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kingrockwell ([info]kingrockwell) wrote in [info]scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-29 19:38:00

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Current music:Sparks ~ "This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us"
Entry tags:char: animal man/buddy baker, char: ellen baker, char: maxine baker, char: starfire/koriand'r, creator: chris batista, creator: gerry conway, publisher: dc comics, title: animal man

Hey guys, guess what book I'm dropping!


Which one bothers me more, that Ellen's calling Buddy on shit she'd have learned to deal with years ago, or that the shit she's calling on him has never been one of Buddy's things since, well, fucking ever?

It gets worse!

(sorry this scan is bigger and still looks shitty. this is why i don't like using my own scans)

I'm-- I'm really beside myself with anger right now. I found it jarring to find Buddy fighting supervillains to begin with when this mini started, but to completely change his role as a superhero only to set up fucking this is infuriating! Family always came first for Buddy! And Maxine, dammit, Maxine was supposed to grow up to be Animal Girl. :( :( :(

There's more bullshit with Cliff who's grown up to be a workaholic lawyer to be like his dad, but Conway essentially bulldozes all of Buddy' relationships with his family (which is what made him worth reading to begin with!) so he can give us this:

Fuck this book. You can see what I'm guessing might be Prismatik coming in on the last panel to beat them up, well let her have him! I don't give a shit anymore, I'd rather save the money for food.

And here I was gonna come on here to fanwank about the League of Titans (Dick's Nightwing again, and hardly looks the mid-to-late forties he should be, discuss) and the really poor color consistency (Clark' eyes can decide if they're blue or green (i almost wanted to think it was Kon, since it would've been fun if he got Lex's eyes, but no dice), Kory's eyes being yellow, and Cliff going blond sometime in the skipped fifteen years), but the book had to come and along and distract me, by sucking.

I'll give it one thing, Chris Batista brings it pretty fierce, but even he can't save this sinking ship.

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[info]perletwo
2009-07-30 02:29 am UTC (link)
Wait, wat? Did Buddy Baker just unconsciously pull out the old "My wife doesn't understaaaaaaand me" line?!?

DO NOT WANT.

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[info]kingrockwell
2009-07-30 02:38 am UTC (link)
That should've been the first red flag, but I'd turned a blind eye to dumb stuff before, especially in this mini. And the Starfire thing I saw coming from the solicits. But when Maxine pulled the "you were never really there" line, I absolutely lost my shit. If anyone, anyone should've been there to understand or defend Buddy, it would fucking be Maxine.

Now I'm jut gonna plug my ears, close my eyes, and imagine a beautiful future for the lot of them, where Buddy gets to keep his powers, and Maxine grows up to be Animal Girl. She can till have the basketball and the i-swear-to-god-that's-gotta-be-her-girlfriend, but he gets ANIMAL POWERS and a good relationship with her dad on top of it.

And silly goggles. Can't forget the silly goggles.

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[info]madripoor_rose
2009-07-30 02:55 am UTC (link)
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[info]kingrockwell
2009-07-30 03:09 am UTC (link)
This is the best one so far! :D

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[info]madripoor_rose
2009-07-30 03:06 pm UTC (link)
I don't know much about Animal Man and his family, but I do know none of that is in character.

Thanks! Still from Justice League Unlimited 'Ultimatum'.

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[info]queenanthai
2009-07-30 03:05 am UTC (link)
OH, HORSESHIT.

Fuck this, Imma go read 52 again.

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[info]kingrockwell
2009-07-30 03:10 am UTC (link)
Aww, but I did that last week!

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[info]toasty_fresh
2009-07-30 03:41 am UTC (link)
BEARS

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[info]liarashadowsong
2009-07-30 05:05 am UTC (link)
WTF is this? On a semi-post-related note, I also like the idea of Kon getting Lex's eyes rather than Clark's.

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[info]kingrockwell
2009-07-30 05:39 am UTC (link)
There was actually an Adventure Comics #1 preview in the back of this week's DC titles, so I just needed to flip a few pages to find that Kon, sadly, is just one more blue-eyed hero in the comic book world.

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[info]zordboy
2009-07-30 05:10 am UTC (link)
Okay, that final page sure makes it look like Buddy's naked except for his jacket, goggles and boots.

Rest of it's crap, though.

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[info]seriousfic
2009-07-30 07:11 am UTC (link)

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[info]filkertom
2009-07-30 07:46 am UTC (link)
What.

I could've sworn I thought Gerry COnway was a decent writer at some point.

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[info]ashtoreth
2009-07-31 05:35 am UTC (link)
I've been posting Conway stuff from Firestorm and he was good. But he had a wierd tendency to sharkjump when he got to male/female relationships. I'm seeing an end pattern here.

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[info]gargoylekitty
2009-07-30 09:41 am UTC (link)
((I only seem to have my ONTD reaction stuff on this computer so...))

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[info]ccsharumun
2009-07-30 10:04 am UTC (link)
If his problems are not enough, I'm glad Starfire's helping him cheat. Cuz really, that's gonna solve his problems. Cuz really, that shows respect towards the family he loves. Now his family should actually have a reason to be pissed with him.

Did Starfire ever help anyone else cheat? :( Way to trash her character.

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What the hell??
[info]jcbaggee
2009-07-30 12:23 pm UTC (link)
Wasn't the Buddy & Kori thing kinda dealt with/written off in their post-52 mini?

And didn't everybody ever hate it?

Did they forget to mention that to Conway!?

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[info]midare
2009-07-30 12:43 pm UTC (link)


D: I would gladly read this story if it were about any other character. Wasn't Animal Man's point that he always put his family first? Not cool.

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[info]04nbod
2009-07-30 02:07 pm UTC (link)
I'm not surprised because I read the solicits. I despise Starfire already, this can't make me hate her more. This is par the course in her character. I'm just sad she's dragging Buddy down with her, he always showed her more respect than she deserved in my opinion.

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[info]kingrockwell
2009-07-30 02:44 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I knew that last part was coming, but the way it got there, by bulldozing everything we've known about the Bakers, that was too much for me.
And come on, now, as presented on page, you can hardly lay all the blame for this on Kory. Just because Buddy's being horribly OOC doesn't mean he's not guilty here.

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[info]goblinthebamf
2009-08-02 05:05 am UTC (link)
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