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Post by brawl2099 on Jan 18, 2018 11:13:21 GMT -5
So Damage #1, the first "New Age" book, just came out this week. Did anyone pick it up?
It was an interesting play on the Hulk archtype. Ethan Avery can become Damage, a Hulk-like behemoth, for an hour every 24 hours. Though the first issue went straight for an action approach, and little characterization, it had enough on the page to keep me interested.
Makes me wonder why we don't see more original characters woven into fanfic too. It'd be fun to do in both the DC and Marvel universe.
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Post by travis on Jan 18, 2018 13:10:54 GMT -5
Really enjoyed it. The best Hulk story of the last couple years came out of DC. Go figure. Old school at every level and I mean that in the best possible way.
So nice to see DC try something that isn't just more Batman. Gives me hope for the rest of the new titles.
Like the idea of taking a name or even an old character and rebuilding them from the ground up.
It has also inspired me to try some similar ideas for the anthologies. I already have scribbled notes for a Terrifics style team, but with a different line up and I'm hunting around for a c-list hero I can try and play with a build a mythos around.
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Post by Daniel Ingram on Jan 18, 2018 14:19:41 GMT -5
I honestly don't understand why editors think that their copy needs a clone of the competitors. Why does DC need a Hulk, and why does Marvel need a superman (sentry)?
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Post by Stephen Crosby on Jan 18, 2018 15:37:32 GMT -5
IIRC, the original Damage was the son of the Golden Age Atom (Al Pratt) and was experimented on to try and get the abilities of the JSA. As the 1 hour thing was, obviously, Hourman's schtick, I wonder if this Damage has a similar deal.
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Post by Tobias Christopher on Jan 18, 2018 15:46:30 GMT -5
As a fan of the Grant Emerson version, I really do wish that DC would find a place for him in the DCU again. I mean, Zero Hour was basically one big "Welcome to world!" party for the guy, then they just started slowly pushing him into the background until they finally killed him off during Crisis.
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Post by bkole on Jan 18, 2018 15:57:42 GMT -5
Because fans like to see how those characters might be in different realities. Sentry is very different to Superman, in reality. Damage, will likely be very different to Hulk.
Sounds to me he is more like Red Hulk II from US Avengers, or Hourman.
I personally am excited for the Immortal Men, the Unexpected, and Terrifics, mostly because I think Metamorpho is amazing.
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Post by Stephen Crosby on Jan 18, 2018 16:26:26 GMT -5
As a fan of the Grant Emerson version, I really do wish that DC would find a place for him in the DCU again. I mean, Zero Hour was basically one big "Welcome to world!" party for the guy, then they just started slowly pushing him into the background until they finally killed him off during Crisis. Which Crisis was he killed in? It wasn't Infinite Crisis, he appeared in JSA after that. Zoom had disfigured him, and there was a story where Gog fixed him and suddenly Grant was very vain. But yeah, Grant was terrific as an unreliable powerhouse. Dude set off the Big Bang. Okay, looks like it was Blackest Night he was killed in. Such a shame that Grant didn't get Wildcat's nine lives.
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Post by Tobias Christopher on Jan 18, 2018 17:00:16 GMT -5
It was just before New 52 I'm pretty sure, I think just after his disfigurement/restoration. It was at a point where I wasn't reading DC anymore because of how dark and grim everything at DC had become.
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Post by JD Mathis on Jan 18, 2018 19:34:01 GMT -5
Sounds to me he is more like Red Hulk II from US Avengers, or Hourman. I was about to say that it sounded like Red Hulk 2 from USAvengers as well. I have the issue but just haven't gotten around to reading it yet.
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Post by JD Mathis on Jan 18, 2018 19:36:21 GMT -5
As a fan of the Grant Emerson version, I really do wish that DC would find a place for him in the DCU again. I mean, Zero Hour was basically one big "Welcome to world!" party for the guy, then they just started slowly pushing him into the background until they finally killed him off during Crisis. Which Crisis was he killed in? It wasn't Infinite Crisis, he appeared in JSA after that. Zoom had disfigured him, and there was a story where Gog fixed him and suddenly Grant was very vain. But yeah, Grant was terrific as an unreliable powerhouse. Dude set off the Big Bang. Okay, looks like it was Blackest Night he was killed in. Such a shame that Grant didn't get Wildcat's nine lives. I am probably alone in the fact that I was a bit sad to see Captain Boomerang Jr get killed off in the Blackest Night storyline.
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Post by Stephen Crosby on Jan 18, 2018 19:39:38 GMT -5
Not as sad as I was to see Captain Boomerang get killed off in Identity Crisis.
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Post by claypot on Jan 28, 2018 15:48:58 GMT -5
There was a DC Hulk named Loose Cannon who had a short lived title. In The YJ cartoon, there was even an evil Spider-Man with the voice of Spectacular Spider-Man.
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Post by johncheese on Jan 28, 2018 16:23:16 GMT -5
There was a DC Hulk named Loose Cannon who had a short lived title. In The YJ cartoon, there was even an evil Spider-Man with the voice of Spectacular Spider-Man. YoĆ¹ mean Black Spider right?
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Post by travis on Mar 5, 2018 13:50:31 GMT -5
Couple more:
Silencer: not ripping off a marvel hero, but instead ripping off the Bride from Kill Bill. Interesting and nice art.
Terrific: Still not 100% on the line up but fun and cosmic as I was hoping for.
Sideways: If Peter Parker had been bitten by a radioactive teleporter he'd be this guy. Really nice art though and some hints of cosmic strangeness
So far, I really like all these, which is so weird for any big project from the big two.
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Post by travis on Mar 10, 2018 14:22:00 GMT -5
There was a DC Hulk named Loose Cannon who had a short lived title. In The YJ cartoon, there was even an evil Spider-Man with the voice of Spectacular Spider-Man. Big fan of Loose Cannon. Fun character that I wish more had been done with. he is on my infinity long list of 'someday I'm going to write about them'
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