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This Week in Villainy: Salvation Run (4 comments)
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This Week in Villainy: Salvation Run

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 12:15 AM






Taking stock in super-villains


Salvation Run 1: The villains of the DC universe all take a huge leap in VQ ratings this week as Salvation Run 1 hits newsstands today. The first issues of the seven-part Salvation Run looks to be an extremely promising read. From DC:

"Don't miss the stunning debut issue of a 7-part miniseries written by Bill Willingham (SHADOWPACT, FABLES) with art by superstar Sean Chen (Iron Man, X-Men: The End) and Walden Wong (COUNTDOWN TO MYSTERY, DAY OF VENGEANCE)! The world has finally had enough of the villains of the DCU — so they're exiling the evildoers to another planet, where they'll be left to their own diabolical devices! Who will thrive…and who will survive?"

I'm in. The DC villains as a group earn a VQ rating of 8.

Don't let me down, fellas. I got all excited over the villain angle in Countdown only to be rewarded with week after week of thinly veiled gay jokes between Pied Piper and the Trickster...



(If you have a suggestion for "TWiV," please let me know.)
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Re: This Week in Villainy: Salvation Run (Score: 0)
posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 08:36 PM (#39420)

"Suicide Squad" in spaaaaace. Exiling troublesome villains (or green skinned anti-heroes) to another planet seems to be the thing to do these days. Did comic book companies ALWAYS copy off each other so overtly?

Coming soon to the Gladstone universe: using one of Gyro Gearloose's zany inventions, Scrooge McDuck exiles Magica DeSpell and the Beagle Boys to another planet...


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Re: This Week in Villainy: Salvation Run (Score: 0)
posted Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 01:12 AM (#39422)
Who thought this plan up? We all know how well exiling destructive forces to other planets works. Especially, say, large green ones. Also, the DCU is slightly less than 20 times the size of New Jersey. Anybody with flight or teleportation or speed or the ability to jump good could bebop right back to Earth in oh, say, before I finish this paragraph...
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Re: This Week in Villainy: Salvation Run (Score: 0)
posted Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 08:49 AM (#39424)

"Did comic book companies ALWAYS copy off each other so overtly?"

Let us count how many variations of Superman exist out there in comicland before answering that question...


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Re: This Week in Villainy: Salvation Run (Score: 0)
posted Friday, November 16, 2007 - 11:13 PM (#39429)

Don't let me down, fellas. I got all excited over the villain angle in Countdown only to be rewarded with week after week of thinly veiled gay jokes between Pied Piper and the Trickster...
Thinly veiled? You either have a different definition of "thinly" or "veiled"... ;-)


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