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More on DC Comics going furry
2 years ago
I learned more about the business with Nightwing getting foxy. It's part of DC's big "event" this year, Planet Beast. Beast Boy/Changeling of the Titans turns himself into Starro for some reason and then he emits spores like Starros usually does to control people. Only, instead of controlling people, they turn them into furries. Insane, savage, murderous, sometimes lust-crazed, furries -- except when they're not. I looked at a few books and there seems to be no rhyme or reason for why some people like Batman become feral beasts and some other like Harley Quinn retain their sanity.
Also an oddity is that Batman turns into a wolf-man instead of a bat. And Harley becomes a muscled up rabbit woman. Missed your chance for a Amazonian hyena there, DC. Among others, Huntress becomes a panther-woman and Red Hood Jason Todd turns into a red-furred wolf. You know, little Red Riding Hood and all that?
Really though it feels like another zombie apocalypse though with furries rather than shambling corpses. Or vampires. Or kill-crazy maniacs. Just to name three versions of this idea DC has done in the past decade. I hope it gets better.
Also an oddity is that Batman turns into a wolf-man instead of a bat. And Harley becomes a muscled up rabbit woman. Missed your chance for a Amazonian hyena there, DC. Among others, Huntress becomes a panther-woman and Red Hood Jason Todd turns into a red-furred wolf. You know, little Red Riding Hood and all that?
Really though it feels like another zombie apocalypse though with furries rather than shambling corpses. Or vampires. Or kill-crazy maniacs. Just to name three versions of this idea DC has done in the past decade. I hope it gets better.
It's not so much them retaining their minds. It's their more "primal" traits carry over, the animals are random. Like, Batman wants to protect "Master Gotham", Harley wants Ivy's praise.
No matter what animals the writer's chose, there'd be complaints from people. "It's redundant making Batman a man-bat, there's already one of them"/"It's super obvious he'd be a bat". It feels like they took an animal for each character that'd personify that character's traits, not necessarily how people would "view" them.
Batman wants to protect Gotham, he's loyal, etc. Red Hood's a loner and vicious when he needs to be. Black Adam's a king and carries himself like that. etc
These massive multi-title crossover events were a big reason why I left buying comics years ago, it was just getting too expensive to keep up with them.
And as I said, I like Bat-Wolf-Man, but they have got to have him meet Selina Kyle. That's gonna be good.