Every DC Hero BECOMES BATMAN! | JLA: Act of God

[@comicpop]

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[@gabrielt.harris8885]

Is Justice League: Cry for Justice next?

[@caliph95]

"Pain I've never felt such pain" - Superman who once gotten beaten to death by doomsday and regularly gets beat up by Darkseid and others

[@comixproviderftw_02]

Superman: Hey! The water was… Really cold!

[@seand7042]

Nagato would be proud

[@Zxzero36]

​@@darthekul1 Yeah I think he's either trained by batman, or knows Kryptonian martial arts.

[@1111-e4p]

Ah but you see this is an Elseworlds story, so we can just say that the multiple villains that are still capable of inflicting pain on a fully powered Superman don’t exist in this world. Also he’s never been exposed to kryptonite before. God this story is stupid.

[@NeutralGuyDoubleZero]

​@@1111-e4preally exemplifies some of the absolute worst an elseworld story can be. It can be such an interesting and fun format for stories, but sometimes it's also the writers garbage dump sadly.

[@spoogtastic]

Can I just say, the fact that guys NEVER miss a week is fuckin impressive and needs to be acknowledged. Everyone at comicpop is fuckin tremendous.

[@elliottroses]

One hundred percent, even on bad weeks I know I have something to look forward to

[@leonardomaranhao2861]

Yeah, they are life savers

[@shreyanshdas7481]

So true. They're like my virtual friends.

[@nigelflood7074]

100% legends

[@MutantsInDisguise]

Are you asking a question, or just forgetting interrogation signs

[@LogantheSloth]

All I think about is this Superman quote from Morrison's JLA "We have no powers. There are millions of them and there's a child who needs us to save the world. Lets go." That's Superman to me, not whatever he is in this

[@rayvenkman2087]

It’s such a shame that a brilliant concept is sandbagged by bad character writing.

[@abrashio]

This feels like a hit piece on Superman by a Batman fanboy.

[@KianaWolf]

@@abrashio Not just Superman, but yeah, he takes the brunt of it. A kernel of a good idea, utterly wasted on a terribly written, out of character mess.

[@ForrestFox626]

Which issue was that?

[@jamjars865]

​@@abrashio thats most of dc. A bunch of batman d#ckriders who worship batman. Would be great if they left

[@scoobers90]

Superman: *Struggles to open a jar of pickles.* Batman: "That's how it feels!"

[@nirman423]

Tiffany mentioned that Ethan was supposed to be here for this episode but her reaction to Wonder Woman turning Christian was priceless

[@warriordemon1]

Poor Tiffany, she was so broken afterward. 😂

[@GeminiTasiri]

Tiffany got so shellshocked by the reveal, oh no :'D

[@sevensvn5391]

1:04:30

[@comixproviderftw_02]

Tiffany: Wonder Woman and Shazam powers shouldn’t be gone, they’re God-Based. Sal: Well, but not the RIGHT God. Tiffany: *scoffs* 😂😂😂

[@GodzillaRex100]

Welcome to the book

[@sephirothii13]

ok Tiffany's reaction to the Wonder Woman "Plot twist", ok character assassin is priceless and needs to be a gif and a meme and... the shear pain, disgust and hate for that is glorious

[@bthsr7113]

"Does Doug Moench hate the heroes?" I genuinely think he does. Except Batman.

[@lonely-soul-f2v]

Looking back at it, this kinda makes his contribution in creating Moon Knight a lot clearer now.

[@sariellakingdom1878]

So Wonder Woman. Who, aside from her Gods provided powers is canonically pretty much at a physical peak anyway, and she is TRAINED as a a weapons-master and martial artist par excellence (note that in Tower of Babel - its her fighting ability Batman uses against her) and who has an incredible will. Oh and who has been separated from her gods more than once (once giving up her powers in the process if you want to look at her wider history) Becomes a suicidal Woobie, Seems Legit🙄

[@blackphoenix77]

Why would Kyle Rayner's ring stop working? Isn't it technology?? Also, I really like Linda Danvers' Phoenix Group costume.

