Originally posted by ScooblessComics don't ever effect me but that had me worrying for his dad.
Normally I'd agree with ragesRemorse but I recently re-read Identity Crisis. The scene I'm talking about is quite a ways into the story, Dibney is already dead, people know Dr Light had raped her, lotsa stuff had happened, the Batman & Robin are out in the car and they get a call that Tim's dad is in trouble:It's the third scan in particular that I'm talking bout here ... when Tim pleads for Bruce to save his dad and Bruce just looks so shocked and powerless.
Of course, it ends up with Captain Boomerang killing Tim's dad (and being killed by him in return)
I guess it loses something out of context like this.
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Originally posted by The PictBatman trying to reach out to the Joker in Killing Joke. Batman fears they're on a "suicide course" and one of them will inevitably end up killing the other. It's quite touching because the Joker is sitting there forlorn and expecting punishment and you think that he just might accept help. However he realises it's too late for him and he'll never change.
DEATH OF SUPERMAN!!!
This is absolutely my most moving moment!
Ahhh, I remember like it was yesterday...
One warm spring day in '92 lil' teenage ICON received his sealed copy of Superman 75 in the mail...I readily ripped it open and headed for the bathroom in what was sure to be one of the most memorable bowel movements ever!
And sure enough, it delivered. After wiping I headed back to my bedroom. I flipped on 'Superman's Song' by the Crash Test Dummies (friggin' prophets I tell ya!) and contemplated on how I was going to spend the rest of my life in a world without Superman(comics)...
But we all know how THAT turned out furious
I (honest to god) cried at
Bart Allen: "I'm not stupid!"
Barry Allen: "And you're not alone, either."
followed up with the freaking perfect Max Mercury, Bart exchange
"Don't be scared son"
"I'm not, Max."
Or
"Keystone's A UNION TOWN!"
And then during Final Crisis the
"I don't think there's anything we can do for Aunt Iris..."
followed by the perfect art for the electrifying, Speed-Force kiss.
What can I say? I'm a sucker for speedsters.
Other honorable mentions:
"But Batman... Batman thinks of everything."
Jack Frost versus the King Archon.
The first costumed reappearance of Spiderman in "Reign."
Scott Pilgrim missing the girl by a second.
"I'll use the Anti-Anti Life Arrow, pretty bird," and "If you're superheroes can't save you, maybe it's time to think of something that can. Think it up... then make it real..... Weeja Dell?"
"As foretold in prophecy! The armies of man!" (World War III)
"We're such small men." (The death of Tommy Monaghan, Hitman)
Abby Cable thinking that Adam Strange is insane (Moore's Swamp Thing)
"We'll call this an historic team-up between the forces of 'good' and 'bad.'" (Luthor realizing his priorities in "Final Crisis"😉
Every single panel of Seaguy.
"I didn't hope.... I trusted." (Hal Jordan in "Justice"😉
As the world dies around him, Captain America will just not quit (Kang War, Gauntlet....many more)
I had my heart strings tugged by an issue of Starman. After you get all attached to this lovable man-child version of Solomon Grundy, a roof collapses on him and Jack Knight. While holding up the roof, he tells Jack something to the effect of he's sorry for what the bad Grundys did in the past and that he's making up for it, while crying. Then the roof collapses and kills him.
In retrospect, Grundy came dangerously close to inciting the "X Y is X" meme when he tells Jack "Tell Tedstar good Grundy was good Grundy". Tedstar being Ted Knight, the first Starman. He called Jack "Jackstar". I don't think it quite counts because he doesn't just end it at "good".
Originally posted by SamZED
What do you mean by "The first costumed reappearance of Spiderman in "Reign."?
Spider-man Reign was the story that was the Spider-man version of the classic Dark Knight Returns.
The story involved an elderly Peter coming out of his retirement from the webs in order to stop the bad guys. It had even more of a build up to putting on his costume than for Bruce Wayne in DKR. ✅
Originally posted by PRAYERRUN
The comic when Aunt May died in her bed with Peter by her side was really moving.