Injustice 2 #9 Storytime

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It sucks knowing that everytime your favourite character shows up in a new universe its his destiny to die :(

>>93030080
M A X

A

X

ROT IN HELL

>Weekly "Every NAARGH Defines You" Storytime.
Bless you, anon.

>>93030101
If a character shows up in injustice and isn't payable, he/she has a large chance of death.

>>93030252
That's not suspicious at all!

>>93030252
>Skeets

Now where is Booster?

>>93030252
Ted really should have seen it coming based on this moment.

>>93030080
>again
why DC loves kill him?

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>>93030327
Oooft, that's a Wally-tier low blow Ted

>>93030327
Ted's not wrong.

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This comic sucks

>>93030276
I am forever convinced that Batman does his lil' appearing and disappearing acts to feel powerful and in charge.

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Redondo is actually pretty good at faces so this is giving my some Kevin Maguire JLI flashbacks

>>93030364
Hey fuck you Leatherman!

>>93030388
>batman standing an the perfect spot

>>93030441
There he is.

>>93030441
He's here to say goodbye...

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>Booster
Oh no
I'm gonna tear up aren't I?

>>93030080
I honestly thought this wasn't coming out today, with how late it is.
Also, my condolences for Ted

>>93030419
Fuck you Batman, what would you know about making a better world? Your view of the world started this mess!

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Blue and Gold ride again!
For the last time

>>93030080
Also compare stomachs

>>93030463

I didn't want these feels. Goddamm!!

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>>93030463
>One punch
>JLI
>Booster just straight up telling Ted its his time
Oh no here it comes ;_;

>>93030463
>they're not going to try to change the future
:-;

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>>93030510
>I tried to stop this
>I'm a couple of years older
Oh come on no ;-;

>>93030463
>dat "One Punch" picture in the background

>>93030534
So far it's been looking like Damian is going to become a good guy. That's going to be hard to swallow if he kills Ted.

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>>93030558
I finally realized who Damian reminds me of.

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>>93030601
Good luck Ted ;_;
Hopefully you go out with a bang

C'yall next week!

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>>93030601
I hope one day we get to see Ted not have a hard life

>>93030601
not "YAAAAAAARG!!"?

Is Ted never allowed to live a good life?

>>93030620
>his mask actually has lenses
Huh. I always thought the glowing lines above the lenses were his eyes.

>>93030601

Well I guess Katana doesn't have Ted's back.

>>93030623
>Hopefully you go out with a bang
What are the odds he takes Katana with him?

>>93030601
Ughhhh.

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did they ever explain how damian went through reverse puberty?

>>93030652
oh you think just because he's asian the tiny little slants must be his eyes huh????

>>93030674

Probable given she ain't in the game and been written as fodder.

>>93030601
Is Booster going to be giving him pep talks throughout his kidnapping?

>>93030683
Well, yeah. It's not racist though, cuz I have an asian friend.

>>93030679
If I remember correctly in the game story mode he's only seen in a flashback, so it's Damien when he was still Robin.

>>93030601
He's handling losing his hand surprisingly well.

>>93030489
Explain the good universe that still shares Batman's view on the world.

>>93030553
Did you not play the game? He's an unrepentant Superman toadie.

>>93030732
No, Damian shows up as Nightwing after the first chapter of the story

>>93030735
He's focusing on all the harpoon hand jokes he can make around Aquaman.

>>93030748
Why the fuck would I play Injustice 2? It's just going to get a re-release with all the DLC.

>>93030238
>"You think I became a billionaire by saying no to free money?"

Words to live by, from Ted Kord...of all characters...

>>93030553
>Working for Ra's
>good guy

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>>93030770
>not watching the injustice 2 cutscenes full movie youtube video

>>93030818

My nigga!!

>>93030375
That's...kind of the idea, I'd reckon. Batman has to look in control or it hurts his aura

>>93030080
Ted can never catch a break.

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>>93030165

Ted and Mike are written well here, but it still bugs me that Taylor keeps killing people off.

>>93030601
...why is Katana a villain?

>>93031000
THAT'S
THE
POINT!!!!!

Like, how is it that people don't get that the Injustice universe solely exists to kill as many characters as possible?!

>>93031031
The Suicide Squad was hijacked by Ra's Al Ghul.

>>93030601
>This is so much bigger than you.
With a belly like that, it must be fucking huge.

might just be the haircut

which if were gonna add stuff in like freeze's helmet

should be added in

boon

R O T

I N

H E L L

KATANA!!!!

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>>93030601
>tfw Max Lord won't kill Ted this time around
>tfw Ted's gonna go down fighting as hard as he possibly can
I'm gonna cry like a bitch next issue, but god it's gonna be a helluva ride.

