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I Guess Hypertime's Back

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panthergod

14:40 / 07.02.07

Considering all that's going on in 52 with Animal Man, guess the reports of Hypertime's demise were greatly exxagerated.

Triplets

14:43 / 07.02.07

Fantastic.

"They knock down people who don't make cents"
"And they're at war with another universe, one that..." etc

Meta-bitchery at it's finest.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

14:54 / 07.02.07

So.

Shit.

This is just Lost with obscure DC characters taking the tack that the Island=Limbo.

Spaniel

14:58 / 07.02.07

Panther, could we get a little more context next time you start a thread? I know it's a lot to ask but I am a hard taskmaster and a teh fascist.

Tim Tempest

15:25 / 07.02.07

I hear Facism's makin a comeback. I suspect time's gonna tell on that one.

Tim Tempest

15:26 / 07.02.07

Dammit. I spelled Fascism wrong. And rotted the thread.

My bad, folks. My bad.

Jake, Colossus of Clout

15:30 / 07.02.07

I'd like a little background, too, please. Like, what is this comic called ("Genius Jones," I would imagine, but still)? Who writes it? The artist? Is it out now or upcoming?

It certainly looks a lot like Animal Man.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

15:39 / 07.02.07

Tales of the Unexpected's back-up Doctor Thirteen storyline, written by Brian Azzazzello (Azazel? Arzrael? Azbats? That guy) and drawn by Cliff Chiang. Doc Thirteen and his dishy daughter Traci who most certainly isn't a magician following the Infinite Crisis (?) journey to Antarctica and find references to Architects in cave paintings (French cave paintings) and then meet I, Vampire. Dressed as a Yeti. And then other stuff happens.

Notable for excellent art and a very all-over-the-place story, referenced in the Weekly Review thread (here, here).

There's a weird incestual vibe early on that seems out of the norm for the DCU and emphasis on dream states.

Jake, Colossus of Clout

15:47 / 07.02.07

Cool. Thanks, Papers. Ur teh comix guru, as per usual.

Jake, Colossus of Clout

15:50 / 07.02.07

Would you recommend it? From the review thread it seems a thumbs-down was given.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

15:56 / 07.02.07

I got a bit bored - it felt like they were just throwing Obscure Comics Characters at the audience while Doc Thirteen droned on that they weren't possible, but I dropped it so I may have missed the upshot. Bit thin. I couldn't be bothered to sit through it AND the bad Spectre main features with the awful proto-Image artwork.

Triplets

00:04 / 08.02.07

I hear Facism's makin a comeback.

Oddman, I know you're young and everything but not everything an authority figure does is Teh Bad. A few more years, eh? Boboss, as his moderator status goes, is tasked with keeping stuff on target and up to the standards of the rest of the board. When your carer asks you to go nappy-nap for 40 minutes it might just be for the best. Same thing here, really.

When it comes to keeping up standards I think throwing passive-aggressive accusations of Teh Fascism!, especially when it wasn't even in your direction, is a bit much really.

Mug Chum

03:29 / 08.02.07

anything else of meta-fun in that issue (what is that comic by the way, "52"?)?

lord nuneaton savage

08:12 / 08.02.07

Triplets, read Boboss's post to see why all the 'fa(s)cist' stuff.

Spaniel

08:16 / 08.02.07

Trips, thanks for the having of backness, but I think (I hope) Odd was teh joking.

lord nuneaton savage

08:37 / 08.02.07

Not meaning to defend people who can probably defend themselves, but I definitely read Oddman's post as a light-hearted response to Boboss calling himself a fascist.

Y'know, light hearted, in on the joke, maybe should've had some hideous smiley after it or something.

Could be wrong though. Maybe they meant to post in the 'fascism making a comeback' thread?

Triplets

09:18 / 08.02.07

Ah, it may have been booze talking. Oddman did however - it has entered legend - Once Upon A Time have Grant Morrison's back in the Wifegate scandal. Backing the wrong horse and all that.

Stranger things have etc.

Willing to put my hand up if I was talking balls, however.

Sax

11:50 / 08.02.07

Ah, Wifegate. I was beginning to suspect Hypertime had wiped that out. Good to know it's still part of Barbelith continuity.

Spaniel

12:52 / 08.02.07

Hypertime doesn't wipe anything out, it allows everything to live.

Get it right, you bloody skiver

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

12:55 / 08.02.07

That was short-tempered Boboss from Dimension X12, the Short-Tempered Versions Of Ourselves (Many With Goatees And Some With Better Hair) Dimension.

Sax

13:08 / 08.02.07

Well what wipes everything out, then? Crisistime? Cillitbangtime?

I done been away from comics for too long.

Janean Patience

13:08 / 08.02.07

If Doctor 13's in this, does that mean he didn't die in Seven Soldiers? 'Cause I always thought that was a waste of a good skeptic.

Spaniel

13:39 / 08.02.07

Cillitbangtime?

Barry Scott does sound like a superhero's secret identity.

lord nuneaton savage

13:47 / 08.02.07

BANG!...AND EARTH 2 IS GONE.

Spaniel

13:55 / 08.02.07

What? What? What?

Sorry to go so crazily off-topic but fucking the fuck hell, I had no bloody idea

Enough said about that here.

Back on topic.

Sax, Hypertime was the wotsit Morrison invented a few years ago to legitimise every bit of continuity - Earth 1, Earth 2, Elseworlds, or whatever - going. Good idea, that was somehow too tough for DC to sustain - 'cause, you know, they're all thick.

Benny the Ball

15:23 / 08.02.07

I can't wait until Hyperactivetime starts up and the entire summer event is condensed down into a single panel.

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

21:56 / 08.02.07

On a similar note, Ion (formerly Kyle Rayner: Green Lantern) got popped into the Bleed (from the Wildstorm books) by characters from the old DC Tangent Universe. So yeah, the multiverse is the new black, it seems.

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

22:19 / 09.02.07

Oh, and in the issue of Tales of the Unexpected just before the one the above pictures come from, the Seven Unknown Men appear.

TobiasAC

23:20 / 09.02.07

...didn't Doctor Thirteen, er, get incinerated last year?

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

23:45 / 09.02.07

Yes, yes he did. (Though his daughter, Terri Thirteen is in 52.)

But given that it looks like Dr. Thirteen is just as gone-from-continuity as I, Vampire and Infectious Lass, it looks like that might be part of he point.

Mario

12:04 / 10.02.07

I'm not entirely sure that said incineration stuck. Ibis & Tala showed up in a story recently, and while they were in bad shape, they weren't extra crispy.

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

18:38 / 10.02.07

They were between life and death weren't they? Keeping themselves alive with le magique?

I only skimmed the issue, so don't mind me.

Phex: Dorset Doom

19:38 / 10.02.07

Terri Thirteen is in 52? Which one?

Mario

20:18 / 10.02.07

In Zatanna #1, Ibis was specifically described as "turning into ash". That's much worse than "bad shape".

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

21:33 / 10.02.07

She's in Week 18, the gathering of detectives investigating Fate's Helemt. She seems to have taken over for her dad after his death in 7S.

It's also worth nothing for humor's sake that the character (originally Traci Thirteen) was created by.... GEOFJOHNSSSS!!!

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