DC Studios Movies and Streaming Series Discussion

DC was really strong coming out of Crisis - this version of the Justice League, Byrne/Ordway/Wolfman/Stern on Superman, Perez on Wonder Woman, Grell on Green Arrow, Messner-Loebs and LaRocgue on Flash (Baron/Guice kicked it off well post-Crisis). Batman/Detective with Grant and Breyfogle was awesome as well, and the Bat books became almost anthology like which really works for the character who is a loner with minimal supporting cast.

There were also some great odds and ends during that time - I liked Wagner's Demon, Giffen's Ambush Bug is a bit of precursor to some of the humor in JLA/JLI (pre-crisis), and 'Mazing Man is truly underrated.

Probably my favorite DC era, although I fully acknowledge that like most people one's favorite era of comics tends to overlap with the teen and college years...but I am going to guess this era is going to inform a lot of the Gunn DCU.

Considering you also had Moore's Swamp Thing, Watchmen and of course Dark Knight Returns DC really put out a lot of classic stuff in the mid-80's and early 90's.
 
To be clear, I love George Perez and his work. That said, I didn't read his WW during that time, but I did read War of the Gods and found it damn near incomprehensible. I went back as an adult and took another run at it and... still nothing. Was the regular title better?
 
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AceofKnaves said:
You mean you *didn’t* immediately download the song and listen to it on loop through two weeks of workouts?

. . . that was just me, wasn’t it?
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I downloaded it but just to listen to. In fact I have a James gunn playlist that I played at a party my brother in law threw toward the end of season one's airing and people went NUTS about that music. Even if they didn't know some of those hair bands, they were digging it
 
@fac all good stuff, you're right. Swamp Thing and Demon were some of my favorites. I think JL was my only clearcut superhero DC comic at the time. I did get into L.e.g.i.o.n. some because of Lobo though
 
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To be clear, I love George Perez and his work. That said, I didn't read his WW during that time, but I did read War of the Gods and found it damn near incomprehensible. I went back as an adult and took another run at it and... still nothing. Was the regular title better?
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Its been awhile, but I recall War of the Gods being a bit of a slog but also that was the cap on his run and mythology so its kind of like watching the finale movie of a TV series.

I thought the regular title was very good - he did about two years as penciler, co-plotter and writer (Len Wein helped with the script early on). Only complaint was that the story and dialog was a little dense at times, maybe too much happening per page. But I liked that he embraced some of the Greek mythology as well and sort of rebuilt the character to her current "nobleness". Like Byrne's Superman, kind of lays the groundwork for how WW has been portrayed since then. If you can find the omnibus with issues 1 to 24 where he is writing and drawing that is the peak I think.
 
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I downloaded it but just to listen to. In fact I have a James gunn playlist that I played at a party my brother in law threw toward the end of season one's airing and people went NUTS about that music. Even if they didn't know some of those hair bands, they were digging it
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I had a meeting yesterday and the Superman score was playing on a loop - it was the most dramatically-scored meeting I've ever had.
 
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Maguire is the key to that run. Its all about the character interactions and he is a very good cartoonist for gesture and carrying across emotion with his faces. Not to mention his excellent slapstick instincts. It suffers a little bit on the art he doesn't do.
 
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