"Peacemaker Presents: The Vigilante / Eagly Double Feature" Comics to Take Place Between Seasons 1 & 2
HBO Max's Peacemaker series is getting a 5-issue comic book series set between seasons 1 and 2. Vigilante stories in Peacemaker Presents: The Vigilante / Eagly Double Feature are by Tim Seely and Mitch Gerads, while Eagly stories are by Rex Ogle and Matteo Lolli. James Gunn is also onboard as a story consultant.
(Image via DC Comics - Cover of Peacemaker Presents: The Vigilante / Eagly Double Feature #1)
Comics that Need an Adaptation Volume 1: The Indies
Hello all you happy people. I’m jake I review comics and today we have something special. This is something i’ve been thinking of for a while but finally got galvanized into doing via recent events. As I blogged about breifly, Scott PIlgrim has recently been soft greenlit for an animated adaptation. So while looking up reactions for it I found this charming twitterperson who was talking about how she wasn’t looking forward to it. While I made what in any other situation would likely be a mistake and debated her, thankfully she is a nice pereson, thus the debate was civil and she made some good points: how netflix has screwed the pooch in some recent adaptations (i.e. cowboy bebop) how they might cheap out, how they might only be doing it for recognition etc, while I countered with the fact Scott Pilgrim DOES have a lot of stuff that could be updated or expanded, how a lot of the refrences are timeliness or were so obscure in the first place to a lot of readers they hold up, and how in general while the movies good i’ts a heavily compressed adpatation that sacrificed most character stuff to get everything into two hours.
It was a plesant and measured debate with not one fuck you and given i’ve had hours long arguments about how “your wrong it is incest”, this was a nice change of pace to instead find someone who, while I may not agree with, does have valid points and is my kind of werido.
The main takeaway though that lead to this article was her most valid critcisim: that while Scott Pilgrim might deserve another go (defintely in my case but semantics), there are tons of other comics that haven’t got adapted. And since we’re in a great time for adaptations both in ones i’ve seen like Invincible and ones I havne’t fully seen or gotten too like Umbrella Academy or Locke and Key, I thought it’d be a good time to make up my wishlist. Comics I feel deserve the bump into a series or movie and who don’t have a deal in place. It’s why Bone and Lumberjanes are absent: both have series in the works that are reported to make progress. It may be a while on either but they are happening and as such i’d prefer to focus on comics that dont’ even have that yet. If they do and I was unaware, that’s one me but i’ve checked most of these and so far no go.
And in the spirit of scott pilgrim this time around i’m focusing on indie comics that aren’t about superheroes. Being a huge superhero geek I’ve got plenty of superhero lists I could do, both for the big two and outside it, at some point, so you’ll likely get those in coming months as I continue this feature, but I feel it’s best to start out outside my genre of choice.
While I love superhero comics.. the fact is the genre is a wide open sandbox and dosen’t get credited for that enough sometimes, and feel there’s tons of non suprrehero comics that deserve a spin on the screen. This list dosen’t even cover all of them: i’m doing a seperate one for comic strips as some have been minorly adapated but need a proper one. But that’s for another day. Today we’re focusing on the indies. The only rule here is it hasn’t been adapted yet, so your going to see wide range of genres, creative voices (though one creator gets a few slots so be ready for that), and all that good stuff. So if your curious what I think should be adapted or are dying to get to me tooting your own horn with the thing you want adapted, join me under the cut!
12. Steeple
The first of Four Works by the wonderous John Allison on this list, the only writer to wrack up so many. For those who haven’t been exposed to this british genius before, John Allison is a goofy man who writes stories about a wide variety of characters almost exclusively centered around the small Englishtown of Tackleford, which is a magnet for supernatural nonsense of all kinds.
Steeple is both one of his most recent works, one of his current flagships (publishing everything after the intiital dark horse published mini series on his website with Dark Horse collecting future stories in trade), and one of the only ones not set in tackleford. Instead it’s set in another sleepy english villiage with i’ts own problems namely creatures that come up from the sea every night to attack.
