Well, I've been wanting to get back into DC comics, but I just haven't been able to since they brought back god, I mean Jesus, I mean Barry Allen.
This sounds like something I could get into From what I read, Wally has come back already, but it was kind of late for me to care :lol

Well that was a season finale that certainly has me looking forward to what's to come. Flash has just been killing it.

Local comic shop has a DC Rebirth #1 set aside for me for tomorrow....let's hope it's good...

Oh my god, where do I start? This episode was just balls to the wall in awesomesauce!!! First off, the fight at the beginning was down right incredible, well shot, and well choreographed. Probably the best fight in the entire show. Next up, the "Flash of Two Worlds" comment Zoom made was great. As for the identity of the man in the iron mask, CALLED IT!!!!!! And hot damn did he look awesome in that get up. I can't wait to see him come back next season becasue we all know he will. The race, as it were, with Zoom was also fantastic. I got a little CoIE vibe from it. And then that end, holy crap, that end. I think Barry just single handily created the DC Cinemative Universe. :lol

My review of the Flash season 2 finale with spoilers:
The Flash season finale was amazing. One flaw with the episode was that it tried fitting too much in it, but the episode was still great. I didn't like that brought back the time remnants, but seeing Barry create one was cool since it shows his powers are growing. When Zoom died he turned into the Black Flash from the comics which was epic! I was right about the real Jay Garrick being under the iron mask! I didn't think he was from a third earth or he was going to be Henry's doppelgänger. I hope this isn't the last we've seen of Earth-3 Flash. I can't believe I what just happened at the end. He rescued his parents causing his past self to disappear. I'm going to be really impatient till October.

What I'm thinking is that Geoff Johns is going to do Flashpoint the way he originally intended before Didiot forced him to turn it into a universe changing event. Originally, it was just supposed to be a stand alone Flash story where Barry was to learn what changing time could truly do in a "It's a Wonderful Life" type scenario. I'm really can't wait to see where they go with this.

So Joker's origin is revealed:
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/16...ty-sort-of.htm

I didn't see an origin in the article. Just the reveal that there are actually three Jokers, for some ridiculous reason.

Rebirth #1 was awesome.
Summer this year for my reading life seems like it will be good.

I don't often rant about entertainment, but...

What the ever loving fuck, Arrow? Guggenheim should be tarred and feathered. The Tumblr/Twitter Olicity crowd has completely taken over. I guess kissing the showrunner's butt on Twitter and Tumblr gets you the stories you want and to heck with everyone else. I don't see much reason to tune back in next season.

Wow, what the hell was that? Season 3 might have gotten pretty dumb in its last act, but at least the finale was satisfying. This... this was just horse shit. I'm not even sure where to start. You have a lame opening battle that served no purpose whatsoever. Then you have everyone riotting and they just all stop to listen to Ollie give a speech because... well just because. Next up you have a fight in the base and Curtis just seemed to disappear from the slab he was on for the entire fight. Then we have a fight between Ollie and Darkh where his powers just stop conveniently working for reasons. Oh yeah, and then you have a whole crowd of people that just start fighting on the street with the Ghosts, who have guns but don't use them. God that was dumb. Ollie is just instantly and conveniently given the title of Mayor. Oh, and what the hell was the entire point of the flashbacks this season? They served no purpose and I don't see how there is any correlation between what happend in them from what occured during the present day. NOTHING!!! The only thing I did like was the last scene of Ollie and Felicity standing in front of the broken suits as the camera pans out.

Man, I have no idea what happened this season as it started out strong and had some of the best action scenes of the entire series. Then it was like the writers stopped caring or they took their entire team to write Legends of Tomorrow, and left the A list writers on the bus by mistake. Next season really needs to step up their game. Hopefully, the show will leave Diggle and gang out of the picture outside of an occassional appearance to let Ollie be the Green Arrow and have all of the focus.

Because he ran for mayor and would have won had he not pulled out? Because they established he was incredibly good at making rousing speeches that people actually listen to?

Yep, reasons they established episodes ago and were always going to be the way they managed to nullify his powers.

