Date: 2013-09-13 08:26 pm (UTC)
shadowpsykie: (ask the questions)
From: [personal profile] shadowpsykie
okay.... more violent than I care for.... but... BUT... i do find this intriguing.... not sure i like it.... but... yeah...what happened to the baby?

Date: 2013-09-13 08:41 pm (UTC)
shadowpsykie: Information (Default)
From: [personal profile] shadowpsykie
hmmm... i have a feeling the baby is gonna play a part...

Date: 2013-09-13 08:39 pm (UTC)
protogarrett: (Default)
From: [personal profile] protogarrett
So... how did he turn into a super zombie? Rage and Happenstance?

Date: 2013-09-13 08:57 pm (UTC)
icon_uk: (Default)
From: [personal profile] icon_uk
He committed suicide in a place called Slaughter Swamp, I think the genre conventions of the slasher horror movies (Which the original Solmon Grundy's origin predates by many years) would practically INSIST he be revived as a super-zombie! :)

I think he has mystical connections to.. whatever the Earth2 antithesis of the Green Lantern is, so I think that's all the oriign we need.

Date: 2013-09-13 09:33 pm (UTC)
lissa_quon: (Default)
From: [personal profile] lissa_quon
Though it looks like Solomon's wife ALSO committed suicide in the Slaughter Swamp. But I highly doubt she gets to come back as a rage zombie.

I feel sort of cheated, all the guys get to come back and avenge their wronged fridged loved ones but the women never do.

Date: 2013-09-13 09:48 pm (UTC)
shadowpsykie: Information (Default)
From: [personal profile] shadowpsykie
didn't scarlett Avenger (or something) come back like that? Also Fury? Also there were several "crows" that were female. (sure not nearly as many as the men, but there have been women that have come back that way.

although she killed herself out of despair, so she would probably come back as a despair monster....

Date: 2013-09-13 11:38 pm (UTC)
kamino_neko: Tedd from El Goonish Shive. Drawn by Dan Shive, coloured by Kamino Neko. (Default)
From: [personal profile] kamino_neko
Crimson Avenger.

I can't remember her origin, offhand.

Date: 2013-09-14 01:06 am (UTC)
espanolbot: (Default)
From: [personal profile] espanolbot
She tried to shoot herself with the pistols belonging to the original Crimson Avenger, who was essentially the Shadow before he became more of an ordinary nonlethal superhero.

Date: 2013-09-14 08:56 am (UTC)
biod: Cute Galactus (Default)
From: [personal profile] biod
I can only imagine the wife coming back as a Rage Zombie and learning that her husband went straight for the murder/suicide instead of taking care of the kid.
"He did WHAT!?"

Date: 2013-09-13 11:35 pm (UTC)
kamino_neko: Tedd from El Goonish Shive. Drawn by Dan Shive, coloured by Kamino Neko. (Default)
From: [personal profile] kamino_neko
Green Lantern is an agent of the Green, and Grundy of the Grey.

No hint as to who, if anyone, the Red is fielding in this universe.

Date: 2013-09-15 02:42 am (UTC)
silverhammerman: (Default)
From: [personal profile] silverhammerman
It's still kind of weird to me that Solomon Grundy was given a connection to the Grey and not the Rot. Linking Earth-2's Green Lantern to the Animal Man/Swamp Thing cosmology that's emerged would have been a cool idea if they'd actually done it for real.

Date: 2013-09-13 08:55 pm (UTC)
cainofdreaming: cain's mark (pic#364829)
From: [personal profile] cainofdreaming
Solomon Grundy. Born on Monday. Gained a new origin on Tuesday. And Wednesday. And Thursday. And....

Date: 2013-09-13 08:58 pm (UTC)
chrisdv: (Default)
From: [personal profile] chrisdv
And rebooted again on Sunday.

Date: 2013-09-14 08:54 am (UTC)
biod: Cute Galactus (Default)
From: [personal profile] biod
On Friday AU Solomon takes over while he takes the day off and goes to his Mosque.

Date: 2013-09-13 09:24 pm (UTC)
espanolbot: (Default)
From: [personal profile] espanolbot
Slaughter Swamp being named after a slaughter house does actually make a degree of sense, though if it's warm enough for alligators wouldn't the humidity make the meat go weird?

Date: 2013-09-13 09:49 pm (UTC)
shadowpsykie: Information (Default)
From: [personal profile] shadowpsykie
zombie weird?

also though, the guy who runs the place was shown to be less than ethical...

Date: 2013-09-13 10:01 pm (UTC)
cainofdreaming: cain's mark (pic#364829)
From: [personal profile] cainofdreaming
zombie weird?

Slaughter Swamp prime rib! The dish you won't need to carry home! It walks into your freezer by itself!