Into all of this comes Billie Baker, an optimistic curate who soon finds out about this dark secret and her boss Reverend Penrose’s dedicated hunt for beasties.
Not helping are the local mostly harmless satanic set: card carying villian Magus Tom, Reverse Werewolf Brian and local bad girl Maggie. It’s Billie and Maggie who end up forming a close friendship despite being on oppsiite sides.. and soon both questoin the side their on. The result is a nice bix of Allison’s quality slice of life shenanigans but with higher stakes than usual as the monsters aren’t either one off weirdos who disappear after an arc (even if they leave consequences behind) or mostly beneveolent creatures caught in the middle of humanity’s bullshit. These monsters, while possibly not evil, are highly dangerous and won’t go away and it adds an element of risk and mystery to the fun procedings. And while the main characters are slight copies of two of allisons best (Shelley and Amy), they still have enough unique wriinkles to make them owrthy of a show in their own right, something an adaptation could expand upon. Steeple is perfectly made for television, with plenty of room for one off adventures as the story gathers steam. This is one church that badly needs a televisied sermon.
11. Jonesy
This is one where I feel Jonesy was a good book.. but it was in the wrong genre. Jonesy was fine as an all ages comic but would honestly work better as a kids tv show, having the perfect premise , pacing and deisgn for one.
Jonesy has a simple enough premise: Jonesy is a punkish cynical middle schooler who dosen’t belivie in love (mostly because it hasn’t happened for her).. who naturally finds herself with cupid style love powers. While in times past that could be icky, Jonesy is a work that thankfully sidesteps these sort of implications out front: Jonesy can’t use the powers on herself, and generally tries to avoid using them in a lovey dovey on other people unless both people are clearly into one another and just need a nudge. She also can’t disrupt love that’s already there.
What makes this use of these sorts of powers stand out though is that it’s not limited to just making people into one another. She can make them love things, concepts, whatever she can as long as i’ts not her. This leads to all sorts of shenasnigans and clever uses of her powers. In the first ish alone she makes people crazy about ferrets so they’ll donate to local brain and soon to be Jonesey’s best friend Nara’s charity after her powers screw up said charity.
The result is a fun, breezy work. It hits i’ts peak in the final arc , which would be an ideal season ender, as Jonesy ends up running into someone with the same power set and far less scruples, resulting in some mistakes and a fateful choice to stop this bastard. Overall Jonesy is ana wesome work and would be great in animation, from the art style to the hearts in the eyes effect for the love powers. It’s a slam dunk for it and i’ts shocking it hasn’t yet been adapated. But with HBO sniffing around boom with Lumberjanes, we may see it soon. Here’s hoping.
10. Scary Go Round
So we’re back to John and his breakout work. When John started in comics he started with Bobbins, your standard webcomic except not very good and with terrible artwork. John would switch to using computer art before he got very good at drawing by hand and went back to that for all further web projects.
SGR was originally a spinoff following two college kids from Bobbins.. but eventually it pivoted back to the more intresting members of the Bobbins cast: Shelley Winters, a cloudcuckoolandery optimist and sometimes reporter sometimes mayors assitant, Amy Chilton, a 20 something wild child with tatoos, tons of mens and tons of sass, Ryan Beckwith, their sadsack friend who has a bat for a best friend, a penchant for spitting out nonsense, and a notriously frought lovelife starting with a ghost and ending with Amy, and Tim, the local inventor (aka mad scinetiest) and eventual mayor. In addition to them we have the local teens who go from side characters to another set of main characters:
Shelley’s dour sister Erin, local perky goth Esther (Who we’ll see agani later, spoilers) and the perpetually put on Eustace “The Boy” Boyce whose caught between the two. Add in tons and tons of great to tossable side characters and you have yourself a pretty dang good comic. YOu can get most of it on comixology dirt cheap too.
