THE SIGNAL (Duke Thomas) is DC's secret shonen protagonist so I made him a fandom wiki
also, check out "The Signal Tape" a Duke Thomas fan project.
currently following:
- DC: Red Hood: The Hill
- Marvel: TBD
- Manga (Shonen/Seinen): One Piece, My Hero, Dandadan, Jujutsu Kaisen, Kaiju No. 8, Reincarnation of The Veteran Soldier, Oblivion Rouge, ORDEAL, The Breaker: Eternal Force
"power does not corrupt, power always reveals."
I finally read the last arc of batman and the Outsiders, for me it felt more like the writers trying to setting these characters up for something, instead of really telling an interesting story.
Shiva felt really out of character to me.
I just want a Katana and Black Lightning book now. Damn.
Last edited by lemonpeace; 10-19-2020 at 02:28 PM.
THE SIGNAL (Duke Thomas) is DC's secret shonen protagonist so I made him a fandom wiki
also, check out "The Signal Tape" a Duke Thomas fan project.
currently following:
- DC: Red Hood: The Hill
- Marvel: TBD
- Manga (Shonen/Seinen): One Piece, My Hero, Dandadan, Jujutsu Kaisen, Kaiju No. 8, Reincarnation of The Veteran Soldier, Oblivion Rouge, ORDEAL, The Breaker: Eternal Force
"power does not corrupt, power always reveals."
Yeah, BL and Tat's barely interacted with Duke and Cass. If you remove Duke from the plot, does the story even change? Cause my dude feels like he was just...there. Not to mention the removal of his light powers. Giving him dark powers made it feel like Hill was trying to make him dark and edgy like the rest of the bat characters.
Honestly, I don't see why they had to break up the team. The obvious thing to do was remove Batman from the team entirely and just call then The Outsiders.
DC's problem is that most if not all of their teams are either JL-related or Batman-related(GL Corp is the exception). They're not confident enough in their characters to put together a team that isn't connected to either and build up something from their. There's no Champions, Defenders, New Warriors or Atlas to be a home for other heroes. And that's really sad.
Not even a bit. Hill seemed to have him more as an editorial mandate. Duke was a guest in the book, Shiva was more of an Outsider than he was by the end. Shame, but that's how it played out. Sadly, nobody knows what to do with him and I'm starting to think he's going to get written out in a few years.
I guess the irony is that Duke was the real outsider the whole time. I'll be here all week. Try the veal.
Oh, believe me, we've seen writers who know/knew exactly what to do with Duke. They just aren't being allowed to do it to the extents that they should, not to mention the reader push-back that's plagued Duke since his inception.
Hill's an obvious poor example when it comes to Duke. But it's ignorant to say that just because he was only interested in Duke to provide angst for Batman that this suddenly deems that no one knows what to do with Duke's character.
Last edited by J. D. Guy; 10-19-2020 at 03:58 PM.
The Champions are the current counterpart of the Teen Titans. New Warriors is the counterpart of the older Titans (and Young Avengers = Young Justice). I would actually say that Defenders and Outsiders are counterparts, though unlike the teen teams, the Marvel one came first. And Atlas? Justice Society.
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