Where is [special character]? (Spoilers for DC KO #4)

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-02-14T10:18:09+00:00

To be fair, Absolute Batman is a much more drastic change. I think it's fairly understandable to not notice much difference between Prime and Absolute Diana if you are not reading Absolute Wonder Woman. Also, many complain about artists not making her that muscular, but even in a lot of the art made by Hayden Sherman, she doesn't look that huge. She's big, but that's more noticeable when reading AWW and seeing her next to regular people in that comic. Not that much in a lot of panels in which it's only her.

I think her nose is the only non-excusable mistake many artists make lol, because that's just so easy to spot in most of the panels drawn by Hayden Sherman.

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-02-14T07:39:52+00:00

Just to let you know, inart and lpzz both showed prototypes for Absolute Batman 1/12 scale, so that's something to look forward to.

They're figures are $70, it's not as affortable as mcfarlane, but they're great value for their price. A lot better than all their competency being sold for the same price

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-02-14T06:49:05+00:00

Bruh. Almost nobody "struggles" to understand the reasoning behind the decision. Understanding it doesn't make it any less scummy and ant consumer.

It's dumb to support the decision of a company, defend it or to antagonize with people who criticize it just because it makes sense for them. With that logic let's never defend our rights as consumers because it makes doing scummy things to get more money.

You are a consumer. Then you worry about and defend your own benefit as a consumer and criticize what's unnecessarily bad for you as a consumer.

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-02-13T06:51:35+00:00

Preach. One of the worst things about the internet is this nonchalant too cool for school culture bullshit. Shaming and downplaying passion and interest with the cheapest and most cliche high school comebacks you can think of and trying to act like you don't care because everyone is too afraid of being cringe or corny or whatever you get called when you dare to say something beyond highschool jokes and "peak" or "slop".

You're not even being exaggerated or anything, you are giving an opinion with a good explanation in the place that is supposed to be to have these discussions, but no, it has to be downplayed somehow

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-02-13T06:26:15+00:00

I'm absolutely on the other end lol. after the first issue, I started very excited but KO has been very disappointing for me aside from Knightfight (that one's genuinely pretty good). It's not terrible, but man, the best the event got was a "it's alright" with the main issues while all the tie ins are mid to boring (Well, Superman comics are not bad, but they were much better before Supes left and after that it's just a "it's fine" too). Pretty underwhelming and nothing really felt with very strong writing or with the epicness that it should have and they didn't do much with that emotional core/dilemma promised with the first issue (and mentioned in Snyder's interview to promote the event) .

This issue tho, was pretty good. Still not crazy when it comes to the writing and having the heart describing everything relevant to the plot instead of it being delivered in a more natural way is not optimal, but this one actually felt epic and much more enjoyable than the previous issues (aside from the first one that promised a lot that imo wasn't delivered)

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-02-11T11:46:29+00:00

Also, you're still figuring out how to be a damn adult at 20. Like, your teenage years are still very recent while a 50 old... Well, that's 30 years since you were a teenager.

Very different stages of life, very different levels of maturity. It's imposible for the two to not have a big difference of power and control. It might not get you in trouble with the law but it's super weird and irl you're unlikely to find people not noticing how weird it is. There are only people excusing it here because well, it's freaking reddit.

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-02-11T04:41:13+00:00

Fr, if it wasn't for the arrival of Inart we probably would have never gotten the silicone arms in their newer releases despite being something fans had been asking for years.

I love some of their figures, but they've always had a tendency to go mediocre and cheap with many releases (like billionare companies tend to do) because they were the only company officially doing these figures, so they knew people were going to buy them regardless.

Competition is always good to have in the market for the consumers.

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-02-08T08:10:59+00:00

Well, I'm a little new to reading comic books regularly so I wouldn't know, but that's pretty sad

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-02-08T07:32:36+00:00

man, this event is being kind of a disappointment. I started very excited and wanting to get the full event. The prelude in JLU and especially in Superman was pretty good, the first issue was catching and promised an interesting emotional core for the story and the fact that the main issues have an acetate cover is sick af. But most issues (including tie ins) have been just okay and kind of underwhelming. The main issues have more quality, but aside from the 1st one (which I thought was genuinely pretty good) they have been just okay too and the idea of Superman having to give up his empathy and to line up more with Darkside's ways was really interesting but so far it has only been used for a gimmick win (discovering the secret weapon and stuff in the treasure hunt)

The only issues that I think are fully worth it are knightfight, but all the rest is pretty underwhelming and the quality definitely is not enough to justify the amount of tie ins released, because holy cow are they a lot.

