I agree with you, it's getting nowhere, just stuffing after stuffing to sell us shit.

Oh! hahaha You're right! AmandaT

Silence Il n'est pas le seul, DC arrachent les cheveux avec les nouvelles directions qu'ils prennent.

I do not know if DC is going to do it with this, I know that their sales are going down a lot and their strategies are not working. I think they had high hopes for Urban Legends and Chip, but the price coupled with bad stories is not allowing UL to achieve what The Three Jokers did.

He was wearing a mask because he was doing a stealth mission.

And to protect him from the poison gas he released.

That too

Regardless of the reason inside the book for which he was doing the mission, the parallel to COVID is pretty obvious, they could have chosen other types of masks, but no, they specifically chose this type of mask for "awareness" probably.

I never met the man but from his writing I can get a sense of what a truly vile and distasteful person he must be.

He doesn’t WANT to be an influencer they told him it was recorded but not like they brought onto him in the fight

Thank you for the engagement. Just because you don't want to be something, does not mean that is the monster you have allowed yourself to become.

did they retcon that story where Nora Fries was thawed out and became a villain?

Political ideologue who constantly hangs on race is a hack, go figure

So I had not read much of Ridley's work, & was basing my comments just on Batman series. But this week I looked at his writing for Wildstrom's "American Way"... and I said... "oh." I knew about his writing on " The Other History of the DC Universe," but I hadn't gotten around to reading it. I know the history on Black Lightning was really wrong with Superman, so I was not that interested. But "American Way" is an eye-opener. He knows how to write a "story" alright, but he has a very rigid "POV"

I haven't read American Way but based on his Batman and The Other History of the DCU, I can guess what the subject of the book was there, too. :)

It also explains a lot about plot, pacing, etc., that I couldn't understand before, but do now. Clearly, DC Comics wants "name" writer, but he is obviously being coached to "channel" his writing in ways that DC mainstream will accept with its branding. Imagine hiring Sid Vicious or Marilyn Manson to be high school concert band teacher. Great "PR" to get "attention," but then what? DC wants brand more relevant, but needs restraint. Dragging out story allows more review, while also more $$ for DC.

Completely different level of energy from writer John Ridley when he believes in and feels freedom to drive storyline in direction to tell his story. At this point, Batman is just a job. We'll see if that changes.

@silence: Unfortunately in today's world your type of thinking is pretty rare. But I'm glad to see that there are still people who refuse to eat up the bullshit that companies throw their way.

How is that misogynistic?

How is taking women’s suffering for granted not misogynistic? Tynion just blatantly ignored there were two female victims of Alan’s cowardice.

Alan literally says he loved them with all his mind, and he was hiding how he felt about men from even himself back then. This is something that happened to many gay men, especially one or two generations ago. But go off with you whiny BS I guess

@Bitchwitcher.I agree with you.This guy or girl only wants to whine for the sake of whining.

Imagine if men complain about female video characters killing more men than women in video games.LOL

FYI: Gay people cannot be sexually attracted to women. What he said is a plain lie to excuse himself. Did he tell his wives he is a gay? Did he tell the truth when he impregnated his wife? Of course it happened that a gay man used another innocent woman to avoid the pressure of the society, sacrificing a poor woman‘a life for his own sake and it’s a shame it still happens and many misogynists just like you consider it’s not a big deal. How proud you are to be one.

I’m talking about there are a group of women who are cheated by their gay husband in real life. They have to face with their husbands who don’t love them and are more likely to be infected with sexual transmitted diseases. This book understated women’s role in marriages like this. And you think it’s a joke like video games. See, that’s just what a misogynist do.

excuse me, but this kind of deception is aberrant and if there is misogyne, a man who does that to a woman is because he hates his gender, I have a friend who was in that situation, just because the unfortunate wanted to have a child.

That act is not only not of a superhero, it is not of a person with a little empathy, it is selfish.

@MaudBenjamin if we want to blame this bizarre game of Who Wants To Be A Bigot then I could accuse you of homophobia by ignoring the societal pressure for men to marry women and have kids and to never ever do something so insane as to be gay. But I'm not gonna do that because you're clearly just a whiny troll with nothing better to do on a tuesday. Have fun sweetie

Gay men have had entire families with women. Love isn't just sexual attraction. This sort of thing was a lot more common than you'd think. No one was being used. Gay men go through denial and repress themselves because society and culture tells them it's wrong to be gay. This doesn't happen as much anymore because luckily, society has progressed when it comes to its treatment of LGBT people. Of course, your responses reveal your blatant homophobia, so I doubt you actually give a shit about women

@Psycamorean Which part don’t you understand about Alan had two children with his wife? And I’ve said it, transferring the pressure from the society to another woman is selfish. Just because he feels bad doesn’t mean he has the right to deceive another people.

I know this is a continuity issue but I’m just mad how ill-considered it was done.

It's people like you that make individuals like Alan stay in the closet for so long living a lie. Grow up, accept that the world changes, and understand that life isn't always as simple as a comic book.

Oh did I forced gays to cheat their wives?

Nothing in the comic suggests he even cheated on his wives! And you know, people don't consciously decide, "I'm going to let society crush me today!" He never deceived anyone except himself! He loved those women, but denied himself. Which is a very common thing among gay people, and as I said, no one decides to do that, it just happens because people are complex social animals that are influenced by a multitude of things, both internally and externally! There's no morality debate here!

Repeating "a gay" over and over again really diminishes any real point you were trying to make.

Gay men aften cheat on their wives. How do you think he figured out he was gay? LOL

Just like straight people don't know they're straight until they've had sex, right?

Are you serious with that last part? " Straight people don't know they're straight until they've had sex"? Lol. Like that happened, EVER. :))

My point was that straight people don't have to have sex to realize that they are attracted to the opposite gender, and the same is true of gay people and their attraction to same gender. Maelstron thinks that gay people must have sex to figure out that they are gay. Maelstron is wrong. Maybe that clears it up for you.

The interaction between batwing and the cops is typical of Ridleys racial skew in his writing. Batwings entire face is covered there's no indication hes black yet the cops are instantly brusque and suspicious of him even as the real criminal is present. Ridley masks this with the idea that it's because "capes" are under suspicion in Gotham but it's not very believable.