Posted By Andy Frogman on January 28, 2012 | Comments: none

This week was the first time we tried the Win Wednesday and Fail Friday. To be fair we didn’t get a lot of response, BUT we’re not quitting on it yet. We’re going to keep going for a few weeks, and then make a decision. We’re hoping that more updates on Facebook, will draw more attention to the site, and add more activity to the competitions, as well as the rest of the forum in general.

This week’s winner of Win Wednesday was SAAM, by technical default:

And this weeks winner of Fail Friday was Rick, with this image that made me LoL so hard!

Let’s keep the activity going in the Epic Win and Epic Fail threads, so I’ll have more to crown next week!

There have been a few updates on the forum of late too, I’ve added a Serious Discussion forum, something that was severely lacking, and last time we had one, very poorly moderated by myself. So in order to counter that I’ve taken on a new Moderator in the forum of Sever!

There’s currently no threads in the serious discussion forum, but if you have an important topic that deserves being taken seriously that you want to discuss, please feel free to post it there!

Category: Andy's Updates, Forum Update
Tags: competition, discussion, fail, friday, serious, Sever, wednesday, win

Posted By Andy Frogman on January 26, 2012 | Comments: none

WHTTDCU came back from it’s hiatus this week, only o discover that the project in it’s current state is unsustainable. During the two weeks that we were on Hiatus I found it difficult do to other commitments to get even three reviews done, and we are supposed to be producing a review every day of the week. That was hard enough when we were just reviewing the Issue 1s, but now we’re reviewing anywhere between 2 and 3 issues, again, everyday.

This was leaving us with little to no life outside of doing reviews and there are a lot of things that still need to be worked on, outside of this one project, and time is growing shorter.

So over the past day or two (it’s hard to tell when they blur into one), I’ve been working intensively on reorganising the entire project to make this better for everyone involved. As a result just like the comics we’re reviewing this project is getting a reboot!

everything since Batman: Noel on Boxing Day has been nulled, and week 14 starts next week. The original plan was to review all the issues ones. We did that successfully. The next part of the project was to review the entire first story arc of some chosen comics. This was fraught with problems because of catch up and simply having to review multiple issues of a comic everyday. We gave it our best try, but at the end of the day it didn’t work out… I don’t consider that failing, this isn’t a pass fail situation. We tried something, we played with the format, were attempted to get it to work in various ways but too many things came against us. So now instead we’re moving onto the final part of the reviews, the Conclusive Reviews.

Rather than writing individual reviews for each issue in a story arc, we’re writing a simple conclusion about each comic series, as a whole, and then giving our opinions and recommendations. This new system will run 4 reviews per week and when February 27th comes along, we’ll be starting Miniseries Mondays again, with Batman Inc.: Leviathan Strikes.

In week 27 and 28 we’ll be looking at the lost titles, the six titles that were cancelled, just before the following week, we start looking at Second Wave. This will start by returning to the original style of reviews for the issues ones, and then when the series reach the end of their first story arcs, we’ll be doing the conclusive reviews for them.

Not sure what we’ll do in between, but if you have any suggestions we’ll be happy to hear it!

Category: Whatever Happened to the DC Universe?
Tags: Allom, Andy, Comics, DC, Emily, Evans, forum, Forumverse, Frogman, george, happened, project, Qeeko, Queen, reboot, shannon, the, to, universe, wasusa, whatever

Posted By QueenQeeko on January 25, 2012 | Comments: none

• Click here to go to the reviews for Detective Comics #1 – #3 •

#1
DC’s flagship title is relaunched for the first time ever, with new Batman adventures from acclaimed writer/ artist Tony S. Daniel!

A killer called The Gotham Ripper is on the loose on Batman’s home turf – leading The Dark Knight on a deadly game of cat and mouse. – DCComics.com

#2
Batman sets his sights on the Gotham Ripper, who in turn has his sights on Batman. Meanwhile, Bruce Wayne explores a budding romance with television journalist Charlotte Rivers, who’s visiting Gotham City to cover the gruesome slayings – while also trying to uncover Bruce’s own mystery. But time is running out as both Commissioner Gordon and Batman work to uncover the true identity of this new serial killer. – DCComics.com

Welcome back to Whatever Happened to the DC Universe?, continuing on the first story arch of Andy’s first choice from weeks 3 – 4, Batman: Detective Comics!

Come back tomorrow for: Green Lantern #1 – #3!