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>>93030080
Is this going to end with Booster going back in time and saving Lois at the cost of his own life, thus preventing the Injustice tangent?

>>93030419
>>93030534
So how far did you think batman got before the whole explosion happened?

>>93031055
I can MAYBE see people being upset because it means a character they want won't be in game, but I think that's moot because there's no way NRS is going to let one comic writer dictate what happens in their game. He's either killing off people they're specifically not gonna use or they'll just ignore deaths they find inconvenient.

>>93031324
I believe that if he could he would, but Injustice is something beyond Booster meddling, he can't change what happened, it's like that story of him trying to change Babs history

>>93031442
And besides, there are times where the game outright ignores the comic.

>>93031055
Nah the point is Batman vs Superman. The deaths are just a side bonus.

>>93031031
When we first see her she was part of Waller's Squad, so it's safe to assume she has a bomb in her neck

>>93031683
Like what happened with Arkham. They'll ignore it if they feel like it, it's a fucking fighting game.

>>93030627
Ted and Hank Pym are 2 of the comic characters who are never allowed to have life not suck

Glixel: Games based on comic books are often dismissed by hardcore gamers who have been burned by bad superhero games in the past. But at the same time, comics based on superhero videogames are even easier to dismiss. Injustice is popular both as a game and as a comic – how did that happen?

>Taylor: This was the first time I was given a chance to write the characters that I’ve loved my whole life, and regardless of the format or the game tie-in element of it, I wanted to show the world what I could do with these characters. I feel that I really knew the voices, and in a way – particularly due to my love of Superman – I felt I knew how to torture him pretty well, even if I didn’t want to.

Glixel: A big part of the whole story is making it convincing that Superman could fall to the dark side, so to speak. What was your process in pulling that off?

>Taylor: My process was a whole lot of pain. [Laughs] I remember calling my mum and saying, “Mum, I’m finally getting to write Superman and Lois, and they want me to do this…” Which was horrific, really…. Bringing the reader in from [an] early stage and having them love Lois and Clark from page two – I think it sold people on what we were trying to do, and they recognized these characters and recognized the love between them. So when we tore that apart, it really hurt. And I received a lot of horrible stuff from the internet. If you’re not familiar with the internet, people live there who get outraged easily.

>>93032182
Glixel: I think I’ve heard of it…

>Taylor: Yeah, so there was a lot of anger and a lot of nasty messages just showing up on my phone. And honestly, it’s not something I wanted to do, but I think for this to be believable – for Superman to turn evil… You know, Ma and Pa Kent gave this guy values that aren’t easily broken – that aren’t easily tainted. It wasn’t just Lois’ death that drove him here; it was a gradual decline. I never wanted to have that one moment where suddenly he snaps, and suddenly he’s a bad guy. It just didn’t fit. And the other thing is, we had to make sense of the fact that he wanted to take control of the world, and really, it’s just a perversion of who he is – he wants to keep everybody safe. There are still readers who believe he’s absolutely right [laughs]. But it’s really just about him wanting to keep humanity safe and protect it from itself. It’s his values, then stepped up a notch. And similar with Batman.

Glixel: Do you ever yourself think for a second, “Hey, maybe Superman is onto something here”? That maybe Batman is in the wrong?

>Taylor: Look, maybe, you know, statistically under Superman’s rule there are probably a whole lot less wars and a whole lot less death – he even had an environmental bit. But the thing is, freedom was gone. Regardless of any of that, it was a dictatorship, and it was a person in power who can implement that power and take out the small guy at any point in time. So, yes – much like most dictators; much like most people who speak well and occasionally mean well or are just very loud and entertaining – there are people who will buy that vision. There are people in the world who are sad to see him gone – sad to see Batman’s group take him down – who feel that they were safer under Superman’s rule.

>>93032208
>Taylor: And I think that’s one of the things that resonated with people – nobody is exactly right in this. Not one side is the right side. There are shades of gray throughout Injustice, and people can see points of view regardless of who they’re backing. Sometimes you go, “Yeah, Batman, he was an absolute dick there!”

Glixel: What would you say are some of Batman’s dick-est moves that he’s made?

>Taylor: When we first showed up at Arkham Asylum, and he took down Cyborg with a button press because he infected him with a virus the day he met him – things like that. Already having something in place to take down the [Justice League’s] Watchtower. Of course, then Superman tweeted his secret identity. It was dickish for dickish.

Glixel: That was a great moment in the comic. How much did your own use of social media affect that particular beat of the story?

>Taylor: I just think the whole thing’s ridiculous, and one of the beautiful things we can do with Injustice is, sometimes we take the ridiculous and we run with it. One person’s great moment is another person’s “this is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.” We straddle that line sometimes, but I feel free to do so.

