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Final Crisis

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23:49 / 07.05.08

I thought that at first, but then I noticed that her features are a little dark -- occasionally, depending on the angle, you could -sometimes- see Charlie's features in silhouette, under the mask. That's how I took it, at least. An effect of the angle/lighting...

Boboss

23:54 / 07.05.08

Nnnyeahmaybeee

There's deffo no dark glasses

FinderWolf

23:55 / 07.05.08

Yeah, if it's supposed to be her with the mask on, it doesn't at all look like that. have to admit it.

Mark Parsons

01:57 / 08.05.08

Where is Boboss accessing Grant's script? Boboss, do you have deep-structure insight vision, or what?

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02:02 / 08.05.08

Dude, learn some majikz!

Jesus Christ...

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02:02 / 08.05.08

Right above the preview pages, you click and it pops over the page.

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05:14 / 08.05.08

I guess a profile shot would look still like a face... it's head-on that the facelessness would be most notable. And the glasses would (a) take care of some profile-specificity (if they were clunky enough) and disguise the fact she's got no face. Huh.

I am enjoying the general fandom discussions on the pages just because the bigger issues seem to get lost very quickly in people complaining about the Black Racer's changes while admitting they've never read the Kirby New Gods stuff, and complaining about Turpin and one or two on about how it's all an agenda to shoehorn in nonwhite characters and those horrible gays. It's nice to remember the lowest, pettiest levels of fandom in the hopes that a side effect of making the DCU self-aware will be some of the readers getting there, too.

Boboss

11:30 / 08.05.08

Lol.

Sort of.

The Black Racer has me sqeeing. Another one of Grant's sinister super horses.

FinderWolf

17:46 / 08.05.08

What's funny is that I was just re-reading the JLA: Rock of Ages storyline in the past month and found myself wondering if the Darkseid future connection in that story arc would come up at all or be referenced in Final Crisis. And now the Sketchbook (out in a week or two, previewed by the EW website) shows that they're pulling the Darkseid design, with some minor modifications, from the Rock of Ages storyline.

I also just saw somewhere (Comic Shop News) that Aztek might come up or at least be referenced in Final Crisis, and that's an additional reason why they published the Aztek paperback right before FC. Interesting...

FinderWolf

17:46 / 08.05.08

speaking of the Black Racer, I like the apparently-new costume design of the New Gods Harbinger of Death himself that is glimpsed there in the silhouette shot...

H3ct0r L1m4

18:41 / 08.05.08

nice preview, there's doom all around here, blood red skies [the Bleed, maybe? hmm]. just one boring bit: i dunno, i liked JG's inking better in MARVEL BOY.

love to see script compared to art, sometimes things change until the final version. apparently Jones skipped the "faceless" bit, or he thought his was a better sollution - in this case... not. i hate when this happens to me, hehe.

and hopefully GM doesn't write in Comic Sans at all.

THOR!

22:43 / 08.05.08

while we're art snipping a wee bit, wouldn't orion's face be all darkseidy if his mother box had died?

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20:40 / 09.05.08

I love how they've turned Green Lantern into an actual space cop, complete with backup requests and emergency codes. Ten-eleven.

FinderWolf

21:37 / 09.05.08

yep - that was Geoff Johns (as much flak as I know he catches, sometimes deservedly so, on here and elsewhere) who made the GLC a more decidedly 'space cop' type organization, starting with GL #1 of the new series after 'Rebirth.'

Boboss

23:04 / 09.05.08

Johns has some good ideas but he lacks the imagination to really milk them. He's certainly improved GL, that's for sure.

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23:45 / 09.05.08

There's a pretty good article on Legion Abstract about Geoff Johns's approach to comic writing and how he uses his imagination that's worth reading. He's definitely improved as a writer, I think, in some ways -- but he still feels like the definition of fanwank.

But I do like what he's done with the Lantern rings in general, making them talk again particularly.

West Baltimore Hausing Project

01:36 / 10.05.08

He can bring _anyone_ back.

There's a review at the LX-axis, to which I was pointed by the departed Flyboy, which sums up DC Universe 0 pretty well. It's a mess, predicated on the idea that another bloody Flash is going to get the juices flowing. I genuinely miss people staying dead at least for a few years.

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01:43 / 10.05.08

At the very least they could have killed Jay Garrick and brought him back, because he's never done it before.

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02:28 / 15.05.08

The Sketchbook is absolutely spectacular. The costume design for Most Excellent Superbat is so inspired and wonderful. I love it.

The whole thing is fat packed with mad ideas and greatness.

Alex's Grandma

03:29 / 15.05.08

There's a lot to be said for giving up reading comics altogether, I suppose.

Signifier

08:36 / 15.05.08

Fool that I am, I've started a Final Crisis annotations blog. Come by and say hi.

FinderWolf

16:02 / 15.05.08

Wow, pretty thorough blog. Nice work.

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