Can Someone explain very briefly what exactly is the state of the DCU post-Infinite Crisis, cos I really can't be arsed to re-read it.

10:01 / 28.01.07

I think I really like the idea of tranny Black Canary. Just seems like the natural progression for her.

LOL. I hadn't noticed.

Thanks for pointing that out

10:05 / 28.01.07

As I said over in the random thoughts thread, I really like Red Robin. There's something kind of classic about the character design... he just feels more stately, more important than Nightwing. A true sucessor to Batman

11:24 / 28.01.07

REAL TEARS! REAL HEADS ON WRONG WAY!

Agreed that Red Rob looks far more like his "own man" here than as Knightwing. Although at first I thought he was Dr. Mid-nite.

Let's face it, though, if he was he'd have his pet owl Hooty on the go and you can't have two animal sidekicks on the scene. Not when PIRATE BATMAN is clearly expecting JACK THE BAT-PARROT to swoop in at any moment.

Spyder Todd 2008

12:34 / 28.01.07

Bah, look at that chainmail! That's not Pirate Batman, that's Sir Batman, Knight of the Round Table!

14:19 / 28.01.07

Crusader Batman more like

Spyder Todd 2008

14:58 / 28.01.07

But certainly not a pirate.

FinderWolf

15:03 / 28.01.07

That *is* is a Legion flight ring, by the way, in that pic.

Sniv

15:13 / 28.01.07

For all of you Batman-pirate nay-sayers, feast your eyes on this

I am the king of teh inter-nerds!

Sniv

15:19 / 28.01.07

Although, looking at the original pic, that clearly is a medieval Batman. My crown is sundered!

Spyder Todd 2008

16:21 / 28.01.07

Bah! Batman is the Ultimate Ninja™. You can dress him up in pirate garb all you want, but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s a ninja.

17:58 / 28.01.07

It is true

matsya

22:15 / 28.01.07

but I thought that the Nth Man was the ultimate ninja?

little help?

Char Aina

22:30 / 28.01.07

see, when you say something, it isnt always true.
often, when you say stuff about yourself it's totally not true.

the nth man is not the ninja he wishes he was.
he is not batman.
plus, he's marvel.

06:05 / 29.01.07

Nth clearly has a black belt in being awesome. Proof? His shell casings have muzzle flashes: that means EVEN HIS BULLETS ARE FIRING BULLETS.

Phex: Dorset Doom

08:06 / 29.01.07

And he has Spiderman for a frickin' leg. But how do you pronounce his name? Niff? Enth?

09:45 / 29.01.07

You pronounce his name like a gasp of quiet awe.

Mario

11:42 / 29.01.07

chŭk nôr'ĭs

gridley

14:12 / 29.01.07

you can see a tiny hand poking out of the rubble- the Atom's hand.

The Atom's tiny hand makes me feel oddly sad for some reason... far sadder than Superman's tears or the broken Statue of Liberty.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

20:37 / 29.01.07

Legion ring or a Flash ring? How many more Flashes are there to kill off?

H3ct0r L1m4

00:31 / 30.01.07

Atom's hand makes the pic even sadder because it implies he's still alive under the ground... and nobody's listening to his screams.

Rachel Evil McCall

03:32 / 30.01.07

Legion ring or a Flash ring? How many more Flashes are there to kill off?

Three. But one wears a hat, not a ring.

06:58 / 30.01.07

DC does seem to be stuck in a retro-rut - it's stupid - things like 'it's not a crisis without a Flash dying' have completely put me off of reading comics of late - the only way I've kept in touch is through this site, and the only things that have caught my fancy haven't managed to convince me to hunt them down and read them.

07:01 / 30.01.07

oh and Nth Man is awsome, if only for being able to swing a katana without severing his arm, while firing an uzi, the most awsome of awsome gun's, with an awsome old man pony tail and an deven more awsomer awsome look on his awsome face.... or something.

12:27 / 30.01.07

He is awesome. However, he appears to be wielding an AK-47 and twirling his katana. Deadly and able to cheer for the East Compton Clovers.

14:25 / 30.01.07

ah, quite right Triplets, that'll teach me to presume what guns are awsome! Perhaps Mike Zeck (or someone who draws incredibly like him) had moved off of his Punisher and Uzi phase by the time he got to that cover!

FinderWolf

16:51 / 30.01.07

the signature says Ron Wagner (at the time employed by Marvel and First Comics intermittenly, IIRC) but it's def. a Zeck vibe he's doing there.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

17:00 / 30.01.07

Nth Man wiki page.

I seem to remember having one issue of this comic and one point and being weirded and creeped out by Alfie's powers, I seem to remember something about someone being eaten by a swarm of locusts and the corpse being rather...well-drawn. He also made a fake Silver Surfer or something. Ring any bells?

Maybe we should move over to a highly improbable Nth Man thread...

8===>Q: alyn

17:09 / 30.01.07

Larry Hama is so awesome.

Char Aina

17:16 / 30.01.07

dude.
nth man is awesome for sure.
batman is more of a ninja, though.

why are you all so blind to the truth?!
who can out-ninja batman?
nodbody, that's who!

17:21 / 30.01.07

Wolverine thinks he can, but Wolverine don't know shit.

This Sunday

17:50 / 30.01.07

Sorry, but the cover says 'Ultimate' and no cover has ever lied in the history of cover claims.

Nth Man is the Ultimate Ninja. Accept no substitutes.

I love Larry Hama's work more than most, it's true, but 'Nth Man' was a Hama download, his own personal 'Invisibles' or something. And it had a crossover with 'Excalibur'. Batman never crossovered (crossedover?) with 'Excalibur' and has in fact never to my knowledge been in a single comic with a fake Galactus loony, Nightcrawler and Phoenix. And the blonde Russian killer in 'Nth Man' was better looking and superiorly spoken than the KGBeast.

Batman's a better pirate, though. Science pirate. Who doesn't steal - I think.

Which, clearly, is what InfiniCrises was about: Building a better science ninja. With bat ears.

Mr Tricks

17:57 / 30.01.07

Nth man is obviously a poseur otherwise he'd know that Ninji wield NINJADO (which is a straight blade with a square hand guard) and not Katana (the curved one) which are really only meant to be used by Samurai.

See below:

Ninjado

Katana

This Sunday

18:07 / 30.01.07

Remember the film 'Ronin'? It's a toolkit. Use the tools for the job.

Ninja - Samurai - Ronin... quick, someone tie in a Yojimbo reference or something!

Oh, and is Moorcock still in charge of a bible of DCU magic? Or was that pre-new-infini-panic thing?

Mario

18:27 / 30.01.07

Moorcock wrote something a while ago, but I suspect that was the end of his involvement. I keep trying (on his message board) to get him to send it to me.

Oh, and it's "ninja-to".