No. Because if you're going to critique something you have to have credibility.
For instance:
Man: "This seasons super-long scarves are stupid! They trip everyone up!"
Girl: "Um... but why do you own two, then..?"
Man: "Because you're supposed to..."
This isn't the same thing.
As far as I can tell, no one has ever forced Geoff Johns to do dark stuff in his comics - I can't see that his livelihood depended on him writing dark and controversial comics.
Mainly because there have been any number of comics published, at DC and other publishers, that did fairly well, without resorting to the same methods, published alongside his comics.
And even if it was the case in the past, I have a hard time seeing Geoff Johns being told what to do by editorial, in the last 3-4 years or so - he's had more or less creative freedom.
For him to write this when he's killed off several characters in gruesome ways in just the last few weeks, even though he's had the amount of control he's had, makes it, to me, look insincere.
New member here. Not sure if anyone else here has talked about it, but the variant cover is friggin' awesome.s-l500.jpg
On the comic itself, I quite enjoyed it. the only question I have is, why did Batman initially think Wally was Barry?
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For the first 2500...
why do you think they didn't actually show Dr. Manhattan?
Just wanted to pop in to say, didn't notice anything anybody else didn't notice in the issue (well, I get the sense that it was temporal hijinx in the Batcave that warped around that Thomas Wayne Letter that led to the Comedian's pin being lodged in a stone wall somehow, and those two Supermans are totally just the same Superman, somehow anomalous because of Brainiac's Convergence tinkering, but hey) ... but I liked this issue a whole lot. And maybe it's just because of last night's Flash episode but I got a little weepy eyed when Wally finally connected with Barry.
Good job, Johns.
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Wouldn't it make more sense for him to be the one criticizing what comics have become if he were a part of it. If he was the only person doing bright and hopeful comics, and then he comes now criticizing everyone else's work that was dark and gritty, it would seem like he is being dismissive and insulting to other writers works. It all can be seen as John himself is saying his work was inspired/influenced by Watchmen to be dark, and now it is going to change(whether gradually or not). I also personally don't think he is criticizing/dismissing dark and gritty works, I think he is more saying it has just been going on too long or too much at this point and it needs to be changed or at least balanced out.
I am not even a big Flash fan though old Wally is the one I am most familiar and attached to, and I have to say I teared up during him and Linda scene, during him and Barry scene, and jumped in my seat with joy when Barry pulled Wally out of the speedforce. I was spoiled and new Wally was supposedly back for good and I still was in suspense that he wasn't going to survive. It was that well written and drawn. Kudos to Rebirth!
Just finished Rebirth, and it was pretty great all around.
I still can't believe Wally is back -- I really never expected that, but I'm glad.
The Rebirth'd DCU really seems like they want to embrace legacy and family -- and are really expanding on the family-brands -- The Superman family, the Flash Family, the Shazam family -- all much larger than they were.
Legacy is embraced further with the likes of Ted & Jaime and Ray & Ryan -- which I'm interested in seeing more of. As terrible as Cry for Justice was, one idea that I thought was great, was pairing the two Atoms together. That may not be what we'll get down the road, but I always figured it would be lonely at the atomic level, so it would be better to bring a friend.
Heh, it would be great is the Comedian button was in the cave wall, just behind the letter from Thomas Wayne... because Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Or maybe "great" is the wrong word, here...
Exactly...
But it still happened. It's basically showing that the walls are still the same but someone put wallpaper over it all and no one remembers what color the walls were before.
In Dr. Manhatten's case, he even went so far as swapping the kitchen and the living room.
Once you're in the house long enough, if you don't have documentation (photographs, video) you'll begin to forget how it looked before.
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I still can't get over the whole "Next Neil Degrasse Tyson"
I have respect for NDT, but he is not a top tier scientist, he is more of a scientific outreach guy like Bill Nye and Carl Sagan
Ray Palmer is like DC's greatest scientist..... he has an intellectual mind on the level of guys like Hank Pym and Reed Richards, just seems like an odd comparison
saying he is the "next Einstein or next Newton" would of made more sense
Hmm, possibly. It still doesn't quite rime in the right way for me, but I suppose that could be the case.
You know, the marked is interesting - I don't think I've ever seen a big 2 mainstream writer chop off as many limbs as I have seen Johns do. It's almost a hall-mark of his... that at the climax of one of his bigger storylines, someone will lose an arm or two.
I would agree that the start of the new-52 had quite a bit of that gore and darkness -I certainly hope that those were just those writers natural inclinations though, otherwise that definitely strikes me as a very cynical way of writing.
Who were those guys again though...? Harras and... THE LOBDELL?