Glixel: What’s the most ridiculous thing that you’ve taken and run with?

>Taylor: There’s a beautiful moment where Detective Chimp and Batman are sitting in the back of Chaz’s car, who drives for John Constantine. It was a moment where John turns to Chaz and says, “Take a look at the backseat there, mate.” And the two of them just burst out laughing.

Glixel: I did too.

>Taylor: Batman tries to say, essentially, “The world’s in peril – you really gonna laugh at this?” And Chimp’s like, “You know what, I’m a monkey in a suit, and you’re a grown man dressed as a bat. Let them have this.”

>>93032246
>Taylor: It is pointing at the ridiculousness of a lot of this, and when you’ve got great characters – like Harley Quinn, like John Constantine; people who can talk truth and get away with it with a glint in their eye and a smirk on their face – these are the characters I love writing. The court jesters.

Glixel: What are your absolute favorite characters to write?

>Taylor: Without a doubt, Harley. Harley is really interesting. I had never really gone out and gone, “Oh, man, I really wanna write Harley Quinn.” But from the first page I wrote her – this sounds pretty cliché, but – I wasn’t writing her; she was just telling me what to write.

>And there’s this beautiful thing that happens whenever I write Harley Quinn: My outline just disappears, and I’m like, “OK, I don’t know what she’s gonna say on the next page, so we’ll see where this goes” [laughs]. We just recently had her headbutt Ra’s al Ghul and knock out his teeth, and she says, “I hope you’ve got a little bit of Lazarus Pit mouthwash just to rebirth those teeth.” And you just go, “Where did that come from?!” At no point in time was this in my outline or anything; it’s just, Harley’s on the page and I’m typing, and suddenly she comes up with that stuff. And I just love that.

>And John Constantine’s exactly the same. He’s a guy who isn’t overruled by these people in capes – he can just give them crap the whole time.

>>93032272
Glixel: There’s some really dark stuff in this book – but also some really fun stuff. How do you strike the right balance there as a writer?

>Taylor: I’m not sure if it’s me as a writer there or me as a consumer. I wanna be entertained, constantly. You may know that I used to be a professional juggler – I was a street performer. I used to juggle knives and eat fire on the streets for money. I tend to write the same way – I desperately want to entertain people, and I never want to get bored. I don’t want to have a payoff in six pages – I want a payoff at the end of every page. I want every page turn to be good. I want everything that’s there to be interesting, and not just exposition for exposition’s sake. There needs to be a joke there or a character moment. There needs to be heart or humor or shock at every stage. You can go down that dark path, and you get all grim and gritty – but if you don’t tell a joke at the end, then I’m bored. So as a writer, I need to put in the humor. Otherwise, I’m not on board either. The first person you write for is yourself, obviously – so if I’m like, “hey, that’s kinda funny,” I’m happy.

Glixel: How did this all come about in the first place?

>Taylor: I had written The Authority before WildStorm closed [in 2011] – I was the last writer of The Authority. It was kind of interesting days because the studio was closing, but I just sort of had gotten my foot in the door and was feeling great about it, with [editors] Ben Abernathy and Jim Chadwick. Then I did a little DC Universe Online: Legends [tie-in comic] two-issue thing called “The Brainiac/Sinestro Corps War,” where I’d worked with Bruno Redondo, who I’d done Star Wars comics with, and he then became one of the main artists on Injustice. We had a great time on that, and the editors absolutely loved it – “what you’ve done in these two issues, we love.”

>>93032321
>Taylor: And it was the same stuff – it was Guy Gardner [of the Green Lantern Corps] being an absolute prick in the face of genocide. Just finding that balance of humor and really, really dark – it’s one of the nastiest things I’ve ever written. And having someone like Bruno who can convey that smug so well – the acting he puts on the page is why we gel so well. And I think because of that, they approached me about Injustice.

>Taylor: And Injustice was just supposed to be a small thing. I think I was originally on for about 16 chapters – I’ve now written 80 or 90. It was a runaway success, and I couldn’t be happier. It’s just so much fun, man. I say this a lot, but it is the most freedom I’ve ever had on any licensed property.

Glixel: Just how much freedom do you have?

>Taylor: Jim Chadwick is my editor there, and he has a lot of faith in me. If there’s something he feels he needs to make a note on or he needs to clear, he’ll ask, and often I’ll say, “yeah, I’ll address that in a couple chapters,” or, “yeah, that’s because I’m gonna do this,” or whatever. And sometimes he’ll point something out, and I’ll change it briefly. But he really does have a lot of faith in me, which is fantastic.

