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Post by Legion on Jul 1, 2012 17:56:51 GMT -5
i'd imagine his defence would be parody law, but as far as im concerned, he is way beyond that and just being a dick now
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Post by Citizen Snips on Jul 1, 2012 18:48:17 GMT -5
It doesn't really come across as parody, but I don't think they sued over Century 1969, so I guess they found some way around it somewhere. Moore had a young Voldemort basically say his name in the thinnest veiling possible in 1969, leaving no doubt he was using a character from HP and apparently got away with it.
It was actually an interesting little hook in the previous volume (the whole thing deals with a black magic plot, so tying it into Harry Potter does make sense), but this one completely sacrifices any story to just let Moore vent his apparent disdain for HP in the most ludicrous ways imaginable.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Jul 1, 2012 18:55:44 GMT -5
Meh, he's just Frank Miller crazy but with added wizardness
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jul 1, 2012 19:13:12 GMT -5
Anyone else read League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century: 2009? I will say, for all the bitching that was done about Before Watchmen, nothing those books do could hold a candle to what Alan Moore does to someone else's much more beloved character in this one... {Spoiler}Harry Potter is the Anti-Christ, wipes out Hogwart's in a magical Columbine, kills Allan Quatermain with his dick and is killed by God/Mary Poppins ...Alan Moore is officially not allowed to complain about what other people do with characters he created/stories he wrote.
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Post by stinger on Jul 1, 2012 20:32:18 GMT -5
Anyone else read League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century: 2009? I will say, for all the bitching that was done about Before Watchmen, nothing those books do could hold a candle to what Alan Moore does to someone else's much more beloved character in this one... {Spoiler}Harry Potter is the Anti-Christ, wipes out Hogwart's in a magical Columbine, kills Allan Quatermain with his dick and is killed by God/Mary Poppins ...Alan Moore is officially not allowed to complain about what other people do with characters he created/stories he wrote. This.
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Jul 2, 2012 15:36:21 GMT -5
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Post by Turd Ferguson on Jul 2, 2012 15:50:48 GMT -5
I thought they ripped his face off and forgot about him. Nice to see them using him again.
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Post by Jiren on Jul 2, 2012 18:14:21 GMT -5
Snyder + Joker = I want that as a cover or a poster, That image is just too awesome
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Post by doel on Jul 2, 2012 18:19:11 GMT -5
Oh man that's going to be great.
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Post by Jiren on Jul 2, 2012 18:34:57 GMT -5
Tweets from snyder Make no mistake - this isn't just us using the Joker. This is a story we've been building for a year. This is the Joker unleashed.This is the Joker on a mission. He had a reason for severing his face, for going away. & now he's back to wreak havoc like you've never seen...This is our exploration of the Joker, and the biggest, baddest, darkest, most twisted story we could do w/him. The game-changer.I'm afraid so. RT NateHood257: Ssnyder1835 ...a lot of people are going to die, aren't they?...I just, I can't, it's just, so great..
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Post by Legion on Jul 2, 2012 18:37:33 GMT -5
Time to re-cripple Batgirl!
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Jul 2, 2012 18:53:30 GMT -5
Now GL just needs to start their third army storyline and my nerdgasms will be set.
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Post by knightrider01 on Jul 2, 2012 21:14:54 GMT -5
I was wondering if their has ever been a story in the DC universe where Vandal Savage and Ras Al Ghul have ever fought.
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Jul 2, 2012 21:20:06 GMT -5
OK, so after bitching about the Shazam back up in the poor Justice League, after this weeks issue I marked {Spoiler} HE'S BACK!!!! O man..... I just about jizzed in my pants.
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Post by Michael Coello on Jul 2, 2012 21:26:14 GMT -5
Tweets from snyder Make no mistake - this isn't just us using the Joker. This is a story we've been building for a year. This is the Joker unleashed.This is the Joker on a mission. He had a reason for severing his face, for going away. & now he's back to wreak havoc like you've never seen...This is our exploration of the Joker, and the biggest, baddest, darkest, most twisted story we could do w/him. The game-changer.I'm afraid so. RT NateHood257: Ssnyder1835 ...a lot of people are going to die, aren't they?...I just, I can't, it's just, so great.. Because if there's one character that needed a dark, twisted story for him, it was the friggin Joker.
