Comments on The Roar of Comics: "Quick, Eat the Children"

They did eat the lion tamer though.

2007-04-29T03:12:00.000-04:00

They did eat the lion tamer though.

No, dear, the crocodiles don't eat the children. B...

2007-04-28T13:22:00.000-04:00

No, dear, the crocodiles don't eat the children. Billy turns into Captain Marvel and saves them,along with Tawkey Tawney.

Try reading the book, it is excellent. The little girl turns out to be Mary Marvel, by the way.

So Smith's crocodiles actually ate the kids? Or wa...

2007-04-28T04:17:00.000-04:00

So Smith's crocodiles actually ate the kids? Or was there just the threat? Even if they did, there's still the Osiris and JSA scenes which were very much on-panel.

I think it's also the matter that it feels like a cheap trick to show how evil the villains are, especially when it's been pulled so often already by DC, and in stories trying to posit themselves as "mature storytelling."

Uh, JLG? The kid's death in Amazons Attack was al...

2007-04-28T03:17:00.000-04:00

Uh, JLG? The kid's death in Amazons Attack was also off-panel, so I think Steven's comparison holds.

I'm confused as to why everyone's harping about this as being ooc anyway. Whether or not the Amazons are particularly warlike in DCU history (and considering that only half made the choice to reject violence, the fully integrated now Bana had definitely embraced it whole heartedly), it

Wasn't this kind of mindless brutality and slaught...

2007-04-27T21:54:00.000-04:00

Wasn't this kind of mindless brutality and slaughter the very same thing that the Amazons left "Man's World" to get /away/ from? Weren't the Bronze Age warrior atrocities things they specifically /rejected/? Wasn't their entire feeling of moral superiority to "Man's World" based on the principle 'We are not the people who slaughter the innocent, you big hairy smelly savage men are?'

I honestly suspect that, like Crotch-Gate, this is...

2007-04-27T21:19:00.000-04:00

I honestly suspect that, like Crotch-Gate, this is another case of comics fans looking for something to complain about.

Not only are they Amazons, but they are MIND-CONTR...

2007-04-27T14:19:00.000-04:00

Not only are they Amazons, but they are MIND-CONTROLLED Amazons! At least Hyppolita is.

And no, they didn't show the kid getting sliced and eaten.

That was Osiris. But still by a crocodile.

So, wait, did Jeff Smith show the crocodile actual...

2007-04-27T13:22:00.000-04:00

So, wait, did Jeff Smith show the crocodile actually eating the kid, biting down on the kid's stomach, with blood pouring out, maybe some dismembered limbs lying around?

If not, then I think you're on the wrong track there.