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Finished with all the currently released issues of New Super-Man, now have two weeks to wait for the next one like a true comic fan.
This is a good series omg please read it if you want to read DC Comics.
Also, that last panel twist reveal that was sort of hinted at and obvious but at the same time a WTF What Is Going On EXPLAIN~! …yeah, family drama.
Also I want to watch one of those wuxia adaptations of the legend of the White Snake right now.
And grumpy that while I have the first two trade volumes for Superman, the issue of that series that has the first official meeting between him and Kenan was issue #16, which will be volume 3. So the mental calculations begin of which series am I sticking to hard-copy trades and waiting for and which do I start impatiently grabbing all the online single issues…
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“When you see bad things in the world you can either do nothing or do something.” – Steve Trevor
Gah. This kills me. It kills me a lot. And anyone who says Gal Godot can’t act wasn’t really looking because look at her eyes. Look at the fourth gif, I would wager you anything it’s a similar look just before she reached the trenches of No Man’s Land.
It’s more contained now, tempered by her experience and time, it’s been a long time since she was that young woman on the steps of the dais with her mother a step above her and Steve Trevor described the victims of the supposed War to End all Wars. And, yet, Diana can’t look away.
She can’t help but watch, riveted to the screen, and perhaps at that moment, after seeing the picture with Steve Trevor and her old friends, she remembered his words: ‘You can either do nothing or do something.’ And, for a bit, maybe Diana tried doing nothing. She’s tried doing nothing now.
Then that shift in the fifth gif, that resolve, finally giving in to that part of her screaming: ‘dosomething.’ wins.
Like seriously. that shift, with nothing more but a tightening of her jaw, that brief blink, and then that steely resolve. She doesn’t even care that there might be cameras pointed.
Diana is going to help because protecting mankind is her sacred duty.
I just noticed that she is flying Turkish airlines. We know the island has to be somewhat near Turkey because that is where Steve was flying from. Are we assuming that she was flying home to the island?
I noticed the airline but didn’t make the connection until now!
What if Diana was flying to look for Themyscira? She seemed to be on a quest to look for parts of her past in BvS, what if part of that was searching for her way back home? What if, Diana is retracing Steve’s steps hoping it would lead her back to home?
In the new Rebirth arc under Greg Rucka’s run, Diana’s on a similar quest to find Themyscira. Maybe that’s what Hippolyta meant when she told Diana ‘she may never return’, without magic or a guide Diana can’t find Themyscira.
Oh but you know what that would mean? If she’s been looking for a way home then choosing to go help save humanity again would basically mean giving that quest up. Because it’s not like going to this battle would be a short side-trip.
Going means, choosing humanity once again. It means picking up the mantle of that faith for justice again (which is something I can’t see her having abandoned, but can see her having felt weighted by, especially when humans are just so… hard to root for).
Going would mean that Themyscira would have to wait. And it might have to wait for a 100 years again.
Okay, so like as I said, I’m only a few pages in to my digital copies, but Google Kenan Kong or trust me I’ll be reblogging photosets of my newest son in a few hours. But a quick explanation:
Last Year, DC Comics has the big Rebirth event that was a ‘soft reboot’, with brand new books and changes to the universe and such (and things are better now) One of the initial big changes was the Superman books (Technically there are four/five superman themed or related books). The Superman of the nu52 series (2010-2015 more or less) who was not ..well, I consider DCEU Henry Cavill up there “MY IDEAL SUPERMAN” and the closer he is to that version the happier I am. Or the mid Post-Crisis married to Lois Lane Superman, he’ll do as my second choice. Rebirth had nu52 Superman die/dissolve and the Post-Crisis universe’s Superman take over the job. (Simplifying here but it’s comics, of course I am). Post-Crisis living in Nu52/Rebirth universe Superman is the one that’s married to Lois and has a son, Jon Kent. if I’m reblogging or reading DC Comics Superman, this is who I’m reading (Dad!Supes).
But when nu52 Supes died, his power split off and attached to more than one character and each of those characters got their own comic book series- to Dad!Superman but also to Lex Luthor who is running around in a mecha suit trying to be a good guy i think? i don’t know that series because it doesn’t focus on Dad!Supes and MommaBear!Lois raising Suberboy!Jon Kent. To Lana Lang and nu52 Lois as Superwoman. And to this random teenager in China. Random teen is Kenan Kong, and he’s gonna get himself recruited into the Justice League of China and have adventures with his cast of characters and every once and a while the American Superman cast will cameo, but it’s nicely self-contained so easy to get started. Technically its title is New Super-Man.
1) sorry about those horrible feelings, friend, I’m glad the comics helped a bit! Sending you a lot of love fwiw ❤
Thank you! I’m not sure if there’s medical shit behind it or counts as full on-anxiety attacks. My sister has them among a host of other things and when she describes them I think to myself ‘ah, sounds familiar’. I’ve suspected for a long time that I have a lot of un-diagnosed who knows what and god knows both my parents do – I wouldn’t be surprised. They are helping so i don’t regret the money spent. Waiting for the tight chest feeling to finish subsiding though
Three seconds into the first issue (no seriously I’m on page three if you count the cover) and not like I hadn’t read the preview scans months ago and know spoilers and all that- but I love this boy and this series already. He’s such an arrogant lil’ teenage shit and I can see the character development coming yesss~ And the kid he’s bullying is Lixin omg I knew the reporter had an LL name and that they were going to play that ‘suspiciously similar Chinese expy names’ but hello adorable child Lex I can’t wait for your return as petty personal super-villain. Also just lovely art
And really, look at this face (”Don’t tell me you think i’m the tubby kid with the glasses and the punchable face! Ah, c’mon on! Does he look important at all to you?” Kenan)
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