Geo-Force vs. Deathstroke
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scans_daily7 pages from LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, a one-shot by Brian Meltzer and Adam Kubert. It has Deathstroke saying he used his Crazy Juice on Terra, as he used on Rose/Ravager and Cassandra/Batgirl.
Ollie! Roy! Lian! (I still feel a little ripped off that we never got to see how Bruce Wayne reacted to Lian's death, Roy going nuts and Ollie killing Prometheus.)
Did Geo-Force just use a Jim Kirk line on Deathstroke? (Though this came out about a year before the 2009 Star Trek movie.)
Pwned. With a capital P.
I know there were no "older" Teen Titans in the post-FLASHPOINT DCU, but I am curious if they will ever redo or refer to "The Judas Contract" and if Wilson's Crazy Juice will play a role. As much as I like Marv Wolfman, there *should* be a better explanation than "Tara Markov was a bad person who hated the Titans for no reason."
This one-shot ended with Hal Jordan being all, "Right, like the world is really going to end."
Ollie! Roy! Lian! (I still feel a little ripped off that we never got to see how Bruce Wayne reacted to Lian's death, Roy going nuts and Ollie killing Prometheus.)
Did Geo-Force just use a Jim Kirk line on Deathstroke? (Though this came out about a year before the 2009 Star Trek movie.)
Pwned. With a capital P.
I know there were no "older" Teen Titans in the post-FLASHPOINT DCU, but I am curious if they will ever redo or refer to "The Judas Contract" and if Wilson's Crazy Juice will play a role. As much as I like Marv Wolfman, there *should* be a better explanation than "Tara Markov was a bad person who hated the Titans for no reason."
This one-shot ended with Hal Jordan being all, "Right, like the world is really going to end."
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Date: 2012-05-08 12:17 am (UTC)She had reasons. To those who sympathize with the idea of using power responsibly, they aren't very good reasons, but still...
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Date: 2012-05-08 10:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-09 03:17 am (UTC)Because when it comes to resurrecting such a character, or retconning in new motivations, I'm more an advocate of, It wasn't broken, so why did they have to fix it?
The closest thing I'd be interested in seeing would be a story of Slade (and maybe Tara as well) as "unreliable narrators." Slade would be in denial of his part in encouraging her corruption. (And maybe Tara would wallow in her hatred as a way of denying that she wasn't as clever or deserving of rule as she wanted to be. She'd still be evil, of course. But maybe somewhat more sympathetic.)
But even that seems like it would belong more in fanfic or in an Elseworlds story.