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I am more psyched than I'm entirely comfortable with about the 52-related announcements here. I mean, I'm generally an auteurist when it comes to comics, even superhero stuff, so four writers plus a zillion artists doing a 1000-plus-page arc with six major characters who don't have much to do with each other and trying to hit a weekly deadline should turn me right off, but then there's part of me that thinks: well, this is how they did Six Feet Under... and also the part that thinks: Grant Morrison acting as idea guy! Keith Giffen providing visual consistency! Black Adam in love! "Secret Origins" backups by Waid! Anything at all involving Renee Montoya! I CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS SERIES--!

sigh,

― Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, 4 February 2006 06:23 (nineteen years ago)

Anything at all involving Renee Montoya!

How can people in this day and age still think like this, particularly when the 'anything' has a direct risk of meaning 'being written by Geoff Johns'?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 4 February 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

"Keith Giffen providing visual consistency" hahahaha

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 4 February 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

(I was more rude than I meant to be, sorry)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 4 February 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Matthew Perpetua, you get out of Andrew's account RIGHT NOW!

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 4 February 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, in a shocking twist that will shake the foundation of my living quarters down to its very joists, I share Douglas' enthusiasm. I have supreme confidence in 3.25 of the 4 heads at the helm (Johns has his oh-so-brief moments, and some of Rucka's superheroics of late have left me feeling mighty low). I love Giffen's layouts. I love the WTF aspect of this whole thing. And, damn it, I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 4 February 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in if for no other reason than that the end of Seven Soldiers and the folderol at Marvel frees up space in my pull list.

Like I've mentioned before, during the school year I can only get my comics every 5-6 weeks (which means I'm more caught up on comics I'm reading friends' copies of...). (Downtown store, 60 parking spots in the area, 40,000 college students with buckets of disposable money.) I don't know if that'll make my 52 experience better or worse, but I guess it'll make minor delays invisible.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 4 February 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

I actually have more faith in Geoff Johns than Greg Rucka. I'm quite enjoying the byzantine stupidosity that is Infinite Sadface, and having not read Queen and Country yet, I haven't really seen anything by Rucka I could whole-heartedly rate. Even Gotham Central, it seems to me, is noticeably better when Ed Brubaker is on it. 52 looks fun, though, as you can never have too many cliffhangers.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Saturday, 4 February 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'm kinda eagerly thrilled about the whole spectacle of it. It's thrillpower, no? Or attempted thrillpower, at least (which might be anti-thrillpower?)(no), but like, to roll out week after week of content, with some guidelines (it all has to align with the OYL results), but no interference from other titles (the cast of 52 is offlimits to the rest of the DCU until it wraps, I think). I expect moments of brilliance, train wrecks, and everything in between. At the very least, it will be a fun experience, if not a COMIC TO LAST THE AGES.

― He was a beatnik. I was a martian. (Huk-L), Saturday, 4 February 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'll get it in trade.

― c(''c) (Leee), Saturday, 4 February 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Don't worry, I'm sure the Nerdsamamasboys will do weekly post-mortems where they'll post all the relevant panels so you don't actually have to read the comics, just like they did for the new Captain America issue.

― He was a beatnik. I was a martian. (Huk-L), Saturday, 4 February 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

Subscribe to all 52 issues for only $100!!!
https://www.cambeywest.com/dcc/dccuniv.asp

― He was a beatnik. I was a martian. (Huk-L), Monday, 6 February 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

... man, any time I think about a series like this in dollar terms, I start to think I'd be better off just buying the Bone single-volume collection over and over again.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Think of it in terms of weekly installments, though! It's like pennies a day!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

It's dimes a day!

Man, imagine Secret Wars -- plural, not the painted jobbie that would take seventeen years if done this way -- done in 52 weekly installments. Everyone would have to fuck Zsaji.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

And the Wasp & Magneto could have lots of babies!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

A costume an issue for Spidey!

― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

New alien symbiote costumes for EVERYONE! Thor's Venom can be called "Ragnarok." They could do a whole confusing nine-issue storyline where everyone's symbiotes bond with everyone else, so you have Wasp bonded to Thor's symbiote, Magneto bonded to Cap's, Dr Doom rolling up the sleeves on Galactus-Venom so it'll fit ...

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Dan Jurgens plus Art Thibert equals tasty back-ups!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Just read advance photocopies of the first issue and rough scripts for the next four. I am, as I anticipated, liking this a whole hell of a lot--the chaotic everything-at-once grandness of IC/CW without the Oh Nooo/You Monster I'll Kill You For This sadfaceness, and the multiple plots all seem to be under control and heading somewhere interesting. Plus: Grant Morrison awesome high-concept overload ahoy! And lots of suspense, which is nicely done considering the format prohibits cliffhangers as such.

Will post more when I can do so without spoilerizing.

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 4 May 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

Don't tempt me, Doug! I was ready to swear off the whole thing after IC.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Thursday, 4 May 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

the format prohibits cliffhangers as such

Get ~~one~~ fourteen hundred 2000ADs

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 4 May 2006 07:23 (nineteen years ago)

Hubba hubba.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

What's the plan for putting this together in trades? (and when does the IC trade come out for that matter?)

― asdf, Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty DC's said they won't announce any 52 trade action until it's run its course. It sounds like they're really focusing on playing up the whole serial aspect of the format and consider it their favour to retailers by getting nerds into comic shops EVERY WEEK!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Re: "...Man, imagine Secret Wars -- done in 52 weekly installments..."

In the UK, Secret Wars actually was a weekly comic, which they managed to do by pulling in all the tie-in issues, Secret Wars II, and all its tie-ins.

I didn't read it myself, so for all I know there might have been other stuff reprinted as back ups, but the UK still got Secret Wars in umpteen (I vaguely remember over eighty issues)weekly installments.

― David Simpson (David Simpson), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

By "the format" I mean that the story is organized week-by-week, so everything in issue #2 happens during week #2, etc.

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Oh okay, fair enough.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 4 May 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Back-ups included Alpha Flight, Zoids and... was it Rocket Raccoon? I can't remember. Anyway, when Secret Wars II got going, there was enough material to have a whole Marvel comic reprinted every week and still leave out Thor and a couple of other side-trips.

― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Thursday, 4 May 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

The other back up was the ICEMAN MINI! Somewhat of a WTF choice. (as opposed to Rocket Raccoon, erm.)

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 4 May 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

I have an issue of Hulk with Rocket Raccoon! They fight Space Clowns!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 4 May 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Where did all the goofy characters go?

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 4 May 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://tinypic.com/jqlukm.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 4 May 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

The eighties ate them.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Thursday, 4 May 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Roffles from the Midtown Comics e-newsletter:

"The missing year begins here... in real time! Can the DC Universe survive a year without Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman (well, obviously yes, since we have One Year Later ruining all our storylines, but let's pretend for a second that we don't know that)? Who will rise to defend the world? Find out this and more every Wednesday for the next whole year. Just so you know, though, we are taking bets as to when 52 skips a week. We think Week 12 will be the week."

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 6 May 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.dccomics.com/sites/52/?action=main

OK this is fun :)

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 8 May 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Who is going to summarize IC for me so that I am not lost when reading this? i refuse to buy IC, because i don't think it would make sense to me either.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Monday, 8 May 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I tried to do a point-form summary of IC on one of the IC threads, but I got bored.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 8 May 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Crisis#Synopsis

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 8 May 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

love love

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

That 52 site is fun! Maybe DC'll do a 52: Frontlines Series with Jack Ryder and Jimmy Olsen embedded in Elongated Man's ass.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Bruce Wayne is CEO of the Daily Planet??

― dave k, Monday, 8 May 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

FROM THE PAGES OF 52!

