All posts by The Wise Turtle Sage

@Ironspider2357 Thanks, I suppose.

Well, thanks.

Anyway I think the biggest problem in the industry are

1. that the Marvel and DC treat comics like a supplement for the movies when it should be the other way around. Comics are starting to more market more toward the mainstream Movie audience. There’s nothing wrong with that but why cater toward them when most of them will never regularly read a comic series because:

2. Continuity is a steaming hot mess.No Man can even conceptually keep up with all the past history of every character involved. It’s a mess, you know it, I know it, and your grandma knows it.

It’s making it really hard to get someone into comics without making them look through the entire Marvel Encyclopedia to find out a plot details that will likely be completely undone in a few months. No one actually reads individual comics anymore because why they’re so overwhelmed by it all. I’m sure another reboot will SOLVE EVERYTHING. Just make everything a Elseworld and save me the headache.

3. Crossover are just getting boring. Characters meet each other all the time, why Should I care about teaming up to fight some cosmic baddie with the personality of a slice of bread that will never be mentioned again.

4. Screw powerscaling. Nuff said.

5. Stop upholding the status quo. I know some fans want things to stay the same but you need characters to grow and learn. Otherwise the plot is static and stale. “Oh, Peter Parker’s lost everything: AGAIN.”

And don’t just make a daring status quo change just to buff up sales then undo it all in a few months. Doing that will just lose fans eventually after they catch on and get bored. COMMIT for Odin’s sake.

What they’re doing is making a unsustainable business model that is not friendly towards new or old fans.

Actually that's not entirely true. There's this.

Yayyyy, ONE new concept. In the entire imprint.

I'll stop now, this is getting depressing.

Black Label in general is just a failure. I wouldn't say it produced no good titles but when you compare to the creativity of the Vertigo imprint, it's just sad.

90% percent of it is just preexisting DC characters (again mostly Batman).

NOT A SINGLE NEW CONCEPT.

NOT A ONE.

(Unless you count the Hill house imprint but I see that as a whole other thing.)

I just think DC could benefit from just taking a break with Batman because they've just absolutely milking his popularity of late.

Just look at all the Black Label titles. You might as well call it Batman Label.

I love him but I'm sick of seeing his face everywhere I go.

He's okay.

She's been around since 2011!?

How have I never noticed her before?

This is the first time I've even heard of her.

Dang the bat family is getting crowded, Isn't it?

Oh sorry.

Doomsday is a pretty good mindless monster.

@Cliff1647 I’ve gotten a little bored with mainstream comics so I’ve only been sporadically checking this wiki.

Nice talking with you too.

I can see Mr Spell Check hates my name working. It would have to be a light hearted movie though.

Also I wouldn’t call Darkseid mindless. He’s not the brightest bulb but he can scheme.

@Neosaiyan7 I just find it hard to get interested in the flash.

His powers are broken to the point of absurdity (and not in a good way but in a “why did I even bother way”)

His personality isn’t completely bland but I can’t see myself reading any of his comics for it, you know?

His villains are either good but are completely out of his league (captain boomerang, really?) or just another speedster.

His supporting cast is really boring too. I don’t care about any of them except for Jay Garrick but that’s just because I have a soft spot for Golden age superheroes.

I’m really curious as to why the flash interests you because I don’t get his appeal.

Am I the only one who thinks Anti-monitor is lame?

His name is stupid, his motivations are just “destroy everything” his design is mediocre and he’s just not all that threatening.

Meanwhile Darkseid is overused but he’s overused for a reason. His design is good, his motivations while not complex are more fun than “I will kill everything”, and he just has this presence that makes him threatening no matter how many times he’s beaten.

Anti monitor is just a plot device that was only useful once and now he’s only thrown in as fan service for power scalers. Like seriously what does he have that Darkseid doesn’t?

@RJ Plotner I love how he had to make a full 90 degree turn every time he wanted to turn his head.

Yeah it was a pretty cheesy movie but a really good Cheesy movie.

@Roscoe Coaltrane

I don't feel sorry for him at all.

If you want to make Ai "art" go ahead and create whatever the heck you want.

But trying to pass off said art as your own for profit is deceitful and lazy. He's an artist, all right: a con artist.

Scores of comic book artists can only dream of getting the opportunity of working for DC but this a**hole steals from far better artists to make mediocre covers that could have gone to actual artists with actual talent.

And if DC ever makes it Ai covers a trend, they've lost a customer.

Sorry, I'm just sick and tired of Ai taking over Creative jobs. Ai was supposed to ran calculations and do our paperwork not do our hobbies for us. Art is what makes us human. Ai can do all the boring menial tasks but the arts belong to us.

Yep that's cover is AI.

The artist has a long history of plagiarism allegations and I can't see how a human would overlook that flaw in the S-shield.

Why is it that with all the talent DC has access to, they employ a artist with a record of straight up stealing from people?

@Roscoe Coaltrane A mouse army could cause considerable damage with bites and scratches. Also they would make great spies.

I doubt they would. Why allow people to watch for it free when you can just make them pay a subscription?

Knowing Warner Brothers they want maximum profit.