February 14, 2012 

The Worst Bit of the New 52

I have to say, the cancellation of Mister Terrific is not coming as a shock. I always enjoyed Michael Holt in the JSA, and was really looking forward to this series. Alas, he went from being the quietly badass third smartest man in the world to a guy who spouted lines like this:

I have the hardest time finding any of the dialogue natural, especially the bit where he calls himself “black guy”.

Then he does it again in issue four:

How horribly cliche.

Congratulations DC: You managed to take one of the few heroes with no blackspliotation tones and turn him into one of the crowd. That’s as bad as, I dunno, deciding to make a Batman of Africa, like it’s this one tiny place or like that’s the only place that can have a black Batman.

Oh wait.


  • Anonymous

    And some people have the audacity to say we’re a “post-racial society.”  Yeaaaah, not even close.

  • http://sezaarsez.wordpress.com/ sezaar

    Apart from the racial thing, why does he say he’s the third smartest man in the world? I can’t even imagine what his pick up lines are like…

  • Naryldor

    That line about being the third smartest person in the world looks like something out of a Monkey Island insult contest.

    - “I’m the third smartest guy in the World!”
    - “Meaning you are merely second among the losers…”

  • http://www.cinrambler.wordpress.com/ Mark

    It sounds like they ripped the “third smartest” off of Amadeus Cho (one of Marvel’s back-up Hulk and Hercules character) who was the seventh smartest man in the world.

    Thing is, seventh smartest is kind of intentionally funny. Third smartest is just sad.

  • http://flickr.com/photos/sedary_raymaker/ Naked Bunny with a Whip

    You don’t get to pointlessly blurt out that you’re the third smartest man and then gripe when people ask you who the first two are. Sheesh.