Superman and the Authority #3 - "Grimdark!"

[laughing_tree]

That's the thing, it wasn't so much the Authority characters as it was the Authority concept and what that meant at the end of the 20th century when the powerful people weren't our enemies but were on our side and how poignant and tragic that looks nowadays. But that idea of what if the good guys were on our side, it's more from that and there's not a lot of characters from the Authority, apart from Apollo and the Midnighter, that appear. What I wanted to do was take characters from DC's past who would fit the roles of the Authority: The Engineer becomes Natasha Irons, the niece of Steel, and instead of the magical Doctor, it's the Enchantress, the DC witch, and so on. -- Grant Morrison

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The Joker #8

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Batman '89 #3

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Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday

[sistermagpie]

In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like. Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat, have some fun and vent as necessary.

Normal board rules about conduct and behavior still apply, of course, so think twice before posting something that might cross a line, as always.

Rorschach #12 (of 12)

[superboyprime]

"[Hannah Arendt] had been in a concentration camp, and how we as a free society stop another Nazi rising was sort of her obsession of her whole life. Instead of constructing Rorschach from a Randian point of view, if we construct him from an Arendt point of view, how does that change our conception of superheroes, and our conception of vigilantism? If we go from the idea of 'it's obviously bad to kill people without trials' to 'Is it bad to kill Nazis without trials?' it makes a different moral universe and different moral questions, or at least the same questions but, you know, turning the ball on its side so you can see it from a different angle." - Tom King

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Batman: The Audio Adventures Special #1

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X-23 #10 - "Touching Darkness, part 1"

[deh_tommy]

Spooky month is upon us and I’ve wanted to do an appreciation post about vampire Jubilee for a long time now, so here’s me figuratively killing two birds with one stone (not that I’d ever advocate for that sort of thing, I just don’t know of a better metaphor that has the same meaning). Warning for discussions of attempted suicide.

( AKA the one with that page of vampire Jubilee going for X-23’s neck. )