>Taylor: And I think it’s the same with the guys at NetherRealm. I’m in contact with Shawn Kittelsen, who’s the main writer on the game. If there’s anything we ever need, we just DM on Twitter, and we’re like, “Hey, what about this?” And it’s like, “Hey, sure, go for it.” Most recently, that was great on the reveal of Batman having a daughter. That was a huge moment. I kind of rushed it past Jim, and I was able to go to Shawn and say, “Whaddya think?” To which I think his response, I think, was, “Sure! We’ll put her in Injustice 3.” [Laughs]

>>93032357
>Taylor: Having that relationship, and having that trust – the thing is, it has been successful, and when so many people are reading it, they just keep going, “Keep doing what you’re doing. We like it.” And that’s great. As a writer, there’s nothing more you can ask for – to have that confidence in your writing and to be able to know, every time I sit down, what I write is what’s going to go out there. It’s not going to be compromised by other people.

Glixel: Have you ever been amazed at what they’ll let you get away with at times?

>Taylor: Clearly. Absolutely. There are things I’ve written almost as a joke that get approved, and I’m like, “Oh, really?! OK! Great!” And I do that a lot.

Glixel: You’ve killed off a lot of characters…

>Taylor: The most emotional death was probably Ollie’s, seeing Dinah’s face. Him saying – what was it? – “My pretty bird. I was so lucky,” as he dies. You know, it killed a lot of people. And bringing that home at the end of Year 2 when we had our epilogue and Doctor Fate actually says, “Screw what was supposed to happen…” – in the game and in the outline and everything. “I’m gonna save her [from having been killed by Superman] and take her to another dimension to be with an Ollie who lost his Dinah.”

>I’ve heard from so many people who just cried openly in public reading that chapter – and what else could you want as somebody who entertains for a living? To touch people like that. Grown men come up to me at conventions and start yelling at me because I made them cry on a train – there’s no greater compliment.

>>93032397
Glixel: For me, it was the death of Jim Gordon... When he tells Batman, “I guess I get to disappear on you for once.” So good! But you’ve also had your fair share of almost comedic deaths – Kyle Rayner of the Green Lantern Corps, for example. Sinestro just pulls his finger off, and he suffocates in space because he doesn’t have his ring anymore.

>Taylor: And then they tear all his limbs off – yeah. Just for funzies. I got a lot of flack for that, but I’m actually a huge Kyle fan. I had his action figure sitting under my screen as I was writing that scene, kind of judging me. He got in a nice line about [Sinestro’s] evil mustache and whether he has time for evil manscaping or something – which is very Kyle. But yeah, we tore him to shreds. It was horrible. [Laughs] And yes, it’s comedic, but it’s also signal of intent. Especially with the first chapter of Year 2, we wanted to say nothing’s off limits. And that’s one of the beauties of Injustice – because nothing is.

>I think, too, one of the reasons this resonates with so many people is that when something happens, it really is permanent. With the exception of a couple of things, you feel the deaths because you go, “They’re not coming back. That’s literally it.” Whereas, in comics there’s that old cliché that nobody’s ever dead. But in Injustice, they kind of are.

>>93032438
Glixel: Does the game’s narrative ever step in the way of somebody you can kill off or not?

>Taylor: Yeah, of course – I mean, I can’t kill off people who are in the game already. And also, I guess it’s on me to kill a character that they talk about as being dead in the game. In the first game, that was Ollie – Ollie’s death and Dinah’s revenge, and her pain with a child coming in Year 2. That defined Year 2 in a big way. Year 1 was the breakup of the World’s Finest friendship – it was Superman and Batman falling out and not being friends anymore. Plus, you know, a dictator rising – but at the core, it was about those two characters. And it was a same in the second one – it was about Dinah, and it was about Ollie, and it was about Hal. Just this moment that creates this huge rift for all of them.

Glixel: So, is it always completely on you to determine how a character died, or does NetherRealm say, “Hey, that’s how Dick Grayson died, so that’s how you need to write it”?

>Taylor: I think it’s been up to me every time. Superman had to be the one to kill Green Arrow, but it was up to me how that happened. Jim Gordon probably didn’t need to die – that’s just me being horrible. With Superman and Lois, that was down to me in the end. I found a way to do it in the least violent way possible. I didn’t want him hitting her – I didn’t want any of that. So for him to just grab what he thinks is Doomsday, thinking he’s protecting Lois and his unborn child – it’s horrible and it’s awful, but it’s also the least “domestic violence” way I could think of to do it. It was tragic in every way, but it wasn’t as violent as certainly the newspapers made it sound at the time – talked about him being a wife-beater and things like that…

Glixel: That must have been the hardest thing – to get people over that hump of accepting that Superman went dark.

>Taylor: Oh, yeah, completely – and there are still people who hate me for it.

>>93030238
This is 1000x better than the Rebirth Blue Beetle

>>93032471
Glixel: How has the feedback progressed over the years as people have come to accept this more?

