I'll admit it, this was kinda funny.
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I'll admit it, this was kinda funny.
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Outsiders comic that came out today.
It was hilarious. The book is great.
Infinitely quotable.
Oh for the love of - is this chip fricking ruining the potential of the Last Knight?
No. Read the issue. It's unrelated.
He has this big metafictional rant on how DC's overreliance on Batman is ruining the company and making it impossible to tell non-Batman related stories. Made more poignant since this book itself is Planetary with all the Wildstorm characters carved out to make space for the Batman franchise.
I know that it isn't intended to be like that, but this has so much "It's not a phase, dad, I wish I was adopted!" energy behind that
I appreciate that it both shat on Batman (and by extension this book's entire existence) as well as the Batfamily while also weirdly enough not completely shitting on Batman as a whole. That being said I'd rather just read the REAL Planetary again instead of the Planetary we have at home
I do think there comes a point where it becomes clear the writer is far more interested in dissecting the cultural impact of a fictional character rather than anything related to the character themselves, and that usually comes at the point where characters are screaming about the meta-narrative in an unironic fashion
Comics exist to troll readers now. They simply don’t care anymore.
Eh....
If they wanted to do a new Planetary, it would make more sense for them to reskin it with JLI not Batman's D-List family members.
Max Lord, Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, Fire, Ice, Guy Gardner, Power Girl, Elongated Man, Sue Dibney, and maybe toss in Jason Todd (since he has multiverse experience via Countdown) could be a decent Planetary book.
If they wanted to pick the character with the most multiverse experience they'd use Donna Troy.
Did you read the comic or just the panels posted in the thread?
I read the first issue.
>man wasn't the original planetary so great that this very series can only be a pale imitation shackled by branded characters.
Obviously yes but the self-aware fatalism rubs me the wrong way knowing such readings are themselves trite and overplayed out.
Still feels forced this many other Batmen would job so easily to Rock & Roll Batman- I mean, Duke swinging his bat axe at them, and the payoff would be better if he demonstrably outsmarted them. The solution to batwank isn't making him/them into batnoob so Cooler Batman™ can cut through them like chaff: that's one of the problems BMWL has.
You're missing the point, since OP censored out Duke you loose a lot of the lines he had after the reveal. The point was that Dark Duke was more or less screaming about how everything is Batman and how Batman is dragging everyone down turning them into Batman before being KOed by Batwoman and then Luke is given a pep talk from Adam West Batman
>since OP censored out Duke you loose a lot of the lines he had after the reveal
>...Duke? ...Duke Thomas?
>Duke.
>Duke, it's me.
Yeah, the lines I blacked out where super relevant to the plot. Super critical. Completely changes the interpretation of the scene.
Wait this is a plantery?
Planetary a comic series by Warren Ellis that is a spin off of Stormwatch and The Authority comics. It's arguably Ellis's one and only almost universally liked book
>It's arguably Ellis's one and only almost universally liked book
Fell
Transmet.
Transmet doesn't hold up as well. It's got too much of the stereotypical Warren Ellis needlessly offensive shock-value stuff in it, especially in the earlier years.
It's like rereading Crooked Little Vein and getting to the macroherpetophilia group jerk-off session or the guys who inject saline into their scrotum as a kink. You can tell when there was no one around to tell Ellis to rub one out and tone it down.
I know the book but are the pics I’m seeing from a newer planetary?
Yeah thanks to OP I checked it out and it's pretty much discount Planetary frick Luke Fox even spends the first issue wearing a white suit like discount Elijah Snow. Hell they even have a Drummer
DC's Batman group skinned Planetary, shoved Luke Fox and Kate Kane into it like a used suit, and called it the Outsiders. It wears its inspirations on its sleeves. It's the only good Batman comic from the last three months.
Sounds like shit though
his og run on stormwatch isn't universally liked?
i think he means the issue where someone keeps switching realities in gotham and theres like 4 different versions of batman from different eras
lmao you had to censor Duke Thomas, it's not even that one but the Dark Multiverse Duke
I wanted the thread conversation to be about what he was saying not the "OMG DUKE ITS ME LUKE" awkwardness in the last few panels.
To be fair, what this Duke is saying is absolute gibberish to anyone that isn't looking at this meta-textually
The entire issue reads like a drug-addled fever dream if you're not looking at it meta-textually. It's the only interesting book in the Batman group.
Eh, Ive seen too many writers try and be "clever" to be impressed with this surface-level stuff, but I won't deny that compared to the rest of the Bat lineup this is still stands out at the top
It's only Batman because it has Batwoman and Batwing, and no one cares about those two, isn't this Planetary?
My thoughts pretty much. I have zero interest in Kate Kane or Luke Fox, and even less in the new "Drummer", but I appreciate that it seems to at least be trying something. Trying to call back an era when comics were actually good. I wouldn't call it a success yet or anything, but y'know, at least it's trying.
>isn't this Planetary?
It's trying to be. It's an imitation of course, Warren Ellis isn't involved and I don't think any of the original characters are either.
What's the actual context here? Why is Dark Multiverse Duke fighting all these Batmen? Who are those Batmen? Are they even real? Or just some clever metaphor?
>Why is Dark Multiverse Duke fighting all these Batmen
Because he hate batman
And what about the Batmen? Who are they and where are they?
Merging WildStorm into DC was a bad idea.