Amph Here's Some Money, Go See A Swap Thing: DCU/Elseworlds Discussion

Oh I know about Morrison, his stuff is classic. Was just curious about the newer stuff as I haven’t kept up with comics the last couple years or so.

 

Yeah, I hear you, the logistics for the last few years have been nuts, especially with the pandemic and DC undergoing some massive shakeups. Infinite Frontier seems promising so far (if very Batman heavy) but I've got at ton of gaps in between the end of the Rebirth branding and this current relaunch that I want to fill in and/or conclude that I have no interest in filling in.

Edit: This could be dramatically eased by, oh, I dunno, an actual DCUI worldwide rollout this summer. Fingers crossed I guess.

 

Ya that’s part of what’s kept me away. I was pretty info the New 52, then they relaunched again with Rebirth and that’s kinda when I stopped because I just got too confused. I have no idea what they are doing now as I’ve stopped trying to figure it out.

 

I'd highly recommend Scott's Batman run, it's phenomenal. It's so good that I won't even say who the bad guys are.

 

Here we go again!

 

Re: Scott Snyder and Justice League

Best to start with Dark Nights: Metal, which flows from his Batman run. Then there's 5 trades / 3 OHCs (one not yet out) then Dark Nights: Death Metal.

There's a few other bits and pieces too and numerous event trades for both Dark Nights stories.

 

filmjunkee has actually had reliable scoops, he broke the scoop of Darkseid being in the Snyder Cut years before it was released.

 

I don’t see the point in getting mad about the existence of studio notes, I think the only thing I’ve ever heard of that doesn’t get them on the regular is The Simpsons and that’s because James L. Brooks pulled rank at the absolute summit of his powers. If the movie comes out and then it blows ass and the director’s like “Well it totally didn’t blow ass but WB gave me a note requesting an ass blowing scene,” then sure, but until then? Eh.

 

My brain still says Darkseed to this day. Because Darkseid is not pronounced Dark Side. that's not how that word works!

 

Yeah, it's clearly supposed to be pronounced Darkzight with a rolled r.

 

No no no, back of the throat.

 

Nah, DARKSEID IS... from Steiermark.

 

Still bumming me out that Ava Duvernay's New Gods got canned. Darkseid Is the Coolest thing about the Snyder Cut (I'm still halfway convinced it was supposed to be Steppenwolf in the flashback like in the original version but years and $ later Snyder had the good sense to make the battle of the heroes about Darkseid). And then like a week later WB cans a whole movie about the big fella. Great job, there.

 

It was probably one of the few times that Snyder actually was a good fit for the whole super menacing death god vibe. "We will use the old ways." for a character who doesn't even step foot on the planet and just glowers at the Justice League teasing sequel bait, it was remarkably effective. He had an interesting quote that the reason Steppenwolf was on 20,000 worlds enslavement duty was that Steppenwolf like hesitated for a second when Darkseid was ordering an execution which kinda makes sense.

 

Is Al against the Snyderverse?

Then I am all for it.