The Post-Infinite DCU

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Cancelled titles:

* Batgirl #73 (Feb '06)
* Batman: Gotham Knights #74 (Feb '06)
* The Flash #130 (Jan '06)
* Gotham Central #40 (Feb '06)
* JLA #125 (Feb '06)
* Superman #226 (Feb '06) / with AoS renamed Superman
* Wonder Woman #226 (Feb '06)

New titles:

* 52* (Limited, weekly)
Launch: 10. May '06
Author: Keith Giffen, Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid
Penciller: tba

*Blue Beetle (Ongoing)
Launch: March '06
Author: Keith Giffen and John Rogers
Penciller: Cully Hamner

* Brave and the Bold (Ongoing)
Launch: tba
Author: Mark Waid
Penciller: George Perez

* Checkmate
Launch: April '06
Author: Greg Rucka
Penciller: Jesus Saiz

* Green Lantern Corps (Ongoing)
Launch: April '06 ?
Author: Dave Gibbons
Penciller: Dave Gibbons (#1-#6), Patrick Gleason (#7-)

* Ion
Launch: April '06
Author: Ron Marz
Penciller: Greg Tocchini

* Secret Six (Miniseries)
Launch: tba
Author: Gail Simone
Penciller: Brad Walker

* Shadowpact
Launch: April '06
Author/Penciller: Bill Willingham

* Wonder Woman
Launch: March '06
Author: tba
Penciller: Terry Dodson

* The Spirit (Ongoing)
Launch: June/July '06
Author/Penciller: Darwyn Cooke

Creative changes

* Batman/Detective Comics (8-part crossover, starts TEC #817/Bat #651?)
Author: James Robinson
Penciller: Don Kramer, Andy Clarke

* Superman/Action Comics (8-part crossover, starts Act #837/Sup #650?)
Author: Geoff Johns, Kurt Busiek
Penciller: Pete Woods

* Green Lantern (#10?)
Author: Geoff Johns
Penciller: Ivan Reis

* Hawkgirl (renamed from Hawkman with #50)
Author: Walter Simonson
Penciller: Howard Chaykin

* JSA (5-parter, #83)
Author: Paul Levitz
Penciller: Rags Morales

* Nightwing (#118?)
Author: Bruce Jones
Penciller: tba

* Robin (#148?)
Author:Adam Beechen
Penciller:Karl Kerschl

* Supergirl (#7)
Author: Greg Rucka
Penciller: Ian Churchill

* Superman/Batman (#27)
Author: Mark Verheiden
Penciller: Ethan Van Sciver

Also of "note": Rumours of a Batwoman title, Aquaman will become Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Ehhh. Not that inspiring, huh?
And what's this "Supergirl and LOSH" book, then?

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Things worth getting excited about:

Dave Gibbons DRAWING Green Lantern Corps. HUBBA HUBBA.
Darwyn Cooke on The Spirit
Bill Willingham drawing Shadowpact (which is such a shitty title that I may abstain for that reason alone)
Robin might be really, really good. Adam Beechen has written all of the Justice League Unlimited issues, and they are, on average, the best adventure comics put out by DC these days. And Karl Kerschl's pretty cool on Adv of Supes.

Things that make me go HMMM:

James Robinson on Batman. Has the potential to be DREADFULLY dull.
Ron Marz on Ion. Kyle Rayner's creator tackles the one major aspect of the character that he didn't create. Big fuckin' whoop. You're putting that up against DAVE GIBBONS DRAWING ALIEN GREEN LANTERNS? Ha ha ha, in the words of Daffy Duck, It is to laugh.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

X-post,

I can't tell if the Supergirl & LOSH will happen in Supergirl or in LOSH, or if it will be brand new title. The idea of Rucka writing LOSH = hubba (2x).

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Are they gonna put The Spirit in the DCU? If so, shenanigans!

I'm also intrigued by BW writing & drawing Shadowpact, as Spirit of Vengeance Sexing The Atom's Purple-Faced Wife rates slightly higher than Secret Six in terms of being the Infinite Crisis mini that made me feel the least shame in being interested by Infinite Crisising.