>Taylor: It died off eventually. There are still people who will come and attack me, but usually it’s not for the material – it’s from people who read about it on a blog or a website that reported on it wrong. Talking about beating Lois to death – that didn’t happen; someone else said that. I often find that the outrage is based off people hearing it from a secondhand source and not reading the material. Anybody who’s read the material understands why and where it goes, and why it’s a bit worthier, I guess.

>But having said that, the first thing I did when I jumped onto Earth 2 with DC Comics was, Lois had died there, and I resurrected her with [penciler] Nicola Scott, and we had her step out of a giant fridge to “un-fridge” her, which we thought was pretty funny. So we had that in the back of our minds, always, to try and bring her back. And she became the heart of that book, so that was great.

>>93032516
Glixel: One thing I’ve found interesting about this universe is that in many ways it seems like the traditional DC Universe – we know the general characterizations of everyone going into all this terrible stuff that happened. How much are things set in stone for you regarding how defined this universe is?

>Taylor: The universe for me, I guess, is kind of how I understand it. And the characters are how I understand them. And things like the death of Superman – yes, they happened for me; that’s why he’s reacting to Doomsday in that way. Supergirl, obviously, was never a part of that – she wasn’t that pink blob thing with the giant red-haired Luthor. But those stories have been with me since the Nineties – I grew up reading these things. So the heart of that stuff has to come through.

>Taylor: Supergirl is a really interesting character. I’m writing her at the moment, and writing her introduction. Being able to have that innocence and hope in something like Injustice is going to be really interesting. It’ll be interesting to see how people react to that and if they’re like, “Oh, man! This isn’t Injustice! It’s not dark and nasty enough!”

>Taylor: Everything I’ve read about the DC characters over the years and everything I love about them goes into it in some way. The characters you know and love are the characters I’m trying to write, and their reactions are based on 25 years of history for me. That’s why we understand Ollie and Dinah’s love; we understand how close Superman and Batman are. And for those who don’t, we do little shortcuts to that. We have Superman rush to tell his best friend that Lois is pregnant – and Batman already knows ‘cause he’s Batman. And he asks him to be the godfather – things like that.

>>93032542
>Taylor: Just little nods for the hardcore fans, like our ultimate dream – which was my first good-bye to Injustice [during Year 3] – where I just wanted to make everything right. We made Lois Lane the president and made Wonder Woman the secretary general of the United Nations. She’s not even allowed to be an ambassador anymore, but…regardless…she was. And she was married to Batman in that. And, you know, that sort of stuff is all for people who know some of that history and have grown up with this.

Glixel: You mentioned Supergirl and Batman’s daughter. What’s in store for the upcoming issues of Injustice 2?

>Taylor: We’ve now found out that one of our main antagonists is Ra’s al Ghul. Harley is there – that’s why they went after Damian, etc. He basically wants to save the world just like Batman does. Batman wants to resurrect a world that Superman corrupted; Ra’s wants to save the world from climate change. You know, he sees what’s happening. He sees that humanity is essentially doomed because we’re over a certain percentage of carbon. He says that for the world to survive, humanity needs to be essentially culled. And there are people who are going along with him. There are people like Vixen and Animal Man who are right there beside him, and people like Poison Ivy, who want to save the green; who want to save animals. They don’t believe that humanity has a right to kill off everything else around them.

>Taylor: It’s interesting – again, it’s shades of gray. People go, “He’s kinda right! It’s horrific…but he’s kinda right.” And it’s the same for Batman. He’s just trying to save lives – he doesn’t believe in ever taking a life for any purpose, and he’s right too. So you bring these moral absolutes together and smash them, and you get stories like this.

>>93032575

>Taylor: And this story is far-reaching – we have a lot planned. And yes – big, big groups of powerful people butting heads again, and both of them feeling like they’re in the right. And that’s the beauty of stories like this. “Every villain is the hero of their own story” is the old saying, and that’s exactly right.

Glixel: Do you find it a lot more challenging this time around because Superman is incarcerated?

>Taylor: No. What he’s done has cast a shadow over this whole thing. But really the stories aren’t Superman’s stories so much; it’s a lot of other people’s stories. So when we brought back Green Arrow and Black Canary, we have stuff coming up for them that’s really sweet. And you would have already seen Black Canary propose to Green Arrow. There’s stuff like that coming up, and they have a child now. It just feels like the whole universe has evolved, and there’s still so much to come. More pain to come, but also more joy as well.

>Glixel: Can I ask you a really geeky question here?

>Taylor: Absolutely! Because so far nothing else has been geeky.

