Comments on: Deathstorm Confirmed for Forever Evil… plus I rant for a bit

By: Deathstorm's role in FOREVER EVIL confirmed | Firestorm Fan

Deathstorm's role in FOREVER EVIL confirmed | Firestorm Fan — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:30:51 +0000

[…] Wow! Pretty interesting and creepy stuff! I wonder if the Earth 3 scientist was Martin Stein, Danton (a.k.a. Dalton) Black, or someone else entirely. Since Deathstorm is so radically different, I’m hopeful his personality will be different from the previous incarnation. Only time will tell if Deathstorm is still used as commentary on 1990s villains. […]

By: Hawky

Hawky — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 01:12:25 +0000

Just saw this and thought of you.

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/08/09/geoff-johns-reveals-the-true-villains-behind-forever-evil?abthid=520530f61ddaac742d000013

It’s a new earth 3 Deathstorm.

By: Martin Stein Returns

Martin Stein Returns — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 20:36:56 +0000

Since Shag mentioned how Deathstorm’s use of language grated on him, now that I think about it, I wonder if a certain amount of the visual appearance and language of Fury (Hulk on Fire, that is, not Earth-2’s Steve Trevor and Wonder Woman superdaughter) was supposed to be based on Deathstorm.

By: liquidcross

liquidcross — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 12:39:35 +0000

“Lots of people take cheap shots at ’90s comics nowadays, and I can’t help but stand up for them.”

Hear hear. The 1990s had much better comics than people realize; the “bad” stuff was often confined to a short span of years in the early part of the decade. Folks seem to forget that stuff like Sandman, Starman, Morrison’s JLA, Waid’s Flash…all 1990s books. (Yes, I know Sandman started in the late ’80s, but you get my drift.) In fact, I’ll come right out and say it: the 1990s are my favorite decade of comics, even though I grew up on the 1980s stuff.

Oh, and ’90s villains almost never talked like Deathstorm. So I don’t know what Johns was thinking. (He made the same mistake with Parallax-possessed Kyle Rayner; all of a sudden, he started talking like a late-1980s surfer.)

By: outburst

outburst — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 02:02:06 +0000

I probably should have said Supes got Bizarro Superman. Firestorm technically got a Bizarro Firestorm at one time too, didn’t he?

By: outburst

outburst — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 02:00:18 +0000

I guess Deathstorm was only a matter of time. He is visually striking but he’s also very one dimensional. I also thinks he stems from the very non-creative idea that every hero should have his opposite, which for me started with Professor Zoom, Reverse Flash. Batman got Catman. Superman got Cyborg Superman. Green Lantern got an entire rainbow.
In a way it’s flattering to our favourite hero and so long as it gives Firestorm a little more exposure, I’m okay with it.

By: Martin Stein Returns

Martin Stein Returns — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 02:42:42 +0000

I like Tim’s Earth-52 theory. I resisted and resisted this point on various fan boards, and now I’ve been forced in the name of intellectual honesty to embrace its inevitability… but DC is going to have to abandon this train-wreck of a “continuity” to remain viable, at some point down the road. (Whether they are actually smart enough to cut their losses, who knows.)

By: Martin Stein Returns

Martin Stein Returns — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 02:40:13 +0000

Okay, Shag, you lost me when you dissed on disco. Disco is just funk that white people can understand (handclaps on the downbeats, etc.). Long live Lipps, Inc., bay-bay!

By: Tim Wallace

Tim Wallace — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 23:59:05 +0000

Here’s my theory…Blackest Night/Brightest Day did take place, just not on the Earth we’ve been reading about…New52 Earth. That would mean the CSA is coming from a parallel world, maybe a version where the events of Blackest Night played out differently…

I’d love to find out that New52 Earth is just that…Earth 52, and everything I love about DC history from Earths 1 & 2 is still out there, they’ve just been publishing, and we’ve been reading, stories from this alternate Earth for the last couple years

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 20:43:03 +0000

Firestorm wasn’t in the new DC52 Brightest Day? This whole reboot thing is getting harder and harder to keep track of. An opposing Firestorm in the CSA has been long overdue. Hopefully opposites of other deserving (if that’s the right word) Leaguers get in too. I’d like to say Red Tornado, but I’m not sure if he’s existed yet (sigh).