Durakken

I haven't read them yet, but i would think that the Mass Effect books are worth a read, which is why I'll be reading them soon...

Star Trek: Vulcans are anything but home bodies, from what is known. They are an insular civilization which is why Spock gets all that grief. And we're not talking 100-200 years... We're talking, if I remember right, something like 5000 years of exploration and expansionism. It could be they just don't call anyone that calls home another planet as a Vulcan for some reason, but there is just no way there would only be "10,000" Vulcans. Especially since we know there are ships that are all Vulcan in Starfleet and ships are generally 500-1000 people... that's saying there are less than 10 vulcan starfleet ships... Highly unlikely given Vulcans having their own fleet for well over 1000 years.


DC: I said that the DCU Earth is up 4x bigger due to the fact there are roughly four major cities in one area and there is a ton more countries. Despite that DC also maintains that their population is 6 or 7 billion people on Earth which means that there is a lot more empty space just from that, but also there is a ton more because there are several more mega cities. The average major city has only around 3 million people, New York has like 10 millionish, and the biggest city has something like 17 or 18 million. Regardless, the major disasters and such of the DCU Earth has well over 15 million people dying and moving about the country in mass waves that I'm pretty sure no system could sustain for very long.

Does it both anyone else that it appears that a number of writers don't seem to understand population sizes, how populations grow, and how much space is needed for any particular amount of a population...

Some numbers come to mind immediately that annoy me...

In Star Trek (XI) the Vulcan home world is destroyed and it's stated something like the number of Vulcans killed was 4,000,000,000 and there are only something like 4,000 Vulcans left in the galaxy...

Ok, the 4 bil number could be understandable because once you get space capabilities it could be thought that a pop stabilizes at a given number, but then saying there are only 4,000 Vulcans left...That is so unrealistic and unlikely it's really not ignorable. Looking at all the history of Star Trek we know AND just basic logic about a culture that have been out in space and have expanded to the level that we are left to assume they have there is no way that the Vulcan population was ALL on Vulcan nor that only that amount of pop was savable or off-world... clearly if the Enterprise, a ship from a 100 year old space civ could carry that many when it's not designed to, a colony ship from a 200+ year old space civ could carry more than that and thus indicates that there had to be at least that many on every Vulcan colony when they were originally set up and had expanded.



Of course there is always mass Gotham population movement... From 10m to 2m to 6m to 8m over the course of 10 years would throw the DCU USA into mass chaos...and not to mention the, I think, 8 million people that were killed in the Coast City thing...and then the complete repopulation of that area. in that same time >.> but we'll forgive that because comics are odd like that.

>.>

The difference between SG:U and SG:A and SG-1 is that SG:A and SG-1 focus mainly on 4 characters that are balanced around "military man", "physicist", "anthropologist/everyman", and "alien" which gives you 4 very good perspectives of "shoot first", "thats cool technology", "Aliens are cool!", and "You people are strange..." that are middle aged/young...while SG:U focuses on 2 old main characters, one being the military guy who thinks "shoot first! I don't want to be leader because it's apparent I'm incompetent but I must be leader!" and one being the science guy "Shoot first! This technology is cool and must be protect...and that includes from incompetent leaders" and then has 4+ secondary and tertiary characters...which are all age like 20-30...unless they are scientists or "authority figures" who have to be older obviously.

Gotham City Sirens #18:

Zatanna and Talia plot to take Selina's memory of Bruce's Secret Identity while Ivy and Harley argue with her and eventually each other about Selina deceiving her and whether it was right or wrong. It a nice look at the various psychologies and the tension between each of the characters, but overall I think this will be an excuse for some nonsense in the near future where Selina forgets and I don't like that... I think it also might be an interesting turn if Selina discusses her relationship with Bruce and gets Bruce to talk with Ivy and Harley and eventually tell them his identity which would be a natural extension of what those characters have gone through over the last several years with Ivy and Harley both coming down more on the hero side than on the villain side...and them both liking Bruce Wayne. Also with Batman Inc. it would give them a super knowledgeable ally in Ivy as a tech support of sort for the new Batmen... and with Harley... well honestly what other line would her psychology knowledge be more apt in other than choosing Batmen and helping with catching other criminals, ultimately helping Joker remain on top.

Detective Comics #872:

Middle of the story, not really anything to talk about. I think the whole conclusion of this episode was meh at best and at worst was BS. The back up left me annoyed as the background they try to fill you in on doesn't make any sense because almost nothing in the exposition happened as far as I know... and the ending goes against what those characters would do in those situations.