>>93032629
Glixel: I’m pushing my glasses up my nose as I say this: There’s a pretty big contradiction between what happens in the comics and what happens in the game to Victor Zsasz – I don’t believe you actually wrote this. Of course, in the comic, Zsasz kills Alfred, and it’s implied that Superman set him free. But one of the very first scenes in Injustice 2 is a flashback where we see Damian Wayne joining the Regime when he kills Zsasz years before. How do you deal with situations like this?

>Taylor: Yeah, for something like that, you tend to shrug your shoulders and keep on moving. It’s quite difficult to address. I think that happened in Year 5, so this could have already been written. I work in animation as well [on Netflix’s The Rift], so I understand they’ve already paid voice actors, and they’ve already done all the modeling. Somebody spent so many hours doing this, and they may not have known. The other thing is, Nightwing’s death in our story didn’t quite work on the page. We’ve always held that one up and said, “Yep, that one didn’t work out the way we wanted it to.” So they may have decided they just wanted something a little stronger.

>And that’s OK. I mean, I’m not a massive continuity-head. When something is slightly out of continuity, I tend to shrug and go, “Ehh… Just enjoy the story.”

>I mean, I wrote Star Wars for years before the Expanded Universe got wiped away. People are like, “Oh, no, those stories don’t exist!” I’m like, “Yeah, they do. Just pick up the book and read it. It’s a story. Enjoy it. Have fun.”

>If you’re reading the story, then the story still exists to you. It might be hard to reconcile those two things, but just enjoy it – just go with it. You know what? Pull out Swamp Thing and punch people. Grab Aquaman’s trident and do that little thing where he smashes a tentacle up into someone, and you won’t think about story for much longer.

>>93030238
>actually takes his money

kek

>>93032652
Glixel: If you really have to at some point, there is all this Multiverse stuff going on.

>Taylor: That’s right! One day I’ll have to put all that in a little box and explain, “Oh, yeah, this happened there. And that wiped out Batman’s memory there, which changes this… Moving on…”

Glixel: Yeah, Superman took Zsasz from another universe and put him in the Batcave… Anyway… Told you that was super-geeky…

>Taylor: [Laughs] I’m glad you asked it.

Glixel: Have you gotten a chance to play Injustice 2 much at all?

>Taylor: Yes, absolutely – I’m stopping myself. I know the Wonder Woman thing is on at the moment – there’s a Multiverse Wonder Woman campaign where you can unlock all of her movie skins, and I’m like, “I just wanna play it.” But I’m not! Because I have chapters of Injustice due. Early on I was like, “I’m playing the mobile game, and I’m kind of grinding, so the script’s going to be one day late, sorry.” And I’m trying not to do that on this one.

>But I played through all the story mode and really enjoyed it and loved it. I’m playing with my eldest son, and I had all my mates around one night, and we all played through until the wee hours. Drank single-malt whiskey and beat superheroes against each other – so much fun.

Glixel: Whose side did you pick?

>Taylor: I chose Superman’s side! I was surprised.

Glixel: Why Superman?

>Taylor: I don’t know! I got there, and I was like, “Ah… I’m surprised I did that.” It might be because when I read the script, I remembered Batman’s story better or something. I dunno. Maybe I was just hoping it would end nice, and it would end lovely with him skipping off with Batman into a rainbow.

Glixel: He kind of skips off with Batman – just not into a rainbow.

>Taylor: Yeah, not into a rainbow. With a mind-controlling device.

>>93032652
All those quotes, and you couldn't bother to put in any spoiler tags?
Go fuck yourself.

>>93032687
Glixel: Are you already thinking about years from now – assuming there’s an Injustice 3 and you’re writing what happens between 2 and 3 – are you thinking about which continuity counts? We’ve got these two different endings…

>Taylor: It’s ridiculous I’m thinking about it already, but yeah – I am.

Glixel: Can you clue us in?

>Taylor: No. [Laughs] Not yet.

Glixel: You know, they could go all out with Multiverse, and maybe they both count.

>Taylor: They could! And that would be awesome! And then I could tell two stories concurrently. It would be probably one one week and the other the next. And my brain explodes!

Glixel: You’ve got twice as much writing to do.

>Taylor: Forget I said that!

Glixel: It’s gotta be the best problem in the world for you that you can’t play Injustice 2 because you have to write the Injustice 2 comic book…

>Taylor: It’s a quality problem. It’s like, “Oh, I don’t know why I have to spend all my time writing Batman and Harley Quinn and Green Arrow – whoa is me!” It’s pretty cool.

Glixel: You mentioned Wonder Woman earlier. It’s kind of a big week for her. What’s it like for you to write that character?