Here's hoping the good Giffen does the damn thing for Blue Beetle. And where's the geekitude for Simonson on Hawkgirl, dammit? TURN HER INTO A MARMOT, WALT!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Also, don't know if I approve of Ivan Reis on GL. I think he's Canadian (or is that Ivan Reitman, I'm thinking of? Or possibly Rick Moranis?), so I should be all, SIS BOOM RAH, but the art on Rann/Thanagar War was pretty meh.

I don't know how they're going to shoehorn Denny Colt into the DCU. It would seem like a big fuck-up to put him in the present, but if they stick him in the 40s, who will care? (A: ME!)

I would rather see Chaykin write and Simonsen draw on Hawkgrill.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

I'd rather see Simonson tag-team the w/a duties, actually, but I'll live for Chaykin drawing himself making out w/ Marmot Hawkgirl (or, um, Marmotgirl) every issue.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Forget the GIRL, give us Marmothawk.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Who cares? It's a marmot!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

cutting gotham central is a huge disappointment.
DCU wants me to buy two superman & two batman titles per month for the next year? laaaame. who iz gonna read CHECKMATE?

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

If it's Rucka's DCU version of Queen & Country, then count me in! Even if Freakish Metal Eye Batbabe is prominently featured.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

$20 says Checkmate will feature Metal Eye Babe teamed with de-Amazonizized Wonder Woman.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Twenty CANADIAN dollars, mind you.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

WW going from Themiscryan (sic) ambassador to super-spy? Yeah, sure. Just keep Cliff Richards away from the tableau (or the recording studio), and we're kosher, Rucka, mmkay?

What's the Canadian / rape exchange rate, Huk?

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Now that Gov't's been toppled, it's a free for all!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

The idea of Rucka writing LOSH = hubba (2x).

Really? To me, the idea = being stabbed in the face (100x)

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

The Spirit and Brave & The Bold sound promising, though.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

The Spirit is already as doomed as Plastic Man is. It'll win a bunch of awards, get collected in some dynamic way, and then be cancelled at #18.

Brave & the Bold, howev, will lose Perez at #4, lose Waid at #10, and then run 1,097 issues written by Devin Grayson and drawn by Rob Liefeld.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

FINGER!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

xpost

Very true!

Waid and Perez seem like a good match. It's nice for Perez, anyway, since he is almost always paired with writers I don't like.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Agreed. For some reason, I really Perez Batman, even though it's a very Earthy Batman.
Has Waid ever done any significant Batman writing? I can't think of anything outside of JLA stuff.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

I'd be happy to see the JLA franchise take a rest for a little bit. I actually imagine it coming back with a new name, which would be a nice gesture: golden age = Society, silver age = League, new age = something else?

Very psyched about Darwyn Cooke's Spirit, Simonson/Chaykin, and, yes, 52. Checkmate could be interesting if Rucka does it Queen & Country-style. Curious about Simone's Secret Six.

Come to think of it, I wish DC would let a lot of its franchises rest for a little while. I wouldn't mind not seeing Nightwing or Robin or even Flash comics for a few years until somebody comes up with a really interesting take on them.

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Well, I guess Kingdom Come would fall under JLA, right? I don't know, I don't think he has.

Oh, this has been going around on other message boards, I'm copying and pasting it from Barbelith. This is from the newest issue of Wizard:

One Year Later, the DCU in 2006

One of these characters...

... will give birth in '06: Wonder Woman, Power Girl, Catwoman or Oracle

...will be stripped of their powers: Superman, Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Green Lantern (Hal)

...will become the mayor of a crime-riddled city: Wally West, Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne, Oliver Queen

...will have amnesia and be unable to tell friend from foe: MM, Aquaman, Atom, Elongated Man

...will take the mantle of the most powerful hero in the DCU: Booster Gold, Animal Man, Kyle Rayner, Earth-2 Superman

...will become a criminal: Hal Jordan, Superman, Flash, Captain Marvel

...WILL BE THE ONLY ONE AROUND AFTER "INFINITE CRISIS": Wally West, Superboy (Connor), Guy Gardner, Nightwing

One of these teams won't survive Infinite Crisis: JLA, JLA, JLA, JLA

...will become the military's secret weapon: Cyborg, Wonder Woman, Red Tornado, John Stewart

...will destroy an entire country and kill millions: Braniac, Sinestro, Black Adam, Vandal Savage

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm. That's a good idea about the Justice League.