[@fictionarch]

Don't use your brain for anything other then for how cool Batman is.

[@MrTheblock24]

Yep it is. And Red Tornado should actually stop working as he's an android with some kind of magical tempest inside him. Superman shouldn't lose his powers either really as it's being a kryptonian on a planet with a yellow sun that powers him which is biological. Terrible story but kinda funny.

[@kylesousa2051]

God hates him personally

[@abrashio]

Not only that but if it did stop working he would not be in costume as his costume is a construct of the ring... God this comic is stupid

[@flashtheshapeshafter]

Why does he even still have his costume if the rings not working

[@JoshWolabaugh]

I love that this ends on a "damn it."

[@xxmunkiexx]

lol and so abruptly.

[@oldfan4049]

yeah, with the excessive boo-ing right before it XDDDD

[@kidroyale5936]

Shouldn’t Kyle’s costume have disappeared as soon as the ring stopped working. How did he still have it???😭

[@amead78]

Only if you have a functioning brain and know how his powers work.

[@pickedceasar1216]

I mean sometimes they don't lose the suit with the ring. It happened to guy once when he was essentially fired from the corps. But yeah usually the rings make a costume that you want. They're a construct technically

[@anonomit8229]

@@pickedceasar1216 Guy was a special case. He wasn't wearing a costume, he just was wearing normal clothes.

[@KindlyCryptid]

Stories like this make you appreciate writers like Tomasi and Tom Taylor, whose love for and understanding of these characters come out in every line of dialogue.

[@ForrestFox626]

I don't know about Taylor

[@ArmandoUlloa]

Idk about Tom taylor, if you mean wanking off batman characters you are right. Everyone else, uhhh.

[@DavidPeoplesTV]

I don’t know how you’d pull it off, Sal, but I would kill to see you explain Alan Moore’s Twilight of the Superhero’s pitch fully to the gang. I think there’s just enough detail there in what he outlined as his plans for it to be talked about.

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

Superman stopped living in Antarctica and started living in Spain. Without the "S".

[@joeyphelps7135]

Hey do you like fitness

[@michaellabonte6390]

Its the north pole but ya

[@Ducaso]

Heh.

[@oldfan4049]

Noice 😅🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@michaellabonte6390]

@@Hammerheadcomedy breh. U think I'm falling for that

[@AREJAYMOP]

55:32 Red Sun mood lighting would solve most of Lois and Superman’s problems

[@HollowGolem]

5:37 Boy, does Ben go on a roller-coaster of emotions, and take us with him there. Well-played, Sal.

[@gameb9oy]

Wait, is this that comic series that makes Wonder Woman, the Amazon warrior with powers reliant on the Greek Gods, a Catholic?

[@taylorscrews2284]

It makes no sense because like…….in that world the gods exist. She just lost her powers.

[@cullenn2100]

In this universe, when Superman and Wonder Woman have a baby, he's Franklin Richards

[@Dorkyboi-1218]

Honestly the thing with Superman’s senses should have been inverted. Like instead of I can hear the agony in my vicinity if should be that he can’t hear his parents’ or Lois’s heartbeats so he’s terrified that if he’s not on the phone with them 24/7 they will just drop and he won’t know about it.

[@MWhaleK]

Agreed and well put!

[@springsaber]

Sorry but there's one problem here you're thinking logically

[@chrisdaily2077]

To quote Ethan, "That's not how that would work."

[@CozmicEmbyrs]

Okay so I'm only at the part where Green Lantern gets his ass kicked by Sonar II and... SHOULDN'T HE *ALSO* STILL HAVE HIS POWERS? The Green Lantern ring is ALSO Tech-Based! Like yeah it's alien tech, but it's still tech!

[@caliph95]

If booster gold Future tech works so should green lantern ring

[@nathanhall9345]

21:10 The perfect reaction to this entire story.

[@carloscarmona1523]

Oh, I've been hoping for years that you guys would do this book and day and the episode did not disappoint. Everyone was on their A game today. I loved Tiffany's reaction to WW going to church.

