What Are They Thinking?: DC Needs A Watchman

So, here on What Were They Thinking? (the place where we look at all of the stupidest, most ill-advised things in the history of comics) we don’t tend to look at current storylines (so storylines published with in the last year, currently being published or to be published soon), we mostly look at storylines from at least 5 years ago and, more often than not, earlier. However, there has been one occassion where we have looked at a more recent storyline, when we looked at Spider-Man’s Clone Conspiracy crossover. That was what Marvel were doing last year, but what about DC. They were doing Rebirth at the time, which was their way of fixing the dumpster fire that was the New 52. It’s not like they would do anything to ruin their legacy whilst trying to salvage it right? They’d never bring back classic characters from classic storylines that should be left well alone right?

Oh wait

Riiight… Ok.

Sorry, this weeks What Were They Thinking is going to be a bit shorter than usual. I urgently need to go out and buy a large whole tuna and a plane ticket to California.

Caption Contest #89 Results

So, last week I asked you guys to come up with the best replacement dialogue for this panel:

And here are our top 5:

Treasure Hunter

Vader: “Is that Jar Jar down in the Sarlac Pit?”

Jabba: “Yes. Happy Birthday”

Rekulhs Nathe

Vader: “Why is he laughing?”

Jabba: “Hmm. I think he remembered how much you hate sand.”

Tuldabar

Vader: “I’ll take a large, stuffed crust with pepperoni and black olives and a side order of cinnamon breadsticks.”

Jabba: “Hey, just because Pizza the Hutt is my cousin doesn’t make this any less awkward. Would you like a soda?”

Herman Smellville

Vader: “Yeah, so, this isn’t a pet-friendly office. It’s not my choice, but the building’s owner is tired of cleaning up Kowakian monkey-lizard scat. It’s a violation of our lease so…”

Jabba: “I have a disability and Salacious is a certified emotional support animal.”

Calvary Red

Vader: “Doesn’t that annoy you?”

Jabba: “No. Not as much as this squirt that used to say “yippee.”

However, unlike the sith, there can only ever be one winner and that is…

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The List: Top 10 Spider-Man Villains

So, Spider-Man. He does whatever a spider can, which apparently includes swinging overhead, spinning a web any size and catching thieves like flies. However, it seems that what spiders are best at is accruing enemies (just ask the worlds approximately 427 million Arachnophobes), and seen as our favourite wall-crawler has all the abilities of a spider it should come as no surprise that he has made his fair share of enemies during his 55 years in publication. Indeed, he has one of the greatest rogues galleries in all of comics, but who are his best villains, the elite of arachnid adversaries? Well, I guess we need a list.

Honourable Mentions: Rhino (Alexi Sytsevich), Sandman (Flink Marko), Scorpion (Mac Gargan)

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Kong: Skull Island Spoiler-Free Review

Well, everyone here we are back again with another movie review! Today we’re going to talk about Kong: Skull Island, the latest incarnation of the classic character from Legendary in the same vein as 2014’s Godzilla, and in fact paving the way for an eventual rematch between the two characters. So let’s get right to it and see how it is!

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Character Design Challenge #312 – It’s All About You! – Results

Great job this week folks!

Honourable mention goes to HermanSmellville

And the win this week goes to Christi S for this remarkable entry.

The pose is amazing, and the colours/highlighting and shading are top notch.

Please join me in congratulating Christi S on the win, and thanks to all who entered.

Poll Position: Best Batman Story

So, Batman. He’s the second oldest character still in publication in mainstream American Superhero comics, having been published non-stop since his debut in May of 1939. He also has unarguably the greatest gallery of villains of any superhero, ranging from the stone cold classics (such as The Joker, Penguin, Two-Face and Catwoman) to the underappraciated gems (Calender Man, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee) to the down right ridiculous (Ten-Eyed Man). And it is also fair to say that he has the best supporting cast of any character in comics, be it his Bat-Family (the various Robins, Bat-Girls and Bat-Women) or his allies and confidents (Alfred Pennyworth and Jim Gordon being the standouts here). So with such scope and range in what to look for, it should be fairly easy to find Batman stories that can be classified as classics of the comic book medium. But which is the best?

As per usual I have given you ten options to start with and you can add your own. You can add specific comic issues if you so please, but try to refer to any multi-issue storylines by name (e.g. Batman #492-511 would be refered to as Knightfall). Elseworlds stories do count, as do any World’s Finest or team-up stories provided Batman is a title character (so no The Brave and The Bold stories). We are not including any Bat-family storylines that do not include Batman, nor Justice League or Outsiders, Batman-centric stories only.

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What Were They Thinking?: Wholey Terrible

So, two weeks ago on What Were They Thinking (the place where we take a look at all of the stupidest, most ill-advised things in comics history) we covered a lovely little Batman story called “The Widening Gyre” (I still have no idea what a gyre is nor why one should be getting wider). In that story, the writer quite literally takes a piss all over Frank Miller’s seminal Batman Begins story. Now, that got me thinking. We’ve already covered Frank on WWTT before for his more recent Batman storylines, but Frank is a very prolific writer and has written some true masterpieces in his time. Surely, those two Batman comics can’t be truly indicative of his work post-millennium can they?

Oh

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Geostorm Trailer!

I just had to share this will all of you. After a number of teasers popped up Tuesday, we were told that a full trailer for what will probably be one of the most anticipated movies of 2017 would be debuting Wednesday. I speak of course, about Geostorm. Yes, that weather-disaster thriller brought to us by Dean Devlin and starring Gerard Butler (why do you keep doing this to me, man?). Also, Jerry Bruckheimer and another director, Danny Cannon is involved too. It’s kind of complicated. But on to the trailer.

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Caption Contest #89

Ok guys, time for another caption contest, where you have to come with the funniest replacement dialogue for a random comic panel of my choosing. This week you have to replace all of the dialogue for this panel:

Everyone can have a maximum of 3 entries, entries must be in by next Wednesday (March 15th) and All Entries Must Be PG-13.

The List: Top 10 Best Performances In A Superhero TV Show

You know, hindsight is really annoying, serving only to remind you that you could have done something better if you’d have done it slightly differently. In hindsight, yes I should have separated this into Live-Action and Cartoon, as I did with the Best Superhero TV Shows. But I didn’t, so we’re just gonna have to deal with it at this point.

Anyway, I think we’ll get on with the list shall we?

Honourable Mentions: Melissa Benoist- Supergirl (Supergirl 2015- Pres), Tom Welling- Clark Kent (Smallville 2001-11)

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