Scary Go Round has rough edges, being printed in the 2000′s and written by the seat of Allison’s pants, but that’s what a good adaptation could giv eit and it could be a great springboard for a sharred universe with the other works we’ll get to shortly. Allison’s already carefully crafted a universe full of characters to play in, some simple rearranging of events, maybe some adaptations of some stories from the prequel comics bobbins.horse (basically Bobbins but legdgeble nad more in line with the canon SGR and later works make), some streamlining and you have a hit show on your hands.
9. Once And Future
This is one I BADLY need to read more of but what I have just begs for an adaptation. The basic premise is simple and engaging: some assholes ressurect king arthur in an attempt to “right” england.. only to get massacred as he’s far more horrifying than they expect. So now it’s up to Duncan, a researcher, and his gran, whose dedicated her life to stopping this, to stop Arthurian myth from destroying the present. I admit to not being all that keen on arthurian legend, btu ONce and Future actualyl makes me WANT to learn more by being that engaging, that well paced and in places that hilarious despite largely being a horror comic. IT’s just that good and if it hasn’t got a deal yet it should. Kireon Gillen is one of my faviorite writers for a reason, and creative ideas like this is one of them. Also check out his Eternals run, he actualyl makes them intresting. It’s also really good and I look forward to Immortal X-Men.
8. Assassin Nation
This is a fairly recent one, only about two years old at the time of this article, but it’s an awesome one that would make for one hell of a movie. I hestitate about making it a series only because there's only been one volume so far while most of these have 3 or 4 to pull from. That siad I could see it being expanded nicely
The premise is simple and awesome: The former #1 hitman in the world, now a mob boss himself, has been marked for death. In this world, much like say no more heroes theirs a firm ranknig. So he does the obvious thing and hires the 20 bellow him to protect his ass. Naturally a lot of killing enuses even before he can hire them as several try to kill him then and there, and the survivors set about trying to protect the guy. Simple premise, plenty of room to expand the cast, and fun as all hell. Not much else to say I really liked this one when it came out and can’t wait for a sequel series.
7. Hack/Slash
This is one i’m honestly shocked hasn’t gotten father. There have been attempts, and a stage play at one point, but nothing for tv or film. And given how brilliant the premise for this series is i’m utterly schocked by that. This is one premise that would be hard to fuck up.. i’m not saying i’ts un fuckupable, anything can but this one epsecailly is genius.
Hack/Slash, as you’d likely guess is a horror comic that’s a sendup of slashers, deftly blending the horror and comedy. In this world Slashers from horror movies are a common problem: undead killers who come back with some unfinished buisness. As for targeting horny teens that’s given an actual reason: fucking, partying, drinking.. these are all forms of joy or pleasure things these undead beasts can’t have. As such they murder them for it.
Cassie Hack , our heroine, was the daughter of one such slasher, who died posioining a cafteria, leaving Cassie a pariah. A year later her mom returned as a slasher and Cassie took her out and decided to from there walk the earth in revealing outfits taking these fuckers out so no one has to go through what she did. Basically Syndey Prescott if she went around hunting ghostface copycats.. which is what the Scream series shoudl’ve been about but hey I hear it was pretty good anyway. She’s acomabined by Vlad, a big burly man mountain who was created to be a slasher type baddie (if not actually a slasher), with a dash of frankenstien.. but was a gentle soul and thus gladly joined Cassie on the hunt.
It’s a perfect setup and they could follow the comics, or do their own thing with it. The premise is that fluid and brilliant you could do a LOT with it, like go into how slashers functoin or play with the concept a LOT. There’s endless room to grow here so someone REALLY needs to get on this already.
6. Bad Machinery
Back to the John Allison Cinematic universe for his sequel to Scary Go Round, Bad Machinery. Bad Machinery is perfectly designed to be a modern kids show: a loveable and quirky main cast, mysteries to solve and jokes a plenty.
