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.

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5 responses to “The Worst Bit of the New 52”

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    Anonymous

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

  2. sezaar Avatar
    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…

  3. Naryldor Avatar
    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…”

  4. Mark Avatar
    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.

  5. Naked Bunny with a Whip Avatar
    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.

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