tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post8338425951856627065..comments2024-03-21T19:12:11.065-07:00Comments on Every Day Is Like Wednesday: Let's talk at far too great length about Suicide Squad #1 (2011), and what its characters look likeCalebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01391759187396994380noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-8160310335673422822013-05-16T12:43:09.880-07:002013-05-16T12:43:09.880-07:00Yeah, I tried reading the first issue as well...ma...Yeah, I tried reading the first issue as well...mainly because I enjoyed Ostrander's and Simone's different versions of Suicide Squad so very very much.<br /><br />This...not so much. As in...not at all. <br /><br />Seriously having Floyd without the 'stache? That's just WRONG!SallyPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05592635194271250605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-59221091939770770842013-05-16T12:30:05.451-07:002013-05-16T12:30:05.451-07:00Caleb: I'm amazed that SUICIDE SQUAD and RED H...Caleb: I'm amazed that SUICIDE SQUAD and RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS (as another example of a strange way of teaming characters) are still being published. <br /><br />And the Deadshot with the monocle was created by late Marshall Rogers in the great run on Detective Comics in the mid-70s, with Steve Englehart writing. It has been collected in trade and is a perfect example of how DC handled characters AND artwork. The title escape me, but I'm sure your library could order it for you.<br /><br />Wayne Allen Salleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17199261942617339556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-18661489596216298352013-05-16T12:29:43.362-07:002013-05-16T12:29:43.362-07:00Deadshot was returned to prominence, really, in 19...Deadshot was returned to prominence, really, in 1977 by Englehart and Rogers, who dragged him out of mothballs. It was Rogers who designed the fancy red-and-yellow outfit with the silver mask/helmet. I rarely know stuff like this, so I apologize for being so pedantic!Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05822896114716659640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-68091382286750188172013-05-16T09:51:20.368-07:002013-05-16T09:51:20.368-07:00@Yonatan:
What may look like mere sniping to you ...@Yonatan:<br /><br />What may look like mere sniping to you is, at least in part, Caleb being thorough in detailing the decline of DC; specifically, any evidence of interest in broadening its fanbase-- or even maintaining its tenuous hold on a pre-existing one.<br /><br />I'm guessing Caleb & I are roughly the same age? I was a DC baby back in the day, all through to late 90s, then it turned into a Time-Warner intellectual property mine and since then all bets have been off the for the race to the bottom of the barrel. They're producing Product these days instead of content, and their failure to think through market-driven revamps has cheapened the company's image significantly. Perilously even, if Caleb's ongoing analysis of cancellations & shakeups indicates anything.<br /><br />DC used to be a beacon of the industry and a champion of creator's rights, with some of the best and brightest writers; was, in fact, the home of the British Invasion that gave us some of the foundation stones of the current graphic novel. What do you see that they've managed to do in the last five to ten years that indicates the present incarnation of the publisher is thinking beyond the next five minutes? They have no long view, no plan, no editorial coherence.<br /><br />This isn't hate, son, this is a thoughtful reader telling an adrift company that they're taking on water and the bilge is broken.<br /><br />You don't care about any of that, you've got a whole browser there in front of you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-4309245291972458482013-05-16T07:24:49.357-07:002013-05-16T07:24:49.357-07:00@Yonatan: He's stated repeatedly that he'...@Yonatan: He's stated repeatedly that he's reviewing library copies of collected trades. So probably. Luckily its a big internet so you won't have to read and be bothered by his "DC hate" and can just come back when he's reviewing Smurfs collections or something...LurkerWithouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03540770911478925992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-48995036494737403422013-05-16T02:17:29.280-07:002013-05-16T02:17:29.280-07:00Wow...what a fantastic comic...Wow...what a fantastic comic...Aki Alaraatikkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11432612143247843259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-54269216049933377372013-05-16T00:42:53.478-07:002013-05-16T00:42:53.478-07:00dude...that was 20 issues ago. And there is a new ...dude...that was 20 issues ago. And there is a new writer. Are you going to be constantly 2 yeats behind on your DC hate at all times?Yonatanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09186451479519384504noreply@blogger.com