Your DC-Only controversial opinions (part II)...

[lemonpeace]

since we talking Lanterns let me just repost my thoughts from the John thread:

I'm of the philosophy that stories should be allowed to end. I want all the heroes and villains to retire or run their course eventually and I would rather DC put the four corpsmen to bed, John included, because DC has so many issues utilizing this franchise efficiently. DC in recent years have been super heavy handed with the Hal Jordan neptism, and the trickle down effects all the other Lanterns in unflattering ways; san Jess currently as their new premier female of color character. These four have had a lot of story under their belt, i think they should go on a run of endgame stories for each corpsmen and one by one let them retire.

if i had it my way, Guy and Kyle retire and settle down [I didn't mean like, together, but you know what? I wouldn't hate it but that would probably anger A LOT of people; which I also would mind], Hal becomes one with the Green aspect of the Emotional Spectrum, and John settles into a cushy job as a Guardian (more laidback and calculated like Ganthet) and retires from the field/day to day lantern stuff unless it's a Quintessence level event and eventually joins Guy and Kyle in retirement.

[9th.]

If anything DC hasn't done anything interesting with Cyborg 's connection to the New Gods, being made into a mind slave by Darkseid isn't very interesting.

DC can do A LOT more with mother box connection they just choose not to, Young Justice pretty much embarrassed them last year.

[godisawesome]

DC can do A LOT more with mother box connection they just choose not to, Young Justice pretty much embarrassed them last year.

I was about to say, Young Justice Cyborg has the angst for a few episodes, uses anger at his father for some more drama, and used the father box thing in that show to do some creepy yet awesome stuff.

But that’s what happens when Greg Weismann is giving a character more than an episode or two on his show.

[Frontier]

I was about to say, Young Justice Cyborg has the angst for a few episodes, uses anger at his father for some more drama, and used the father box thing in that show to do some creepy yet awesome stuff.

But that’s what happens when Greg Weismann is giving a character more than an episode or two on his show.

I mean, everything except the Father Box stuff was from the comics though.

I will say I felt the crew did the Furies and Mantis dirty in the last set of episodes. Their "big" fight sequence gets turned into basically a joke scene of still images because they ran out of budget.

[Gaius]

Modern Justice League (either starting with New 52 or going back to Morrison) has been largely more harmful than beneficial to the "big 7" that generally compose it as it often leads to them being written at their least interesting/basic or just flat out bad interpretations of them; Superman the nice but dumb farmboy, Diana the Barbarian, Hal the idiot blockhead, Aquaman with a massive chip on his shoulder, and Batgod to name a few.

At the moment it's a better poster than it is a book or team.

[batnbreakfast]

Modern Justice League (either starting with New 52 or going back to Morrison) has been largely more harmful than beneficial to the "big 7" that generally compose it as it often leads to them being written at their least interesting/basic or just flat out bad interpretations of them; Superman the nice but dumb farmboy, Diana the Barbarian, Hal the idiot blockhead, Aquaman with a massive chip on his shoulder, and Batgod to name a few.

At the moment it's a better poster than it is a book or team.

The last issue I enjoyed was probably written by Johns or Priest or Mc Duffie/Meltzer. JL wasn't good for more than 2 issues in a long time. Why should a movie about JL end in anything but disaster. Batman does not belong on the team unless he's Batgod but then I don't care about him. End of rant now.

[manwhohaseverything]

Modern Justice League (either starting with New 52 or going back to Morrison) has been largely more harmful than beneficial to the "big 7" that generally compose it as it often leads to them being written at their least interesting/basic or just flat out bad interpretations of them; Superman the nice but dumb farmboy, Diana the Barbarian, Hal the idiot blockhead, Aquaman with a massive chip on his shoulder, and Batgod to name a few.

At the moment it's a better poster than it is a book or team.

I agree with this completely.

[OptimusPrime114]

I preferred Lex Luthor back when he was an evil mad scientist rather than as a corrupt business tycoon.

[Laufeyson]

DC doesn't need Superman and Wonder Woman, because DC already has Batman.

[Will Evans]

Dc has a steady Batwoman.

So it should have a steady Superwoman

[superduperman]

DC doesn't like Superman and just keeps him around for the IP.

[Gaius]

Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamil have been past their primes as Bats and Joker for a few years now.

And related to that but the DCAU shouldn't be held up as the end all/be all of DC adaptations. It had just as many poor characterizations as the DCEU under Snyder did.

[sifighter]

Characters should be allowed to age, retire, and be replaced either by a legacy character or someone new who will fill in for them. Characters can’t stay around the same age for decades without reboots/crisis constantly changing things which only adds to confusion when it comes to certain characters or even regressions in characters progressions.

All I’m saying in 20 to 30 years if I’m still reading comics and characters like Damian Wayne are still 13 I think we have a problem. It’s kind of a problem now with some characters from the 90’s.

[Lee Stone]

DC needs to reduce superheroes to half of their output and put out comics of other genres, too.
DC and Marvel both benefited from being fluid enough to latch onto trends from the '50s thru the '80s. By focusing on just superheroes, they've painted themselves into a corner where it can be difficult to exploit a trend if it's not superhero related.

The Titans aren't sidekicks. They can be a stronger franchise than the Justice League (and should be) if DC would just let the team evolve like Marvel allowed the X-Men to.
Yes, I just said the Titans, not the Justice League, should be DC's premier team.
The Justice League boils down to a monthly team-up comic featuring multiple A or B level characters, designed to draw sales from each one appearing in the book.
The Titans are a team, not a monthly team-up of big-hitters.

Many adult readers like all-ages comics, too. But they won't admit it to other comic readers in fear of losing their comic fan membership card.

[LifeIsILL]

New 52 Teen Titans post Death of a Family was actually pretty good
New 52 Suicide Squad was....interesting. I don't mind skinny Amanda Waller.