Justice League Incarnate #2

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[stubbleupdate]

This is exhausting

[thanekos]

It's just a bunch of toys shouting points of lore at each other - it's like the target audience for this book is a crudely drawn caricature of Chris Sims.

(You can't call Williamson and Dennis Culver " bad writers " for this, because their previous work indicates otherwise - this has to be the most cheerfully willing instance of " the readers'll buy anything that hits all the clichés of Superhero Comic " hackwork ever.)

[lordy_co]

Well, I for one will always enjoy seeing a version of the BwL getting their ass kicked, which I expect to happen soon. Let's just hope they don't try to make her sympathetic and that the story just gets done with her asap.

Regarding that first page: where does it take place? I assume it's on some realm beyond the 52 earths but I could be wrong. I just find it odd to see a version of Gloriana and an angel punching Darkseid on the face XD.

[angelophile]

Is this intended as a parody?

[icon_uk]

Isn't a parody meant to make you laugh? At some level?

[super_fly]

The number of times somebody mentions The Crack certainly got a chuckle out of 12 year old Me.

[remial]

and Berry's vibrations coming from it?

[lordy_co]

I haven't read the issue, but considering she has an "infinity gauntlet", I'd think it's not meant to be taken that seriously.

[coldfury]

Does Thanos know that Kathy Kane stole his Infinity Gauntlet?

[llordllama]

Did I oversleep and it's the exxxxxxxtreme '90s again?

[stubbleupdate]

Today, in a kind of unconscious acknowledgement of these developments, the hypercommodified nature of mass culture has even found its way into common parlance. As writing and media have become “content,” movies and shows are now “franchises,” and cultural artifacts of every kind are “IP” (intellectual property) — not just to bureaucrats, investors, and corporate executives but also to audiences (or rather “consumers”) themselves.

Entire narrative universes, meanwhile, are now conceptualized in modular form such that their parent companies can produce an indefinite number of reboots, sequels, and prequels, wringing as much value from the original product as possible. The same monopolism has yielded an astonishing boom in crossover content, as conglomerates seek to extract further rents by combining and reassembling their properties.

[lordultimus]

The tags make me realize that we really should have different tags for Kathy and Kate Kane.

[super_fly]

I thought this was Grant Morrison until I checked the tag, using the Sheeda wasn't helping.

[silverhammerman]

No no, it's just the latest example of someone at DC taking up one of Morrison's ideas only to completely fumble it/deploy it in the stupidest and most antithetical way possible.

[christianconnor]

Grant often wanted people to take his ideas and write stories from them. Seven Soldiers was intended to reinvigorate the characters. But DC seem to have gotten it completely wrong. Again.

[silverhammerman]

That seems to be Morrison's curse whenever they offer a new idea. Either it's entirely forgotten or it gets brought back in the worst way possible. Like when Red Racer from Multiversity came back only to immediately be killed off, or when the Seven Soldiers basically vanished.

[jlbarnett]

Morrison tells to many stories about characters who know they are stories for my tastes and it leads to ridiculousness

[mastermahan]

Remember the Xorneto debacle? Ah, memories.

[scorntx]

Didn't Morrison say they were going to do a Red Racer one-shot?
What ever happened to that?

[deh_tommy]

I thought Scott Snyder handled Morrison’s stuff in a decent enough way (at least until that just became The Batman Who Laughs show and Death Metal got really self-indulgent).

[starwolf_oakley]

At least when comic writers were chasing WATCHMEN and DARK KNIGHT RETURNS they were... Were... All right, I am not sure what those writers were doing. But at least it wasn't Kathy Kane with an Infinity, uh I mean a Golden Glove.

[scorntx]

In the case of Watchmen, they were trying to be Deep.
With Dark Knight Returns, they were trying to be Dark and Edgy.

They didn't succeed, but by gum, they were trying!

[beyondthefringe]

No.
Just no.

Also, I'm darkly amused that one of the members of the JLI is... DINO COP.
Not to be confused with any other green-skinned, fin-headed reptilian law enforcement officers.

Not a bad story, but certainly energetic to the point of exhausting.

[mastermahan]

Wait, why is the Batwoman from Rule 63 Earth Kathy Kane? Shouldn't Batwoman and Batman be Bryce Wayne and Kenny Kane?

[blues32]

You'd think that, but in the issue she was introduced, she recognized Batman as Bruce when they met.

[mastermahan]

I guess sometimes it's a gender swap, sometimes it's a role swap? Odd. I assume the distinction is "whatever the writer thinks is most interesting".

[blueprintstyles]

I feel like this multiverse stuff would be a lot more effective if they stick to one universe, complete a full story, and move on to the next. I want to a three-issue arc with President Superman in his universe, then visit DC's version of the Marvel universe. Give me a chance to grow attached to a character before introducing a new one.

[janegray]

It would also help if they din't kill everybody and wipe out the universe as soon as they are done telling one story.

[leahandillyana]

Goddamn, the original was hard enough to get rid of. The character was interesting when originally introduced, but quickly turned into a villain Sue.

[tinygaylaura]

:(

I'm enjoying this series. Maybe I'm the only one here who is but I like it

It's a big ridiculous multiverse adventure and it isn't insisting on its own importance like Death Metal did

The Batwoman Who Laughs is ridiculous but I think she's meant to be? She feels like a deliberate parody of the Batman Who Laughs and how Snyder tried to turn him into the Poochy of the DCU with his "The Batman Who Laughs should be louder, angrier and have access to a time machine" foolishness

[deh_tommy]

That’s probably a case of the scars still healing from his reign of terror. He’s not even really gone, he still gets a ton of merchandise and last I heard he’s the main antagonist of the second Batman/Fortnite crossover comic (which, unless I’m mistaken, I think is actually canonical to mainline continuity).

[tinygaylaura]

Oh god, really?

I thought the comics were finally done with him after Death Metal

[deh_tommy]

To be fair, he got his own skin in Fortnite recently enough and that game’s lore is apparently all about omniversal shenanigans, so that’d be something of a missed opportunity it’s not to utilise him. Still, I think he’s way overstayed his welcome by this point.

[blues32]

I'm a little confused. That "BOOM" with the "HA HA HA HA HA" in it...does that mean her bombs explode while laughing? Like Red Goblin's biting pumpkin bombs?

Also, how is Darkseid getting punched by ANYONE after he took out some of DC heaviest hitters in a single shot when his Omega self was introduced? And here's he's getting decked by some angel?

[bruinsfan]

I mean, at DC angels range from minor ones barely able to do anything all the way up to Lucifer and Michael being able to affect reality across the omniverse and interact with the Endless as at least peers. It's not that unlikely that Asmodel might be above Darkseid's weight class.

[deepspaceartist]

Who gave the Marsupial Girl What Does The Chuckling the infinity gauntlet?