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by **MrBlack** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:13 pm

Apparently, the bad reviews by HoJ and I broke the thread.

by **Punchy** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:14 pm

MrBlack wrote:Apparently, the bad reviews by HoJ and I broke the thread.

I'm not getting my books until tomorrow.

I must say, I think my review will be more positive, I like nothing better than an unlikable protagonist, and Jason Aaron is very adept at them.

by **MrBlack** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:18 pm

Punchy wrote:I'm not getting my books until tomorrow.

I must say, I think my review will be more positive, I like nothing better than an unlikable protagonist, and Jason Aaron is very adept at them.

Eh, I think he stepped over the line between "Flawed Hero" and "True Villain" here.

Jack from Fables is an unlikeable protagonist. The Human Flame is an unlikeable protagonist. Fat Cobra's not that. He's a likeable protagonist, except that he has a dark, dark secret that's just too much for me to tolerate.

by **Punchy** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:19 pm

MrBlack wrote:Eh, I think he stepped over the line between "Flawed Hero" and "True Villain" here.

Jack from Fables is an unlikeable protagonist. The Human Flame is an unlikeable protagonist. Fat Cobra's not that. He's a likeable protagonist, except that he has a dark, dark secret that's just too much for me to tolerate.

What's a little mass-murder between friends?

If we can accept Hal Jordan, Fat Cobra has it easy.

by **MrBlack** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:21 pm

Punchy wrote:What's a little mass-murder between friends?

If we can accept Hal Jordan, Fat Cobra has it easy.

[spoiler]I can buy Jordan because he killed a bare handful of adult GLs.

Fat Cobra killed his own kids. And some of them are kids.

Not cool.[/spoiler]

by **Victorian Squid** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:22 pm

I actually would have given it a lower score, but I gave the book a pity point, thinking maybe it would have been better if I followed Iron Fist even in spoilers.

by **Punchy** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:22 pm

MrBlack wrote:[spoiler]I can buy Jordan because he killed a bare handful of adult GLs.

Fat Cobra killed his own kids. And some of them are kids.

Not cool.[/spoiler]

But Hal doesn't have wenches!

by **Victorian Squid** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:23 pm

Punchy wrote:I'm not getting my books until tomorrow.

I must say, I think my review will be more positive, I like nothing better than an unlikable protagonist, and Jason Aaron is very adept at them.

My haiku will make more sense after you've read it.

by **MrBlack** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:25 pm

Punchy wrote:But Hal doesn't have wenches!

Hal has plenty of wenches!

Carrol Ferris, Cowgirl, Arisia, etc.

He even nailed Kyle's girlfriend Alex in one of the GL Annuals. :smt112

by **Punchy** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:27 pm

MrBlack wrote:Hal has plenty of wenches!

Carrol Ferris, Cowgirl, Arisia, etc.

He even nailed Kyle's girlfriend Alex in one of the GL Annuals.

He fucked the Fridge Girl?

Necrophilia is rife in Green Lantern.

by **guitarsmashley** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:40 pm

hmmm I'll have to make my review a limerick.

by ****** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:45 pm

guitarsmashley wrote:hmmm I'll have to make my review a limerick.

That would at some point require you to become clever, which I'm guessing would require magic and magic is make believe, so I'm sorry, but I just don't see this happening for you.

by **Victorian Squid** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:53 pm

Here's a limerick from Isaac Asimov, speaking of clever:

There was a young woman of Sydney
Who could take it clear up to the kidney
But the thrust of Alphonse
Barely reached to her mons
So he left her unsatisfied, didney?

by **guitarsmashley** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:04 pm

amlah6 wrote:That would at some point require you to become clever, which I'm guessing would require magic and magic is make believe, so I'm sorry, but I just don't see this happening for you.

I happen to very clever. I gave up running the review group didn't I?