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Belkar Bitterleaf, the sexy shoeless god of war himself.

In other news I just saw that Marvel made Miles Morales Thor, and oh holy shit what the fuck are they doing. I gather it's a what-if so not 'official' but like... every single cheap stereotype they could have it, in three images.



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Not really. Though I'm not sure how that would work anyway.

But they released a soundtrack which, as far as I can tell, doesn't have any actual death metal on it, so yeah.

I've been behind on comics recently but I took a trip to London and picked up a couple things: Dark Nights: Death Metal and Superman: Son of Kal-El.


Death Metal is cool - despite me missing almost the entirety of the intervening Justice League run I found it a lot clearer, with more room for its moments to breathe, than the first Dark Nights, and in a lot of ways it reads like a more coherent version of Final Crisis, which is nice- but it have two things that kinda bothered me: first, Snyder seemed to be having some kind of contest in the last 10 years or so with Hickman over at Marvel as to who could expand the scale of their 'verse and the villainry facing it to the most absurd levels, and both have gotten kinda silly (which also feeds into the old thing of constantly doing basically the same BUT BIGGER, rather than being imaginative with it), and second, Snyder fell too in love with The Batman Who Laughs. I get he wanted to have this crazy bat-themed world-end scenario, but BWL just didn't make sense in his role in the last part of the story. Darkseid would have been a far better fit or, if he did want to avoid just totally going Final Crisis-redux, someone else (I'd have gone with Vandal Savage, since I always think he'd make a good Wonder Woman counterpart in the same way Darkseid has evolved into an opposition force to Superman, and part of the issue was it being all Batman-themed also didn't quite fit with Diana as the main character here).


Still, Snyder knows how to write this kind of thing, in general.


Son of Kal-El is just super. I think it's the first thing I've read from Tom Taylor but he's clearly a cracking righter. Just got right into proving there's absolutely no reason a Superman story can't be relevant or relatable.

I wish all the supporters joy and I hope I like this one more than the first. I'm not coming in with a positive mindset towards the whole project personally, but nonetheless.