Comments on: Action Comics #719: A Medical Review

By: Rens

Rens — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:58:27 +0000

Besides, given that it’s the Joker we’re talking about, chances are that the ‘antibodies’ he’d supposedly generate with the injection would turn the non-fatal toxin he hit Lois with into something fatal. He’s that kind of cruel, after all.

By: First Last

First Last — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:15:57 +0000

I’m sort of late to the party on this post I guess but it seems like they could have called The Atom in or something and had him clean out her blood. I mean it makes as much sense as the anti-body thing and everyone loves The Fantastic Voyage, right?

By: M

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:26:47 +0000

I don’t care who dies I’m still on – She’s poisoned by a Joker doll, and the Joker is in Arkham, and it takes Superman and Batman how long to find him?

By: Sable Hope

Sable Hope — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:07:16 +0000

Sean, yes that makes sense but..
your second paragraph, the bit about being a young nation remembering frontier justice?
Doesnt work. Canada is a much younger nation[1867] with as much [or more] cultural diversity et all.
But ive yet to see a comic about “pony soldiers” or “Jean Claude the metis fur trapper of Manitoba” sitting on a comic book store shelf. If thats correct: where are our superheros? As example: NYC gets batman, the fantastic four, spiderman, the avengers east coast & the xmen. All of canada gets…. Dudley Do-right, Wolverine & Alpha Flight? Thats a bit odd no? XD

By: Psudo

Psudo — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:32:38 +0000

Our days of frontier vigilante justice in the USA are still pretty mainstream. From the movie Shooter to war in Iraq, we still believe that frontier justice is justice on some level.

By: Sean Duggan

Sean Duggan — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:48:37 +0000

@Sable Hope – Well, most of the superhero books are made and sold in the US (Well, at least the DC and Marvel, etc), so I suspect that it’s to cater to the audience. An occasional exotic location full of savages like Germany or France is nice every once in a while, but we enjoy reading books where we don’t have to wonder whether a particular action or piece of clothing is supposed to stand out and be significant (Oh no! Everyone’s wearing bowler hats! It must be mind control HAX! Oh wait… we’re in a stereotyped UK… they were those over there). Plus, it adds that additional versimilitude of “Hey, I kind of recognize that scene… maybe I could have a superhero experience. Oh, Lex Luthor… that dreamy shiny dome of yours…”

Then again, I want to say that I’ve seen some explanation along the lines of that the high cultural diversity and “can-do attitude” of the United States results in creative energies that just plain lead to super heroes. Not to mention that as a young nation, our days of frontier vigilante justice aren’t that far behind us.

By: Sable Hope

Sable Hope — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:40:04 +0000

J, lol, I just put that down to the standard comic book status quo ante: It neither helps nor hurts to have stange people dashing about the world in long underoos/really mini skirts/fetishwear.[hero or villain, your call.]

mind, I could have developed that idea because we don’t have the death penalty up in Canuckistan.[Or maybe i just see the basic 'we keep them around even if it makes no sense cause it sells comics & thus makes us more money. part of the reason ive stopped buying comics- the internal unlogic makes my head hurt.]
Oh, heres a thought- is the death penalty thing part of the reason 97.76% of comic books [that take place on earth anyway] are set in the us? Off the top of my head I can think of a couple tolken characters from europe & one team from canada[and those only marvel universe] which makes me curious-again is that because they sell to their target audience? *Ponders this* :P

By: J

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:16:16 +0000

Batman’s conga line of recurring villains: proof of our heroes’ principles, or subtle advertisement for the death penalty? YOU decide!

By: GW Crawford

GW Crawford — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:39:54 +0000

Although I like the fact that DC still has superheroes who are not sociopaths (unlike Marvel) Joker, at some point, would have to die

He is simply the ultimate, unstoppable, irredeemable recidivist

Now, if you change it so that the Joker is now a psychic entity and, even if you do kill him, he just moves in and takes somebody else (and he doesn’t even cause nosebleeds when he does it… unless he makes the possessee punch themself in the face)

By: Sable Hope

Sable Hope — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:44:35 +0000

I’ve never understood the “You released the bad guy/created the opurtuity for the accident to happen/what have you- and are thefore responsible for anyone that gets hurt/dead/some sort of traumatized now until who-knows-when because of it.” What? Makes no sense!