Batman: The Dark Knight #1:

Mediocre start with a mediocre cliffhanger at the end... the story so far leaves me questioning why they haven't just used Zatanna which would be a nice look into their relationship instead of introducing this new character that is more or less a hack character with her name being Dawn Golden and her father's name being Aleister and series supposed to be more about the paranormal events that Bruce encounters... If I were new to reading comics or had never heard of Batman, I'd likely not pick this up.

That's an older picture...

Also, as some of you apparently haven't noticed. That is painted/drawn/CG artwork. it's been a while since I went to the artists page to know what exactly is and isn't art and which is real... The artist is female and she has several other similar images last time i saw them...

Edit: Here's the the artists' Blog...and there is a vid of how they do the image...

http://fanartexhibit.wordpress.com/?s=wonder+woman

There are 4 pages and i suggest looking at older pages cuz there are other heroes in there.

We are left with no reason to believe that those characters even actually existed after that because death is "everlasting peace" too. it doesn't describe anything and really it's relative to who's talking. But that being said, even if all 4 characters were medical geniuses it is likely they wouldn't have the materials to treat any problems Lois might have.

Other characters...Kal-L is portrayed as having good intentions who realizes his mistake and one can understand how he came to that conclusion with the whole identity crisis and such. He believes he is doing the right thing, that the heroes aren't heroes... and thats how a lot of people felt within the world at that time so it makes sense.

As far as build up and how dark the situation really was...well it's possible that they could see not just the present but the future. Why is this important? Because in the future before IC there would have been a long dark period for earth... which is explored a little bit in Teen Titans. In the future they likely saw, most of the heroes has also died, and their replacements had tore the US apart and become more or less villains... so yeah, considering that, IC could have been seen as preventative to a degree on Superboy-Prime's and Luthor's part... and Superboy-Prime, may have even started out with noble goals but the deeper he got the more he dug himself into a hole and got treated as a villain.

Haven't you ever started something with the right intentions and ran into resistance and instead of backing down or letting cooler head prevail dug in and fought harder...only to find that they fought harder and gotten into a spiral of making worse and worse choices? That's pretty much what i think prime's character does.

Ummm

It is assumed that Lois was like in 60-80 and roughly 10 years passes between the two crisis. That makes her 70-90 years old and even under the best conditions, which even though it may be a "paradise" probably doesn't have the staff nor the technology to deal with old age so it isn't at all unreasonable to believe that she might die sooner rather than later and thats not considering the stress of dimension crossing and other stuff that is known to effect characters in the DCU.

Superman/Batman #79
Batman Annual #28 2011
Batman: Streets of Gotham #18
Green Lantern: Larfleeze Christmas special #1
Batman, Inc. #2
Green Lantern Corps #55

Here's the list I'll be reading this week...

Also I'm gonna give DC Universe: Legacies a chance and JLA's cover looks interesting too

SuperOz, Superboy-Prime's character is consistent in my opinion.

He has a chance to save the day by the side of his hero Kal-L.
He gives this up largely without thinking and follows the lead of Luthor and Kal-L
Later he realizes that what he saved was not what he thought he was and further it was tarnishing the name of his hero. Worse yet, he didn't grow up having super powers or having the responsibility or having any real role models to draw from so his love for Kal-L and wanting his world back was twisted.
This caused the outrage and such in IC and then the break down pretty much in other titles as he starts to realize he isn't living up to his name... So at this point it is a matter of does he think he himself can be redeemed and how accepting is he of that.

Luthor on the other hand has virtually no modus operandi to do what he did other than knowledge and time to plan out how to do it along with the god complex all Luthors seem to have...

WHF, what are you talking about? I didn't give an explanation as to why my opinion isn't affected. I simply said it wasn't. That's not an explanation. That's a statement.

I think LunarKnight hit on the head, Superboy-Prime is pretty much the fan boys of the Silver/Golden age, quite literally, that can't stand that the characters have grown and evolved. Kal-L on the other hand represent the fans that get that the gold/silver age were good, and while he may not agree with them, they have their place too and he can see the good in them. Luthor on the other hand represents the want for a fusion of and the need to return to a less dark universe...

IC really is that happening...

Everything I've read of Superboy-Prime beyond that it seems some writers don't quite get that, but then the character is built around the raging fan boy anyways so it's not hard to write him right. I think though that too many people think that he is irredeemable at this point as a person... which is hard to argue because the likely hood that he'd listen to anyone is hard to dispute.