Ah, they always just play their famous stuff in live shows. Gotta but the Sentinel fan CDs at the meet-and-greets for the deep cuts.

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I dunno, maybe that's the Achilles Heel of the whole Absolute concept. This is supposed to be a grimmer, corrupted world, but if that results in the lead characters actually being *more likeable*, how do you square that with the "proper" universe? Maybe Darkseid was right?🤷‍♂️
Get on those t-shirts DC.

I think it's maybe the central paradox of the book: this version of Diana is not what she's "supposed to be" compared to main continuity, but she seems much more personable and well rounded than her "normal" counterpart. So it honestly feels like the main WW is the one that's "wrong", so to speak./3

Also, there's a lot of long dialog segments of folks shilling Diana, talking about how wonderful and miraculous she is. It's an annoying feature of any WW book, but feels particularly alien to this, more humble version of the character, who really doesn't need it or seem like she'd appreciate it. /2

Well, finished the second volume. It still has a lot of promise, and it picks up again in the second of the collected stories, "The Price" (helped by Matias Bergara's art). But there's a lot of weaknesses, particularly the plotting, which feels really rushed and slipshod./1
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That's how I felt as a kid when I bought Burnout.

He really is just the most bland man possible.

A twink Trevor for a new age.

Reading the second volume of Absolute #WonderWoman and man, the art really does no favors for Steve Trevor. He looks like a haunted cowboy doll.
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I wish I had a robot just for the purpose of tormenting Jimmy Olsen.

"Like" Han Solo, not necessarily "actually" Han Solo. Dash Rendar in with a chance!

How dare you, sir! Ico is a clearly a little brother simulator, and Dead Rising is a "weird uncle who's good in a crisis for reasons you don't ask about" simulator. Escort quests belong to the whole family!

Everything I've heard about it makes it seem like the most Scott Snyder Batman that ever existed, which.....is not my thing, but I can see why people are drawn to it. Especially after the main books have been so divisive (or, if you ask me, genuinely bad) for so long.

Gender essentialist video game discourse with a side of orientalism, the scourge that never ends.
I'm going to go angrily kill aliens in Space Marine in a vain attempt to pretend my day isn't ruined.

And yeah, as other people have pointed out, this is 100% happening because it's a Japanese made game, and it's still midly acceptable to make racist assumptions about Japanese media being for pedophiles and sex offenders.

It's honestly been so fucking exhausting have to deal with game after movie after tv show where the message is "family is the only thing that matters, even if they're abusive or awful", but the reverse is somehow even worse.

No no no. We're not fucking doing this.
I haven't endured 20 years of "overprotective single dad simulators", from the Last of Us to Yakuza 6 and everything in-between that suggest parenthood is the only thing that matters, only to suddenly be gaslit into them never existing. I won't have it.

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I basically had this conversation with myself this morning:
"Why don't you give Demon Souls another try?"
"Because I hated it."
"How do you know you hated it? You never finished it!"
"I never finished it *because* I hated it!"
"Or maybe you hated it *because* you never finished it!?!"
"NO. SHUT UP."

I have a really bad habit of not wanting to quit games before I finish them, even when I don't like them, and it's a habit that gets significantly worse when I'm not super locked in to a particular game, like now. /1

To be fair, I think a bunch *do* exist, but they're, like, Nancy Drew or Sherlock Holmes games for PC (There is one I have my eye on personally). Not the stuff most reviewers give the time of day. Too, well....too "girl coded" for online gamer culture, probably.

I agree. The original Judgement is about being a detective, but all you really do there is run back and forth shouting at people till the villain reveals himself. In LA Noire none of the cases actually require you to solve them, and the Homicide desk is literally a dead end. And so on. /1

Don't get me wrong, there is such a thing as overbalancing, especially in multiplayer games (which STS isn't), but it strikes me how many gamers constantly cry out for super hard difficulty, no "handholding"...
and yet go completely ballistic when their broken munchkin strats get taken down a peg.

Crucially, 200 million people spread out over an area almost the size of the entire European continent.

Jimmy Olsen being lonely and sad without Clark around to....play catch with. ....How old is this idiot supposed to be again? From Action Comics #838

I've also been reading Kurt Busiek's #Superman stuff, and while I've really enjoyed it, I'm obligated to say that no writer has ever made me not hate Jimmy Olsen.
Seeing Jimmy despondently sitting in his apartment does not make me sad. Quite the opposite in fact.
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Halting the US economy would be a pretty massive undertaking in this day and age, and would require a level of coordination that the average smarmy jackass on Bluesky would be unable to provide.
It's not even necessarily a *bad* idea, but it's neither quick nor simple.

I think we all learned something about Hobgoblins today.

"But weren't lawn darts banned for a reason?"
"Perhaps it is the light of reason itself that has allowed fkr theor return, Susan. Haven't we all longed to cast off our anti-dart superstitions?"

The Tick Theme YouTube video by Doug Katsaros - Topic

There are far too many great, unrecognized television themes to count, so many that I couldn't decide on what to put.
So instead I just went with The Tick because it's just the right kind of dumb.

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So, as I've now gotten through the 4th (!) romantic relationship that Captain America has totally botched by being emotionally negligent, I'm curious; #comic readers of Bluesky, who do you think is the worst boyfriend in comics, outside of abusive ones?
I'd probably go for Hal Jordan. What a creep.

Hank Pym taunts a goon:"Touching? You want touching?" Goon: Whoa-whoa-WHOA!" Pym: "I'll touch you!" From Captain America #436

Hank, please, stop talking about "touching" people.
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However low your opinion of the Roberts Court, it should be lower.

Steve Rogers in a ridiculous 90s get-up, complete with unnecessary pouches and a weird Juggernaut neck. From Captain America #431

My god that is an ugly ass costume. Maybe America really *was* a mistake....
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