We feel it’s important that attention be brought onto this, the Goal of this project, to answer questions and provide additional information. Click here to read The Goal.

Category: Whatever Happened to the DC Universe?
Tags: Allom, Andy, Batman, Comics, DC, DCnU, DCU, detective, Emily, Evans, Frogman, george, happened, Qeeko, Queen, queenqeeko, shannon, universe, wasusa, whatever

Posted By QueenQeeko on January 24, 2012 | Comments: none

• Click here to go to the reviews for Penguin: Pain and Prejudice #1 – #3 •

#1
In this exciting new miniseries from novelist Gregg Hurwitz (You’re Next) and rising star artist Szymon Kudranksi (Spawn), the painful and dark past of one of Batman’s most devious foes is examined. How did young Oswald Cobblepot go from being the apple of his mother’s eye to the leader of underworld gangs and adversary of The Caped Crusader? Find out in PENGUIN: PAIN AND PREJUDICE! – DCComics.com

#2
Writer Gregg Hurwitz and artist Szymon Kudranski continue their dark examination of the Penguin in PENGUIN: PAIN AND PREJUDICE. The Penguin runs a vast crime empire that’s always one step away from faltering, thanks to the interference of Batman. How can Penguin keep Batman at bay and maintain the power and image that’s become so important to him? And what dark family secrets is the Penguin hiding? – DCComics.com

#3
In the third issue of best-selling novelist Gregg Hurwitz’s PENGUIN: PAIN AND PREJUDICE miniseries, the Penguin has a new girlfriend! But his new relationship is just an excuse for bigger heists and more vicious crimes, all to obtain gifts for his loved ones! And the flashier the crime, the more easily it catches Batman’s eye. With The Dark Knight hot on his trail, will the Penguin back away from his life of crime – or will he continue his push to take over Gotham City’s criminal underworld? – DCComics.com

Welcome back to Whatever Happened to the DC Universe. After a two week hiatus due to technical difficulties, we are taking a look at the five part miniseries Penguin: Pain and Prejudice, a story from the perspective of one of Batman’s most iconic foes.

Come back tomorrow for: Batman: Detective Comics #1 – #2!

We feel it’s important that attention be brought onto this, the Goal of this project, to answer questions and provide additional information. Click here to read The Goal.

Category: Whatever Happened to the DC Universe?
Tags: Allom, Andy, cobblepot, Comics, DC, DCnU, DCU, Emily, Evans, Frogman, george, happened, mini, miniseries, oswald, penguin, Qeeko, Queen, series, shannon, universe, wasusa, whatever

Posted By Andy Frogman on January 20, 2012 | Comments: none

On the Ultima-Java Forums we have competitions running most of the year around, starting at the end of January and concluding around November time. For the past few years we have been hosting the popular Caption Contest and the Halloween Theme Competition. This year however, we’ve decided to increase our repertoire of competitions, with Win Wednesday and Fail Friday. Not sure what I’m talking about? then I’ll explain!

The Caption Contest starts this year on the 29th of January. Every week on a Sunday, a new image will be uploaded as part of a theme which lasts four weeks. During that week, you post as many caption as you can think of for that image. The Winner will be posted to the home page, and kept in the Caption Contest Archive Thread. Also the winner will receive tickets to go into an end of year draw, to be on the UJ New Year Party Wallpaper.

The Halloween Theme Competition is exactly what it says on the tin. This competition will be opened in June through to August, during which time, you may gave as many ideas towards a theme for the Halloween Wallpaper. It doesn’t have to be scary, it just has to allow the Admin characters to be represented differently to usual. In the past we have had Green Lanterns, Mad Scientists, Jack O’Lanterns, and this past year was Guild Wars 2 Bar Fight.

The winner of the competition will receive the sketch of the artwork, and will be entered directly into the New Years Party Wallpaper, not requiring to be drawn at the end of the year.

Win Wednesday and Fail Friday are the newest competitions that have been added to UJ:F. Quite simlpy, there are two new threads on the forum, Epic Win and Epic Fail. As this thread fills up, twice per week, the wins on Wednesday and Fails on Friday, the thread will be judged, and the person who posts the best win or fail, will receive tickets in to the New Year Wallpaper.

The first winners for Wins and Fails will be chosen on the 25th and 27th of January respectively.

The competitions are only available to members of the forum, so if you wish to be a part of the fun, sign up and have a go!

Category: Forum Update
Tags: Caption, competitons, Contest, epic, fail, halloween, New, Party, theme, Wallpaper, win, year