The Creeper: Up In It - Chuck Austen (W) / Jim Balent (A)

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Back just before Lex Luthor became President, he bought out the Daily Planet and was going to run it into the ground. But Lois Lane made some deal with him (I don't remember what, but I'm sure if it was a movie, he'd be played by Redford and she'd be Demi Moore--or Dudley Moore!) to save it. Then, during, um No Man's Land, Luthor wanted to horn in on Gotham and take it over (since real estate was suddenly real cheap, since Gotham had been DEVASTATED by an earthquake--hmmm, sorta like the first Superman movie), but Bruce Wayne (aka Batman--no, really!) wasn't having it, and they got into a billionaire boys slap fight and, um, eventually, Wayne bought the Planet out from under Luthor.
What's interesting about this is not just that Batman is now Superman's BOSS, but also Batman is Lois Lane's boss. And if you've read a hundred Lois Lane comics in the last week, like I have, you'd know that there's long been a deep, rarely spoken (though often acted upon in IMAGINARY STORIES) LOVE for Lois in Batman's heart.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

scans please.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

(do you cbr, Ian?)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

i don't, but for lois lane i can start.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Via the DC comics website I find a Washington Post 'review' with the following quote:

"Because this isn't about grabbing a costume or someone giving you powers. ...It's about what you earn, and using that to help others."
- Steel, a Superman cohort, lectures his niece for wanting to opt out of disaster relief

Early material in the Spot The Bits Geoff Did competition.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

The entire series is disaster relief!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

I think you added an extra word at the end there, Andrew.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

I am disappointed BTW that this series is apparently not going to feature PROPER CLIFFHANGERS.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

or the words "Next Prog"

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure someone will start a website with funny (or "funny") weekly reviews of 52. Or an ILC thread. I'll just read that.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

I feel an anticipation thread is NOT ENOUGH and we need a spoiler thread too.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Check out the next issue of Warlock Magazine™ for the EXCLUSIVE BEFRONT THE SCENES SCOOP "Catch-52"!

― Warlock Magazine (Warlock Magazine), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.newsarama.com/dcnew/52/52_1tease.html

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

OH FUCK.
Why do I have a sinking feeling that "The Question" seen in 52 is really Harvey Dent?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Better him than Hush, yes?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Where is Hush OYL? Where was Hush during THE SIEGE ON METROPOLIS? Is Hush the new Monitor???

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe Hush will be the villain in the new Martian Manhandled series?

http://www.degraeve.com/cgi-bin/magiceightball.cgi?q=will+hush+be+in+the+new+martian+manhunter+series%3F

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Warlock Magazine Magazine's INAUGURAL EDITION of CATCH-52 is now up!
http://blog.myspace.com/warlockmag

― Warlock Magazine (Warlock Magazine), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Warlock's gonna have to conduct some interviews w/ the heroes that took the year off! Or died!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

Ahhh, let the intern handle that...

― Warlock Magazine (Warlock Magazine), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Does the intern have a direct link-up to the dedicated WM proxy server, or is he going to have to microdot this shizz?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Warlock Magazine Magazine Intern Orientation Kits have been Fedexed.

― Warlock Magazine (Warlock Magazine), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Dear WARLCOK,

I have intern skills! And Warlock skills! I play Magic: The Gathering!

Sincerely,
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enclosure: your momma jokes

― c(''c) (Leee), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck, I JUST realized what this -- c("c) -- is supposed to be!!!!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

explain!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

shit, it's like I can see for the first time.

― chocolate kuegelhopf (Garrett Martin), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

KIRBY@SNES.COM

http://br.geocities.com/dsgc07nman/figuras/galeria/sbmelee/kirby.jpg

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit that's frugging brilliant

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

OMG

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

I started - perhaps redundantly - a thread for actual spoiler-based post-reading discussion.

(52 new answers)

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

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