Welcome to the 3rd installment of Tumblr Thursday! Here are some of the most awesome things I found on Tumblr during the week of July 28 to August 3, 2011. Enjoy.
Not often will you see gender bent male superheroes with most of their clothes still on. [via]
Yes, I’m still calling it a reboot even though DC doesn’t want people calling it a reboot. They’re not the boss of me! Most of their established franchises will be starting fresh with all-new directions, stories and #1 issues in September and that’s a reboot in my book. With all the promised 52 new #1′s of the DC reboot finally revealed and with only covers and short descriptions to work with, I’ve already made my mind about all of them. Because we’re on the Internet and that’s how we do things around here. I’ve categorized the 52 #1′s of the Great DC Comics Reboot of 2011 into 4 groups based on what I feel about them. Let’s start with LOLWTF?!
Ah, yes. The great DC Comics Reboot of 2011. It’s been the talk of the comics Internet town for the last couple of days and there’s a multiverse of questions waiting to be answered. The entire line of DC comic books is going to be relaunched in September with all-new #1 issues — 52 in total. I doubt all the questions of fans, retailers, creators and other publishers will be answered immediately, but it wouldn’t hurt if I wonder out loud. Let’s begin with the most important question in my mind right now.
Pick-up lines, even the funniest and most charming ones, never worked for me. Must be my creepy aura. Anyhoo, I’m wondering what pick-up lines superheroes are using to get some. Here’s what my perfectly normal and totally not perverse mind came up with:
Mr. Fantastic, Stretchy Leader of the Fantastic Four
What I like about it is they changed the ending. It wouldn’t really be appropriate for Captain Atom to be the biggest hero in a Superman/Batman movie. It worked in the comics, though.
I also like the fact that they stuck with Ed McGuinness’ art style. It looks awesome in animation.
As with most straight-to-DVD animated movies from both Marvel and DC, the story is extremely compressed. I was disappointed that they left out the part where the Super family and the Bat family stormed the White House to confront Luthor about the whereabouts of Superman and Batman. That would’ve been fun to see animated. Also, we don’t see much of the dissection of the similarities and differences between Superman and Batman. That was a part of Jeph Loeb’s run on Superman/Batman that I really enjoyed. But eh, what are you gonna do?
