Inane Discussion Twelve:

"Ted Kord - The Spectre, Robin Red Hood, and Other World Originality"

Peblee: So, Fumanchu, Countdown. Verdict?

Fumanchu: Good Stuff, despite the fact that I never cared for the Blue Beetle.

Peblee: You know, I don’t even think that I ever really read about the Blue Beetle before.

Fumanchu: AND, I am ashamed of myself. All I know is that I recognized him from some group pictures and stuff.

Peblee: This book was so masterfully done that, for once, it was actually worth the hype. I seriously had to change my drawers, I was so excited.

Fumanchu: I think that DC out did themselves, not unlike the Blue Beetle.

Peblee: I think that Ted Kord is going to be the next Spectre.

Fumanchu: What? Seriously?

Peblee: Think about it. Hal quit being the Spectre in Rebirth. Now, someone else in the DCU is dead, and they died cool. So why not?

Fumanchu: So…you’re just going to tell people the end?

Peblee: I just did.

Fumanchu: Don’t put that in the inane.

Peblee: I’m gonna.

Fumanchu: Fine. Anything else you want to ruin?

Peblee: Red Hood is Robin.

Fumanchu: Damn. Didn’t you think it was hilarious, though, that when he takes off the one mask, he has the other one on?

Peblee: He had to show the Joker that it was Robin, but he can’t give away his secret, secret identity. Only Bats, Alfred and a couple others are supposed to know that.

Fumanchu: So the little red spectacles hide everything, huh?

Peblee: How does he and Nightwing keep those things on their faces?

Fumanchu: If that is the only plot-hole you can find, you have a great imagination.

Peblee: Thanks. Now, what about these Batman covers?

Fumanchu: Heh. Seriously. NO! I-IT CAN’T BE!!!!! N-NOT YOU!!!!!!!!

Peblee: How does a hood reflect faces?

Fumanchu: How does a hood reflect such a poorly drawn face?

Peblee: I don’t understand these hokey covers at all. The art on the interior is really excellent except for tha picture on page 2 of Superman. I think his neck is injured.

Fumanchu: I think his neck just doesn’t know how to support such a tiny head. Look at that.

Peblee: But, all of that aside, the art is really great. Check out the scene where Red Hood is diving away from the explosion caused by the charge he placed on Freeze’s dome.

Fumanchu: Freeze has gotten badass.

Peblee: No kidding. I loved the part when Red Hood says something about there not being real money in the briefcase, but probably just Chinese newspaper. Then Freeze pauses a bit and says, “Actually, it’s six inches of the Gotham Guardian.” I laughed my head right out of my own dome.

Fumanchu: You have a dome?

Peblee: Yeah, that’s why I sound so echoy.

Fumanchu: I thought you just couldn’t shut up.

Peblee: ….

Fumanchu: ….

Peblee: So, Other World, what did you think?

Fumanchu: See. You can’t shut up, can you?

Peblee: What did you think?

Fumanchu: Let’s see, teenagers in a band sucked into an alternate dimension which is being gobbled up by some unstoppable force, a long-bearded wizard in flowing blue robes, a chosen one, a mystical redhead, I’m thinking…Original City.

Peblee: This is one chode of a book.

Fumanchu: No kidding. It is just a string of clichés.

Peblee: It’s pronounced clitch-es, clitch-es.

Fumanchu: The whole thing is silly, and it doesn’t really go anywhere.

Peblee: Yeah, there were a lot of things happening for no reason. I mean, I know I read a lot of words, but did anything happen?

Fumanchu: Yeah, an original idea about a chosen-one saving a dying land was born before your eyes.

Peblee: Right. That is something unheard of.

Fumanchu: Well, it was only a matter of time before someone thought up this amazing concept.

Peblee: You know, the art in the old-looking world

Fumanchu: The Other World?

Peblee: Yeah, that one. The art is actually really good.

Fumanchu: The city that is eating the world has cool art.

Peblee: Yeah, but there is just no story. It was a lot of work on my part, reading all of those lines, all for no story.

Fumanchu: X23 is going down the drain.

Peblee: I read your review, sounds like it caused you trouble.

Fumanchu: I have enough confusion as it is. I don’t need Billy Tan drawing an eight-year-old as a sexy teenager, and then as an eight-year-old again.

Peblee: Gross.

Fumanchu: Yeah. Someone is either as confused as I am, or dirty at the House of M.

Peblee: Now, I think they are just trying to get a hold of this new character. Give em time.

Fumanchu: I’ll give em a month.

Peblee: Anything else you want to talk about?

Fumanchu: BPRD rocks. You?

Peblee: Legion of Super-Heroes is sooo good. And The Pulse is excellent.

Fumanchu: How was Ultimate Secret?

Peblee: I really can’t tell you.