>Taylor: I would argue that I haven’t really ever written that character in Injustice. When I read the script for the first game, I couldn’t reconcile the Wonder Woman I know with what I saw there; whereas, I could turn Superman over a period of years into what I saw there. I didn’t quite have that luxury with Wonder Woman, so I just sort of embraced the idea that this was an alternate universe where she was a bit colder and slightly more Machiavellian, and in love with Superman…which she never really was in my head, anyway. I had to just go for that.

>>93032781
>Taylor: I got to write a cool story where she shows up at Mogadishu refugee camps and liberates all the women there, and gives them the guns to turn back on their generals and captains – that was a Wonder Woman story. And similarly, when she showed up on a border conflict as the ambassador for peace, headbutting a tank with Ares watching on and enjoying every moment of it. There’s Wonder Woman elements in there, but her hope and her love and that kind of stuff – just a desire for peace – isn’t really present in Injustice. I hold out my hand and I apologize to Wonder Woman fans every time they call me out for it, ‘cause I completely agree.

>I’m actually getting to write her in Justice League/Power Rangers – that’s where she’s really Wonder Woman. And she has a great scene in issue 5. I won’t spoil that, but that’s Wonder Woman for me.

>But having said that, I went to the premiere in Melbourne, and I absolutely love the movie.

Glixel: What are your favorite parts about the movie?

>Taylor: The way she fights – you’ve seen in all the trailers that moment where she goes over the trenches, and she takes on the army, and you just go, “Hell yes! Hell yes!” It’s just so epic. And it’s so good. And it’s so bloody important. And I hate that so much has been placed on that it’s the first woman director with over $100 million, and she had to get it right – so many people are saying this.

>But my gosh! They just nailed this. Just nailed it. This is Wonder Woman that you’re seeing onscreen, and I just think it’s a fantastic step forward for the DC cinematic universe. To have Wonder Woman charging through trenches for DC is perfect.

>>93032830
Glixel: In terms of awesome Wonder Woman stuff in Injustice 2, how does she live up to your expectations?

>Taylor: I’ve only fought against her so far, and she’s kicked my ass. My son’s been playing as her a bit, and he’s just destroying me – that lasso “come over here” move is just…destructive. [Laughs] And I haven’t played through any of the individual character things yet because, again, I’m just trying to write. But it’s great – the way she fights is fantastic. Just…really destructive. She takes no prisoners. She’s an Amazon, and that comes through in the play.

Glixel: It feels odd that she’s never had her own game called “Wonder Woman.”

>Taylor: Well, she’s never had her own film till this week, so yeah…

Glixel: If you were to direct what a Wonder Woman game could be, do you have anything in mind?

>Taylor: Honestly, I think I’d take a whole lotta cues from the film. Generally, origin stories don’t work very well in gaming, but I think in the case of Wonder Woman it actually could. It’s that standard leveling up as they grow, but I think with a great story behind it, Wonder Woman could be a fantastic, fantastic game. I wouldn’t do that with many characters – you don’t need another origin of Batman; you don’t need another origin of Superman. But for some reason, Wonder Woman – I think what it is, is how amazing the Amazons are in this movie. If I could have a game that was just about Etta Candy leading the Amazons in a war, I’d play that daily. Wonder Woman can be in it too, sure. [Laughs]

>>93032858
Rest is here http://www.glixel.com/interviews/writer-tom-taylor-on-his-injustice-comics-and-wonder-woman-w485654?utm_content=buffer91b17&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

>>93032691
There wasn't any spoilers in the interview. The Zsasz part was common knowlegde at this point, it was references way back before the game was released in an interview

>>93031324
Looks like the set up is is going to be last min BG save where Ted can never return his time.

Why else repeat I'll be there at the end?

>>93030490
I miss fat ted

Taylor trying to defend his Wonder Woman on Twitter and deflect the blame was fucking pathetic.

The people praising him were even more pathetic.

>>93032516
>>But having said that, the first thing I did when I jumped onto Earth 2 with DC Comics was, Lois had died there, and I resurrected her with [penciler] Nicola Scott, and we had her step out of a giant fridge to “un-fridge” her, which we thought was pretty funny. So we had that in the back of our minds, always, to try and bring her back. And she became the heart of that book, so that was great.
I'm still mad about this

fuck you Taylor

>>93030388
sneaked not snuck
kys

>>93030441
>I've already had a few
Aw fuck

>>93030601
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x795BAzF9iA
what his reaction should have been

>>93031147
she is forced to cuz the bombs

>>93035034
Excuses.. The only thing I read are excuses

>>93030601

Ted No!

>>93030601
>this is so much bigger than you
>is that a fat joke?
>yes

>>93030770
thats really stupid

Anyone got links to the previous storytimes?

>>93030276
Bats looks like the cover of Batman: R.I.P. (awful story BTW)

Going to cry like baby next issue. Why can't Ted be happy?