Bad Machinery takes place 5 years after Scary Go Round with our last Allison comic, more on that later, taking place during said time skip. It follows the adventures of 6 british school kids who like solving mysteries: enthusastic and mildly batty Lottie, her working class best friend, voice of reason and deductive master Shauna, and their new friend Mildred, a mildly feral rich girl. Their male counterparts are the head in the clouds shy as heck Jack, the impuslive but impressively deductive Linton and the even shyer and more lost than Jack, Sonny. Along the way they pick up a loose seventh in Claire, a lisping girl who slowly gains confidence and Lottie’s friendship. With 10 volumes to adapt with things getting more mature as the characters grown, it’s a truly excellent series with tons of room to expand, move things around or make entirely new cases for our plucky young heroes to solve. And the fact their school is a combo late middle school all of high school means the pesky setting changes that plauge most middle grade set shows and prevent aging aren’t present here, something Allison likely found a boon.
5. Farmhand
Farmhand is Writer/Artist Rob Guillroy’s second major work the other being one he just did the art for we’ll get to. Starting out with some black comedy, Farmhand quickly and sharply turns into humor, keeping some jokes to help ease the tension but only just so as things get more horrifying and dire and more mysterious all the while.
Farmhand follows Ezikiel, who returns home for a new job and soon gets embroiled in the family buisness: long ago his father Jediah found a seed that allowe dhim to grow replacement body parts for people and thus made a buisness out of engenering it. The two are forced to come together as things spiral with plant zombies, the machinations of Jed’s old partner and Zeke’s family soon coming under threat. Farmhand has a lot of seeds sown into it’s story but everyone helps build one mighty oak of a series that’s creepy, fascenating and throughly engaging as it evolves and things only get worse and worse. It also avoids the horror cliches of haivng the characters be unlikeable: even Zeke comes off more as a herbert west type too in love with the science and progress to see how bad things are getting. It’s pacing is perfectly built for a tv show, with twists in each issues and act breaks perfect for a season or mid season. It’s built for prime time it just needs the right network to water it.
While this one has some intrested parties hopefully one will develop it.. and hopefully in animation to capture Guillroy’s gorgeous art though live action is fine too. Not so much for his other work but be patient, we’ll get there.
4. The Wicked + The Divine
Another great premise built perfectly to be clumped into a few seaosns of tv, though this one’s tightly plotted arc and mythology means it has to be adapted as is, with the slightest of tweaks.. but given how utterly briliant this series is, that’s forgivable.
WIcked + Divine has an utterly showstopping premise, like most of these but even more so than usual courtsey of Kireon Gillieon. It focuses on the Pantheon, a group of god level dieties who manifest in the bodies of teenagers once every 90 years, with the latest group manifesting as musical artists and each one gets loyal followers, fame and whatever they desire.. with the caveat they only get two years to enjoy it before dying. It’s a mesmerising look at celebrity culture, the pressures of celebrity, how fast some of these stars burn out and die sadly too young, while also providing some gorgeous displays of superpowers.
There’s an assload of twists, hence why my summary is so short and berfet of characters: this comic is best experinced going in raw with as little info as possible.
But it’s gorgeous style, ambitious premise, meticulous plotting, and the soundtrack Gilleon made for it all BEG for an adaptation to bring this to full life and sound so we can hear the pantehon ourselves. This is a case where the plot dosen’t really have room for or need much expansion, though some would be welcomed, but the added dimensions of a tv show, wether using dizzying camera tricks in live action or dazzling color in animation, and with either adding a nice layer of sound to it and allowing us to hear the pantheon loud and clear, would add a LOT to an already tremendous work. So pay tribute to your gods and hopefully this will get greenlit. Also look at our lead character... if Zendaya dosen’t play her I don’t know who could.
3. Atomic Robo
Atomic Robo is another one of those i’m baffled Hollywood has’nt scooped up. An animated film was attempted at one point but never got anywhere which is a shame. That says I feel Atomic Robo would work best as a series.
