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Challenge of the Super Sons #1
Dec. 15th, 2020 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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DC's latest Digital First series is The Challenege of the Super Sons.
Quietly ignoring Bendis' decision to age up Jon Kent for the benefit of his take on "The Legion of Super-Heroes" (and to the detriment of Superman titles IMHO) this has 10 year old Jon and 13 year old Damian still attending the West-Reeve School in Metropolis.
But we open in the far future two, possibly vaguely recognisable, old guys are arguing over a video game based on Robin and Superboy, complaining that the voices are ALL wrong.
Whilst they are distracted two small kids sneak down behnd them and "borrow" (via one of them floating up to a high shelf) a book to read from a wide choice "Adventures of the Super Sons", including titles like "Adventures of the Super Sons: 79", "Adventures of the Super Sons: of Easy Company" and "Adventures of the Super Sons: Crisis of Infinite Earths", but the one they choose is called...
( Adventures of the Super Sons - The Doom Scroll )
Batman: Pennyworth R.I.P. #1
Feb. 18th, 2020 06:30 pmlordultimus
Tom King: "I got the opposite of push back. I got push forward. I sort of had this cliffhanger where Alfred, at the end, was gonna, could perish. And I put it in the script, like, of course, we'll figure this out later and he's not dead. And DC's like, 'No, why isn't he? Why's he not dead?' And I'm like, 'Well, because he's Alfred and he has to live forever because he's a fantastic character.' And they're like, 'No no no no, he's dead'."
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