Friday Night Fights: O.P.P. Round 4

It's time for another Friday Night Fight!
I've got to confess, I really didn't want to use this panel because 1) It stretches the concept of one panel of pain since Jim Lee is in love with full-page and double page spreads and 2) I'm pretty sure someone else used this before. However, I want to follow my own personal chain by letting last week's winner lose a fight, and I didn't have many Green Lantern battles to choose from, so with apologies to the Booger and whoever used this before, here we go!

Green Lantern: Member of the Green Lantern Corps and wearer of the ultimate weapon in the universe, Green Lantern's only weakness is the color yellow.

Robin: A young trapeze artist taken in by Bruce Wayne after criminals killed his parents. He now fights crime as Batman's sidekick, calling himself Robin the boy wonder!

Context: After the "kidnapping" of Dick Grayson, Green Lantern decided to talk with Batman about his violent methods, and the danger they represent for superheroes as a whole.
The dynamic duo spoke with the Lantern in a yellow room, covered in yellow painting themselves, and Robin tried to prove himself by stealing Hal's ring and defeating him in combat.


Winner: And so Robin almost kills Green Lantern, who is saved only thanks to the Batman.

As seen in All-Star Batman & Robin The Boy Wonder #9
Written by Frank Miller and penciled by Jim Lee

The one thing I truly loved in Watchmen

Listening to this particular song was haunting for me. Like opening a time capsule I didn't even know existed.

I remember it very vividly from my childhood now, which is such a strange feeling, considering a couple of days ago I didn't even remember it existed.

Memory is a strange thing.


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The film was good, but I feel torn about it. Part of my inner fanboy feels joy, part of it is disappointed at the lack of certain details and depth. The adult in me just wonders what he just finished watching and how it is relevant in the spirit of the groundbreaking original material.

If you have watched it, you probably have your own opinions, so there's no real need to elaborate further than that.

Friday Night Fights: O.P.P. Round 3

Like every week, SpaceBooger has set the rules and started the fight. Since today is also Watchmen Day, I was gonna do something related to Moore's creation. But I already did it 35 minutes ago.

Batman: After seeing his parents gunned down before his eyes, young Bruce Wayne vowed revenged on criminals and trained himself to wage a relentless war against them. Now, he's a millionaire playboy and philanthropist during the day, but when the night falls he strikes fear into the hearts of criminals prowling the streets of Gotham City as the Batman.

Green Lantern: Fearless test pilot Hal Jordan was granted an emerald ring by a dying alien. Accepting it, he became a member of the Green Lantern Corps, intergalactic cops that protect the universe in brightest day and blackest night.

Context: Years ago, Green Lantern went insane after seeing his home city destroyed by an evil alien, and after taking the power of the whole Green Lantern Corps for himself, he decided to recreate the universe. He was stopped, and he died soon afterward.
Time passed and eventually it was revealed that Hal's insanity was caused by an ancient entity created out of Fear known as Parallax. The bug-shaped alien had been secretly manipulating him all along.
Hal came back to life, but Batman, paranoid as always, wasn't willing to believe his story.
With the Parallax entity running amok, Bruce tried to stop Jordan and use the rest of Earth's heroes to take the Fear Bug down.

Hal disagreed.



Winner: It's strange to see Batman being physically subdued. But hey, it's canon. I'm granting this victory to Green Lantern, since Batman ended up reluctantly accepting him.

As seen in Green Lantern: Rebirth #6
Written by Geoff Johns and penciled by Ethan Van Sciver

Animated Watchmen

I am speechless. Whoever created this deserves a medal. Or a contract.
I would also probably be more interested in a cartoon like this than the film, but hey. In any case, I'll save my opinions for the movie until after I watch it.


But oh man, the Watch out! makes me chuckle every time.

Props to Rich from Comic by Comic for sharing this around.

So about that whole Scans_Daily thing...

Am I the only one amused at comic book bloggers that constantly use scans in order to push their own sites and are now condemning this particular community?

Of course that telling someone to die in a fire is stupid and excessive, but are people really seeing a whole community through the hyperbolic words of a single person?

I understand the whole argument about copyright infringement; And yes, this community wasn't on the right by allowing the posting of such an excessive amount of pages. (Even with their regulations, half a book is a lot)
But are we really going to start deluding ourselves that this is new? That people don't share spoilers and details about books as soon as they hit the stands? (Or before, sometimes)
Do creators not read ComicBookResources or Newsarama's forums? If people want to stay on top of books they don't read, what exactly is stopping them from going there and getting five pages of previews and threads filled with discussion of every minute detail about every certain specific issue?

Nothing. At all.