For those who havne’t heard of this wonderful comic, you can read the entire thing RIGHT HERE (Scary Go Round and Bad Machinery STARTED online but haven’t been restored to online yet or i’d link them too). Seriously not joking every issue from the first arc to the latest is up and new arcs are added when their started, if in black and white at first to get them out faster, with the color versions added in later. It’s worth a read too.
As for what this is about Atomic Robo is a Indiana Jones or Scooge McDuck style adventure series about the titualr Robo. Robo is the creation and surrogate son of Nicolai Tesla. And if your wondering if his rivalry with Edison comes up, yes yes it does. Edison is naturally kind of a supervillian here, if with a throughly heartbreaking motive for at least part of his crap.
Point is Tesla created Robo and after his creators mysterious passing, Robo took up his work by creating Tesladyne, intitally a holding company for Tesla’s various super science inventions turned into a super science think tank and rapid response group designed to push the boundries of science, within reason going full mad science is a guarnateed pink slip, while also responding to super sciency threats. As you can tell Robo is a LONGGGGG lived bastard, and unlike most comics Atomic Robo does not apply a sliding time scale. Characters age in real time and as a result Robo, who was unveiled in 1923, is coming up on his in universe 100th birthday, something I do hope they explore.
As such while the main ongoing story and supporting cast is in the present (Especailly lately where most volumes have focused on ongoing plots in present day after an engaging new status quo I won’t spoil was established), the stories gleefully hop around the timeline: We’ve had stories about Robo’s time in WWII, fighting Biomega (aka Kaiju) in the 60′s, his time briefly after the war, and his teenage-ish years with Tesla as they fought Thomas Edison lest you thought I was joking about that. My faviorite story, Shadow From Beyond Time, uses this to perfection, having Robo deal with an entity across all these time periods. He even teams up with Carl Sagan. Yes really. The comic has a deep love for real life science figures, including Stephen Hawking, who was nemisis and whose shenanigans once lead to Robo spending a whole year writing “hawking is a bastard” on the planet mars.
So you likely gather by now WHY a series would fit this franchise the best: you could use the various past stories to enhance stories in the present, set up future foes or just experiment with the characters and settings. There’s 100 years of history to explore and at the time of this writing 14 collected volumes of the main series, and 4 of spinoff series Real Science adventures to pull from.
And if you want to make some films to go with the series, that’s entirely viable, as some arcs, such as the flying she devils would work better as a self contained film. There’s so much potetial with this one and the comic itself is so good and deserves so much more attention that I badly hope this one gets adapted. The odds aren’t high in it’s favor.. but I belivie.
2. Giant Days
One more run in with John Allison and it’s my faviorite of his, the work that got me into his vast universe, and by far the most succesful. Giant Days is a spinoff of Scary Go Round, orignally made as a backup in case Bad Machinery failed to take off. It did so Allison shelved it after three issues, only to revivie it once Boom Stuidos knocked on his door. This resulted in 54 regular issues and 4 extra sized specials, the last of which serves as an ending to the series, not to mention a YA Book I haven’t gotten to but want to. Since then after two short lived print runs for steeple and wicked things (a bad machinery sequel starring Lottie now as a young woman) he’s taken both back to webcomics, this remains his most mainstream hit.
Giant Days follows Esther, drama magnet and flighty perky goth, to University as she quickly makes two friends for life: Susan Ptolemy, a cynical, sarcastic, med student with a penchant for hard boiled detective shenanigans and, when drawn by john himself, teeth like buzzsaws, and Daisy Wooton, a sheltered formerly homeschooled girl with sheep sized hair and optiisim just as big... who slowly grows into a voice of reason for the group, as well as growing into her sexuality as a lesbian. The three are often joined by their two male friends who fill out the rest of hte main cast: Ed Gimmel, an awkward nerd with a massive crush on esther, and his best friend and roomate McGraw, essentially Ron Swanson if he was in college complete with mustache, a staunch craftsman who has both a history and vast sexual tension with Susan. The Five go through the ups and downs of college and various shenanigans, from fairly standard college story stuff like Esther dating a douchey TA, film festival contests, and Daisys frought relationshpi with an exciting but also dangerously self involved freshman in her second year... to very John Allison things like a rugby match to celebrate 50 issues, chinchilla smuggling and my faviorite, Daisy going through a phase in which she becomes so hooked on Friday Night LIghts she imitates Coach and Mrs. Taylor.