[@zakfrisch2997]

Bruh, this author did Diana so dirty 😂 I don't think I've ever seen an iteration of her so off-base. Wall Street? Unaliving herself? Losing her mind without Kent? Lmao the absolute audacity.

[@T-Jex]

Injustice comes very close

[@ajdaking507]

​@@T-Jexat least injustice sounds like something wonder woman would actually do because she's always been that way in stories like that. This just doesn't even sound like anything wonderwoman would or even should be be involved in at all

[@pleffman]

The minor existential crisis you see tiffany go through over the concept of Hawkman having hollow bones while the guys keep talking was great

[@taylorscrews2284]

I remember hearing about this book back in the day. Or at least the concept before it actually came out. I think they talked about it in wizard. Anyway at the time I thought, “the superheroes without powers? That sounds cool.” I didn’t realize THIS was gonna be the execution.

[@metaknight7117]

54:52 Ben relazing this is the opportunity of Jon Kent being born XD

[@caliph95]

Also since Wonder Woman is magic shouldn't she disappear like the other magic guys or like turn into a statue

[@JarrenHunt]

My life wouldn’t be the same without this show lol

[@flashtheshapeshafter]

Joel's rant about this book on Elseworlds Exchange always made me hope this day would come. Edit: Tiffany's reaction to Christian Wonder Woman is SOOOOO worth it XD

[@mttylerdurden9]

Which episode was that?

[@KenByrneNL]

I got to the new names for the phoenix group and just started laughing

[@ChanceDraws]

Hahaha, I'm so glad I wasn't drinking anything when Ben yelled "Ma Kent...!"

[@thesuperiorhobgoblin9048]

It would have been cooler if wally had instead incorporated multiple weapons and gadgets from his villains and just went by the rogue

[@mr.protagonist5639]

That actually sounds pretty cool.

[@MWhaleK]

True.

[@Filip97X]

If Aquaman lost his powers despite that not being his powers but genetic ability to breath under the water, currently had his whole city of Atlantis die from drowning. Poor man couldn't catch a break in this era

[@bthsr7113]

Yeah, If this was God, this was a freaking genocide.

[@bensneb360]

This story can be summed up as… and then everyone was sad… or became a Batman lol

[@ricarlab.967]

I would think that Clark would resume journalist work or go back to Smallville and take up Farming instead of angsting and spiraling down into alcoholism over losing his powers.

[@springsaber]

Major problem your thinking

[@unclemetal8774]

This should be called "JLA It doesn't come up".

[@themaninblack9377]

I’ve been waiting for you guys to review this one ever since I first saw Linkara’s review on JLA: Act of God.

[@comixproviderftw_02]

I love how both Linkara and Ben point out the obvious in Wonder Woman. She has met Gods!

[@greatstoneplanet]

"You'll graduate to nightwings (...if you survive)."

[@Confussed-Oddish]

Superman would probably just shrug and be a reporter full time. Also did no one think of using super science to contact space?

[@rayvenkman2087]

“Finally. I can handle that G2 Slingshot without it exploding in my hands from the slightest pressure.” - Clark

[@connorpalmer6454]

Maybe a comfortable bang session with Lois? I'm sure both of them wouldn't mind that lol

[@ninja1man4u]

Oh no this book. Well thankfully at4w has prepared me for the ridiculousness of the plot and how dirty this book does dianna so let the madness begin Also Sal teasing that eventually he'll cover cry for justice is so amazing....lol I hope that "together we can be JUSTICE".

[@TrackMaster844]

Ugh, no. The longer those books stay forgotten, the better. Especially their follow ups Xp

[@comixproviderftw_02]

I’m Ray Palmer, welcome to pain!

[@ninja1man4u]

@@comixproviderftw_02 rofl

[@KianaWolf]

@@TrackMaster844 Case in point: I was unaware that there were followups. My day is now officially a little worse for having learned they exist.