>>93030510

It's perfect :(

>>93030355
That Booster and Beetle photo ;_;

I want my Bwahahaha duo baaaaaack!!

>>93030419
>People still love him
>Not the first to love a tyrant
Because he's Superman.

>>93032981
He did that in the normal universe. Didn't work so well.

>>93032483
The problem with Rebirth is that they have an insane level of forced non-communication between them.
I undestand that being a thing for a couple of issues...but it keeps happening every single issue.
DC fucked up by not getting John Rogers back.

>>93030814
Batman Working for the clown cunt.

>>93030080
>That retarded face with the clenched teeth
"DURRHURR I AM BLUE BEETLE AND I AM GOING TO DIE HURRRRR"

>>93030601
Can anyone recommend me a good run to start of with Booster and Beetle? I think its time for me

>>93033912

What he said?

>>93039506
Justice League International
Formerly Known As the Justice League
I Cant Believe it's not the Justice League

And then as an epilogue
Blue Beetle 2007
Booster Gold Vol 2

>>93030238
kek

>>93030252
fuck

>>93030601
>>93030578
):

>>93030463
EVERY GOD DAMN TIME DAMMIT
I JUST WANT TED TO BE HAPPY IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK FOR DC? I WANT MY BLUE AND GOLD YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES

>>93030252
>Skeets
wait, where's Booster? And why wouldn't Ted know Skeets knows about the future?

oh who am I kidding this is Injustice, why don't I strap in and stop thinking

>>93030327
brutalized, this should be along the "four Robins" page in the Hall of Btfoman

>>93030601
>no NAAAARGHHHH
I guess it's fitting since it's a meme by now and nobody wants to laugh here

>>93039613
Glixel: You mentioned Wonder Woman earlier. It’s kind of a big week for her. What’s it like for you to write that character?

>Taylor: I would argue that I haven’t really ever written that character in Injustice. When I read the script for the first game, I couldn’t reconcile the Wonder Woman I know with what I saw there; whereas, I could turn Superman over a period of years into what I saw there. I didn’t quite have that luxury with Wonder Woman, so I just sort of embraced the idea that this was an alternate universe where she was a bit colder and slightly more Machiavellian, and in love with Superman…which she never really was in my head, anyway. I had to just go for that.


there's this part from the interview

>>93030814
The planet is 2 degrees from the point of no return. Ra's has legitimate reasons for his eco terrorism now.

>>93030364

Summerfags should know that it's rude to post images in the middle of a storytime.

At last wait until OP is done to post your memes.

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916KB, 498x280px

>>93040901
>bit colder
>slightly more Machiavellian
Yeah, okay

>>93030238
>free money
>Accepting less than $3 for a $345k robot
>free money

Please stop hurting my favorite comic book character, DC. :(

>>93032321
>You may know that I used to be a professional juggler – I was a street performer. I used to juggle knives and eat fire on the streets for money.

Kek what a madman

>>93032691
All of this shit is common knowledge at this point, newfag casual

>>93035156
you only hate katana because you think she is weeb pandering

>>93032781
Would be insane if they merge the Injustice Universe with Mortal Kombat.

Using the knowledge of Brainiac about others realities and civilizations, Superman would try to 'protect' others realms and discover the MK Universe (of course causing a lot of trouble in the process).

Superman ending already suggest this exploration, it's just matter to put MK in the mix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNbJ-LNQ-eY

But then I remember all the problems with gore fans that wouldn't accept a MK crossover without blood or fatalities = /

Calling the game Injustice Kombat would be nice, but I can't figure the whole mess it would cause in the Injustice Universe, been needed a reboot or much headache to place the characters after the crossover.

>>93030601
Katana should get Injustice'd for this

>>93030252
Yep,nothing is behind Skeets farewell, nothing at all.

>>93031031
There were a bunch of ninjas and she felt at home

>>93031931
Hilariously enough she's in Waller's squad for funsies.
Neither she nor Rick Flag have a bomb in their necks.
Writers are just forgetting she's not a villain... well not supposed to be written like a villain anyway.

>>93041793
Leaders and politicians won't do anything till it's too late

>>93030601
THIS HERES KATANAAAAAAAA

>>93030375
I've known a moody , brooding person who "just appears". Not like appear in your room like batman. But he knows when you are free. When you are amicable. When you won't mind him being around. He just shows up.

but its not because of power or control. I think its because social interactions depress him.

>>93030080

>>93030238
Nice

>>93046758
I don't know, I really didn't like D.C. Vs MK.

It was complete Garbage, I'd prefer injustice 3 to have multiverses with the fucking Anti Monitor as the threat on the multiverse lever kinda shit.

Or he'll throw in superboy prime in the mix as well.

>>93030080