The show is rare for a modern comic in that while it has ongoing arcs, most issues are self contained. They build plots brewing in the background and usually ther’es a cliffhanger for the next issue, but their built to be self contained adventures that build the larger story: i.e. how most pre-streaming tv works.
And with three years of school, that gives writers a perfect framework for 3 seasons of great television with plenty of room to add in new adventures for these fantastic characters. There’s a LOT to be gained by giving this fine trio and their two male palls a full series, and while adaptations have been floated around so far there hasn’t been any seroius takers.. and given this would work great in animation or live action, there needs to be. This series is awesome and deserves to live on forever via an adaptation dammit. And now for our finale....
1. Chew
Full Discolosure: Chew is one of my faviorite comics of all time. I will be defintely covering it at some point. So it being the adaptation I want the most was a no brainer. It dosen’t help that I almost got one years ago: Heavy Metal tried branching into animation, setting up an animated film with a fucking stacked cast with Steven Yuen, Felicia Day and Robin Williams (Who after his tragic passing was replaced by David Tennant), in the main rolls... and then it fell apart. The pain of that falling apart has never really left and I hope if it does get picked up, especailly with his star having risen in both voice and regular acting, Yuen does get to play our leading man as he’s perfect for it. And Chew is perfect for an adaptation and is too damn good both in concept and in execution and too damn well designed for tv NOT to get a series
Chew takes place in a throughly intresting world: In this one there’s two major divergiences; The first is the Bird Flu was apparently far more deadly, though the fact this may of been a cover is a major part of the ongoing mystery and i’ts resolution. As such Chicken has been banned and the FDA went from a minor goverment orginzation to bigger than the FBI or CIA in order to combat both this and the rising number of “Food Weirdos”, people with powers based around food. And while you’d THINK the comic, especailly with a 60 issue run with 4 specials, would run out of clever ways to have food based superpowers.. you’d be wrong: we have the ability to sculpt things out of chocolate that perfeclty mimic the object their modelded after (aka chocolate knives, guns and hand grenades), eating candy giving you said candies properties, alvacado based face masks that can remold a persons face perfectly, and FAR too many more to list. Needless to say Chew has one of the most clever and intrestingly vaired arrays of superpowers ever put to the medium despite not being a superhero comic, and that alone is a huge draw for me. While the regular powers like flight, invisiblity, no traffic accidents all that are fine, it’s neat to see people really get weird with it and find new ablities or spice up the old ones with some fresh flavor.
It’s in this intresting setting we meet our hero, Tony Chu, a by the book as can be cop with a bubbling temper, keen detective insight and the power of chibopathy:he gets a psychic imprint from whatever he reads and thus can get whatever he eat’s whole history of even just recent events. This naturally forces him , against his will, into the ocasional bout of canablisim, a bite here or there, and is a perfect fit for a detective. It also sucks horribly, with Tony ONLY being able to eat beets (which counteract his power), without getting a flash. To put it into persective imagine eating a hamburger and every time you take a bite you get a flash of the cow being slaughtered to make it and any processing that went into it. Now stop screaming.
