tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post1287509590842974320..comments2024-03-21T19:12:11.065-07:00Comments on Every Day Is Like Wednesday: It is going to take every ounce of my willpower not to buy Cry For Justice #2 tomorrowCalebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01391759187396994380noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-52166341205354420022009-08-06T11:16:44.570-07:002009-08-06T11:16:44.570-07:00Quick question for anyone who reads Hal Jordan and...<i>Quick question for anyone who reads Hal Jordan and/or Huntress and Lady Blackhawk appearances religiously: Has Hal Jordan ever even met either of them in a comic before?</i><br /><br />According to a poster at the new scans_daily, yes.<br /><br />http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/752199.html?thread=19292999#t19292999Strannikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09561207510297423737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-90286650776172793092009-08-06T06:01:15.825-07:002009-08-06T06:01:15.825-07:00What does it say about me that I'm STILL excit...What does it say about me that I'm STILL excited for Robinson/Bagley despite this?<br /><br />Probably that I'm a big Starman/Golden Age/etc. fan. or that I really want to see a bunch of Titans and Mon El in the JLA or that I am liking (non Superman) Superman and World of New Krypton plenty right now.<br /><br />But still... it's madness!Matt Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11471002482074216223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-20231119161836779162009-08-05T18:15:00.265-07:002009-08-05T18:15:00.265-07:00Wow. Makes this week's "ComicCritic.com&q...Wow. Makes this week's "ComicCritic.com" strip even more fitting.<br /><br />http://comiccritics.com/2009/08/03/cry-for-quality/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-10416683788399365122009-08-05T17:21:09.094-07:002009-08-05T17:21:09.094-07:00I flipped through it pretty thoroughly to see if B...I flipped through it pretty thoroughly to see if Batwoman, Supergirl and Shazam/Captain Marvel/Freddie would also get to shout "JUSTICE!" when first introduced, but that did not seem to be the case.Calebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01391759187396994380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-70901710518754060882009-08-05T15:54:22.228-07:002009-08-05T15:54:22.228-07:00The best thing about this is that it's the FIR...The best thing about this is that it's the FIRST PAGE OF THE COMIC. There's nowhere to go but down from there!<br /><br />And then we get to the end, when Supergirl inexplicably asks who Charles Bukowski is. Huh?<br /><br />I wish this comic was a dollar so I could buy it. Right now I'm only flipping through it in the store, which is just not the same.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481137891542684401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-947110022714131262009-08-05T11:58:03.703-07:002009-08-05T11:58:03.703-07:00Someday I really want to see a story where it'...<i>Someday I really want to see a story where it's revealed that Hal actually won in Zero Hour and that's why the DCU now revolves around him.</i><br /><br />Genuis! He could even have created the Parallax bug and wiped his own memory! That must be it!<br /><br /><br /><i>...unless that is on the next page.</i><br /><br />On the next page, they meet a guy with a bum leg who walks with a cane...on the roof of a skyscraper. Hope he took the elevator.Calebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01391759187396994380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-43077840248075729452009-08-05T11:46:15.479-07:002009-08-05T11:46:15.479-07:00I keep telling myself that James Robinson has a pl...I keep telling myself that James Robinson has a plan; that he's working on something larger than what we've seen so far.<br />He can't be this much of a hack. He just can't.JohnFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09339402431610031589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-1811198927797810022009-08-05T11:08:17.593-07:002009-08-05T11:08:17.593-07:00"Gross" is probably the best way to sum ..."Gross" is probably the best way to sum up my reaction, too. Also: this conversation takes AN ENTIRE PAGE. 1/22 of a $3.99 comic is spent to communicate this digression to you, the reader.<br /><br />I suppose this *could* be some sort of metatextual criticism on the current perception of Hal Jordan, but if it is, it's indistignuishable from legitimately wanting to do a scene talking about how Ladies Love Cool Jordan.<br /><br />Jocutus: I think the editors don't shoot stuff like this down because it sells, right? Even if people buy it to laugh at it, or to enjoy the trainwreck or whatever, DC's sales department doesn't get numbers broken up into categories of "Bought this issue because they liked it" and "Bought this issue because they wanted to mock it." They just see "Whatever we did in this comic, it sold XX,XXX copies."Justinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16490957677766912068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-20911573988049226602009-08-05T09:59:38.255-07:002009-08-05T09:59:38.255-07:00I admire his restraint in not finishing that last ...I admire his restraint in not finishing that last line. <br /><br />"I'd rather be known for the planes I flew... then for the birds I laid." ...unless that is on the next page.<br /><br />"Well played" gross. Fan fiction it is. total feedback loop superhero porn. grosser than gross.Marc Arsenaulthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10384129154427120473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-2344444688172316232009-08-05T08:10:15.009-07:002009-08-05T08:10:15.009-07:00Um, how is Robinson "engaging in fan-fiction,...