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Superman: Grounded-Superman #700-714



That was a really cool Superman story and it was neat to see some stuff from DC One Million (which I've yet to read, but will soon) and All-Star Superman incorporated a bit.

Edit: Oh, I also read the first 15 issues of Gotham Central.



WB should totally pick up a tv series version of this like they were originally considering years ago. It'd be amazing and I think it'd do really well in the wake of The Dark Knight trilogy. (not that it should be in that continuity, though)

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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."

That was awesome. Pretty clunky, though, and anyone who had a problem with the channel flipping style of Final Crisis would suffer an instant aneurysm from this.

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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."

You thought this was more confusing than Final Crisis ?!

Bizarrooooooooooooo !

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I didn't think either were confusing at all, but you cited Morrison's channel changing style of narrative as detracting from FC.

This has that multiplied by a thousand.

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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."

What the.............what comic did you read ?

I mean, yeah sure, this travels all over the DC Universe, but everything makes sense at first reading.

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Everything in Final Crisis made sense on first reading for me.

It probably had something to do with me reading the collected version, but still.

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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."

Awesome sauce. Brubaker and Fraction are two of my favorite writer for their works on Cap and Iron Man respectively, but here they both shine in a way that is very different from their aforementioned runs. This is just some good old fashioned kung fu treachery.

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@RealSlimCAvery

So, I don't know if there's an All-Star Superman thread, but I'm reading it again, and even though this is the third time, I still can't quite figure out what that one headline in issue 3 is supposed to mean. "Greek Hero: Atlas at Lois Party, Atlas Scores!" And then it just shows a picture of Atlas in a hospital bed with two broken arms smiling and giving two thumbs up.

Is the joke that he went to Lois' party and challenged Superman a second time and got another broken arm? I've always sort of brushed past it after being momentarily confused, but not this time.

NOT THIS TIME!!!

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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."

Magic is fun.

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@RealSlimCAvery

One of the ONLY two good mini-series from Countdown to Infinite Crisis, the other one being Villains United. Avoid the other two, nope, the one by Gibbons is bad.

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Well, then thank god I have only read those two.

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@RealSlimCAvery

Probably my favorite volume of Batman and Robin. It really feels like Dick and Damian's own series before it starts to tie together more with the Return of Bruce Wayne stuff. Also, it contains the only issues with interior art by Frank Quitely.



Third time, never gets old. Just a great fun crazy story that illustrates in perfect detail why Superman is so great. It's also the book to make me realize that Jimmy Olsen is incredibly awesome.



Grant Morrison's entire JLA run. I feel like he just writes all the cool stuff he can possibly think of in this series, mainly in the form of villains and plotlines, but each member of the JLA is consistently cool and gets great character moments on a regular basis, which is what's most important.

I also love how the series ties into Seven Soldiers and All-Star Superman later on.

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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."

Brubaker.

Cooke.

Allred.

'Nuff Said.

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@RealSlimCAvery

Extremely fascinating and thought-provoking so far. Who knows if I'll actually finish the whole thing, but I'll get a lot farther than I did with Atlas Shrugged, that's for damn sure.

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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."

I actually just finished another chapter in Atlas Shrugged, for some reason I'm more inclined to read it at school than anywhere else.

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@RealSlimCAvery

I would easily gamble that you're the "fastest" reader among us, it's quite surprising to me that you never finished Atlas Shrugged.

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I just couldn't get into it.

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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."

Same thing happened to me actually, but I finished it.

That most likely means I'm a masochist.

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So, hey, speaking of embarking on reading suicidally dense works, I've also begun this



Essentially the Bible of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy world of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, it recounts the creation of the world along with the rise of Morgoth and Sauron and the history of the Elven race.

And this, which is considered by many to be Jack Kirby's (albeit unfinished) masterpiece, which spans three more volumes after this.



It's pretty awesome so far and it runs over four different titles. Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, The New Gods, The Forever People, and Mister Miracle. So there's a lot of diversity throughout while all tying together into one over-arching epic story. Very ahead of its time.

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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."

I've been working my way through Bill Willingham's run on Shadowpact, and it's almost Secret Six level awesome.

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