Comments on: A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments - Day 52

By: wwk5d

wwk5d — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:59:49 +0000

DC torture porn at i's best/worst.

By: buttler

buttler — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:30:02 +0000

Indeed, Max. It's just that when Black Adam made his own Marvel Family, all I could think was "Hey, Young Nastyman's finally come to DC!"

By: Derek J. Goodman

Derek J. Goodman — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:47:34 +0000

I had to look up what everyone's talking about when they say Young Nastyman, because the first thing I thought of when I saw the name was Tenacious D...

By: Max Bialy

Max Bialy — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:01:09 +0000

@Onion3000 and buttler:
“Alas, poor Young Nastyman.”
"There’s a definite parallel with the angst of little Johnny Bates"

Johnny Bates was Kid Miracleman, not Young Nastyman. YN went out in a more volcanic style.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:08:56 +0000

My favourite moment is still the ultra-creepy splash page towards the end of #51 (everyone knows what I'm talking about). Like every horror that exists in my mind tossed into one image.

By: Blackjak

Blackjak — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:53:37 +0000

Awesome! 52 was sooo much better than Countdown...

Oh, and Jax? That's not really Sobek...

By: Tanzim

Tanzim — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:52:51 +0000

52 was a great series. But the ones that DC followed up with fell so short of the high standards it set.....countdown was a disappointment and Trinity is mediocre at best. I wish the characters in 52 got more time in the limelight.

By: Dalarsco

Dalarsco — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:40:39 +0000

I started reading comics around the time of 52. That was the first time I got misty-eyed from a comic. I'm one of those people who never actually cries, so that means it was massively moving.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:34:22 +0000

52 had a lot of great moments. It's too bad the series caught a lot of crap toward the end.

By: universaladdress

universaladdress — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:10:50 +0000

One of 52's coolest moments is when Kate Kane and Renee Montoya are watching over Vic Sage in his last days and suddenly realize it's stopped snowing - and that it's Christmas. I don't know the issue but you'll know it when you see it; it's a really still and beautiful page.

By: Dave Lane

Dave Lane — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:56:52 +0000

The moment with Osiris and Sobek was really unnerving. And that splash page image of Osiris getting bitten in two...yee-uck! And the really horrific part? Osiris doesn't die right away: torn in half but trying to say the magic word but he just can't get it out before he finally dies.

Another cool moment from 52: Where Ralph Dibny totals pwns Felix Faust and we realize that for nearly 40 some odd weeks, Ralph has not been drowning his sorrows in booze. It was gingold in the flask all along.

By: John Trumbull

John Trumbull — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:11:41 +0000

As soon as you said it from 52, this was the first moment I thought of.

By: Jax

Jax — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:10:16 +0000

The writers cluelessnes about the character really shone through, I mean Golden Age Sobek would never have done this...........

By: chad

chad — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:18:24 +0000

still shocking every time i see that panel. evne though i did not like the character still he did not deserve that fate

By: onion3000

onion3000 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:58:55 +0000

Miracleman 15 - Ooops...

By: onion3000

onion3000 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:57:31 +0000

"Alas, poor Young Nastyman." There's a definite parallel with the angst of little Johnny Bates, and if that scene in Miracleman 16 doesn't rate as THE cool comics moment then I don't know what does.

By: joshschr

joshschr — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:30:02 +0000

Pretty cool moment from 52 for your 52nd Cool Moment. I'll have to reread it to see if there's a moment I felt was cooler.

By: Crash-Man

Crash-Man — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:52:25 +0000

I saw it coming, but I still enjoyed it.

By: buttler

buttler — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:02:09 +0000

Alas, poor Young Nastyman.

By: Ian A.

Ian A. — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:42:57 +0000

I became a huge fan of Sobek because of that sequence.