Tom King Announces Sanctuary, About DC Superheroes Dealing With the Mental Trauma of Violence

Tom King Announces Sanctuary, About DC Superheroes Dealing With the Mental Trauma of Violence.

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Why do people like Tom King's writing?

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Tom King's writing

Servicable capeshit, which is the best you can hope for these days.
Too bad he's a fucking faggot, and that is coming from a man who literally has sex with other men

But what if reading superhero comics gives me trauma?

from his wiki
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_King_(comics)
>King interned both at DC Comics and Marvel Comics, where he was an assistant to X-Men writer Chris Claremont, before joining the CIA counterterrorism unit after September 11.[1][2] King spent seven years as a counterterrorism operations officer for the CIA before quitting to write his debut novel.

This guy probably knows some shit about mental trauma if he worked at the CIA.

Make a comic about that.

Then stop reading comics.

Don't read them then.
Surefire way to be like 90% of our userbase here.

Sounds like it could be the aftermath of Ultimatum. I'd read that.

Because it's good.

Whatever happened to Doc Samson? Did he die?

Good idea, Vertigo would even publish it like the guy's biography who suffered trauma for having to write Superman

yeah, office workers and their traumas...

why the fuck do heroes these days have to pansies who get sad after everything they do. i mean the genre has been deconstructed to hell, and no one is saying that you shouldnt put in some aspects about the psychology of the characters but these days everything is trauma, ptsd, trigger warnings, muh feels and bullshit like that. it bleeds into every aspect of modern life and it turns people into deranged loons, case and point, tom king

Real men talk about their feeling and I mean that unironically. Nobody is ever impressed by this fake macho bullshit.

Did you serve?

i 100% agree, but they do that with friends and family, maybe some in the public, but they don't victimize themselves. they acknowledge their feelings and move past them, they don't write comics about their mommy issues and intimacy problems, and their fucking "traumas". the problem is that 99% of the population over blows their problems and feelings and turns everything into a "trauma" or into ptsd or bullshit like that, of course you're gonna feel a lot worse if you victimize yourself and turn every little thing about life into a big bad thing, a fucking TRAUMA

>but they do that with friends and family
What the fuck is your friends and family are gonna do? First of all there is some shit I'm not gonna talk to family or friends about and secondly there is not really a lot your family can do for you for PTSD. Don't tried to spread your Scientology bullshit here.

Just more fake macho bullshit that highlights how little you've actually been through.

because is constently good

>now the superheroes are as fucked-up as the fucking rejects who write about them and draw them and read about them.
>all the heroes are in therapy and there's no one left to care about us. No one at all.

It's a necessary work.

King's stuff is depressing as fuck, but that's what makes it work.

You have read 'Omega Men', I assume. It's pretty much the ultimate 'Nobody wins, everything is fucked, kill yourself to escape this vale of tears'.

Is King the new Alan Moore?

Is he on drugs and believe that he actually met one of his characters in real life?

Tom King writing Superman might be cathartic.
Like he is the one hero who doesn't break. And THAT is why he's Superman.

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Do NOT care for his 'Mister Miracle'. I read it, it is well-written, but these characters are misplaced and mishandled. (although not as badly as by Geoff 'Whatever' Johns.)

Therapy isn't a bad thing and needing to talk about your emotions doesn't make you a reject.

Have you tried therapy?

Please don't tell me Batman is about to have an affair with WW
bleedingcool.com/2018/01/13/batman-39-action-comics-571-spoilers/

I honestly don't know. Almost everything I've read is like psudeo-intellectual bullshit. His dialogue makes me want to claw my eyes out.

Aren't Bruce's feelings for Diana what drove Selina off the JL in New 52?

No.

>Why do people like Tom King's writing?
He's a classic example of "what stupid people think a smart person should sound like" so you get the Emperor's New Clothes effect in full force.

>Is he on drugs

Maybe... doesn't King suffer from PTSD?

gq.com/story/sheriff-of-babylon-cia

And technically he 'met' a bunch of his characters before he ever wrote a comic...

>it's a Sup Forums doesn't read comics episode

So Bruce developed feelings for Diana .

>psudeo-intellectual

Have you ever read actually intellectual stuff, and if not, how can you call anything '"psudeo-intellectual"?

Methinks the lady doth project too much. You might as well accuse Stephen king of being too hoity toity.

...Are these image CAPTCHAS used to program killer drones?

Well guess what? Morrison was wrong. Therapy is not for rejects and honestly O bet grant would backpedal from that statement now so fast your head would spin.

I don't give a shit if yoy're copying from Morrison. People who act like going to therapy is some rejection of a great heroic ideal are people who need therapy most of all.

Why did you feel the need to start another thread, Tom? HANDLE YOUR AUTISM!

That's one close to the limit bump, this a new thread.

...That's what you took from that??

What I took from that is what I take every time someone uses Morrison to criticize character introspection.
>god what a pretentious twat.

i suppose you guys go around complaining and crying to everyone you meet about how one day you got caught in the rain and you got a traumatized by it.

fuck off you sissies

>Sup Forumsmblr has an opinion about real men

>hurr Durr He said an overused word, must be a retard.
Fuck off, that's exactly how his writing comes across. Read these two panels and tell me King's not so far up his own ass he can see daylight.

