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Batman and the Outsiders #2
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iamrmanWriter: Mike W. Barr
Pencils: Jim Aparo
Inks: Jim Aparo
Batman’s ragtag team of heroes fight back against Baron Bedlam.
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Batman and the Outsiders #1
Apr. 3rd, 2025 07:38 pmiamrmanWriter: Mike W. Barr
Pencils: Jim Aparo
Inks: Jim Aparo
Lucius Fox has been captured by freedom fighters in Eastern Europe, but the Justice League are unable to help. So Batman quits and forms his own team instead.
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laughing_tree
A lot of people were expecting me to go into body horror. But I have my DC book that I’m doing that is a horror book, which is the Green Lantern one, and this is pitched as something you can pick up and lose your troubles for a minute, open it up, have a wonderful time with this beloved cast of characters. Enjoy the gags and the comedy and the sincerity of it, and that’ll give you 20 minutes off, or longer, if you want to enjoy the amazing art. It’ll give you a little break from your troubles. That’s what we’re selling here. -- Al Ewing
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laughing_tree
This is why METAMORPHO is the comic I take the greatest joy in the act of writing - my love for this particular tone and style is the root of my sense of humour, but it's also an honest and deeply held appreciation and I wish people understood that more. It's not a satire on old comics! I honestly think more comics should have thought balloons and chatty omniscient narrators, and one of my most sincere ambitions in the artform is to write the word "yvoorg" into a comic and have someone publish it! That chummy omniscient narrator calling you "Metamaniacs" is the closest you'll ever get to the real me! -- Al Ewing
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laughing_tree
Something I tried to do in 2023 and carried over to 2024 was build on previous successes, but now I'm wondering if that was a trap - if all the critical and commercial success I've had in my life just built a cage for my future self made of the expectations of readers and employers. What if I cared less about hitting previous highs again - or what others rate as the highs - and more about just being happy in myself and in my work? What would that look like? Well, it'd probably look like METAMORPHO... -- Al Ewing
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RIP to Ramona Fradon - A genuine legend
Feb. 25th, 2024 12:40 pmicon_ukCatskill Comics, her art agents, confirmed last night that legendary artist Ramona Fradon has passed away at the age of 97.
( And WHAT a career! )
( And WHAT a career! )
DC announces it's next Round Robin
Mar. 29th, 2022 08:00 pmTags:
- char: amanda waller,
- char: animal man/buddy baker,
- char: black canary/dinah drake,
- char: cheshire/jade nguyen,
- char: cyborg/vic stone,
- char: darkseid,
- char: deadman/boston brand,
- char: etrigan/jason blood,
- char: firestorm/jason rusch,
- char: firestorm/ronnie raymond,
- char: green arrow/oliver queen,
- char: green lantern/john stewart,
- char: green lantern/sentinel/alan scott,
- char: hawkgirl/shayera hol,
- char: hawkman/katar hol,
- char: john constantine,
- char: madame xanadu/nimue inwudu,
- char: metamorpho/element man/rex mason,
- char: superboy/kon-el/conner kent,
- genre: solicitations,
- ns: news,
- publisher: dc comics
Batman: Holy Terror
May. 17th, 2021 11:58 pmlizard_of_aus
Seeing Frank Miller's disasterpiece show up on scans-daily put me in mind of a certain obscure piece of my Elseworlds collection. As you can see, it is also known as Holy Terror, and it has Batman as the protagonist, like Miller's work was originally intended to. As you can probably guess, it also revolves around a powerful Abrahamic faith.
( There, however, do the similarities end. )
Tags:
- char: aquaman/orin/arthur curry,
- char: batman/bruce wayne,
- char: clayface/matt hagen,
- char: dr. mid-nite/charles mcnider,
- char: flash/barry allen,
- char: green arrow/oliver queen,
- char: jim gordon,
- char: metamorpho/element man/rex mason,
- char: superman/clark kent,
- char: vicki vale,
- char: zatanna zatara,
- creator: alan brennert,
- creator: norm breyfogle,
- title: elseworlds
Animal Man: The Last Enemy
Dec. 22nd, 2020 01:44 pmalicemacher
[This is] where the revenge narrative kicks in. So does [Animal Man], in Hollywood action-hero fashion, grab the nearest weapons and go on a rampage until he kills the man responsible? Does he pull a Hamlet and contemplate the best course of action while pondering the mysteries of existence? Does he, like the Punisher, become a psychopathic vigilante with a cool shirt? Does he act like I would and cry and curl up into a fetal position for a few days? Or does he seek redemption?
All of the above.
-- Timothy Callahan, Grant Morrison: The Early Years (Sequart, 2012), 100
Warning for self-harm and contemplated suicide (thus my once again not posting the cover as a preview).
( 'It doesn't make any sense. Death never makes sense.' )
Tags:
- char: animal man/buddy baker,
- char: booster gold/michael jon carter,
- char: martian manhunter/j'onn j'onzz,
- char: metamorpho/element man/rex mason,
- char: psycho-pirate/roger hayden,
- char: vixen/mari jiwe mccabe,
- creator: chas troug,
- creator: doug hazelwood,
- creator: grant morrison,
- publisher: dc comics,
- title: animal man,
- trigger warning: suicide/self harm
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icon_ukAt the request of yaseen101 , some choice Mike W Barr, Alan Davis "Batman and the Outsiders", well... sort of.