Tony soon gets transfered from the police to the FDA, and thus solves various food related crimes while the major storylines slowly form: Tony’s mentor in the FDA, experinced agent Mason Savoy (Who should also keep his prospective heavy metal va in David Tennant), turns out to be behind the main mystery of the first volume (Something I couldn’t really dance around, sorry for the spoilers), as Savoy is trying to find out what REALLY happened during the flu outbreak and comes into conflict with Tony due to going outside the law to due so. He soon finds a much worse threat though; The Vampire aka the Collector, a chibopath like Tony and Mason who unlike them REVELS in eating other people and uses the cover of vampire lore to slowly amass food powers by eating people, something Tony is soon forced to do to keep up. (Both can also take skills by eating people. Like mega man but with more canablisim). And in the background an anti chicken cult slowly grows and some firey letters appear in the sky.
But honestly.. the main draw of Chew is it’s cast. Tony is a complex character, his deceased wife having slowly gone insane and having had to leave his daughter behind with his older sister due to his grief, something he regrets. He’s quick to anger, but stilll talented, clever and hilariously awkward in his personal life.
And the people around him are no slouches: They are his partner John Colby, a wisecracking bisexual cyborg who dosen’t give a shit about the chicken ban and serves as a snarky devil may care yin to Tony’s yang, Amelia Mintz, Tony’s love intrest and a reporter with the power to make anyone who reads her pieces feel like they ate the things she did, Olvie Chu, Tony’s moody teen daughter, Chow Chu, Tony’s obnoxious Celebrity Chef Bro, Toni Chew, Tony’s chipper twin who can see the future by biting things who works for NASA, and MIke Applebee, an abusive asshole who hates Tony for no given reason and has an on and off relationship with Colby. And last but not least, Poyo, a fighting rooster whose pure concentrated badass, gets ressurected as a cyborg, and thus becomes even more badass and reguarlly is busy fighting Kaijus from then on. The cast is colorful, layered and throughly intresting and finding out who’d play them is worth adapting it alone.
But the fact is Chew is a throughly rediculous comic that still feels grounded, unique and wonderful. An animated adpatation could expand a subplot or too or add it’s own fun adventures, and the preoceduarl style is MADE for tv, with at least 6 seasons, since there’s 12 volumes, so two per season with plenty of room to add in their own unique adventures and tweak the ending (Which I won’t talk about here but I feel NEEDS either a sequel or tweaking to work).
It’s also RIFE with spinoff potetinal, and could also neatly write tony’s newley added sister Saffron to the mix, from her own spinoff CHu (Who was retooled from Tony’s sister sage due to that not quite working timeline wise). There’s tons of great stories, characters and world to snack on and it’d be a shame if no one ever took a bite.
So that does it for this list. As I said I have plans for others.. but i’ll get to them when I can. My schedule’s busy and I barely managed to shuffle it to get this one in. Still I thoughly enjoyed this. And if any of you reading this would like to see me cover ANY of these comics, PLEASE let me know in my replies, ask box or wherever. It’d be a nice way to gage what’s popular enough to warrant a full retrospective and i’d be happy to cover any of these. Thanks for reading and see ya real soon.
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Shawn Tsang sucks and everything in Nightwing Rebirth right now is very very OOC. Dick is SO ooc. The things he does.... he would never do.
He’s been a complete asshole to Damian. Seriously WTF?
He’s also tunnel visioning SO hard on his girlfriend and his inner monologue is always “I would do anything for her... I would DIE for her.”
He keeps using fucking real names in the field. Yeah I’m sure Bruce taught you better.
He freaking let’s Shawn threaten someone for info (knowing how her anger temper is) but is fine with it. Yet when other’s do it, he tells them to stop.
The fact that Shawn seems to think that Dick would make a good father. Girl, how would you even KNOW? You knew him for like 3 fucking months.
The stupid ass PREGNANCY trope is the fucking shitest trope ever. The fact that she feels the need to “rescue Robin” in order to reaffirm that “She is a good mother.” That makes no sense. How would that justify you being a good mother? A good person would rescue someone in need.
But yes... the pregnancy issue TILTS me and I hate it and I hate her. And I hate this run. If sucks.
I have a ton of issues with the current run and well, this is my bit of ranting.
