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Maybe I didn't, but in retrospect, it was a really shitty love letter

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Is there any other kind?

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

Only if you're unfamiliar with the source material.

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Say, Doc, did I ever tell you I'm the only metal that's liquid at room temperature?

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Maybe you're giving too much praise to an era where comics needed to evolve ?

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to be fair, all-star superman was kind of a love-letter to the silver age, but was also modern and a good story.

I haven't read the Dini Batman btw.

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

Maybe you just haven't read it and can't recognise an awesome homage when you see it

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Say, Doc, did I ever tell you I'm the only metal that's liquid at room temperature?

I've read very little Silver Age, that's for sure.

Still I feel, in my humble opinion, that comics, like videogames, went in the right direction after the years passed.

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But isn't it cool when modern video games reference old video games? Especially when you're one of the select few who get the reference? Or when a new installment in a video game franchise brings back an idea from an very old installment in an updated way? Metal Gear

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Say, Doc, did I ever tell you I'm the only metal that's liquid at room temperature?

Believe me man, I love my references anywhere I can find them:



But Dini's run on GCS ? Can't say I appreciated it.

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Because it referenced classic Batman stories from the 50's and 60's, and not a completely unrelated comic mini from the eighties.

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Say, Doc, did I ever tell you I'm the only metal that's liquid at room temperature?

*Backhands Smutty*

You DO NOT look down on a Watchmen reference made by John Constantine !

Kids these days...

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Not looking down, just pointing out the irrelevance

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Say, Doc, did I ever tell you I'm the only metal that's liquid at room temperature?

Hey, it was a cool reference, we were talking about references.

Anyways...

...did you read GCS after Dini left the title ? That's my question to you.

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Dropped it because it was unreadable

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Say, Doc, did I ever tell you I'm the only metal that's liquid at room temperature?

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What the fuck Smutty ? What the fuck ?

It was precisely at that moment, long after the Gaggy arc finished, that GCS had become READABLE again !

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It became dispensible and silly, it made no sense and the chacters were merely charicatures. It quickly dropped to becoming the least important book in the bat-line, much like Streets Of Gotham and Batman And Robin did, leaving Detective and Batgirl as the only batbooks actually worth buying. I felt like I'd wasted so much money for very little payoff and attention to continuity or anything even worthwhile, which is also how I feel about the entire X-men line at the moment, and it makes me think that perhaps these big franchises should just stick to a maximum of three books per line with creative teams that are actually decent and don't just put out fluff and dumb stories that inaccurately portray characters and their motives.

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Say, Doc, did I ever tell you I'm the only metal that's liquid at room temperature?

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So Harley Quinn and Catwoman trying to solve the mysteries of dead dogs around the city was not silly and caricaturesque ?

I'm sorry to say this Smutty, but you're Dr. Brooklyn when it comes to Paul Dini.



And that wasn't Dini's fault at all right ? I mean, clearly the negative response to his run wasn't at all what plummeted the numbers.

I mean, who would've thought the right idea to make a comic book about Poison Ivy, Catwoman and Harley Quinn was to do a carnival version of Melrose's place ? Only Paul Dini.

He fucked up this one time Smutty, doesn't mean he's a bad writer, but his angle wasn't right at all for the book.

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Says the guy who doesn't like the comics Morrison refers to, but loves Morrison's run... you're always so logical in your likes/dislikes

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