/dcrg/ Thread #37 - Holiday Special edition

Rebirth-user is having computer trouble this week, so I'm going to step up and storytime this week's DC comics.

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But first, a brief table of contents:

Bane: Conquest #8 (of 12)

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Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II #1 (of 6)

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And Holla Forums is apparently being uncooperative at the moment.

Never mind, that fixed it. On with the show.

Batman: White Knight #3 (of 8)

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Batman #36

Who the fuck thought that was a good idea? It's bad enough that they have to ham-fistedly make Batman a menace by coming up with absurd ways for him to cause collateral damage, like having him DRIVE over rooftops when he owns a goddamned jet.

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Black Lightning - Cold Dead Hands #2 (of 6)

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Cyborg #19

Oh shit can't wait for the Christmas Special and Priests Justice League. Also thanks for stepping up

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DC Holiday Special 2017

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Deadman #2 (of 6)

I just started reading this and it seems damn good.


Another crossover nice.


This is better than I expected. Though what's the backstory on the fake Harley Quinn?

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Deathstroke #26

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Green Arrow #35

Well, it’s refreshing to at least see that Deathstroke is still good.

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Green Lanterns #36

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Harley and Ivy meet Betty and Veronica #3

Great. I wonder if it’s my computer or if something else is fucking up on Holla Forums this week?

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And now the moment a few of you have been waiting for…

Justice League #34

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Nightwing #34

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Superman #36

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The one who storytimed that on cuckchan probably has a very shitty internet connection or multitasked.

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I don't go to cuckchan. Is whoever storytimed it on there going even slower than I am or something?

And that's it for this week, folks. I haven't read everything myself yet, so I'm going to start doing that now.

That was nice.


This was nice as well.


Thanks OP.

>Superman actually became ruler of Apokolips
God damn, that's the last thing I would've expected.

So…Raptor was a dick…and his name is Richard. Hah..also, is it just me or the way Raptor goes down is hilarious?

That's the kinda thing Batman never tells anyone even under the threat of death.

Thanks OP!
>Bane Conquest is still comfy
>Batman White Knight still makes my head shake from some bullshits
>Superman was awesome! Holy shit, i hope they wouldn't make Lex evil again

Thanks OP.


Is this a typo? Or was Jason the first Robin in this continuity for some reason?

Batman: White Knight seems to play pretty loose with any real consistency with the mainline comics in the name of Batman looking like a shit-head. Hence Dick saying Bruce was closer to Jason and Barbra not knowing who he was despite it not exactly being a secret to anyone who's spent five minutes in the Batcave.

On a more positive note though, I fairly enjoyed this week, thanks OP for storytiming it all.

I just started reading Deathstroke (from the beginning) and man it really took a downtrun around issue 15-ish when he starts hanging out with NotMyPowerGirl. Does it get better again?

There's a crossover with Titans and Teen Titans, and then it turns into a team book, with Slade leading the team. Get ready to see a lot more of BlackPower Girl.

It being a team book doesn't necessarily sound terrible, but the spoilered text does.

Well, being forced to share screen time with seven other people does at least mean you’ll only have to deal with her for short stretches at a time. And the main focus of the story is definitely still on Slade.

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Booster's back next week. I sure hope Jurgens explains if this is New 52 Booster, original Booster/Waverider, or a fusion of the two like Superman. Where's my fucking Blue and Gold book, DC?

Overall, not a bad week. Hopefully Raptor is finally gone, wasn't a big fan of him. Also Pigeon went down like you'd expect, the way any C-rate villain would.

The White Knight is not getting any less dumb than it originally started out as.

Duke is probably the biggest idiot so far. He says to Napier "To me you are still the Joker," but apparently showing Joker your entire setup and feeding him information is not a big deal. Besides, how does letting gangs mug people and point guns at them make Backport safer for its residents?

Whole reason for Batman herding villains to the library's construction site doesn't make much sense either. Street looks empty enough, and much more wide-open than the Library. Police could just block one end of the street, Bats the other, and then just close in around the villains. Side-streets are the only concern, but construction sites have plenty of places to hide in and getting out is as simple as hopping over a wire fence
For an utterly corrupt bureaucracy with money issues, Gotham sure is efficient. Even Chinese do not get through red tape and workload that quickly.

