#wth dc

[midichlorienne]

Mood

[radiokaos]

Why is it...

... That movies and TV Shows seem to do a better job of reading like a comic book than the comic books themselves these days?  Even within the realm of movies, the animated ones seem to do the arguably better job too.  Perhaps the best movie I would argue out right now that is a Superman movie is All-Star Superman, based on the series by Grant Morrison, who took inspiration from “The Last Days of Superman” comic from 1962.  Then there is the animated flick of Batman called Under the Red Hood, which improves above the comics continuity because it uses the Batman mythos rather than the moronic Superboy Prime to answer how a character came back.  Then over at Marvel, they have their movies, which honestly, in some ways are better than, IMO, most of what Marvel is doing right now with their properties.  How can this be?  Remember when the actual comic books were at the lead, rather than behind and kind of lost?

[radiokaos]

WTH was DC thinking when they had Joker’s face ripped off and turned to leather.  I am sorry but stuff like that is rediculous, I just feel it was excessive and the reason why I didn’t bother with Batman for a while.  This sick stuff belongs in some bizarre alternate universe or something.  JMO.  If you think Joker becoming a leatherface ripoff is cool, all the more to you.  I just feel it was going too far. 

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Oh, and BTW, I didn’t bother buying the Batman comics, so this is not a scan like most of my non-reblogs are.  I don’t know what tumblr’s copyright policy is but here is where I got the pic:

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[radiokaos]

So What is going on here?

I watch the animated movies from DC Comics, and for some reason, with their various productions of All-Star Superman, JL: Gods and Monsters, or a number of other animated films, with some exceptions (The Killing Joke), the storytelling gets interesting in Gods and Monsters because it is a very different universe down to the secondary characters.

Similar with Marvel, with their animated shows on TV, you had a more interesting take on Ultron, as well as Kang, or Dr. Doom.  Seriously, can someone transfer some of the animation brains over to the live action movies?

[radiokaos]

Doomsday?

Seriously, after however many times they keep using this villain, it’s pretty much a joke.  For those who like him, good.  But really, DC keeps using this same villain like the word “Inconceivable” in The Princess Bride, but then that’s just me. Wake me up when they use Conduit, Pre-Crisis Mongul, Darkseid, Mxyzptlk, or some other interesting villain.  I know it’s possibly a new “Reign of the Supermen”.  But the repeat of this old villain is killing my interest when DC has other villains to showcase.

[radiokaos]

SO, what is going on at DC?

SO DC has put Dark Knight 3 on hold.  This move makes no real sense to me as to why.  This series was top-selling material for DC Comics.  This was an awesome story that a lot of people enjoyed as it gave them the Frank Miller Batman they enjoyed from the Dark Knight Returns, as opposed to what we got in All-Star Batman and Robin or The Dark Knight Strikes Again, and even gave me a more likeable Superman than what I saw in the other Dark Knight stories.  So why exactly is DC Cancelling it for?  Are they a little out of their minds?