[@zion831]

Did Sal bust out the Strong Bad Techno song? Da emails. Da emails. What, what. Da emails.

[@comicpop]

The System. Is Down.

[@dna6]

When Tiffany says "KryptoLight", did Ben add on "KrypDelight"? Because that's hilarious

[@TupocalypseShakur]

1:04:31 I knew this was coming but it still floors me

[@mr.person4lity906]

“Ma Kent would slap the fuck out of him” Best Ben quote of 2023

[@critical_thinker0668]

Oh boy, this comic. The one where Kyle Rayner sacrifices his life to stop a bank robbery.

[@Plyrrrr]

The way Ben says "DNA EVIDENCE! YOU SONOFABITCH"

[@spheremode3271]

Oh, God, I really needed this upload. I look forward to Back Issues like people in ancient times looked forward to their favorite show coming on on TV.

[@MrCeratix]

I'm heading to sleep, but you can be damn sure the first thing I'm doing tomorrow is watching THIS episode

[@Oniri]

I think the problem with this book is that it really hard to have a cut-off point for powers. Most of the cast are aliens or other species, so technically their powers are natural to them. You could limit it to granted powers but that would only take out like two heros. All in all, kinda doomed from the start.

[@jacobwilliams1223]

This is basically publicized Batman fanfiction that solely exists to show how much cooler he is than the other "cheating" heroes in the DC Universe, with little regard for how OOC everyone else is or the circumstances that let Batman stand "tall."

[@johnb3919]

This story hurts to hear because you all have so many good angles for a better one. The potential for a banger is there.

[@charliewilliams8639]

Tiffany almost breaks her fingers snatching the comic from Sal when he mentions Superman and Wonder Woman fucking 😂 38:08

[@TailAbNormal]

I absolutely love your ideas for an alternate plot at the end of the video. They all sound WAY better than what we got, especially the idea of Superman getting his own Steel suit.

[@GreenChillZone]

6:23 The system is down. The system is down. Dance Revolution.

[@Sicod79]

Grant Morrison tricked me. I bought this book back in the day because I thought JLA was awesome thanks to them.

[@dylansmith5206]

Why is everyone referring to Morrison as them? Morrison is basically one man and not multiple people. Assuming this is some Agent Smith shit where Morrison has multiple clones of himself. But what do I know?

[@zshunterjaden]

@@dylansmith5206 Grant Morrison prefers they/them pronouns

[@mr.goblin6039]

@@dylansmith5206 Morrison goes by they/them pronouns.

[@CosmicNerdStudios]

@@zshunterjaden that and I wouldn't be surprised if there is a council of multiversal grant Morrison's somewhere

[@JohnClark-tt2bl]

You all realize that Morrison didn't ask anyone to refer to him that way, right? The trans community just started doing it because that's what they thought he should use. He never asked anyone to. Morrison comes from a generation before all this, he doesn't think of himself that way.

[@gabrielt.harris8885]

So close after Marvill. Really hitting the all time worst comic books one after another.

[@rayvenkman2087]

In the early 2000’s no less. It’s like the first five years was home to some real mighty stinkers including Chuck Austin’s X-Men and Superman runs.

[@fragile4408]

36:48 Ben with the best moment in the video.

[@RaleighSmithRoboboboarlo]

Gotta love Sals lo-key HomeStar Runner ref😂😂😂

[@IHADTHECAKE]

"we'll put some bellows in him and ask him what he wants" best line of the episode

[@somecanadiangirl1]

"Hey we're gonna write a story about the Justice League losing their powers" "Cool let's sit down and set out clear criteria for what powers go away and why" "....."

[@xanderreimers4445]

Calling Martian man hunter “green man” is actually amazing. Because the only thing I can picture is Charlie in a morph suit from it’s always sunny

[@DCPatrol]

I think this may be the best episode yet. I mean booing doesn't just happen. It's earned. Well told Sal! Well responded Tiffany and Ben.

[@bZman]

YES! I have been dying for you guys to review this!