So conviniently that you somehow managed to miss every seed they planted throughout the season to make it a logical outcome.

Um, the fact that they showed Ollie had fought magic before? The fact it was the SAME IDOL that Dahrk was using? To show that the only way to beat that magic was to kill, something Ollie had now sworn against?

Not going to deny the flashbacks have gotten increasingly phoned in but they had just as much relevance as last season's did.

Season 4 was a bit all over the place, but you clearly don't pay all that much attention when you're watching this.

No they didn't. The flashbacks last season actually had a purpose to the story fo Seaosn 3 because of Masao and Katana. These flashbacks held no connection to the main plot. Not to mention they were choppy and pointless at times.

How was Ollie just suddenly able to null his powers? He even said he couldn't do it anymore. And the entire city stops rioting just because he starts talking? No, that is not how it would work in the real world, and since this show is trying to be realistic, I'm going to call it out for that. Then hey look, Star City is in danger, must be the season finale. Oh yeah, and now Merlyn is a good guy again. WTF?!

This episode was nothing more than one giant plot convenience after another. Did the writers just give up?

Except they did, tenuous as they may be. I've pointed them out to you. They were more thematic but they were still there.

Because he had the hope of an entire city behind him. He said in the episode he could do it before because Felicity had hope in him, but couldn't do it anymore because he'd lost hope in himself. Then Curtis' speech snapped him out of it.

It was basically that bit from the first Spider-Man movie with added magic BS. Yes it was silly, but no more silly than Dahrk's magic being powered by the souls of the dead. It was explained, you're just choosing to ignore it.

It was about as realistic as the non-existent fallout from Felicity nuking an entire city. Plus it now has metahumans and magic, it isn't trying that hard to be realistic anymore.

No arguments from me that that's getting old and stupid.

Yes it was. But it wasn't pulling half of them out of thin air like you're claiming.

It was, but whatever. I did miss that Ollie was able to stop his powers from being used thanks to the citizens. Although, he still should not have been able to just kill him that easily.

Anyway, whatever, I just read Rebirth and it was freaking awesome!!! I am finally excited for the DC universe again. Oh man that was great. I can't wait to see where this goes.

DC Universe: Rebirth pissed me off and I'm still upset.

If the story existed in a vacuum, it'd be a great story. But then it wouldn't be DC Universe: Rebirth.

Really, all of my problems are attributed to one page that, if it were to be removed, would only have the effect of making the entire comic better.

In fact, not even the whole page. Just the dialogue boxes that establish that the New 52 version of Wally West is actually a new version of pre-Flashpoint Wally West's cousin Wally West. If those were altered so that New 52 Wally was THE Wally West of Prime Earth and pre-Flashpoint Wally West was just a remnant of the pre-Flashpoint DC Universe who somehow managed to exist in his horrible fate of being forgotten, then I'd be much happier with the story.

But that didn't happen, so I'm not.

And it's really frustrating, because I really liked the rest of the story. But that one page just ruins the whole thing for me.

From a narrative perspective, I liked the Watchmen twist. I see your point about its inclusion, though.

What bothered me about the Scarab thing was that Khalid Nassour has been Doctor Fate since June of last year, and the Doctor Fate that showed up in that story probably wasn't Khalid Nassour. I like Khalid. I like him a lot. I'm definitely biased because he's a character from an Islamic background, but I still like Khalid. And they're not using Khalid.

Merlyin is pretty much the Starscream of the show.

I have no problem with The Watchmen bit being there. It works that Adrian would be the one who used Pandora to screw up the DC universe. They're still their own universe, he just discovered the multiverse, which is something he would do. As for the scarab, I don't see how they retconned anything. Ted never became the Beetle in the N52 and he was never killed, so I don't see why working with Jaime is a problem. I'm really interested in seing where they run with it. Oh, and making there be two Wallys is fine with me. Iris was white in the N52, so having a black Wally West just appear out of nowhere didn't make sense so Johns just made it make sense.

It made plenty of sense. But that decision just felt like a cop-out.

