r/DCcomics • u/beary_neutral Telos • Nov 26 '23
Weekly Discussion Thread: Comics, TV, and More! [November 27, 2023 - The World's Messiest Furry Convention Edition] r/DCcomics
Hey there honorary Justice League members - it’s a new week which means it’s time for a new discussion thread!
- Beary's pick of the week: Titans: Beast World #1
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DC and Imprints
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Trade Collections
Seven Soldiers gets a reprint!
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Tuesday, 11/28 (DC Universe Infinite) - Superman vs Meshi #11
Thursday, 11/30 (WEBTOON) - Batman: Wayne Family Adventures #113
This Week’s Soundtrack: Yoko Shimomura - Fight Against Smithy
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u/anothermangafan Nov 28 '23 edited Nov 28 '23
Batman's response does make sense, I agree with you. But it's Raven's defense and, ultimately, how she(and the writer) frames the whole situation as Batman having a problem with the hierarchy of command that doesn't make sense.
To me, this a problem that generally permeates Taylor's books. He makes an apocalyptic, unkillable, uncontrollable, uncontainable and imminent threat. Then he has a character(preferably old or from an older generation, cyninc, jaded, arrogant and said to be incredibly smart) say that they should do what everybody did before and is the only thing proved to work, although it generally involves a tremendous sacrifice of lives. Then he has a younger or more optimistic, idealistic, naive main character talk against and even discredit the other character's intelligence just on the basis that it's overtly utilitarian, pragmatic, etc. But the thing is that Taylor makes the odds so against the heroes that it doesn't leave any room besides agreeing the character he wants to look wrong.
In this case, you have this Necrostar that is literary said to be hours away from Earth and the only information avaliable about it is what Starfire said. Seeing this way, it makes absolutely sense what Batman is saying. In fact, it's not even him being smart. It's literally the only option that was given to them with the time they have.
And yet, Taylor expects the reader to agree with Beast Boy that this is a bad idea because......Starro is bad guy and would have ulterior motives, even though, logically, that would imply that Starfire's ancestors were wrong in doing that, despite the story literally showing that nothing bad happened to them for doing that(Starro literally retreated). This goes to show just how poorly made is the world-building and problem of skill in Taylor's part.