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Justice League of America #34
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From:[info]majingojira
Date:June 24th, 2009 10:31 pm (UTC)
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Interesting. Very interesting. Is this McDuffie's final issue on JL or was that ended earlier?

Still, good way to explain the sudden influx. I like it.
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From:[info]thokstar
Date:June 24th, 2009 10:33 pm (UTC)
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This is McDuffie's final issue (and DC actually gave him an extra issue; Wein's arc was originally solicited to start this issue but got pushed back one issue.)

Next is Wein, then Robinson.
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From:[info]bluefall
Date:June 24th, 2009 10:38 pm (UTC)
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Zee and Mari were hilarious together in this. Everything the Detroit League should have been, between the two of them. The plots have been shaky to say the least, but Robinson's got a high bar to match when it comes to character work, particularly the last few issues since the Milestone types first showed up.
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From:[info]bariman1987
Date:June 24th, 2009 10:47 pm (UTC)
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Even when he's a cowboy, Batman is prepared for everything. And a single-action railgun? Talk about an anachronism.

So the original DC/Milestone crossover is semi-canon now? Cool. Think we need to have a review post about it?
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From:[info]alexlucard
Date:June 24th, 2009 11:20 pm (UTC)
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Why IS Batman a gun wielding near diety killing cowboy with a chess piece on his torso?
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From:[info]foxhack
Date:June 24th, 2009 11:38 pm (UTC)
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Alternate universe / imaginary / story Batman. He's a cowboy!
From:[info]ninjapeps
Date:June 24th, 2009 11:46 pm (UTC)
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Paladin is an alternate Batman created by Anansi a few issues ago. there were other alternate JLA characters, the crackiest of which was a Captain Marvel analogue but instead of a kid that turned into a super-powered adult, he was a white guy that turned into a super-powered black man.
From:[info]jlbarnett
Date:June 25th, 2009 05:26 am (UTC)
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he wasn't a Captain Marvel analogue. He was the character DC considered creating as their first black superhero.
From:[info]ninjapeps
Date:June 25th, 2009 05:41 am (UTC)
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ah, my mistake. I thought that since his powers came from using a magic word that he was patterned after Captain Marvel.
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From:[info]kamino_neko
Date:June 25th, 2009 12:43 pm (UTC)
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Nope. Possibly influenced by him, since the original Black Bomber idea, as I understand it, had him changing against his will, but he's a real 70s concept (who was scrapped, and replaced with Black Lightning).
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From:[info]aaron_bourque
Date:June 25th, 2009 12:39 am (UTC)
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Alternate reality Bruce Wayne who didn't watch Zorro the night his parents were killed, he watched a cowboy movie. Now he fights crime as Paladin, using his absurd wealth to create awesome guns rather than bat-motif "non-lethal" weapons.

Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; it could only be a Lone Ranger movie (when swapping out swashbuckling for cowboy action, you don't just plug any old western in), but I don't think they specified.
From:[info]jlbarnett
Date:June 25th, 2009 05:27 am (UTC)
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didn't he also pick up the gun Joe Chill dropped and shoot him back?
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From:[info]icon_uk
Date:June 25th, 2009 06:02 am (UTC)
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That being said, if the Western had that much affect on THAT Bruce, you'd think our Bruce might have developed swords as a weapon of choice since he saw Zorro! :) (I know, I know, the movie being Zorro is a relatively recent addition, but even so, it's a nice image. Reminds me of the issue of DCAU Batman where he takes down the Cavalier, and as he swings away Batman thinks "YOU don't get to play Zorro in this town, that's MY job")
From:[info]jlbarnett
Date:June 25th, 2009 04:03 pm (UTC)
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well as I said, I'm pretty sure he got the chance to kill his parents murderer immediately and did so.
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From:[info]kenn_el
Date:June 25th, 2009 07:34 am (UTC)
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Prepared for 'everything'? I think Damian shows that that's not true.
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From:[info]bariman1987
Date:June 25th, 2009 05:51 pm (UTC)
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Batman used to keep Bat-condoms next to the Batarangs, but after a couple of times reaching into the wrong belt compartment when fighting the Joker, he removed them so as not to give his villains the wrong idea.
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From:[info]lieut_kettch
Date:June 24th, 2009 10:55 pm (UTC)
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I like how the "frayed strands of continuity" which will take "months, if not years" to correct effectively provides any writer using Milestone characters an out if their portrayals are inconsistent with their past history.
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From:[info]volksjager
Date:June 24th, 2009 10:56 pm (UTC)
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Just put this book out of it's misery. It can on the shelf next to the Detroit years...
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From:[info]jarodrussell
Date:June 25th, 2009 12:18 am (UTC)
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The Rift? So this is Torchwood's fault?
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From:[info]bluefall
Date:June 25th, 2009 12:23 am (UTC)
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Ten minutes of watching that show should make it very clear to anyone that everything is Torchwood's fault.
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From:[info]icon_uk
Date:June 25th, 2009 06:03 am (UTC)
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Damn right!
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From:[info]pyrotwilight
Date:June 25th, 2009 12:52 am (UTC)
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And so DC lies to us again. Didn't they say the whole Worlds Collide Crossover was not going to be canon and referenced again. Sigh.