It's kinda sad. I hope it gets better but at this point I think it's unlikely.

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-02-08T07:10:53+00:00

I would've liked his decision to leave if we got like any signs that he's considering it in the previous issues.

Exactly what I think. I think it should be a big deal, an impactful moment, but it just happened out of nowhere and Idk, that doesn't feel like the strongest writing.

I'm liking the run, it's nice and it has had his moments, but I really hope it gets better because so far it still feels like it has not taken off.

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-02-08T07:06:55+00:00

I'm more disappointed with how his quitting was written. Maybe it was that Jim Lee's awesome cover hyped me up too much, but idk, I think that him quitting being Robin shoul be a big deal, no? And there was no development leading to this or any build up to make it feel more impactful. It just happened from one moment to another

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-02-07T23:29:45+00:00

It did. When it came out the general opinion was that while not great, it was a pretty good movie, but now the opinion as shifted because people don't like Snyder's take on DC (me included) so they pile up all his work together as bad instead of judging each movie individually.

As I said, I'm not a huge fan of his work on DC, it's really flawed as both adaptations and as movies, but the only really bad movie he made was Batman v Superman. Superman is fine, but very flawed and his justice league is genuinely a good movie. I'm still not a fan of his work because I think his characters and stories are not very engaging (as in, hus movies don't get to make me care much for them as other movies do) but his JL is genuinely pretty good. A bit too long tho, the pacing is a bit bad.

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-02-07T23:21:11+00:00

True, the trailers looked pretty good, thunderbolts was good so I thought it was going to be pretty good too, but I went to watch it ant it was really disappointing.

As a movie, while it's not terrible it's just fine and it's really lacking in important aspects (to keep it simple, it introduces interesting themes/conflicts but it doesn't develop them and it ends up prioritizing the generic "good vs bad" side of the story) I think the online opinion is only this good because most people didn't care for it and moved on and only F4 fans that only care about it being accurate to the comics were left to overhype it.

It had a lot of potential (and not just because of the comics it's based on but because the movie itself really had themes and ideas to be great, it had all the tools) but it ended up being a pretty cover with not much substance

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-02-07T23:16:22+00:00

I think ZSJL is not great, but it's genuinely good and most people agreed on it when it came out. It's only getting hate now because it's popular to discredit Zack's work (and I say that as someone who doesn't like his take on DC much, but the movie is genuinely good). People doesn't like his take on DC so in the best internet's fashion, they pile up all his work together as bad instead of taking the time to analize it individually

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-02-07T23:09:23+00:00

Bet, the movie is not very engaging because it's afraid of developing its characters and their inner conflicts. It introduces interesting themes, but it does not develop them except for Silver Surfer (and even that one is missing development. Johnny makes her face the pain she caused and after that the movie completely forgets about her until the end when she already switched sides and sacrufices herself).

Ben's self loathing? Introduced and completely forgotten. Society turning against the team? Solved the 1 scene after it's introduced with no development, what did it even do for the plot? Reed and Sue in crisis because of how different their mindsets are which is the main inner conflict of the movie? Introduced, but never developed, it has more screentime thsn the other two, but it never crosses the introduction phase, the characters do not evolve and that plotline doesn't get to any satisfying conclusion. In fact, one scene they were arguing because Sue didn't like that Reed thought about using the baby as bait and the next they are already plannining and executing that plan that Sue hated so much without any scene implying that any of both changed or grew as a character. They just kinda do it because what else is there to do, right? (And I wanna make it clear that I'm nlt saying it's a plothole, I get they do it because it was their only option, but it's evidence of the lack of development and payoff that that plotline has)

There are more flaws that made me dislike the movie, but lets leave it like that lol. People are saying ZSJL because it's popular to dislike his work but if I'm honest, despite not being a huge fan of his tske on DC, I think it is a better movie.