Date: 2013-09-14 08:05 am (UTC)
icon_uk: (Default)
From: [personal profile] icon_uk
You mean this is another villain who could have been prevented by proper health and safety inspection.

Seriously, it gets a bad rep for being petty and overprotective, but think about how many villains owe their origins to crappy safety protocols.

Date: 2013-09-13 10:00 pm (UTC)
tugrul: That Chest (Default)
From: [personal profile] tugrul
I hate it when bystanders die in comics. I can't help it.

Date: 2013-09-13 11:13 pm (UTC)
shadowpsykie: Information (Default)
From: [personal profile] shadowpsykie
yeah me too... but it kinda happens... i mean i feel bad for them... though for all i know from these scans they were complicent...

Date: 2013-09-14 06:43 am (UTC)
tugrul: That Chest (Default)
From: [personal profile] tugrul
I don't see that they're complicent from these scans. Just very passive about things.

What I get from the scans is "My wife is dead. Rage! I'm killing my boss. I'm killing everyone."

Date: 2013-09-14 03:39 pm (UTC)
ensiform: (Default)
From: [personal profile] ensiform
You both mean "complicit," not "complacent."

And I guess you could argue that anyone who knew about sexual harassment/rape and stood around fearing for their jobs so saying nothing is complicit in a real way.

Date: 2013-09-13 11:47 pm (UTC)
janegray: (Default)
From: [personal profile] janegray
Same.

Date: 2013-09-14 04:32 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] silicondream
You probably don't want to read annnny part of this issue, then.

...and maybe avoid DC's entire output this month, come to think of it. It's like someone hired editorial to develop a literary cure for Joker venom.

Date: 2013-09-14 06:46 am (UTC)
tugrul: That Chest (Default)
From: [personal profile] tugrul
I will get Lil' Gotham. ^_^

Date: 2013-09-14 07:48 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] silicondream
There you go!

Date: 2013-09-14 08:06 am (UTC)
icon_uk: (Default)
From: [personal profile] icon_uk
Batman 66 too, it has fun deathraps! :)

Date: 2013-09-14 02:56 pm (UTC)

Date: 2013-09-13 11:46 pm (UTC)
filthysize: (Default)
From: [personal profile] filthysize
Not digging the old "wife commits suicide, driving husband mad" schtick, though Grundy's origin was never great anyway so it's as good as any.

What actually bugs me, weirdly enough, is that his name is actually Solomon now.

Date: 2013-09-14 12:27 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] jlbarnett
obviously, now his death is the origin of the Solomon Grundy rhyme.

Still I can't believe they're tying a variation of the normal Slaughter Swamp origin to the Death God Grundy thing though

It looks like his wife's body was not recovered. Maybe she's the Red Lantern.

Date: 2013-09-14 03:15 am (UTC)
kamino_neko: Tedd from El Goonish Shive. Drawn by Dan Shive, coloured by Kamino Neko. (Default)
From: [personal profile] kamino_neko
obviously, now his death is the origin of the Solomon Grundy rhyme.

He recites the rhyme to his kid (probably Solomon, jr, to explain that).

Date: 2013-09-14 02:56 pm (UTC)
icon_uk: (Default)
From: [personal profile] icon_uk
Agreed on the name being somewhat weird

Date: 2013-09-14 01:05 am (UTC)
dr_archeville: Doctor Arkeville (Default)
From: [personal profile] dr_archeville
Sooo... where's Cyrus Gold?

At first I'd assumed the slaughterhouse boss was Gold, and he was going to be Solomon Grundy. That he worked the men to death, then butchered/sold their bodies for meat, and their families found out and killed him but he came back as some sort of super-ghoul.

Date: 2013-09-14 01:36 am (UTC)
an_idol_mind: (Default)
From: [personal profile] an_idol_mind
Man, DC really likes suicide these days, huh?

Date: 2013-09-14 06:07 am (UTC)
silverzeo: (Default)
From: [personal profile] silverzeo
Yeah, another story that may or may not lead to a mentally scarred child...

Date: 2013-09-14 06:22 am (UTC)
jaybee3: Nguyen Lil Cass (Default)
From: [personal profile] jaybee3
Is this really better than the old Cyrus Gold origin? Or is it (par for the DCnU) just darker and grimmer (and of course plain old nastier) just for the sake of it?

Date: 2013-09-14 08:34 am (UTC)
nate_abril96: (Default)
From: [personal profile] nate_abril96
Remember when superhero comics used to be fun, and not have to rely on an over abundance of gore?

Date: 2013-09-14 11:15 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] capnduckman
I really didn't think they could make Grundys origin any worse... and then they did it. This is why we can't have nice things.

Date: 2013-09-14 08:41 pm (UTC)
zabilac: (Default)
From: [personal profile] zabilac
This issue left me with a lot more questions than answers. But at least the art is pretty.

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