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yaseen101 , some choice Mike W Barr, Alan Davis "Batman and the Outsiders", well... sort of.( Part 1 of 2 )
Batman & the Outsiders #11-14
Jun. 5th, 2011 07:36 pm
Tags:
- char: alfred pennyworth,
- char: black bat/batgirl/cassandra cain,
- char: dr. simon hurt/thomas wayne,
- char: green arrow/oliver queen,
- char: katana/tatsu yamashiro,
- char: man-bat/kirk langstrom,
- char: metamorpho/element man/rex mason,
- char: penguin/oswald cobblepot,
- char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson,
- char: robin/red robin/tim drake,
- char: spoiler/batgirl/robin/steph brown,
- creator: frank tieri,
- creator: ryan benjamin,
- title: batman and the outsiders
Batman & the Outsiders #4
Jun. 1st, 2011 12:53 amzechs80The issue where Cass and Ollie bond.
No wait I don't mean that kind of bonding! I mean through mindless violence of course!
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No wait I don't mean that kind of bonding! I mean through mindless violence of course!
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pyrotwilightSo it's come to my attention that many folks haven't ever heard of Freight Train who is acting as the muscle for the current Outsiders team bringing in some new blood to the team.
He debuted in issue 30 of the series but his origin story wasn't explained until issue 35 where we discovered how he received his powers.
When he first showed up he was explicitly stated as working for Simon Stagg. Simon Stagg is the father of Sapphire Stagg, Rex Mason/Metamorpho's ex-wife. Java, one of Simon Stagg's workers was also in love with Sapphire and hated Rex for taking "his" girl from him. Sapphire of course loved Rex and so on and since then Sapphire has somehow died very recently. (If anybody knows how that'd be nice to know)
Some issues ago Java even tried killing Metamorpho knocking him out while holding the Orb of Ra (the orb that gave Rex his powers but also hurts Rex if he's near it) and dumping him into Chemo.
Now in the present Metamorpho's been saved by his team mates Owlman and Freight Train and the three go to find Simon Stagg (or Java technically since he's always with Simon) but Freight Train apparently betrays them and lets Simon Stagg and group capture the two.
(Whoo boy, hope that made sense to you folks)
The big plan Simon has is to use Black Lightning as a power source and with research he based off of the Black Rings from Blackest Night to resurrect Sapphire.
( Freight Train revealed! )
He debuted in issue 30 of the series but his origin story wasn't explained until issue 35 where we discovered how he received his powers.
When he first showed up he was explicitly stated as working for Simon Stagg. Simon Stagg is the father of Sapphire Stagg, Rex Mason/Metamorpho's ex-wife. Java, one of Simon Stagg's workers was also in love with Sapphire and hated Rex for taking "his" girl from him. Sapphire of course loved Rex and so on and since then Sapphire has somehow died very recently. (If anybody knows how that'd be nice to know)
Some issues ago Java even tried killing Metamorpho knocking him out while holding the Orb of Ra (the orb that gave Rex his powers but also hurts Rex if he's near it) and dumping him into Chemo.
Now in the present Metamorpho's been saved by his team mates Owlman and Freight Train and the three go to find Simon Stagg (or Java technically since he's always with Simon) but Freight Train apparently betrays them and lets Simon Stagg and group capture the two.
(Whoo boy, hope that made sense to you folks)
The big plan Simon has is to use Black Lightning as a power source and with research he based off of the Black Rings from Blackest Night to resurrect Sapphire.
( Freight Train revealed! )
Bloodbath #1
Apr. 30th, 2011 12:31 ampyrotwilightThe Bloodlines have ended. The heroes of the DCU are now finally able to assemble against the Parasite threat, but will it be enough? Or will it be the fall of Earth?
18 pages of a 56 page story.
I have to also warn you that while the art of the Annuals each had specific teams who were used to the books they were on... but the artists who worked on Bloodbath varied, and the art seemed very rushed at times. (Including having a page that I won't post with Martian Manhunter on it that hurts my eyes)
( And you thought the Parasites were bad? )
18 pages of a 56 page story.
I have to also warn you that while the art of the Annuals each had specific teams who were used to the books they were on... but the artists who worked on Bloodbath varied, and the art seemed very rushed at times. (Including having a page that I won't post with Martian Manhunter on it that hurts my eyes)
( And you thought the Parasites were bad? )
Tags:
- char: amanda waller,
- char: atom/ray palmer,
- char: azrael/jean paul valley,
- char: booster gold/michael jon carter,
- char: deathstroke/slade wilson,
- char: doctor light/kimiyo hoshi,
- char: elongated man/ralph dibny,
- char: etrigan/jason blood,
- char: green lantern/hal jordan,
- char: green lantern/warrior/guy gardner,
- char: kid flash/flash/wally west,
- char: martian manhunter/j'onn j'onzz,
- char: maxima,
- char: metamorpho/element man/rex mason,
- char: pantha/rosabelle mendez,
- char: power girl/kara zor-l/karen starr,
- char: red star/leonid kovar,
- char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson,
- char: robin/red robin/tim drake,
- char: speedy/arsenal/roy harper,
- char: starfire/koriand'r,
- char: superboy/kon-el/conner kent,
- char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira,
- creator: bill willingham,
- creator: dan raspler,
- event: bloodlines,
- group: justice league international,
- group: justice league of america,
- group: team titans,
- publisher: dc comics
pyrotwilightFor the entirety of the crossover the Parasites attacks were very US based (as the aliens ship crashed near Metropolis), the only attacks that occurred outside of the US was this annual in which some of the Parasites come to England. (Though the latest New Blood related story seems to imply despite what we see of the Parasites attack patterns they likely did go global but that's a post for another day)
18 pages from a 54 page story.
( The Blood comes to England and Lionheart will defend his country! )
18 pages from a 54 page story.
( The Blood comes to England and Lionheart will defend his country! )
