wonder woman was standing BETWEEN rooms, staring absently into the dark crevice there. like for a solid twenty seconds at least. and then turned and walked away like nothing happened

also i saw atom sitting alone and he said something along the lines of "i'm a scientist, not a comedian" to absolutely no one, and then disappeared?? which i can only assume means that he shrank himself and scurried under a couch

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i've got a discount oliver queen facial hair thing going on because that's all i can grow atm and ngl it makes me laugh every time i see my own face

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Live Action Jokers I’ve Seen Rated by How Scary They Actually Are

1) Jared Leto joker.  Actually a joke.  Like, come on.  He had some metal on his teeth but did he even smile??  You can’t give a guy a face tattoo and green hair and call him the joker.  I can’t take him seriously.  -2/10.

2) Jack Nicholson joker.  A good joker but he’s more campy fun than anything, I think.  Great origin story, great transformation, great smile.  I would watch six more movies with him, but that’s unrelated to whether or not he’s actually scary.  Love his outfits, also.  2/10.

3) Heath Ledger joker.  Actually getting into scary territory now.  It’s the showmanship, the way he MOVES.  He embodies it.  And the drama of it all?  Now that’s a Joker I can get behind.  You know, from a safe distance.  Also well done with the nurse uniform, dude.  Solid 8/10.

4) Joaquin Phoenix joker.  Now THIS is a madman.  If you want unreliable narrator this is your MAN.  He descends into insanity with the shiver of a bow drawn across the strings of a cello.  The senselessness of the violence, the way the chaos spreads like a blight?  Exquisite.  Get him the fuck away from me.  1000/10.

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wait hang on you guys i’m so dumb

is the shazam guy.... captain marvel???

like somewhere inside i knew that he couldn’t have shazam as his hero name because he’d transform every time he introduced himself but it.  it never occurred to me.  that he’d have ANOTHER name.

....help.

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DC comics be like: we’ve been around for like a hundred years and have six million characters, and at least a third of them have a bat either in their name or on their costume.  every other man is a white man with tousled black hair and blue eyes.  half of them have been robin.  at least two of them are named jason.  one of the jasons was also robin once.  we give out trauma like gold star stickers.