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or Doll Man. who came decades before either Ant-Man or Atom

ya think? Ray Palmer as a regular character on Arrow ought to move the needle...

would this 1965 issue of LOBO (who Ive never heard of though the plot sounds like the TV show BRANDED, the copy here is practically the theme song word for word.) be the first black comic book hero? Its a good 5 years before DC and Marvel began adding black characters.

but it should be fun!

Deathstroke is a pretty major DC character, so keeping him alive as they build the universe makes sense. He's had his own comic a few times, so even though he's been the villain on Arrow all this time, he will be changed at some point to utilize his skills. Even Deadshot was helping out a lot this season. Ill miss the real Black Canary though, unless old skinny britches fills out a bit in the blonde wig! But I dont think even a corset will get her to match her little sister's other attributes! Flash however, which looks great in the trailer, and is in good hands like Arrow, worries me a bit because he IS a super powered hero. Arrow works because TV is down to earth, and real, given the budgets, so he fights, and operates in a limited FX world. He shoots arrows! But Flash can do so much with his speed, I think the problems will always be how they write his limitations, how the bad guys slow him down or beat him etc. They'll have to keep taking him by surprise which will get old. Or gel have a long learning curve making him vulnerable and interesting for as long as they can keep it going. lets face it… they already tried The Flash, and while the ARROW show runners are a lot more adept at superheroes, I think Flash will pose problems they may not solve so easily. They cant just mimic what they have done with ARROW either.

I'm not loving this three part mega battle for Starling City. Taking too long and it's kinda preposterous. I prefer the more contained episodes that move the origin along spiced up with DC Easter eggs and new characters and concepts from the comics.

haha. I forgot that only us viewers knew this!

I wonder what mom's big secret reveal was going to be?

I think so too. His speed and reflexes are inhuman, even for a superhero (although Batman doesn't have powers or drugs aiding him) And Sara must have taken them too given her speed and skills, but here too, the League of Assassins trains their guys pretty good. I guess we will see how quickly his leg heals… it should take weeks or months for a normal person to regain full motion, right?

so it feels like since the Miracle is causing Slades delusions and anger issues, that all Ollie has to do is shoot the antidote into him, and Deathstroke can revert to a superhero/villain in the Universe, like Huntress. Which is fine. unless the primal directive of the show for the new few years relies on Island backstory progressing current events? another issue I can't follow: they keep say "5 years ago on the island." Ollie was there for a full 5 years, and back for what, 1 year. 2 years tops? So 5 years ago means "year 2 on the island" is that right? but of course the beauty of the "island backstory" is they can retrofit anything they want back then, like Sara surviving. So I think we will always have island backstory driven revelations on the show.

Ive just caught up will all Arrow episodes to date, and Im really enjoying it! I have lots of little observations, likes and dislikes… but at this point in the story, Slades character just doesn't work for me. Sure he's a great DC villain, and it was fun seeing his part in Ollies origin etc. But last week he admitted Shado wasn't his girl! So he's based his whole vendetta on unrequited love? We may eventually see more backstory from the island, but so far his hate on stems entirely from Ollie's part in Shado's death… which feels like a reach, even though in comics bad guys do much worse for less! (like Merlyn killing the Glades over his wife for instance, though Im sure Ras had a hand in goading that response to Merlyn's personal loss. Just hope they keep expanding the DC world next season cause that the fun part--- seeing so many DC pieces fall into place in the Arrowverse.

so you're saying Eminem will buy this piece ? or that he "could" or "might? because Gene acknowledges the possibility that he COULD or MIGHT buy it… but he just (correctly) sees it as a remote possibility. As a betting man who follows the market and the OA market closely, his conclusion is that its a small chance that a "rich famous person even one who reads comic books" will step up and buy this piece. I think he knows what he is talking about.

I'm too late now, having read Claremonts thoughts on Wolverine. But I was thinking along those lines earlier today. Wolverine to Marvel was a key player in an ensemble. He worked well with the other XMen, and XMen was the most successful title in the 80s. S I can see how Marvel wouldn't feel the need to break him out of it in his own adventures, out of continuity. Of course they did that for Spidey and the Thing, so the precedent was there. So maybe Claremont managed to overrule any money grabbing ideas Marvel had for a Wolverine series. After all, Marvel was doing very well back then so squeezing a few more bucks didn't seem of paramount importance.... S they never finagled with the ongoing XMen franchise.

Why doesn't someone just ask Jim Shooter?