[@job8021]

"You cannot slow down exaculates!" got me good

[@ericlittle5632]

5:38 That set up to the joke is hilarious. 😂

[@samuellemos7306]

It's so funny to see Ben so much excited about Superman and Lois finally able to bang and have a baby, hahahahaaha.

[@michaelrodriguez1676]

"Hey, how come nobody make me my chicken nuggies?" 🤣

[@springsaber]

I think Kyle Rayner murdered The writers dog

[@arlibrarian]

The problem is that every superhero gets a "I've lost my powers!" story at one time or another. So most of these characters probably have better individual stories handling this concept. I thought Marvel's "Powerless" was a better idea, reimagining the Marvel characters as people in the "Real world," without powers. Daredevil is just a blind lawyer trying to get the Kingpin behind bars, Peter Parker is just a nerd who got a shriveled arm from being bitten by a spider, etc. Only problem is the Logan story ventured into spy noir which was interesting but sort of pushed the limit of things being realistic.

[@Ib10.]

1:05:26 my new favorite Ben quote: “Oh man, THIS IS A THING!”

[@matthewpopow6647]

Imagine if this "event" determined that the ability to process oxygen was a super power.

[@bthsr7113]

For Atlanteans, it basically did.

[@23Gaunt]

Here's another missed opportunity this book could have used, giving every de-powered hero a set of power armor like steel had. The JLA has both the financial backing and resources to do this and no one even thinks about it.

[@rayvenkman2087]

The almighty power of Idiot Plot.

[@Zxzero36]

It's because batman dosnt wear any armor and everyone has to follow that rule.

[@what8294]

another great ep from the fab four! really liked that Wes Anderson short from the other day. very cute and a great teaser for today's episode!

[@Depthcharge2030]

You know, thinking about this the book kind of was 52 before 52. Its a world without the trinity and the Justice League. But yeah, Wonder Woman getting knee deep into god was strange.

[@andreware2039]

This sounds like something written by someone with no understanding of the DC universe at all right down to the basic concepts of the characters within it.

[@pipedreamer9781]

Why is it that all the worst stories have Superman and Wonder Woman shacking up?

[@CptCrash21]

I don't know why but Tiffany's "Weee." at 4:05 had me laughing harder than it should.

[@caliph95]

Writer forgot that the Green Lantern ring is alien tech not magic or something

[@bthsr7113]

They also forgot that Guy's Warrior powers were also tech based.

[@codystork3008]

That's Kryptonian divorce also the male keeps everything in a Kryptonian divorce but the symbol of our marriage. Unfortunatly nobody can open the door to double check that with my spacedad.

[@idongesitusen5764]

I love Tiffany’s reactions to the wasted potential.

[@loribernardisunwell9663]

She is right about WW. She would still be a superior human being due to all her earned fighting skills and intelligence, just like Batman. The take on WW is beyond ignorant of the character and typical of the crappy writing associated with her. She should be taken from DC and given to people who will be consistent, knowledgable and intelligible with the character.

[@StridingJack425]

Then you have Tom king

[@NovastarDoughnut]

See, like... in my head If Superman lost his powers, he wouldn't just get mad that he lost his powers and that ne was now a weak mortal. I like to imagine Clark would be super happy, struggling to open a jar of pickles, and getting out of breath on a morning run would be things he would value and treasure. Sure, I think some part would miss the superpowers... but I dont think he would just give up and become a drunk. He would become a volentarily fire fighter or would go to star labs or steel amd have them work on appropriations of hid power

[@GambeTama]

I am so glad that this happened. Explaining this story to anyone is such a trip! I always point to this story as the best image of DC's Batman worship, but it kind of collapses when I have to get into the rest of the context XD

[@PaulGonzalez-PhilOsyfee]

Just another banger of an episode. Keep up the great work.

[@christopherb501]

"Batman's like 'Welcome to my world, bitches!'" About that...

[@ftfasttalkfoodreviewsyt]

Green lantern shouldn't have lost his powers. It's technology. It's a ring. If red tornado can turn back on so can the ring.

