Red Hood and the Outlaws preview

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If redheads with big balls are your thing then this might be to your tastes;



And which red-headed jailbird to be start with?



Yeah, not the one I was thinking of first either...

The rest of the preview (four pages) can be seen here (The images and the files are pretty enormous if you're on dial-up, so be warned)

Odd, perhaps, that the vibe to it does more to remind me of the old Suicide Squad than the Suicide Squad did.

Comments

[whitesycamore]

Oh Roy, you look like you've been through the wars (literally). You poor boy. Here, let me hold you.

I ever tell you I have a thing for scratched-up, cocky young waifs?

[whitesycamore]

Also, damn, - just four pages and a ship is born.

[kirke_novak]

It's a little known fact that Roy hallucinated the entire rescue thing and is currently trying to fight his way out with a dead possum.

[joasakura]

pfft. Too soon? naaaah.

[aaron_bourque]

Nice typo right on the first page, there. (Middle Eastern Nation of Qurac to to help the people

Also, war crimes? I could buy espionage, maybe, but war crimes?

[icon_uk]

Hence the "trumped up" I imagine.

Crimes are given names by the person making the accusation, not necessarily the evidence.

If he was, for example, accused of murdering civilians or defiling local women during his actions, those would be war crimes.

[biod]

Wow those thought boxes are hard to read in that first page. I didn't even notice them untill I looked at the page a third time by accident. Make them pop more!

[heckfire]

Yay. More murdering blood-thirsty "heroes." Oh, how I can never get enough blood in my superhero comics.

...remind me why this crap gets published?

[whitesycamore]

Because everyone is not you, hence they are not your superhero comics.

[lieut_kettch]

Am I the only one who found Roy talking about Jason blowing the chains off his ball vaguely suggestive?

[icon_uk]

Please, in superhero subtextual terms this meeting is the equivalent of flowers and a box of chocolates on a first date.

[whitesycamore]

Wait - this is like, the second time Jason has been/pretended to be a priest. I choose to take this as a sign that Jason once secretly wanted to be a priest. :D

I can identify with this, since I went through a two-year pre-teen phase in which I seriously wanted to become a nun.

I went off the idea after I realised that nuns actually have to get up super early in the morning.

[icon_uk]

I take it you mean THIS? (Which I can't believe hasn't been posted!)

Father Todd, as seen in World of Flashpoint #2 (apparently)





Which has led to some truly odd (even by my standard) images on Tumblr

[runespoor]

Roy was in Qurac? Operation "Bringing Back Lian" is a go!

He's definitely met Chesh there. And if he didn't that's a nasty red herring to throw at your fans there, Mr Lobdell.

[whitesycamore]

Oh oh oh I really want to see Jason helping Roy through his challenging "I knocked up a villainess wtf do I do now" phase.

[espanolbot]

*Countdown to the country's renuking*

[janegray]

...I feel conflicted.

On the one hand: DO LIKE! DO WANT! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE!

On the other hand: the reboot sucks, they have proven beyond a doubt that nothing really matters and everything can be thrown out of the window to make up a new canon, so why should I care?

Decisions, decisions...

[biod]

Enjoy the ride.

[perletwo]

Well, at least his ball is in the right place.

Side note: if Roy was working alone in Qurac, does that mean the U.S. wasn't in the Qurac war, and if so does that mean 'Berto Reyes isn't going to be a Qurac veteran? the things that occur to me when I'm supposed to have the slash goggles on, I swear

[icon_uk]

I don't envision Qurac as having been politically stable for a long, looong time, so I doubt here was just A Qurac war.

[biod]

This might just be the only book so far that I think I will enjoy that couldn't easily have been part of the DCU pre reboot.
Count my blessings, I suppose.

[perletwo]

Early indications (i.e., this preview) are good, but I'm reserving final judgment on that til I see what Lobdell does with Starfire. Plenty of room for rage-triggers there.

[turtlefu]

I really like the arttt. He didn't impress me on his Action Comics run, but this looks really nice.

I have no expectations for the story, because I didn't read comics when Lobdell was around. Was he considered a "good" writer?

[darkknightjrk]

Yeah, Rocafort looks to be an insane good artist. If you haven't read any of it, I'd recommend checking out him and Paul Dini on Madame Mirage.

And I don't remember reading anything with Lobdell (he did do a one-off issue of Gotham City Sirens recently, a one-off featuring The Riddler, but I don't remember it off-hand if it was any good, since I probably bowed out shortly before he went in), but all his interviews sound good and I'm hearing a lot of good things about Superboy, so I'm starting to have some high points.

[thatnickguy]

Looks like Jason's being led by Frank Castle and Holden Carver (from Brubaker & Phillip's "Sleeper").

[shadowpsykie]

heh.... wow.... Lobdell isn't even using subtext, this is all text :) and thus a brand you shiny red headed ship is launched :D

[ex_gretel640]

Goddamnit. *facepalm*

For some reason my head saw redhead with big balls decided that this post (despite the tags!) was about Knockout. Because you know, there are no other people in DC with red hair.

And I was all excited because I just named my new computer that and have been looking up pics of her to decorate it.

[bystander3]

THAT ART.

Guh. I am blown away.

What is your name, sir? "Kenneth Rocafort", is it? You, sir, are my new best friend. My hat's off to you.

So

[mambalev]

This new DCU appears to have taken on the Wildstorm influx and imbraced it fully.

Its borderline Ultimate-verse.

[tauruschick12]

AHHHHHHHH IT ALL LOOKS AMAZING.

I want to buy this so bad. Everything seems perfect to me, personally- Jason has natural black hair again and they're making him more of an anti-hero than a EVIL EVIL villain, and Roy is back to normal (well, Lian's gone, but they can easily make him sleep with Cheshire and produce Lian all over again) etc, etc.

AS LONG as Starfire is written well, I can buy this. Oh please, oh God, let Starfire be written well. I really want to get this.

[tsunamiwombat]

Hmm, depending on how well written Starfire is this could be really good.

Jason as the ballsy, crazy antihero who makes shit up as he goes along, Roy as the good natured straight man, Starfire as the...????

I like the art, like the "Oceans 11" feel to it. We'll see how they do Starfire and what they get up to, though.

[zenbro]

I could see Starfire as the no-nonsense heavy hitter who gets impatient with Roy and Jason's bickering and just blasts things while they formulate strategy.

[oroburos69]

Damn, that first page hit all my buttons. And the rest gave me shipper tingles liek whoa.

Yeah, I might buy this. And possibly write about it. Because...damn. This is like guilty pleasure fanfic.

(Is there fic yet? Okay, how about now?)

[anothermoviegeek]

What I am wondering is if Jason still kills like this, how is Bruce allowing him to wear the bat?

[icon_uk]

The combined Batclan has never really managed to stop Jason doing anything he wanted to do thanks to writers fiat. Why should this be any different?

[blackruzsa]

He looks like Jason that time Jason didn't look like Jason!

[marco]

Lol, I totally thought it was Jason at first (but I remember they said he was supposed to have black hair). But then I actually read.

[benicio127]

yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

[whitesycamore]

sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ♥

[northstarfan]

So Lobdell gives us a canonically gay Titan, "the Red"/Rose subtext in Superboy, and now this?

I'm not even buying the reboot and I want to send the man cookies.

[icon_uk]

Okay, I know I SHOULD know who you mean, but it's Sunday so my brain is on standby; Who is the canonically gay Titan?