Previous issue revealed that real Harley left Joker during the old days and was replaced by a fake Harley (wearing Suicide Squad outfit) who was encouraging Joker's violent tendancies. Probably became Neo-Joker to get old Mistah J back.

That sounds like one of the few good things from that comic.

I'm still convinced on that the white knight Joker is jason todd and old harleyjust testing nu-harley loyality while carry out the real Joker's plan!

Otherwise the whole story is a fucking mess!

Yes..we want the Blue and Gold back together, DC!

Also, costume says old Booster…maybe it's Waverider Booster but he changes his form to something more familiar? Or maybe Superman Reborn retconned Convergence outright and he's back to classic Booster.

What is it with Batgirl constantly using real names when in costumes? Calling Batman "Bruce" with super villains around is not a good idea. Considering how often she did that in previous two issues, Batman's identity would not stay secret for long in this universe.


But how will Murphy explain Barman not being able to figure out that Napier/Joker is really Jason Todd? Is Napier's face a mask or something? Is Murphy's Batman going to turn out to be even more of an idiot?

It's not. Old Harley shows up and punches new Harley and literally says something like "This is for feminism!"

The hilarious thing is that the people working on Harley Quinn right now use cosplayers as their inspiration when designing outfits for her, so this feminism punch is a punch right in the face of every young woman who likes her, telling them that they are the wrong sort of women.

I think he meant the "Nu-Harley trying to get old Joker back" part.

I give it a week.

I meant more like Old school Harley shitting on New Harley but I can get point.


Oh God I hope he doesn't do that.

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Again pc is being fixed cant post this week again.

Neat.

nm we good its all good.


Don't sass me boy

Action Comics #993

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Detective Comics #970

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The Flash #36

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Wonder Woman #36

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Hal Jordan & the Green Lantern Corps #34

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Suicide Squad #31

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Justice League of America #20

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Titans #18

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New Super-Man #17

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Red Hood and the Outlaws #17

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Superwoman #17

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Batgirl and the Birds of Prey #17

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Supergirl #16

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Mister Miracle #5

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Bug! The Adventures of Forager #6

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Ragman #3

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The Wildstorm: Michael Cray #3

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and thats that for the week.

Thanks OP.
Wasn't Dark Nights: Metal #4 supposed to come out this week?

Kind of odd that Kal forgot the effect a red sun would have on him. You'd think he'd be aware that he lost his powers given his super senses and whatnot are gone.

I think I would've liked this better if they had gone with the chronal storm Supes was in speeding up his clock and making him burn through his yellow sunlight reserves quicker. That'd explain his surprise a bit better.

It's next week. The release schedule for Metal has been weird. First they just have the one shots once a month for a while, then they have tie-ins out the ass for two months, and now it's back to once a month.

We're missing a page here.

No its all there the numbering is just weird.

Sorry, meant here

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Last pic..that helmet. Is that Aztek?

Maybe he didn't notice in all his excitement…or that chronal storm messed his senses a bit and just coming down from a speed boost dulls the senses temporarily?

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I wasn’t expecting this, but I sure as hell don’t disapprove.

I can casually scroll past this and realize I don't want to fucking read it.Mother fucker it's a comic, why are you so stuck to a 9 panel format?

"Artistic integrity" I suppose…and Dave Gibbons did that one time on that comic about the big blue dong or something.

Also next week is looking really good because we get Super Sons of tomorrow Part 1 and 2 at once.


You'd think editorial would clamp down on shitty art gimmicks when it makes the book tedious, well that's if only they have common sense, they are high on their own farts and thinks its either "style" or "unconventional"

Yeah, it could be. Just seems to have been handled oddly, but the next issue might leave a better impression.

It's because apparently King became obsessed with nine panels, but doesn't know much about visual storytelling. Vision, Omega Men, and Sheriff of Babylon used used nine panels often, but weren't slaves to it.Unlike Mister Miracle, which just looks like incompetent creators blindly copying Watchmen.

Moore, Gibbons, and Higgins used it cleverly. They played with colors, composition, rhythm, and broke the 9 panel composition to achieve certain effects. Each panel was different, and comic reads very smoothly. King's Miracleman is just jarring, claustrophobic, and filled with recycled art. At least this issue is not as bad as the previous ones.