Comments on: An extremely important matter I have been thinking about all day http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/10/29/an-extremely-important-matter-i-have-been-thinking-about-all-day/ The Blog@ Team and prominent comics personalities share what’s on their minds. Sat, 25 May 2013 03:49:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Fred http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/10/29/an-extremely-important-matter-i-have-been-thinking-about-all-day/comment-page-1/#comment-477470 Fred Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:20:14 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=12989#comment-477470 D Peace wrote [Deco - You’re right. Call it “the era of Meltzer”… it’s where comic book creators feel the need to take inherently absurd and quite funny concepts and render them thoroughly humorless and repulsive by demanding that they be saddled with faux-realistic gore and depravity. Hooray!] And the idea of an ape getting it one with a disembodied brain isn't depraved? D Peace wrote

[Deco - You’re right. Call it “the era of Meltzer”… it’s where comic book creators feel the need to take inherently absurd and quite funny concepts and render them thoroughly humorless and repulsive by demanding that they be saddled with faux-realistic gore and depravity. Hooray!]

And the idea of an ape getting it one with a disembodied brain isn’t depraved?

]]> By: Russ Burlingame http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/10/29/an-extremely-important-matter-i-have-been-thinking-about-all-day/comment-page-1/#comment-477375 Russ Burlingame Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:13:39 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=12989#comment-477375 @Robert - He read, and liked, the last four years of Teen Titans and Titans. @Robert – He read, and liked, the last four years of Teen Titans and Titans.

]]> By: Robert http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/10/29/an-extremely-important-matter-i-have-been-thinking-about-all-day/comment-page-1/#comment-477374 Robert Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:11:26 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=12989#comment-477374 How do we know he was really brain dead? How do we know he was really brain dead?

]]> By: Vinnie Bartilucci http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/10/29/an-extremely-important-matter-i-have-been-thinking-about-all-day/comment-page-1/#comment-477354 Vinnie Bartilucci Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:40:44 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=12989#comment-477354 "I missed out on salvation run." No. No you didn't. Like so so much that happened in the year of Countdown, it was an idea that could have been interesting if it hadn't been happening at the same time as so many other things. Plus, like everything else that happened during the year of countdown, it had absolutely nothing to do with the event for which it was alledgedly providing a prologue, Final Crisis. It has not been mentioned since, and had as much affect on the DCU as The War That Time Forgot. In the words of Dr. Lao...and for all the good or evil, creation or destruction, its publishing might have accomplished, it might just as well never have been written at all. “I missed out on salvation run.”

No.

No you didn’t.

Like so so much that happened in the year of Countdown, it was an idea that could have been interesting if it hadn’t been happening at the same time as so many other things. Plus, like everything else that happened during the year of countdown, it had absolutely nothing to do with the event for which it was alledgedly providing a prologue, Final Crisis. It has not been mentioned since, and had as much affect on the DCU as The War That Time Forgot.

In the words of Dr. Lao…and for all the good or evil, creation or destruction, its publishing might have accomplished, it might just as well never have been written at all.

]]> By: monkey knuckles http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/10/29/an-extremely-important-matter-i-have-been-thinking-about-all-day/comment-page-1/#comment-477338 monkey knuckles Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:00:48 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=12989#comment-477338 "Gotta love it: A gorilla/disembodied human brain gay relationship." Dude, you have it so wrong! There is nothing gay going on here - just a classic villain "bromance" between an ape and his brain. "It's not gay love, it's guy love!" sing it with me!! Cheers “Gotta love it: A gorilla/disembodied human brain gay relationship.”

Dude, you have it so wrong! There is nothing gay going on here – just a classic villain “bromance” between an ape and his brain. “It’s not gay love, it’s guy love!” sing it with me!!

Cheers

]]> By: D. Peace http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/10/29/an-extremely-important-matter-i-have-been-thinking-about-all-day/comment-page-1/#comment-477330 D. Peace Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:15:42 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=12989#comment-477330 When is Mallah going to do the honorable thing and make The Brain an honest organ? Many might ask: Are we, as a society, ready to accept the same-sex union of a talking, hyper-intelligent French gorilla with a floating, self-aware brain? To them I say: Yes. It's a new era, baby. Deco - You're right. Call it "the era of Meltzer"... it's where comic book creators feel the need to take inherently absurd and quite funny concepts and render them thoroughly humorless and repulsive by demanding that they be saddled with faux-realistic gore and depravity. Hooray! Maddy - I vote for a sombrero. I would PAY to see this. When is Mallah going to do the honorable thing and make The Brain an honest organ? Many might ask: Are we, as a society, ready to accept the same-sex union of a talking, hyper-intelligent French gorilla with a floating, self-aware brain? To them I say: Yes. It’s a new era, baby.

