Starting at Week 31! Four weeks until the Rain...
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>>83799173
IT'S RAINING MEN
I should be able to just barely fit issue 41 in here, provided no one posts any images.
>>83827939
You're a bastard.
Awwww yeah
Just checked, we're going to hit like, 249 for images. Just barely under the wire.
>>83828089
Man, Ralph's subplot is one of my favorite parts of this story. It's resolved so well and so tragically at the same time.
>>83828121
I love last panel with them. All those trials he went through and they got happy ending.
>>83828131
Batman, eat your heart out.
>>83828141
Hal was right for killing those midgets. What bunch of dicks. Best is how they all wield godlike power and they never do shit with it.
>>83828180
>Those earrings
This issue felt so off the first time I read it. Like there was obviously some violence with the intergang subplot and later on with WWIII and the rain of the supermen. But this one was pretty much a self contained space horror story.
>>83828317
In the notes they talk about creating Lady Styx to up DC's Cosmic Terror quotient.
To quote Keith Giffen,
> I mean, Darkseid's a great character and all, but geez... he was being passed around the office like a bong.
>>83828317
>Those earrings
Can you believe I've read this comic a half dozen times before and have never noticed that before? Fuck me.
>>83828365
God bless you, Giffen.
Mark Waid:
>As we've said before in interviews, while each member of the writing team took point on a different 52 character, we all still traded off from time to time. The Ralph scenes in this issue were written by Grant at our mutual insistence. I bow to no one on this team in my ability to write about guys with super-powers solving impossible crimes, but when it comes to transcendental matters of faith, I have all the spirituality of a filing cabinet.
>Eastern theology and mysticism are way, way, way out of my wheelhouse, whereas Grant hangs out with Deepak Chopra on a regular basis. Point, Morrison.
Oh Alfred.
>>83828486
>It's a christmas issue
>>83828530
Would you mind deleting your image? We're going to be cutting it close as it is.
Evidently Rucka took almost all of Question's lines in this scene from O'Neil's run, and the storyline is of special significance to the team as Keith Giffen lost both his father and father-in-law to lung cancer.
>>83828652
Who's guy with a green tie?
>>83828673
It's Hal
Let's play name that character!
>>83828670
>throwing your scaly pal like he's trash
Karma's bitch, Osiris.
>>83828682
Ha, yes. In my head, Hal's Rebirth happens after Final Crisis for some reason.
>>83828689
Boomer, the persuader, count vertigo, plastique, Atom Smasher and Idk about the guy with the black mask
Oh Sobek!
>>83828756
Note: this part is a hell of a lot more meaningful if you've read the Black Reign arc of Johns' JSA.
NAAAAARRRGGGHHH
>>83828812
You have to think Waller knew exactly what she was doing sending a bunch of psychos to push them like that. Whole thing was a set-up and that's what makes it more tragic that Atom Smasher was there again.
>>83828851
what a cunt
>>83828774
It's mentioned before in 52, Waller says how Albert, Black Adam and few others went to Kahndaq.
>>83828543
> Charlie Brown
Oh Lex. You had him at your disposal and powerless, and you just didn't ask the right question.
>>83828812
You see exact moment where Vertigo figures he should go to Europe and never leave.
>>83828911
There's a two-page bit from Byrne's Superman where Luthor constructs a machine to calculate Superman's identity and it turns up 'Clark Kent' and Luthor thinks the machine's defective because that can't POSSIBLY be true.
>>83828950
Oh boy here it comes
>>83828940
Yeah at that point he's basically thinking "Why the fuck did I get myself involved with this shit again".
Fucking Lex.
>>83828458
That sequence being written by Morrison makes so much fucking sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5aZJBLAu1E
>>83828458
>Grant hangs out with Deepak Chopra on a regular basis
Deepak Chopra, as in the lunatic fraud who talks a load of bullshit about quantum woo?
And to think I respected you, Morrison.
>>83829027
I remember the first time I read this (with a /co/ storytime thread, no less) there were a couple places in the story where I had to close my laptop and just stare at the wall for a few good minutes.
This was one.
The other one is coming up.
>>83829060
And to think. I remember people complaining when Johns wrote Luthor pushing his secretary off of a roof in New 52 Justice League.
>>83829027
I don't get it
Why?
>>83829131
Because Luthor is a petty, sociopathic dick.
>>83828908
Ohhhh. He's an everyman. I get it.
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>>83829060
He actually did it
The absolute Madman
>>83829017
>Rain of The Supermen
I get it!
>>83829300
Not sure which it was, but one of the writers REALLY had to fight for that one.
>>83829333
>They're cheering us on
>Toldja the universe likes me
I suppose reading this at the time it would've been pretty heartbreaking, but in retrospect it's more funny.
>>83829353
God damn cancer fucking sucks.
>>83829131
>they have powers
>he can't have them
Dun dun dun...
Before we go any further, is there anyone who hasn't read this, but figured out Supernova's identity?
HE'S ALIVE
>>83829447
I've read this before, but I remember kicking myself for not catching on before it was revealed.
In my defense though, I was pretty new to the DCU so I couldn't really make a lot of accurate guesses in the first place.
>>83829405
Wait, what?
This is probably the weed talking, but did Sobek say "They hate us, Sobek"? Is the kid also named Sobek? Or are the speech balloons switched?
>>83829532
Also keep in mind, this version of Booster and Rip are still around.
...Kind of.Booster is the new Waverider
>>83829570
Speech balloons got switched.
I wonder if that got fixed in later printings.
>>83829570
Speech balloons are wrong.
>>83829532
GORDON'S ALIVE!?
>>83829662
BOOSTER I LOVE YOU
BUT WE ONLY HAVE 52 WEEKS TO SAVE THE EARTHS
>>83829706
I used to have a recurring nightmare about being stranded in deep space with no way back to earth.
Reading this page for the first time didn't help.
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>>83828624
This is sad as fuck :(
>>83829793
I want an ongoing with Mad Science Island shenanigans.
>>83829825
Call it "Greetings from Oolong Island", and style all the covers after postcards.
>>83829464
BOOBS OF STEEL
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>>83829841
I'm guessing the Oolog island stuff was written by Morrison? Or at least the 4th world related stuff
>>83829879
Yeah I'm pretty sure Morrison did the Oolong Island scenes. Some of the humor seems pretty Giffen-y to me though.
RIP Charles Victor Szasz
>>83829996
Right outside the gates.
If she'd moved him a week earlier, he might have made it.
>>83830064
Right but then the story would end there.
>>83830108
Shush. I'm appreciating the tragedy.
>>83829595
I think Booster's Convergance is storytimed every other week.
I love it.
>>83830136
Really? I had heard about it but never saw it storytimed until about a week ago when it was included with Preacher Anon's big Booster Gold storytime series.
>>83830264
>with a glass of Chianti
ha
>>83830282
Oh wow. Hannibal. Like Hannibal Lecter. How did I not realize that sooner?The name, not the eating people part.