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Post by Evilution E5150 on Jul 2, 2012 22:09:25 GMT -5
Anyone else read League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century: 2009? I will say, for all the bitching that was done about Before Watchmen, nothing those books do could hold a candle to what Alan Moore does to someone else's much more beloved character in this one... {Spoiler}Harry Potter is the Anti-Christ, wipes out Hogwart's in a magical Columbine, kills Allan Quatermain with his dick and is killed by God/Mary Poppins ...Alan Moore is officially not allowed to complain about what other people do with characters he created/stories he wrote. i read up more of this, hes using an awful lot of recent characters that are no way in the public domain, how could he get away with that?
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Post by Michael Coello on Jul 2, 2012 22:23:58 GMT -5
Time to re-cripple Batgirl! If they do, they should do the right thing and blind her, not take her legs away. If you call someone Oracle, and she can still see and all that's wrong is she needs a wheelchair, you can't call her Oracle. A better name would have been "Google".
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jul 2, 2012 22:57:12 GMT -5
I haven't read any DC since nu52, and I doubt I will any time soon, but that is a sweet Joker teaser.
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Post by Spankymac is sick of the swiss on Jul 3, 2012 1:28:33 GMT -5
Tweets from snyder Make no mistake - this isn't just us using the Joker. This is a story we've been building for a year. This is the Joker unleashed.This is the Joker on a mission. He had a reason for severing his face, for going away. & now he's back to wreak havoc like you've never seen...This is our exploration of the Joker, and the biggest, baddest, darkest, most twisted story we could do w/him. The game-changer.I'm afraid so. RT NateHood257: Ssnyder1835 ...a lot of people are going to die, aren't they?...I just, I can't, it's just, so great.. Because if there's one character that needed a dark, twisted story for him, it was the friggin Joker. It's gonna be a secret society of Joker's that have secretly controlled Gotham for years, yet strangely no one's heard of them until now. Bank on it.
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Post by Legion on Jul 3, 2012 8:27:46 GMT -5
Whole bunch of new information released about Marvel post AvX. First off this image, showing some new costumes for a bunch of people, but not a new team, just a group shot: {Spoiler} I am not liking Cyclops' new costume, nor the armoured up Cap costume. Nick Jr. annoys me as a concept. That Nova looks like new Nova. That saddens me more than I can type into words. Following from the image, we get some information on some new books and some new creative teams, comments in bold are mine: Uncanny Avengers: (oct 2012) written by [Rick ]Remender. It is going to be the new flagship marvel title and will have among others Cap, Thor, Wolvy, Rogue and Havok in it and both sides will still have some AVX tension. I've gone off Remender, he seems to kill people off every time he writes a book and an X-Men infused Avengers is something I'm totally against. I've always prefered when X-Men stayed in their little bubbleAvengers (dec 2012): Bi weekly with more then 18 avengers on the team. Written by [Jonathan] Hickman with one shot stories and longer galaxy spanning multi-issue arcs This'll be my new favourite book. I'm not sure Hickman can do anything wrong, and the idea of him doing galaxy spanning arcs makes me tingle because a Hickman cosmic story that isnt focussed on the crappy lost Summers brother will likely be great X-men: (nov 2012) hold on to your hats...... Bendis!!! about the original five x-men time-travel two the present in a pleasantville style story and who are not going to like what they see once they are in the present and will find it unacceptable. Bendis says the time travel aspect of the story is not as important as the character based drama. And X-Men fans wept. I dont care at all about this book, and knwoing Bendis, and the idea of time travel, it's just going to be a hot mess of retcons and things that wont make sense. "Thanos: Son of Titan" (oct 2012)– a mini series by writer Joe Keatinge and artist Richard Elson focussing on the origins of the Mad Titan Yeah.....maybe, I'll buy it and then moan about retcons www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=39509
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