I just neeeed to know your thoughts on the Blue Beetle movie bcs I'm going insane!!! (Whenever you get around to watching it of course <3)
This is perfect timing because I just saw it tonight and AHHHHH I LOVED IT!!!
Without getting into spoilers, I thought it was a pretty standard superhero origin movie, but it didn’t feel like “ugh, I’ve seen this before” because it had a very clear point of view and so much heart. They got Jaime’s personality exactly right and Xolo Maridueña is so freaking adorable in the role??? Also, the Easter eggs! The deep cuts! THE PRE-CREDITS SCENE!!!
comics are fun bc i can talk to three different friends whose interpretations of a character i generally agree with about a particular comic featuring that character and have one of them be like “omg i love that comic its SO good” one of them be like “ehhh its okay” and one of them be like “that comic is the worst pile of garbage ive ever read and dc should compensate me for my time”
I think Roy Harper is the personification of all those “my unemployed friend on a Tuesday” memes. Even if he was employed. Like you’d walk into his home and it’s just full of Contraptions. He just does Things and the purpose is unintelligible
Jason is like this too but in a less noticeable way. Roy is like “I welded a toaster oven to my assault rifle to see if it would do anything when I zapped it with a taser” and Jason is like “I read four textbooks and wrote an academic paper about the Mesopotamian grain economy”
“what did you guys do today”
“we liberated a country and then I built a motorized couch that’s technically street legal and then Jason blew up the road couch”
oh my god that lineup is so perfect i need this so bad?? honestly dc's approach rn is such a mess it could so easily be improved, but you so perfectly put together a way to organize all the major characters and series! and ongoings oml i will never stop being frustrated at dc for ditching that format cause literally how do you expect people to care about your "universe" if its just a bunch of random disjointed series with no consistent characters or starting point or even discernible target audience??? just a mess straight up, and also the day they start letting women and people of colour and queer people into dc is the day we'll actually get something good but how much must we suffer until then
WHEN WILL MY ONGOINGS RETURN FROM THE WAR. It’s like they forgot their whole thing is serialized fiction!