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Gaaahhh.........
Oct. 27th, 2004 04:09 pmI am seriously starting to think DC is run by brain-damaged chimps. At least that's what their creative decisions as of late seem to indicate. This will spoil the last few chapters of "Batman: War Games" "Superman/Batman" "Teen Titans" "Green Arrow" and "Identity Crisis", so be warned.
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Spoiler's dead. Now, a few months ago I wasn't the biggest fan of the character, with the whole "Girl Robin" fiasco that DC got themselves into. We all know that was one of the dumbest moves they've ever made. Spoiler might have been a good character in her own right, but she was never Robin-level, and the fans knew it. No wonder they revolted and dropped the books en masse until DC relented after only 3 issues, having Batman fire her. But DC apparently thought that wasn't enough for the fans, so they decided to appease them with blood. So "War Games" was essentially an orgy of indignities for Spoiler to suffer, having her tortured and beaten repeatedly by the villain, Black Mask, until she finally succumbed to her injuries with Batman by her side as she died. Tim didn't even get to say goodbye. So that's a great supporting character gone thanks to DC's mismanagement. I went back and read some of her old stories in "Robin", and I remembered how much I loved the character before DC ruined her.
This, combined with the death of Tim's father in Identity Crisis #5, is of course going to send Tim into a spiral of grief. Wizard magazine has already said that Bruce is going to try to adopt him now that he's an orphan, and that'll be interesting, but I don't want to see Tim become a mini-Batman, which is incidentally exactly what happens in the latest issue of "Teen Titans", which sends the titans into their future to meet their future selves. It's like "How long is Forever", only sucky. This hasn't been a good month for DC's young female heroes in general, actually. First they apparently "kill" Supergirl over in Superman/Batman(and my previous threat on that still stands, by the way), then Mia in Green Arrow is diagnosed with HIV(and she's dead 10 years in the future, according to TT). Pretty much the only young female hero not suffering some indignity this month is the new Aquagirl over in "aquaman", but DC's probably got something planned for her too. Scratch that, it's not brain-damaged chimps writing the comics, it's MYSOGINISTIC brain-damaged chimps. -_-'
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Spoiler's dead. Now, a few months ago I wasn't the biggest fan of the character, with the whole "Girl Robin" fiasco that DC got themselves into. We all know that was one of the dumbest moves they've ever made. Spoiler might have been a good character in her own right, but she was never Robin-level, and the fans knew it. No wonder they revolted and dropped the books en masse until DC relented after only 3 issues, having Batman fire her. But DC apparently thought that wasn't enough for the fans, so they decided to appease them with blood. So "War Games" was essentially an orgy of indignities for Spoiler to suffer, having her tortured and beaten repeatedly by the villain, Black Mask, until she finally succumbed to her injuries with Batman by her side as she died. Tim didn't even get to say goodbye. So that's a great supporting character gone thanks to DC's mismanagement. I went back and read some of her old stories in "Robin", and I remembered how much I loved the character before DC ruined her.
This, combined with the death of Tim's father in Identity Crisis #5, is of course going to send Tim into a spiral of grief. Wizard magazine has already said that Bruce is going to try to adopt him now that he's an orphan, and that'll be interesting, but I don't want to see Tim become a mini-Batman, which is incidentally exactly what happens in the latest issue of "Teen Titans", which sends the titans into their future to meet their future selves. It's like "How long is Forever", only sucky. This hasn't been a good month for DC's young female heroes in general, actually. First they apparently "kill" Supergirl over in Superman/Batman(and my previous threat on that still stands, by the way), then Mia in Green Arrow is diagnosed with HIV(and she's dead 10 years in the future, according to TT). Pretty much the only young female hero not suffering some indignity this month is the new Aquagirl over in "aquaman", but DC's probably got something planned for her too. Scratch that, it's not brain-damaged chimps writing the comics, it's MYSOGINISTIC brain-damaged chimps. -_-'