How about the Justice Academy - DC hasn't really done the Super Hero School thing, have they?

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

J'onn J'onnz would be such a great headmaster!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

My dream list, by me, a dreamer:

One of these characters...

...will give birth in '06: PLASTIC MAN
...will be stripped of their powers: HAL JORDAN
...will become the mayor of a crime-riddled city: DETECTIVE CHIMP
...will have amnesia and be unable to tell friend from foe: BATMITE
...will take the mantle of the most powerful hero in the DCU: TED KORD'S DESICCATED ROTTING CORPSE
...will become a criminal: BATMAN
...WILL BE THE ONLY ONE AROUND AFTER "INFINITE CRISIS": GORILLA GRODD
...will become the military's secret weapon: AMANDA WALLER
...will destroy an entire country and kill millions: SHADE THE CHANGING MAN

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Hal Jordan doesn't have any powers. Unless you count ennui.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

What about the ability to go from zero to punchable in one word balloon?

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Justice Infirmary! Superhero hospital, specializing in wounds brought about by grim and gritty new directions! Each issue features the death of a character in some way connected to the Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League. Crimson Fox gets it in the debut issue!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

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― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

Naturally, Dr. Fate is the chief resident at the Justice Infirmary.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

Nurse Destiny!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

In an attempt to out-snark Matthew, I'd like to change this bulletpoint...

"One of these teams won't survive Infinite Crisis: JLA, JLA, JLA, JLA"

... to say the following:

"One of these teams won't survive a final 6-issue arc of hamfistedness written by the guy that almost single-handedly submarined the X-franchise & thought putting the Avengers in bomber jackets was A Good Idea: JLA, JLA, JLA, JLA"

Dead horses are fun to beat!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Hold on a second, Jackson! Let's back up to this Checkmate thing and why it's already drawing comparisons to Q&C.

Also, RIP Gotham Central.

― Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gentleee as you move (Leee), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

this Checkmate thing and why it's already drawing comparisons to Q&C.

Spies, lies, and robot eyes.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Will there be a MechaTara? Or a Mechase?

― Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gentleee as you move (Leee), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

When will Howard Mackie get to be the regular writer on JLA?

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Tiny or titanic bosoms?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Dude, it's a spandex book: TITANIC!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

DC making Darwyn Cooke waste his time on The Spirit: The New Adventures #s 10-22 instead of writing his own stuff was stupid enough - if they stick it in the modern DCU, my brain will cry silently to itself at the new depths of moronitude.

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

As far as I knew, there was going to be a Spirit/Batman crossover book, but that it was going to be the exception and not the rule. I'm confident that Darwyn will deliver on the Spirit book, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't rather see him on a creator-owned book even more.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

I don't think they "made" him do it as such -- he mentioned the job during a talk in Toronto, and seemed almost tearily chuffed about it.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

I think it was originally announced that the Batman/Spirit book and The New Spirit of Darwyn Cooke would both come out in December. Ho ho ho.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

but that doesn't mean I wouldn't rather see him on a creator-owned book even more.

Like The New Frontier, Matt? ;)

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Has he ever done a creator-owned book?
He actually has a pretty slim comics resume, no?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

David made a funny!

If Cooke wanted to do NEW FRONTER II: EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN, I'd happily read it. But he'd mentioned that he had a few creator-owned projects that he wanted to work on when I talked to him in LA earlier this year and was interested to see what he'd come up with.

He also mentioned that he was offered something so big that he couldn't refuse it, that being the SPIRIT books, but he made no mention of what it was at the time.

And if NEW FRONTIER was creator-owned, it would have at least come out in a single volume...

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

If Darwyn Cooke did a c/o project, do you think it would be like Michel Rabagliati's Paul stories? I think I like those. I think I like them a lot.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

I'm not familiar with those, Huk.

As for the slimness of his resume, remember he's only been in comics for what, eight years now? He did a one off in something like 1988 or 1989, but then didn't do much of anything until the mid-late 90s. And prolific in the 90s-naughties is completely different than prolific in the 70s-80s (which would mean you're doing an average of one book a month, more like two, which is unthinkable for artists today.)

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Search: Drawn & Quarterly's Free Comic Book Day 2005 issue.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Oh, that I have.

Kapital K Klassick!

