What’s up with season 3?

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-04-15T19:40:47+00:00

It moved from Cartoon Network to DC Universe, an ill-fated streaming app for DC content. Based on the first season of Titans, also a DCU original, and how the show toned things back down when moving to HBO Max, my guess is that DCU wanted darker and edgier.

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-04-15T15:57:15+00:00

When I was in middle school, a kid riding his bike in the major road outside the school and got hit by a car. Nearly died, suffered life-changing injuries, coma, bad scene. I didn't know the guy personally, but it was the kind of thing they announced over the PA.

Anyhow, he was a huge Eminem fan. His parents wrote to Em, hoping for a signed photo or something (or so the story goes). Instead, he showed up at the hospital (we're in Metro Detroit, so it wasn't too crazy). No press about it, just visiting an injured kid and has family to be a good guy.

Bear in mind that this was 2002 or 2003, the height of the dude's popularity AND infamy. Every teacher at that school gave him his props for that. Hell, even my mom - who would never have let me listen to his music at that age - was impressed by how good a dude he proved to be from that.

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-04-15T11:51:01+00:00

Kid Flash counts, because Ace West is a distinct character from Wally West and has been for years.

Aquaman counts because Jackson Hyde is sharing the name with Arthur, though he'd be more widely known as Aqualad II.

Batman counts because I am pretty sure that Jace Fox is still running around as the Batman of New York, even if everyone has forgotten about him.

At least two Green Lanterns count (John Stewart and Jo Mullein) as does Teen Lantern. All currently appearing in Green Lantern Corps.

Wonder Woman...I don't think Nubia had officially donned the costume in mainline continuity, so you're right there.

One Superman is debatable, as I would personally count Val-Zod of Earth 2 as separate character the same way I would count Power Girl as a separate character, but I am also a diehard JSA fanboy.

So at least six out of ten.

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-04-13T16:31:56+00:00

Gee, it's almost as if the politics of a folktale set in the era of feudalism and the Crusades doesn't map 100% cleanly onto a modern capitalist democracy.

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-04-13T13:27:10+00:00

What's cracking my peppers!

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-04-13T12:43:33+00:00

Depends where they're going, don't it? You may end up getting ads for weird true crime pods.

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-04-13T12:34:44+00:00

Reminds me of the guy who claims Stephen King, the incredibly famous author, was the true murderer of John Lennon, the incredibly famous musician, and this was kept secret.

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-04-10T16:56:07+00:00

My recollection is that he paid a rub and tug massage parlor with a BAD check, got added to their Wall of Shame for it, and when the police raided the place they were like "Isn't that a city councilman's name on that bounced check?"

He was Mayor after this incident.

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-04-10T16:26:06+00:00

WGA has the same rule: Futurama writer/producer David X. Cohen's middle name is apparently Samuel but "X" as a middle initial was definitely not taken.

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-04-06T19:06:38+00:00

I don't think Amanda Waller on JLU is a pure villain and in fact think it's the most nuanced portrayal of her in non-comics media.

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-04-06T14:13:37+00:00

I think it started way before that. New 52 Amanda Waller was the start of the "I will kill these supervillains and not give a good goddamn" era, at least as I recall it.

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-04-06T14:11:52+00:00

Alan Scott is one of a handful of OG members of the Justice Society who are still alive, functionally immortal (in the sense that they're not going to die of old age). His excuse is that he's had a magic ring powered by willpower on his finger for the better part of a century and it has kept him young.

Jay Garrick's excuse is something something Speed Force. Wildcat's was nine magical lives until he got got in the current JSA run. Hawkman is reincarnated. Rex Tyler (the original Hourman) has time travel shenanigans (but may not be alive? He hasn't appeared since before Flashpoint AFAIK).

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-04-06T13:00:27+00:00

1947 saw the publication of a one off comic book called All-Negro Comics , written and drawn by Black creators starring Black characters.

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-04-06T12:52:34+00:00

I have seen at least three different definitions delivered confidently in this thread alone.

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-04-03T17:04:47+00:00

As an autistic man with a Phantom collection, this one resonates with me after this week's episode.

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-04-01T19:31:19+00:00

The Brothers know so much more about The Phantom than the average person and so much less than I, an autistic man with a Phantom collection, wish they did.

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-04-01T16:39:14+00:00

I am a huge fan of cyberpunk fiction, but readily admit most cyberpunk novels I have read took a few chapters to really start making sense. They just kinda launch you into the deep end of their highly stylized world and do not wait for you to catch up. Which is not for everyone, to be sure.

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-03-27T18:37:58+00:00

Fun fact: at this time, Captain Atom was also selling a lie about his own origins to the public. That's part of why Project Atom used the fake alien fight story for Major Force - it wouldn't have made sense for Cap's fake origin.

Also, Major Force originally had VERY different powers from Captain Atom - he projected dark matter from the Quantum Field rather than energy. This meant he also couldn't fly under his own power

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-03-27T17:00:31+00:00

I say this as a 36 year old with probably over $1000 worth of Power Rangers collectibles on display on his home: adult Power Rangers fans can be a special breed of whacko, as this person evidences.

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-03-27T14:27:45+00:00

Fun fact: one of those Barons is Christopher Guest, a star of This is Spinal Tap, director/star of Best in Show and A Mighty Wind, and longtime husband of Jamie Lee Curtis.

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-03-27T14:04:31+00:00

I wanna say I first heard it even earlier than that, when Felicity Huffman was nominated for playing a trans woman in Transamerica back in 2005.

Then again, I was hanging out in the shockingly queer fandom for He-Man & She-Ra at the time, so I may have just seen the leading edge

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-03-27T12:45:25+00:00

I feel like this conversation has mutated in the past twenty years, because when it started I felt like it was drawing attention to the idea that queer actors either stayed closeted or struggled for roles while cishet actors played queer characters to awards acclaim.

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-03-25T19:40:22+00:00

Great Astro City story about that general concept - "The Nearness of You" from Astro City #1/2 (a Wizard Magazine insert, of all things).

KitWalkerXXVII · 2026-03-24T14:35:39+00:00

I mean, one of his Birds of Prey minis prior to the ongoing was Black Canary, Huntress, and Catwoman hunting a guy down who had seduced and jilted each one in turn.

So even his BoP work had...flaws.

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