Remake/Remodel: DC Rebirth so you don't have to

The first issue of Bug (as done by the Allred clan) is pretty darn good... lots of Kirby genuflection and fun times. Brute and Glob!

Yeah, enjoyed Bug! a lot.

Batman, ASBatman, Superman, WW, Super Sons, Teen Titans (the Damian Wayne one) are all worth reading imo.

The Young Animal line is great apart from Mother Panic, which I can't get to grips with.

Flintstones still the best book on the DC roster, although all the Hanna Barbera/DC Annuals crossovers were surprisingly readable in either the main or backup feature.

I quite liked both Unfollow and Clean Room, and Sheriff of Babylon was great. In fact, I'm tempted to say the Vertigo output over the past year or two is as good as it's ever been.

Flintstones still the best book on the DC roster

sentences which are true but nonetheless you never thought you'd read

Cave Carson started really well, then... devolved. Worth checking out though.

FYI, there's a DC Super Hero Girls book titled "Finals Crisis" (*thumb's up emoji*)

Along the same lines -- one of those Lego Justice League DVD movies ("Attack of the Legion of Doom") has a joke involving a gov't alien research lab called "Area 52"... Someone says, "I thought it was 'Area 51'," and the reply is, "No, that was destroyed... this is the New 52."

(Friday afternoon ephemera, y'all)

In this week's GIANT EDITORIAL FUCKUPS:

Lois gets her leg cut off on Superman, and Supes cauterises the stump so she doesn't bleed to death even though they both know that rules out reattachment (in fact it's weirder than that, he breaks off from the fight after he cauterises her to take her to hospital. Dude, if you'd done that at super-speed before you burnt it...). It's actually quite well done, apart from the obvious Mahnke content. But what's that, Skippy? Action Comics explicitly takes place later in continuity than Superman and Lois is still bipedal?

Also DC have finally dealt with having two Dicks. As you might have expected, they've made a complete pig's ear of it. White Wally has turned up in Nightwang's own book in an adventure Nightwang describes as their first since White Wally came back. Which means either the Titans book doesn't exist, or takes place after this issue of Nightwang. And then in Teen Titans, the Black Wally/White Wally storyline gets advanced by the Dick there ignoring the events of Nightwang completely. And the introduction of a second Deathstroke, maybe.

The rumours of the Doomsday Clock 'real' villain give me the total fear. But are completely believable of GJ.

What are those rumours then? Who is it?

spoil away, aldo, i don't think any of us give enough of a fuck to worry about it

we can add one-legged lois to the ever-growing roster of dismembered dc comics characters, i guess

Superboy Prime, the universe puncher from Infinite Crisis.

Since nobody else has read the Flash/Batman 'Button' crossover, the final 2 pages of the last part are 1) a blue hand picks up the Rorschach badge while the "perception of time" speech between Laurie and Doc Manhattan is recited and 2) the badge resolves out to be part of the Superman shield. There appears to be fairly strong analysis of the design indicating exactly which Superman's it is, none of which are the Action/Superman/Trinity/JL Supes.

Other circumstantial hints are that the one "pulling the strings" has erased 10 years of continuity, with the Rebirth event marking 10 years since Superboy Punched The Universe, and that in Legion Of Three Worlds and Adventure Comics it's made clear that Superboy Prime is in his parent's basement on a paradoxical Earth Prime reading the comics that describe the rest of the DCU so he might be the only person in the DCU aware that Watchmen is a comic that co-exists with Superman comics (even the Psycho-Pirate doesn't).

It can't go well.

gnnnnnnnnnghhhhhhh

Oh, and the other news from Flash is that Hypertime is in continuity again.

they're really taking the long way round to writing an in-continuity batman/rorschach teamup huh

Actually Hypertime goes a long way to explaining Why Superman, and also Why Titans and Why Green Arrow.

But not Why aldo? Nothing explains that.

after exasperatedly bringing up the concept of hypertime so much in this thread i feel somehow guilty that this is what they're using it for

be careful what you wish for i guess

i'm sorta reading these things but generally not following or caring

you're reading the way geoff johns is writing by the looks of it

sadly

Wait, who's the SECOND dick?

He's Dick as well. Nightwang is Dick and Titans Nightwing is Dick. They have different costumes and everything.

Juggling multiple Dicks is hard.

Are they literally different dicks, or are they they same dick, but no one bothered checking with each other?

take it to tmi guys

I think they're supposed to be the same Dick but they're clearly not because they're dressed differently (eg one has a little cape). Dick looks different when he's older.

Ain't it the truth (defeated sigh).

guys, just so you don't make the same mistake DC does, "dick" is slang for male genitalia
just fyi

quite the boner they made there

stuck their cock in it, as it were

penis

I just want to make it clear that I'm clear on the distinction between discussing multiple instances of the character Dick Grayson and discussing male genitalia. Clearly, there's a vas deferens.

at an unprecedented moment of good will for the wonder woman character, the bigwigs at DC decide to cash in with a groundbreaking special sure to please new fans and win them over into becoming ongoing comic buyers

http://www.previewsworld.com/SiteImage/CatalogImage/STL046492%3Ftype%3D1

http://i.imgur.com/AVBpSkn.png

http://i.imgur.com/szr6BqM.png

http://i.imgur.com/LMWv1XY.png

SYNERGY

that cover again:
http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/dcn-wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20230203/WonderDevil.jpg

so confused

I so misread that "kicked some rectal" thing at first.

uhh yeah

they're just kickin it, doing butt stuff. wonder woman and the tazmanian devil. nothing to see here.

to be clear: that book came out THIS WEEK

is this the real life

"F from Professor Bechdel" -- how rude

lol at The Comics Journal review:

Lobo/Road Runner Special #1: Fuck these comics; $4.99.

and further

I dunno, I just have a really visceral aversion to these DC serious-but-funny takes on Warner Brothers and Hanna-Barbara cartoon properties, which seem designed primarily to coax oh my god such a weird idea ha ha ha ha ha ha reactions from credulous entertainment news sources that translate to added visibility, theoretically leading to impulse sales from curious and/or potentially-ironic-but-probably-assertively-‘sincere’-and-anyway-still-buying-so-it’s-exactly-the-same-thing-as-far-as-the-publisher-is-concerned consumers of popular ‘geek’-categorized franchise content. Hey, it worked for Archie. The Flintstones book is supposed to be actually good, and, as we know, only one (arguably) actually-good title is needed to valorize the whole line’s calculation, given the curve on which these corporate funster efforts are typically graded. Whoops, I just fell into their clutches by even talking about it! Still, NONETHELESS, the Lobo/Road Runner book is drawn by Kelley Jones, and it’s nice to see his work, and to know he’s getting paid. Maybe It’s Good (TM).

um. someone's gotta chill. punisher meets archie shaped a generation, yo

I can roll with this latest wacky crossover iteration much more easily than I can John Constantine vs. Evil Orko.

oh god i forgot about Evil Orko. i love it

i just read the lobo/roadrunner thing and it's bad btw
tho nowhere near as bad as wonder woman/Tasmanian devil; that thing is garbage

Why is the comics press so snarky

inferiority complex

comics are terrible