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

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Ha, I didn't even read anything beyond the titles and creative teams.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

In a world through the eyes...

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

“It’s Jack Ryder, but it’s Ryder through the eyes of Steve Niles and Justiniano. You’ve got something that really plants a new corner. Not only does it put a little air of mystery and horror into the Creeper, which I think he needs to have,

:-D

but it also plays upon some of the pop culture aspects of the DC Universe, as Jack Ryder is a television personality. How does the world of heroes affect the media? That’s one of the thing that we’re going to be looking in that series.”

:-/

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Also that Martian Manhunter blurb is hilariously awful, doesn't it sort of boil down to "he sucked, but now he's gonna be awesome?" Unless that "blended in with the crowd" is meant to be taken literally, and J'onn is now gonna be all flamboyant.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

So THAT's what Manhunting is!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

And yeah, I will hold a grudge FOREVER if this MM series precludes my MM pitch where he basically walks away from the superhero life and tries to, y'know, do small good. It's call RANDOM ACTS OF MANHUNTING. Or HIGHWAY TO H'RONMEER.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

The OMAC and USFF stories really do have a bad smell to them. It's The Atom that oughta bug me more -- I just think it's too soon to hop on that horse -- but I guess I cut Gail Simore more slack, and since it's an ongoing, it sounds less like an obvious attempt to scoop up the ranch dip of sales with the corn chip of Crisis leftovers.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

It's The Atom would be an even better name for the series.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

With a ! It's The Atom! It would need a jingle, though. It's the Atom, up an' at 'em, we're gonna fight some crime. Is Jean still crazy? Reply is hazy, says the 8-ball at this time.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Is Jean still trapped in the sun?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

I have no idea, but I'm pretty sure I read the comics that have the answer. See, this is what I mean, it's too soon. An Atom comic should wait until it can be something other than an OMG My Wife's Eclipso comic, without something other than an OMG My Wife's Eclipso comic seeming weirdly mistimed and inappropriate.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

"Honey, why is my toast always burnt?"
"Because I'm trapped in the sun, love!"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, yeah, it totally depends on what they mean by "All-New". Is it going to be an all-new comic starring the all-old Atom? or is it going to be an all-new comic featuring a teenager who stumbles upon Ray Palmer's white dwarf belt and suddenly finds themselves THRUST into a world of superheroicking beyond their imagination?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Every episode could revolve around The Atom!'s comical misadventures trying to get Jean out of the sun (and unEclipsoed?) while playing the "hey my wife went nuts and is in the sun" pity card to score with celebrity guest-stars (i.e. Fire, Ice, Artemis).

Oh, a non-Ray Atom didn't even occur to me. That could be all right. At least, it wouldn't have the same baggage.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

ILC in not reading fine print shocka:
“Something like The All-New Atom,” Didio said, “I would take that title very literally. For those people who are looking for Ray Palmer, we’re not going to be seeing him anytime soon.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

OMG he's invisible now!

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

And more fine print devastation: Look for more later today from Didio on Andy and Adam Kubert on Batman and Action, respectively, and tomorrow on Wonder Woman.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: EACH ISSUE COMES WITH ELECTRON MICROSCOPE!!!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Forget widescreen comics and hologram covers! Genius 2006 innovation: It's The Atom!, drawn ACTUAL SIZE!

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

Fun Fact: the ginchy design of Robo-Sasha was done by Cliff Richards, AKA he who stunk up the joint in about 1/4th of The OMAC Project AKA he who made the last 3 months of Wonder Woman such a joyless chore to read.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

I am now campaigning for David Palmer to become the new Atom!.

― c(''c) (Leee), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

David Palmer, he dead.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

i.e. the perfect opportunity for him to get into the superhero game/

― c(''c) (Leee), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

David Palmer
Dark Phoenix

"OK, an' hex Mr. David Palmer" is an anagram of "M. Valdemar, Dark Phoenix," and M. Valdemar of course is Poe's hypnotized-into-a-zombie character (and my livejournal!)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Steve Niles on nu-Creeper: http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=6754

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 23 February 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Man, after Infinite Crisis ends, the only DCU books on my pull list are going to be Seven Soldiers, 52, and LOSH. And Morrison's Batman, but that's not until the end of the year, right? Between that, dropping the mainstream Marvel books, and only reading two X-books, am I going to lose my spot in the ILCapes brigade?