Honestly, it would've made for s stronger story to have the New 52 Wally West be the Wally West of Prime Earth. Pre-Flashpoint Wally West would then have to deal with the fact that he DOES exist in this universe, meaning that Linda couldn't be his lightning rod because he wasn't HER Wally. Two versions of the same person existing in the same universe--yet pre-Flashpoint Wally can't be a tangible part of the universe. He's not just forgotten. He's been replaced. So why does he exist in that horrible state when there are two versions of Clark Kent running around in the DC Universe?

And that's another thing--why didn't he try to appear in front of Clark White (preFlashpoint Superman)? He'd actually have a shot at being remembered by Clark White because they came from the same universe.

I completely understand that, but I'm hoping it's was him. Actually it was something that popped into my head when rebirth was announced. Which was that characters people grew attached to would be erased or pushed aside...one of the problems the N52 had.

I had problems with the N52 Spectre. To me, Jim had his story, he had his beautifully written end with John Ostrander's run. And it's so rare for a comic character to feel like their story is complete, it's done. It was time for Allen to carry on.
I love legacies of characters, but that doesn't mean I expect or want those characters around forever. The mantle should be passed onward, or their influence felt.(Pre-N52 Blue Beetle is a perfect example) Likewise, Spectre and Doctor Fate are perfect for something like that. I mean their entire mythology is based around someone taking it up.

Wait, are you hoping for Kent or Khalid?

Who's Clark White?

The pre-Flashpoint Superman. The one who helped prevent Crisis on Infinite Earths in Convergence then he, his Lois, and their son arrived in the New 52 Universe and took the surname 'White' to distinguish themselves from their New 52 counterparts (mainly because New 52 Superman had his secret identity revealed) and not raise suspicion I guess

I know that Kent Nelson is going to show up in Khalid's book, but yeah. I couldn't agree more. I like Kent, but it's Khalid's turn, now.

Although it'd be nice for Earth 2: Society to address whatever happened to Khalid Ben-Hassin.

To me, Kent is the only Dr Fate.

Picked up the Rebirth stuff today and they were fantastic.

Superman - This was great. Pre-Crisis Sups and Lana try to resurrect N52 Superman only to learn that the Resurrection Matrix does not exist in this universe, so N52 Superman is permenantly dead.

Green Arrow - This was decent. It's basically Ollie and Canary meeting for the first time and having to save a bunch of homeless people from being auction off by sewer mutants. That was it. Oh, and he now lives in Seattle.


Batman Rebirth - Oh man, it was so nice and refreshing to not have the Bat Jerk we have had around for the last ten years. Bruce actually seemed like a likable and normal human being again. It was great. The story itself was a little confusing, but I feel this is going to be the best incarnation of Batman since the 80s.

Green Lanterns Rebirth - It wasn't bad, but I have no connection to Simon or Jessica, and there was nothing here that made me feel compelled to read their comic. This was easily the weakest of the Rebirth issues this week, but compared to what we have gotten over the last several years from DC, it still wasn't terrible.

I only picked up the Batman and Green Arrow issues - the other two just don't appeal to me. At first I thought about trying to collect all of the rebirth issues but I decided against it.

And here we go again...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AO19XY2rqc


I'm reminded of a quote from Zero Punctuation-

It's so hilariously desperate. :lol

I don't see what they could add other than more fight scenes to raise the movie's rating to an R, especially since the only thing listed on the rating was "Scenes of violence."

Tickets for the animated Batman: Killing Joke movie are now on sale. I got my tickets today at 7:30 PM. I love the graphic novel and it has the 90's voice actors in it. So that's a big win for me. This is the first Batman animated movie to be release in theaters since Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. I didn't see Mask of the Phantasm in theaters since I was only two years old at the time (However I did still watching it on TV later on in the 90's).

Lobo is the only dc character that would deserve a rated R movie imo

There is John Constantine, Etrigan the Demon and The Specter.

The Spectre, Constantine, Swamp Thing, Dr Fate, Phantom Stranger, and Etrigan say hi. Maybe even The Question.

I think the Question does fine in the PG-13 range. Same for Fate. They could work with R ratings I guess, but unlike Constantine, they don't lose anything if they drop to PG-13.