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<blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5675652" data-attributes="member: 54707"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Over the weekend I bought Justice League No. 1, a Doc Savage (I've always liked Doc Savage), and some other DC comics.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I liked all the comics I picked up but what really impressed me was the new Justice League. The artwork was very nice indeed, and Batman was as one would normally expect. Green Lantern was an idiot, though I expect he'll learn his lesson as the comics proceed and after the heavy bag dusting Superman gave him. But it was the new Superman that really impressed me.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Even though he only actually appeared at the tail end of the comic he seemed so different, and gave such a different impression that I have to say I could think of only one word to describe him - dangerous. Batman even called him dangerous. Before he even met him. Just on word of mouth and prior reports.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">When you can take a guy like Superman, who despite all he can do, and the enormous amount of damage he can sustain (it's a real pity the man has always been better known for what he can take rather than deliver) and actually make him appear dangerous for once (whereas before he's been about as dangerous as Bernstein bear), well, I gotta admit, I like that. (I don't mean potentially dangerous, like a tamed and fat Saint Bernard, I mean truly dangerous, like a pissed off grizzly.)</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Of all comic book characters Superman should be truly dangerous. He's never been that before even when I was a kid back in the Sixties and Seventies. But it looks like they just might possibly have decided, "let's make him truly dangerous."</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">If that's the actual case then all I can say is, "about bloody time, and I'll read that amigos. Make him dangerous and I'll read that, heck he might even become one of my favorite characters for once. Just don't make him a powder fisted, girl pull your punches, dandyish Marquess of Queensbury dash about again. You've done that to death. Make the man dangerous for once."</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">And I like his new outfit and the "armor" a lot too. <em>He even looks like he could be dangerous for once.</em> Instead of just a big bright red and blue county fair candy apple.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Keep this up and I'll keep reading it. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jack7, post: 5675652, member: 54707"] [FONT=Verdana]Over the weekend I bought Justice League No. 1, a Doc Savage (I've always liked Doc Savage), and some other DC comics.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]I liked all the comics I picked up but what really impressed me was the new Justice League. The artwork was very nice indeed, and Batman was as one would normally expect. Green Lantern was an idiot, though I expect he'll learn his lesson as the comics proceed and after the heavy bag dusting Superman gave him. But it was the new Superman that really impressed me.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Even though he only actually appeared at the tail end of the comic he seemed so different, and gave such a different impression that I have to say I could think of only one word to describe him - dangerous. Batman even called him dangerous. Before he even met him. Just on word of mouth and prior reports.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]When you can take a guy like Superman, who despite all he can do, and the enormous amount of damage he can sustain (it's a real pity the man has always been better known for what he can take rather than deliver) and actually make him appear dangerous for once (whereas before he's been about as dangerous as Bernstein bear), well, I gotta admit, I like that. (I don't mean potentially dangerous, like a tamed and fat Saint Bernard, I mean truly dangerous, like a pissed off grizzly.)[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Of all comic book characters Superman should be truly dangerous. He's never been that before even when I was a kid back in the Sixties and Seventies. But it looks like they just might possibly have decided, "let's make him truly dangerous."[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]If that's the actual case then all I can say is, "about bloody time, and I'll read that amigos. Make him dangerous and I'll read that, heck he might even become one of my favorite characters for once. Just don't make him a powder fisted, girl pull your punches, dandyish Marquess of Queensbury dash about again. You've done that to death. Make the man dangerous for once."[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]And I like his new outfit and the "armor" a lot too. [I]He even looks like he could be dangerous for once.[/I] Instead of just a big bright red and blue county fair candy apple.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Keep this up and I'll keep reading it. [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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