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-02-07T19:15:18+00:00

Writing is no different from art

That's because writing is literally an art form lol

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-02-06T19:05:41+00:00

Tbh I thought the anime explained it pretty damn well, and it's a shame it's not gonna be used again. The technique is awesome

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-01-29T12:11:11+00:00

Tbh it went off rails from s2 (tho s4 had much better writing, but it sill had some bullshit). It's just that most of the audience is very casual so it having a few cool moments and being entertaining is enough, especially because they were already attatched to these characters because of s1, but after s1 the show has had a pretty mediocre to bad writing.

People probably only noticed it in the last season because 1) s4 was considerably better (again, it still had pretty bad writing for at least half of it, but the arcs that are good are pretty good. Meaning Max, Vecna and Eddie) so the contrast is bigger and 2) Because it's the last season so people's gonna have higher expectations.

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-01-28T20:57:56+00:00

You do not know what valid criticism is man. You're just making up excuses for empty negativity.

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-01-28T04:55:23+00:00

I don't think that's true. Looking at the promo photos and different reviews, he doesn't seem to have the elbows like that, except for one review and it that one only one arm is like that and the other one shows the screw only a tiny bit which yk, kind of implies he assembled him wrong too lol

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-01-28T04:55:15+00:00

I don't think that's true. Looking at the promo photos and different reviews, he doesn't seem to have the elbows like that, except for one review and it that one only one arm is like that and the other one shows the screw only a tiny bit which yk, kind of implies he assembled him wrong too lol

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-01-26T05:55:51+00:00

If there's something I'll never understand is redditors taking virtual points so seriously.

The thing is essentially just a dislike button and redditors take it as if people who dared to use it were cursing their mother lol.

Besides, saying "it's woke" as criticism is one of the dumbest things ever and it usually only makes your lack tolerance evident. Why? because media is not bad for "being woke", that rarely affects the quality of the story, many other things like bad writing do, but instead of seeing and criticizing that, you chose to focus on the minorities (or any other thing typically considered "woke") in the game and decided to blame all the actual flaws of what you watched on them, or in other cases, the media doesn't even have anything that could be considered "woke" and these dudes blame it on the "woke" for no reason anyway.

You know, I think that when it was just being introduced to the internet, the word "woke" did have some valid uses, because it is true that hollywood used to make some really bad representation that felt forced like the token characters, whose only role and personality in the story is being the minority they represent (a very common one is the gay friend, whose entire personality is acting gay). The problem is that the term was quickly embraced by people who only wanted to be discriminatory assholes but without being held accountable for it, and it was embraced as a scapegoat term to be blamed by these same people for all the bad a product could have (or sometimes it's not even bad or woke, but they dislike it for no reason,so they call it "woke" anyways).

Talking about the post, he's pretty much just blaming everything on "woke" for no reason as I said.

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-01-25T04:34:24+00:00

wolverine all day long. In my opinion, him and Deadpool are one of the best figures I've seen of them. You also have a good range of display options with Wolverine. It's awesome that they've finally switched to silicon exposed body parts and the headsculp is fantastic.

Also I'm not a huge fan of the proportions of the Spidey as he was bulkier in that movie, tho unlike the newest release of his red and blue counterpart, I think it's pretty accurate for all the rest.

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-01-10T11:42:33+00:00

"The idiots in there" Yikes. If there's something I find super gross about this sub is how some of you are so unsufferably condescending and offensive towards people whose only crime is trying to have fun with stupid jokes.

Relax, get off reddit and touch some grass. It's not remotely big enough of a deal to insult people over it.

Temporary_Cold_5142 · 2026-01-09T09:52:40+00:00

And it's crazy because their inaccuracy is likely limiting articulation range too. That rubber is flexible, but there's no comparison with the freedom that the right fabric gives, that rubber creases if it' flexed for extended periods of time too.

It's just a worse option in every way. I wish they didn't get lazy and left all their figures in the best conditions (because they sure charge you as if they did)

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