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Tweak says, "bring out your dead!"

scottyquick (scottyquick) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-04 10:02:00

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char: manhunter/kate spencer, creator: javier pina, creator: marc andreyko

Why you should pick up Manhunter:Origins

That scene never fails to make me so sad =[ .

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	hybrid2 2009-04-04 10:31 am UTC (link)
	Context? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	scottyquick 2009-04-04 10:35 am UTC (link)
	HOW WEAK ARE YOU? But in srsness, Firestorm was murdered by Shadow Thief. Kate's prosecuting and brought Firestorm's dad in (along with Superman, and Hawkman, and Firestorm's stepmom). (Reply to this) (Parent)

	pyrotwilight 2009-04-04 10:42 am UTC (link)
	sniff His death in Identity Crisis made me so sad. (Reply to this)

	schmevil 2009-04-04 11:29 am UTC (link)
	Good job on the expressions of the jury! I need to get around to reading this... Scotty, don't hurt me! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	scottyquick 2009-04-04 11:34 am UTC (link)
	Your puny words can't save you now! SCOTTY SMASH! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	schmevil 2009-04-04 12:21 pm UTC (link)
	For once I have the perfect icon. Have you read Madame Xanadu yet?! eyeballs you (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	scottyquick 2009-04-04 12:25 pm UTC (link)
	No but-but-but it's different! MX hasn't come out in trade yet and the shop was sold out oh you caught me ;_; (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	schmevil 2009-04-04 12:27 pm UTC (link)
	Ha! You fail at comics fanboying. and the shop was sold out Ooh, that's actually good news. Maybe. Unless the owner just under-ordered... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	scottyquick 2009-04-04 12:39 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe both! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	suzene 2009-04-04 01:30 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, now be kind to Scotty. I'm trade-waiting on Xanadu just because the first book is such a screaming deal. Twelve bucks for ten issues? In color? Oh HELL yeah! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	scottyquick 2009-04-04 01:35 pm UTC (link)
	I know! I'm definitely grabbing two copies, one for me and one to snag friends into comics. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	schmevil 2009-04-05 12:53 am UTC (link)
	MX is so good I want the comics AND the trades. Maybe I went to far with that... anyway, BUY MADAME XANADU! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	daningram 2009-04-04 11:40 am UTC (link)
	Nice scene perhaps, but amazingly bad legalize. Victim impact statements don't come into play until after the accused is convicted. I liked Manhunter concept wise, but execution always seemed to come up short. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ashez2ashes 2009-04-04 10:12 pm UTC (link)
	I have to agree. Although I think it wasn't until after the timeskip that the writer dropped the ball. Once it went from Kate killing super villians and living on the edge of hero/villian in the eyes of the superhero community to Kate being all buddy buddy with everybody and not killing people it lost a lot of its charm. (Reply to this) (Parent)

psychop_rex
2009-04-04 09:43 pm UTC (link)

Y'know, if you've GOT to kill off your heroes, you should at least throw in a few scenes like this. Generally, it seems to play out like just another plot point - sometimes you'll see the killing, sometimes not; either way, there'll be a splash page with one of their fellow heroes looking all serious and saying "(fill in the black)... is DEAD", and then there'll be a few scattered pages of various people going "He's dead? I can't believe it!", and then there'll be a big explosion or something, and everyone will forget about it, unless editorial policy demands otherwise. Heroes deserve better than that - they're PEOPLE, dammit. Fictional, yes, but in the context of their fictional universe, they are people, and they deserve more than a quickly forgotten, unmourned death. When people die, they leave a gulf behind in the minds of their friends and family, and tears rush in to fill it - a hero deserves more than a few isolated teardrops, they deserve a tide of them. And Firestorm always struck me as a really nice guy - he deserved a memorial. It's nice to see he got one.

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	ashtoreth 2009-04-04 10:00 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, completely. Partly I liked this because I read Firestorm a long time ago and there were some awesome issues. This was a nice sendoff and I didn't hate the new guy. (Reply to this) (Parent)