http://asitecalledfred.com/2008/03/14/comics-in-context-217-the-next-frontier/ Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:27:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://asitecalledfred.com/2008/03/14/comics-in-context-217-the-next-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-2686 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:25:43 +0000 http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/2008/03/14/comics-in-context-217-the-next-frontier/#comment-2686 Why does this symbol “ keep showing up instead of quotation marks and apostrophes?

]]> http://asitecalledfred.com/2008/03/14/comics-in-context-217-the-next-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-2681 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:12:26 +0000 http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/2008/03/14/comics-in-context-217-the-next-frontier/#comment-2681 Great work, as usual, I just have a couple of comments: I believe Capt. Cold’s costume was meant to reflect The Center’s control over him. It looks like the outfit the cultists were wearing when Batman fought them. At least, that was the impression I got.
I felt the unkindest cut from the comics was the exclusion of the Challengers of the Unknown. They already had Ace set up as GL’s buddy and the others appear in the big fight sequences but they are not given any backstory. Unless you know comics, you don’t know who these guys are. I thought I remembered them playing a bigger role in the comic (but I could be wrong, I read it a couple of years ago). Also, did Hourman die in the comic or did they fake his death and hold him in that facility where J’onn ended up? I honestly can’t recall if the latter happened or if I just kept expecting it to happen.
I could be misremembering but isn’t there a scene in which the hunted heroes (represented by Flash) show up to help the army and they have a standoff with Faraday until Supes gives his speech? I think that was meant to resolve any lingering government vs. capes action so that Batman was arriving after the heroes had been deemed “okay to help.” That was why no one mentioned he was wanted, I think.

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