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Methinks you think "smart" writing is good writing. Read a damn book.

so no stealth mister miracle thread

Casuals. Tbey think it's deep but really it's garbage. It's the Zack Snyder effect. Also he appealed to ausitic shipper so now Batcat fags and Selinafags eat whatever he shits on her plate. Honestly he's actually shit and fundamentally doesn't understand any character he writes for.

I'm a Selinafag and I hate his take on her. She's supposed to be a happy thrill-seeking kleptomanic, not someone who only engages in dangerous behavior because she's the living dead trying to make the pain go away.

King thinks everyone has to be mentally damaged otherwise their character has no depth. He is clearly projecting his own shitty damage mind into these fictional characters.

>that's exactly how his writing comes across
No it's not because honestly this is just a married couple looking at a sunset.

>She's supposed to be a happy thrill-seeking kleptomanic
Which she still is, nothing about that has changes.
>not someone who only engages in dangerous behavior because she's the living dead trying to make the pain go away.
But that's not how he writes her.

Has he written any actual novels? I think he might be better served exploring and coping with his PTSD in something that isn't serialized.

But do superheroes need to deal with mental trauma of violence? For example Batman if he ever needed to deal with these issues shouldn't he have done it in his first days as the caped crusader?

>But do superheroes need to deal with mental trauma of violence?
Everybody does.

The whole Batman thing is Bruce dealing with his issues.

he has written a novel, it was ok. generally speaking i agree, i think a long essay in prose would be best for him to get it out of his system, but it's all he knows how to write.

This really only proves King is right.

>He is clearly projecting his own shitty damage mind.
King having PTSD doesn't mean his brain is damaged nor does it mean his writing is shitty.

What a gullible cunt you are.
He says bullshit about PTSD to get pity and boost the sales.
He don’t give a fuck he just wants your money.

He had her and Batman spell that out exactly in a letter he wrote as narration. Then he threw Holly under the bus for all those murders.

Post the letter and let me decide.

>hurr what if superheroes felt bad???
Congratulations on reaching the last 30 years of comic book developments, King.

Oh my fucking god who cares

It's not like you even read comics now.

Well then it's a good thing they're getting therapy.

>a new god mediates on how own exsistence while the plot of the comic is wether or not hes trapped simmilar to the "brain the jar" problem.

user... This is basic shit. Are you at a 6th grade reading level?

You're complaining about not reading books on the comics board.

Why are you here?

If he was CIA he wasn't out there fighting in Fallujah. He was processing and analyzing shit in a cozy office. He wasn't a field agent where he'd have to be dealing with tribesmen and shit.

Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore claimed to have met Death and Constantine in real life. I wouldn't be surprised if Grant claimed to have met one of his characters as well.

Does that discount his service?

Sounds great. Will read the book, won't read the threads. King's writing really brings the brainlets out of the woodwork to complain about someone writing a comic that doesn't revolve around actions shots, quips, or continuity porn.

Yeah you have to have a very high IQ to understand King.

No, it isn't.

>having to post a page from a fucking Batman/Elmer Fudd crossover which any idiot could tell would be firmly tongue-in-cheek

Holy shit, you really are an actual fucking retard.

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B-but Orion doesn't talk user.

>Won't read the threads
Don't lie to yourself.

Don't you have some sauce to sperg out over?

Finally, someone needs to sink this ship with no survivors.

No, if anything Bruce will "begone thot" Diana because he loves his Catwife.

How can King meet himself?

Getting real tired of how in these fucking threads you have to either love or hate Tom King. You can't say anything good about him or some retard spergs, you can't criticize him or some butthurt Kingfag spergs.

So King wilk be channeling from his own therapy sessions huh? I'll read just to see how fucked up he is.

The latter is a more interesting character than the former though.

yes, it is

not all service is equal. not all sacrifice is equal

But you didn't even really know what he did over there.

Gee when I want someone to build something for me I'll just get the guy who worked in the construction office filing papers and not the guy who was actually building shit. I mean they both worked for a construction company so what's the difference?

I think he's a middle of the road to above average writer who's fine if he has a shortish series with a defined beginning/middle/end. Batman is showing that he's really not fit for long ongoings of indefinate length.

Yes, if you are retarded it is.

>DC Universe: Other M
No thanks. PTSD is one of those topics that should be avoided like the plague in all mediums of fiction.

>all quiet in the western front
>first blood
>the punisher
>the Iliad

I don't want to read about real real men. I want to read about fantasy real men.

Did you serve?

And what's wrong about men in fantasy going to some kind of therapy?

>actually having the gall to use First Blood as an example
Yeah, notice how nobody ever talks about the first Rambo movie. Also, the Punisher is shit. Frank needs to get over himself already.

As far as I'm concerned, PTSD is on the same level as rape in terms of topics every writer should avoid because they WILL fuck it up.

Not a thing, but I ain't reading it.

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