Deco – You’re right. Call it “the era of Meltzer”… it’s where comic book creators feel the need to take inherently absurd and quite funny concepts and render them thoroughly humorless and repulsive by demanding that they be saddled with faux-realistic gore and depravity. Hooray!

Maddy – I vote for a sombrero. I would PAY to see this.

]]> By: Maddy http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/10/29/an-extremely-important-matter-i-have-been-thinking-about-all-day/comment-page-1/#comment-477323 Maddy Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:09:50 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=12989#comment-477323 Psh, that's easy: Black Lantern Tiara. Or possibly Black Lantern Headband. Ooh! Ooh! Black Lantern Trucker Hat! Psh, that’s easy: Black Lantern Tiara. Or possibly Black Lantern Headband. Ooh! Ooh! Black Lantern Trucker Hat!

]]> By: Deco http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/10/29/an-extremely-important-matter-i-have-been-thinking-about-all-day/comment-page-1/#comment-477320 Deco Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:38:32 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=12989#comment-477320 i missed out on salvation run. bought a couple few early issues, didn't even read them all. so I missed out on the incident you show here -- and so glad I did. yuuck. just so typical of the queasy violence/gore middling DC offerings just dive into nowadays -- I don't mind "head-punch-offing" or "arm-yank-offing" on principle, I like it when tied decently into a story -- but so much of this stuff is just... there... queasy DC violence: it's to the late '00s what pouches and straps were to early Image... *le sigh* i missed out on salvation run. bought a couple few early issues, didn’t even read them all. so I missed out on the incident you show here — and so glad I did. yuuck. just so typical of the queasy violence/gore middling DC offerings just dive into nowadays — I don’t mind “head-punch-offing” or “arm-yank-offing” on principle, I like it when tied decently into a story — but so much of this stuff is just… there… queasy DC violence: it’s to the late ’00s what pouches and straps were to early Image… *le sigh*

]]> By: jefped http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/10/29/an-extremely-important-matter-i-have-been-thinking-about-all-day/comment-page-1/#comment-477314 jefped Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:48:21 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=12989#comment-477314 Yeah, it could just be floating in the (unwisely) glass jar that covers his brain. Or it could be a big ring wrapped around his metal torso. But I think it should just be wrapped around his naked brain and he could make a body out of Black Lantern energy. And I think DC's been planning this for a good long time. At least since GL: Rebirth. They might not have had it pegged when Ted Kord bought it, but they knew what was coming when all the frivolous killing started with Infinite Crisis. My question is: shouldn't Superboy's body be a Black Lantern? Remember it took his body 'til the 31st century to regenerate, then he came back in time. Remember? Who remembers? Yeah, it could just be floating in the (unwisely) glass jar that covers his brain. Or it could be a big ring wrapped around his metal torso. But I think it should just be wrapped around his naked brain and he could make a body out of Black Lantern energy.

And I think DC’s been planning this for a good long time. At least since GL: Rebirth. They might not have had it pegged when Ted Kord bought it, but they knew what was coming when all the frivolous killing started with Infinite Crisis.

My question is: shouldn’t Superboy’s body be a Black Lantern? Remember it took his body ’til the 31st century to regenerate, then he came back in time. Remember? Who remembers?

]]> By: Lucas Siegel http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/10/29/an-extremely-important-matter-i-have-been-thinking-about-all-day/comment-page-1/#comment-477309 Lucas Siegel Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:20:18 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=12989#comment-477309 The ring would go around his brain stem, and the case would be a black light construct. Boom. The ring would go around his brain stem, and the case would be a black light construct.

Boom.

]]> By: Mark Engblom http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/10/29/an-extremely-important-matter-i-have-been-thinking-about-all-day/comment-page-1/#comment-477308 Mark Engblom Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:17:58 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=12989#comment-477308 It could be implanted into the metal base of his "jar". Gotta love it: A gorilla/disembodied human brain gay relationship. It could be implanted into the metal base of his “jar”.

Gotta love it: A gorilla/disembodied human brain gay relationship.

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