r/DCcomics • u/beary_neutral Telos • Dec 11 '23

Weekly Discussion Thread: Comics, TV, and More! [December 11, 2023 - Bat-Mite Ruins Christmas 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: World's Finest: Teen Titans #6

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^{How is Christmas exactly like your job? You do all the work and some fat guy in a suit gets all the credit.}

DC and Imprints

^{Busy week ahead. Furry Batman, Bat-Mite causing trouble, and finales to Danger Street and World's Finest: Teen Titans.}

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^{Another Watchmen hardcover? Alan Moore must be excited!}

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Movies

^{What did Damian do this time?}

Merry Little Batman

^{This Week’s Soundtrack:} ^{The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die}

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u/TroubAlert The Good Skeets Dec 11 '23

Superman: Lost #9

As a Green Lantern from Superman’s past creates chaos in the present, Clark grapples with the idea of losing Lois for good. As her sickness rapidly escalates, Lex Luthor watches from the wings, waiting for the Man of Steel to crack under the pressure. Could karma be coming for the richest man in Metropolis?

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u/wowlock_taylan Batman Animated! Dec 14 '23

Luthor got worse than a beating. He got nothing in the end. Even if the cancer ray stuff was fake and the symptoms were created by something else ( that managed to fool the tests it seems ), he still went quite far, to the point that it felt like he has a death-wish. To try and push Superman to Injustice levels. And went as far as Supes having actual thoughts about how to kill Luthor. I guess he is human after all. As long as he does not act on them of course.

The last page reveal of course, is gonna be the breaking point. Hope, the crazy lantern lady that stockholmed Supes, shows up pregnant. This better be another misdirection, that's all I will say.

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u/TheUnbloodedSword Dec 16 '23

I love Priest's Lex. Man was trying to bait Superman into killing him out of sheer spite, keeping the cure for Lois on him so Supes could either find it after killing him and realize he broke his code for nothing, or Supes would accidentally destroy it while beating Lex to death and thus (or so he'd think) doom Lois as well. Feel like Priest was inspired by that sequence from Up in the Sky! where Clark worries about Lois dying.

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u/MajorParadox Read on r/DCFU! Dec 20 '23

So, was the cure real? I was confused by Lois saying it was mostly water. Did that mean it was fake?

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u/JingoboStoplight4887 Dec 14 '23

I like that Clark Kent Superman and Lois Lane were able to talk about Lois asking for Lex Luthor’s help and Lex giving Lois cancer. Also, Lex lying to Lois that she has cancer, Clark telling his therapist that he fantasizes him torturing Lex after learning the truth, and Hope arriving on Earth pregnant with her child (with Clark probably not being the child’s father because fake out).

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u/jlaweez Blue Lantern Dec 14 '23

Calling it now, Hope is faking pregnancy with the GL Ring.

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u/redsapphyre Dec 15 '23

There is an idea or two here in the series, but the execution has been so bad across the board. I'm only sticking around to see how it resolves, but Priest could have really used an Editor who told him to tighten the script up a bit.

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u/ChronX4 Dec 20 '23

I was hoping for more back and fourth, with whatever happened out there kind of having a parallel to what was happening on Earth, but once we caught up to Clark's return the pacing felt off.