"Reading the ISS is like watching a beloved relative die."
-Chris Sims of The ISB.
This week saw the premiere of Justice League Dark, the magic/occult version of DC's Justice League series, featuring all your favorite spell-casting weirdo heroes. But The International Society of Supervillains has learned that Dark isn't the only new Justice League brand hitting the shelves in the coming months. We've discovered the official logos for all the six new Justice League books, and they're right after the cut.
If you've been paying attention to the comics internet lately, you may have noticed the new trend of writers and artists teaming up to have a character explain his/herself in six panels.
We here at the ISS didn't want to be left out, so we got together with six different artists to give a little-known character a chance to reintroduce himself to new fans. Enjoy.
Who: Geese Howard
What: Cold letting himself fall to his death rather than accept help from his nemesis, Terry Bogard.
When: December 1995/November 1999
Where: Real Bout: Fatal Fury/Garou: Mark of the Wolves
Why it's a great moment: At the end of Real Bout: Fatal Fury, Terry Bogard reaches out to catch crime boss Geese Howard after he falls off the side of his tower. Geese pulls away and lets himself fall to his death, laughing as he plummets. That'd be badass enough all alone, but observe the moment when it's revisited four years later in Garou: Mark of the Wolves. Check out the look on Geese's face. It's not just that he won't accept help from Bogard. He enjoys the hell out of taking away the hero's chance to save a life. That's villainin', right there.
Earlier this week, Newsarama unveiled all 52 logos for the new DC books coming out next month. The new logos, particularly the hideous Batman logo that reveals his future as a performer at the Gathering, have sparked lots of discussion online.
But one we have not yet seen discussed is the logo for one of the books focusing on one of us villains, Deathstroke.
So let's examine it.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011 was a momentous day. It wasn't the day casino owner A. Samuels dropped his smash-hit single "Livin De Life" on Youtube, but it was the day most of the internet became aware of its greatness. If you somehow missed it, here it is, in all its glory:
As is always the case with such a complex and challenging work, discussions of the song's true meaning have abounded in the more intellectual corners of the Web. But we haven't seen anything really get to the heart of A. Samuel's genius. "Couldn't there be some other way?" we said aloud to ourselves last night, as we sat awake wondering if we were truly livin' de life.
Then we noticed something. YouTube has a feature which transcribes a video's audio track into subtitles. This might be it, we thought. This might be the key to "de life." Follow along with us on our journey of discovery.
Who: Dr. Simon Hurt
What: Publicly coming out as "Thomas Wayne"
When: July 2010
Where: Batman & Robin #13
Why it's a great moment: There are tons of moments you could identify as great ones for Dr. Simon Hurt. His "I am the hole in things speech." His prediction that the next time Batman puts on his cowl it'll be his last. Burying Batman alive after destroying his mind and forcing him to use his back-up personality.
But no image of Dr. Hurt has burned into the comics internet's collective memory like the one above, in which Hurt, before revealing himself to the public as Bruce Wayne's father, Thomas, indulges in orgiastic pleasures to celebrate having the Waynes murdered. Soon after Hurt reveals himself as Thomas Wayne, he doses all of Gotham with an addictive drug that spirals everything into chaos and shoots Dick Grayson through the head with a paralysis bullet. It all would have worked, too, if it hadn't been for a banana peel.
Tuesday, USA Today announced that the new Ultimate Spider-Man (for the record, that means he's the second Last Spider-Man) is Miles Morales, a half-black, half-Hispanic teenager.
The comics internet has exploded with controversy, with some criticizing the move as motivated by political correctness. Others see the character as being potentially inspirational.
But what do the people think? We here at the ISS, being villains of the people, dove into the comments on the original USA Today article to find out.
