*Hugs Pr*
There there Pr, there there.
The narrator is the writer of the movie Chronicle that opened yesterday that is supposed to be a pretty good superhero origin type movie.
I thought it was funny. It's not %100 accurate... but that I chalk that up to it being the comic book version of Drunk History.
Originally posted by Prep-Mannot hard to do when marvel has a lot of crap out right now
Holy fck face!DC split in the January reports, but SWEPT Marvel in the top 10. On a bad note, I Vampire didn't make it in the top 100. Hold me, Srank! Or not! 😈
Aquaman outselling anything Marvel did? That is awesome.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/02/03/january-stats-marketshare-sellers-from-diamond/
Mr. Terrific was pretty awful.
The original concept of Holt was pretty great. A successful black guy who excelled in excellence having all sense of the world - and faith - taken from him due to his wife's death. Changing that so that an actual villain was responsible instead of fate itself makes the whole atheist angle, which was really well handled by Geoff Johns and James Robinson, way less impactful. Plus some of the later issues didn't portray race issues involving Terrific with as much tact and grace as before.
A real shame since pre-Flashpoint Mr. Terrific was a favorite character of mine.
Originally posted by JakeTheBank
Mr. Terrific was pretty awful.The original concept of Holt was pretty great. A successful black guy who excelled in excellence having all sense of the world - and faith - taken from him due to his wife's death. Changing that so that an actual villain was responsible instead of fate itself makes the whole atheist angle, which was really well handled by Geoff Johns and James Robinson, way less impactful. Plus some of the later issues didn't portray race issues involving Terrific with as much tact and grace as before.
THANK YOU! You must be some mind reader but I was gonna say just that. Eventhough I haven't read one issue I suspected this was one of the reasons why it flopped. Sometimes when black characters are written, instead of just writing a good story they deal with racial issues badly. Theres nothing wrong with bringing up racial issues and sometimes it's essential but you have to do it the right way.
Mr Terrific was a brilliant character and as a black reader I was proud to have him as a black superhero. Why did they have to **** with that?
Originally posted by Deadline
THANK YOU! You must be some mind reader but I was gonna say just that. Eventhough I haven't read one issue I suspected this was one of the reasons why it flopped. Sometimes when black characters are written, instead of just writing a good story they deal with racial issues badly. Theres nothing wrong with bringing up racial issues and sometimes it's essential but you have to do it the right way.Mr Terrific was a brilliant character and as a black reader I was proud to have him as a black superhero. Why did they have to **** with that?
Yeah, as a biracial reader and fan of comics in general, I can appreciate race and ethnic issues being brought up in the stories I'm reading, but sometimes, writers just want to beat you over the head with them and it winds up making them feel...cheap, I guess.
Originally posted by JakeTheBank
Yeah, as a biracial reader and fan of comics in general, I can appreciate race and ethnic issues being brought up in the stories I'm reading, but sometimes, writers just want to beat you over the head with them and it winds up making them feel...cheap, I guess.
Exactly, nice to see I'm not the only one who noticed.