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 23 February 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

If that mountain falls on me, it's gonna fall on you too!
I've got some deep cuts planned. SO LONG: Teen Titans, GL, GA, maybe Detective, maybe pre-Morrison Batman, JLA:C (at least for the Englehart JLDetroit story). That leaves, um...52, maybe Checkmate. Maybe I'll take a look at Meltzer Justice League of Crying Hoboes, because ILC will need some ROGGLES during the summer. Blue Beetle actually looks sorta interesting, as does Creeper, and maybe a few other minis. So I think my scales might tip toward Marvel for the first time EVER! (oh wait, Marvel Zombies is just a mini) (But I feel more confidant that I will continue to read Capt. Am, She-Hulk and Daredevil than anything by DC).

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 23 February 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

Creeper does look interesting, just not "I'm going to get this instead of She-Hulk" interesting -- I'll read a friend's copy. I think once Seven Soldiers ends, I'm evenly split between DC/Vertigo/Marvel ... although maybe 52's alleged weekliness gives DC the edge. Plus the Vertigo factor.

Still, it's gonna be a weird summer! Maybe there'll be a Titans East/Titans West baseball game annual crossover.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 23 February 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, the Birds of Prey OYL preview looks cool. Good art. Some guy in star-shaped specs.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 24 February 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.newsarama.com/dcnew/OYLpreviews/daylast.htm

Batman returns to 1984!!!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Though can't complain about Jim Gordon.
I hope that the reason Batman, Superman & Wonder Woman haven't been around for a year is that at the end of Infinite Crisis they all broke each other's back.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'm the only who cares anymore, amn't I?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

I was gonna say, it's weird how overwhelmingly lukewarm I am on the OYL stuff. That's kind of a good thing, though, in the long run -- if all this Infinite Crisis Rannavengence Warnited stuff was to set up a Big Flashy Shocking Status Quo (Dead Superman Azrael Artemis), it wouldn't last. The fact that so little of what they're unrolling is headline-worthy is promising.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

There are some of the OYL's I'm actually really psyched for: Hawkgirl (Chaykin! Simonson! What's not to like!), the Morrison/Kubert Batman (although that doesn't hit until July), Supergirl & the Legion of Super-Heroes (saw a preview of the next issue at New York Comic-Con, and yes, the twist is very impressive), Manhunter (which I've been gradually warming to). Also glad to see that they're letting some exhausted franchises take at least a few months off.

And, like I said, I'm ridiculously excited about 52.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Morrison Batman yeah -- although it's the creator I'm interested in there, not the new status quo. LOSH definitely, but I'm not sure I'm more interested in it than I have been in the title already.

Oddly, 52 is on my pull list -- the only modern-day DCU title on it -- so it's not that I have no investment in things, and I don't think it sounds terrible. The new DCU just isn't exciting me yet. But that's okay, it has time.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

Huk, I expect a full report on the nu-Detective ASAP.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently the OYL twist in Manhunter is that she is now a Martian... (SOOOO CLEVER!)

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't it that SHE'S ACTUALLY FROM EARTH-8???

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

The Snoozarama previews of 52 have a great page of Elongated Man trying to shoot himself in the gob, Cobain style. But surely the bullet would just bounce around inside!

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

That's actually his new special attack. It's a glue bullet, it bounces off him and sticks to you.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Huk, I expect a full report on the nu-Detective ASAP.

Don't hold yr breath. Snow storms might ruin yet another CRISIS week.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Detective was pretty good, speaking as a non-Robinson-fan, although I'm glad he's not permanent. The villain death at the start is literally playing to ILC. And it seems like such a "duh" to put Commish Gordon back in the lead, I don't understand why it took this long. Promising.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

The Snoozarama previews of 52

This is a gala.

This is a galah.

Can you spot the difference?

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

No - they're both pink!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

"I can see you."

Heh. Bets on that being a Grant page?

― carson dial (carson dial), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

Great minds etc.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

so when does 52 start?

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

May, I think.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Ha ha ha.

― Dr. Superman, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

THE MULTIVERSE PROBLEM

― If Snotboogie always stole the money, why'd you let him play? (Dr. Superman), Monday, 6 April 2009 02:06 (sixteen years ago)

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