<i>Um, how is Robinson "engaging in fan-fiction," and what's the difference between "engaging in fan-fiction" and doing so "literally"?<br /><br />He's not engaging in fan-fiction, and he's certainly not doing so literally (whatever that means)</i><br /><br />Er, are you serious? "Engaging in" means "doing" or, here, "writing." "Literally" means he is actually doing it, not writing "glorified fan fiction," or a script that seems <i>like</i> fan fiction, but is <i>actual</i> fan fiction.<br /><br />I pounded this out in a fifteen minutes late last night, so I'm not going to say it's my best writing or anything, but, wow, you sure do like to nitpick, don't you?<br /><br />Whether or not something is fan fiction or like fan ficiton and whether or not you get paid for it isn't mutually exclusive; you're thinking of "amateur." And yeah, anyone writing for DC isn't an amateur, but they can be "amateur-ish."<br /><br />There, I just wasted another few minutes on you. Happy?Calebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01391759187396994380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-26721889803116579822009-08-05T07:45:01.513-07:002009-08-05T07:45:01.513-07:00So Mr. Defined are you an angry English teacher? ...So Mr. Defined are you an angry English teacher? Or maybe English isn't your first language? Because, honestly, the rest of us seem to be able to figure out what Caleb MEANS from context, even if the PRECISE definition of what you choose to bitch about doesn't match...LurkerWithouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03540770911478925992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-76957908618694244372009-08-05T06:25:28.491-07:002009-08-05T06:25:28.491-07:00"He's apparently not above literally enga..."He's apparently not above literally engaging in fan-fiction of the lamest sort."<br /><br />Um, how is Robinson "engaging in fan-fiction," and what's the difference between "engaging in fan-fiction" and doing so "literally"?<br /><br />He's not engaging in fan-fiction, and he's certainly not doing so literally (whatever that means).<br /><br />He's paid to write comics for DC. That makes him a professional writer. That means that every story he writes for them that gets published exists in their catalogue.<br /><br />Regardless of whether his stories are any good, he's a professional writer. Until he becomes unemployed, he's pretty much incapable of writing anything that could be considered fan-fiction.Hdefinedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14402669731760470459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-11412084495574081312009-08-05T05:12:07.185-07:002009-08-05T05:12:07.185-07:00Someday I really want to see a story where it'...Someday I really want to see a story where it's revealed that Hal actually won in Zero Hour and that's why the DCU now revolves around him.Matt Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11471002482074216223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-62798525106122176532009-08-05T00:15:53.842-07:002009-08-05T00:15:53.842-07:00Oh, brother.Oh, brother.JohnFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09339402431610031589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-16292316232653961842009-08-04T23:12:56.050-07:002009-08-04T23:12:56.050-07:00Look, I am no prude, but this is cheap.
If James ...Look, I am no prude, but this is cheap.<br /><br />If James Robinson wanted Hal Jordan to have a threesome, then go to the trouble of actually writing it. Have Zinda Blake and Hal Jordan meet and bond over their love of flying. Give some vaguely plausible reason why a woman born in the 1920s would behave like the third lead in a Cinemax movie.<br /><br />It seems even more wildly out of character for the Huntress, but I am willing to keep an open mind. Show me the moments leading up to it. Show me the morning after. Make me believe it. If you make me believe it, then you have earned the joke.<br /><br />Otherwise, it is just fan fiction. Any amateur can magically put any two (or three) characters in bed together for a shock or a cheap laugh. It takes a professional to create plausible chemistry between fictional people and imagine that how it might make them do improbable things.<br /><br />James Robinson used to be a professional.Dean H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17923782800713104454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-32089803749212149852009-08-04T23:05:12.895-07:002009-08-04T23:05:12.895-07:00Well, Lady Blackhawk did show up in Zero Hour when...Well, Lady Blackhawk did show up in Zero Hour when Hal was re-writing reality the way HE wanted it to happen. Seems like he may have just re-wrote the menage-a-trois into continuity, no?Patrick Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04244280974612331889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-16293725982099287332009-08-04T22:26:54.739-07:002009-08-04T22:26:54.739-07:00I'm thinking Hal got tanked on Grappa at the w...I'm thinking Hal got tanked on Grappa at the wedding reception, created ring constructs of Huntress and Lady Blackhawk and proceeded to embarrass himself in front of the whole DCU. I think I like my version better since it doesn't treat the Birds of Prey cast as disposable sexual playthings of male superheroes. <br /><br />Where are the editors to say "No, you can't do that. You're demeaning our other valuable hero characters for a lame sex joke. Rewrite this."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-45069958966574325262009-08-04T22:20:17.743-07:002009-08-04T22:20:17.743-07:00James Robinson is by no stretch a bad writer, whic...James Robinson is by no stretch a bad writer, which makes the fact that Cry for Justice is such a fucking trainwreck all the more perplexing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com