[@Grand_Theft_Autobot]

At some point partway through this video, I hit on what I think would have been a neat idea: Instead of being smushed by Toyman's lame robot, Steel survives and goes on to become some kind of inventor helping the former heroes simulate their lost powers through his tech, sort of like a benevolent Tinkerer from Marvel comics. Also, Superman's reaction reminds me of Super Dave Osborne after attempting and failing to perform some kind of silly stunt that totally wrecks him while he 's yelling "NEW PAIN! RECORD PAIN!" And, I don't know f you know about this, but chances are, you do, but I'll just mention it anyway just in case one of your other subscribers reads this and is interested: In about 1969, Larry Niven wrote an essay involving the difficulties pre-Crisis Superman might have engaging in sexual activities with a human woman (named "LL" in the essay) called "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex." I found it an amusing read.

[@FusionFullForce]

Because it was brought up in the episode, "Red Sun" Radiation can make him human esque so he and Lois can bang. Doesn't hurt Superman, just cancels his powers.

[@thetruehighlander666]

The reactions in this episode were priceless

[@Kekkersboy]

Superman doesn't supersplooge, if he didn't did he could never use the bathroom

[@DepletedWisdom]

As far as the Superman/wonder woman story, I would have had Lois die in a normal everyday situation, Clark unable to help her starts his downward spiral. Wonder woman struggling with her normal everyday life and no longer being near immortal ends up bonding with Clark and starting a relationship. Where they both start the others recovery.

[@comixproviderftw_02]

Clark in this story is like the equivalent of what’s going on with Peter Parker nowadays, only way more sad and pathetic.

[@TheGreatDevlin]

I think that's the rare time Sal grossed Ben out and not the other way around lol. New show on ComicPop Returns: Ben's Blacklight.

[@Bobbybillybillbob]

Would love a Justice League series where it's just a world of the non powered characters on the team, Ala Batman, Green Arrow, Black Canary, Katana, Cyborg, Wildcat, Huntress, Catwoman etc

[@andrewbarone3781]

Cyborg DOES have powers, dummy.

[@HomeNuke]

Please change the title to "Wonder Woman Finds Jesus". That is down right insane

[@dekaritheprofessor2631]

This episode is the Epitome of why I love Comic Pop: Good Fun,Great Reactions,and a Story that gives me hope that I can get a story published too😊❤❤

[@IAmBlindProphet]

This video just broke the matrix for me. I just found out about tugs story yesterday. I was looking to see if someone had a good quality video on it and found nothing. And then you post this. What a time to be alive Edit: yeah so much wasted potential here. This actually could’ve been so good. I wish they would redo this and do it right. Make it a black label miniseries. I am so disappointed. Like, they could’ve made this concept make so much more sense too. Without thinking about who could make this happen, you could make the black light event a coordinated series of multiple things all happening together. One of them could just be the meta gene being “shut off”. Another could be magic losing all power on earth. Then maybe some sort of contagion that neutralizes anything that isn’t native to Earth. Those are all rushed ideas, but having something similar that is very specific in what it does would be nice. Because then we could actually understand the exceptions. Like the stipulations I lied out I don’t think would apply to the green, the red, and the rot because I don’t think they’d actually count as magic. Also the speed force would be unaffected. Which means those things could be ways heroes and villains try to compensate for the new status quo. You could see the the forces (speed, sage, strength, and slow) become unstable due to way more people tapping into them, which could cause varying effects and weaken the amount of power they grant anyone. Same with the red green and rot. There would be people trying to compensate with gadgets and genetic experimentation. Heck maybe have the earth moved to a dimension that keeps it in stasis and outside of time until the end of volume 1 or 2 so that no one can time travel and there is no outside help. There’s so many different ways this could go, a competent writer just needs to pick options, make rules, plan it out, and then stay consistent with the ideas and themes. I mean jeez DC I’ll do it myself if you want I just want to see this be executed effectively.

[@amusingmoose9924]

46:17 I had no idea Sal spoke Welsh.