On the other hand I love the Milestoners and Paladin.
From:[info]xammax
Date:June 25th, 2009 01:12 am (UTC)
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So its offical:

Batman + Gun = God Killer.
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From:[info]aaron_bourque
Date:June 25th, 2009 03:21 am (UTC)
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The real reason he never used guns before?
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From:[info]zegim
Date:June 25th, 2009 03:47 pm (UTC)
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It all makes sense now D:
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From:[info]bariman1987
Date:June 25th, 2009 05:48 pm (UTC)
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When Diana was blinded, she did a big sparring match against the League to prove to them that she wasn't less valuable. Batman's part was shooting at her with a gun, which she deflected with her bracers. So Batman is two out of three with god-killing.
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From:[info]bluefall
Date:June 25th, 2009 08:42 pm (UTC)
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Well, actually, he got Clark to do his dirty work with that one. I don't think it works if he does it by proxy.
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From:[info]bariman1987
Date:June 26th, 2009 01:01 am (UTC)
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Oh, really? I could have sworn it was Batman doing the shooting*, but I've misremembered stuff like that before, so I bow to your superior knowledge. I suppose having Clark do it makes sense, if he thought Diana wouldn't deflect it Clark could grab it. Faster than a speeding bullet and all that.

*I guess the image of Batman with a gun is so odd that I keep inserting it into other places.
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From:[info]runespoor7
Date:June 25th, 2009 01:39 am (UTC)
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Well, DC's succeeded in their Pavlovian training with me in that seeing Bruce or Batman with a gun spells "WRONG" to the inside of my bones.

"He shot him. This is so wrong." </ freak out>

Y'know what other Bat uses guns and might be interesting for Alternate Bruce to meet?
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From:[info]ashtoreth
Date:June 25th, 2009 09:32 pm (UTC)
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The one who had his origin before World War II so thought guns went with the Dark Avenger bit and shot Nazis on covers for propaganda?
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From:[info]buttler
Date:June 25th, 2009 02:01 am (UTC)
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So the Milestone heroes are in the DCU . . . very, very tentatively.
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From:[info]icon_uk
Date:June 25th, 2009 06:10 am (UTC)
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Well Static is currently in the Teen Titans, so they've started to appear.
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From:[info]buttler
Date:June 25th, 2009 09:44 am (UTC)
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Oh, I know all that, obviously. I've been following their appearances.

What I'm saying is that the in-story reason for them to be there at all, as outlined here by McDuffie, is very fragile indeed. Basically if this one guy's concentration gets broken, they're outta there.

Since McDuffie retains the rights to those characters, it seems like he's giving himself an easy out, continuity-wise, to yank 'em whenever he's had enough of whatever nonsense is going on behind the scenes.
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From:[info]kamino_neko
Date:June 25th, 2009 12:47 pm (UTC)
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Since McDuffie retains the rights to those characters, it seems like he's giving himself an easy out, continuity-wise, to yank 'em whenever he's had enough of whatever nonsense is going on behind the scenes.

He said as much explicitly back when the Milestone characters being added to the DCU was first announced.
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From:[info]ian_karkull
Date:June 25th, 2009 05:52 am (UTC)
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As (sadly) deficient as this was, it got me hooked on the Milestone characters. If DC doesn't want McDuffie to write a decent JLA book, they should just give him a sort of Milestone anthology and let him go nuts.
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From:[info]zegim
Date:June 25th, 2009 03:48 pm (UTC)
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That would be for the best :)
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From:[info]mysteryfan
Date:June 25th, 2009 07:53 pm (UTC)
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Oh my god! Re: Batman at the bottom of the first page. I love his expression!
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