Hey TTH. I always like reading your takedowns of Delli cause I know that you guys are joined at the hip and are like Jack Benny and Fred Allen, agreeing more than you disagree. But as much as you cheered his victims in this thread, comparing their opinions to young children was a certainly not the defense that were hoping for! ; )

The Rothkos and Pollacks and Trimpe piece all sell for huge sums for the same basic reason... One has to "understand" them in order to appreciate them, because at first glance they ALL suckkk! One is paint drips. The other is big areas of color. And the last one is a girlish Halloween costumed killer romping thru the woods with razors for hands. And simply, if not badly drawn even within the narrow confines of its genre. Yeah. I said it! Bam. Deal wit it bub!

it IS! aside from it being Wolverine, it looks like an anonymous artist Dell or Archie humor page.

my opinion on the Heritage piece is that its a silly looking drawing, even by comics art standards. But its importance will certainly make the winner happy at ANY price. We will have to wait and see if he overpaid for the privilege.

The short answer is that, you may not understand it, but people with real money do. Do you not like/appreciate the art or is it just the price that you find egregious? I'll be the first to agree that $140 million for almost anything is nutty, but the art itself is beyond reproach. It's mesmerizing, innovative, iconic and historically significant in a way that the 1st appearance of Wolverine could never be - centuries of painting technique and composition turned on its head. As for the price, when you have billionaires competing for so little of the great stuff, sometimes you need to get to $140 million to achieve price discrimination. Like I said, I think paying that much for a painting is pretty nuts. But it would be less nuts to me than seeing that Hulk #180 page sell for 7-figures. Both. I've never understood "art" that simply looks like someone threw some paint at a canvas. I mean, I could create something like that but I couldn't draw Wolverine You say it's mesmerizing, innovative, and iconic. I say any old hack could do the same thing! The fact that "people with real money" understand the art makes the whole thing even more laughable to me. And that's not meant as a jab at you; I've heard that argument before. I don't have a ton of money myself so I think it's silly to spend 10s of thousands on a comicbook. Now if I had money to burn I'm sure I'd feel different. However, I don't care how much money I had, I wouldn't spend a dime on some of the art that's sold for millions. 72.8 million - Really? Looks like an ice cream sandwich. Anyhow, the money thing aside, I just don't get the appeal of Pollock's work. If it had no real monetary value, and was just a painting on a wall, I'd have that monstrosity removed from my house. I respect all peoples opinions, but it's just my opinion that my 5 year old son with a couple of buckets of paint and a brush could make the same thing. haha. this always makes me laugh. I once got a job from a guy wanting to sell knock off Leroy Nieman style posters. I figured (like you did) that its all drips and splashes that look like sports figures, but not real painting like I was doing. after an entire day trying, and getting nowhere, I gave up and never called the guy back. Same idea with Pollack. When you stand there and take in it, you see the layering, and the depth, and you see that the paint while being "splattered" which anyone of us can do, was CAREFULLY splattered, spaced out beautifully, allowing the different colors to work with each other. Closest description I can think of would be looking at winter tree branches of many layers of trees overlapping, forming a mesmerizingly perfect latticework. anyway, as Gene says, the prices they get are ridiculous except viewed thru the prism of guy with 1000x that much money fighting over bragging rights for owning whats out there that the other guys covet too. Im not a huge Pollack fan, and for many years agreed that it was silly if not simple stuff. But one day by chance I was in front of one and I suddenly got it. My eyes were darting all around the canvas and having fun soaking it in. and seriously, YOUR KID COULD NEVER PAINT IT. He could paint HIS work 1000x times better than Pollack could paint your kids work, though. So thats something to be proud of!

Dinklage!!

haha, yes very true. I can't believe Im always frustrated by this apparent flaw in zombie logic! I don't expects scientific accuracy in a fantasy story, just that things make "sense" If Negan's plan can work, that has to mean that so many other causes for turning must be possible too…. that never have been to date. when Negan proposed it, I was hoping it would be a total bust. That Negan would prove to be a big dumb dope. Rick and others now are kinda sick, but it may not be the result of Negan's Gambit. we'll find out soon enough.

I know that is how it works on the TV show, but not so in the comic, right? At worst, introducing dead and rotting flesh into an open wound will do you harm. ok. maybe so. but consider this: they are constantly spattered with zombie guts, on their face and hands. Then they handle and eat food with their hands. We are talking about microscopic viral particles and organisms. Since they never wash thoroughly, they MUST be ingesting the microbes orally all the time - - to NO ill effect! So I jet don't buy the Negan strategy. Maybe 1000s more microbes are introduced his way than they get orally. But I don't see how a bite, or a gash from a muck covered arrow that lands in muscle is more effective than germs that enter your bloodstream the RIGHT way -- through your mouth and stomach. Im hoping Kirkman has this worked out in a sensible way.

but with 2 issues to go, I guess Rick either dies-- or recovers -- from it real soon!