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God dammit adgy I now ****ing HATE Batwoman without having even seen it just because of the size of your nerdboner over it.

WE GET IT!!!
 
Adam Glass On The Thinner, Younger Amanda Waller In Suicide Squad #1 Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

This is such horse****. So now 'the Wall' is frikkin Zoe Saldana. I cry bs. As a longtime fan of the Suicide Squad what made Waller believable as a character was her obvious life experience. Literally, life kicked her ass sideways and because of that she had the emotionless capability to send folks into certain-death situations. This young pretty Waller...c'mon, she looks incapable of choosing a shade of nail polish. DC, I get that you want to appeal to a wider/younger/hipper demographic, but sacrificing character integrity just makes you like Marvel(and that ain't a compliment). Not everyone in this world is young and beautiful. **** off.
 
Check Out A Chapter From ‘Fables’ Writer Bill Willingham’s New Book | Geeks of Doom

Bill Willingham obviously has a great talent with putting messages in stories, and the fable is right up his alley, so it?s awesome to expand his talent to a straight up children?s book. He?s written Fables novels in the past, so this is clearly the next step, and I can?t wait to see what he?s got up his sleeve.

The synopsis for Down The Mysterly River can be found here below.




Down the Mysterly River is the children?s book debut of Bill Willingham, the creator of the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novel series Fables. Complete with illustrations by Fables artist Mark Buckingham, it is a spirited, highly original tale of adventure, suspense, and everlasting friendship.

Max ?the Wolf? is a top notch Boy Scout, an expert at orienteering and a master of being prepared. So it is a little odd that he suddenly finds himself, with no recollection of his immediate past, lost in an unfamiliar wood. Even odder still, he encounters a badger named Banderbrock, a black bear named Walden, and McTavish the Monster (who might also be an old barn cat)?all of whom talk?and who are as clueless as Max.

Before long, Max and his friends are on the run from a relentless group of hunters and their deadly hounds. Armed with powerful blue swords and known as the Blue Cutters, these hunters capture and change the very essence of their prey. For what purpose, Max can?t guess. But unless he can solve the mystery of the strange forested world he?s landed in, Max may find himself and his friends changed beyond recognition, lost in a lost world?

The book hit bookstore shelves and in ebook format on September 13, 2011, and if the description?s got your attention (it should), then you should head over to io9, who have an exclusive look at the first chapter
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Guy might quietly be one of the better comic writers working today.
 
jerseydevil said:
Ummmm no, That would be Ostrander/Truman's GRIMJACK.
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Fine. Batwoman is the best since Grimjack. And I haven't even read the first issue yet. I just know it. In my bones, lizard brain and in my race memory. My ancestors are speaking to me in a way I've never known possible and they are telling me to tell Dr Naysay to shut the **** up and embrace Batwoman as the new messiah.

jerseydevil said:
Adam Glass On The Thinner, Younger Amanda Waller In Suicide Squad #1 Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

This is such horse****. So now 'the Wall' is frikkin Zoe Saldana. I cry bs. As a longtime fan of the Suicide Squad what made Waller believable as a character was her obvious life experience. Literally, life kicked her ass sideways and because of that she had the emotionless capability to send folks into certain-death situations. This young pretty Waller...c'mon, she looks incapable of choosing a shade of nail polish. DC, I get that you want to appeal to a wider/younger/hipper demographic, but sacrificing character integrity just makes you like Marvel(and that ain't a compliment). Not everyone in this world is young and beautiful. **** off.
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I haven't read it, but... yeah. You can apply a similar argument to the new Harley Quinn and even ****ing Starfire looks more sexed up than before, if that's possible. All this at the same time they cut the number of females helping make the books. It's a tad fishy...

jerseydevil said:
Guy might quietly be one of the better comic writers working today.
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There is no "might" about it. He is.
 
Starfire/Harley Quinn were just polished up a bit, I can live with that. The revamp of Waller is just about as complete as it gets. They turned her from an older Oprah type to Zoe frikin Saldana...and Monsignor, that dog will just not hunt!
 
jerseydevil said:
Starfire/Harley Quinn were just polished up a bit, I can live with that. The revamp of Waller is just about as complete as it gets. They turned her from an older Oprah type to Zoe frikin Saldana...and Monsignor, that dog will just not hunt!
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I would say that Harley is a little more than polished up, but, no, it's not quite the same as having her entire body type changed.

I wonder if her character is any different.
 
adgy-san said:
I would say that Harley is a little more than polished up, but, no, it's not quite the same as having her entire body type changed.

I wonder if her character is any different.
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therein is the insult. Wall's backstory(in the terrific first collected tpb of Suicide Squad) was pretty much that she lost her whole family to street crime. It was well done and very believable. I cannot imagine her having the stone will that she has had throughout her history without that very important backstory. The 'pretend' Waller barely looks old enough to menstruate much less have a family. It is a grievous insult to the credibility of someone who has shown zero compassion, presenting criminals with a 'hey, you live you walk free, take it or leave it' proposition. Even the members of the team that are not criminals get offered pretty much the same atitude. To Waller all are expendable, losing is unacceptable. The whole 'Suicide Squad' concept worked because Waller was unafraid of anyone because she herself had absolutely nothing left to lose anymore. Prettying her up undermines the whole concept. And why? Do we really need all of the DC universe to be beautiful? I was pissed enough with Green Arrow's trademark look being exchanged for a generic look. That I may have eventually forgiven...this though is unacceptable.
 
Future Films Options Tony Lee And Dan Boultwood's HOPE FALLS

Bleeding Cool, understands that the supernatural mystery comic Hope Falls, by Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood has been optioned by Future Films, one of the production companies behind such recent films as The American and The Eagle, with an eye to starting production in the near future.

Hope Falls is a comic about a girl who returns to her home town after twenty years, who is then revealed to have been murdered by a group of men who are now prominent town citizens, and she’s out for some supernatural revenge. It was recently republished in an “Ultimate” Hope Falls edition.
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Anyone have any info?
 
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