Oh comics...
Nov. 3rd, 2009 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaHey,
So someone mentioned that there was a new DC series coming out called Great Ten about a Chinese team of superheroes. That could suck a lot, but it could also be pretty nifty too. Apparently they've made some guest appearances here and so they've already got a wikipedia page.
I'm reading through the various members and no one seems terribly stereotyped. There's one super-martial artist and one super Bhuddist monk, but it doesn't seem out of character for a country that loves wuxia films and tales. The other characters are pretty much your standard superhero types.
But then I get to this member of the team:
Another super hero site mentions that the children age 10 years a day and are used by the Chinese as super shock troopers
Um...really? Your whole superpower is having expendable super-babies?!? This idea is terrible in every possible sense of the word and I can't imagine who thought this was a good. Oh...Grant Morrison apparently.
So yeah, here's a book not to pick up when it comes out.
ugh
Tom
So someone mentioned that there was a new DC series coming out called Great Ten about a Chinese team of superheroes. That could suck a lot, but it could also be pretty nifty too. Apparently they've made some guest appearances here and so they've already got a wikipedia page.
I'm reading through the various members and no one seems terribly stereotyped. There's one super-martial artist and one super Bhuddist monk, but it doesn't seem out of character for a country that loves wuxia films and tales. The other characters are pretty much your standard superhero types.
But then I get to this member of the team:
Mother of Champions: Real name Niang Guan Jun, is a woman who can birth a litter of twenty-five super-soldiers about every three days. She uses a metallic chair with six insect-like legs to remain mobile during her pregnant state. One of her superstrong and tough children named Number Four appeared in The OMAC Project - Infinite Crisis Special. Number Four was sent into Saudi Arabia to retrieve the fallen OMAC satellite. In Nightwing #144, Mother of Champions is kidnapped from the Great Wall Complex by operatives of Talia al Ghul; in this same issue it is revealed that she has had thousands of children, and that each batch of superhuman children are conceived by suitors whom she hand picks.
Another super hero site mentions that the children age 10 years a day and are used by the Chinese as super shock troopers
Um...really? Your whole superpower is having expendable super-babies?!? This idea is terrible in every possible sense of the word and I can't imagine who thought this was a good. Oh...Grant Morrison apparently.
So yeah, here's a book not to pick up when it comes out.
ugh
Tom
